The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1802-11-03

has jnR faund IL Can you fwallow 6lch
nonienic You are then in fair WAY for be-
lieving in the rfEqafs ftGs rrae c,uE, and ,he
miracles Of Thomas Becker. lou are thea
TT for believing that the AnroIa does sszf
fwarm With lies, that Zones does nss Keep a
meliato girl, and hat S&clJon does nos de-
ferve TO be hanged tor murder, \ on can then
believe that, MIR. Ralph Wormley is fool, an
enemy TO his native country, and the pafronof
perioRal flanders You can believe that Giles
did nor break his con!titutioual oath, that
Madifon did moi approve ofshc Prdpcea, that
Jcfcrion did n3t hide hinfelf in Carriers
McuntaiuS and look al the Brit;fll through
a ipy glais, when they were cutting the throars
of his ht,Ffes
Even the iabordinate parts OF this intro
ldnctory parsgfaPh abound with ignorance
and nonienir. The .Moniteur iays that
columbus was t'eSpefcd TO sconfant war
6 with the natives Dr. Robestion had never
heard Of this; for in has Hiifory, Volume 4.
Book 2, he f.ys that thcle pcorles coniidcr-
+ ed the Spainards as beings OF iupefiof na-
y ture, aud were eager, on every occafiehs
: TO fninlttcr to their wants" After jo.ne
ltime proyifions became tcarcc, and they began
Ito be tired of ;her yitftocs. Columbus alarm,
ed thcie Indians By threatening to r&,ixggi9
70 occur that vary eveu;,sg. When the moon
began TO darken, hey ran to their houieS
tor proviiionS. From that day, the Spain
F." ards, Jays Robe, ton, &C were not only fur-
niihed profuleiy with proviGons, but the
natives, with fap,r ititiaus attention, avoi,i,a
every thing that could give them offence"
his is YOU: r0gRaat fUa1- MIR Smith
Diego Mcadrz was NOT the Eyz,anf of &C.
ilumOuS n was hiS cf,,,I,,i,.ntial +r;,rL :
a SpaHiB gsat}eman, He was accompanied
by Fieichi, 6enoeil Gentlemen. They ha,
, not one canoe, BUT tiu0,
Ih- tct;cr ititlt is war,hv Of }ac5 gu i,i!y3-
!. dY3:SH. How Smith, who flts up for q rnaa
ef letters, coaia thDik it worth while 10 trant=
late iech 4 poor, fich very poor fabrication.
we do nor pretend to gucis. In this MATS of
.b!anderss Columbus is made to fay thar shc
6tj6oP or St. Domingofrnt nleRenger 10 Ia.
Tnalca:, 70 I7S& az Inn, without affor6ng h,,a
relief. foF this ungcnerous purpoie,a vchsl
was tent &c Jamaica, but it was not hv .
biihop, twas by OVando, geycraor OF fIif-
pario;a, who MAS knight of the military
order of Alcantara. IF Mendez, and Fielcbl
were cntrutted with letter, and this does no.
appear, II could not have been addSeded 70 the
king OF Spain, BIT 20 this Ovan6o, the GO
vernon of Hnpaniola, II was many months
after their arrival at this lAand, Shat Oyan,i,,
tent ont the veAel TO ioof at Columbus. He
did not even know that the latter was there.
I'LL Menicz and FieFchi told him of it. And
yet Columbus is made to fay that the bibss
tent the Ry 9sIEl, before Columbus wrote this
letter, which McndcZ and Fclthi were to
Icafry.
The introduction fays that ehs letter and
and papers happily arrived at their dctfises
PLACE. This place was the foar. Of Staf5., b,if,
lin the next line, we are told that they never
reached it. Perhaps the forgcr meant Hif.
pamela, as the JfEf place Of their dcttination.
Granted. But then ne get into lrcond fcrape,
FOR the Ietrcr. if it ever had been found at ali,
ihould have been found at Hifpaniola; whereas
the toFger finds it lit famaita. I hus, aG
evening, You are to ieek a ratciier, not II the
ipos where he has arrived, bur at the place
rom which BE- ct cut In this tttle intro
Intiion, we have fuch wilderness Of incon-
itSncIes, that the mind is fatigucd in attempt
ing to follow ;hem.
] ! he letter is addretled thus. CbyifoSba-
! G9f~n6H, % fbf Kins Fl Spain, F7maica,
1893 | his is no, i',tc!yy the way in which
:, npal'ih ada.i:al would ID refs his fovefeien.
Air- Pis. ''igH; As we'll adircts "A letter. TO
Gf1'geGRrift, Were there no months in this
t'"' JyfSe" HNfaTsa anu tpfEe; or, why WIS
nor she particular month mentioned Is this
the way OF writing letters TO king, or to ahv
body clie WhenSn,iti icndsthe proof itscers
lot his paragraphs to Saiiy's lover for correc.
tioi',i5 thistle manner in Whicthe dates thcme
But that is not the WORT. We have genuine
letters from Columbus. They are sddrchcd
nos excluilvely to the king Of Spain, but TO-
the Queen ALTO. This was his fpecial patron
Jfrbeiia. She had been the fovereign Of ar
Independent kingdom. She poaeGed, upon
that account, an uncommon ihare of impsr.
tance. She was alive at this time. She die