Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-01
From The IR;ebmsalJ RRcoaDaE.
MRS. WALKER.

ference was made toa circumtance, which
had occurred Considerable time Gnce, be-
tween cerlaio great perfonage, and a la
DIV in A,bemarle county. We meant 70
pubiifa ir tor varioas reaions. One Of
them is tina, the pubic have a right to be
acquainted with the real characters Of per-
fons, who are the poiielloIs or the candi-
dates for Office. A lecond reafon is, that
an enemy cannot retule the right OF being
attacked with his own weapons. Every
body mutt we'll remember the noife which
was made by the demoerts in lamner,
I7e7, concerning perlonagc OF the op-
polite psrty, who had fallen into an iiti-
cit commefce with another mans wife.
Sauce fat tie goels, farce for Tie gaa4er,
Jays the Proyerb.
A third realon for publication is that
We have been loudly accufcd of a dei1gn
TO attack the character Of mott reipetta-
bl. lady, whereas fuch thing never once
came into our heads. The Bee had pub
lilhed the &ory, with contradiction or
denial OF it. Meriwe,her Jones, with his
wonted Judgment and deliczcy, tfanl.
planted the article into his Examiner, 70
thar the Recorder cannot be charged as
the fyF publlher Of the tale. Intead Of
arfaisning, We a:e going TO vindicate the
Iady's character, il indeed character 70
uncommonly refpectable ana aniable couid
be fuppoieI TO itand in want ct a vindica
ton. We beg to be undcraooS that, il
Jones had been f.ent, we hould, moa
probably, have been 70 likcwife. But
certain great patronage has got fuch an
abfurd let of defenders ABOUT him as would
be fuficicnt for de}roying the chorater
of any man. We neyes before wiinedsd
70 complete an example OF literary fuicide.
Without any coE.mon place defamation
upon the fanttity OF the leveoth command
ment, or the gu;is of feduction, or fuch
trite matters, we hall tell pain tory
that is numerically believed and 'ha, ought
long fnce to have been plblihed.
Mr.. John Walker, of AIbemar!e is a
gentlemen of indepentea, fortune, and a
mott irreproachlble character. His lady
is numerically rsPreiented as worthy 10 be
the pattern OF heriex. a great pedonage,
who reliaes at lome diaancc from Ma.
Walkers, anu who had bsen at ichoos
with him, had, after Mr.. Walkers mar
rage, been in fome reaiure, doneiticaied
by him. Upon all occaGons, he was re-
ceived, in MIR. Walkers family, with
that cordial hotpitaiity, 70. whlcha Vlr-
gioian country gentleman is 70 proyeIbially
ditiaguilh-d. The return to this friend
lhip was an attempt, as fooli(h, as il was
infamous, to iujuse the virtue OF Mrs.
Walker, and the hafpiaefs Of her hulband.
He was repalfed with the contempt he
def:rved and his intended exernons Of
bis ENERGIES t5y tie multiplication Of
our Lbecies, was, in this inRance, di(ap
pointed. The lady, at che reqaef OF the
great perfonage, conlented to the conceal
nent Of the propolal. She Gid this, On
promife Of better behaviour, in time TO
come. Matters remained in that iituaiion,
for certain period how long we do not
exactly know.
We did not lulpei thar the great perionage
had paG He'd that ARDOS Or CoNSIiIU-
TON, which was nectG4ry for the renewal OF
10 detefablc, and 10 Desperate icheme. We
have been, within the lat fortnight. al.soa over
whelmed with reputable afirnlations of what
was, before, lufficient!y credible. fecond at
temp was made, by Tipping billet into the a.
dy'sh1nd.
In the commidi,n of the very fame crime,
multitude of subordinate circumstances may lei
fen or augment the proportion Of guilt, there
is not, perhlps, any vice, where the degrees OF
guile Init Of greater diverfity than IN that
which is the lubject OF tn: prelent article. Up
on topic f. delicate we decline the hazardous
office of enleavoring to expatiatc. We only fay.
that, in combining the circumstances Of this Al
bemarle confpiracy, there is not Jingle polni Of
aeyiatiens
Whether the great perfonage was, at that
time, married, we do NOT pretend TO FAY. We