The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-06-02

" was CorFeCt, ana expect ii VIII be admitted
g by MIR. Calender to be fo.''
Richmond,
May, 70, 800
"HENRY BANKS"
Before MIR. Banks fgned this paper, he
aiked me if it q0as corrsG7 The anfwer was
that underttood it to be 70. [ am not going
20 repeat any private conversation which pait,
upon this head, between MIR. Banks and nv
ielf. 1t is iuhciert to fay that we hold fome
oppohte political opinions; that, upon
others, we agree; that we are in habits Of per-
tonai civilty; and, that | fhould feel very
much dl.tteiied, if this intercourse were to be
iuipendcd by any fault of mine. I do, cheat-
tnlly, ard gratefully, take this public oppor.
tunity OF iaving that1 never found MIR Banks
TO tmcb, or to trim, upon any one political
point that has occurred between US. | have
receceived ufeful information from him and
ms obligation TO me, has been acknowledged,
now pats from the previous explanation,
as 10 Mr.. Banks, TO the proper builnefs OF This
letter. The Examiner OF May 29th proceeds
altogether upon amiFofemeHf. | am walking
eaifward MIR. Jones fires ball TO the we{f-
ward; and, mott certainly, that ball Can never
hit me, Mr.. Jones has printed detail, which
is, mott likely, correct. But that detail has
no more connexion with what had been pre-
yiouiiy fated by me, than Mr.. Jones's grand
father had with the Aezlions Of Greek verb,
Mr.. Joaes's pompous ftatenent of pecuni-
airy matters amounts 70 mere nut-ilell of
notion, floating upon furface of truth. THE
PUBLIC ARE REQUESTED TO At
TEND TO TbE FOLLOWING I'M
PORT ANT DIS TINCTION. The Re-
corder of May sth fates, that & I came TO
+" Richmond on May a5th, 1899. lived in
" Mr. Jones's tanilyt TIL fou,etime in De-
cember following, to wit, about fix months
: In that period, | once, afled him to lend
$ me fVs 3aIlars. In accents more meio-
" lodious than even the warbling of Jonr
" Warden's wind-pipe, MIR. Jones anIwer-
" ed, that he coald gioe me FOUR"
1T is curious that Mr.. Zones, if I am abl e
to comprehend him, does not contradict one
lentence which I have faid Of this laf pub
LEGATION, there is no part, which came to me
IN the if1ape ofa furprife. fbeg YOU, for the
lake OF common lenfe, TO remark the abfrdity
OF Mr.. Jones, He had been previoully in.
formed by one OF our common friends that the
itatemenr of figures was admitted by me to be
correct. Fie had told MIR, Jones thae he 6ia
nor lee what purpoie of Mr.. Jones's could be
ierved by the fIbfcription Over and above
al this, had even been a1sed whether this
luoicribing to flch an account might PRODUCES
Misrepresentation betwixt Mr.. Banks, and ne
My plain anfwcr was, that the hatenenr oG
payments was mott likely correct But that,
my itatement bad aotbing 10 ia Nth it.
The reader has already feen that fnply
fpoke Of pecuniary fatement between the
months ofMay, 1899, and of December, 1899,
OF al that had fated, you viii obferve that
Mr.. Jones has not dared to contradict evsn
oas jfafene<. But he now has dared to bring
forward a aatcment Of his PAYMENTS
TO NE, from January sd 1900, to the 9TH
of May inclulve.--The LATTER bulinels
bias no more Connection with the FORMER
bufinefs, than there exits between a French
iailor, who found himfeif in the river ST.
Lawrence, iVben be 1oaj queB Of his PALACE
to Cbino, and Britifh Tailor, that, upon the
fame errand, found himfelf in Chefapeake
Bay. The circumstances have no pofible
connection. My acquaintances knew, that,
in the month of January, 1900, did agree
to attend to Mr.. Jones's Examiner. There
is 10 fecret in the bu(inefs; but, MIR. Tones
has attempted, and he has mott weakly at
tempted, TO throw fone fort Of confufion upon
this very plain matter. ] did mo} diifin6tiy
fay, that between the months Of May land
December, 1909, Mr.. Jones did never pay
me ore farthing.
The remainder Of this explanation is poit-
poncd till next number