Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1803-01-22

hand, WIN accomplica at call, "a attempt 20
heat, bruiie, wound, and kin him becau'e he
is one among the many ,hoaiands v no bshees
ain guilty Of fsryi1g letters, snd who think he
ought 10 Be held 70 aaiser, aad be brough, 10
panllhmen, Is this the way TO fetrle the df
pa,e Are thsfe the means wherein and where
bY he is 10 esince his innoceooe Are sheic the
h,ps he prefers, before ,hoie which - the Laws
of Rhode III nj" woulj have prefcribed 10
him rney may be better a iap,ei 20 his 'csfe, :"
bar they declare in ten fold guilty. Aud it
is I" hrange, paiEag arrange" thi, in an age
proieiil1s re,ipn, aod in country boaains of
intelligence, AMI juitiSe. he meets wi.h mouth
pieces, ready. wiling, and esger 70 open, and
blatter in his behalf. Bat their faismssn are
sbiard. incongruous, and ridiculous f4F; and
mutt be - coniidered and pronounced upon by
every candid man of CON non obfeVation. Let
Us attend 10 them for one IN sment.
The Ian ornamental Mercory was orna-
mented with fsVo One from the BqGox Cent?
ne, the Other from the Bss9z Pal!adian. Any
peiion with half an eye might perceive tina, they
were formed by the fame hand. Such i, the
unity OF their aruture, ,housh diverh,y ieems
TO have been eudied.
They aa;e that % in pafing through PIrt-
Toba'co, Rutedsc ksragg thar Mr. +. was
there" sc. NJ, as we mentioned brtorr,
Ruyledge before he ftaued from Wilmington TO
vi6t Port Tobacco, had .ar1f g tha; Mr. +.
was there :" For he fent Morris TO his lodgings
to enquire where he had gone, and Morris ,as
informed by the kt,per Of ,bc hoyt, that he had
gone 10 Port Tobacco. This peeps out thro'
their inadyertence 4; for they hoEtly after. in
fpeikiog of Nh. Eilery's arrival a; the Inn at
- .kx. H. e
EHey bad emscg<5 10 aIPenS a qCesl avitb bis re-
la'i01, bis SyrivaI qU@s Inexps7Sd." Upex-
peS,ed to who they mot mean TO Ru,iedge I:
And they mua mean IL. as an excuic for his be-
ing there in wait But how came Rutledge pof-
ieIed Of the idea that MIR. E!leryvas TO Ipend a
sUsek 2" Did he ob,sin IL while at Port lobac-
Co } He Maa have had more tools than Morris
10 have acquired this Information there. even if
IL had been the fact aod thofc who eau be-
lieve that he acqui,ed il there, ,nua. all things
con6de'ed, have more confidence in Mercu,ial
fa:cmeni, than shey geaersly de.eIse. But if
il vpsre the iaet, Ru,iedgc m,sbt have come TO
the kaowiedge Off through his aid De camp
Morris, by the enquiries ahieh he made before
they iet ou, on their holiday journey. Thus
they have fixed thcDfeive, in a do!eful dilcm ma, ,
in shish. by :herues OF right 'eafon, they are
wedgcd completely. II RutIedee knew il, he
moh have come 10 thar knowledge before he
left Warrington /; which would ialhfy one part
OF their tstenent Ii he did not know IL, then
he. mad not kay1'Sit, which would falGfy anoih-
er pari Of their ftaIcment. =.
We AK the stlen,ion Of our rcadcars, while
we animadvert tor oas nomcnt upon snothcr
parr "a sehas they csh funqueaiohab.e paricu-
lars" "With the /alkia,.sz you are raical,'
he iRusledge) gasc him lEilsry) Two or three
arekes on .h- ihouliers" with what they very
tsmely call ga hickory aick." But il ieems
theic q" ftrokes 90 the ROsidsu" raiied hunches
on the bead! Ii was, however, a Je1cyoi b,eksv
fiek. or what plain men would call an s,idly
bludseoo, or club; and il wa txefciied by a
right honorable lederalia, the leader of the par
ty: IL might. therefore, have very naturally
produced this feemingiy wonderful effsts. There
can beno Z" qssfiss" ABBOTT IL.
But obierye--the Mercury gravely fays, that
" af,sr Rotledge's hickory -ack had been sppIi-
" cd three or four times TO MS. Eicry's @oslderi,
"he Iprans a, R1ibdg>. e aia4d 10 bne b., se,s !;
" he for'una;ey miaed that. bu, csught hold Of
" his cheek with his teeth. and would intaIlibly
90 have lSken a bandfoms mou,hful, had not
"Ru,Isdge, by well applied hrokr Oh his
"Jo,ebtsd, obliged him TO reiinquifh hes hold Of
I. " his check" The ingeniou, Hibernisn haies
il asa msrter Of tradition, and fspis TO il with
all the bold ic's aod energy o, CzlAr, that SAINT
Paf,ick. after his head feyered iron bis body,
faam over the r,ser Lily, and carried il with
him. His icrutinizing copr,rynan anksd how
thar could pofipiy De; to' II you'd certainly
require both hands & both feet 70 f.im with:
How, then, could he cary his head ! All! by
my houl, fays paddy, he carried il in his mouth
The tad6ar Of the Mercasy would reoreient
Rutledge as match for Saint Patrick by
their accounts Of his engagements, he gave man
Sr' we'll Applied arpke on his forehead" while
the teeth of that man were clsnched in his
cheek !! We expetf befor. long TO fee Rot
ledge figuring away in the Mercury, q0iib biz
bead III kh nloalb.
f-r Rutledge's cafe :" reviewed. from fhe