Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-07-23
70 THE PIJBLR.

WHEREAS Drill Ei.er Of Bath has INERT .
ed in the Portland Gazette Of Tie q Il inh \
falie. abulve and libellous publication, tn
ding to injure my reputation IN fiacu zalsse
are NJ kno7rz, deem il duty which owe
20 my friends and myfeii, TO make candid
and impartial ftatement or facts--that the |
public may be enabled thereby TO decide on |!
the propriety of my conduct. In the month I
of November laif when was about going 10 |
the fouthward upon bufnefs, executed
power of Attorney 70 my father jointly with
Capt William Todd, authorizing them TO
tranisf my affairs generally in my abfencc,
and delivered over TO them the greater part
Of my notes and papers, and inftructed my
apprentice that he would be fubiect TO their
directions until my return. On my return, !
found that the Notes advertifed BY me on the
9th In:t. were gone and unacccunted for, |
contuted nay apprentice and attornies, bur
could obtain no information refpectiug them
the Notes having gone out of their poileiIion
without their knowledge The natural pre-
fumption then was, that they were flolen. ]
endeavored TO discover whole hands they were
in, but did not make the difcovery until pay
ment was demanded by John Elder | then
requefted Mr.. Elder TO inform me how he
came to be in pohefIion of laid notes. The
Information was refuied. After which made
my communication TO the Editor OF the Gaz-
cite, and through miltake, inherited the name
| of David initead of John Elder Perceiving
| myielf mifaken | made an apology to Mr.
Elder, and offered to make that apology as
public as my advertisement but the apology
which | and Il hrmy beiieve,) the public
thought satisfactory, was not 70 TO him. He
wifhed for a latement, which could not IN
| truth and confidence make. Ard here would
! obterve, that Mr.. Elders advertisement car
ries with it the prelumption, that fatisfaaion,
other than the above mentioned fatement,
was demanded I; which was not the fact II
it had been, MIR. Elder would have found the
fubfcriber. no lets ready than biryeJfto perform
the ceremonies of honor. II is true thar wrote
the paragraph, fubifantiated by the depoGtion
OF B. Ames Efq. IN the hurry of the moment,
when furrounded by Mr.. Elder and his At
torney but on peruial, found that could
not atfiK my hgnature to it, as part of it ap-
piled to John Elder the Prelent holder Of the
Notes. and would 60 10 e1culpate him John
Elder). The following words, viz. (" 70 the
bel: Of my belief, the holder Of faid Notes be
came lultiy by them" did lot convey my
meaning, and were NOT what I intended to
have written. | only meant to convey the
idea, that believed David Elder innocent of
any difhonefy respecting faid Notes, The
| above is true narrative OF facts, and the
public are left 70 eide, whether the fubfcri-
Der is a william, paltroon and liar, or wheth-
er David Elder has not been guilty OF con
duct, pe.ueLt, rafh aud foolifh fhah no.
tice David Elder no further, nor fhould have
done it now, if the Portland Gazette had cir.
cula,ed only in thole places, where we are
both known.
| N~ttya,noHt5. Jaly 10, 1910.
N. B. That the public may fully under
flanc the conduct of John Elder, the prefent
holder of the aforefaid notes, publifh bis own
dePohtion, which is an accurate fpecimen of
TIE manner, IN which he has evaded all my
interrogatories, refpecting faid Notes.
WHEREAs, John Elder Of Bath, have been
called upon, by Dummer Sewall and Denny
MCobb, Juffices of the peace Quorum linus,
at the re9ueif of Charles Lorng, to give my
| Depoltion relative TO certain Notes of hand
Ggned by Ammi R. Mitchell and Son, Charles
g, Mitchell, Nathan Oaks, and William Par
fons, endorfed by faid Loring. DO teifify
and depofe that have in my po1eiiion for
good and valuable confederation, two certain
Notes, hgned, one by Ammi r. Mitchell and
Son, and the other by Charles c. Mitchell, o
riginally made payable to fad Loring or order,
by him endor!ed, that had in my potieiIion
another Note signed by Nathan Oaks, and
endorfed by iaid Loring, the con,ents Of which
have been paid, and the Note laid to be iign-
| ed by William Parfons as above, never was
in my pofefion.
| Queltions by Charles Loring's Attorney.
What are the dates of faid Notes, now in your
pot1ef1ion What are the fums due upon
them What confederation did you give for
them, or either of them Of whom did you
receive them And are they your own prop
erty, or merely put into your hands for anoth-
| ers ule
| Anfwer, Whereas laid I.oring has treated
me ungentleman like, by an advertisement in
| ferted in the Portland Gazette of the 9th int
I, respecting faid Notes; and whereas this De-
| petition taken at his faid Lorings requeft,
do not conGd.r il my duty 70 give him, faid
Loring any further Information respecting
faid Notes, other than Imply to fate that
they came honeaIy into my pofeiIion, and
for valuable confederation, and that fhal
expect immediate payment thereof, either
| from the makers or endorlers
JOHN ELDER.