The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-09-25
government The person went into lstle public

government The pefton went into ii,tle public
honse IN, he neigbbori,ood of my farm, where he
got iato conversation with those whom h found
thesc, and contrwsd So as to make that CONVEX
sat'on turn upon M lie heard nothing but good
ct me AZ a ueghbor and master :; and, as TO po-
htcs. not soul that he talked to knew what he
meant, never having in their lives heard me utter
a word upon any subject of that sort Of the
two servants. whom have alluded to above, the
name OF the former is John Dean and that of
the latter ames Cowherd both Of them men,
upon who's word Can rely, and who, as said
sefore, are ready to verify this statement upon
their oath The modesty and good manners of
my men induced them to give ans wers to the
questions of these base rascals, without suspect
ing any thing of their real character or design /;
nor had either ofthem the smallest notion OF that
design; until my return home, and until had
acquainted them with the nature OF my situation
IT the design (Which must think be manifest
enough to the reader) had been known, their
bones or, at least their skin, would, am afraid,
nave carried oil q testimonial of their baseness
and OF the indignation of my servants. The base
miscreants would then have had feeling proof
OF the sentiments, entertained towards me by
those who knew me best and have had the great.
est experience of my disposition. ] leave the
public to ruminate upon what have here stated,
relative to the enquiries OF these villains The viii
iians who went 90 make the enquiries about the
botiey, but appeared to so from, and to, return
20, some town or village upon the Gosport road,
tearing, apparently, To be known, OF, at least
traced, ifhe putup at the Inn at Botley--I leave
the public, say, to form their opinion upon the
facts tits, think, quite unnecessary for me to
give any opinion of my own.
One cannot, however, help observing how very
finely all these things agree with the notion, now
ana occasionally heretofore endeavored to be pro
psga,ed, that am person moi worthy ofnotce
This notion agrees admirably with all that the
punhc has seen and heard for the last ~ months
during which time, there has been more written
and printed against me individually, than would.
II collected together, make twenty thick uuarto
Volumes; and (melanchnly to relate y without
procuring the loss of Of my friends, the fall
ing OH OF one OF my readers, or the robbing me
OF one wink of sleep, while my enemies, if upon
any occasion, they dare show themselves, become
OBJECTS of public hatred and scorn & solemn.
~ declare, that would rather commit the horrd
ana cowardiy act of suicide than change names
and characters with the very best, or rather, the
least bad, OF all those enemies, whether look a
mong the young or old, amongst the prohigates
OF the bypocrites, amongst the daring robbers or
the sly and smooth cheaters.
MY readers know, that besides the Political
Register, have undertaken, and am carrying on
tiee other publications., namely, the Parliament
tary History, the Parliamentary Debates, and the
state iriais and, under the present circumstan-
oes' think 1t will not be deemed egotistc ifI say
something about them. These works, particular.
" the former and the latter so far from being un
dertaken with hope of merely gaining money,
were undertaken with the certainty of sinking
money, for some time at least probably for ma
ny years and possibly for ever. they were
works, which though absolutely necessary to the
completing ofoar political Libraries, none of the
DOCK sellers IN London, though many of them
are Poss' ;ssed OF ten times my pecuniary MEANS
would venture to undertake. After long waiting
they promise profit but must be evident TO eve
y man ct all acquainted with these matters, that
" base lucre" could form no part of the object
with which they were undertaken have heard
others applauded for their public spirit in en-.
counteriDg what have been called great national
works.
What clutter was made in this way about
large editions of Shakespeare aud Milton which
were at last, got rid IF by the means of lottery.
authorized by act of Parliament The terms H.
berallty and muni6cence were given to the under
takers OF those works but was there any thing
IN them OF national utility, worthy of being com
pared with these works of mine hare encoun
tered these works, unaided by any body shall
ask the Honorable House for no Lottery to carry
them through; trust solely to their real intrinsic
merit tor their success; and, if they do succeed,
snail therefore, be accused Of seeking after
" base lucre r. This work, of which now be.
support 1t but its own merits Not pound, not
even pound in paper money, was ever expended
upon advertising At II came up like ain of
mustard seed, and, like a grain of mustard seed
1t has spread over tile whole civilized world -
And why has it spread more than other publca.
tons OF the same kind There have not been
wanting limitations of it. There have been some
dozens OF them, believe. Same size, same FORM
same type, same heads of matter, same title, all
put the word expr ssing my name. How many
efforts have been made to tempt the public away
from me, while not one attempt has been made
by me to prevent it Yet all have failed The
changelng has been discovered, and the wretch
ed Adventures have then endeayored TO wreak
their vengeance on me. They have sworn that
write badly that publish nothing but trash
That am both fool and knave. But still the rea
ders hang on me. One would think, as Falstaff
says, that have given them love powder No :
but have given them as great a rarity, & some.
thing full as attractive namely, truth in clear
language have stripped statement and reason
ing of the foppery of Alteration and, amongst
my other sins, is that of having shown, of having
proved beyond all dispute, that very much of
what is called learning, is imposture, quite use.
less TO any man whom God has blessed with
BRAINS The public, however, much in many ca
ses' some OF them dissent from my opinions, viii
never be persuaded that my views are inimicai to
my country, or have any dishonorable object
Nothing will ever persuade any man, be he who
ne may, sincerely to believe this. There are ma
ny, who will pretend to believe il but they will
not believe it at bottom, and they will read on
The public has perceived in me, a sort of conduct
towards my adVerssries, which they never wit.
messed in any other public writer They have
seen, that always insert and p-ive publictiv In