Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-13

nagis AMIGA ueritds. Political con
,istcncy consists not, in my mind, in|
4 personal partizanship, but in tbc|
support of a principle in an adber-
ence to measures, not in a sevility to
men-in the steady maintenance OIL
those truths which the heart and the
Judgement cooperate in approving.
1t is a hice distinction however in
these times--one not likely to be com
pretended by slave or adopted by a
syeopliant. But what, either Of We
rapily or Of principle, can be expected
from writer who las had the hartIi-
hood to assert, that those speeches
whose celebrity has so excited his
venom, were 6 never even heard OF
in the plase of their nativity."!! A
falsellood to which. he must have
known in his heat, there was not q
single educated person arrived at the
age Of maturity in Ireland, who could
not have afforded retaliation. Thel
Facts is, they had circulation hcrel
quite unprecedented, and were dispers-
cd far and vide in England zoitl,oul
the most remote cooperation on nl!ll
part. OF the four different gentlemen
WIN se,crally published them in Lon
dua- appeal to any one whether hr
mate any previous communication to
me upon the subject, or whether l
ever added note. comment or cOrrec-
ton. The fact is, so annoyed was al
the continual mistatements 10 which
such system subjected me, that !
was compelled to publish them in an
authenticated form. at tue press Of
MIR. Longman, which volume. announ-
ced as it was. you declined waiting,
Tor. but with the most malignant in
tention chose TO select Tor your SANDER
the unauthorized editions. Now sir.
ask You in the face Of that public
You sought. to impose upon, was
this fair play | ask you was there a
syllable of truth i'll suggesting that
/ edited those speeches J I ask you
how you dare, under the mask ofIite.
|raiure. to blend the professional libel
with the political falsehood ? The
Influence of habit is a very inadmis-
siDie apology. Indeed it is scarcely
fair for any rational man, chow much
less fair for such a man as you y to
|oxercise final judgement upon any
advocate from the persual of even am
authenticated report of aproiessionai
effort. 1t is quite impossible that
such q report can convey to the mind
LOT the reader the thousand local anil
Temporary circumstances, without a
consideration Of which he never can
be duly appreciated. The facts of
1.-THE ease, however, to which you have
] ajyerted, are now notorious, and ]
can have no objection to abide by the
\ determination Of the pablic as to the
] romparative talent will, which they
may have been developed. BE assured.
Sir, il matters very little TO me Of
], what " breed" as you elegantly ex-
press it your atisurates "a Engiand
arc--i have neither leisure nor skill
70 ascertain their genealogy, and
Should he very fir from estimating.
IDy any su,h criterion, such men as an
Erkskiue, i Ronliliy or a Brous ham.
rs TO the Irish bar, however, I shall
AXE the liberty Of saying, that it
Uses quite as high above my praise
IS your depreciation sand believe me,
it is estimating il most unfairly il you
haye Judged il 10y any itinerant adj
tseuturer in your service. whose ava
rice may have prompted him TO the
Exposure of his lncapacity. The pro.
lrssional part Of the question nuw
lcayc, and follow you TO that political
inquiry 10 which | am indebted for
the distinction OF Your enniity. Ii
seems l am inconsistent" The
ieharge comes we'll from the coaJhitor
|of Mr.. Soutlcy and the protege of
Mr.. Canning , My consistency was
not indeed learned al the same school.
nor do ask IFS panrgyrie from the
i|pen Of Hat fNaer. nor will l solicit its
purchase money from the paymaster
lot Iisbon.--in the same manner YOU
have accused me Of impotence, be-
cause | did not imbi,ie my modesty
from MIR. Secretary Croker.
i II Is not my fault. Sir, that ever
Isinre fsli, an iilustrious parsonage
mas hcen doomed to the in,Iiction of
your newly coined eneonlium. Ii is
not my FAULT that we 1--we in a !. new
4ra," AMI that the principles, the
predictions, anti the friendships OF
the old should vanish in a nompni.