Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-08-15
pyJRt,C VOTEJS

Il is 20 rescue the character of n very wor
thy and cnterprung yo,Ig gentleman, who
has recently 'cstab bished himself in this State
from UnmeFi;ed opprobfiun, and to screen d
public Lo!el, from, perhaps, unp!cmeditatet
injrry, tha, VIC give place to the following
COMMUNICATION:
.IesSrs. Smith 8. parmenter,
In the Bosion Statesman of last week | read
with sincere regret, and with some slrpriIe,
,he following article, which you will oblige m
by republlshng; ana YOU will confer a stIll
greater Obligation, il you will allow me TO APP
pend 10 it the few Incidental remarks, VIII ch
] shall offer by way of cou. u.ment, aud in vndi-
cation Of myself ard establishment:
one story good until another hath its
felton,. ."---'' We copied from the Pawtucket
Chronicle. or from some New-York paper, a
statement, that one OF the ge7tlemnn engaged
in an aiiair Of honour in Rhode Island, had
4" hopped the twig" from Pawtucket, wdl.out
paving his tavern bill. S.nce this, we have
econ the tavern bill receigted il fu'I, for eight
Il rys bourd. nt four doIdrS per diem, amo ant
ing to 81 dollars. a. pretty piece of nnpo-
s:tion, as to price, from the circumstances DIS
closed 10 US, us one wou!l wish to see on a
SINNERS day. The Pawtucket tavern Will
not have much Of duclllng, or other custom, at
that price, unless he keeps better ldrder, and
stops such advertisements To get wounded,
pay such a bill, and he sqrnbbcd IN the news
papers, is "a severe as the Connecticut SEN
ience, that the deicn lint should be hanged,
and pay forty shi'iing3.'
CoMMENr.-lt will be proper To inform Mr.
Greene, that my house IS generally dcnoml-
mated the pawtuckct Hotel or Tavern, and
that the account to whiCi he al,udcs was moi
made at my house.
The gentlemen, TO whom Mr.. Greene refers
took lodgings at tny house prtrjoHs to the
"aflair of honor' had between them, and
ain not aware that they objected in the least
20 the account oiared 20 thcn for liqulfation
prior their departure. They certainly appear
cd to be satisfied. ond have no reason 10 sCp-
pose that thcy were n tho least dsplessed.-
Afsr the combat. the uniorlunaie party, to
screen himtcIl fron TIE pursuits of public jus
tice, and the vengeance Of the laws of Rhode
Island, took lodging nj the Hotel of my wor-
thy competitor residing on lac eastern side OF
Pswtucket Bridge, and IN the State OF Massa-
chuse;ts. where he remained I'LL his wounds
had So far healed, as to enable him TO return
60 Boston. As to tho charges made against
him whilst there, know nothing, but am very
inuc,i disposed to believe that they were not
cxhorbtani, or heavier than what the peculiar
circumstances of the case demanded
With this, however. have nothing 10 do;
and il simply remains Tor INC, to request Mr..
Greene. the Editor of the Statesman, 10 do mo
Justice, and say, that the reported cxhorbiiani
bin was not created az tho . Pawlucket Ho-
tel" I should no, have noticed this affair at
all. had it not been apparent TO Inc, tha; the
report circulated in the Statesman, was well
calculated 10 inure mo and my house, aud to
wjthhold from me thai pltronose, 'owhich |
hope am gniticd