The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-09-04

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somo Of the eslculaiioas.--JIlson Is certain u
was half pas,6 when Avery Iefl his house.
He walked TO Mr.. Fullcr's which must
hsvc iskcn some little time, and where, II Is
said he stopped from 80 TO IS minutes, from
,honce he walked to tho Meeting House,
aud mr.. Horton says hcsaw him there at 5
minutes pas, nine. Yet if the testimony Of
the other witnesses is correct, and they op-
pear to be quite positive, Avery could not
have been in tho Methodist Meeting House.
until Is minutes past Q, or thereabouts
These mistakes as we'll as those ncknowlcdg.
ed, cast suspicion on this entire chain of ties
tinony not that there was any thing willuIly
wrong about II, but that the mistakes may
have been stl greater and more numerous
than was supposed.
There is another very suspcouscircum-
stance respecting the details of this morning.
There are enough 10 Iwear that they saw
Avery at6 O'Clock, and some that guess they
saw him at % minutes before 8, &c. and
others that they saw him in. the Meeting
House, al 5, 10 and Is minutes past 0. But,
though going to attend prayer meeting
with his brethren, he appears to have had nc
great relish Cor their company; he left them
all, started alone, AID was not seen after
wards, until after 0 o'clock, in the Meeting
House. No one saw him when ha wen,
lherc--no one saw him enter-no one knew
which way no went. Ia it not possible that
during cvcn tho time ir which, no one can
account fer him, he might have walked down
TO the steamboat, delivered his letter, and
rc,nrued' ] sno,o, fro n experience, that hf-
teen minutes is sufficient time for man nc
eusiomed to the exercise, with a quick step,
10 walk from the Methodist Meeting House
in this city, 10 the wharf where tho King
Phllip lies, and back again. Iio might there
fore, have walked the distance, remained five
minutes on board, and been back in about
twenty minutes from the time of his depart
ure and have yet TO be convinced, oppo.
site testimony to the contrary, notwi,hs,and-
iug, that amidst the excitement of four
days meeting. with four or FIVE meetings in
the day, sufficient attention should have been
directed towards Ephraim X. Avery, among
the multitude, on that particular morning, to
enable any one to kao,o, a month aEer,caris
whether he was not absent twenty minutes
especially when We consider that nobody has
been brought forward, to say which way he
went from Fuller's, or that saw him after he
lo't the house, until he was seen in the Meet
ing House, after 9 o'clock. And further.
Dir. Horton left him 10 take charge Of the
meeting, to commence at 8, but, on his re-
turn, though the time had passed. the meet
ING was not opened. although it would seem
'he people were in waiting, and Mr.. Horton
commenced the services Immediately. In
short, from al! the circumstances, from wha,
consider the mprobabilhy that the afore.
said witnesses could kaov the facts they
stated, even ifthcy were facts, from the simi.
lari'y ofthe letter in question, to tho hand
writing, style, and photography of Avery. aud
tho intelligence, and good CT aractor Of Ors
well, have no doub, ofthc truth of his tes.
timony. do not however call in question
the veraci.y Of those witnesses, | only SAY
they were mistaken in the details and this
| AN justified in saying, by the positive ant
direct testimony ofOrswell, who had no mo
tive to swervc from truth, who would no, b,
as liable to mistake as The others were, an,
; whose character for truth, is unimpcach he'd
and, as far as know, unmpeachabIe. Con
corning this letter. an affidavit from Naihar
al. Spencer Of East Greenwich, has appes re,
within few days. lie endeavors 10 es,ab
iisi' The fact, that hc delivered tho letter ,c
orsweii. 1t becomes necessary to notice
th's document, which shall DO in NV nox,
anu endoavor TO hold it up in i,s pronc,
hght' Tor consider it a sheer sub,ercuro .
however well intended. ARISTIDES
Asr.oLoGy.--A celebrated write,
treating on this sui,ie.t s,;l :.