Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-03


~, of.J.m,us " md ar. po;n,inr to this
c6yn,rv aI ,be oro5abIc Gcpositorv orsome
cvidrn.. fl, bta.s uaon i. employ mo.
o,.n,,> Ir;s,,ra 20 rx,la;o more flj!v notonIy
the na.rr, Of the c;iIepcc. bu, ,ho degree
oc in,,,r,,rc w|,ic, ,r,,. \, attached 70 i.
In 1s27 Dr. Bryws7.c. row Sir DAVID.
showed ~ ,,rr,lanan now n this country
s,nc Of t,c I,nr,r. corrasoonderac which
Us f,.bcy.i,.)aw ~, ccls5ra,ot Os<,AH
MAcpugRso,. is he !, called. had hid with
various DISTINGUISHED Individuals. !Amongs;
the r,st were letters s;.ucd T.Ac@tAN Nc
F. lean. Th~sc were generally written with
much vico. ,f<,ylh. The !a",0?Ao:S a"d
frurcs in viii n i:l..y aJouAduj Wc!r always
f6rcibe, and ct;en q2;lc remarkable for
their beauty. Sr DAVID pointed OK s2ve-
rtl passages with had struck him. boh III
their structure an,. language, rs beng al
most identified with others .Odnd III the let
tcrs of Jun;us; anI wha, gave greater n;er-
cS, to his s.n.ilr.ty was, th;,t the andwrl-
TIM. borc an cq.~;... singUla: resemblance TO
the fac Smiles Of the MSS. Of janus as
published in WooiG,iis cGi;ioa.
Having Communicated the impression these
LETTERS had made upoa him to one of his
friends he rc;o,cd 70 him q p2ssa re in Gat's
(,G. Owes. which greatly excited his in.
climatic, 10 investigate the aif,.ir. From this
nassarcit apnear2d that Governor i1AaIL-
TON, of PENNSYLVANIA, calling upon West,
the pain-er, one morning in London. West
showed him the attack Il poa the Ning, which
had that morning appeared in Wood:ai's S
newSpaocr. Ga reading i, Hamilton eX-
claimed he knew the a1:l:or: that certain
roSs,ccs and coirramIaa,!c expressions in
:. Il, 6,I seen bal3r,. a2I tl,at the autno:
was fiat scountreI LacIi!an Mclean. who
o,.o r.s;,lnJ ~ ph,Iatc(Dhia. and who had
y, ,b,, t,o,c rosIc 4 violent attack upon
I,;r, u,5an Governor or the State Of Penn.
s,I,'o,i, IN apbj!o;lslD,,;a = yaocr.
Th;srircnn,S ap,e had induced SrDAviD
:, ;no,i,c ", I mad ben the ostcnsiblc sub
s,,ncc &, movements ofI.achlan MCLEAN
,,nrnr ,hot nerjol Embraced by the letters
of Jnn;ns and the result u,on his mind was
oino,, eou,I 10 conviction that Mclean
,,..s ,he ombor a those letters. That he
WAS nOwerful writer. and that he wrote IN
,be stvIe oC Juoius, be h2d sufficient proofs
in his own possession. Then there were the
remarkable facts, that lie had been under
Secretary of State to Lord Shelburnc, had
been seat on lucrative mission to India,
at the verv period Junius announces his own
retirement. and had pcrishcd on a second
voyage to India, in the Swallow Pakkcs, to-
neiher with probably some written eyidcn.
ces. that had he died natural death, might
baveere this cleared up the suspicion; tor,
.ni,er al, il is but a SUSPICION, and was so
regarded BY others at the time. especially
Sir Walter Scot, Lord Mimic and Mr.. JET
frev, to whom the gentleman. that Sir Da-
hal shown Macpnerson's correspondence
70. had mentioned he affair; and they, attcr
seeing the letters ofLachlan Mclean, con-
cnred in opinion that Sir David was on a
wr,no seen. This opinior, too, was cy.
nr.sssd n such decided manner as 10
awaken = though, in the gentlcman's mind
,ha, ,hev Ncre among the inia;cd few who
tnew who was the author OF tic letters Of
Jrn,s
r. was arrecd. however. on all hands,
TIM, IN the return OF this person 10 Ameri-
m ;e shonld make some INQUIRIES in Phlla-
J,inn;a abon, L,clloo Mclean, and the
nsu.snancr ct acl,s mon Governor Hanil.
.on Tn;s was infrrtnousIv done. As.
sisted bv o;bcrs, all the accessible flies of
,hc MISREPRESENTATION dur,2n the govern.
mcnt oct{aniEop were examined. and moth
;no wos found. Some information. However,
.res,ectinp J,achlan Mclean. was colicced,
,h. Io,e BishoD White. then a bov at School,
remembered him. He was an Irishman,
and n SURGEON in the Army. and kept smaN ,
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