Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-10-04
STEAM SniP GREAT WESTERN,
:. Bristol Channel, Juiy 2i, 1888. !
To John Tan Buren,, ESQ:


SIR--lt is To me at all times painful duty,
to be- the harbinger of bad news,-but
leave you to determine whether am labor
ing under such a misfortune at the present
time, when you learn that am about to ap-
Prize you Of the entire failure Of your at
tempt To prevent my sailing in the Grea,
Western. by causing my arrest and iinpris
onmert in land Of strangers at the very
moment OF my intended departure.
II ] will do you the Justice however TO say
that the failure Of your plan is in no way at
tribUtable either to your want of zeal or legal
information, and shall take al early oppor-
tuniy 10 apprse your employers that you
hnve discharged your duty to them in man
ncr winch, while it cannot fail to put the
most unscrupulous minion of the law to the
blush, will as certainly receive the cordial
appreciation Of your unprincipled political as
sociates in the United States. | shall up
prize them that instead Of arresting Inc in
London where had "troops of friends" ready
and willing to become my bail, thus prevent
ing the possibility of disgracing political
opponent by casting him in u foreign prison,
you very wisely deferred the commencement
of your suit I'LL the eve Of my departure from,
England, and until had arrived in strange
reason to believe, that must Of necessity
be imprisoned for time at least, and tla
The Great Western would arrive in America
announcing that the editor of the Courier ant
Enquirer, for having dared to expose the
character Of the administration OF Martin
Van B'uvn, had, By his son, been cast into a
prison IN England as terror to all political
opponents.
Your legal information advised you Of the
fact, that If arrested in the city of Bristol,
none other than a freeholder in the same
county could be my bail and consequently,
,if among entire strangers, could not find
such an one willing 10 be my bail for near
six thousand dollars, must inevitably be
imprisoned! and knowing this, | must frankly
accord you the high credit Of having acted in
a manner which entities you 10 the warmest
appreciation Of your employers. Sir, you de-
serve more than common gratitude or ordi'
nary fees at their hands-for cannot believe
that at your aye, you could have pursued
such "A course towards a countrymun of whose
hospitality you have heretofore partaken, and
who within a few weeks has borne such testi-
mony in your behalf to gentleman in Lon
don, as have reason to know added some
what to your comfort and pleasure, without
some little compunctions of conscience and
deep sense of shame at the character OF
\ your employment.
II Rest assured, therefore, that I shall make
It my duty to apprze your principals how
faithfully you have labored in their service
and at the same time shall disseminate u,
widely as possible, the character Of your new
employment, and your readiness TO make al
most any sacrifice that can be conceived IL
order to accomplish the designs of your EN-
ploycrs. u rightly understand your posi-
ton, on important branch Of your busines
will be, to bear testimony to the signature
OF those merchants, editors and others, who
having been ruined by the conduct of on
Rulers, may unuittingly trust themselves Of
this side of the Atlantic. Tho more cyuica
portion OF the public may cxclaim agains
the idea of The sons iaitening upon the dis
trcsses produced by the reckessness and DO
iitical subserviency of the (aiher; and ther,
may be those who would look upon none,
thus acquired, rs tho wages of prostitution
but fortunately for your peace OF mind, yo,
have already demonstrated your contemp
Tor such old fashioned considerations, and II
ustrated the truth OF the odage, tba, '.lhe In
boror is worthy Of his hire" congratula,,
II on, sir, upon your new vocation, and upol
your peculiar fitness for tho discharge OF il
duties, and ns cannot hot feel a deep in
tefest in The success Of one in whose father
\ political advancement was somewhat insiru
mental, permit the to suggest the prophet
OF hs iurnithing You with the fac siu,iits G
hn signsinres ~ ell the merchants in tb
Upi"d States, who have been ruined by bi
u ilsdn'inistIa,ion VI the public affairs. Throug