New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-17
For The Tribune.


Pursuant TO your leave please your paper the
following corrections article addressed 10 the citizens
OF Brooklyn puporng to be an excuse for your not lee
turing on Tuesday evening the 10th inst In your letter OF
Dee. 5. you say:
have a memorandum in my pocket-booh of a condi-
Onal promise TO lecture this cek (my note TO morrow
Dec A. but adds evening this week, for ST. Peters
Church, Brooklyn VIII you send me word by bearer
whether expected to lecture tomorrow or, II not
then 'rheH and ohGTc r.
My reply to that letter. dated the next day. Dec was as
follows
Your note of yesterday has been received andn reply
would state that there be misunderstanding
relative TO The TINE of the delivery OF your Lecture III our
Course as our Programme says Dec ~ and think men
fonad hat day 10 you-you making minute of 1t at the
time If other engagements should interfere, please ln
form me Immediately that other arrangements can be
mace If you possibly make good our promise 10 the
1ubic as well your own TO me, you WI! obllSe, &C
To this reply no word letter received from
YOU nor from any ore in your behalf and the Committee
therefore relied upon your lecturng on the 10Th inst
am willing that the community should Judge between
us on this ground alone there is another ground The
Programme itself published daily in your own paper for
seven DAYS preceding the 10th inst announced you as the
Lecturer for that day WAS in supposng that you
knew such to be the Now put the two facts above
together and mny not the case be closed with YER
dict against YOU? w. SEAMAN BEARE.
Reply.
There is no pretense above Tor but the
faintest shadow of one) that | ever agreed
tolecture in Brooklyn Dec. 10th, and | GER
tainly did not. The Lecture Committee
marked rnc down for such time as suited their conyen,
fence and sent me that they had done long
ward and after had made other engagements utterly in
compatible with their appointment for me- And them con-
derine it much trouble TO call me Zone of them do
ing business within quarter and another within half
nile of my Office they took for granted that would fulfil
Their appointment because they heard nothing to the
trary think there ia a better way of doing business than
that.
MIR Beare il seems failed to receive my letter, in
which notified bin that could not lecture on the
evening set down for Does not this fact prove the
impopIey his relying on my silence as consent when
he could so easily have called me He puts notice in
The Tribune that am 10 lecture in Brooklyn on certain
evening and write him that cannot. Failing to receive
Lis eller he considers ii enough that tcW lecture
t. ere that evening ard not worth lis while 10 ascertain
Wheeler con or cannot trust his Committee is more
careful in other cases and hereby earnestly request them
never again to advertise engaged to lecture
ocular evening until they have obtained my express consent
odo so Ii is all can well do to fulfill my own engage
ens ana do not relish the idea of being publicly black
guarded and threatened with hosewhppng for falling to
fulfill one never made.
Mr. Bearers note of Dec. 4tb Quoted above by him.
cano! find and do not remember to have received Ihe
fact he has ii so handy may possibly explain my not
fore me- and contains inimation that was desired 10
lecture on the 10TH any particular evening On the
contrary in mentioning that the course would begin the
second Tuesday in November and continue on each sue
cessive Tuesday evening understood that was to seec
nv time did select the first week In December accord
ngly and so made an entry in my pockebook at the time
as any one may see who to look at it. was careful
to make no other engagement for that week while did
make one very soon after this to be at Rutland VI on the
Huh If Mr. Beare intends to say by his extract OF
Dec 4ti that ever promised him that would lecture on
the lOh will only observe that in so directly contradicng
nv recollection and my memorandum, he should have the
evidence of some letter from me 10 him. and not rely on
that of an alleged letter from him to me. HG.
-P.S. The following note from a gen
tleman attached to the Tribune Office will
perhaps qualify Mr.. Bearers statement that
the Committee relied on my lecturlng on
the 10TH . ,o.o
Dear Sir Two three days previous 10 me evening
ro we're expected TO lecture Brooklyn called upon
WM POOLE Esq (who is associated VIII MI beale On
The Bfooklyn Lecture Commee and Dir Poole expressed
n me his purpose Of going The Tribune Ohce 70 see
Won az he had been informed you could not lecture as an
norrced Think informed him Of your absence or anu
cipated absence. from the City and also suggested '
name of distinguished gentleman TO take your ptaST Oh
the occasion. ours respectfully -. - ~
Il. GREELEY, Esq