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V 1} tie L OUNOE R. str, THE “ fearrility** hcHowed on you byfvncof the Merchant's Clerks, rcfult ed folcly from your unwarrantable and un provoked publication, which contained a dash of Hander at them, and very deferv cdly drew upon you the correspondence of which you complain. They were cer tainly warn defenders of their cause, when being so violently and indWVr'mi nately abused—to havefuffered the indig nity in filencc, might have been a prelude to fomc future attack: when that ennduft .which has always aftuated them, I trust would deserve applause rather than cen furc, in the opinion of every reputable charafter, who would never step into the public prints to make their exigence no better than a curse. You deny to have implicated all the Clerks in the charge you exhibited. Why did you not fpr “the benefit of society and dignity of the human character” come I'or'Vard, in the consciousness of your illi- Jbcraliiy, before von were terrified into jthc measure, and nppeafe the wradi of those who never voluntarily ahufed you. You fnould be as careful in future of your words as yourartions ; it is a certain sign •of an ill heart to lie inclined to defamati on—They who are tnoffenfive can have no gratification that way ; bur it too of <en arises from a neglefl of what is lauda ble in a man’s fell, and an impatience of feeing it in another, conftqucntly you ' have thrown out a breath of Hander to blight like an eaftcily wind, and wither /every reputation that it breathes upon.— •To, atone for jhcjofi'cnce, you difplaved a COnAdorable degree -of Ihrewd and farca flic wit, no doubt from a consciousness of j our fupcrioiity over ihofe who noticed you in a former,paper.—That nature has jjeenjefs bountiful to them in the endow ments of the head, I cannot pretend to fay, but in those of the heart, 1 truftand ho[K, (he will be found to have done them jullice, when the secrets of all hearts (hall .be disclosed. A MERCHANT’S CLERK. Mr, Smith, please publish the enclofcd, | and obbge, A Clerk or Storekeeper. To the LOUNGER, , TO make use of your own (imile, the Volcano has not quite got to its “ highest t degrye of rageand eruption,” you have as /s’ct only been (lightly scotched with its >ihcs, but if ever your real name (hall dome to be known, you may then expedt to he overwhelmed with the lava. The leurrilify, abusive epithets and harharifms of which you so loudly complain, are all your own, and were purposely cull’d from your original, illiberal, and unmerited at tack on the character of myfelf and others, and had they not been so, your conduct richly deserved them. Your insinuation, that, hee mfe 1 defended my&lf and o thers from your unj ill afpcrfions, with fomc warmth, I am therefore guilty, will not avail you, for by the fame parody of roaConing, the bad temper displayed in your iait production, proves, that my piece (the (I vie of which you so much re probate) serves to “ pourtray” your, cha racter in its true and genuine colours.— integrity of persons incur firuation, is every thing we have to depend upon, for making our way through life, if that is taken from us we are forever ruined, and I am sure a more base or cowardly attempt thereat, was never before made. .Traitor and coward arealmoft synonymous terms, and you could not have made choice of a more suitable companion pronius, for as the old proverb very hap. pily expreifes it, “ like will draw to like.” Your meaning has neither been tortur ed nor perverted; your calumny was clearly levelled at all, and every person who has seen your “ primordial” produc tion, is allonijhed at the dired and point ed terms in w hich it was cxpreil'ed; but . •itfpeiks tor itfelf, and nothing but your anonymous garb fereens you from the jurt execrations of ali good men. Your charity and hopes “ for the benefit of society,” are much of a piece with your other virtues , and 1 am convinced the clerks, &c. of Au- . gufta, (land not in need of either toeftablilh their reputation. You fay you will not diferiminate, be cause it would bring ruin upon the guilty, “by fixing a lligma on them.” In the name of jultice who would you wi(h to ftigrnatize ? You can scarce expert with all your malice to fix it upon the inno cent, and the guilty, (if there are any such) deserve to bear it. It is a matter of perfeft indifference to me, whether you write any more on this fubjeft, or whether you know me or not, but if vice had no greater enemy, nor vir- tne a better fnppcrt than the Lmitgtr y the fit ft would soon reign triumphant, while the pthcr would lie banilhcd society. That your motives were bad, there can he but little doubt, if they were good, why not have exprefled yourfelf in such a manner as would have given offence to none bur the guilty ? 1 fnali for the pre. sent conclude with faying, that my cha rarter and integrity are such, that even the bare comparison with yours, I (hould confider nothing kfs than a downright j insult. Lincoln county , Egypt y June I, 1802. Mr. Smith, you will oblige me by pub lifning the following itatement: I HAVE just received your last Satur day's paper, in which a piece appears sign ed by William H. Crawford, Esq. and seems to be his statement of an affair of honor between Mr. Tait and Mr. Van Alcn. It is true a challenge palled from Mr. Tait to Mr. Van Alen, and that Mr. Crawford was the bearer, or stated to be so in the challenge. Mr. Van Aleu called on me and rtquefted me to afioci ate with fotne other gentlemen, and tak ing the circumstances of the case into view, to decide upon his accountability to Mr. Tait, which was done. Some of the gentlemen declined giving an opinion, and so should I, and of carrying the let ter alluded to by Mr. Crawford, if I had 1 heard what Mr. Crawford alledges to have been spoken by capt. Van Alen, and which might have been spoken, as I did not hear the whole of Mr. Van Alen’s pleading, viz. That if Mr. Tait should feel himfelf injured with Cook or his count'd, he 'fhould be accommodated, or words to that effort. Now so far as this piece relates to myfelf I think it needs explanation, and as 1 vvilh to be bound by the letter and not the fpiritof an in ftrumenr, 1 will make my statement as plain as pofliblc, which properly com mences with the letter alluded to by Mr. Crawford. This was an open letter, di rected to Mr. Tait, which I delivered to him, and which he read on the morning after the challenge, and before the call of Mr. Crawford on Mr, Van Alen fur a definite answer. Mr, Tait, after reading the letter, informed me that finding it to be a letter from capr. Van Alen, he had nothing to do with it—that Mr. Crawford was the person to whom Mr. Van Alen mull address himfelf, and re turned the letter to me. All this 1 com municated to Mr. Van Alen and he said "Tieliad nothing to do with Mr. Crawford, that he should do no more in the affair, as Mr. Tait had read his answer. Some time after this Mr. Van Alen and my felf were in one of the jury rooms upon bufmefs—Mr. Crawford came in and ask ed Mr. Van Alen what he meant to do in this bufmefs f Mr. Van Alen replied that he had no further answer to make than he had already made, which I was in poffellion of and might shew him. 1 accordingly did so, considering this speech of capt. Van Alen to be my only authority for so doing. In the afternoon of the fame day I was walking from the court-house to col. Willis’s, and met Mr7 Crawford in the street ; he asked me if I confidored myfelf the friend of capr. Van Alen ? And trom the great stress of emphalis laid upon the word friend, and the manner in which it was exprefled, seemed to ej||H|fe whether I approved of Mr. Van in the investi gation of in court. Under this belief i replied that I did not feel respon sible for any of capt. Van Alen’s con durt. If Mr. Crawford called on me or demanded of me, &c. I did not un derstand him ; nor do I now understand what ideas he wilhes to convey by these Cxprcflions. But from the language a dopted by Mr. Crawford on this occasion, it would seem that he wilhed me to be in a situation that would attach accountabi lity from me to him. If so, I can allure the gentleman, that the answer 1 made him was not produced from any delire to avoid his resentment, and that if he wish es to attach rtfponfibility to my situation, or to make a petfonal dilfcrence of the af fair between him and myfelf, he is at li berty to confider me the friend or second of Mr, Van Alen. In justice to myfelf I have thought proper to publilb the fore going statement, and leave the communi ty to judge of the motives which induc ed me to answer, contrary, it seems, to the wilhes of Mr, Crawford, JOHN M. DOOLY. Mr. Smith, 1 OBbERVE in your paper of the 29th ult. a piece signed Wm. H. Craw, ford, stating himfelf a second for a Mr. Charles Tait, in a difputc between Mr. Tail and my (elf relative to some obfcr vafions made use of by me in a court of justice. I (hould not have troubled the public with any observations of mine on the fub jed, had the gentleman been candid e nough to have given a full and corred ftatementof the tranfadion (as is customary on those occasions) and publilhed it where his friend’s disgrace had been witnessed. Hut when I conceive miftatements made wilfully and maliciously, avich adcfign to injure mv r reputation, 1 deem it a duty I owe myfelf, to make a (hort ftatemcnt of fads, under an apprehension that the gen tleman’s publication might fall into the hands of those who are unacquainted with the charaders, and perhaps merit some attention. In aqueftionof some importance, dis cussed in the superior court of this coun ty, I aded as an attorney for George Cook, Esq. In the course of this inve stigation, some umbrage was taken by Mr. Tait from what fell from me during the debate, for which he sent me a chal lenge by Mr. Crawford. Inconfcqucnce of which I applied to John M. Dooly, Esq. to be my second, to which he rea dily assented. I mentioned to him that, notwithstanding the difgraceful fuuation in which Mr. Tait was placed, yet if he Mr. Dooly, as my friend and second, ~ was of opinion that I ought to meet him, that I would not hcfitate to dofo, and at the fame rime observed to him, in mak ing up that opinion he inuft leave conse quences out of ‘view; and upon mature deliberation, next morning, gave it as his decided opinion, that from Mr. Tail’s Handing 1 ought not to meet him as a gentleman. In consequence of which I lent Mr. Tait the following answer, which was handed by Mr. Dooly to Mr. Craw ford, as my second. “ 12 rh May , 1802. “Sir.—l received your note yesterday by Mr. Crawford—l am ferry to add that the investigation of Mr. case (and some other circumstances) should have placed you below any gentleman’s notice, and that the infamy on that oc casion (hould have so completely attached itfeif to your charafter, and it having been so placed by your own malignant and dark heart j I think it a duty I ow e the community and my own feelings, to tell you that I cofifideryou not in any wife on a footing with a gentleman. But I will assure you whenever you (hall have wiped off that infamy, 1 (hall give you a diffe rent answer. I know the value of cha racter and honor; but in the meantime, I should deem it at present improper, in _ addition to the above reasons, to not ice ~ you, because the person whom you have so bafcly injured intends to chastise you for your perfidy towards him, of which circurnftance I am apprised, and perhaps attending to your call might deprive him of that juflice which he so justly claims. I would further observe, that if this (hould not be a fatisfadory answer, you may make an occasion to do yourfelf ju« ftice, PETER L. VAN ALEN. It has been observed by the gentleman in his publication, that my improper ex preifions produced the challenge. If he means that expressions supported by truth, proofs, letters and certificates, aided by the decision of two judges of the superi or court, proving inconteftibiy his friend’s infamy and disgrace, are to be considered improper, I plead guilty to the charge. But the gentleman ought to have recollect ed that these expressions were made under the fanftion of the court, and supported by ample testimony ; notwithstanding the several attempts made by his friend to sup press them. I am not a little furpnfed that the gen tleman (hould have endeavoured to (hew some inconfiltcncy in my application for pitlols and powder ; if he had any correct idea of propriety, he muff have known that exilting circumstances warranted* (fie ’ application. He has also in another in stance, taken great pains to endeavour to impose on the public a belief that Mr. Dooly was not my second ; but he appears to be at war with his own statement; he tells you in one place that I told him “ Mr. Dooly was in possession of my an- Twer, and would communicate it to him, and that I left the room, that he receiv ed the answer in which I utterly refufed to make reparation for the injury done," The fad is, that he received the answer as above ttated, read it in presence of Mr. Dooly, and pocketed it and passed through the room I was in after he left Mr. Dooly, Why did he not refufe to *reT“ ceive it, and inform me he had no answer, and that I had no second ? But the fatt was, he‘received my answer from Mr. Dooly as my second, and recognized him as fu-h, or how could he stale to the -c c lie that I had refilled to do his friend ' (lice ? But the only rational conclufior/ 1 * that he mud have considered the w'. 19 ’ fach a one as his friend melted, or done great injultice to him as a f tron( j. Find, for receiving it; and fecondiy f c j tamely fubrnitting to the contents, y * llrange to tell, that notwithilandbg ,ij* preceeding circamftances the gcnu t • •(hould patrol theftreetsof Walh ; ngf quest of my second, and I in town i- no a rant of the circumftanccs. It j 3 a p 6 00r * mean and pitiful fubterfuge. But we be* hold him running to Augulla to publilh what mud expose himfelf, and diferace "T p'ffible) his friend—but he flattered himfelf by those means to make it known to the world that he had been a second to an apojlate preacher and politician , and a man who had been disgraced in a court of juilice. _ If such be the gentleman's p r ;j e I am willing to leave him in the full e n * joy men t of it. So compleat was his friend’s disgrace on the proceeding day that he never afterwards made his appear! ance in court during the term, though f re * quently called—nor could I obtain a fight of him in the streets, or hear of his beine there. I was informed that he had tak en a room in col. Willis’s loft during hi! Hay in town. As to the obfervatiens of flic gentleman’s refpeding my faying that Mr. Cook or his counsel would acconimo. date Mr. Tait in any mode, is unsound, ed. Mr Cook had five counsel; ] o b. served to the court, that if ccnfec]ucnc-| could deter me from doing my duty u> my client, I should be unworthy to!>ta member of that court, orTwords to (hat effett; for the correctness ofifos llatement I appeal to the twoprefiding judges, judge Walton and judge Carnes. What the objeft of the gentleman’s publication was, cannot ivith teminry be afeertained, but lead it might have a poiTible tendency to injuie mv reputation, in the fmalieft point of i iew,lheteby pledge "“TRyfelf to the gentleman and (o ihe com. munity (however different our fixations in life may be) that if he feels himfelf in any refped hurt or injured (as he appears to be) by any of my conduct towards his friend Mr. Taif, or for any exprdions made use of by mein this publication, a. gainft himfelf, or any other ad or thing, laid or done by me, I am ready and wil ling to give him any fatisfaciion he may require ; hereby debarring rm wl the pri vilege or power of making arr kind of acknowledgement to him f r the fame. PETER L. VAN ALEN. Wtikes county , June 2. -n ■■ ■—■■■. ■ ■■ Just Received , and for Sub, 10 Hhds. 4th proof JAMAICA RUM, 10 Ditto Weft-India and. Northern, 6 quarter calks of old Sherry Wine, 10 Ditto Molaflcs, Belt Brown Sugar by the hhd, Greene Coffee by the bid. Hyfon Tea, bell quality, Superfine gilt edged Letter Paper, Ditto common ditto, India Nankeens, latefl importation, A well aborted box Inlh Linen, Webster’s and Woodb ridge’s Spelling Books, ~' 600 bulhels Alum Salt, Bsfl green fiik Umbrellas, with acJ without canes. Ginghams ditto, Cambric and lappet Madina, Dimities of the bell kind, Gentlemens, ladies, buys and mifica Cob ton Hole, Ditto, ditto Hata, Grey Linens, Calicoes and Chintzes. All of which will be fold low for Cap or Produce, also on consignment, II Crates well a (Toned Crockery, ana 2 boxes Glass Ware. . Which will be fold low for Cotton, and ——o liberal price allowed for that article m * exchange. SAMUEL M. SMYTH. April 22. $3- THE SubfcribT intend* ing to be abfentVrom tbproaic. f° r 2 f* months, has appbintpfl General Ja 2 Twiggs his his abfeocb | Any perfm having wqfinefa with wiil plcafe Co call on 1 GEORGE LOW. Maysfj, _ ■ Wanted Immediately, For Twelve Months, AN industrious take charge of my Saw j in Bu ke. To such a p:rfon, I will g 1 ” very liberal wages. ... THWMAS GLASCOuK, June 2 % I