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IC.779.004
4 Feb 1779:31 (11/546)
*** The printers are sorry to have had several complaints
from their good customers, relating to the X. Chapter in
their last, and as some of them think a particular family is
injured by it, they now declare that they never meant to
prejudice any one. Their paper is impartial and open to
every one; and when a pieces comes well warranted, and
properly recommended, they must, upon their general
principles, insert it. Their designs in publishing it
having been just and uninjurious, the following will also
explain the author's intentions.
Messieurs Printers, please to insert the following in your
next.
By a gross misinformation of the real author of the farce,
the person who delivered the Xth chapter of the history of
the times to the printers, was led to believe him to be no
other than the young son therein described, and as no person
can ever make a better atonement in such cases, than be an
open acknowledgment of his error, and apologizing for his
mistakes, this is meant as such, declaring, upon the credit
of truth, that he had no malice against, nor any intention
of giving uneasiness to, any one but to the real author of
the farce, who has satisfied the public, was not the person
who looks upon himself injured by the chapter. That the
author of the farce was the original cause of the chapter's
appearing, will admit of no doubt; and that he has been
guilty of a cowardly, villainous attack, upon the characters
and peace of several respectable families in this town, who
owed him no [ill] will, will allow of less. The Xth chapter
is but a part of the evils which the farce is pregnant with;
and could the world look the author of it in the face, they
would doubtless see every thing in him fitting the character
of a traitor and a coward. The writer of this is not one of
the persons supposed to be reflected upon in the farce. He
was moved by humanity to endeavor to oppose the author: . .
. [5 lines, signed] A. Z.
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