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Let the public — let every ^lonora- ble minded man determine, who is the real libeller and assassin ; the man who secretly stabs your reputation, by going about fromi house to house, and from corner to corner, whispering away your iair name; or he who openly confounds the author of the base slander — the vile pander to his ojwn execrable lust for defama- tion — with the infamy he deserves. Undue importance is attached to the dates of these placards. — Since credit is given to me for having caused them to be posted, (and they appear to have been rendered imperative in order to counteract the effect of a slow attd subtle poison,) it might ailso have been assumed, that notwithstanding they had been printed when fir»ta knowledge of the distijlation of the poisoner had been, obtainpd, a due sense of what waieustomary on these occasions, had caused them to be withheld froii the public eye until the party charged with it had been allowed si opportunity to deny or avow having shared in its circulation, ^he explanatory advertisments were only posted after the subjoinoi letter, which does notappear in Col. Williams' version of the original correspondence, had been returned through a Magistrate : NOTE Nc. 5. ' '■ "" BnocKviLLE, Sept. 17, 1840. Sir. — It having been stated to ms by several parties that you have thought proper to assign as a leason for your conduct, on a recent occasion, an affair of honor in which I was engaged in Montreal, and in which you are stated to have said, I had miscon> ducted myself. I wish to be informed by yourself, whether such reason was ever assigned by you. I will not put you to the inconvenience of more than a simple affirmative or negative in reply. .^i J. RICHARDSON, Major Late Spanish Service. Lieut. Col. Williams, ^^^ *. , Particular Service. ■ -Jm^-y "".'," " ^ .. Mem. This last note was returned, opened, by a magistrate, on the 18th, on the same night Col.. Williams was placarded as a slcinderer. ,. .m i v^-' • « u •:y,v. * » i Ool. "Williams sneeringly hints at never havings met mo in any decent society — I am free to admit, that I never Jmd the honor of meeting him — not even at the humble tables orLoicI Dm hum, Sir J. Colborne, or Sir Geo. Arthur. With the latter universal- ly esteemed otficer, by the way, I have had the honor of dininq^, since, as Col. Williams sates, I was publicly chastised in the streets of Montreal. I have, also, since then, dined witli one of tho most gentlemanly Corps of Oificers in Her Majesty's Service. Both his Excellency and the Regiment to which I allude, must have felt especially honored, in admitting to their table, one whom they must have known, throhgh the medium to which the vera- cious Col. Williams alludes, to have been publicly chastised, without a due attempt at vindication of his honor. Col. Williams exultinglyii^ints out that" Major RieJi^rdson i.s an Officer in the Queen of Spain's Service, but not in the Qtiecn of England's." It is fortunate for his veracity that the Gazette, announcing the sale of my Commission in the British Army, leached this on the morning after the party complained of. How- «V£r, be this as it may, I cfen safely aver, that during the eight and twenty years that I heldlHer Britanic Majesty's Commission, and during my more limited Service with the Armies of the Queen of Spain, it has never been raj/ misfortune to meet with one enjoy ing the same honor, who was capable of the conduct which has characterized this said Lientfiant Colonel #*JS£«fJiC Williams of the Particular Service — alCnightof Hanover, But I cannot dwell upon tje littleness of the man ; let me rather advert to facts. As mentioned by Col. Williams, the origin of the correspond- ence between himself and nife, was a private card party, to which, with several other gentlemciA, I was invited ; but he has not fairly stated the case. The house (nay, or may not be a boarding house; 1 know nothing of the maltfer^ farther than that the gentleman "whose guest I was, had private and distinct apartments in it ; therefore, no one, having an j pretensions to be called a gentleman could have a right to assupde the liberty of commenting on, or even heing supposed to kn(iw what passed within. On the fol- lowing morning Col. Wil}iams thought proper, it appears, to complain of some annoyance, to which he pretended to have been subjected, and among othet remarks said, alluding pointedly to me.'* If Major Richardson wishes to keep a gambling house, he had better make one of his dwn," adding something even more of- fensive. I knew that he had had the insolence to write this let- ter to Colonel Hill as a sort of report. Thus, it will be perceived. Col, Williams had given me serious grounds for offense, and hence my first communication to him which was rendered even more pungent from my knowledge of his impertinent and uncalled for allusion to my name — Ho says truly enough, that he did not know me — that very circumstance ought to have made him abstain from comment on, or mention of my name. Had this ^rJ9f\ 3 IP lii Jiiiy lioiior of Dm hum, nivcrsal- f (linini;, ;d it> the 1 one of Service. Je, must le whom the vera- ;hastised, ltd son is lb Queca Gazette, h Army, of. Hovv- the eight nmission, le Glueea ne enjoy hich has Williams me rather rrespond- to which, not fairly ag house; entleman !nls in it ; entleman ng on, or )n the fol- ppears, to lave been intedly to louse, he 1 more of- e this let- it will grounds irhich was ipertinent 3Ugh, that ave made Had this been the case, I never should have troubled myself about any thing so insignificant. The assertion made by Col. Williams, (in the first instance verbally, and now in his printed statement,) that his reason for not calling me out at the termination of that correspondence, was my having been publicly chastised in Montreal, is willfully false.— He is aware, and the public generally were aware, that in the fra- cas which occurred onthe ocsasionto which hcalludes, 1 was the assaulting party, and this in presence of Colonels Barnard and Crawford, of the GrenajJier Guards, who were with meat the moment of the collision, and who finally separated my antagonist and myself. The correspondence which I subsequently had with Col. Ellison, commanUing that corps, moreover proves, that " theriJUuks nothing in my rencontre " with the person named by Col. WuUiams, " to alter the favorable opinion or feelings of those Officers of the Regiment who had made my acquaintance." With, such testimony from the Commanding Ofiicer of so distin- guished a body as the Grenadier Guards — men moving in the first society in the 'world, and understanding fully the code of honor, it can import very little what opinion such a man as Col. Williams may form or pronounce. But even assuming the correctness of the insinuation, that I had not been exonerated from blape in the affair to which he has alluded, consistency demanded ttiat Col. Williams should not have offended me in the first instai|»ie ; or doing so, that he should have persevered in the view he pijetends originally to have taken. If I was not in a condition then io meet him, I was not more so afterwards. But Col. Williams holds a commission in the Brit- ish Service. Hence the necessity for adopting a desperate step to screen his own character for couraj^e, and yet avoid a personal encounter. My own decided impression is, (and it must be that of every reasoning being,) that ia proposing four paces— a dis- tance without precedent in the usages of duelling — and English duelling especially — he was actuated by the conviction that his proposal would not be accepted. Were it not that the suhject is of too grave a nati re to be treat- ed lightly, one would be inclined to laugh at the gasconade of the Colonel.' " Hould me, or I'll beat him," says the Irishman, " Hould me, or I'll be at him." hirts Col. Williams to his friend Capt. Shaw. ''Four paces my boy — fiveif he hesitates; but not one foot farther back. Blood and wounds man, keep him to the point." How fee-fo-fummish ! By the way, it is curious enough that Capt. Shaw makes no mention of the Colonel's magnanimity, in allowing me one pace more. Could it be that the five paces were thought of, after the four had been pronounced an assassin's distance ? and should not the letter No. 1, which appears in the statement, come after No. G? There is an evident anxiety to show that my friend Col. Grant had not decided upon refusing four paces when first proposed to him, and that his change of opinion was occasioned by his consultation with me. Tliis, Col. Grant has most positively denied. Ho admits that after he had giv. on his final answer to Capt. Shaw, ho observed jocosely, that if two men choHo to go out at four paces, they might please themselves, but he would have nothing to do with the affair. Had Col. Grant decided upon any mich distance, I of course, beini; in his hands must have bowed to his de- cision ; but I have not the slightest objection, that the whole world should know that I should have done so must reluctantly, and under a very strong protest. If Col. WilHams' position can gain anything by this ad- mission he is welcome to it. Seriously however, if he had really entertained the strong desire for going out which he seeks to convey, Col. Williams never would have Hmited himself to four paces. A man injured as he pretends to have been, (he has not adverted to the greater injury he had inflicted, as far as inhimlay, upon another,) would fiavn had his opponent out on any terms. If refused four paces, (and th'fro was no probability of any man «cting in the capacity of second, suffering jiim to dictate such adistanciO'ti^vvould gladly have accepted the ten offered to him, and insisted upon remaining on the ground until one or the other had fallen. He has stated in most for- midable Italics at the close of his rhodomontadc, that the "chances of a ball passing through a man's body at four paces is pretty certain." This is an unnecessary truism, but it it also nearly as certain that such result ■ would ensue from a meeting at ten paces, unless the parties are very great bunglers indeed. This cannot be the case with Coi. Williams^ for his friends have been industrious in reporting that he is a most excellent shot. • The fact is obvious enough — Cjjl. Williams has gladly availed himself of the only chance he had of backing out of an affair into which nothing but desperation had plunged hin| and for embarking in which, he had ev- idently no other view than to save appearances. I^ &s he facetiously ob- serve I am a writer of fiction, I jield to him all the honor of being a fic- titious fighter. ^ As he however remarks, Co). Williams belongs to a profession, the members of which will haveano||por*unity of discriminating between res- olution and bombastic display, ^nd how far he has conducted this affair in the manner expected of a Briiish Oflficer. The reason given by him for proposing foar paces, is so absurd and inconsistent, that few will take the satisfied view of his conduct thahe afTects to entertain himself. The interest Col. Williams p4>fesses to have taken in the inexperienc- ed young Officers to whom he alludes in his statement, (neither of them in their minority by the way,) Was kind and paternal, hut it was also gra- tuitous. The only one of these under his immediate command, I can safe- ly aver, evinced anything but inexperience on the only two occasions in which as Colonel W'illiamfsignifi(1aiiilystateg,liehadbeensimilarly engaged in company with me. The other, a highly gentlemanly and honorable young man, belongs to a distinct department. Apropos of advice howey- er. Was Col. Williams always so profuse of moral counsel to inexperi- enced young men and under every circumstance that was broutrht under his immediate notice? O Fittlebat Titmouse ! O Joseph Surface ! most prominent actor in the •• School of scandfil " Finally, the vulgar inuendoes,and hp can deal in no other language than that of vulgarity, in which Col. Williams hdsthoacrht proper to indulge against the Spanish ."Service, I, as an Officer in th^t Sppvice fling back upon him with the scorn and contempt they merit. But why break a fly upon the wheei ? ^- '"0 -tm^ :■■ - J RICH \11T)S0N, Knight of the Spanish Military Order of >i at at Ferdinand. v\ %■ er he had giv> tat if two men , but he would ided upon any wed to his de- le worldshould under a very ]g by this ad- •ong desire for er would have ends to havo icted,a8 far as on any terms, nan acting in nc#|) lie would pon remaining ed in most for- •' chances of a irtain." This at such result are very great lliamst for his nost excellent vailed himself which nothing ch, he had ev- facetiously ob- f being a fic- profession, the between res- ted this afikir ven by him for ' will take the iself. e inexperienc- eitherof them i was also gra- nd, I can safe- ) occasions in ilarly engaged ind honorable idvice howev- !l to inexperi- broutrht under ^urlace! most language than )er to indulge ice fling back why break a insoN, Ferdinand. > ■.»i»#" 'li ■ '1 t\ , ■ <«■. m .4'' '. f - ! ■i • '■■•( / ■•■»*■ «», POSTSCRIPT. V:. \ As the contemptible character who figures so ri* diculously in the above pages — naturally enough writhing under the seventy of the lash he has pro- voked, and furious at the expose which has been eiven of his true motives of action in his late bom- bastic display of couipge, has, since the publica- tion, in the Brockvillel Statesman, of my reply to his fanfaronade^ obtained, and is privately cu*cu- lating alow and scurrilous placard, taxing me with the very same conduct Whicn has been attributed to himself, it is necessary that the public should be in- formed that the placard in question bears the date of March 1839, and that it was in consequence of a threat to post it that the assault alluded to above^ as having been made bv me, took place. It is also necessary that t)ie publ^ should be reminded that I had been so threatenedjand placarded, not for refu- sing a challenge from thje poster, but because I had declined to receive, as ai second, a low person who had been sent to me in' that capacity. As Colonel Williams, however, trull observes m his pamphlet, *'no one is safe from %e attacks of unprincipled men." I am thus circumstantial in this matter, be- cause I am well aware pf the cunning and mean- ness of the insignificani person who, incapable of the feeling or conduct or a gentleman, is again at his isnobfe but familiar pursuit of secret slander. Yet mis man is a British Officer. J. R. ^'i^. ures so ri- Y enough 3 has pro- has been late bom- I publica- '^repljr to 3ly circu- it me with ributed to Lild be in- the date |uence of to above^ It is also led that I : for refu- use I had rson who ) Colonel )amphlet. rincipled atter, be- id mean- Bipable of acain at ', slander* J. R.