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Mr. Editor,
For the information of some of your distant readers, who, are
unacquainted with the parties engaged in the late controversy which
has appeared in your Gazette between our firm and Mr. Robert
Christie, and who might probably, on that account, expect some
reply from us (to what we believe, he terms his discussion of our
statement of facts.) We are inclined to observe; that, when an
Attorney, of no older standing in the Courts than October 1810, has
the hardihood (after a voyage to London, no doubt in quest of
information) to accuse, before an enlightened society, the highest
legal authority in this country, of having usurped the authority of
another court, in itself highly respectable, and which usurpation,
to use Mr. Christie's happy epithet, occurred during his absence,
of course founding this extraordinary accusation upon supposed
facts which he could not have witnessed; when he asked for, sports
his opinion against the award of arbiters ordered by the Court of
King's Bench, an award given by men, whose hearts of this moment,
beat high with the mens conscia recti, notwithstanding his
differing with them in opinion, we do not look upon such a person
worthy a reply. We called upon Mr. Christie for documents with
which his statement to the committee for managing the affairs at
Lloyd's was accompanied, but he has not brought any forward. We
asserted, and we still assert, that, that statement was a
malicious, unjust, false and wanton misrepresentation of our
characters and conduct in the management of the affairs of the ship
Trio, and we assert it notwithstanding his paltry threat of our
having published it without the advice of our learned counsel; and
we do not see in his discussion that he denies it. Mr. Christie
builds much on the highly respectable character of Mr. Fraser,
seems perfectly satisfied that a generous public has done him
justice, and that his injured reputation is retrieved; be it so:
the trusty tenantry of Green Island, with Peter Fraser at their
head, clothed in the specious garb of magistracy, accompanied with
the high sounding epithets of one of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the District of Quebec, in the Province of Lower Canada,
may be very fit instruments for Mr. Christie to send forward with
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