The Virginia Gazette

The Real Associator declines trespassing on the Patience of
the Public by a full Reply to Mr. Henley's last Scurrilous
Letter. He hath only to ask the Favour of such Readers, as may
be desirous of forming a proper Judgment of his Candour and
Politeness to compare it with the Letter to which it is offered as
an Answer. They will easily discover, from the many Suppressions,
Misrecitals, and unfaithful Quotations how far the Gentleman
is to be trusted in what he writes; they may also be fully instructed
in the noble Science of Quibbling. One Specimen is particularly striking. In a vapouring Note he says, "you talk of
my Recantation;" nothing like this was said; indeed the Gentleman
was not suspected of a Disposition to recant. The Real
Associator spoke of a certain Recantation of the Gentleman's own
inditing; from the Strength of his Memory, he could scarcely have
wanted Recollection that this alluded to a certain Recantation of
Mr. Kidd, which the Gentleman formerly published and plumed
himself upon not a little; this was of his own dictating and
was written under the Influence of his Threats, as may be
proved by an original Letter of Mr. Kidd's written about the
Time. His Strictures on Lord Coke's Maxim are exceedingly
ingenious and prove that the Words many Times signify but
seldom.

Had Decency permitted, the Gentleman would long since have
been personally applied to both as the Author and Publisher of the
Libel and perhaps in such a gentleman like Manner as he would
hardly have approved. The Real Associator is so far from relinquishing
his Charge of Authorship, that, as he thought at first,
he is still of Opinion, that Mr. H, if he was not the sole Author,
was principally concerned either in dictating or writing the Queries.
The heavy and reiterated Accusation against the Real Associator,
as being actuated by Principles of Persecution or Oppression,
he holds in the utmost Contempt and appeals to the whole Circle
of his Acquaintance, as to the Justice of it. If the Gentleman's
Lamentations were designed to be still hung over this happy Parish,
the Real Associator by no Means recants any Share he might have
had in keeping him out of it, but congratulates, with the utmost
Cordiality, his Fellow-Parishioners on so fortunate an Event.