Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

MR. FENNO,

It is to be wished that the managers of
the City Dancing Assembly would inform
the public which of their number it was,
that furnished Bache with a copy of the
President's note, for publication.

It is proper that the individual who was
guilty of so ungentlemanlike an action, of
so unprecedented a breach of confidence
and decorum, should be separated from the
rest, lest the whole number should remain
subject to the censure which such conduct
deserves.

The author of this communication to
Bache, is requested to state at what time it
has happened, that a gentleman, having
sent an invitation to another, and received
an answer, has sent that answer to the news-
papers? He is requested to declare, wheth-
er the publication of private letters has not
always been considered as one of the most
dishonorable breaches of private confidence?

But if the note must be published; if
this breach of good manners and honor,
unheard of in the case of any private gen-
tlemen, was necessary to be practiced to-
wards the President of the United States;
why select Bache for that purpose? Was it
because there existed a wish to gratify his
peculiar rancour against the President; or
that the other printers were considered as
incapable of lending their aid to so ungen-
tlemanlike a proceeding? Either motive is
dishonorable to the managers, and will dis-
honor them, unless they free themselves
from the general stigma, by pointing out
the individual to whom it ought to be con-
fined. This measure they owe not only to
themselves, but to the subscribers who ap-
pointed them, and to the city at large; for
it would be far less degrading to the one and
the other, that one person capable of such
conduct should have crept into the list of
managers, than that the whole should be
considered, throughout the United States
as composed of such unworthy materials.

This mistake cannot be committed here,
where they are all known; but elsewhere it
may and will be committed, unless preven-
ted by themselves.