Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

[A letter to the Editor of the Aurora, dated Danbury, June 1 was published in that paper on the 20th of the same month, respecting Jonathan Robbins, alias Thomas Nash, the pirate and murderer. The author of it was one Samuel Morse, Editor of a Jacobin newspaper ; the letter was written in an artful manner and the intention of its author was to impress a belief that what the selectmen had certified was not entitled to any credit ; that since giving the certificate, they themselves had acknowledged they were wrong and that a person by the name of Robbins once lived here. &c.-This letter was instantly published in the Aurora, with some nonsensical prefatory remarks, and from thence it was published in every Jacobin Gazette on the continent, doubtless doing a great deal of injury by misleading many honest worthy citizens. What credit there ought to have been attached to the former letter, and the base and villainous means by which the Jacobins support their party will be best understood by reading the following epistle to the public written by the author of the one to the Aurora Man of the 1st of June:-

From the Sun of Liberty, of Aug. 20.

Danbury, August 15 1800.

TO THE PUBLIC

Since writing my observations contained in a letter to the editor of the Aurora, dated the 1st, and republished in my paper No 4-and the address to the gentlemen of the town of Danbury, who signed the certificate, concerning Jonathan Robbins, I have become convinced, from further examination of the subject, that the said Jonathan Robbins was not a native of this town, nor ever resided here -and that the gentlemen who so certified were not only honest and candid in giving such certificate, but certified the truth. The said publications in the aforesaid papers must therefore be considered as erroneous and incorrect.

My intention in publishing the observations in the aforesaid papers were not to reflect on the characters of those gentlemen who certified, but the inaccuracies therein contained originated from mistake,

SAMUEL MORSE.

Those Printers in the United States who have printed the aforesaid publications are requested to publish the above.