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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Charleston reports on Bermuda Governor's correspondence with Royal Gazette editor Mr. Ward, withdrawing the paper's royal title and Ward's printer office due to his refusal to retract a false account of the US frigate President's capture.
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CHARLESTON (S. C.) May 27:
We have been favoured with a loan of a file of Bermuda papers to the 4th instant, received via Savannah.
In the paper of the 3d, we observe a correspondence between his Excellency the Governour of those Islands, and Mr. Ward, the Editor of the Royal Gazette, which closes on the part of the Governour by withdrawing from that paper its title of Royal Gazette, and from Mr. Ward the office of his Majesty's Printer in those Islands. His Excellency appears to have been determined in this course by the pertinacious adherence of Mr. Ward to a false statement published in his paper, of the circumstances attending the capture of the United States' frigate President; which statement was at first corrected by him, at the instance of the Governour, but afterwards re-asserted and adhered to. His Excellency deeming it to be equally inconsistent with the honour of the British nation, and the character of the British press, to admit of a publication being honoured with the support of his Majesty's name, or its Editor with the commission of his Majesty's Printer, that prefers the wanton perseverance in error to the honourable retraction of a misstatement.
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Bermuda
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withdrawing from that paper its title of royal gazette, and from mr. ward the office of his majesty's printer in those islands
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correspondence between his Excellency the Governour of those Islands, and Mr. Ward, the Editor of the Royal Gazette, which closes on the part of the Governour by withdrawing from that paper its title of Royal Gazette, and from Mr. Ward the office of his Majesty's Printer in those Islands. His Excellency appears to have been determined in this course by the pertinacious adherence of Mr. Ward to a false statement published in his paper, of the circumstances attending the capture of the United States' frigate President; which statement was at first corrected by him, at the instance of the Governour, but afterwards re-asserted and adhered to. His Excellency deeming it to be equally inconsistent with the honour of the British nation, and the character of the British press, to admit of a publication being honoured with the support of his Majesty's name, or its Editor with the commission of his Majesty's Printer, that prefers the wanton perseverance in error to the honourable retraction of a misstatement.