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Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger
Norfolk, Virginia
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Bermuda Governor withdraws Royal Gazette's title and editor Mr. Ward's appointment as King's Printer due to persistent false reporting on the U.S. frigate President's capture, as reported in Bermuda papers received in Charleston on May 27.
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We have been favored with the loan of a file of Bermuda papers to the 4th inst. received via Savannah.
In the paper of the 3d, we observe a correspondence between His Excellency the Governor of those Islands, and Mr. Ward. the editor of the Royal Gazette, which closes on the part of the Governor 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 U. S. frigate President; which statement was at first corrected by him. at the instance of the Governor, but afterwards re-asserted and adhered to.-" His Excellency deeming it to be equally inconsistent with the honor of the British nation, and the character of the British press, to admit of a publication being honored 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 honorable retraction of a misstatement." Courier.
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Bermuda
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3d Inst.
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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 Governor of those Islands, and Mr. Ward the editor of the Royal Gazette, which closes on the part of the Governor 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 U. S. frigate President; which statement was at first corrected by him at the instance of the Governor, but afterwards re-asserted and adhered to. His Excellency deeming it to be equally inconsistent with the honor of the British nation, and the character of the British press, to admit of a publication being honored 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 honorable retraction of a misstatement.