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Pikboeuf, in France, July 2, 177
N K W b E R N, O.vciJ
T9 rht P U B L I
It gives me much r ain to 'fter any thir, to
corcerrs nv fcif, but when f find my character m'
attacked, h e rney will indulge mc wuh a vindic:
O N or about the 1 8th oi 1 Align'ftjalt, a ctrrai
J.e, of this county, received a violent Hab in his
ictlas frcm a F -enchman. Two or thee fiy after,'
that the m. n was dead, fearch was made for the FrcnclJ
tews, where he had f-n Mkirp at large "without he U
V(c t-fceh cf him. On their not fir-din? him, Col. John
flier: ft of this cour t;-, was tcJd by fever! ger,t'em-r, he haT
ivr 2u'T"ne mc r .entiirnin as tneiKfiiet wav u, ac --rehfl
. - t, -t ri
turn, at J clrcred among thtm to m: ke up a reward of twenty
poar.d?, of which ium Wilbam Tifdale, Efq ; offered to pay
tec tonnds. Col. K..?n left them and hid he would goto Mr.
iDvi. and have it dcre immediately. In his thao h he Or Mr.
J bn Ivenpedy, gaoler ancf deputy fhenf came to Lhe printing
imce, tele me he wa. fcntjby Col.-Bryan ta order me :o advex.
tie the murderer, as James was dead. I told him'I c u'd not
wi.hcu; a,frrm,,the man's name, ai d dtrfctiption. He.immedi-
:ely went away and returned in kfs than half an he ur with the
tan's name, and a d. ic-.itin of his perfor-, and tcjd me that it
a s-cl. B ) an acrdenl ;h u'd rublifh a advertifemrnt "mrnedi-
I'ely, j ut his name to it, and offer a read of twenty pounds j
e ordrrj e(e Obeyed, Ld an advert I n.en pubMh'd. .
At the laft county cr-u-t h-.-re, ntwilhltanuing the above pro-
kocirg, a pr JVcutr n ce.ir.ll nr.: was m it violently ued, the
mud ac vrjtifeme rt r a. U ur.d ra the table of the f reman cf
r pr&i,d jur, and ita fupporters were feon di fcovered jto be
tl. Jofej. h Leech, Dr, G. 11 -n, ard . Col. B-yaa himfelf, whc
id vidend the publication, as his ce- niy told me. ft was urg-
b them gentKmtn :hat no fuch murder had been committed,
ood;
Jugujl
foreiaid,
M day, barbaf
longed to Colonei
"Jeremiah James died 01
t had abfeonded." In confet
pant wtcn a number or other: perl
frenchman, wno, it was laid, was con!
bulhes behind the fchool houfe, and after fa
b!e time for the fuppofed murderer, and not bein?
V.: r cfifjl r ! . s i ,
utiD, ivjr. 1 ijaaie anu lorae otner perions propoiea to nave nil
advertifed, and promifed to give any perfon twenty pounds re
ward, who w uld apprehend the afo efaid Frenchman. This
deponanf further faitb, that he defired Golonel John Bryan,
fheriffof Craven county, to go home with him and he would