Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.
Merchant of Venice, Act v. Scene iii.
THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.
[Having given insertion to Mr. Phillips’s letter concerning the song ‘The Old English Gentleman,’ we feel bound to publish Mr. Charles H. Purday’s answer, if that which replies to nothing can be said to be an answer; and have only to regret being placed in a situation which hardly allows us to decline becoming the medium through which direct charges—whether true or false—are met, not by facts, not even by a bare contradiction, but by calling the author of them ‘a fool.’
Let it be understood that we make ourselves no party in the dispute; we know nothing of the merits of the case, and hope to hear no more of it.]
To the EDITOR of the HARMONICON.
9, Clarendon Square, August 7th, 1833.