Having faid thus much upon the only two parts of Mr. C.'s ftatement which require from me any particular notice, I fhall not, in fpeaking of what remains, degrade the dignity of criticism by minute remark or by formal confutation.

Upon the spirit in which Mr. C.'s paper is drawn up-upon the end for which it was printed, circulated, and republished-upon the italicized mention of the letter which I fent, and avowed having fent, to him anonymously upon the diforderly arrangement of fome facts-upon the imperfect relation of othersand the total omiffion of more, I fhall not make any invidious comment. Every reader of difcernment will decide upon these matters for himself, and he will be enabled alfo to form a right judgment upon the merits of the whole cafe, by comparing Mr. C.'s printed paper with the ftrictures already paffed upon it by three witneffes; and with the following narrative, which has been twice read, and twice approved by them.

PART THE THIRD.

Narrative of what paffed at the Coventry Interview.

HE interview of September 29th, was evidently

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in the fame fpirit, doubtlefs, all the other gentlemen accepted his invitation. How far the converfation which arofe there is or is not to be confidered as a private one muft depend upon circumftances; and on the part of Mr. C. circumftances have already arifen from which it is probable that the particulars of the interview will not be kept very fecret. Mr. C., for inftance, faid yesterday, that he would publifh the treatment he had received. Now, if his words meant only a statement in private converfation, no gentleman can have a right, nor has Mr. C. himself, it is prefumed, any intention, to fupprefs one part, and to divulge another. But to whatever extent publication may be carried in the past meaning, or in the future conduct of Mr. C. it was judged neceffary by Dr. Parr this morning, to commit to paper the whole of what paffed yesterday. Accordingly he fat down with Mr. Mackintosh to recollect the facts: he stated them as recollected in the prefence, and with the aid of Mr. Mackintosh; and in the afternoon he read them, as here ftated, to Mr. Eyre and Dr. Marth, who dined with him at Hatton, and by whom one flight correction, and three or four very proper additions were fuggefted.

At Coventry, Mr. C., just before dinner, propofed entering on the bufinefs, for the difcuffion of which he and Dr. P. had met each other, and their friends. But Dr. P. knowing that there was not then time for

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accurate difcuffion, and wifhing not to haften the moment in which unpleasant converfation might spring up, defired to defer the investigation till after dinner. Mr. C. acquiefced, and the gentlemen dined together in very good humour.

Dr. P. foon after dinner produced the two anonymous letters which he had received, a copy of the anonymous letter which he had caufed to be written and had avowed, and three other letters which had paffed between him and his amanuenfis, relating to fome miftakes which that amanuenfis had committed, and which Dr. P. intended to explain by reading those three letters, if he was required.

Dr. P. concifely and pointedly ftated his opinion upon the purpose of the meeting. To justify the fufpicion which he had entertained and expreffed of Mr. C., he fuppofed it incumbent upon himself to produce the facts on which that fufpicion was grounded, the evidence which fupported thofe facts, and the conclufions which he had drawn from them severally, or collectively. He, alfo, intimated flightly, that he expected to hear Mr. C. endeavour to clear himself by fuch means as were in Mr. C.'s power, whatever they might be. Dr. P. then defired permiffion to read his papers without interruption, and offered to lay them on the table when read, for any gentleman to make obfervations. He at the fame time proposed, that Mr. C. fhould be furnished with pen and ink to mark every thing that might ftrike him; but this precaution was not taken by Mr. C. The Doctor proceeded to read his own statement, after having given the three anonymous letters into the hands of Mr. Eyre, and by Mr. Eyre they were read immediately after thofe parts of the statement in which they are refpectively mentioned. It is proper to introduce that ftatement here, and to incorporate into it the anonymous letters in their refpective order.

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The Statement read by Dr. PARR.

Having received many civilities from Mr. Sheriff Clay and his friends, I wished to fhew him fome mark of respect at his going to Warwick in the fummer affizes of 1790. I ordered the bells of the parish to ring, and waited for a confiderable time to speak to the Sheriff on the Hockley road which goes through HatI could not dine with him, but I went over in the afternoon to the Three Tuns, and entered the room foon after dinner. Mr. Curtis there started to me the fubject of the Cambridge election, and in a manner, too, of which I did not approve. I was a member of the university, but he then was not-I had been at the election, but he had not. I was naturally enough fore from the defeat of Mr. Dundas; and to a man who, like myself, has fomething of a public character, and is warmly attached to his friends, no converfation upon fuch a topic would be very pleasant in a mixed company, some of whom were almoft ftrangers to me; and indeed the language of triumph was particularly offenfive, when uttered in the prefence of thofe who were of an oppofite and victorious party. The business was introduced improperly, it was purfued violently, and, therefore, I treated Mr. C., as Mr. C. in my judgment deserved. When he blamed Mr. Dundas for expofing his party to useless expence † and trouble, I maintained that my friends

I am aware that many circumftanees in what Mr. C. calls my mémorial, will be tedious to the reader who knows little about the parties. But I had weighty reafons for mentioning them at Coventry, and I now am not at liberty to omit what I read there.

Mr. C. is difpleafed at Mr. Dundas for permitting his friends to fpend their money in a public caufe, and my anonymous London correfpondent, as will appear prefently, is difpleafed with me for the expence to which I put Mr. Brooke of Birmingham by ftaying as his vifitor for three weeks. I blame not either Mr. C. or my correfpondent for their economy, but I am convinced that neither Mr. Dun

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friends were fuperior to fuch confiderations, that we looked to the honour of the struggle itself, and that Mr. C.'s mode of reafoning might be ufed with more propriety of Mr. Pitt's adherents, who had neither so good a caufe, nor fo generous a zeal. Mr. C. was displeased, and I was at no pains to foften his dif pleasure.

The fame after noon he mentioned to me a Bean Club at Birmingham; he politely offered to propose me, and I civilly, but incautiously, accepted the propofal.

Mr. Carlefs, Mr. C., and myself rode out in the fame carriage to meet the judges, and feemed to be in good humour. But I knew that Mr. C. was fecret ly hurt at what I had faid, and justly faid; and fearing from fo impetuous a man, and in fo promifcuous à company, the repetition of fo unpleafant a converfation, I did not go to the Tuns in the evening, as I intended to go; neither in the affize week did I meet the Sheriff, as I had wifhed to meet him, in public company.

On the Sunday morning I went to hear Mr. C. preach, and I intended by fo doing to return the civility which he had fhewn me, when I had gone over to deliver two charity fermons at Birmingham, and when he had obligingly ridden from Solyhull to read prayers at St. Martin's church in the morning.

Having recollected fomething that I had formerly heard about the Bean Club, and fufpecting that it might still be more or less inftrumental to party purposes, I changed my mind, and about the Wednesday or Thursday in the affize week, I wrote a letter to Mr.

das's friends, nor my friend Mr. Brooke, had ever one uneafy thought upon the fubject of expence. And yet their income probably in many instances is not equal to that which Mr. C. receives from the great rectory of St. Martin's, and the improved tythes of Solyhull. Mr. C. will excufe me for glancing flightly at the fimilarity of fentiment in bimfelf, and my correfpondent who figns himfelf Monitor.

* Mr. Carless is a magiftrate in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. C. ex

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