SECOND POSTSCRIPT 



SIR, 



FEARON S FALSEHOODS. 

 To the Editor of the National Advocate. 



Hyde Park, Jan. gth, 1819. 



1056. BEFORE I saw your paper of the day before yesterday, 

 giving some extracts from a book published in England by one 

 Fearon, I had written part of the following article, and had pre 

 pared to send it home as part of a Register, of which I send one 

 every week. Your paper enabled me to make an addition to the 

 article ; and, in the few words below, I have this day sent the 

 whole off to be published in London. If you think it worth 

 inserting, I beg you to have the goodness to give it a place ; and 

 I beg the same favour at the hands of all those editors who may 

 have published Fearon s account of what he calls his visit to me. 



I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient, 



And most humble servant, 



WM. COBBETT. 



1057. There is, I am told, one FEARON, who has gone home and 

 written and published a book, abusing this country and its people 

 in the grossest manner. I only hear of it by letter. I hear, also, 

 that he speaks of me as if he knew me. I will tell you how far he 

 knew me : I live at a country house 20 miles from New York. 

 One morning, in the summer of 1817, a young man came into the 

 hall, and introduced himself to me under the name of FEARON. 

 The following I find about him in my journal : &quot; A Mr. FEARON 



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