| Description | Is sorry to find that Griffith and the gentlemen to whom the latter communicated the contents of the writer's former letter to have mistaken his meaning. It is not true that he stigmatized all the gentlemen and inhabitants of Anglesey with being disaffected to the Constitution; what he did say quite palinly was that he had no doubt that the gentlemen, etc. did in general think with Griffith and the writer on the measure of a military association. He used the word "general" advisedly, as griffith had informed him that there were some who were supposed to be adverse to this military measure. He did observe, however, that he wsa not surprised to receive this account from Griffith as great pains had been taken by certain persons to poison the minds of the people with French principles. After these words he cited two circumstances, which Griffith has taken out their context and used to the writer's discredit. Goes on to explain these circumstances : first, the dissemination of a certain libellous pamphlet in March 1796, which was considered by many as an attack not only on the writer but upn the Contitution itself - that and the publishing of scandalous and abusive paragraphs in a newspaper called the Telegraph, and of pamphlets such as those which were distributed at Llannerch-y-medd Fair in 1796, containing principles and notions tending to corrupt the minds of the people. Secondly, his prosecution at Shresbury Assizes which, had it succeeded, would have undoubtedly promoted the cause of Democracy. from these proceedings which have been carried on against him, Griffith must allow that the writer has great reason to support that Republican principles would gain some ground from thence in the diocese and in Anglesey among other parts. But certainly he did not mean to imply that the whole county was thereby tainted with those principles; his charge is confined to a small number of people - five at most - whom he does not geel disposed to name. Rather he will practise his "old rule of forgetting and forgiving" |