Mount-Pleasant, May 5, 1766 : Mr. David Hall, That duty incumbent upon every honest man, to vindicate his character (when maliciously and unjustly aspersed) obliges me to trouble the publick with the annexed. Should room be wanting in your next gazette, be pleased to print it on a separate half-sheet, and send it with your papers to each of your correspondents in this province, and in the Jerseys.