The GEORGIA GAZETTE.

To the PUBLIC.


WITH
astonishment I read a late publication in Mr. Johnston's paper, set forth by one Samuel Chandler, who seems determined here, as well as wherever he has been, to impose himself on the world as a man of universal learning. Was he blessed with the least share of modesty or discretion, (after being so often detected) he never would have been so consummately impudent or presuming in palming such arrogant falsities on the injudicious. His acquaintance with the Latin and Greek Classics is so superficial that a judge may soon discover his
ne plus ultra
. The French he knows no more of translating radically, or reading with propriety, than an Ethiopian does of the Chactaw or Cherokee Language. His knowledge of the Mathematics is as confined as mine is of the Alcoran I never saw. As to Drawing, he has picked up scraps here and there, that he lays before his undiscerning pupils to imitate. Nor is he even skilled in Arithmetic. He has dared to assert that he has a recommendation from that venerable and learned Gentleman, Doctor Witherspoon, who, from his well known veracity and candor, never gave a literary recommendation to any such superficial
quondam quid nunc;
he, from his humane and charitable disposition, may have made civil mention of him to his son in a letter, who practices law in North Carolina. Will say nothing of Chandler's
faux pas
in Suffolk, Virginia, nor his clandestine departure from thence; shall simply narrate what Doctor M'Clure, Treasurer and Trustee for Newbern Academy, mentioned to me: he declared solemnly that Chandler was the most pedantic, assuming, and nugatory being, that ever appeared there: Captain Thomas Webber and a Mr. Good, Gentlemen of repute and discernment, confirmed the same. A Teacher of Mathematics having stated a trivial question in the public Gazette, for Chandler to answer, never could get a solution, though he had then published as pompous an advertisement as lately appeared in Savannah. The eyes of the inhabitants were in some measure opened, the greater part of the scholars withdrawn and sent to Gentlemen who taught at the Government House, commonly called the Palace. The Trustees having found out Chandler's vanity and imposition wrote Colonel Blount, at Congress, to look out for a Gentleman qualified to superintend the Academy, in consequence of which he sent on a Doctor Cutton. Either before, or shortly after, Doctor Cutton's taking charge of the school, Chandler, on account of his monkish airs, and smattering knowledge of the flute, was taken into a Mr. Stanly's house, to tickle occasionally Mrs. Stanly's ear, and play High-Bob for her children; was not long there till necessitated to decamp for Charleston in disgrace: Previous to his departure obtained a line to a Gentleman in Georgia from Mr. Stanly; the contents can be ascertained: this is what he calls recommendatory letters from several Academies he formerly had the charge of. Any Gentleman acquainted with the occasion of Mr. Stanly's retreat from Virginia into North Carolina, in 1763, will pay little or no attention to any letter of recommendation from him. I might trace said Chandler to the present moment, but refer those who have not heard of his swindling in Charleston,
or his male-conduct in Augusta, to Gentlemen now on the spot, who are so numerous that I need not name them. In a word, his life has been one continued scene of lying and imposing. Thou Chandler,
spes gregis
, leave off your deceptions, as you promised to Doctor Mayer, or, finally, you will irretrievably deceive yourself.
A tali Grœco, Latino, Gallico, Mathematico, Anglico, Pædagogo, & Musico, libera nos, Domine
.

Philalethes
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Negative photostat lent by U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.


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To the PUBLIC. / With astonishment I read a late publication in Mr. Johnston's paper, / set forth by one Samuel Chandler, who seems determined here, as / well as wherever he has been to impose himself on the world as a man of / universal learning ....
Philalethes
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Broadside, Folio.


[Printed in Savannah, Ga., Sept 2, 1789.]


[Original in the Georgia Historical Society?]