d by
him from religious persons for charitable purposes, and for
building a Meeting-house among certain persons called Indians.

On the thirteenth day of August now last past, at Boston
aforesaid, in the County of Suffolk aforesaid, unlawfully,
maliciously, and deliberately did compose, print and publish,
and did cause and procure to be composed, printed and
published in a certain newspaper, called the "Daily Commercial
Gazette," of and concerning him the said William Apes, and of
and concerning his said profession and business, an unlawful
and malicious libel, according to the purport and effect, and
in substance as follows, that is to say, containing therein
among other things, the false, malicious, defamatory and
libellous words and matter following, of and concerning said
William Apes, to wit: _convinced at an early period of my_
(meaning his the said Reynolds) _acquaintance with William
Apes_, (meaning the aforesaid William Apes,) _that he_
(meaning said William,) _was not what he_ (meaning said
William,) _professed to be; but was deceiving and imposing
upon the benevolent and Christian public_, (meaning that said
William Apes was a deceiver and impostor,) _I_ (meaning said
Reynolds,) _took all prudent means to have him_ (meaning
said William,) _exposed, and stopped in his_ (meaning said
William,) _race of guilt_, (meaning that said William had been
guilty of immorality, dishonesty, irreligion, offences and
crimes;) _these men_, (meaning one Joseph Snelling and one
Norris,) _were earnestly importuned to investigate his_
(meaning said William,) _conduct, and enforce the discipline_
(meaning the discipline of the church,) _upon him_ (meaning
said William,) _for crimes committed since his_ (meaning
said William's) _arrival in this city_, (meaning said city of
Boston, thereby meaning that said William Apes had been guilty
of crimes in said Boston,) _though well acquainted with
facts, which are violently presumtive of his_ (meaning said
William's) _being a deceiver, his_ (meaning said William's)
_friends stand by him_, (meaning said William's) _and will not
give him_ (meaning said William,) _up, though black as hell_,
(meaning that said William was a deceiver, and of a wicked and
black character.) _When I am informed that he_ (meaning said
William) _is ordained_,