Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-06


found hinelf in poor minority Of about
feven members of the lower houfe. And
hese, though. not quite, relevant TO the
fabjea before. ms, / beg leave TO relate an
aneodole Of this demagogue. At the time
above alluded to, committee was intfi-
tu,ed, at the equea of Mr.. Hamilton, 10
enquire into bis conduct as Secretary Of
the Treafasy, the majority, Of which con.
Cited of Mr.. HIS political enemies, and
Giles was one of the number After a
long and minete inyeitigation, a report was
frzraed, honorable ard satisfactory to Mr..
Hamilton; which report was igned by
Giles himtelf as chairman Of the commit
tee, in bis own hand writing, and il was
accepted unanimously. But the very fat
thing / law of this Giles after the meeting
of ,he laa Congrefs, when he thought he
might carry himfelf loftiiy, was a declara-
ton on the floor Of the houie, that he had
sever teen /atisftd eohb The roxdaF Of Mfr.
Hamz,,v, in the foregoing affair. Such
are "tky G0ds, o! yrael."
To return, it appears that the quefion
as to the extern. with which appropriations
might bevaried, had been placed before
Congrefs expefly by Mr.. Wolcott him
felt, and tha, they had pafed formal
vote en- the fubjett, br:h in the houfe and
ienSte, not only avowing and faneiionins
the fame practice, which this committee
have declared to b. illegal, but implicitly
condeinping as a gfel1G Innovation the
very principles on which the report is pre-
dictated. 1t appears that MIR. Wolcost
informed Congre,s in 70 many words, that
he had been induced to raife the queiIon
for their confederation, eta prevsnt future
miscogRruaiou IF bi, eondua, and that
there might be due nndtyfanding ef tbe
rireamRaurss inter 7vknb bis accounts lad
6seu framed ;" and which were thofe now
condemned by this committee as unautho--
rized and illegal. Nay it appears tha, Mr..
Maton and Mr.. Tazewell of the Senate,
were two of the members who Joined to
approve Mr.. Wolco,,'s conduct in this
identical particular. f<.a.A
Mr.. Wolcctt then ihews that, "accor-
ding to the principles contended for by the
committee, many of the laws heretofore
enacted, were utterly unfufceptible Of ex.'
ecution." But what will the friends to
the prefent naturalization fay, when they:
find, that according to the very principles
of the Committee therlelves, viz. that
!" Ia all neceGary deviations fran attr0-
trat;ou,, dyitlg/ur oxgbt t0de made TO can.
sres and an at Of INDEMNIFY; ii now ap-
pears that I" climates were exhibited by
MIR. Pickering and his immediate fuccef-
for Mr.. Marhall, and that ltsejfr otbro..
briatiOns avere mqde by Cougreis more ban
efficient to cover the advances 81
We cannot help taking notice of the
mean, unjul, iniquitous dealing Of MIR.
Gallatin, as expoled by Mr.. Wolcott in
two particular inaances. The one is
where, in his official publication, he endea--
vors to fsaen the charge of delinquency
on Mr.. Pickering, by publithing certain
documents marked A. and G. but as to
the intermediate document marked B. re.
lating to the account of Mr.. Randolph, it
is entirelyfuppreGsd! Does the reader ak
his motiyes 1t would ferye to fhow tri-
fling delinquency on the part of MI. Ran.
dolph of 5T,ooo dollars; but, that you
know would not have fuited quite 70 well
with the views of the committee. The
leeond cafe Of difngenuous behavior, is
mifquo,a,ion by him in a public paper,
where he converts the phrafe of :" BxPEH-
sgs ATTENDING fix feyen.y four gun
ihips," into Sc expenses, FIR CONFLICT.
ING" sc. So extraordinary an inaance
ofimpudent arti6ce is not oftento be met
With, and mutt fubjea the author Of it, to
the difgracefnl humiliation OF moving the |
pity, of his bittereit foe. As it ierves TO
de, elope in a manner too plain to be mif- /
underfood, the motives which have GO
verned the inveffigating committee and
,hoie connected with them, it is highly
H..
Ms. Wolcott 6nihes by undertaking 70 |
defend and to place in "A Satisfactory |
light before the public thofe particular |