Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1802-10-04

TO admire mott, the GberaEty of theie
lagac'Oat gentlemen, or their inecnnly--
Iheir iiberAlity. in attempting 70 caa
een.ure upon an act of the (triaei
Juliice to perlons entitled to il by every
claim OF eqni,y-Thsir ingenuity, in
deSiiins for this purpoGe a conaruaioa,
which makes the books, papers. records,
and furniture Of an Office, conaitute the
Office ittelf. According to this con.
itruetion the officers and clerks were
under no tort of obligation TO remove
az all-The only thing to be done was
70 traniPort the books, papers, records
aud furniture, to the banks Of the Pc.
toEac, and leave them TO fnd build
ine to contain them, and officers to take
care OF them as they could. We have
heard OF country were 10 Aed blood
IN the ttreets was capital offence "a
citizen falls down in an spopledic fit
ioreeon is initantly called to him
his lie depends upon his being imme
diately blad-the iurgeon breathes
vein and iaves the patient.-The ma,
Jority OF our committee of inveAigation
would infalli5ly have hanged that fur
geon, uRleis indeed he had been of
their own party in that cafe they
would have applied their other fet OF
principles.
Let the reader bear in mind that the
Indemnity, allowed TO The clerks and
officers, againa which The committee
obiea, was 10 Gnail, that after the re
movAl of Congreis TO Warrington, they
made an expr,E additional grant Of
eleven thoufand eight hundred dollars,
for the fame purPofe. " This grant
I" was made (fays Mr.. Wolcott) after
1T was publicly and universally
/" known on what principles the expen
" ces, incident TO the removal of the
{" government had been adjuaed. It
9 was made, after the account, which
q Perionally exhibited on retiring
" from Office, had been printed in the
{" newspapers, and every poffible at
"temPt made, BY favorite of the pre-.
" ient adminiltr alton, to excite preju-
(" dice againft me, on the fcore of that
4" account"
In the face of all ihefe faas the ma
iority of the committee have not been
ATTAINED TO admit this utterly impoiible
item into the liz of their accufations,
and TO involve Mr.. Wolcott perlonally
in it to the amount of FIVE hundred and
ten dollars. His publications. founded
upon principles as fair, open and hon.
orable, as thofe of the committee for
condemning them are mean, captious
and ungenerous. Ia leaving the deci
fion TO an impartial public he adds the
following circumstances with a confer
oplnefs Of unidentified integrity, which,
if faeion could bluih, would fafufe
with the deepea fcarlet the cheeks Of
his acculers,
During nearly twelve years, in
switch / was in the fervice Of The Uni
ted States, the aggregate amount of
"my expcnles fomewhat exceeded the
Z" dif,rent compenlatious l received.
"Thsfe expenfes were much below thofe
"of lome jealous protectors of econo.
"my. During this whole period, con
rased no dsbts, except for the necef
"fary exp.nf;s of my family. Thefe
8 debts have been fully dilchsrge!. I
4" do net recollea TO have derived the
+" emolument of Jingle dollar, for any
" bufneis or fervioes, except from The
I" United States. was indeed refrain.
/" ed by law, from engaging in thofe
I" employments, which afforded prof
pett of much profit; bur the rsItric-
/" ton impoled on myfeif was Gill
I" more extenGve under lhsf- circum
CHANCES, cannot perceive, that there
4" exilted any oblg ation on my part, to
renounce jua though uncomfortable
I" claim on the public.
| To conclude on the fubJee of this ar
ticle, he a1tucss another fact, for the
eaimation of which the committee mua
cal for their feeond f-t Of weights and
me aiurcs.
"Un'efs il has been cloled Gnce his
{" elevation to the proficiency, they
" might have found IA account open
:. with Mr.. Jeferlon as Minilter to
CO The Court of France they might
{. have diicovered, that ia My
/. ar7s4, Congrefs declared tia, tbe
!. hlary of a Miaiger Of tbe United Slater,
"a a foreign Court, J6oula net exessd min.
, !. tbovjand 6o!lari PER 0naum, and that,
l "A ,rd.pu thiS ,cnri1ioo Mr.