Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-06

application was msdesbous' the If of July
and from TIA, time to the month of Osfo-
Der, Mr.. Duane TENT me occafonally, In
formation as Ia characters and events,
tome,imes couched in the form of letters,
and at other times expreAed in the form
ofhiltory, leaving It to my own diicresion
to alter the language or not. Noswirh-
ttanding this active part which Duane had
in the compilation of the hiaory, be is
pleaied 70 ahert in the Aurora OF the 18th
of July, that it contains neither veracity
or dignity. Such an ohlervatiou would
certainly have proceeded with more pro-
priety from any other critic than Mr.. d.
ane, when the fatss farnihed by hi,a are
well known to be the mott 1aiie. and IL
bellous in TIE whole book. Thele fats,
as he termed them in lis letters, relate
principally to Mr.. Adams and compete al
mott all the anecdotes inerted .in the hiAory
rslpetting the late PRECEDENT; the falIacy
of tie tory reported 10 me by Mr.. Du-
ane, l was then ignorant ofbut can allure
the public, that ! have been informed by
PeICons more respectable than MIR. Duane,
that there is not the fmalleG foundation eli.
ther for the anecdotc the AlcAymit, mg-
toned in page sos, or FER the Tories ref
petting Mr.. Adams and Dr.. Franklin,
related in chapter XII. Mr.. Duane vas
particularly Tedious 10 lis letters requel-
ing that l ihou!d by no means omit to de-
lcribe, in the moa pointed manner, the
ennity of Mr.. Alan; toward: d.. Frank
lin; but upon a far inyeaiga,ioa CT
this matter, l have diitovered that Mr..
Adams never d:iPlayed any marks OF, ha-
tired to DR.. franklin himlelt, but only
towards Bache the printer, who RATED
Mr.. Daanc tc his prelent ea,inerce. This
was certainly an a:t Of gratitude in Mr..
Dame, but thar fpecics Of gratitude which
ought to receive the ,faverstt ceniure, TIE
rating the reputation O: friend a, the
expence OF his enemy, and without having
the boldnsis to execute the fratagem him
felf, to impo!e the talk upon a aranser.
The character given CT James Rols, il
Pennsylvania, in page IS4, was drawn
from The Aurora, bu. as TO the truth CT
the charges there adduccd ssaint Mr..
Ro!s, l have no, had an opportunity q
determining. The probability, however,
is, tia; they are talle, as they have been
reported by Mr.. Duane. The characters
given Of the members of congrefs (who
voted for the alien and edition bills,
that cf Mr.. Bingham and MIR. RcIs ex-
ccp,ed) in the hiltory from page 49, TO
the en-! Of EX,h chapter, were entirely Ia.
ken from Callendcr's Project, Pages lz2,
I25, ~, ls5, I4+u AS, ITO, ard ~,
of his frit volume. The language is a
little altered, but the reader will perceive
that tie Continents are the fame. The cha
ractcr of Mr.. Bingham I obtained from
the friends OF Mr.. Duane when at Phila-
delphia. l however am induced to inp:
pofc by ether information, thar although
Mr.. Bingham is not the bTishteit man in
the world, his enemies have extremely
exaggerated his faults. The articles enti-
tied BRITISH PIRACY, were.entirely ex-
,ratted from Callender's works, his Ske.-
ches of America, and Annual ResiHef..
The contents of the Gxth chapter of the
Hiltory, from the commencement to page
i6S, were drawn from the fecond chapter
of the 6rlt volume Of Calleadel's Project.
The account l have given of Bloun,'s
Confpiracy, ard the negotiation of this
country with the Directory of France,
were collected from the Aurora, as ALTO,
were my remarks on The Contribution of
Connecticut. and the characters OF Mr..
Trum5ul, Mr.. Treadwc!l, Mr.. Thomas
Seymour, M.. Aaron .AuGin, and Mr..
David Dagget. Iheie laR are 10 be
found 10 the Aurora of April, 1901.
" The anecdote relating to Mr.. Hamil-
ron at the capture Of the redoubts at
Yorktown, I have read in teverai hi:to-
ries of the American war as ALTO! in the
Anti Jacobin Review, in reviewing MIR.
Hamilron's letter to Mr.. Adams bot MIR.
Hamilton himielf, I am informed denies
it.
=" Rcfpea;ng the biography. Of Mr..
l Burr, which the writer of the narrative