The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-20
FROM TIE PHILADELPHIA sEeIsrEs
TO TIKI MARQUIS DE CASA IsuJo.

SIR,
Toyour acknowledged attempt to corrup. nv f.
deity citizen, by engaging my fervices to fup-
port the reafonings of foreign miniier, you have
dared add the atrocity of impeaching the truth of
my declaration, which had been made under the IA
cred obligations of an oath.
In the nature Of ysur employment, and the pauei-
~ of your means, you might have found an execute,
well motive, for the former part of your con-
duct in the modification of your failure only can e.
ven the hadow of caufe be traced for this laR de-
parture from all that is honorable juf, and true
The guarantee of the nation will protect your per-
fon but, as that guarantee cannot this country be
extended, by any contraction, inyef foreign mi
nfer with the privilege of fafely charging a citizen
of the United States with perjury, and of promuga-
ting that charge through the medium of newfpaper,
neither your Office, all the fanions of diplomacy
hall refrain my refutation of the deliberate fahood
nor prevent the refutation being made through the
fame channel.
In your belief that "politcal intolerance" had pre-
pared me receive with ">leis reluctance the COM
munication ofyour prOpoals, you may have exhibited
correct view of your mind, however croft
ly You were deceived in the analogy which it fue-
geled.
The circumstances Of that communication were
faithfully and correctly detailed in my depofton and
on careful review of that Raternent, olemnly ALERT
that every part Of the depotion is true---I fhall
therefore leave you enjoy the honor and the bene-
i OF the evafions and contradictions which you have
attempted. BY thofe contradictions you have endea-
voured to invalidate the difintereed oath Of man.
who, in the relations Of private character would deem
himfcf degraded BY comparilon with the Marquis,
de Gaia Yrujo--A man, Sir, who holds teftinonials
Of pcrfona worth, and public fervioe from different
chief magiRraes ofhis nation, which will obtain e.
quail confederation with your boaGed nobility for
they are certainly quite honorable, and even of
more ancient date than the title you bear.
You douDteis prefumed that you had only to con-
tradi9 the Editor Of uewfpaper, whole fleets"
notwithitanding you had feeeed them dilute your
calculations " are ioarcely to be feen acrofs the
waters of the Schuylkill and the Delaware, who
is without place in the government, and without
perfonal influence" effectually to dnipate all that
ne had sated under the obligations of his oath. In
this presumption, however, you have only betrayed
&" wicked heart ard a mifersble head."--Where we
are both known, it is not, hope, undue afumyti-
iuppole that fould obtain equal eredence with
Mr.. YruJo, ATTRACTED from the fanGiion of my
oath.
On the prefept location your malignity has forced
me coure Of proceeding, in the vndieation Of my
TRUTH of which, under all the "political intolerance
you have mentioned, hsG heretofore formed to a.
vail myfef By the nature of your infamous in1puta-
ton, ann compelled for the information Of thoie to
whom may be unknown, to exhibit fuch documents
20, in connection with the facts have Rated, may
tablih my claims to belief agana the contradictions
with which YOU have unbluihngly dared to attack
me.
When my fellow citizens Of the United States, and
the people Of other countries, fhal have examined
thele vouchers Of character, the publication ofwhch
has been thus esforted from when they have re-
eeted chat on the part of Major Jaokon there could
not have exiRcds Jingle motive for miaatenIent or
departure from truth in framing his depoG,on when
they ihs Ikewjie have rejected that the part Of
the Marquis de Gaia Yrujo every motive arihng out
Of mortica,ion every win avert the consequences
Of ais rIdpeecisfui attempt, were combined 10 TIC