Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-11-29
ALEXANDRIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, November 80.
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HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
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VILLAINY DETECTED.

| respectable merchant of this town, received
| a letter from 2 person signing himself William
Page enclosing a Check purporting to have
been drawn by the Cashier of the Mechanics
Bank of Baltimore on the Bank of Potomac for
Eight thousand FIVE Hundred & fifty Dollars,
stating that he wished to invest the amount in
flour, and that he should employ him to do
the business for him. Mr.. Laid carried the
Check to the Bank where it was regularly
carried to his credit without any suspicion of
its genuinencss by Mr.. Ladd or the Bank Of
6cers. Yesterday person by the name Of
Henry Gales presented to Mr.. Laid an order
from the aforesaid WIN. Page for Eight
thousand FIVE Hundred Dollars, being fifty
liars less than the original Check, stating
that he had changed his mind as to the pur-
chase of -four as his vessel could not get here,
* requesting him to pay the above to Mr.Galcs.
Mr.. I.add thought it strange that the order
should be drawn for less than the check, but
~
the order, and followed him to the Bank. The
teller of the Bank was in the act of paying the
check, when Mr. L.add entered, and requested
the original check might be examined, which
on reference to by the Cashier, was pronounc-
ed to be forgery. While this was transacting
MIR. Gales attempted to make his escape, but
was Immediately followed and taken, and we
are happy to say, together with compa-
MON of his has been committed to Jail, to
await the justice of his country for SO dar-
ing an attempt at villainy.
A Stakeholder in the Little River Turn
pike Company proposes the following gentle
men for Directors for the ensuing year.
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| 1 Hs5sss s 5onssos, ALEXANDRIA.
We understand the Committee of Foreign
Relations are in shocking nay so despe-
rate, indeed, is their situation represented,
that they are said to be little better than cahut
1nortuum. Some are for Non-Inte~course,
some for another Embargo experiment, and
some again red-hot for war. Among the
lstter are mentioned Mcssrs. Smile and
Johnson. OF the propriety, the delicacy, or
the unnatural barbarity, of a foreigner being
eager, to plunge his adopted country into a
war. the consequences of which must be
dreadful, and that too against his native coun-
try, we shall say nothing, because we are not
certain that our information is correct Yet
it is little strange, we confess, to find man
seventy years old Of SO fiery temperament.
One would expect that the discretion COM
monty accompanying grey hairs, would deter
man from Involving others in ARRAYS, in
which he himself can take no part, and the
termination of which, in all human probability,
he will not live to see. AS TO Mr.. Johnson,
his war-fever is equally inconsistent; because
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hostilities might be carried on against TO-
reign nation for years without having much
if any effect on the state he represents, while
thousands in the Atlantic states would be
slaughtered,z and tens of thousands utterly
ruined.
We give these rumours as We receive them,
without pledging ourselves for their anthem
ITCHY. 1t is expected that the Committees
bantling, with the aid of DR.. Mitchell or some
other obstetric practitioner of note, will be
speedily brought forth. We shall then be
able TO decide on its eomhlerion, and whe-
Their we are again to see verified the Fable
of the Mountain in labor,