Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-03-24

he some how or other discovered ii. INCH
served" Henry had in view! Was y. '''
afraid that the market might be pm,,., asaF7
his kind Of produce Does he no.. With
secrets to those in whom he b,. eI
Or had not his friend the Count Fifty rna.
sand Dollars to spare !-More o,o, "ou'
" Foa may knosy tie zuounded tn,
Mev .fuhrring." S'''s Sy
We extract the following humsyo,. v.
from democratic paper printed in III, h;'sI f
trlct:- VI"
We know not (says the ingcniu, WIS.,
what Henry has received for reyca;no '''sFl
government the incendiary agency e., o''
rating this union but this we .non "p''
those who hold this union cheap will th;nl INT
secret purchased at price too dear on
fact we venture confidently to assn VIC
readers; that whatever compensatior " vu
Henry may have demanded from our a,,. -''
nent for the communication ofbis crcde.s,
he might from another quarter have comm.sa
ed five times as much for their SUPPRESS"
Here, now, is a most important g Gs.,'
sure !" Take notice, reader,-this write,
serts that he does not knoy ukat He,yn
ceiped; but he confidently assures his r,s1,s'
that he could have obtained from another on. "
ter .Jsve times as much as he received, or 1 en.'
as he might haze demanded I! !-WeT-ns
do not knozv hogv high Pythagoras SKIM
when he had explained the forty.seyep,h t nv
blem to his taste: but of this we can tars
IDENTIFY assure our readers that if his soul uow
animates human frame, an opportunity i,
offered from another quarter of skipping fw
times as high for another " disclosure! And
this, of course, for all that we know to II,
contrary, might be as far aloft, as the Sami,a
sage was when he formerly travelled on
broomstick.
The other assertion of this kroraas.or.
convinces us of the sublimity Of his conceu.
tions,and the serenity of his mind when writ.
ing:
He gnaws his pen, then throws it on til.
ground,
Sinking from thought to thought, vsn
hrotonnd;"
He SAYS" we know that those who hold
this union cheap will think the secretpurchas.
ed at price too dear" How could such an
opinion be entertained, when there is no pc.
sitive troof-we mean legal proof, for ofany
other kind there is abundance-that Mr. Hen.
ny received dollar from our government.
Besides, it is evident that no man holds the
union so cAeeh as Mr.. Henry himself, accor-
ding to his own confession; yet he took more
9 it than rs k 81 it was Worth He nal
his goods and cbattels at public sale and
contrary to the practice of all honest auction.
GERS, he took the lowest price offered We
confess, however, that it may be urgedin Mr..
Hcnry's favor, that although he sold Nth.
out reserve" in this instance, it is prooftmt
he " loves the Americans :" because if he
could have got two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars from another quarter" he refused
that sum, not even demanding it, and sold the
secret to our government dog'cheap!
Lack day! He must be a disinterested rsl
"a worthy patriot;
For what is soorsh in any thing, -
But SO much money as twill bring"
Feeling ourselves also strongly inclined %
make calculations, we shall for the present
dismiss Mr.. Henry's advocate, with the posS
questions;
"-quid terras alio calentes
Sole mutamus patrie quls exul
Sc quoque .fuget?
Our calculations are as follows;
Doh.ch
Count Csi5Le* knows Henry, and
dined with him at two places "A
valued at "oo0
Met him afterwards by accident,
These will happen in the best ,oo 3,
of families, Nv "
Met with Yankee captain az a
;unortant ssc ~ n nu,I''' $4,000 os
Was scared to death, when he