Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-03-20

dent in New-York. He remained upwards Of
a week at Washington, and in the neighbor-
hood. On his return to Baltimore he called
with a friend at a Bank in this city, and pro-
duced a certificate, from an officer of a Bank
III Washington, that FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND
L had been deposited in said Bank to
his credit. In this certificate, the Cashier of
the Baltimore Bank gave him drafts, &c, on a
Bank IN n. York, where Mr.. Henry's business
lay, and whence, be informed his acquain.
tances here, he was to sail for Europe in the
Wasp. When we compare these circumstan.
ces with what follows, the conclusion is ire
sistlble, that MIR. Madison has wasted forty
eight or fifty thousand dollars of the peoples
money, to further his own election. and to re.
ward a traitor to his own country and a spy
upon the federal party.
EItroct Of a letter from Washington of
4s6 20, published an Relf's GaSette.
Would you believe it possible that men
who IL years ago, inveighed with SO much
zeai against having secrets in governments,
would now readily vote to put into the hands
OF The executive ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS tor SECRET SERVICE MONEY, to be
used Tor purposes of corruption, of how deep
a die they probably will never know This
Gay by ayes and noes, So to Ia this great sum
has been voted TO be put under the c~ontroul of
the executive; and the house are never to
know to what purpose it is to be used.
" But MIR. Bacon stated that no secret SER
vice money, contingent foreign intercourse
Jund, | believe it is nicknamed) was appro-
priated last year, on account of an oversight
or carelessness and services have ben per
formed rhich the government are bound in
justice to REGARD.
Mr.. Goldsborough asked him if any con-
tracts had been made.
Not absolutely contracts, the chancellor re-
Piled, but remuneration is expected. No
money had been paid for last years services
tof the governments spies and agents at home
and abroad but the ~serUices haoe been rem
dered NTH the appreciation If not the pro
mise Of remuneration.
If there be, land perhaps there yet are)
any more rogueS among the federalists, Imdrk
my predlcttonl that appropriation of 100000
will not all be expended before some of the
seeming pure will go over to the side of the
goats. Some of these will be under convie-
ton, visited by the grace of God-in dollars"
This letter was dated on the Goth of Febru.
airy, and on the day of its date, the bill pass
W, pAdSiHS SlOo5JOO seCTtt seTNitt money at
the disposal of the executive. Mr.. Henry's
communication from Philadelphia is dated
the Goth of February, but he had been at
Washington sometime before, made his bar
gain, and A 5000 dollars was deposited to his
credit in a Washington Bank. That money,
beyond all question, he received from GO
veinment, Mr.. Bacon stated to the house on
the Goth of February, that ssserUices had been
performed Thich the government zcere bound
an Justice to re1cdrdn-that sserUices had
been rendered ruth the appreciation If not
the promise Of remuneration" And thus
$4,000 dollars are squandered away, al a single
dash, upon a man whom British ministers
would not give a single sous. Nay, they
have even given Henry more than double
what he asked of Lord Liverpool, at a mo-
ment when the people are to be taxed up to
the eyes, to fill up a farcical scene, to secure
the reelection ofa poor, miserable, shrivelled,
dried-up, marrowless man, fit only for a pro-
fessorship in a mathematical school VINO is
the better man, he that gave or he that re-
eeived the bribe?
Henry demanded from the British govern
ment a sinecure appointment of 500t. sterling
per mum. This might be purchased for his
life for about $4,000; and therefore if the a.
bove inference is in unison with fact, he got
from our government what was equal to an
Office worth l0O0i sterling per annum.
Married. on the l2th instant, Mr.. James