Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-31

account VI your heanh' giving pieGs.
that the recsIpt should BE- given in ma
ner satisfactory to me, and a.te,wsn.
regardless Of that pledge md Of you're,
press agreement, positively refusing t,
give it?" lie WAS likewise inforns1
|" that his witui breach of the agreemsn.
entered into, rendered null and void H.,
receipt given for the ordinance, the On
being the consideration on which tie
Their was founded The circuns,sn..,
were reported to the government Of thu
United States; and Col. Callava Informed
that no further correspondence would BE-
held with him. And, if, alter this. Ia
thought proper to remain here. he certain.
ly had no right to consider that he would
be sIewed in different light from snv
other individual. repeat, that there !.
no truth in his assertion that his s,sy
that Of his secretary, and of his officer
depended upon the determination OF ,bs
points referred to our respective govern. |
ments." As private individual only
could he be known.& viewing him l.; such
it would have been censurabIe in the GOV.
ernor to have made any distinction be.
tween him & Domingo Sousa ,!or Fularst,
the steward. Had the case been reversed
anu the papers demanded at the INSTANCE
OF Col. Caliava, from some obscure lndi.
vidual. justice would have pursued its
course, and not whisper Of complaint
would have been heard The whole bur.
cen of his complaint appears to be the
Gisrespect shown to one Of his elevated
rank; he does not even pretend to assert
any rignt to withhold the papers. proyid.
ed they were asked in the Salviter in mo.
do, when he thought himself entitled to.
but this is kind OF ethics for which the
people Of the UnIted States have very lit.
tie res pect.-'.The great and powerful
can generally protect themselves; 1t is the
humble and the poor who require the Gs.
fence and shelter. of the law
That Col. Callava should state that he
was "unacqualnted with the nature and
description of the papers, the delivery Of
which was thus demanded" displays .
disregard of decency and truth entirely
or piece with the rest Of his publication,
He had the fullest information Of the spe.
cihc papers from Sousa abe day before,
and. on the ED, in the presence Of Cap.
tain Dade, the particular papers re.
CURED were again made known to him.
now proceed to another part of Col.
Callavas narration, which, will snew,
deserves NO more credit, and is entitled
to 10 more respect, than the Foregoing
The part IF Col. Catavay' statement
here commented on, is to be found imms.
didtely ensuing tie part G6sUs quoted,
commencing Usth the SrOrds 'Jesiing
myself strongly Gttacksd," and ending
Nth thdt paragraph
With his excuse for leaving Col.
Brooke's have nothing 20 offer, further
than to say that he appeared in ordinary
health, as he walked with great rapidly,
and am not informed that he was con-
fined to his house or bed before or since,
and his setting out few days afterwards,
to ride p ste haste to the city OF Wash
ington, is conclusive that the state OF his
health WAS not such a. he represents
The letter which he speaks OF having
wri EN- to the Cover nor must have been
penned some time after our departure,
which shows. at least, in accuracy in his
relation of facts. There is more than
mere inaccuracy in his stating that at
o'clock, P. Nj. the same commissioners
called at my house and summoned me si
,her to deliver up the papers as a private
individual. or to follow them to the GO
vernors office" 1t was at that hour, that
the Alcads called upon him and deliver.
ed the memorandum of the documents
accompanying our report, with posi-.
tive information that we should
call in two hours to receive them,
sgreeably 10 bis promise His excuse that
this memorandum Of the documents was not
translated, is idle and ridiculous, as il con.
tanned but lew lines OF Esgiisb, with The
Spanish names of persons, interested in The
papers, aud could not have required more
than two or three minutes 20 translate. Ne
returned about O'Clock a0d from every ap.
pearance, were perfectly satisfied that col.
Callava and his friends expected US. Noen'
closures were torn down 90 he states, The
guard was stationed at distance from Ii.
house. in the street, until adnittance hat
been three times refused. A hustle. snd
what appeared 10 be rat,Iing OF swords and
FIRE arms, was heard in the bOuse The
guard was then ordered up. When We got
round 10 the other side OF the house, all va,
quiet. AMI there was no light except CAM
die was burning in one of The rooms. We
then assembled high flight OF s'eps TO tho
porch, while the guard remained al ordered
arms below. After remaining some time,
making fruitless enquiries foI col. Csilova,
whom we at first supposed bad fed, We en-
tered the hall. Upon entering the room