The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-06-26

.aorio, b.oeo !" and I Immediately er
/ n my account with the United State, -. 49,
{ ollowiog w,rd., 1872, Oct. 81, By my
bill on Wiiiok,, Vao Straphorsts sod Hub
bafd IN favor OF Grand & Co. for $500 aofins
quail 10 $3.50 livres 10 sous My account
h aying been kept in ivres and sous OF France,
zoe auditor settled thi, sun a, the current
exchange making It il48 dollars. This bill
drawn by Cowes, in England, had 10 pass
ihrOugh London to Paris by the English and
French mails--in which passage i, was lost,
by some unknown accident, to which il was
the noe exposed 10 the French mail. by t1ie
confusion then preysIling-for, il was exactly
aS the lime that martial law was proclaimed
st Paris, the cououy all up in arms, and exc
ru,'ons by the mobs were daily perpetstiag
through town and country. However this
may have been, the bill never got to the
hands of Grand & Co was never, Of course,
forwarded by them 10 the bankers OF Ans.
terdAm, nor any thing more ever heard Of il.
The auditors FIRST con lecture then was the
true one, that II never was negotiated, nor
therefore charged to the y. Sfes IN any of
the bankers aCcOunts.--I have now under my
eye duplicate fu Blshed me by Grand OF his
account Ut that date ogaios, The y. States and
his private account against myself, asd af-
firm that he hes DOT noticed this bill in either
al these accounts, and the auditor assures Us,
the Dutch Blankets had nevet charged IL.
The sum ot The whole then Is, that drew
bill on the y. S. bankers charged myself
witbh cn the presumption TINT II would be
paid that 1t never was paid, however, either
Wy The bankers Of the Cni,ed States, or any
BODY else. II was surely jus, then, to return
me he money had paid for il; yet, the
Native of Virginia thinks, that This act Of
receiving bach the money had thus, through
efror. Overp1d, q was manifest act Of moral
larpi. ude, about which, no two homes, Impair
,ial men can possibly diif:r." ] ascribe these
hard expressions to the ardor OF his zeal for
the public good, and as they contain neither
srgnroen, nor proof, pass them over with
our obse rvalion IOdced have no, been IN
the hab' Of noticing these morbid elections Of
spleen, ehhor with or without the names of
thosr venting them, but ! have thought IL a
du:y on the p,eseot occasion 10 relieve my
fellow citizens an2 my county from the de-
9rada,lon in the eyes Of the world, to which
shis lniormer is eDdeayo"ipg 10 reduce il, ny
rcpre;enling it as governed hitherto by a sue.
ces'ion Of swiDdlsrs and spectators, nor
shall notice any further eodsovor, 20 prove
=" 10 Pah'd'e WIS Paipaole Wis'n'o' tno'ob'
arm too old and inert 10 undertake investiga-
tions OF inlricate transactions OF the last cen.
lary and am not afraid to trust to the jus.
slre and good sense of my fellow citizens on
ioture as On former attempts to lessen me IN
lheir esterm,
ask Of you, gentlemen, the insertion OF
lEis !cuer in your paper aod trust tha, tho
.5nnters who nave hszsrded the publication oi
che libe on anonymous aulhoi,y, will think
that Of the enswer mod.rata feiribution ol
The wreng 10 when they have been accrsssry
I'll JEFFERSON.