American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-06-07
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writer this signature has lately assailed the cha
cers of number of our most distinguished citizens in
series of essays the object of which is to convict them of
gross and frauds upon the treasury. The author
John Archer Robertson, is quondam clerk of the comp
oers Office who himself aspred to that office and be-
ing disappointed in that object and ultimately dismissed
from his situation became of flaming patriot
Among other distinguished characters, Mr. Jefferson has
been accused by this person of fraud of very peculiar
that of having t7Vce received payment of bill of
exchange drawn by him, when minister from this country
in France, in the year 1789 To this accusation Mr. JEFF
eon has replied in letter to the editors of the Richmond
Enquirer, which publish to-day and which we, in
mon with most of brother editors deem satisfactory
eutaton of the charge. The editor of the Federal Re-
publican and Baltimore Telegraph, in his anxiety to fix a
stain upon the reputation of this aged and ustrious par-
M denies that he has cleared himself from the charge of
fraud and that he has tce received payment for
this BILL and that Mr. Jefferson has acknowledged that
the Dist of October 1885, he received the for it from
Grand & Co. We that Mr.. Jefferson acknowledges
no such thing and further that who reads
his letter and understands it, believe that Mr. ].
cyed cent from Grand Co., from any other per-
son for that bill until he was paid in 1902 at the treasury
Of the United States. Mr. Jefersons is this =
that the Dist of October 1882 being at Cowes in Eng
land, he letter Of credit for $500 orns to Grand
Co., in their favor Wilnks, Van Staphorst & Hubbard
the United States bankers at Amsterdam and the
day, charged himself with the amount, in his account
with the United States. There is certainly nothing said
about cash here but on the contrary Mr. Jefferson, be-
fore he had received any consideration TOR his letter of
credit which could be until got to the hands of
Grand Co., to whom it directly sent) gave the Uni
ted States credit for the amount. In word he gave them
credit for which he did not receive till 90 years after
wards Grand Co. it appears from Mr. Js letter, were
his private bankers well bankers of the United States
and the presumption that he intended this money should
remain in their hands, to his demands occasion
required. When the letter should to the hands of
Grand Co and they should have received the
from Wilnks & Co. they would have credited Mr. Jefer
son with that amounts and that credit would have stood
against the charge he had made the Dist October 1882
in his settlement with the United States. ho7yeuer never
came 10 the hands Of Grand s. Co. and in fact
heard of afterwards Grand * Co. and Wnks Van Slap
horst and Hubbard rendered their respective accounts
the treasury of the United Sates many years after and
notice whatever taken of this letter of credit by
either In short the bill, in mercantile language, not
negotiated; and Mr. Jefferson benefited by
it than if Immediately after having written it, he had COM
mtted the flames And the result of the whole trans
action u.s. that Mr. Jefferson, instead Of having received
1l48 without equivalent actually loser and the
United States consequently gamer, OF nearly twenty
years interest upon that sum-
Some may wonder, says the Lynchburg Press, that a
be found in this country where the freedom of
The press and of enquiry affords unlimited opportl-
nifty discover the truth, well to disseminate false
hood, of sufficient hardhood to publish such statement
the teeth of facts, and with the most unbushing conf
dence The admiration of readers will cease, when
they learn that the author is no less than JOHN
ARCHER ROBERTSON, late an Editor of the Richmond
Patriot but present resident of the city of Baltimore
This is well known to inamy in his native State,
that any attempt deneate his character to impress
opinion of his unworhness of credit would be act
OF Supererogation.