The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-06-21

tered IN these words, H7S9, Oct. I. sBy
my bill on Willinks, Van Staphorsts and
Hubbard in favor Of Grand e Co. for
$500 forms, equal to $3.50 livres Is
sous . but he quotes it as stated in nv
account rendered to, and settled at the
treasury, and yet remaining, as it is to
be presumed, among the archives of
that department. 'By cash received of
Grand for bill on WilliDks, yc." Now
the words 'cash received Of Grand con-
stitute 'the very point, the pivot on which
the matter turns as he himself says, and
no, finding, he has furnised them, altho'
the Interpolation of them is sufficiently
refuted by the fact that Grand was, at the
time, in France, and myself in England.
Yet wishing that conviction OF the inter-
polation should be founded on officia,
document, wrote to the auditor, Mr..
Harrison, requesting an official certi6
cate OF the very words in which that ar.
ticle stood IN my autograph account de-
posted in the Office. | received yes,er>
day his answer ofthe Sd, in which he says
Il am unable to furnish the extract you
require, as the original account rendered
by you Of your pecuniary transactions of
public nature in Europe, together with
the vouchers and documents connected
with it, we're all destroyed in the Regis
ter's Office, in the memorable conflagra-
ton of 1914. With respect, therefore,
to the sum Of 1l48 dollars in question,
can only say, that after full and repeated
examinations, l considered you as most
righteously and justly entitled to receive
~ he ~ 4 L.
that Z could not have consented 10 the
repayment Considering the intimacy
which the Native of Virginia shews with
the treasury affairs, we might be justified
in suspecting that he knew this fact OF the
destruction oil the original by fire, when
he vcntured to misquote (; but certainly
we may call on him TO say, and to shew
from what original he copied these words
'cash received of Grand p say most
assuredly, from none for none such e.
yer existed. Although the original be
lost, which would have convicted him of
ficially, it happens that when made,
from my rough draught, fair copy of
my account :or the treasury, took also,
with copying machine, a press-copy of
every page, which | kept for my own
| own use. 1t is known that copies by this
| well known machine, are taken by inn
preston, on damp paper, laid on the face
OF the written page while fresh, and past
ed between rollers, as coppernlates
are. They must therefore be true fac
SMILES. This press copy now lies before
me, has been shewn to several persons.
S will be shewn to as many as wish, or are
willing to examine it; e this article Of nv
account is entered in it in these words ::
1889, Oct. 1. BY my bill on Willinks.
Van Staphorsts and Hubbard, $500 40
| rims equal to $3.50 livres Is sous An
| inspection of the account too shews that
whenever / received cash for a bill, il is
uniformly entered SOY cash received of
such an one, Gc' but where bill was
drawn to constitute an item of accoun.
only, the entry is 'by my bill on, &C.,
Now to these very words 'cash received
OF Grand not in my original, but inter.
pola,ed by himself, he constantly appeals
as proofs Of an Acknowledgements. under
my own hand, that receiveG fhe cash
In proof of this, | must request patience
to read the following quotations from his
denunciations, as standing in the Federal
Republican of May %.
Page 2, column 2, line as to 90 from
the bottom, che Mr.. J admits in his ac>
count rendered in 1890 and settled in
1899, that ne had receiUed tie cash pla,
cling the word cash between inverted
commas, to have ii marked particularly
as quotations, that he had received the
CASH Tor the bill in question, and he does
not deny 1t directly now Will he. can
he, in the face of his own declaration in
writing to the contrary, publicly saw that
ne did not receive the money for this bill
in Europe This is the point, on which
the whole matter rests, the pivot on
which the argument turns. If he did re.
celve the money in Europe (no matter
whether al Cowes or at Paris) he certain
ly had no right TO receive it second
line from the public treasury of the u.
States. This is admitted, believe, on
all sides now that he did receive The mo
neg in Europe on this bill is proved by
me acknowledgment Of tie receiver him.
SELF, who credits the amount in his &C.
count, as settled at the treasury thus
cash received of Grand for bill on Viii.
liBcks and Van Staphorts 1916 gilders-
As dollars
Col. s |. % to 81. from bottom sthere
is plain difference in the pbrsseology of
the account from which an extract is Civ
en- by Mr.. J as above, and that zvhic6 he
| rendered TO the kreosuru. I'm ,ba Eorraor