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Monday, March \2, 1821. S The Telegraph is published weekly ,nn Ga.—Office on Cherry Street, near WO**t jh e public Square. TERMS. V.nr .... §3 00 ££?Month,, .... 200. l ° r IS ADVANCE. irr All applications for Subscription must be ac SaSed witb the money, or the paper will in no b be sent. STONE 4’ COIT 'HAVE just received, from Boston and New York, and are now opening, W A LARGE ASSORMENT OF SEASONABLE GOODS, ~Z 0 SG WHICH, ARB THE FOLLOWING: » „ Broadcloths and Cassimerea K idsck and mixed Satinetts Blue! miied and white Plains tfle SdwXrt Blankets A Sed and white Flannels naidand camblet Cloaks Brown and bleached Shirtings » mod wort we"" 01 Calicoes and Bombazets A ^"fehecked, Jaconet and book Muslins and sprigged Muslins Coarse and line Cambrics • .Brown and colored Cambrics irritation and buff Cravats ftlk and cotton Handkerchiefs Fflnev *rc«n Sciirts and Shawls rroi de Naples and pink green Handkerchiefs ■Block Sarsnet, and Levantine tiilks White and green Florence Silks fasdoere and worsted Shawls Striped Batiste, and Angola Tippets Canton and Italian Crapes figured and Nankin Crapes Rus<ian and Scotch Diaper ^ .ladies’kid Gloves ■Ladies’ black liorscskini Gloves ■Gentlemen’s beaver and horseskm Gloves lleeborn and straw Bonnets It otton and worsted Hosiery ■Tuck and flounce Robes English Ginghams, Ribbands -Ready-made Vests, ■Shell and horn Combs , _ Il asliipnable beaver Hats ... Irashionable roram Hats miack and drnb wool Hats ■Gentlemen's common and fine Shoes adies’ Morocco and prunellc Shoes -Joys, misses and children's Shoes ■Nails. Salt, Castings, and cotton Bagging ■Cutlery, Crockery, and Glass Ware 1 Thev will also receive, by the first Boats, a large Lsorunent of GROCERIES—all of which will be Isold (or cash only. J WANTED |Five hundred bales of COTTON, for which cash will be paid. nov 7 COMMISSION BUSINESS. THE subscribers having formed a connexion in the COMMISSION LINE, will attend , to all business addressed to either of them, hereaf ter, under the firm of Hill & Stone. PARIS HILL. J. & 8. STONE. Savannah, October 30, 1826 2 FACTORAGE. THE subscribers continue to trans act FACTORAGE and COMMI8- SION BUSINESS in SAVANNAH. All produce consigned to them, will be insured against fire, after it goes into store, without any charge to the owner. Storage on Cotton will be eight and a half cents per bale for the first week, and six cents for each succeeding week; but if it remains a month; twenty-five cents only will be charged for the month, and twelve and a half cents for each succeeding month. T. BUTLER & CO. november 1-- - cotf ——-1 MACON CLOTHING STORE. L. FITCH Sf CO. MERCHANT TAILORS, K EEP constantly for sale, at their store on Mul berry street, A General Assortment DRY GOODS AND READY MADE CLOTHING; which will be sold as low as can be bought in Savan nah or Augusta; and they solicit the patronage of their former friends and customers and the public at large. TAILORING carried on os usual.. Having the latest New York Fashions and Workmen, Customers may depend on having their work done in the best manner and most fashonable style, with neatness and despatch. We return our thanks for past favors, and solicit the patronage of the public for the future. ' N. B. On hand, 200 pieces of PAPER HANGINGS of different patterns, which will be sold low. KF Old debit must be paid.December 5 GARDEN SEED. THIRTY-FIVE BOXES OF SHAKERS' GARDEN SEED, JUST RECEIVED BT ELUS, SHOTWELL & CO. C0NTAIN1NO M'KINNE 4* CO. HAVING recommenced the FAC STORAGE and COMMISSION BU| J SINESS in the City of Augusta, re- [ spectfully tender their services to the • public as General Commission Merchants. Their charges are governed by the present low -prices of Cotton. Instead pf 25 cents for the first ■Month's storage, they will ask 12 1-2 cents, and for iKiliog 25 cents per bale, being one half of the present |prices charged at the other Warehouses in this place. I All Cotton they may receive, will be fully insured ■against losses by fire, without the owners of it being I charged anything for such insurance. By this ur- I nngemmt, should every hale of Cotton they may Ituve in their possession, be destroyed by fire, it will Ik promptly paid for at the current price of the day I the accident should happen. Jujtula, August 2!) ‘ 3m—-1 White Onion Yellow Onion Red Onion Blood Beet Early Turnip Beet Carrot Parsnip Long Cucumber Early Cucumber Watermelon Muskmclon Dutch summer Squash Red Cabbage Early Yorkshire Cabbage Flat Turnip Rutabaga Sage Squash Pepper Double Peppergrass Curled Endive Turkey Khcubarb Solid Celery Curled Parsley Asparagus £ CrooknecksummerSquashNasturtion Crookneck winter Squash Early June Peas White Head Lettuce Early Golden Hotspur - P"-“r *•«*«*« White Marrowfat Speckled Lettuce breenutvans«~nm.» Imperial Lettuce fat Peas ) Frankfort Lettuce Strawberry Dwarf Leek Lettuce Early Six Week Dwarf ) Salmon Radish Beans J Scarlet Radish ’ Mustard do. Early Turnip Radish Vegetable Oyster Drumhead Cabbage Round Spinnage Savoy Cabbage Early Prickly Spinnage. Which will be sold in small boxes suitable for fami lies,- or by the single paper—warranted fresh. ,> b 14—1C -- CONGRESS. The following Report and Bill wero present* in the House of Representatives, on Satur day 3d ultimo, by Mr. Mercer* from tho Com mittee on Roads and Canals: j The Committee on Roads and Cinals, who were in structed “to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for opening aqd improving the in land navigation from. St Mary'; river to the Tortu- gas, and from the Apnalacliictf.a river through St. Andrew’s Bay, to Cboctawhmhie, sufficient for steam boat navigation, in the Territory of Florida,” report, in part: 1 That, among the objects oDnternal improve ment submitted to the investigation of the Com mittee, no one has been regarded as more in teresting to the safety of the inland navigation of the United States, or more easy of the exe cution, than the extension, where necessary, along the Atlantic seaboard, of such short canais, across tho peninsula which now intercept that long contemplated navigation, as shall render ' continuous and uniform throughout; so as to for vessels of suitable draft, secure in war from the depredations of a maritime foe, and in pece from tho dangers of the sea, along a haz ardous coast. i In furtherance of this sentiment, the Com mittee had designed to comprehend, in a gen eral report, embracing many objects referred to them,' a recommendation of a survey, with a view to the future removal of tho obstructions of so much of this line as borders the Florida coast, and especially at that inconsiderable bitr between Amelia Island and the adjacent conti nent, which intercepts the inland approach from the Bay of St. Mary’s to tho River Sk John’s. It is one of the shortest .linksin tbti chain of inland navigation/ which leading from Barnstable across the first northern ob- stuction, in the above line, to Buzzard’s Bay, maybe conducted to the borders of tho Mexi can province ofTexas. Tlie river St. John’s, the committee are as sured, affords, at present, from its mouth to tho southern ‘extremity of Amelia Island, eight feet water as high, as Lake George, or for a distance of one hundred miles,and in six feet wa ter thence for —— miles to LAo Monroe,near the centre of Cape Florida. Tho shoal between Amelia Island and tho continent, one mile and a half in length, is re- lorted to be covered with four feet water at )igh tide, and to be. exposed at the ebb, so as to be four feet above tho adjacent navigable wa ter; and, conquently, so elevated as to bo im passable at any time by a vessel drawing more than four feet witter. To deopen or cut around this shoal, a six feet channel would admit, from St. Mary’s.to the hood.ofthorivec St.John’s, I Miners and Mantua Making, A’txt floor oAoi e Mr. Corbett's on. Mulberry Street, near the Court house. MRS. E. LEVINGSTON, (I'HOM GHENT,) R ESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Macon, and its vicinity, that she has arrivedherc, imme* I diateiy from New York, and intends carrying on tho a- Kbnve business in its various branches, with all oTthe latest I fashions. She flatten henelf that her work will be 1 titrated in the b«st order and most approved manner, I «j she has made arrangements in New York to be sup* I rad with the newest and most seasonable fashions. I hhe has brought with her the fashions for the' Spring I Mil Summer, for Hats, Bonnets and Headdresses, and I will in lays have on hand ready made Bonnets and 1 Headdresses. K B. LEGHORN HATS cleaned, cut and trim- I tned equal to new. Orders from the country prompt- 1IJ attended to at the shortest notice. Mscon Feb. 27, 1827 tf 19 DR. BUCHANAN H AS located himself in Macon; where he may be found as a PRACTITIONER of MEDI CINE. Jan 31 14 SULPHATE OF QUININE. J UST received and for sale by , . FLUKER & COLLINS, dec. 12. , *\ew Clothing Stove, AND .hat warehouse p JUDSON & CO. on Mulberry street, near J. I ~ • B. tfick tf Co. have just received and will keep I “xdtndy on hand, a general assortment of I Fine and euuie ClrOTHDCC, I - . European and Domestic DRY GOODS, I ^niistin* of Blue, Black, Olive, Claret and Drab I BROADCLOTH8, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, l«dsJl other articles usually kept by MerchanfTai- ... , TAILORING. V M orders in the Tailoring line will he thankfully l .j n<1 punctually attended to. Having receiv- I Workmen from Nfcw-York, with the latest fash- will he enabled to do their work with neat- I T“» n<i despatch, and hopeby strict'attention to bu- I'[?.!! t0 ..®*rit a share of public patronage. N- B. I receive^ quarterly the latest New-York HATS. Jj* They have also on band, a general > assortment of Imitation Beaver, Fine and Common Roram and Wool IlATS, and expect shortly a quantity of Fine i Brnrcr Hats, Having experienced the I , , Jinconveniences of having Hats brought tl.i. *• ® n ''h'd state, they will advisedly have their I wari5' nael P»lly finished in this place. As this branch V„!. ,, coni *ucled by • professed finisher from New- I imuki Fhe enabled to offer their Rats in a fash- *nd saleable condition, Wholesale and Retail, •SrV “ty can be bought In Savannahor Augusta. in «f«nb"m * nd ol * lcri **• invited to call and exam- I cmav hwt5 having Hats on hand in en unsaleable Ljihon, can if they wish have them blockcd-and Ol n "I/, condition to be saleable. A ini, , dressed over on the shortest notice. Cloth;?,!? i >fice "Bowed on second hand Uati and 0U,m *' n exchange for new. 50 . SHELL COMBS. - nl,il Icn wperior Brazilian SHELL COMBS, for ^clow is above. 13 jan24 JUST RECEIVED, xx By boat Rising States, Otf Barrels Irish Potatoes 25 do Sugar 20 do superfine Flour 5 hogsheads Whiskey 6 tons Iron 20 dozen-Hoes 40 barrels best Rye Gin Powder, Shot and Lead—For Sale low for Cash, by STONE & COIT. All persons indebted to the firm of Slone .V Coil, el ther by Noto or Account, arts requested to settle the same without delay. Jan 24 BLANKS for SALE AT THIS OFFICE. GARDEN SEEDS. FRESH assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, Si just received and for sale by j;,n 16 FLUKER COLLINS. TO THE PUBLIC. DTF)HE subscribers having purchased the Store late- JJ, ly occupied by Mr. A. E. Stratton, together with his STOCK of GOODS. now offer them-oo as liberal terms as.thcy can bo had at any store in tne County. The former customenuf Mr. Stratton, and the: public generally, are most res- peetfully solicited to call, with this assurance, that no exertions on our part shall be wanting to render them every satisfaction. • - ... A good supply of GROCERIES will he kept com stonily on band. Additions to the present stoi ‘ daily expected. - Liberal Discounts will always be made on all pur chases for Cotton or.Cash. TAYLOR, MURDOCK & CO: Hillsborough, Jasper County, Jan. 1,1827. FLUKER & COLLINS H AVE removed their DRUG STORE to one of the tenements in McDonald’s building, on Mul berry street, where they will keep constantly on hand, A General Assortment of *. . DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, Surgeons’ Instruments, Glass Ware, Dye Stufis, Ac. Ac. All of which will be sold on accommodating terms. . -. ' 10——Jan 2 STONE &. COIT, A A Have just received, byBoatNanry, Barrels best Rye Gin 20. do Apple Brandy JW do St. Croix Sugar 50 do Canal Flour '4 tlercsRice '*< 8000 lha. Castings , ‘ '. 2000 do Grindstones—For sale low for cash Cotton. , Fnlminry 27 19 WTIIIE aubscribcr continues the Practice of Law ii this place. Iu addition to the Counties in which he has heretofore practiced, he will attend tho Supe rior Courts iu the Counties or Lee, Muscogee, Troup and Coweta. . ..... _ Jan 2—{tf JOHN P. BOOTH vessel drawing nonnore'than six fops-waso*. so tnai,hesitu» me short; but essential link of an extensive chain of inland sex board navi- j ration, which this short excavation will supply, t will at the same time perfect, for steam boats drawing less than six feet water, a secure pas sage from Charleston, in South Carolina, by Savannah, in Georgia, and St. Mary’s, ‘j,to the head of tho river St. John’s and fo- jens to the purchasers of tho unappropriated unds on both sides of that river, about to bo of fered at public sulc, an access to those impor tant markets for thoir future productions. From such an improvement, which tho com mittee aro assured can bo completed for tijn thousand dollars, an appreciation of those lands- to an extent very greatly exceeding that sum- may therefore bo confidently expected. Involving tho exercise of an unquestionable sower of the Federal Government, ovoronh'of ts territories; being presented to tho conside ration of the committee by a resolution of the House and a lettor from tho delegate of Flori da addressed to the chairman df-the committee, and making part of this report, accompanied by a map ol a Spanish survey,.a chart founded on an examination of tho coast of Florida- by order of the Secretary of the Navy, and an ex tract front tho letter of a gentleman, reported to tho conjmitteo to bo u -man r of practical sci ence—all of which render it .easy to measure its probable cost; that cost being of inconsider able amount, and to be incurred only after-tho previous examination, and favourable repo it of tho United States’ Board of Engineers; and the work, if practicable, and successfully exe cuted, being calculated as well to subservo tho future interests of the United States in peace and war, as to enhanco the value of vory ex tensive tracts of public land about to be. sold; tho committee roforring to tho accompanying LETTER OF MR. M’DUFFIE, Paper accompanying the Report of the Committee on the application of the Vice President. To the Hon. John Floyd— Sir—Tho Committee of Investigation, o- ver which you preside, having Announced to me, as tho friend and representative of Air. Cal- houn, that they havo closed tho examination of all tho witnesses they deem it necessary or proper to summon before them: I should be c- qually insensible to the claims of private friend ship, and the obligations of public duty, were I not to enter my solemn protest against tho ex traordinary course, and nol less extraordinary conclusion of a proceeding, singularly destitute of almost every attribute of a legal investigation. E ven if it should be considered that this Com mittee was instituted, not for tho exclusive pur pose of sitting in judgment on tho specific charge submitted to their examination* but for the ad ditional purpose of exercising, to a certain ex tent, the functions of an inquisitorial commis sion; I cannot conceive that there would be any thing in tho character of such a commission, that would authorize it to depart from the fun damental principles of judicial investigation, and tho established rules of judicial evidence; and after wandering at large, through tho per plexing mazes of suspicion and conjecture, gui ded only by tho bewildered lights of imeompe- tent and inadmissable testimony, to select tho precise point whero suspicion ends and legal evidence begins, as the conclusion of their in quiries. But confidently believing that it was the intention ofthe.Houso that this committee should assumo the solemn character of a judi cial tribunal, and that tho facts and opinions which they may report to tho house, will bo consequently rcgnrdod by tho public as having tie stamp of judicial authority, I feel impelled, by a profound sense of the duty which I owe to Mr. Calhoun, to the country, and even to tho committee themselves, to state, briefly and dis tinctly, my objections to the courso pursued, before it shall be too lato to correct or paftiato its injustice. And, in tho very outset of my re marks, I cannot but advert to.thafoct, as strik ingly illustrative of the anomalous character of this proceeding, that, with the exception ofthe solitary question as to thp fact of Mr. Calhoun’s >articipation, which every witness has prompt- r and unequivocally answered in the negative, there is not one tittlo of all the incumbering mass of documentary and ora! testimony which has occupied the inCessaht labors of the jCompilftee . _ for moro than twenty days, that has the ■® n ^ consequently, to inflict a vital stab upon slightest pretension to tbo charucter of legal e- tho public liberty. Nor is then) any thing in videnco, whether we regard it as applicable the character or circumstances ofthe prescht to tho present accusation, or any-other acusa- investigation, that should tibsolvo tho commit- * 1 -- —- L - ----- —-- -«—!—* 1-teo from tho observance of these rules. On the contrary, all history .will justify tho remark, that there are' uo occasions in which their ri-. I ;id observance is so highly important, as when egislativo bodies or political commissions ex ercise judicial powers for the trial of political offences. On such occasions tho strongest of human passions almost unavoidably usurp the seat of judgment; aud, unless restrained by pre-established forms of proceeding, and pre- established rules of evidence, the most capri cious freaks of despotism und vongeanco aro perpetrated, in the sacred numo of law and jus tice. Without referring, for. illustration, to the lawless proceedings, of thoso inquisitorial tribunals which aro at onco the reproach and the terror of despotic Governments, or to tho shocking outrages committed by tho revolu tionary tribunals of Franco, it would be suffi cient to advert to tho disgraceful proceedings of tho Parliament of England, In ciisos of attain der, not only to sustain the general principles here presented, but to communicate tho most vivid impression of their truth and importance; have considered it expedient to report tho fol lowing bill: . . i A bill for improving tho inland navigation be tween the St. Mary river and the entrance of tho river St. John’s in Florida. Sec. L Be it enacted by the Smate and House of Representatives of the United States appropriated out of any money in the Trcasu ry not otherwise appropriated, to bo employed under tho direction of the President of ihe.Uni- ted States, for deepening the channel of' inland navigation leading from the St. Mary’s rivor between Amolia'Island and tho .Continent, to tho St. John’s river,in tho Territory of Flo ri de. " , . *. . Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,. That this act shall not go into effect until the United States’Board of Engineers shall examino the shoal betweon' tho Island aforesaid, and the main l-'in.l, and have made a report in writing to tho Secretary of War, that in their opinion the saM sbottl ,caU be permanently dampened for the sum aforesaid, so ns to open an inland steam-boat navigation between ihe aforesaid rivers of-Florida. >v a -" . Accounts from France of Jsnuary 1, state that the projet of a law far regulating the prejs had created -gnatsensation in Paris. '** v . ’ mass of the evidence that has so long engaged the attention of tho committed, consists of tho the privute letters of Major Vandeventer to 'E> lijah Mix, with the explanations .tor which they have given rise* It is hardly necessary that I should enter into a course of argument, before a committee, of which six out of seven are lawyers by profession, to show that these letters ought to have been promptly rejected, as incompetent and improper -testimony. E- ven if it be granted that Mr. Calhoun is now on his trial for every act of his life, official or private, and not merely upon the specific charge referred to the committee, it is perfect ly clear, that, according to those great princi ples of evidence which have been devised by tho wisdom, and consecrated by the experi ence of ages, the letters or declarations of an other person cannot be given in evidence a- gainst hint. Nor is this one of those techni cal principles which sometimes mar the sym metry of the law and have no foundation in reason. There are no principles of our law more deeply founded in wisdom, than those which regulate tho admission of evidences.— And I will take this occasion to remark, that, next to such an organization of the Government as. will secure tho effective responsibility ofpo* litical agents, civil liberty derives its principal security from tho establishment und sacred ob servance of fixed rules of judicial proceeding and of judicial evidence. The opinion enter- . tained by the enlightened sense^of modern times, of the inseparable connection between the rules of criminal evidence, and civil liber ty, may be clearly inferred from the opposite judgments which posterity has pronounced up on the character of Sidney nnd of Jeffrie*—* For, whilo tlto namo of Siducy is inscribed oil the imperishable rolls of fame, as a patriot and a martyr, that of Jeffries, has, by universal^* S consent, been consigned to everlasting infamy, os a judicial monster. And yet, tho cafattropho of tho victim has excited the sympathy, aud the tyranny of lliejudgo the abhorrence of mankind; irincipolly because tho sa.crifico was effected jy violating those rules of evidence, in which every member of the community had a common interest, ns tho only means of securing bis life and character against the combined machina tions of prostitute informers and profligate ru-' lers. To unsettlo and subvert these rules, therefore under whatover plausiblo pretext it may be attempted, is -to destroy tho only sub stantial security for overy thing sacrod in life, tjdh against ; the private integrity’’ w .official . In in flqnaou- strate this proposition, I bog leavo -to present for the reconsideration of tho committee, a de- scriptivo aud analytical view of the recorded tes timony. • v V* It will be roc'ollected that the first three or four days of this inquiry wore dpy otod to the ex amination of witnesses, professbdly produced for the purpose of exculpating tho present Se cretary of War from the imputation of having a- ny agency, either in bringing forward the chargo of peculation agajnst Mr. Calbotin, or in the infamous publication of ihe equally infamous letter of tho yet moro infamous instrument of this dark nnd nefarious conspiracy. It is not my purpose to complain ofthe courso pursued by tho committee, in this respect, although it might seem to indicate a more anxious desire to exonerate one against whom no imputation had been made, than to administer speedy jus tice to the. second officer of the Government, when actually on his trial upon a charge of offi cial delinquency, calculated, if true, to stamp his reputation with indelible infamy. But, as tho Committco havo thought proper to make tho conduct of Mr. Barbour, in this transaction, a distinct subjoct of inquiry, I feel constrained to remark, that, although I readily exonerate him from any intentional participation in this roost insidious attempt at moral and political as sassination, yot it is a circumstance* much to be regrettod, that, in the editorial commentaries by which tho publication of tho letter of Elijah Mix, in the Phoenix Gazotto was accompanied, tho namo, office, aud official decision of the Secretary of War, wero so artfully associated with tho chargo against Mr. Calhoun, as to give it additional solemnity and importance; and that no measures were taken to have this injurious association disclaimed,, through the same channel. It is a fact, equally to be re- ovidenco, and the advantages which the’con- -gn>uiH],-tliat the secretary shu’uld iiaveTCtain- tcmplatcd improvement promises to realize, cd in his possession, officially for throb days •_ »j_'—J t * L '‘ flirt lnftnv I'nnfrtinm.r tlin fliarOtt HPainst Mr tho lqttor containing; tho chargo against Mr. Calhoun, without giving him the slightest inti mation of it. And oven tho verbal declaration made by the Secretary to Col. Johnson, that ho beliovod tho chargo against Air. Calhoun to be au atrocious calumuy, was not mado until a day had elapsed afterthe publication in the Phoenix of America in Congress Assembled. That Gazette, and vus communicated to Air. Cal- tho sum of $ 10,00Q ho and the sauio is hereby houn after ho had prepared and sealed his lot- • ! ■ ' t- m—... tcr t0 t ] 10 Houso of Representatives, and plac ed it in the hands of a friend. And I must al so stato, as a fact worthy of notice, that, nei ther in tho Phoenix Gazette which assumed a semi-official attitudo in stating the proceedings of the Secretary of War, in relation to tho let- tor of Mix, nOr in tho notico taken of tho pub lication of that Gazetto by the National Intelli- goncor tlte noxt day, was tho fact stated, that tho Secretary regarded the chargo against Air. Calhoun as an atrocious calumny. . ' *> ,■ But to resumo the analysis of the testimony, with a view to its immediate bearing upon my opening proposition. Afler submitting tho ob vious remark, that the evidence produced to exculpate Air. Barbour, was not only irtelative, but immaterial to Iho pending issuo, I will pro ceed to the examination ofthat.partof tho testi mony which is intended, as I presume, to bear, dircctlv.’or indirectly, upon’tho official charac ter and integrity of Mr. Calhoun, The. groat If theso goncral views evince to tho comraittoo the necessity of adhering to the established rules’of evidonco—and if I have shown that ouo ofthe mostimportantof those rules excludes the letters or declarations of a third poison un der any circumstances—how incomparably stronger docs tho objection to their admission hecorae, when wo advert to tho singular and extraordinary circumstances under which tho letters of Alajor Vandovontor have been pro duced to the committee. Iu the first place, they aro obviously tho detached parts of a gar bled correspondence. In tho socond place, they aro mutllatediind defaced; so as to render their meaning unintclljgiblo as to every purposo connected with tho investigation. But what is of Infinitely more importance, this correspond ence was obviously garbled, and tho letters mutilated and defaced, by one ofthe most art ful and consummate villians that over figured in tho annals of human depravity, for tho unques tionable purpose of exciting doubts, aud suspi cions-, by means ofthe mutilations and erasures, which could not have been, produced by tho- letters in thoir original. and entire state. It is impossiblo, therefore, to conceive a combina tion of circumsiancos moro strikingly demon- stativo of the wisdom ofthoso rules of evidence from which tho committee have thought pro per to depart, than that which exists in tho present instance. For it is obvious to remark, that this is a political commission, composed of political men: aud, disguise it as wo may, I must bo pcimittod to add, without intending to insinuate any thing in tho slightest degree dis- . when it is moreover considered, tliat these gar bled and mutilated letters havo born produced by the vilest of all that tribo of info.-mors, who havo been tho disgrace and tho torror of th -o countries in which they havo been count: run- cod by tho wickednoss and profligacy of rulei s, a self-cdndemnod and self-immolated wretch, who, in the vory presence of tho committee,, has literally covered himself with “all tho mul tiplying villanie* of .nature.” I cannot but be lieve that the committee will themselves shrink back with abhorrence from thoso machinations