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the public funds—fop withholding
iotorma’ion from Congress in rela
tion to publiv matters, and tnu'ila
tiog it in others—fr making false
Statements, in repaid to (tie public
fu'.ds, to save himself from disgrace
•—’or g public documents
to rkroeo his friend—for murder,
lust, &id alt imeleanness Tlte ve
ry man who first ptoposed General
J. to the people o? Pennsylvania, as
a rat.didate for the Presidency, now
sav, raving with horrible fluency,
that Mr. Craws? rd% late bodily af
flifims, are the visitations of dis
ease frrn the retributive justice of
Prtnudenre for his crime*! Such a
man is Mr. Crawford in the eyes
of Geo. J’s friends, if we are to
place any reliance on the represen
tation*. of their newspapers. Row
ea * Sidnei for a moment thirk of
jn .1 1 *vi g Goo Vf.te on the I a
rdf, by referring to the recommen
dation of Mr. ( ? Row ran Sidney
reconcile to himself the attempt to
prop the popularity of his favorite,
by such a reference? It has been
said that Gen. J’s ••talents anil qual
ifications emi. ently f; him for the
office'* of President, yet Sidney,
conrurring honestly, as we believe
lie does, i this opinion, finds it ne
cessary to redure his favorite to a
fiiimdiating predicament indeed,
tvhen he -eeks a shelter f‘*r him be
liind the bai k of another who has
been ••ailed every thing but au bun
est man,
V?k~ hingtun. June H.
The Committee ,f Investiga
tion continued in se*9i u on Satur
day, with the exception of a short
fr. r9s for dinner, from an early
lio 4 tn the forenoon until after 10
©’. lock at t>ight. Mr.Edwards. the
prosecutor, was under examinati’ n
dnei*br whole of the day. until
srv ■•* * o’clock in the veniog, when
bi. ‘urHier evao iuaii n was postpo
ned : Monday, an! Die testimony of
Me. ble. a Senator from Indiana.
vs ‘**■ eived, ad oceupied the Corn
m.!;<> until flic hour of &dj urn
mem The invesfijration will, in
ail .a obahility, be brought to a close ,
to m ; v<w.
1<• dvising our readers from |ime
to Line* of the proceedings of the
Committee, we have car*fully ab
stained from saying any thing as to
the character of the testimony, or
the foots, disclosed by the numer
ous witnesses who have been exam
ined. T fad. the depositions of the
gteai mass of them, have amounted
to nothing* and had no hearing on
the points at issue. We thought,
however, that, in the present stage
of the investigation, a different
course would have been not only im
proper* but that there might be
some 1 5 k of misapprehension, and*
const q catly some danger of com*
munii .eg erroneous impressions
to tin public midi. We could wish
that otbpr prints of the city had
pursued (he same course, c*peially
as the nature and effect of some of
the tesiinmtty have, in our opinion,
bee misrepresented l< is unr:ees
so? v * be more particular on ’he
su-j e w. as the report of ihe
CornmiMee will soon make known
its n uas‘td a* and impartial ‘.pinion ;
bn . rectify the errors alluded to,
We ••. iii g • so far as to state, for the.
i li ‘ na ion of (he frie ds of ibe
Sc fc.arj of the Treasury at a dis
fa if, a- out opinion, firm all we
bae heerd of the eviden- e, that the
pub'ic i Imrader of that offi er will
•off r no i jury whatever, from (his
third, minute, and most rigid mi u
tiny. Whosoever else may have
cause to dcploie this investigation,
W are co; fidet.l that the character
of the accused will emerge from ii
with increased lustre. If this opin
ion should prove to he wrong, all
disiniercste * men will lamen ii—if
right, all go. and me** will rejoice at
it. wVuf. Intelligencer,
v
June. 15.
The Committee of investiga
tion concluded, about 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, the examina
tion of Mr. Edwards , and ihen re
ceived the testimony of Mr. John
Jflason, Jr , Secretary of Legation
to i,.e Government of Mexico; af
ter which the Committee adjourned
to nine o’clock this morning— Ibid .
June IS.
The Committee of investi-
OiTicN ha o been engaged during
the three last days in heating the
testimony of various individuals,
WH se connection with public affairs,
wub bunks, with ihe Treasury De
part ineot, with the Post Office, or
i -tcm.urse with the prosecutor,Mr.
JCdwards, was supposed to euabte
t them to disclose any fact relevant
to the Investigation. Mr. Edwards
: himself, has been, wilbin that time,
much before the Committee, au
swering interrogatories or question
ing witnesses. Amongst several oth
er gecticmeu examined wilhin the
last three days, wete the Hon. Mr.
I Menton, of Missouri, Hon Mr. „Yo
ble, of Indiana, Hon. Mr, Cook, of
I Illinois, and Mr. ib. liradley , As
sistant Postmaster General. We
observed also before the Committee
yesterday, one or two ladies, wh>>*e
attendance had been required at the
j instance of Mr. Edwards, but we
! did not learn the purport'd their tes
timony Ihe Committee completed
! the examination of all (lie witnesses
j yesterday, unless they shall gram
the application of Mr. Edwards to
rq jest the attendance of die Hon.
Rufus Kiog, which w understand
is not probable ; so that the Report
may be anticipated in a few days.
Expecting ihai all the material
evidence will be offi dully presented
jo the Public, by tlte Committee at
the dose of -s most laborious and
fatiguing dudes, we shall avoid any
attempt, by partial representations,
to f>resiat public cputiim upon Ihe
su jci't. Sadi odious manoeuvres we
leave to those print* wS **e cause,
or whose natural propensiii s lead
to sud a eou? *e. Ibid-
From, tht Richmond Enquirer,
N!M \N KD A ARDS.
We u odei stand that no persons,
hot witnesses, are permitted to enter
flu- Hall where the Committee sit,
from no o.her ooocideratioo proha
h!y than >oaJ their deliberations and
i- ve**rigad ns may o* l be interrupt -
ed by h crowd. t his may partly ac
count for the fact, that such luecgre
*<ketebes of their proceedings have
vet been furnished to the Public.
The following sketch, therefore, lie
n g the moat satisfactory we have
seen, and communicated to us by a
gentleman of cliara*er. may be
particularly acceptable at fbi* mo
oicnt, when such intense anxiety
prevails upon the subject:
NT \ ‘UN El) IVJ RDS
I have been for several days in
Washington and have conversed
wid many of the witi esses examin
ed before the Committee of Investi
gation, and a parallel for lidwfc ds’s
proceeding is to be found no where*
unless indeed in the annals of the
Holy Inqutiiiion. fI * aecusaiioos
have not bepn foundod upon evi
dente ; but* bavijig rnrjectuttd that
where so much was th.oe during a
long period of extreme difficulty,
produced chiefly !>y he s*Hte of the
currency, something musl have un
avoidably been done wrong, he per
verted commendable acts into arts
of pretended mismanagement ; ar>d
then, to make out his case, he has
summoned not the persons who have
misinformeu or abetted hitn, hut, all
such per sens from their peculiar
situation, mignt perhaps know
something to be revealed to the in
jury of the Secretary of the I'rea
sury ; or, he ii fluenced by prt ju
! dice, party feeling, or personal re
sent vneot, to make some trivial in
cident appear an act of gruss impro
priety.
“ With this view, it would seem,
he drew before the Committee a
cloud of witness**; —among it whom
were between fifeen and tweity
gentlemen from the banks of the
District of Columbia; and nearly
all the clerks immediately connect
ed with Mr, Crawford tu his own
Department :—a formidable pha
lanx one would rhi* k. on the part
I of the prosecution, p**e eating a very
| happy opportunity to aeuimiug utau
I to convert error Into crime. Bui
Kdwards is a striki g example of
the wicked being taken in the ■ oil
j they spread for toe victim they
pursue. The investigation has thus
far served not only to acquit, en
tirely, Mr. Crawford, in the respect
! iri which it was pretended he would
< be most easily criminated, but to
; place his merits as a public mao in
higher reliefand his conduct in
• the management of (he currency and
of the western barks is shewn by
i Mr. Oteves to evince the greatest
ability and integrity. So muon for
| the evidence adduced by the prose
! eutoi ; —and beta! would take oo
’ cast on to observe that, whatever
may be Ibe decision of th* Com
mutee (w hi bis rigorous in its scru
tiny) ui* the. complexion it may im
part o its final report, the impar
tiality and dignity of its proceedings
1 correspond with the eleva ed repu
. tation of the gentlemen wno cow
j pose it*
The examination of Ninian Ed
ward* himself was commenced on
Satutday and continued till 3 o’clock
in theevening— with a recess from
3to 5 His examination is not yet
eoneluied.
•• I am well informed that his ap-
would have excited eotn
nt! 5 * ation, if a single circumstance
were known, connected with his con
duct, to extenuate it. But what pan
be thought of this infatoatrd man ?
—He alleged that Stephenson, the
Receiver, wrote to the Secretary of
the Treasury a letter enclosing his
(Kdward’s) publication, &c. The
p. <*vocation given by Mr. Crawford
is affected to lie in Ihe declaration
that no such letter can be found on
tlte flics f the Department, and
that no reply appears to have been
made to such a one. Edwards, on
his recall, to divert the public at
tention, a.d to arrest theeurrenl of
publid opinion, throws into the press
a copy of the identical letter from
the Receiver to the Secretary, op
porfunely obtained in the land office
at Kdward-ville ; and be assures the
world he shall prove much more to
the disadvantage of Mr. Crawford
than he had promised to do —Well,
what now ? Ha* he a certified copy
of Stephenson’s letter taken from
his cfihial letter botk, with proof of
tlte original having been written by
Stephenson aod transmitted l No,
he has not ; —Has he, then, the
Secretary’s answer—which, addict
ed a* he may be to suppression, he,
the **erreiary, could net suppress ?
v*>/ If tun s out that he — Edwards
himself —wrote the letterfor Stiplien
sun, act) this boasted copy is (he
copy of his own copy, in his own
hand-writing,—and he does not know
whether copied Ids let
ter and sent it or pot. Yet, on bis
examination before the Committee
of Congress in February 1823—he
says— •* I saw him [Stephenson]
‘ write the letter and enclose the
“ publication, and I have no doubt
** the Secretary re eived it.’ c
** Rut one word : Fdwards, in his
A. R. papers, and again in his me
morial, charges the beret ary of the
I reasury wi*h gross mismanage
ment of the public hinds. To sub
stantiate this charge, he has sum
mooed witnesses from far and near
in great number* and at great ex
pense, It now appears in evidence
that, as recentiy as about the 22d
February las;, he declared to Gen.
Noble, a Senator from Indiana, that
he conceived Mr.Crawford to beau
excellent a< and honorable man • aid
one who had managed the fiscal af
fair* of :>is natin, in times of ex
treme difficulty, in the ablest man
ner and with the purest integrity.
He dilates to?>i particularly, upon
the enlarged and just views of Mr.
Crawford.as manifested in the mea
sures he pursued to save the people
of the western courtry from ruin,
and upon the consequences which
wouid have resulted from a differ
ent policy. Nor is this all
** In his memorial he avows him
self the author of fho A. B. essays,
am) desire that certain publications
shall be takeo as part of bis memo
rial ; —yet it ii given in evidence
that, i the same eonversatino allu
ded to, with Gen, Noble, he Npouta.
neously declared, in the most im
presvive manner, that he was Dot
the author of A B. nor did he know
the aU’tior. —There is much more of
tliis ; but he has not yet betrayed
hs iostigators. The general ienti
mcn is ihai—he is gone and must
he abandoned ! There is do power
nor i? fiaerx e (hut can sustain him !
His examination it is supposed will
be continued uti Monday.”
ADDITIONAL.
V e have seen anr ther letter (from
Washiogt.m) written on the 13ih,
aid continued on the 15th. It ap
pears, that oo Saturday ike Com
mittee were engaged from to o’-
clock ia the morning until 7 in the
evening (with some intermission) on
the examination of Ninian Edwards
they had not got through his tes
tinio y—but so far, it amounted to
uotbingagaiost Mr. Craws rd—and
■** every one whom he has brought
to testify (near 30 witnesses) had
rather tended to elevate the reputa
tion of Hr, Crawfoid than other
wise.”—This singular fact also
u. me out. ‘The Commit tee, in their
late Report state, that “the amount
of money collected oo account of
internal taxes, and from the sales of
th public lands, mostly the latter,
since 1816. is stated by the Seereta
ry at &2t,000,900, If % of this sum,
half a million should be lost , by
means t ihe failure of the Banks
which have stopped payment, the
loss’ Would be less than % 1-2 per ,
cent on the wuole sum ” Mr. ,
Cheves, in his recent testimony (a ‘
witness summoned tuo by Mr. E.) j
states the loss to the bank of ihe
United Slates from its debts at 10,
perhaps 15 per cent !—Mr. Che.es
did not hesitate to give it as !n
opinion, that “ the conduct of the
Secretary ol the Treasury was that
of a vigilant, zealous, faithful and
intelligent . ffifer, and managed the
public funds in as ski’ful a manner
us could have been done.” •* This
investigation (says the writer of the
letter,) will place Mr. Crawford on
the most dignified footing, in the
opinion of every man, who loves
viriue, respects integrity* er ad
mires talent.”
The exainioati >n of Mr. Edwards
was continued on Monday. The
farther he goes, the deeper he seems
|to sink. The letter states that it is
impossible for Mr. Monroe to sus
tain him : When all the facts be
come k.iown to the public, (be
weight and popularity of General
Washington’s administration could
not uphold him. 1 here are, and
i there have been, great efforts to up
| hold him, but it is impassible : Not
that there is any influence opposing,
but the facts are such, that the
President and Mr. Calhoun must
both sink in the attempt.”—it is
whispered, indeed, at Washi* .gioo,
that the President had d< oiureu his
resolution, so soon as (he Committee
! should adjourn, to give GdWalds
his choice, to resign, or be turned
out. If this be true, aino. g other
reports, I presume (*a>9 a feucr
writer,) Mr. E. would fi and very in
tie difficulty io deciding ••ivluch of
the two to choose “
‘I he Receiver’s Letter.
! YV c hive already stated mat Nioi
an Edwards lias confessed, to the
Committee ui Investigation that he
wt'ule the letter to the Secre
tary of the ‘Treasury signed “Lu
ey Stephenson;” and thai he also
wrote ihe letter whi< h he says Col.
S eplieovuu sent to Mr. Crawford
with Edwards’s publication m the
St. Louis Enquirer, Both letters
relate to the same subject; namely
the withholding of public dopusites
from the Back of Edwardsvilie.
Now, as Edwards wrote both tet
ters- —the one for the wile and the
other for the husband, how comes
ii that, in Mrs. Stephenson’* letter,
he assigned one reason lor wiihhol
ding the deposites, and that, iu Col
S epheoso *’s letter, he assigned an
other reason for the same ihmg ?
In ihe letter signed “Lucy ae
phenson” Ihe retention of the pub
lic moneys is accounted for by the
necessity oi having funds in hand to
j meet certain Indian expenses. In
Col. Stephenson’s letter (now, for
thefissi time, produced by Euwa.da)
the uncertain condition *f the ttuok
is alledged as the cause of wi nhul
ding the moneys and Ldwxds
wrote both statements l
Col. S rpiiensoii’s absence in Ken
tucky could make no (hfleren r: for
it was Edwards and not the Colonel
and his wife, who wrote the letters
to the Secretary, and who knew all
the fasts at the time he wrote the
letter for the lady as well as he
did when he wrote the letter for the
Colonel. Edwards’s publication in
the St. Louis Enquirer was dated
ou the !3th September, 18t9, and
the letter which he wrote for Mrs
Luey Stephenson bears date the 131 h
of Soptember. 1819. of course, < hen
Edwards officiated as letter writer
for the wife, he knew of his own
determination to resign as a direct
or of the bank just as well as he did
in October he says
be wrote the letterfor the husband,
and urged him to enclose a copy of
Edwards’s publication in the St*
I Louis Enquirer to the Secretary.
But why ail this manoeuvring on
the part of Edwards? lie had in
duced Mr. Crawford to make
sites in the bank of Edwardsville.
Why did he not write, himself , to j
Mr. Crawford, if be had thought j
the bank unsafe? Why get Mr*.
Stephenson and the Col. to subscribe 1
bis letters? If no fraud was inten- j
ded by Edwards, why not, as he j
wrote the letters, sign his own name
to them? It is impossible for hiui j
| or any body else satisfactorily to ex- j
plain away this chicanery: And the
| only method of rationally account
ing for it is, that Edwaids had a
fraudulent design from the begin
ning, and used the names of Colo
nel aud Mrs. Stepheuson to prevent
detection.— Washington Gaz.
A vindication of Mr, Pickering’s
pamphlet ha* been begun unde- the
editorial head in the Nc* VotX Ev
ening Tost but on ?eveiai account,
we a ertbe it to some other ha; and tuati
that of the editor We canoo p•-
lieve that he wou and have asserted that
the pamphlet •• has aura ted an uni
versal share of attention iu all pot ’s
of the United btate*, and wherever
it ha? been read has been g eac.y and
deservedly admired,*’ It ha been no
-iced in but few of the newspapers
comparatively ;—there i* no evidence
of having attracted much attention
any where, —and here, at least, in
Philadelphia, o far from having been
* greatly admired'* it has been strongly
reprobated by the plurality es those
into w ose nands it has falleu 0:d
friend and acquaintance of the author
express regret, for t.T ake, that it
has been issued. We know, by cor
respondence and conversation that it
has given p in to his well
pleasure to his ene ies. We ranked
with the former and have deab with it
as much in sorrow as in anger. We
sincerely wished to 6 and in it a very
different description oi “Historical
Memoirs ”
The quarrel dates from (he period
o‘ their relati n as President- and
Secretary of * tate Mr Pickering's
Conie< ion. in his pamphlet prove
that in the capacity of Secretary he
actedkoiha- the open and secret ene
my o the other that he betrayed
him—that he pave the k i ncl of p
caMcn which might well crea e a v o
lent and lasting .e entment m the
breast ol his chief. We think that
he ha demon rrafed h m ell to have
been the aggres or io m *de tht most
extraordinary and the > os r disieput
able to hi* official charac er After
he war from ffiee.—pro
perly as we cotlecc from he pamph et
itself he pu-sued an acrimoniuus.
Constant warfare bo*h o the tongue
and the pen aga nst Mr Adam*; and
finally, he ha taken ad an-age of the
atrocious perfidy the Cunninghams
(dttempting the Vindication of it at the
same time)-o poui a torrent o hoarded
gali upon the head of he decrepid
statesman, and t lacerate his paternal
heart by the de amation of his eon
and his deceased son in law. We
decide unfeignediy that we have
never had the misfortune to read a
publication marked by more diffusive
rancour and vindicffvness than his
•‘Review:’* we have never known a
case of alleged se de ence in which
there was more of the spirit of ma
levo ent aggression; or more un
provoked, co. ateral assault,or mens
impolitic supererogation —JV'at. Guv.
single xii iitiohi
M Ban bole 1 1 Die son of (he phi
losopher of Dial name, was a young
man of superior talents ; hi* friend*
entertained high exportations of his
future sue* ess; but neither the
rank to win h his lather had attain
ed, his own brilliant prospects, uor
the literary gm ,§iy ad amusement*
of Paris, oouid ure him Iron
that ennui and weariness of life
which at last became in-upponable.
Me locked himself up In a sniaft
room, and closing (he ape* lure* aa<|
erevices* lighted a barrel of char,
coal, and seated himself before %
table, on which he had laid a sec
onds watch, wish pen, ink. and pa
per. He then noted down with ex
aotuess, the hour whe the • harcoal
was lighted, the fir si s< nsanous pro**
du ed, and the progress of the de
lirium, tilt the writing became con
fused, and illegible, and he was
fuuud dead upon the floor*
,/Yat. Intelligencer.
We understond that orders have
been issued by the Navy Depart*
rneut to equip the United Siate*
sh>p of the line NORTH CAROLI
NA for immediate service, and Dial
she will bear the Pendant of Com
modore JOHN RODGERS —/oitik
At the meeting es the democrat*
ie citizens of the city and eouoty ol
Philadelphia, friendly to the eiec*
lion of Wvt. 11. Cuawfokd os Pre
sident, aud Aibkut Gallatin, as
Y r iee President of the I nilt and State**
held on the Ifivh of June, at tho
county court house, an Address and
Resolutions were adopted, and Del
egates were appointed to attend a
Convention which is to be held at
Hari isburg, oo the 9ih of Augusi, to
form an Electoral Ti* ket ,—lbid.
Police —Ephraim Smooth entered
the Police Office with a slow and stea
dy step. hit. jaws bound up with a
handkerchief and hi- eyes in mour r
ing “I wou and speak to the magis
trate,’ said he “He is bercre you, 0
said the juiuca ‘Hherefoxe speak out”