James Machir is a Scots tory, and cautiously withdrew himself to the country before the bills were brought forward.

Thomas Evans, also of Virginia, voted for

tion; that thereupon, this defendant learning that Thomas Marston, of the city of New-York, gentleman, had a number of land-office warrants to dispose of, this defendant applied, by his agent, to the said Thomas Marston, for the purchase of the said warrants, which were in number four hundred and sixty-two. And this defendant agreed with the said Thomas Marston, to allow for the same, at and after the rate of fifty-five dollars for each hundred acres of land contained in the said warrants, to bę paid within eighteen months, with interest, And this defendant further saith, that the said warrants were to and did actually cover forty-six thousand two hundred acres of land. And this defendant further saith, that at the time the said speculation was on foot, he communicated the same to the said Jonathan H. Lawrence, who expressed a wish to be concerned therein; that thereupon this defendant wrote to the said Jonathan Dayton upon the subject, who approved of the said Jonathan H. Lawrence being concerned in the said speculation. And this defendant further saith, that William Denning, junior, of the city of New-York, also knowing of the said speculation, did apply to this defendant, to let him, the said William Denning, junior, into a share of the said purchase and speculation; that thereupon this defendant consulted with the said Jonathan H. Lawrence, who was the acting partner of the house of Lawrence, Dayton and Co. and who consented to the said William Denning, junior, becom ing interested in the said purchase and speculation with them. And this defendant further answering, saith, that he, immediate ly thereafter, by his said agent, concluded the said agreement with the said Thomas Marston, and informed him that the said William Denning, junior, was to be concerned with this defendant, the said Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, in the said purchase. And this defendant further answering, saith,

both, and defended them in a pamphlet, the style and language of which were not ill adapted to the dignity of the cause he had undertaken...

Mr. Grove was the only member from North

that in order to secure to the said Thomas Marston, the payment of the consideration money, agreed to be paid to the said Thomas Marston, for the said warrants, at the time aforesaid, and at the rate aforesaid, amounting in the whole to the sum of twenty-five thousand four hundred and ten dollars, this defendant, in donsequence of a previous understanding betweda him and the said Jonathan H. Lawrence for that purpose, and at his request, did, on the thirteenth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, make a certain promissory note to Messrs. Lawrence, Dayton and Co. payable to them, or order, in eigh teen months after date, for the sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred and ten dollars, with interest, (that sum being the amount of the said warrants which fell to the share of Lawrence, Dayton and Co. on such purpose) which note was endorsed by the said Jonathan H. Lawrence, for Lawrende, Dayton and Co.. to the said William Denning, junior, and by the said William Denning, junior, endorsed to the said Thomas Marston. And this defendant further saith, that for the residue of the consideration money for the said warrants, the said William Denning, junior, did make a certain other note to the said Lawrence, Day. ton and Co. payable in eighteen months, for the sum of six thou sand six hundred dollars, with interest (that sum being the amount of the said warrants, at the rate aforesaid, which fell to the share of the said William Denning, junior) which said last mentioned note was endorsed by the said Jonathan H. Lawrence, for the said Lawrence, Dayton and Co. to the said Thomas Marston. And this defendant further saith, that said notes being thus drawn, endorsed and delivered to the said Thomas Marston, the said land warrants, at the same time, were delivered by the said Thomas Marston to a clerk of this defendant, and this de- · fendant delivered the same to the said Jonathan H. Lawrence,

Carolina who supported these bills. This man, to use the words of Junius, is only "the Punch of the puppet-show, to speak as he is prompted by the chief juggler behind the curtain.'

and who, to the best of this defendant's recollection and belief, entered the same, or such parts thereof as belonged to the said Lawrence, Dayton and Co. in the books of the said company, and delivered the same, which fell to the share of the said William Denning, junior, to him. And this defendant further saith, that he is informed that the said William Denning, junior, some short time after, sold and disposed of the said land warrants which fell to his share, to a profit; and that the said Lawrence and Dayton, though not for the benefit of Lawrence, Dayton and Co. located a part of the said: warrants which fell to their share, on lands of an immense value. And this defendant further answering, saith, that the said agreement, for the said purchase of the said land warrants, was not a corrupt or usurious agreement; neither were the considerations expressed in the said notes usurious or illegal; neither were the said notes given for the loan of money, at an interest exceeding the interest of seven per cent.: per annum ; but the same were given to secure to the said Thomas Marston the consideration money to be paid for the said warrants, which were purchased upon good faith, and a fair transaction. And this defendant further saith, that the said note, so as aforesaid drawn by this defendant, was not for his own private benefit or account, but on account of the said Lawrence, Dayton and Co. And that before and since the filing of the said bill of complaint, the said Jonathan H. Lawrence has acknowledged the same to this defendant. And this defendant: further saith, that before the said notes became due, he went to Europe; and that before he went to Europe, conceiving himself not separately answerable for the payment of the said note so drawn by him as aforesaid, he never made any arrangements for the payments thereof when the same became due; but this de-. fendant saith, that when he went to Europe, he left in the hands

The members from South-Carolina who voted for the Alien and Sedition acts, were Thomas Pinckney, Robert G. Harper and John Rutledge.

The political character of Harper is well known; of the said Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, personal property sufficient to have paid his proportion of the said notes, which property might easily have been turned into money, and the notes paid off and discharged, had the said Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton been disposed so to do. And this defendant further saith, that he has been informed, and verily believes, that after the said William Denning, junior, had given his noté as aforesaid, and before the same became due, the said William Denning, junior, became insolvent.

And this defendant further saith, that the said speculation in the said land warrants, was a project and contrivance of the said. Jonathan Dayton, whilst he was Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives in Congress, as this defendant can abundantly shew by letters from the said Jonathan Dayton, to him upon the subject, and copies of which are hereunto annexed: And this defendant further answering, saith, that he cannot but confess that the whole amount of principal and interest on the said notes, are now honestly due to the said Thomas Marston, agreeable to the tenor of the said notes, and that the said notes ought long since to have been paid off: And this defendant denies that any payment whatever has been made by him to the said Thomas Marston, on account of the said notes or either of them; and insists that the allegations of the said complainants as contained in their bill of complaint, are mere shifts used by them to delay or get rid of the payment of a just debt: And this defendant further answering, faith, that he knows not of his own knowledge, when the suit mentioned in the complainants' bill of complaint was instituted upon the said notes, but he has been informed and believes, that during his absence in Europe, a suit was commenced upon the said notes, against the said Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, and that to such suit, the said complainants plead in abatement,

and probably we shall have his secret history, when, like Alexander Hamilton, he will be obliged to give to the world his amorous intrigues, in order to divert public attention from contemplating the that this defendant was not a party to the said suit and that thereupon the said suit was discontinued, and a suit commenced anew in the Supreme Court of this State upon the said notes, in which suit this defendant is made one of the defendants, and which suit, as this defendant is informed, is the one now alluded to in the complainants' said bill of complaint. And this defendant further saith, that as the agreement respecting the purchase of the said land office warrants, from the said Thomas Marston, was not reduced to writing, he can declare or discover no ether agreement than the one before in this his answer, set forth in that behalf. And this defendant denies all, and all manner of unlawful combinations and confederacy wherewith he is charged-without that, that there is any other matter, cause or thing in the complainants, said bill of complaint, contained material or effectual in the law for this defendant to make answer unto, and not herein and hereby well and sufficiently answered, avoided, traversed or denied, is true to the knowledge or belief of this defendant, all which matters and things this defendant is ready and willing to aver, maintain and prove as this honorable court shall direct, and humbly prays to be hence dismissed with his reasonable costs and charges in the law, in this behalf wrongfully sustained.

FRANCIS CHILDS.

Sworn this 26th day of June, 1800, before me,

THOMAS COOPER, Master in Chancery.

LETTE R. (No. F.)

DEAR SIR,

I transmit herewith Finlay's Commercial Register, which may be useful to you and L. D. & Co. as matter of information. I hope to hear from you upon the subject of the warrants, when the mail which left New-York yesterday arrives here. A large company is forming itself here, for the purchase of United States