The federalists exclaim against the private characters of those men who figured in the Nation= al Assembly and Convention of France; while they pass over in silence the vices of their own party. But let them examine the life and actions of from persons belonging to his regiment, pay that was actually due them, and received by him for their use.

5th. That in the trial of sundry persons, before such courts martial, as aforesaid, for supposed offences, he has caused the said courts to enquire into facts, which, if they ever happened, must have been perpetrated long before the militia law took place; thus making a law, which was only intended to apply to cases posterior in their occurrence to the law itself, have retrospect to facts, which if real, must have occurred before the passing thereof. 6th. That when the continental troops abandoned Ticonde

roga, and retreated from the enemy, and they advanced into the country, he sent one Jonathan Baker to Major Skeene, in the enemy's service, and furnished him with hard money to bear his expences; that Baker returned from Major Skeene with a manifesto and proclamation from General Burgoyne, calculated to en force the submission of the inhabitants; which manifesto and proclamation were brought into the committee and by them sup pressed.

7th. That afterwards, when the enemy had advanced as far as Fort Ann, and the danger of the inhabitants thereby increased, he called the people of his regiment together, and told them they must take care of themselves, intimating thereby his declining to command them; and that afterwards, having collected them in his barn, he told them they had but one of three things to choose, to wit, either to fly for their lives, or take up arms and fight the enemy, or submit to them and take protections. And that afterwards, when Captain M'Crocker, a continental officer, arrived on the spot, he, the said John Williams, abandoned the command of his regiment to the said officer. (Page 136, Journal of the Senate of the State of New-York, for 1778.)

this beloved friend of Mr. Adams, and compare them with the deeds of the blackest jacobin who ever graced the bloody list of Robespiere, and they will find that General John Williams is infinitely their superior in perfidy and low chicanery. It is inconceivable how this man ever came to be elected a member of Congress, or how the House of Representatives suffered him to profane their presence; unless we suppose that an interval of time had cast a shade over his villainy, and that in the dearth of honesty the rogue crept in.

On the 28th January, 1779, General Williams, after a full investigation of these charges, was found guilty of those contained in the 2d and 4th articles, and in some instances, of those in the 1st article. (Page 159, Journal of the Senate.) On the 8th of February, 1779, he was expelled by the following minute : (Page 166, Journal of the Senate.) The crimes of which John Williams, Esquire, stands adjudged by the resolutions of this Senate, of the 29th of January last, holds him up as entirely destitute of integrity, evidenced by his unjust misapplication of military authority, his flagrant peculation on the United States of North America, his dishonest attempts to deprive the militia under his command of their just pay, and his after attempts to cover his injustice by undue applications of a great part of the monies which he had received from the pay office of the said United States, upon false and fraudulent pay abstracts, fabricated and attested by himself. In this accumulated and just view of his conduct, he appears to this Senate, wholly unworthy to represent the good people of this State in the dignified and important place of a Senator thereof.

Resolved, therefore, that the said John Williams, Esquire, be, and he is hereby expelled this Senate.

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Jonathan Dayton, of New-Jersey, the late Speaker of Congress, is notorious from Boston to Georgia. The deeds of the other members of Congress were scarcely known beyond the circle of their respective States, but the speculations of this man have rung throughout the western world. They are unfolded in sixteen letters to one Francis Childs, which were made public by a bill of complaint which Dayton and one Lawrence presented to the Chancellor of New-York, against Childs. The letters will speak for themselves;* for any comment *To the Honorable Robert R. Livingston, Esquire, Chancellor of the State of New-York.

The bill of complaint of Jonathan Hampton Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, humbly complaining, shew unto your honor, your orators, Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, of the City of New-York, merchants, trading and using commerce, together with Francis Childs, under the style or firm of Law rence, Dayton and Co. That some time in or about the thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix, the said Francis Childs and a certain Wil. liam Denning, junior, applied to your orators, to endorse two promissory notes for them; the one drawn by the said Francis Childs, for the sum of eighteen thousand eight hundred and ten dollars, the other drawn by the said William Denning, junior, for the sum of six thousand six hundred dollars, both dated on the said thirteenth day of May, in the year laft aforesaid, and payable, with interest, in eighteen months after date; and your orators shew, that in compliance with such request, they endorsed the said notes, with their said firm, and delivered the same to the said William Denning, junior, and Francis Childs. And your orators shew, that the said several promissory notes were delivered by the said Francis Childs and William Denning, junior, to a certain Thomas Marston, in purfuance of a colorable agreement

upon such a scheme would only tend to render stale and less flagrant the rascality of the transaction. Some crimes are so horrible in their nature as will. not endure the lash of censure, and the actions of for the sale of land-office warrants; which, as your orators are. informed by the said William Denning, junior, was an usuriousagreement, for the loan of money at an interest greatly exceed ing the interest of seven per cent. per annum. And that the. said notes were made and given by them, and received by the said. Thomas Marston, to secure the said sum, and the illegal and usu rious interest thereof, contrary to the form of the statute, in such case made and provided; whereby your orators are advised, the said several notes are void and of no effect.. And your orators.. further shew, that at and for some considerable time after the said thirteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, the said Francis Childs, and the said William Denning, junior, were and continued to be solvent; but that your orators did not pay the said notes and endorsements, to secure themselves against. the said endorsements by suits against the said William Denning: and Francis Childs, they being assured by the said William Denning, junior, that the said corrupt agreement could be proved by. evidence in his possession, and that the said evidence should be produced; the said William Denning, junior, having formally for bidden your orators to pay the said note, on the ground of such, corrupt agreement. But now, so it is, may it please your honor, that the said Francis Childs, and William Denning, junior, having become insolvent, the said Thomas Marston, delayed commencing any prosecution against your orators, until the said William Denning and Francis Childs became insolvent; but about a year af、 ter the said notes became due, commenced a suit in the Supreme Court of this State, against your orators, as endorsers of the said several notes. And the said Francis Childs and William Denning, well knowing their inability to pay the said notes, in case they should be taken up by your orators, but combining, and confede rating themselves, to and with the said Thomas Marston, and to

Dayton are of this class. Mr. Callender says there appears to be something about this Federalist which. even treachery cannot trust.

Four members from Pennsylvania voted for the

and with divers other persons, at present unknown to your orators, whose names, when discovered, they pray may be inserted in this their bill of complaint, with proper and apt words, to charge them as parties thereto, in this respect, how to injure and aggrieve your orators, refuse to produce the testimony of the original agreement and consideration for the said notes; and the said Thomas Marston refuses to discover whether any, and what sums of money was left in his hands, by the said Francis Childs or William Denning, junior, or either of them, which ought, in equity, to have been endorsed as a payment thereon. All which actings and doings, of the said confederators, are contrary to equity and good conscience, and tend to the manifest injury and oppression of your orators. In tender consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your orators are wholly remediless in the premises, by the court rules of the common law, the said suit being now pending against them, and your said orators being unable to plead, on account of the want of such precise information of the evidence of the said original agreement as the said confederates possess, but which they now refuse to communicate, and that the rather, as the information relative to such evidence, together with the delay in bringing the said suit, tended to prevent your orators from securing themselves against the said endorsements. To the end, therefore, that the said Thomas Marston, Francis Childs, and William Denning, junior, and the rest of the confederators, when discovered, may, upon their several and respective corporeal oaths, true, full, and perfect anśwer make, to all and singular the premises, in as full and ample manner as if the same were here again repeated, and they thereto interrogated. And that the said suits at law, against your orators, may be enjoined, and that they may have such farther and other relief, as to your honor shall seem meet, and be agreeable to equity and good conscience. May it please your honor, to grant