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FACTS 
 
 RELATIVE TO 
 
 John Henry and his Negotiation. 
 
 (Published originally at the City of Washington.) 
 
 Worthy the attentive perusal ef every Citizen rj i 
 
 United States. 
 
 No. 1. JOHN HENRY, and a Frenchman, styling himself 
 
 Count Crillon, arrived at Boston, on the 24th or 25th 
 of December last, passengers in the ship New-Galen 
 from England. 
 
 No. 1. While there Crillon waited on Governour Gerry, 
 
 and from him received letters of recommendation to 
 the President of the United States. It is not known 
 that Henry was received by Gerry. 
 
 No. 1 & 2. About the 6th or 7th of January, Crillon and Henry 
 left Boston together in the bublick stage ; they sepera- 
 ted at New-Haven, and Crillon arrived at Washington, 
 and dined with the President, some time before Henry 
 made his appearance there, which was on the 31st of 
 January. 
 
 No. 3. Henry lived in obscure lodgings in George-Town, 
 
 until the 1 1th of February, keeping house in the day 
 time, visited only by night, and visited chiefly by Cril- 
 lon. 
 
 No. 4. It is proved that John Henry was recommended to 
 
 the administration, by a letter from Governour Gerry, 
 dated the 1 1th of January. 
 
 No. 5 Sc 6. Henry left George-Town for Baltimore, in the pub- 
 lick stage on the eleventh of February y and arrived at 
 the latter place on the same day. From Baltimore he 
 went Eastward, and has at no time since the 11th of 
 February been at Washington or George-Town. 
 
 No. 7. On the 10th of February, being the last day of Hen- 
 
 ry's continuance at Washington, fifty thousand dollars 
 were drawn from the publick treasury, in the name of 
 John Graham, who is chief clerk in the office of the 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 It appears by the warrants that the sums drawn are 
 from the "contingencies of foreign intercourse," and 
 from the •'contingencies of the Department of State." 
 There was only an unexpended balance of forty-nine 
 thousand dollars, in the first mentioned fund, wh|eh 
 made a resort to the second fund necessary, lor the re- 
 maining one thousand dollars, 
 
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 Henry came to Washington poor; while there no 
 person is found with whom he did business, except 
 Crillon and our administration. Crillon does not pre- 
 tend that Henry received any money from him. 
 . 7 8c 8. The fifty thousand dollars, was on the 10th day of 
 February, paid to the first clerk in the office of the Ser 
 cretary of State, at a branch of the Bank of Columbia, 
 kept in the treasury building at Washington. On the 
 1 1th of February, as has been stated, Henry arrived at 
 Baltimore; while in that city he exchanged an order 
 drawn by the Bank of Columbia, in his favour on the 
 Mcchanick Bank in New-York, for forty-eight thou- 
 sand dollars. 
 
 The fact that Henry received fifty thousand dollars 
 from the government for his disclosures, has never 
 been denied by any member of the administration. 
 Indeed it is indubitable. 
 
 No. i. While Henry was at Washington, and sometime 
 
 between the 5th and 11th of February, he received a 
 conveyance from Crillon, of a large landed estate in 
 France, valued at 400,000 franks. 
 
 No. 1. Henry is an Irishman and an alien enemy of France, 
 
 and cannot therefore hold property in that country, 
 without the permission of its rulers. 
 
 No. 9 8c 10. Henry embarked in a national armed vessel, the 
 Wasp, from New-York for France, on the yth day of 
 March, the day the President made his communication 
 to Congress. — Administration having entered into an 
 engagement with Henry, that he should not be ex- 
 amined or called upon for any explanation. 
 
 N . 11. The paper among those made known to Congress, 
 
 purporting to be a letter from Lord Liverpool to Sir 
 George Prevost, was scaled, and was broken open by 
 Henry while he was at Washington, in the presence 
 and under the view of Mr. Monroe, the Secretary of 
 State, and Mr. Pinkncy, the Attorney-General. 
 
 THESE FACTS ESTABLISH THE FOI.LOIVISG POINTS. 
 
 Vst. That Henry's disclosure was made by him personally to the 
 administration at Washington, between the 31st of January and 
 the 11th of February, and not by letter from Philadelphia, on the 
 20th of February, as is held out in the communication of Henry's 
 papers to Congress by the President; the President has therefore 
 I. nt his name and high authority, to a statement which he knew 
 
 to be false. . . 
 
 2d. That Henry was paid 50,000 dollars by the Administration 
 for~thc disclosure, and entered into an arrangement with them to 
 be protected against anv examination, and to be sent from the 
 country in a national ship. Of course it is not true that the dis- 
 closure was voluntary. 
 
 3d. That Henry, if he has not received a reward from the 
 French government, or its agents, for the disclosure, looks to it 
 lor tavour and protection. , . 
 
 The proof in part of these facts will appear m the subjoined pa- 
 pers And on this brief n view of the transaction, questions such 
 
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 -.s follow, naturally present themselves to the intelligence of the 
 community. 
 
 1st. Are the communications of Henry worth g 50,000 of the 
 publick money? 
 
 2d. Either there was a plot, or there was none : if there was 
 none whence the suggestion of the President. If there was, why 
 did the President send out of the country in an armed ship the 
 only witness competent to prove it ? 
 
 3d. Was it not the duty of the Executive, and was he not bound 
 by oath, if he believed a plot was formed to dismember the govern- 
 ment, to retain and not dismiss the witness of so important a fact? 
 
 4th. Cannot the people be trusted with the truth ? and why has 
 the Executive who paid g 50,000 for the papers before the 1 1th of 
 February, lent its name to a pretended voluntary disclosure of it 
 on the 20th ? 
 
 5th. Does this Italian and crooked policy comport with the 
 good sense, honour and interests of the country ? 
 
 6th. Is it a deep laid scheme in this hour of distress, to : 
 ence the Eastern elections, and still more to divide the peoph 
 
 
 PROOFS. 
 
 JYo. 1. — Extracts from Crilloii's Deposition, 
 
 " THIS deponent knows Mr. Henry. Dined with him. at Mr. 
 Wellesley Pole's, in September last, and afterwards at JLcrd Yar- 
 mouth's; met with him also at different fashionable club s. Depo- 
 nent fell in with Mr. Henry subsequently by accident . deponent 
 had ordered his servants to procure him a passage t America. 
 They met with Captain Tracy, of the ship New-Galen of B .oswn, 
 at the New-London Coffee-House. After eight weeks deteou'en, 
 the wind became fair, and the vessel sailed. 
 
 " Henry came down to Washington, and stopped at Tomlib son's, 
 where deponent saw him. He afterwards removed :o George 
 Town, to the house of one Davis, an auctioneer, where deponen 
 visited him every day, and found him always occupied in writim 
 Deponent waited for his disclosures, not having any disposition i 
 pry into his secrets, but Henry was entirely silent, and incessantly 
 sighing very deeply. On the day of General Blount's funeral, de- 
 ponent took Henry down to Alexandria, in expectation that he 
 might communicate his projects: but he was still reserved. 
 
 " Deponent landed at Boston, December twenty-four, one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and eleven ; staid there about ten or twelve 
 days ; visited Governour Gerry twice. 
 
 " Deponent left Boston in the publick stage ; Henry was also a 
 .passenger: But at New-Haven deponent took a private carriage 
 to himself." 
 
 The fact of Crillon's having received a letter from Governour 
 Gerry, is stated on the authority of a member of the Committee 
 of Foreign Relations — as is also the fact of Crillon's having dined 
 with the President. 
 
 No. 2 — Tomlinso?i's Certificate. 
 
 I hereby certify — That Captain Henry arrived at my house 
 :'the City Hotel in Washington,) the 31st day of January last, as 
 
appears by the entry of his name made by myself in my Register, 
 and that he left it the next day. B. H. TOMLINSON. 
 
 Washington, March 27th, 1812. 
 
 No. 3 — Davie's Letter. 
 
 Sir — In answer to your interrogations I can only say, that 
 about the 29lh or 30th of January last, one Count de Crillon sent 
 his servant to engage lodgings for a gentleman of his (Count's) 
 acquaintance, whom he expected from Baltimore. On the 1st 
 of February the Cou.it, accompanied by Mr. Henry, came to my 
 house ; the former asked if his servant had engaged two rooms 
 here ? Being answered in the affirmative, they came in. On the 
 Sunday following, Mr. H. invited his *' Spanish Friend" to dine 
 with him : — their conversation was all in French ; for the reason, 
 as Mr. H. afterwards told me, the Count had but an imperfect 
 knowledge of the English language. The Count seldom or never 
 failed visiting him every day — seemed the only acquaintance he 
 had here. Mr. H. frequently dined and supped in the City. 
 
 His employment, or rather amusement, seemed to be like that 
 ^ r of her literary men : — reading and writing. 
 
 left us on the morning of the 1 1th, went in the stage 
 fo] Baltimore. I have no reason to believe he has been in the 
 District since, though h£ said he expected to be back in about a. 
 week. Yours, Sec. EDWARD DAVIS. 
 
 Murcih 28//;, 1812. 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 Tin on the authority of a member of the Committee of 
 
 • ?ign Relations, as having been stated to the Committee by the 
 Sec of State. 
 
 No. 5 — Romulus Rigg's Certificate. 
 
 I c es .ify — That on the morning of the 11th of February, 
 1812,1 took a scat in the stage from George-Town for Baltimore ; 
 the e left Crawford's early in the morning, and we called at 
 
 the I ,e of Mr. Dawis, in George-Town, a few doors below the 
 'lice, and there took in a passenger, who was, it since ap- 
 . the celebrated John Henry — his name was not entered in 
 the way-bill, but there was in the way-bill a " MR. CASH," en- 
 tered as a passenger. Mr. Levering, of Baltimore, Mr. Clagctt, 
 of George-Town, and myself were the only other passengers. We 
 arrived in Baltimore the same day, and Henry got out at Gadsby's, 
 but whether he staid there or not, 1 cannot say. 
 
 jl larch 20, 1812. ROMULUS RIGGS. 
 
 No. 6 — Mr. Coalc's LttU r. 
 
 Baltimore, 1 6th March, 1812. 
 
 Dear Sir — I had the pleasure, on yesterday, to receive your 
 letter of the 14th instant, and comply, with cheerfulness, with, 
 your request, to state to you the circumstances which have come 
 to my knowledge} in relation to Mr. John Henry, while here on 
 his way to and from Washington, and giving you the annexed 
 extract of a letter I received from him. 
 
 Although Mr. Henry had married (in one thousand seven hun- 
 dred and ninety-nine) a niece of my mother, I never knew him 
 until tiie twenty-fourth of last January, when he arrived here, on 
 his way to the seat of government, on which day he called and in- 
 
troduced himself to me and my family, and finding him interest- 
 ing by his fund of information and gentility of manner, I hud fre- 
 quent conversations with him during his stay here, in which he 
 indulged, occasionally, in severe remark on the British adminis- 
 tration — and on his return from Washington, he informed me that 
 he had been cruelly and perfidiously treated by them, making use 
 of parts of the precise language, to the best of my recollection, 
 ■which I find he has addressed to the Secretary of State, in his let- 
 ter to him of twentieth of February. In relation to Sir James 
 Craig, he informed me, that he had introduced himself to the, 
 Governour-General's notice by several communications he made. 
 to him on important subjects, which were considered as drawn up 
 with ability, and were acceptable to the Governour. He left this 
 city for Washington on the last day of January, and returned 
 thence on or about the eleventh ultimo. While he was in Wash- 
 ington, a letter was received from New-York, addressed to him 
 here, which, by mistaking the superscription, was received at our 
 post-office and opened by a gentleman of this city, who discover- 
 ing his errour and knowing that I had acquaintance with Mr. Hen- 
 ry, sent the letter to me with the proper explanation. This letter, 
 which contained a bank note for ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, 
 1 handed to Mr. Henry on the day of his return from Washington, 
 (with others I received for him during his absence,) explaining 
 to him the circumstance which had occasioned its being opened. 
 He took out its enclosure of one hundred dollars, enveloped it in 
 my presence and atmy desk, and returned it by the mail for New- 
 York. On the 12th ultimo, he proceeded on his journey eastward 
 by the way ot York and Lancaster, but being impeded by the ice 
 in the Susquehannah, he returned to this city. On the morning 
 of the 14th I received a short note from him, desiring to see me 
 at his lodgings, and REQUESTING THAT HIS BEING HERE 
 SHOULD NOT BE MADE KNOWN TO ANY ONE, as he 
 was much fatigued and not disposed for visits. Calling on him 
 he showed to me a deed of conveyance, duly authenticated in 
 Washington, of an estate in Languedoc in France, made by a gen- 
 tleman of that country, now in Washington, where the fact of 
 this conveyance is, I am told, currently known and spoken of. On 
 the morning on which he left our town the second and last time, 
 (Monday the 17th ultimo) he called on me with a request to as- 
 sist him in the negotiation with our banks of a certificate, which 
 he shewed to me, issued by the Bank of Columbia for forty-eigjjt 
 thousand dollars, purporting, in the usual bank phraseology I be- 
 lieve, that the said sum was placed on the books of the Bank of 
 Columbia, "at the credit of the Mechanicks* Bank of .V,:;- York, 
 to the order of John Henry." I called on one of our banks, in pur- 
 suance of his request, with him, where his certificate was received, 
 and exchanged to his satisfaction. On his reaching New-York, 
 he addressed to me a letter dated 27th ultimo, which being ex- 
 hibited by me to several friends here, they suggested the proprie- 
 ty of forwarding authenticated extracts thereof into that neigh- 
 bourhood of our country where he represents having been (fruit- 
 lessly ) employed to excite disaffection. This suggestion appear- 
 ing to me just and reasonable, I have assented to the transmission 
 
to Boston of an authenticated extract from his said letter, (of which 
 I annex a copy herewith) tending to counteract any unmerited in- 
 sinuations which the illiberal might be inclined to make in conse- 
 quence of the erasure of some of the lines in that copy of hit 
 communications which he has given to our government. 
 
 With great respect, I am, Dear Sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 EDWD. J. COALE. 
 
 P. S. In corroboration of Henry's declaration, contained in the 
 annexed extract, that his mission or the papers connected with it, 
 do not contain a single line that can expose any human being in 
 the United States to censure, it may be proper lor me to add, that 
 he informed me in the course of his account of his connexion with 
 Sir James Craig, that while at Boston he forwarded totheGovern- 
 our several important communications — I INTERRUPTED 
 HIM BY ASKING IF THEY CRIMINATED ANY CITIZEN 
 OF THIS COUNTRY, HE PROMPTLY REPLIED THAT 
 THEY DID NOT, AND ADDED, " IT WAS XOT IV HIS 
 POWER DIRECTLY OR IADIRECTLY TO AFFECT 
 THE REFUTATIOA OF AAY INDIVIDUAL OF THE 
 l\\ I TED STATES. 
 
 Extract (fa Utter from Join: Henry to Edward J. Coale, being 
 
 the whole of the letter, except words complimentary to E. J. 
 
 Coale's family. 
 
 New-York, 27th February, 1812. 
 
 In eight days I hope to find a good opportunity to cross the At- 
 lantick. There are vessels bound both to England and France, and 
 I am somewhat undecided as to which of the two it is most expe- 
 dient to go for direct — Perhaps I may think it best to go to the 
 continent — at all events, let me know if I can be useful to you, and 
 give me such general instructions on that head, as may enable me 
 to avail myself of circumstances. Of myself I have not much to 
 Bay. You will recollect our conversations, and all I communicated 
 on the subject of the perfidy and ingratitude of the British Minis- 
 ters. I find that my disappointment has been insidiously ascribed 
 to my own indiscretion rather than to their dishonesty. — But I 
 have laid a plan for their punishment and exposure that will make 
 them leel that I am no contemptible enemy. Should you see any 
 publication on that subject at any time, 1 give you full liberty to 
 repeat all I have told you, and be particularly careful to repel with 
 indignation any insinuation the spirit of party may suggest, that my 
 POLITICAL MISSION, OR THE PAPERS CONNECTED 
 WITH IT, CONTAIN A SINGLE LINE THAT CAN EX- 
 POSE ANY HUMAN BEING IN THE UNITED STATES 
 TO CENSURE. My view in exposing the British government is 
 confined to general national affairs. 1 cannot ever reduce my po- 
 litical system or opinions to the miserable standard of party, nor 
 yield the independence of my lei lings or the suggestions of my 
 
 iperience to the directions of little local leaders, whose exist- 
 
 ,-,.' phemera] and information diminutive. In gratifying my 
 
 p. ; ..-.,. 1 resentment?, I am obliged, to consult only my individual 
 
 With these no man has any concern. I am alone the 
 
 of the meoi lire Oi ion and the satisfaction to be sought, 
 
This letter I confide to you in confidence, until such time as you 
 think it necessary to make use of it, and then I trust to your 
 friendship to explain my motives. Your assured friend, 
 
 (Signed,) J. HENRY. 
 
 No. 7. — Warrants. 
 To Thomas Tudor Tucker, Treasurer of the United 
 ^ States, Greeting : — Pay to John Graham, or order, for- 
 ° ty-nine thousand dollars, being on account of the contin- 
 
 o gent expenses of Foreign Intercourse, and for which 
 — sum he is to be charged, and held accountable, for so 
 doing this shall be your warrant. 
 
 ^ 2 C S. te i^ Given under my hand and seal of the trea- 
 o> ^ 5, ^. ^ ? o sury, this tenth day of February, in the 
 
 £ S * ■ "*» «* ST* year of our Lord one thousand eight 
 ^ In oo R o ^ * hundred and twelve, and of Indepen- 
 
 >3 H ~ ^ ^ o dence the thirty-sixth. 
 $ w ' *^3 »■© ALBERT GALLATIN, 
 
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 x **i «■* s- 2 Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 7* ?" 8* ? * Countersigned, 
 
 Diplomatick Department, RICHARD RUSH, Comptroller. 
 Endorsed, Received February 10, 1812. 
 
 Paid : — JOHN GRAHAM 
 
 Bank of Columbia, at Washington. 
 
 Th. T. TUCKER, Treasurer United States. 
 
 To Thomas Tudor Tucker, Treasurer of the United 
 ^ States, Greeting: — Pay to John Graham, or order, one 
 thousand dollars, being on account of the contingent ex- 
 penses of the Secretary of States' office, and for which 
 sum he is to be charged and held accountable, for so do- 
 ing this shall be your warrant. 
 2 J?^S.fe Given under my hand and seal of the trea- 
 
 "o* «-i " I. ^ ^ ^ sury, this tenth clay of February, in the 
 ^ °? ' ' % ^ ^. year of our Lord one thousand eight 
 ^ (/) oo .2 X ?" "° hundred and twelve, and of Indepen- 
 
 $3 h g** ^ 3' »-■ dence the thirty-sixth. 
 
 % 5 " ^,Sb ALBERT GALLATIN, 
 
 & n 'iiMsO Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 "* " ?" 5' ? '" Countersigned, 
 
 Civil Department. RICHARD RUSH, Comptroller. 
 
 Contingent expenses, Secretary of States' Office. 
 
 Endorsed, Received February 10, 1312. 
 
 Paid:— JOHN GRAHAM. 
 
 Bank of Columbia, at Washington. 
 
 Th. T. TUCKER, Treasurer United States. 
 
 We certify that the preceding warrants, with their endorse- 
 ments, were copied in our presence, from the originals in the pos- 
 session of the Treasurer of the United States. 
 
 March 21, 1812. D. SHEFFEY, 
 
 JOSIAH QUINXY, 
 JAMES EMOTT. 
 
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 No. 8. — Biglovfa Lenijicate. 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 Slate of Maryland — TO WIT. 
 I, SAMUEL Sterktt, Notary Publick, by letters patent under 
 the great soul of the State of Maryland, duly commissioned, and 
 qualified, residing in the City of Baltimore, in the State aforesaid, 
 do hereby certify, attest, and make known, That, on the day of the 
 dale hereof, before me, personally appeared, Horatio Biglow of 
 Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, and made oath, that in conse- 
 quence of an intimation that John Henry, who has lately commu- 
 nicated to the government of the United States, his correspon- 
 dence with the Governour of Canada, Sec had when he passed 
 through this City on his return from the seat of government, ne- 
 gotiated a check for a large sum of money with a bank in this City. 
 He, the deponent, desirous to ascertain the truth of a fact so ver> 
 important in its bearing upon the motives and the merits ot that 
 disclosure, called on the Cashier of the Mechanicks' Bank of Bal- 
 timore, on the morning of the 13th instant, and in answer to the 
 inquiries which the deponent made of the said Cashier, learned 
 from him, that about the middle of the last month, Mr. Henry call- 
 ed on the said Bank, and offered him, the Cashier, a check from 
 the Bank of Columbia, upon the Mechanicks' Bank in the City of 
 New-York, for the sum of forty-eight thousand dollars, with a re- 
 quest that he, the said Cashier, would exchange the same for 
 smaller paper; and that he, the said Cashier, did accordingly give 
 the said Henry, smaller checks and bank-notes for the said check, 
 so drawn by the Bank of Columbia, upon the Mechanicks' Bank of 
 New-York, for the sum of fortv-cight thousand dollars. 
 
 IA TESTIMONY WHEREOF, The 
 
 said deponenUhas hereunto subscribed 
 
 his name, and I, the said Notary, have 
 
 HORATIO BIGLOW. hereunto set my hand, and affixed my 
 
 Notarial Seal, the 14th day of March, 
 in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and twelve. 
 
 SAMUEL STERETT, Xot. Pub. 
 No. 9. 
 The departure of Henry in the Wasp, on the 9th of March, is r. 
 matter of publick notoriety. 
 
 No. 10. 
 This fact is indicated by report of the Committee ot Foreign 
 Relations, and that such an arrangement was made with Henry, 
 was distinctly stated to them by the Secretary of State. 
 
 No. 11. 
 This is stated on the authority ol several members of Congress, 
 to whom the fact has been avowed, by different members of the 
 Cabinet. 
 
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