Francis
wrote to Hamilton that such a ticket was offered him, but he could not
buy it unless he would inform him and give him his certificate that it
was good. Hamilton wrote him a most friendly letter, and sent him
the certificate. He bought the paper, and came on here and got it
recognised, whereby he made twenty-five hundred dollars Klingham saw
both the letter and certificate.
Irving, a clerk in the treasury, an Irishman, is the author of the
pieces now coming out under the signature of Verita's and attacking the
President. I have long suspected this detestable game was playing by the
fiscal party, to place the President on their side.
July the 18th, 1793. Lear calls on me. I told him that Irving, an
Irishman, and a writer in the treasury, who, on a former occasion, had
given the most decisive proofs of his devotion to his principal, was the
author of the pieces signed Veritas: and I wished he could get at some
of Irving's acquaintances and inform himself of the fact, as the person
who told me of it would not permit the name of his informer to be
mentioned. [Note. Beckley told me of it, and he had it from Swaine,
the printer to whom the pieces were delivered]; that I had long before
suspected this excessive foul play in that party of writing themselves
in the character of the most exaggerated democrats and incorporating
with it a great deal of abuse on the President to make him believe it
was that party who were his enemies, and so throw him entirely into
the scale of the monocrats.
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