Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

Washington, Nov. 22, 1800.

The following letter was this day read in the House, and ordered to lie on the table:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Sir,

I deem it proper through you to inform the House of Representatives, that I have obtained the permission of the President of the United States, to resign the office of Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of the present year.

I indulge a hope, that I may without presumption declare, that the different offices with which I have been entrusted since the establishment of this Department, have been executed according to my best skill and judgment, with a conscientious regard to the rights of the public and of individuals, and under an impressive sense of responsibility to the government--In conformity with these professions, I now freely submit the whole of my conduct to any investigation which the House of Representatives may be pleased to institute.

I cannot omit this, only opportunity which may ever be afforded, of expressing the sincere sentiments of gratitude, which I now feel and shall ever cultivate for the many proofs of confidence and indulgence which I have experienced in the course of my official communications with the Legislature ; --at the same time I request, that if the liberty I have now taken, to invite their attention to a matter of personal concern, should be deemed in any degree unsuitable, the error may be attributed to a just and reasonable desire, that my conduct may, on proper evidence, appear to have deserved their approbation.

I have the honour to be,
With perfect esteem and deference,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed)
OLIVER WOLCOTT.

The Hon. Theodore Sedgwick,
Esq. Speaker of
the House of Representatives.