Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

Shortly after the close of the session of Congress, a scandalous report was circulated, that the "suppressed documents" brought to light at Boston, were disclosed by colonel Pickering. The author of the report is pretty well known. As it was scattered with all the industry of malice, a gentleman of this city, thought proper to inform colonel Pickering of it. The subjoined extract is the answer he has on this point. It was not expected that it would be published; for the jacobin slanders, which have been poured out upon him for so many successive years, have scarcely obtained any notice from him. It is thus they have multiplied by being suffered to grow without molestation; but their duration has been short in proportion to the rankness of the falsehoods in which they were generated.

It is observed very justly by the Washington Federalist, that the administration but too well knows how those papers were exposed. They never will make any enquiry about it; but it behoves them to check their creatures from attributing the fault to the federalists. If they do not they deserve to have the whole truth laid before the world. It must not be tolerated, that the dishonor should be charged to such eminent characters as colonel Pickering or Mr. Quincy.

[North American.]

Extract of a letter from col. Pickering to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated Wendham, (7 miles beyond Salem) March 26, 1809.

"The report which you say has been spread since I left Baltimore, that the late disclosure of confidential documents was made by me," is false. I am utterly ignorant by what means they were made public.

No lie, no slander, however improbable or atrocious, excites in me any surprise. Good and wise men, our early and distinguished patriot citizens, have given strong and honorable testimonies that I have rendered some services to my country, especially in exposing the secret motives, the insidious conduct, and the duplicity of men, who, unfortunately for our country, have for some years had the direction of our national affairs.

The bitter wrath of my political adversaries has concurred in proving that my humble labors have not been in vain. Important facts and rational conjectures, expressed in my plain language, appear, fortunately, with their obvious inferences, exhibited to many of my fellow citizens; who now view the measures of our administration in the light of truth.

This detection of imposture long combined to deceive the people. They will never be forgiven by those who are like the craftsmen of Ephesus, who