The Enquirer

Washington, March 10, 1812.
Messrs. Munroe & French,
Patriot-Office.
With this, I send you a paper, containing the Message of the President, yesterday communicated to Congress. Thus presented to the public, is sufficient to establish its authenticity; but lest any individual should doubt the validity of the letters and documents, accompanying the Message, permit me to state what took place before the Committee of Foreign Relations, to whom they were committed. Immediately on the adjournment of the House, the Committee directed their Chairman to request the attendance of Mr. Monroe, the Secretary of State, to meet with them in the evening, at 7 o'clock, which he did, and he exhibited to the Committee the original papers, copies of which had been communicated with the Message. These papers being examined, Mr. Monroe was asked, if he knew the hand writing of Lord Liverpool--and he did not hesitate to say, that the letters, from Lord Liverpool to Sir George Prevost, were signed by him; he further stated, that Mr. Pinkney, our late Minister at London, was well acquainted with the hand writing of Lord Liverpool and Robert Peel, and with the hand writing of the clerks, employed in those offices, and that he declared them to be authentic documents. And further, one gentleman of the Committee is well acquainted with the hand writing of J. H. Craig, late Governor of Canada, and he is fully convinced that the Instructions No. 2 and the Commission No. 3, numbered in the documents, were signed by him. There was a stipulation on the part of Government, that the names of persons concerned with Henry, in America, should not be insisted on; this was a condition on which he consented to give up one paper He expressly said, he never would, under any circumstances, betray the confidence THEY had placed in him--and that he should not have betrayed the confidence of the British Government, if they had not been perfidious to him!
Yours,
EBEN. SEAVER.