Rhode Island Republican

The following statement of John Heath, Esq: one of the Executive Councillors of Virginia, upon the faith of whose word, the assertion was originally made, will fully discover the over-bearing and persecuting spirit of Judge Chase, who is now under impeachment.

"In May Session of the Federal Circuit court for the Middle district of Virginia, in 1800, held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, when Judge Chase presided--I visited the Judge at his Chambers, in the house of a Mr. Crouch, on the subject of an injunction, for a Mr. Gordon vs. Mr. Smith of Baltimore'; and during a conversation with the Judge on this subject, Mr. David M. Randolph, the Marshal of Virginia at that time, stepped in, with a paper in his hand. The Judge instantly accosted him, by asking him what it was he had in his hand--Mr. Randolph replied, it was the panel of the Petit Jurors summoned for the trial of James T. Callender.--The Judge then emphatically said, "have you any of those people or creatures called democrats on that list or panel?" Mr. R. hesitated for a moment, and then replied: That he did not know; he had not made the discrimination, or words to that import. "Then," says the Judge, "look again, and if you have, strike them all off."--To this the subscriber will depose.

JOHN HEATH."