It was soon ascertained to have been written by Mr.Kremer, a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Mr.Clay immediately published a card in the National Intelligencer, denying, in unequivocal terms, the allegation, and pronouncing the author "an infamous calumniator, a dastard, and a liar!" A few days after this, Mr.Kremer acknowledged himself the author of the letter in the "Columbian Observer," and professed himself ready to prove the corruptions alleged: whereupon Mr.Clay demanded that the House raise a committee to investigate the case.

The committee was appointed; but Mr.
Kremer, on grounds of the most frivolous description, refused to appear before the committee, or to furnish a particle of proof of the truth of the grave assertions he had uttered--thus virtually acknowledging their slanderous character.
Mr.Clay being in this manner denied the privilege of vindicating his innocence, and showing the depravity of his accusers, the matter continued in an unsettled state until the next presidential campaign, when it was revived in a more tangible form, and brought to bear adversely to Mr.
Adams's administration and reelection.

In 1827, Gen.

Jackson, in a letter to Mr.Carter Beverly, which soon appeared in public print, made the following statement:-- "Early in January, 1825, a member of Congress of high respectability visited me one morning, and observed that he had a communication he was desirous to make to me; that he was informed there was a great intrigue going on, and that it was right I should be informed of it.