The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-07-10

sal ary T; which we arc inior med an American
minister al ST Petersburgh must do, as II L.
said to be impossible for family % live there
In the stile that the usages Of that court re-
quire, on the compensation allowed by the A
merican government TO its ministers abroad
1t is not easy for US 10 know what the Pres
idents motives might De for this offered
nomination. They might be various some
OF them my have escaped our penetration,
but our readers, and Mr.. Smiths readers too
will surely ascribe il To any thing else, rath-
er than confidence in his capao ity and hdel-
ity equal to the man gemeut OF the Depart
ment OF State.
But why should Mr.. Smith in his printed
book deny what is known To SO many people,
that he first declared his intention OF accepting,
the appointment tc Russia, and WAS vain OF II (!
Why attempt to disguise the reasons OF has
afterwards declining the mission IL was said
at the time, bu, we do not guarantee the truth
of the report, that his friends dssusded him
from it, on the belief that be would not pass
the senate. We do not imagine however
that his vanity would admit this as motive
the more probable Cause may be that he cal
cula,ed OH Joining the enemies of the present
administration and, al the next Presidential
election, working himself into higher sta
tion than he did at the last. We needed not
the publication of his PAM phlet to enable us
to understand this project. The parties con-
cerned and the manner In which they have
distributed the characters Tor the new admin
istration are distinctly known and 1t is evil
dent that this machinery could not be so well
put in motion from the bottom of the Gulph
of Finland as he thought it could from Balti
more.
Mr. Smith begins his pamphlet with a We
~ singular mistake. He says he owes TO
the people an exposition Of the Circumstan-
ces which produced his resignation of the
department OF State. 1t is not impossibl,
that man of a delicate sense OF obligation
and not accurate in his accounts should think
he owes debt, that he really does not owe
and we are inclined to believe that this is
such a case. We cannot think the people
had any legal claim on that gentleman tor this
exposition, even If it had been true one.
Bat certainly they had no right to such one
as this /; and now, as portion OF that same
people to whom he has given it, we here
undertake to restore it entire to the said Rob-
ert Smith. We will count 1t oul in full
tale, piece by piece, just as he paid il in. And
after detecting his false coins, his clipt gum
cas- and sweated eagles with which he has
paid the debt he did not owe, we will reverse
the account current, audit the articles and
compare his vouchers. We will expose his
erhosition ;" and though he has signed the
account without the usual restr,c of errours
ereehfed, we will still grant him the pri,i-
lege to take it all back and say no more d.
bout 1t.
His great effort is to resolve the Prcsi-
dents dissatisfaction with him into other cau-
ses than his own incapacity. For this pur.
pose he mentions twelve distinct cases IN
which he says that he and the President diff
fered in opinion. This is the first time, we
had almost said, we ever heard that Robert
Smith differed in opinion with any body.
But we will follow him in his twelve cases.
ITO be Confinucd.)