Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-28
,JEX.dNDRIA DAILY GAZETTE.
THURSDAY, MARCH %.


,mongstthe ruling gentry, IN which the Smiths
of MARYLAND are deeply concerned. "A balti-
more democratic paper expresses aseom'h'
,,srt that The Embassy to Russia should have
,osn os,rsd to Robert Smith. What the cause
If this schism may be, can be only known 70
those who are i.alulged with a peep behind inc
curtain !; for as it is probably not honorable TO
either party, we Cannot expect that 1t Will
soon he made public. II we may be allowed d
conjecture, we should suppose that Mt uai'
,,,;n,s exposition of the drafts on Leghorn mas
contribute, not little IL exasperate the Smiths
These delightful patriots cannot bear 10 i"s'
,aa;r art,6ces exposcd---aad by enc OF Ihei'
own party, too Accountable 1.-The leue-
ralists might have scolded till doomsoay aoou'
their Leghorn bills, and the honest sen'le'o'N'
would have appeared quite indifferent oy as
sorting, and hiring others to assert, that 1t was
I" all a federal lic." This would have passed
very we'll But for the official stamp OF truth
10 be set upon their proceedings, IS insurer
able. Should MIR. Gallatln really have tlien
into such a scrape, he will be sadly pestered i;
for the Smiths have a noisy gang OF retalnsrs,
who Will maui MIN without mercy.
The mission to Russia has been suddenly
discovered to be of the utmost impcrtance.---
We are now furnished with an oGciai State
ment ofour exports and imports to and from
that country and we are further informed
that our trade with her will probably be OF
more consequence than that to ali the rest OF
the world! Ii is truly surprising how We have
got along without minister plGnipotentisry TO
Russia I'm fact, the awkward manner III whicn
the administration endeGvor to justify tine poll
CIV Of such an appointment, is proof positive
that they know there Is good reason to question
it. We see no essays to shew the necessity OF
an Ambassador in England, or even France,
where We have been kicked In abundance. AT
one time, we are to have nothing but Domes-
tic Manufactures, and all foreign trade is to be
annihilated, not by Ernbargoes, but by our own
skill and industry: Soon afterwards, when i
favorite measure is to be pursued, Commerce
is extelled to the sales.--future IS nothing like
it---n is our sole support. We have seldom
seen a kcener sarcasm than the lett-handed
compliment contained in Thursdays Inseli-
pencer. Here i. is: That it is deemed by
the Executive OF high importance that we
should properly be represented at the court OF
St. Petersburg, may be inferred from the Sc
lection which HAS been made of SO distinguish
ed citizen as the present Secretary OF State
as our envoy to that court ; and from the
promptitude with which successor to Mr..
Adams has been appointed" Yes, indeed,
with promptitude" enough The presi-
dent seemed to be quite in hurry to honor
this distinguished citizen -
7H[ .Ncgv French Naister--It IS not our
design to examine into Mr.. Barlow's history
any further than as it respects his conduct
when acting as an agent for OTHERS. AS to
~
ed, for the administration have seen hit to COM
NIT to his care very great and important inte-
rests of the nation and to him hundreds of
ind ri,iuals will have to look for assistance, Ill
their attempts, vain attempts to recover
their property to the amount OF untold mill
lions. To this par: of Mr.. Barlow's life, then,
we shall conhae ourselves.
This is not Mr.. Barlow's first mission to
France. He had one to that country before
the present government was formed, as sgent
to a company of spectators in land. This
company, having made bargain tos ! tract OF
some thousand acres on the Ohio, to be paid
for a, a future day, in certificates, sent this
Mr.. joel Barlow with the land to Paris, there
70 dispose Of it to settlers. He accordingly
went, and soon hunted up a good map-maser,
one Playfair, with whom he tofmed connec-
ton. Pls.yfir, in short time, produced "a
mos, beautiful map out of Jocl's materials; IN
which he easily described the land, as Sc
eond paradise. He put down the city OF N.
York here here. PHILADELPHIA, there, Balt1-