Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-08-26

rts-We shall not be content with defending
J"ckson--we shall at once carry the war into Afri-
ca.
- IPiih an eye 90 the strictest ecoroni,."
The article from the " Y. Enquirer has touch.
ed oil IN liz nappes ven the iinanceeripg opera
lions Of Mr.. Adams, our 'sfee6ie and peJ,t.ri-
Gus government. That economical gentleman is
not likely To- iniure his private estate v ms pub!;c
services lie Is nat destined to retire to poverty
with Monroe orto the einbarrassments OF old age,
IKE ine iiastrIous Jefferson. He Looks better To
the main chance. He takes care Oh svha, he aets.
and gets what he can. lie is the Crassus & in thai
sense only theMarborouSh, of American presidents
What though the government he SO pealsyious"
MIR. y. takes good care exact the utermosf mite
for himself. What though il be (gcbles' no
converts It's weakness to his own emonment No
thing can change him. fhe emharrassmen,s OF a
state OF war cannot ahate his rapactv. Whati
though his country be suffering tor want of money
| to pay her troops What though her stocks have
deprecated 10 a iriShtiul degree, he, forsooth
mttSf he paid an unconscioHabe tor dis dip,o-
matte services. While Monroe is pied ing his pr-
Vate credit at Washington and Jackson at ". Or
leans, Tor The assiSapce of troops. this eXper-
fenced dipona,istis receiving outfits to which he
Is not entitled and pay for &c constructive iour-
MES which lie never performed With what face
could he then complain Of our ''penurious govern
Inent, or can he now pIaie OF the strictest eco
Monty" which he has never carried aito execution,
| for the benefit ofhiS ,0isnilg?
! 1t appears by the Pul r. Documents that in .
years CONNIE ncng il ,ri 1913, he charged and
received the following SUMS OF money:
For outh on Client mission, S90AO
I, Salary 10. 20 ,299 81
Contingencies DO. G'345 go
! Outfits Of British DO. oOO0
Salary OF Russia.. - British missions $4,000
J. G62,6i4 o.
!fh"%dSld dollars per ye0r, or upwards of So 00A
more than the salary Of the President of the u
states Yet, during this time, in his letter to lie.
viz Harris. nc complains of our government as
" feeble and pe1uriOuS' He received SlS OOO
| or outfit. $685. On as contingencies 6. OOO
as salaries during those tJUO years On the close
OF the negotiation at Client, he went to Paris and
waited there until he was semitic England cfaro-
[ ing $3.50 for his expenses at Paris Yet il anne,ys
from the Public Documents that AI566 81 was
actually paid to him for Travelling expenses bach
fT0m Client TO 50. Petersburg! But he no more
/ "e's to II. Petersburg than the poor (Ma!ale I'm.
| aginaire) Messenger to South America who for
h quiet Of his disoT9eYed nsrUes first bepred Of
/ Mr. Clay (near two months before he became Sc
cretafy OF Siate,) some occupation TO put him in
motion" aud then, instead OF going to Rio and h
ayres ieh his dispatches with the Captain and
Tor tie sake OF ms nerves, went to England where
he said at least moDtli--ior whichs'. constr,.c-
tive journey he lihewise was paid bv his penu
rIous and economical government, some SlgOO
fhy Mr.. Adams charged sl566 81 (right TO ,
} constructive
n"y, instead OF 1856 So which j, had onlv cost
him to travel from St. Petersburg TO Client has re
manned sort ofdiplomatic mystery until Mr. Moore
OF ny. suggested the following solution :-ssIt was
aNerw irs discovered that the travelling expenses
Of Mcssrs Gllatin and Bayard from ST petersburn
10 Gheni, by very cjrcuitOus route, had been
Sl360 81, and Mr.. Adams seems Immediately tn
have put in claim for tat sum on account OF his
constructive journey So, $679 "a more was paid
10 him, making in all Si5G6 81 for the exnen~ss
"A peV Yer rar n. mod 1. l..
ged only SS56 So for a real journey ouey The same
gro"nd:' These are the glorious effects oil PIE.
cedents.
It's said that these extraordinary charges were
not admitted at the Treasury without some oppo-
si.ion that when his accounts. as Minister we
settled, 8 500 were allowed him for HE ex,ra
g penCes, and 8 - 500 besides claimed b,, hin,
were Tejccfcd he having charged The u States
with $4,000. lie then stood on the Books OF tho
treasury as delinquent to the government ~ hen
, Mr. Cookies celebrated provision, forbidding the
Treasury 10 ply the salary OF any officer s@ains,
whom there was OianCe, was enacted Whom
Inc quaricr-day came round Tor geylr- him Inc
us,i"i quota ~ secretary Of State, the Accounting
Oihcefs refused 10 issue tie Warrant v bile lac re-
manned debtor 70 The public. what did !. O :
ido lie continued nlexihlr. IN spitc NJ Dolce
cy or honor, I've threw himself unnn the orrort
oI me ~e'ident, with whom by virtue Of the bioh
'"s' OF ms once ne w95on the most confidential
, tetius. TIE solicited tils reversal Of , d.of.;,,,
which had been SO long made He beeoyobt hin,
I 10 allow Tie whole sum which ne ci3i,ocd and
! wnch DE must have originally attained onf Of The
PHbic monies piarcd ut his DISPOSAL FER ire REM
/ rdiolgcct Qfhis mission. The President f,itcred
Ne referred Che question TO tho Attorney General;
nd That officer Is said 20 have advised lis alloy,
once, ur0n The sole and extraordinary round tl,,
: We money ives in Ir. As bands and 70 long. ina,
! u had become a sort Of gfsted right Mr. s. was
near enough 90 avail himself Of i1is sopniyir and
ain The money in his hands. And thus en,.s;i,is
hJpieT in the history Is feeble and ,,ar.-;.,
government