Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-08-03
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The N-wYok Commercai Advertiser publishes a
communication representing Mr.. RANDOLPH, our Min
lister to Russia behaving with such extreme rudeness
snd incidence to Capt Perry going board the
Concord. as persisted in, TO justify that officer in
sorting TO Of CORE spending hsrshnes in retdia
ton. The editor asserts that this communication
"comes from most honorable source-from man,
who in the brighter Of the republic-when worth
made the man-stood high in the confidence and coun-
oils Of his country The Editor Of the Commercial has
thus become the endors-r OF the statement OF his cores
pondent, and given il a character and consequence
which would not otherwise have been attached TO i
aadhus supported, we need not wonder that il has ia
ken the round &c tie newspapers. The reported con-
duet Of MIR. Randolph, too, on board the packet in
which he made his last trip TO England alo lends the
color OF probability TO he story Yet, sf,er all,-witb
the confen tone and crcums'antia manner in which
IL is written; the ming probability of its TRUTH and
The avouchmen, of the Editor that sit from
most honorable sourcethe statement as utterly fab
ulous-there IS not Uord or truth IN At The
worthy Editor Of the Commercial, Of whom have
too hish opinion to suspect Tor moment, that he
would lend his sanction to 40 impndent IN i,pposture,
knowing IL to be such, has must therefore believe
been most vcly hoared by zone ore whose hatred Of
"Olj Roanoke - has sought amomsn'ary gra6 alton
in exporting him 20 public ridicuie As for the "most
honor able source" from which the fiction emanated,
we will venture to affirm that II the name OF any in
dyidual who "s,ood ign in the confidence and
councils of his country" (noi except ing Aron Burr
himself) accompanied the communication II tcds Jorg-
Whatever ecc entrcides and nproprie,ies Mr.. RAN
dolph la. committed other times il is certain thai
his here prefecty rational and gentle
manly. So far from bis evncng disposition TO usurp
reverse
TO have BEEN the fact. from the following crcumsiance
When the officer who sent up from the shp to
take Mr. II. board, called on him at his boarding
house, he thus addressed him-Sir, the barge s ready
and we wait your orders" To which Me- Randolph
promptly replied, "No SIR, atm under your eriers
and will accompany .you, in a moment-as soon as
elapsed from the time the barge struck the whsr, be-
fore she on her way down with Mr. on board
After abiding to the dinner given TO him by some o
the citizens of Norfolk, the article says-"Hc came on
board in the afternoon of the Dnner-ddy" In This
the writer betrays gros, ignorance oil TACT ne ON
Mr.. Randolph went hoard the ship on Sunday
DO, In the afternoon but in the forenoon Ii he had
gone on board in the afternoon of the "dinner day.
after the dinner the desert the toasts and the speeches
In all of which he took part according TO the writer's
own shelving we should he Gid 10 know what hour
the company down 10 dipner.-A gentleman who
remained board the ship until she cleared the cares
ION tho day after Mr.. II. went on boardo and who
vi in the pilot which took her To tive
ly denies hat any other Than the most friendly and re
apectful relation existed between Mr.. II and Capt
Perry whilst he was on board And why should II
have been eherwise They had been long acquainted,
and eneraine any other than good feelings to-
wsrls each other; is IL TO he credited, then. that
would have taken such occasion 10 disturb their
long .exisng friendship, and without any cause.
We DEEM II needless 10 say more to establi-h the
character we have impressed upon the statement which
has been pslmed of OF the Commtrcia end have
said moe than was due to truth and Justice. IL Il
presumed that those papers which have copied The ar
icIe WILL of course. give Ibis contradiction the Com
merclsI especially. beeves a' paper 'hew thai
II has been imposed Oh, aud that II has not imrosed
is readers.
The following was handed to us yesterday. cor
rec,ion OF coinmunics1n signed "Appomauox,
which appeared in cur pap-r last week, touching an
alleged din. renee between Mr. Randolph and Capt
Perry. rIevous TO he ssing Of The 'loop Of war Con-
cord, for Russis. Phil u s. GdS
"hir Randolph dill not 20 board ia The afternoon
ofthe dinnerday. II lett Norfolk he next morning
and reached The Concord at noon Our informant, ihe
only stranger who accompanied bin, remained on board
from that hour until about six in the evening, during
which time the u:ino't harmony and good feeling pre-
vailed.
''On coming board, conversation took place
ss to the time OF sailing Captain Perry said that be
anxious ie sail that night, but would have 10 wal
the arrival ut his purser and the on Of the Mrd
terraueaD fleet, who ,sefe deiair ed in Norfolk. Mr.
Randolph expressed his perfect Willingness 70 he gov
crned by cifcumsances, and evnced pa tculir feel
ing relative 10 the delay. Some impotence Ger
tanly testified by tie proper authority, at The
delay &C the gentemen expe cted; but part q
from MIR. Randolph, who neither assuntd Chime,
any power TO guide the motions Of the vessel"
The Baltimore Patriot OF ih- I0b Jny speaking Q
The presdsnIs reception Of Ohio aud Kentucky an,
biz visit 10 Nashville remarks:
@At Nashville the General expects 10 he receive,
wi h scclamation-a Coulter IN advance will anuour "a
his appfoich. when the People ere to ont and re
ceive him as the "conquefng H~fo and conduct hin
into the own and from thence TO the III rmi'age"
This bret extract contains wiliu misrepresentation
which was no doubt designed 20 serve ~ puext ioi
obefs. We shal next be told, in all pfobal ity that
Courier was cent forward 10 snuognce when 'be Pc