The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-15
JOHN RANDOLPH.

In extracting from the New York Evening !
Post the apologies which have been offered for !
the misconduct of John Randolph, the New |
York DAILY Advertiser makes the following for
chile and judIcious observations:
We notice the subject for the purpose of
turning the attention of our readers to two or
three things which are contained in it. Mr..
Richie, editor of the Richmond Enquirer.
states, that he understood, I" before Mr. Ran
dotph left the United States, that the admins
tration had authorised him to visit the South
OF Europe, if the state Of his health should re-
qure the change" and the EditOr of the Tee
graph is represented as having said that Mr.
Randolph was authorised By his original in
situations to visit the South Of Europe, in the
event that his health should make it neces-
sary I"
II would seem to follow as a necessary in
terence from these statements, that there were,
to speak IN moderate terms, strong ex0ecta-
lions, before his departure, that Mr.. Randolph
would not be able to perform the duties of his
mission, otherwise it is impossible TO account
Tor the precautions taken by the administration
against his expected inability from i'll health.
Now what apology can be given for appointing
an envoy ON such distant and important mis-
sion, under such circumstances 1t is, in the
first place, gross msapplication of the public
| money, and TO a much larger amount than the
sums for which Tobias Watkins has been i'm
| prisoned for year or two past. And IN the
second, it is trifling with an important branch
of our foreign relations Why all this parade
OF sending plenlpOteRtfdry in ship OF war,
to so distant a port, professedly to maintain
proper standing with a court which we pretend
to hold in high estimation, when it was expect
| ed he would have to leave the court and his
official business, and take his departure for
distant country, for the benefit of his health
! And if the statements of the Richmond En-
I qlirer and the Boston Statesman are both cor
| rect, there is no probability that Mr. Randolph
will ever be able TO perform his duties at ST.
J Petersburg; for the first says that " his health
was very much enfeebled by the voyage, and
especially by the hot summer climate of st.
Petersburg and the latter says that Mr..
Randolph is represented as having been affiict-
ed with severe cough, and altogether unable
to endure the shocks of a northern winter,
/ Now If Mr.. Randolph is made sick by sea voy-
| ages, nor cannot endure either the hot summer
! climate of ST. Petersburg, or the shocks of
Northern winter, it is difficult TO see when he
Is to fulfill the important duties of Envoy Ex-
traordlnary and minister Plenipetentiary to the
Court OF Russia, for that Court resides in the
summer season in the hot summer climate Of
st. Petersburg, and in regular succession has
| to meet the shocks of Northern winter while
| travelling backward and forward, from Russia
to the South of France, will not only occupy
a great part of the Intermediate time, but ac-
cordng to his recent experience, will also have
! a tendency very much to enfeeble his health.
! We do not make these remarks because we
suppose the diplomatic interests of the United
States with Russia are likely to suffer by Mr..
I Randolph's absence. AS far as they con-
! cerned, they will be just we'll off when he is
pursuing his health, or his amusement, in the
/ South of France, as if he was showing his airs,
and his ridiculous oddities, at the Court of st.
Pete rsburg But it is the precedent here estab
lished, that the administration may select for
! selfish and sinister purposes. person for such
an important and responsible Office, who pos
sesses no single qualification for the place, and
who, at the moment of receiving his appoint
ment was known to he in such prccarious
condition as it regarded his health, that there
was no reason to believe, even if he had been
ever so we'll qualified, that he would be able TO
perform the duties for which no has been
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