Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1831-02-03


cling from New York 10 Liverpool. lrom
England to France; from America to Eu-
rope, and from Europe to America. in pursuit
Of health Has he not, from all this, learned
that ncither time. nor travel, can bring back
TO age the bloom Of youth, or TO intirmity.
the v,gOr Of health We're he at this mo
ment, 10 walk into this Hall, wrapped 10 Ian
mel and fuarnought, what would he tell you.
Sir. concerning his health What. OF his in
tended residence in Russia No, Sir, 1T he he
the iudge-(and who hut he can be the judge
Of his own health ?)-he will never again re-
turn to the Court 9th Gear. We are, there
fore. directed aud required. by the Secretary
of State, to appropriate this item Of 10000 for
the salary Of public minister, who has been
in the public service, at the place Of his des-
tined residence, not more than like number
Of DAYS. He arrived at st. Petersburg, was
presented to the Emperor, made his bow, or
genuflexiOn, retired, and went to-England?
France p! Italy? or where No mortal man,
on this side the Atlantic, can inform u.s."
Mr.. Burgess said that this mission will here
after be regarded as an era 10 our foreign re-
lations and the residence Of Randolph at the
| Court Of Russia viii long he talked of rs a
phenomenon in diplomacy. For this we must
give him the $4,000 demanded by the Secre-
| lary. He alluded to the past services Of Mr..
Randolph in Congress-si.oke Of his eccen-
| tricity--of his unfitness for the Office of
great Diplomatic minister--and asked, where
are the monuments Of his political wisdom,
aud labors Of patriotism!
"With perfect knowledge OF this man,
the Secretary Of State could not have contri-
we'd this legation, so different from all Others
with any view to the public service. This
man was sent out not to benefit the people a.
| <0,., nA. rIrS,t psafSn e,f
home. The crafty Secretary had witnessed
the political movements of this eccentric man.
He feared the comet might return again and
visit his political hemisphere. He had seen
( it blaze in parhelinm-
"With fear Of change perplexng men in power"
Was it not prudent TO remove this star Of ma
lign influence to another sky II has been
done; and the nation must pay, not for mis-
sion made for the advancement of their inter
ests. hut made to secure the political power
of thu Secretary"
Mr.. Burgess alluded to our relations with
the government Of Russia. and Of the import
ance of having an efficient Minister Mt that
court, at the present, moment especially, when
the whole of Europe was coDs ulsive. He
made some remarks touching the treaty with
Turkey. which contained as Mr.. Burgess had
learned. a secret article. We copy his re-
MARKS upon tDlS SUOJeCt -
sit is said, it is believed, that by this art-
Gle the American People agree to furnish ar
med Ships to- the Sultan Of Turkey, in his flu
ture wars with Christian nations. Do you
believe. Sir. that your Envoy had left Com
stantnople before the Russian Minister ut the
Porte knew this fact? The very Drogaman.
; by whom your Mr.. Rhind talked with Refs
E6rndi, would. for halfa plate full Of Piasters
have told the whole story to Count OrlUfF;
and sworn he rs doing service to ne Prunh-
ct by betraying one Christian dog to another.
SIR, has friendship for the Russian Empire
been SO cherished by the present Sovereign,
and his illustOus predecessor. that 1t has
become a sentiment for the American People I?
Is not this secret article diplomatic fraud,
not only on that friendship. but, which it quite
as muchtconcerns Us to consider, upUn that
Sovereign who has so generously cherished
it! / say nothing nov Of what may happen,
It the Turk should again war upon the Greek !:
or how 1t may comport with the Republican
principles of the Secretary of State. when he
shall call on this House to furnish ships to that
> Desp"t. thereby aiding him in bringing that
people again under his iron yoke. What
shall we say to the Emperor Of Russia Who
shall make our explanation, ii we shall have
any to make? II is probable that the news
ofthis treaty. and perhaps a copy oft. reach :
ed the Court Of ST. Petersburg, shortly after
our Minister left that city. The shoriness oi
his residence there, the suddenness Of his de-
partnre. the intelligence of this secret article,
the intended soiourn Of that Minister. perhaps
in England. perhaps ia France, the attitudes
of the Nations Of Europe all giving dreadful
note of preparation for war, must have had
some tendency to place our relations with
Russia on footing not the most firm and
friendly. Does not sound policy--dues NOT
, national good sense. call 90 the American
People to have an able Minister at that Court.
and that too right speedily Have we one
there now! Under the mission for hich
this appropriation is To be made, are we like.
~ soon, or ever, 1 do not mean to say to
have such a man there, but to have there any
Minister at all?
T" Ia answer to all these anxious forebodings.
we are told that, in this absence of the Min.
Ister, the Secretary Of Legation takes very
special. and satisfactory care of our relations
at the Court of st. Petersburg. this were
not too iudicrOus, it must be received as
mere mockery Ofthe American people. When
ms paragraph came from under his pen, Mr..
Secretary Van Buren, must, if he had placed
nm hand there. have felt something in his face
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