Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-04-08

only hone is from the healing power Of time.
The wound, which to day al may see IN thetrl
of the oak. will by two Summers growth becOu,
cicatrized, and be seen no more.
Have our relations with Russia, been condur,
cd in any manncr, more profitable and dignl6ed:
Vou have seen now the Hon. Mr. McLane hNr
s,oroI theINest India trade by his diplomacy.
the Cont of England; but may God gran, Ina.
tho american people may never see, how II,
Hon. Mr.. Randolph sustained our national char.
actcr. at the Russian Court. The debate in Tie
House of Representatives OF the United States,
on the mission of this gentleman, vas printed
and may have come under your eye. # SO, that,
and the pirhy remarks just delivered by the Hon
Gentleman in the chair, must have put you out,
fully in possession of the character of that di.
pyishd mission. Ii YOU please, gentlemen viii
inst state two collateral facts, which improve d.
colour. but do not change the features Of &er
character. Although at the time Of that debate. +
was unknown to me, and to those associated viii T.
me in the discussion, yet was 1t officially KNOW
at the Department of State, that Mr.. kandaH
had. when he left 81. Petersburg. taken his r.s \
norts with him. and thereby, according to all the
forms of diplomacy, entirely relinquished hi,
ministerial character at the Imperial Cont Of
Russia. With knowledge of this fact what ma.
on earth. other than Mr. Van Buren,, could ha,,
pIaced in the Presidential Message TO Congress,
the Hope that this gentleman wo"lt by any in.
provemeaf of his heath. again repair 10 81. r.
ters5urgh, and resume the discharge d his ofichI
d,aies?'' The other fact of which would remr
YOU is, that before the President approved III
Act. appropratins SlS, 900 for the benefit Of NJ |
Randolph and in payment for his iplomatic SCI /
vices. the friend of that gentleman in Virsnr l
had, in the public papers, and By lis dnectr
announced him as a candidate Tor election TO III l
next Congress. He should, (as il was state
be detained abroad until after the election" =
Detained by what cause? The election take
place usually in April; but MIR. RS dipomm
wear would not terminate till June. He mutr
~ out of the country, untlfhc had earned. By
full years exile, his full years salary. liSqE
terIy allowance for returning would De eamaih {
coming home; and this he directed his friends
promise that he would do, before the next sesse,
of CONGRESS-. How could the Secretary ad'let
President to approve that appropriation, when
was SO manifest, that this minister was WOlcn:
ing his absence. not to settle national cohIrOVe1
sizes, or to WIN diplomatic victories, but ikea ga
General, to achieve successful retreat, and e
Iectuallv secure his baggage and plumber
! Attempts were made during the last year.
extend our relations to another European PcWe
! A treaty of some sort was made with the Imp
rial Turk of Constantinope. For this pnrPO'
Commissioners were appo,n'ed' which, a''ho':
the President might appoint IN the recess y
! because this appointment was not ratified BY u'
/ advice and codsent of the Senate. IN session Il
many months before the conclusion of this COZ
mission, the whole proceeding was clear Y ex'n
official; ard was not only so considered BY @
two able and distinguished Senators from Vig
MIA. but was by them pronounced to be an 'n'i
sion of the rights of the Senate, and ila9rai
violation of the Constitution. The os.ensbie %
iect of this negotiation was to open to America,
navigation and commerce, the trade OF the BatA
Sea. This the Russians contend that they nave
already effected for all nations, by the treaty Of
AdrianopIe. They had, sword in hand, opetrl
to themselvesa passage through all the deiehcs'
both of nature and art; and descended and spread
themselves out on that plain, where, IN former
times, the Greek and the Hun commended lor en-
pire. Here, other powers interPosed, or NE
Turks had been driven once more beyond uj
Bosphorus. 1t was believed, that il the Gar
Russia reached and assembled the throne Of '0
stantinopIe, the balance OF Europe might 'rerf
bic, and the beam itself lose its level. The III
perOr of Russia terminated the war by treaty vi
the Grand Seignior, securing among other thln1
free passage through the Bosphorus, to all
tons 10 amity with both the high CONT acctt!ag
ties. Christian nations hold all to be in amt
who are not in a state of declared hostility: n
the Turk regards all Christian nations as eBemt
which have not, by treaty with him. obtained
relations of amity. Our treaty with the :.
lime Porte was founded on our respectful 81
mission to the Moslem construction Of the tf';I
Of Adrianople; and intended to bring US VIII
the provisions of it. This treaty was in part
titled. and in part rejected by the Senate; a
thereupon the Secretary OF State sent req''
ton to that House of Congress, requiring an
preparation for the purpose of most sP.na
pleniporentiary mission to the Turkish u,
accompanied by all the oriental train OF Oai'I
pomp; and carrying in hand fifty thousand y
lars as a Pr sent to the Grand Seignor, ene
purchase our relations Of amty with the iurA
to pay for the fine Arabian stud presentedDy
to the great man of the new world, and "hIea
learn, is at keeping in this city. 1t was
managed, that this modern Argonautic eNPeo'
was TO be fitted out, not like that OF tie anes
TO bring home from the shores of the stormy u
inc. but carry out to those regions the g.
fleece For some small quantity Of trade, r
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