The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-16
WAsH1NeroN. Feb. 3.


Cambreleng, &C., on the Russia MISSION
lie commenced quarter before two and con-
tlnued IN strain of the most severe satire
till quarter past 3, when he gave way to
motion to adjourn. He will probably occupy
the house tomorrow. He is the most fear
less and acrimonious debater ever listened
to. He first answered the Virginia men,
hers, who were exceedingly outraged at his
having said that Raniolph's appointment
was an attempt on the part ofthe willy Sec
retary 10 brine Virginia. His reply was,
that he had yet to learn that exposure to
temptation necessarily brought disgrace.-
Youth, manhood and age had each their Pc
cular temptations-none were exempted and
vet many escaped without dlshonor. 1t was
no discredit TO the Old Dominion to be
tempted-the disgrace lay at the door of the
deUitiSh tempter. Gentlemen might make
the application. Virginia, he said, needed
not such encomiums as the Virginia men,
bers had thought fit to lavish on her-least
of all did she need that the Gentleman from
New York should throw his ponderosity in
to the scale of her Eulogy. With due de-
ference to the gentlemen, her past history
was more creditable to her than the elo-
quence of her sons. But his force was prin-
clpally directed against Cambreleng and his
eminently successful sntire and personality
would not have been justified had not Cam
breleng's attack been unprecedented. lie
said that the fact, that the gentleman occu-
pied desk in this house, entities him to a
notice, which, personally, from his contempt
ible insignlfchnce, he could not otherwise
claim. In abiding to the importance, which
Camhreleng attached to himself, as being
high in the confidence of the Secretary of
State-he referred TO the images set up in
the Roman Gardens. Horare. he said, gives
US the solIloquy of II Roman Deity, boasting
of the high station at which lie had arrived
having been hewn, by the Carpenter. from
a worthless log into Dvinity-and lie be-
lieved fIom the bottom of his soul, that the
genlleman's constituents of New York had
not been less skillful artificers than those
of ancient Rome. The gentleman among
other things" said Burgess, has attacked
my bald head-Slr, it was said of Cesar
that he wore laurel wreath about his head,
that his hallness might not he mentioned as
proof of his wit, for it was so esteemed hy
the Romans. The gentleman, sir, can new
err hope to screen himself, under such II
shade, from such an mputation." He had
been charged he said with making an I'M
justifiable attack on the President. He
wished, that what he had said should lie
understood TO apply TO the MnchIavelian
policy of the Secretary of State, whom he
had seen, like the ivy, winding impercepti.
bly, in graceful wreattIs, about the aged oak
gradually dsplacing lis foliage, growing
stronger and stronger in its embraces, till
the oak has become a sapleSs trunk. The
opposition lie said were charged with taking
an unprecedented course in resisting the APP
preparation for an illegal object. Mr.. B.
then read four distinct Eases, where {. him
self had heen on committees, which animad-
verted severely on expenditures of the last
administration, for what they called illegal
services, the Panama Mission, Mr.. Cook S
mission to Cuba, Peasants to Rio and Bue-
nos Ayres, and one other. "So.much," said
he, " for want Of magnanimiIy Of the oppo-
sition." 1t is said that Tomorrow we shall
have comments on Randolph's letters, which
Burgess has obtained. One of them to Ing
ham is said to be of the following descrip,
ton. 81 am nearly out of funds, which you
will please forward me from the Treasury,
or by the hands of the Great Magician,
whose servant am" By the way, have
been introduced to the Great Magician, and
he appears, as he has been described,
"smooth as the marble and slippery as the
marble Oiled" The heads of Department
are all exceedingly ordinary in appearance
and department, and give one the idea, that
the harness and not the horses drag the
car of state. Heaven grant it may not up
set.-Springfeld Journal.
Or the 9TH of February the subject being
again taken up, Mr.. Burgess resumed his obser.
vatons. He went on to show that the non.
residence of Mr.. Randolph at the Court to
which he was accredited and his selection Of
another nation for his residence, Invested him
Of his diplomatic character, placing him in a
situation which, according to the law and the
practice Of nations. prevented him from being
known and treated as Minister 10 the CourI
to which he was commissioned. He explained
the invoabilty of a Minister at the Court Ia
which he is sent; and showed that when the
Minister leaves the territory of the sovereign
10 whom he is accredited and resides in another
nation, nc is not regarded as possessing the in.
volatility or other attributes Of a Minister in
the country in which he takes up his residence
He read an extract from speech of Mr.. Ran
dolph in Congress in which he discamed any
wish for office, either for a department, or the
tail OF our diplomatic corps and asked, if Mr.
Randolph could not, as one official notice said
bear the heat Of Russian summer, or, as
another stated, could not endure the cold of a
Russian winter; and if, as travellers inform us
there is no genial spring, or sober, considerale
autumn in that country, at what season could
he reside there Again, he inquired, supposng
Mr.. Randolph's mission, even during his resi-.
dence in foreign country, was still going on
when it could be said to be terminated AL
though unwilling to allow that any remunera.
ton was due to Mr.. Randolph, he womb be
disposed to give him quarters pay for going
out, and another quarter for coming home.
Mr.. Burgess also read lroIa one ofthe speech
es of Mr.. Randolph the insulting remark.
which he had made on the royal family Of Rus
STA in order TO show that he could not have
been sent out to Russia to transact public bust
ness there. 1t was the dread of him who had
been the adversary Of all administrations
which induced Mr.. Secretary Van Buren, e
send him to the Russian Court, To show thai
he had been the opponent of all former admin
istrations, Mr.. B. gave political sketch of the
! life of Mr.. Randolph ; and concluded with ex
pressing his hone that the half of the so lar,