Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-13


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Some weeks ago, a gentleman informed U.s.
that he had reason to believe that Mr.. Adams III
conversation at Washington, observed tnat III
1928, he had commissioned Commodore crane;
commander of the Mediterranean squauror' anu
Mr.. Ofley, Consul at Smyrna to open neSo''a'
tons for treaty of commerce win the uoVe,h'
ment at Constantinople; that they. ACCORDINGLY
successfully executed the trust, that the treaty
was forwarded to the United States, and reachea
Washington in March 1929, about twelve aaVs
after Mr.. Adams went out OF, and zen JACKS
came into. mower; and three days after Mr.. Van
Buren, took charge of the Department OF State
that frea,v ,pas nerer communicated to the Senate,
or otherwise published to the people OF the U.
States; that, however. mark it!9 the new Ad-
ministration took up the design, and despatched
Mr. Rhod to Constantinope, who negotiated
anew the same treaty, with the exception OF one
clause, afterwards expunged by the Senate. as
contrary to the laws of nations, which clause con-
ferred upon Turkey certain privileges OF building
ships of war in our ports.
We asked and obtained permission OF the gen.
tleman who was our informant. to write to MIR.
Adams to ascertain the truth of this curious state
of facts. The above is a substantial copy OF the
letter, to which we added. "ihat we wished ii
he had no objection. TO publish the statement,
less with a view to detract any thing from the
administration of Gen. Jackson, than to render
to that which preceded it the merit it was emit
tod to-. and which had been so triumphantly APP
propriated, if the above facts were true, to its
successor"
Mr.. Adams reply substantially confirmed eve
ny thing. 1t would be equally impropp" and I'M
necessary to publish 1t. One thing his scrupu-
ous Justice induced him to mention. which, how
ever, seems unimportant. 1t was. that Mr. Van
Buren, consulted him (he remaining at Washing
ton for some time after his Presidency had ex
pred) upon the proprety OF commissioning Mr..
Rbnd. which he disapproyed.
Since the date of Mr. Adams letter. we have
received, from an entirely distinct quarter, cor
| roborative intelligence.
Possibly Mr.. Adams call for the papers was
suggested BY the letter we wrote hin; but of that
we know nothing. It's at least proper that they
should be laid before the pubic.
We all know what vast app ause. what fulsome
and outrageous hatterv. have been show cred up
IN Jackson and Van Buren,. for the acquisition Of
he trade to the Black Sea. Van pocketed il all
with complsceucv. and Jackson was no less mo
de,t. We do not know that to have succeed
ell in negotiating treaty with Barbarlans. was
a great matter for any Administration to boast
of, but If it was. tma,k again. readerD Crane
and Offlev negotiated 'hcl $ before the Russians
passed the Balkan Van Buren's Ambassador,
Mr.. Rh,Dd, negotiated his. ,t'er the sword ut Die
htsCh had cat pa-.ag' through the Dardaneles,
for all nations. Bnt for Stamboul and two other
stations. Me-. Rh,nd might have staId at home,
and nobody the worse of or it.
We do not assert that the papers will disclose
I,k; nf fac INIT holi
yariatinn from it will be unsubstantial. Let the
reader, however, await their exhibition.
Mr. Cooper The Tragedian. We are glad to
see our brethren Of the South still extending the
hand of support and the need OF merit 10 this We
teran tragehian. He was playing week since
at Charleston, and lis first appearance. as Sir
William norllon. is thus noticed in the Charles
ton Coulter of the Gath ult:-
ITO say that NJ. Cooper sustained himself
in this character with his accustomed ability,
would have been sufficient praise ten Or twelve
wears ago, when time had made few, II any, III
roads upon the phi, steal man; but now. when he
has indeed declined into the vale OF years.
when he has at length attained 10 that period at
which Nature makes pause, content rather to
review the past, than o"k forward to the future;
to see him now. treading the tragic boards with
the energy of two score years-with unImPaIred
action and utterance-,he sane lofty mien-the
same varied and wonderful eloquence OF eve and
gesture ;the same conscious poSsesslonof masters
powers filing, as it were. the measure of those
desires of the mind. to which great philosopher
has said that it is the business of the Poet to az
commodate the shows Of things'-thIs Is, indeed,
triumph of no ordinary kind, and if it demand
our praise, it calls at the same tlme for our won
der! The mind of genius frequently survives the
decay Of its powers; with our distinguished Anne
rcan tragedian it is not so; and though old in
years, his capacities intellectual and physical,
have not beer impaired. however touched by
time That rich harvest Of those profits and
that praise, to which his unrivalled merits SO well
enttle him, may be IN certain reserve for the
close of his professional career, must surely be
the warm wish of all who are not dead to sense
of what is due to nigh de,ert,-of all who reVer-
ence genius. and have drank instruction from its
lps--lessons of wisdom commended by the emo
tions of beaGty.