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•-\ y (VOL. I.) PLATTSBUKGii. IRIDAT, APRIL 12, 1811. J, * , J^'fAU 1J / \ Pr:ti\' r, .• the Proprietors; !»/ L. J. Reynolds. A f Y/A V.f CARDS, IIA ND BILLS, AND MOST IUNDS OF PRINTING, Neathj &' correct/!/ executed SHORT NOTICE AND REASONABLE TERMS, At the Republican office IN PLATTBURCH, Two doors east of the court-house. '.VVVWWVVWWWWOWVVWWWWWVVWj ofni.\ hut th.it 1 did not ei.tifly Rnp- i ! dii l pre scitimrnt o! \it tlu: \ FOREIGN COMMERCE. \ The following letter will account Jllpart for the opposition manifested l>v\the federalists, against John Q. Adiyns Esq. our Minister in Kussiu. lie will not, it seems give any coun- tenance to the forged American pa- pers to cover British property. The federalists don't like this. 'Extract of a letter from Mr. Adams, minis- ter from the United States at the fcourc i, -jfr °i -S'- PgfT<-«ih\i-gl-> to a. friend in lius- •toa. You have quoted a paragr.ipli some papers i:i America copied from an English puMinationj accusing nu v of being a meddling advocate for the ' -exclusion of American vessels from tlie Russian ports. ! I shall not Iwast to you; how many Ameridatt vessels , have been, by my exertions alone, ad- mitted into the Russiaii ports, and which, bvit for me, wtfuld hnve been excluded from therd. There are'doc- i liments, public and prtBatej upon this subject, which we heed not display before you. The ojfedal papers have toeejvji&d will be rtjjanved at the dc- -piirtmgBt of state, aixcl there I tviiiiii..; ly leaVfe them.,,ONeiUkc iis it neci'.ssa ryforme to tell you, th.it not OIK- A tnericau vessel>has^|q my knowk d,; frgin a Russian •puii Jv refuse^ the autlientica'rn desired inr. .Lion th: t was nU'.m-jkd to be pr:n i cd on IK* ill tlu: g;r;,r:intec\ Vt' hin a i irtnif^ht ufurwards two s!:::ii frlcn-1 with rrgisv.rs of the s;i; -i- Van S; KICT.S inbricatioii. They v. i •• detect I by Mr. 11 arris, vho 1 ;• I thep.tr s before me, and duly i I'jrrne I ! • Russian si'(»vt_'mmt'i<t t!'j; tli >' w v forged. The vessels, U'itli their cargoes w re oniiscated, and their papers delivered to Mr. Hi'.rrisj who has sent them to the de- [xirtment of state. In this he acted entirely with my countenance and ap- probation, which, under a weight of mercantile inlluence existing here in favour ot these frauds, was undoubt- edly useful, if not necessary to 1 hiim I certainly did kt it be understood, by all the merchants of St; Peters- burg, and of the other Russian ports, that forged papers, pretended to be •/imeric.in, should find neither conni- vance nor mere}' from me, whenever tlujyushould come to my knowledge; ar>d although this determination, so explicitly manifested did n(<t recom- mend hie to the favour of English- men; nor even to that of the merchants in St. Petersburg, I do most sincere- ly believe, that had it not been for it, the real American flag, would long before this have been excluded from the ports of Russia, as it has been from those of Denmark and Prussia; 1 have had no more forged pass- ports, '. with guarantees, sent to me to be authenticated, and only two or three more of Van Sander's registers have appeared in the 1 Russian ports; during the present yean r i*hev have met tab sau^e fate with their prede- cessors; But the story that I exam- ined all the papers of vessels myself, or that I ever U'icddted with them, tin- - less at the request nf Mr. Harris, of the Rus/UH. ^>»'er'nment, or of the persons lu/vVh'uni the papers belong, i>. a mere fabrication totally destitute of truth.' ' '. ; * in speaking of the fhe'rc'antile in- •fltiejice here in favor of these fr.,uds, it mav be pro]'cr to explain myself further. . The merchants of St. Pe- tersbifg, are almo&t all foreigners. Great numbers of ibeni are English; or connected with Knglish houses, The business is almost exclusively commission business; They univer- sally detest ihis war with England, aiid long lor the restoration of the commercial intercourse with that • country< They want the. tr.ide ; and they care not iriclcr what flag or what papers it comes and goes. The A- mericiii\i flag and American papers would h.:ve been the most convenient of all their shelters, and under the lib- eral confidence \\ ith which the Ris- jthm government admitted every ves- •5el f and person eoming from fncndlr 'countries aud recognised by the A- nierioan minister or consuls as Amer- icans, \i our countviiance conk! have ••ten obtained, instead of fifty or six- ty yes-ds from '1'eneriffe, which have pome to Hussia, for confiscation, un- der all sorts of papers, excepting A- mcrian, 've might have seen five hurt ed uirtct from London market, both • f merchandise and of papers- The •vit.:!i!«.' and just consequence ofwli '. W'.uid have- been, that the true A ':i'.-ric.-ns would have been con- I '.vith th'-false, and all of them vjiv ' '! on..• I'oneral proscrirukuj. THE CONTRAST; OR A COMl'ARATtVC Vl'.-.W OF THE JFushington JcJ/i-rxon and Madison Administrations. The following accurate statement; which which was co'nn-.umcattd to the Editor of the STAR, for publication, is retoiiimen- dfd to the attentive penisal of his readeis. It as completely confutes HF.CSCAR'S charge, against the Republican administration of pro dijratity as the measures of the President & the voice of the American People, have con luted Captain Dunham's false alarm of ' French Influence'' in this country. MR, EATON; In the Washirlgtonian of February ? th 1811, a wrier who stiles hinvdf NF.IKAK. has endeavored to imprefs upon the public mind a belief that the late and prtant ad- ministration for the last nine yp,us, have ex- pended arthe rate of dolls.ci^oy 05416 cts. in each year, mcire th.m was ejcpended Under the Administration of President Wa(h ng- ton and Adams; conveying thfe idea, tlut the ordinary and current expeuces of gov tr inefir have been, at tha rate, more prod- igal. He also States, that tjie two former administrations paid Dulls 22,485,9 6 75 b( the principal of the pujjiie <(e!>t 5 but he forgets to state, that by new loaus, for t\u yens iii'succ fsiun, the public debt was i-i- creafed unHer these two administrations, from Dolls. i52,eoo,167 36, the amount ot the public debt, «heu Mr J tfl'cison ace d- ed to the P csidency And, after having made several other similar fhtements, well calculated to deceive and mislead these who have not the means, or leisure to investigate the subject for themselves, he with exuita- tic::, says, 'leaving tli* enormous sum of Dolls. 36,624,61 jjg^ more than was ex- pended, or ;he same obj.cts, in the firft twelve yeais of our gove^iment. After having heard so much boaitsng, with ics- pcct|o the economy of chc late, and pres- ent admniiftnitianj the reader will be sur- prised aftkis re:uli,\- He; I will demonllrate. from authentic doc- uments, the current expences of govern- ment, during rhe eight jreais of Mr. JelTtr- Son's aJininiC.ration, and the firft year of Mf Madison':: sb far rrom beinj; so f nor nious, hi.ii actually forll (hurt of the3*erai>e ar:nu.d expense of Mr. Arlams' adminis- tration by about two millions of dollars a year •, nd do tint exceed the average annu- i al expense oi Mr. VValluu^tou's trution after the public debt was fundt-ri, ind gotf-rnnunt came into full operation, !>}• UIOI°4 tlun ?fv»:i hundred thousand dol- liiis a y;ar ; alih'iijjii, at that timi, we hid no navy or even a department for that pur- pose, ih: nnvy d>'farinient beiug eliabliih- i' under Mr Adams ani has coil the gov- e:'nmcnt, for the liilt nine years, about one million' ot dollars jiuiua'ty. Froma fUiemcnt miide to Conjrcfs o;i the tenth of April, 1810, by Mr. Galla.in, of the Eiinuil receipts into the treasury from the 4th of ^'arch, 1709 commence- ment of 1 he prefnic government of the U. States, to the 3 tit of Detcinter, IScy ; and a itatemerit ol the ani-uunt of rlebt annual- ly incurred and rtimbuifci!, during the ssrac jjetioa', it appears, tint during the et^ht years <.t President VVailiinpiou's ad ininiftr.ition, i!.i: rectipn iii'.o the treafuiy amounted to Dolls. .\\ and 2'; CTMHS ; but the expenses ot the two firlt veni cf that adniuiittiation wer\ compai'*- tivt-lv S'tiall ; no tnierelt accruing on (lie public debt, tui! tin: third year. I dj rot find in the acls of Co.'grcfs, in thnte two ve^is roore than three millions of diilars ap[) r opri::ted ; btit, leil I Jiiouloi undcrrace the expence, I will say it amounted to four millions of dollars which will leave for the late six years, ^3 C'6) 940 18 ; which sum after dcductui^ 889,600. being the ium paid 10 the b.-.nk of the Unied St3tes tor the 2224 (hares, at 400 do i.irs nath, aud which were sold by Mr. JdVtrfon, amount- ed to 4\2 8cc,34-, 23, the expense of the six tail years of V.r. Wafrm),jton's Jdmin- iltration.boiog at the rate of 7,133,290 and 4 cf nts for each year. It also appears that the public debt was increifed. ii'tin^, the same time, upwards nf c.yso.oro dollars. During the tour yun of Mr. Ailams\ adiiiiuillri'ion, the receipt j into the ir;'.i>u- ry amounted 10 41,8y\. \43 4.) ; tri.rn which sum, devlufl '1 157,^95 3H cents, re- maining in ihe treal'.iry .it the cios;'. of 'his .luminifiratiori, also 27^) 767 8 j cents, be- ing the sum for which fii ceil armed vessels were sold by Mr. JcfTerSon, agrerably to an act of Cuigrefs pafac.l during Mr Ad- ams' adminiltta'inu •, and the r maining turn of 30,1,064 5.S0 'I j. will b; the sum ex- pended under Mr. Adaili'i,equal toy,7'f'>,- 1 •%\> 06, for eacli ye ir. ljy rcfotiiog to va- rious diodes of internal taxation such a:, the house and land tax, t,.x'.:, on Hills, licence;, carriages, on llampt paper, &c. and in- creafinjfthe duties on silt, and various oth- er articles, the public debt was incrcaicd during this aJminiftration, only I 0C6 143 82 fei.ii. From tlit same report, it appears that the receipts into the treasury, during the BIDC succeeding yeari, incluJinc; the sum r»- mainin^ ni tlu- tr-afury on the firft day of J.iuuaryj 1801 j .mounted to 123,7**15 fJ4(> 05; from which sum, dciuii 2y,8 •>>7^^ l 4S, the public debt, actually reiluc;-d, iu those nine years ; al5i>,-j|J»664 000, b.:in^ the sum pii.i in the sine time, on account of the couv^miu 1 wi^h Great Uri'ain, ac- cruing n ldcr t!ic op'jraiii'ii of the 6 1) arti- cUtf J iy's lVoaty, raiiiied under the A.' miu.A ation of Mr. Walltington \ alss' IJ,. 000,000 paid f\r the purcluse of Lou'...am ; the Ult mjntioncl ouni, though a>p' .r\ atcd within the lad nine years, cirmov lie added to tho ordinary espenlcs Oi govern- nif.'nt, b:canf- it (lilt remains 'ie proper.^ ins nnmcnlc he sales of r eral hundred, cually pad , deduct ;,- in the treasury. of .he United States and tracts 01 vacaut lands, which, it in probable, th miliicJns of dollars will into the treasury ; and 818 9-56 which remain/ unexpended, ou the Grit day cf O^;. bet, 1809-, and there remiius 71437,^4 57^ equal to 7 82^.440 5 i, the avaiage animat expence of govern Tientj during the eight years of Mr. j:fl.r!iot'.'i admuiiflrition, and the firft year of Mr. Madison's Thm fellow ciiizenF, I baVti frofti oi' ficial u -iimeots, exhibited a Comparative view of the .iveraj'e auru(.il expance 6i the fVd-rjl and republican adminin'rarioni— Fruiii wi.ioh it appears, that under the ad- miuiftra'ion of Mr AcUsM, when federal- ism v/ib i.i its ze.ilih, the annual exivriac of poveriiinisnt was at the rate of LJ. i 1,. 9')9.-84 •; high.tr than for the MBit num. ber of yeur» under Mr. Jeffiison. If W« t.i'^t a view of the government* when Mr, J. ff-rson was appointed to ths I'tcsidency, encumbered with an immense debf, createil under VV'a'hiug'on, an.i confideribly aujj~ mentetl under his and the succeeding ad- niinill ation, the intrrcft of which, a'ara am iiimed to nearly five milltoni of dollars a yj;-; a navy requiring about a r.uilion of dollars and an army a» moch more an- nu.iily )—Tnat since that time, millions have been expended in fottifying our har- bors, providing arms, ammunition, naval and mitiury tor<'3 &c. 'I'lnt la'gi sr.n.; have been paid to extinguilhfndiui oliims, to cultivate-ricudlhip with, and introd'^r the dom^dni r:s aoi'uj thrm; tog-thci- witii tlis auau.il expenss; hf scvcr.it ne«v territorial g >vern:nC''H, aud an in. ie s.-<i representation in Congreis ; we muft 2C- kuowle'ig- tlvit the Republtcaiib have rr.an- •«t;td iheir cunccrns wiil> prudenc. and c- cjiioniy. R. Herald. DIED, In this Village, on the 9th inst. Aiji\i!iani Ctiiis:.-, boa of Mr. Huocti Clvist\ in the 1.5th yvar of his a^e. This morning Mr. liichafd Parrot, a^edabout 21 years. On the 10t/i. inst. Miss Waermnn, shier of the laic Mr. Aiuor. ff mr:n. 'hi. ' •{!« .rs.
