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tfnginal. In the postscript of the letter in our text, it is said, we 

 had three ways of proceeding ; the text laid before Congress is, 

 1 we had three other ways of proceeding. 



&quot; With respect to the variations between the text of the letter 

 which we published and that of the original, we would remark that 

 they are likewise in the duplicate, deposited in the Department of 

 State. * 



The most remarkable circumstances attending this publication of 

 the letter in the National Gazette, were the time selected for the 

 purpose, and the interpolations still retained, while nearly all those 

 of the duplicate were dismissed. The letter in the Gazette was, 

 with the exception of about two lines, the original letter entirely 

 restored; but one of those lines was &quot; we directly violated our 

 instructions&quot; and its retention was necessarily connected with the 

 citation of the cancelled paragraph, published fcs part of the accom 

 panying editorial article. For those were the instructions alleged 

 to have been violated ; yet this was after I had shown to Mr. Rus 

 sell, and he had read at the Department of State, the despatch from 

 the Secretary of State, which had revoked those instructions. It 

 was apparent also that Mr. Russell had, before he left Washington, 

 prepared himself for this publication at Philadelphia, and at a time 

 when, from the President s message in answer to the call from the 

 House of the 19th of April, it was probable the letter would not 

 be communicated to the House at all. 



From the Boston Statesman of 27 June, 1&22, 

 MR. RUSSELL S REPLY TO MR. ADAMS. 



Is was not until the 30th ult. that I received a copy of the com 

 munication which had been made, by the President, to the House 

 of Representatives, on the 7th of that month. This communication 

 consists of a letter which I had written from Paris on the 15th of 

 February, 1815, and addressed to the then Secretary of State, of 

 a paper left by me at the Department of State, on the 22d of April 

 last, and of the remarks of Mr. Adams on both. 1 say on both 

 for, notwithstanding that the report of Mr. Adams to the President, 

 speaks only of his remarks on the paper deposited by me at the 

 Department, as just mentioned, yet a considerable portion of those 

 remarks apply to the letter received at that Department in 1815. 

 The message of the President of the 4th ult. indeed, evidently 

 considers the contemplated report of Mr. Adams to be confined to 

 that letter only. It is apparent, from the whole tenor of that message, 

 that the letter which Mr. Monroe received from Paris, was alone 

 the document called for, and to be communicated to the House. I 

 was surprised, therefore, on receiving the printed documents, to 

 find that either more had been called for on the 6th, or, without 

 being embraced by such call, had been communicated on the 7th 

 of May, than had been signified by that message. 



