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but that Mr. Russell himself has since delivered at the Depart- 

 ment, a communication purporting to be the duplicate of a letter 

 written by him from Paris, on the 11th of February, 1815, to the 

 then Secretary of State, to be communicated to the House, as the 

 letter called for by their resolution. 



A copy of this paper is herewith submitted to the President. 



JOHN qUlNCY ADAMS. 



Extract frrnn the Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States. 

 MAY 6th, 1822. 



Mr. Fuller submitted the following resolution, to wit: 



Resolved^ That the President of the United States be requested to commu- 

 nicate to this House the letter of Jonathan Russell, esquire, referred to in his 

 message of the 4th of .May, instant ; together with such communications as he 

 may have received relative thereto, from any of the other ministers of the 

 United States who negotiated the treaty of Ghent. 



The said resolution was received by unanimous consent of the House, read, 

 and ordered to lie on the table one day. 



MAY 7th, 1822. 



The House took up and proceeded to consider the resolution submitted bv 

 Mr. Fuller, yesterday, and the same being read, 



Mr. McCarty moved that it lie on the table ; which, being disagreed to. 

 The question was taken on agreeing to the resolution. 

 And passed in the aftirmative. 



Extract from the jXatmial Intelligencer of 12>th June, 1822. 

 CONGRESSIONAL. 

 [It is one of the most vexatious incidents that has ever occurred to us, of 

 lesser importance, that we mislaid our notes of the proceedings which took 

 place in the House of Representatives on the 7th May last, on Mr. Fuller's 

 motion, respecting Mr. Russell's letter, and on the bill authorizing the change 

 of the site of the canal in this city, both of which debates we hoped to have 

 published. We have the more reason to regret the circumstance, because a 

 curiosity has been expressed to see what was said on Mi. Fuller's motion. A 

 friend, who attended to what passed, has furnished us, from memory, with the 

 following sketch of the proceedings on that occasion. It is brief, but is believed 

 to be substantially correct.] 



HOUSE OF REPRESEIfTATIVES — 7th May, 1822. 



Mr. Fuller's resolution, which was submitted yesterday, request- 

 ing the President to communicate the letter of Jonathan Russell, 

 esq. relating to the treaty of Ghent, together with such communi- 

 cations as had been received from the other plenipotentiaries, or 

 either of them, in explanation of the letter of Mr. R. was called 

 up, and, on the question of its adoption—. 



Mr. Floyd said, he had moved the original resolution for the 

 Ghent correspondence, with an expectation that it might throw 

 some light on the importance of the Columbia river, and the bill 

 before the House proposing an establishment there. As the Pre- 

 sident, however, had not thought proper to communicate the letter 

 in (question, when specially called for, he CMr. F.) had moved to 



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