By publishing the subjoined extract 
from the Boston Commercial Gazette, 
your readers may see that the Russians 
appear to hav§ considered my proposition 
Of polar discovery, more favorably than 
my own countrymen have; for they are 
starting an exploring expedition north- j 
ward ly on the ice from the same coast 
which f proposed (viz. the northern coast! 
of Siberia,) in my declaratory circular of 
10th April, 1818, as well as undertaking;! 
a voyage for like purpose by sea. 
The British nation too, as lately pub-! 
lished, have now abroad two expeditions ! 
exploring the north; one by water, bound 
up Davis’s straights, and the other by 
land from Hudson’s Bay. 
How long will the United states remain 
quiet spectators of the superior enterprise 
of their neighbors ? 
JNO. CLEYES SYM.MES. 
Sept. 23d, 1819. 
EXPEDITIONS UNDERTAKEN AT THE 
EX I 1 ENSE () F RO VI AN ZOW 
It is well known that the voyage round 
the world of Otto Yon Kotzebue, was un¬ 
dertaken at the expense of Count Ro- 
manzovv. At this moment, the same no¬ 
ble patron of science is fitting out two 
new expeditons at his own charge; the 
one is intended to pass from Asia to A- 
m erica, across the solid fields ot ice, to 
the north of the country of the Tschutki; 
the other is to sail up one- of the rivers 
which fall into the sea on the North West 
coast, or Russian America, in order to 
penetrate through the unknown space \ 
between the icy cape and the river Mac- 
kinzie. 
