The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

From the Richmond Examiner.

Mr. Monroe, our minister extraordinary to France and Spain, left town yesterday morning for New-York, where he will embark for France. Upon the subject of our claim to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi, Mr. Monroe has almost exclusive information. He has turned his attention to the interest which we have in that river, more than any other citizen of our states, which has peculiarly fitted him for the present embassy. This is evident, not only from his Speech in the Virginia convention in 1788, which Mr. Randolph so judiciously introduced in the debate on Mr. Griswold's resolution, and which we shall shortly publish; but also from an opportunity which his residence in France afforded, of knowing the precise object of that government in acquiring Louisiana.

Perhaps if the hints thrown out by Mr. Monroe, in his letter to the Secretary of State in 1796, had been duly appreciated, Louisiana would now have been possessed by the United States. The sole object that France had in view, in the acquirement of that territory, was to keep it out of the reach of England. It is useless to say more upon this subject here, as our readers will recollect that it was fully explained in the Examiner a few months past.

It is not now a money making job, to accept such an appointment as the one lately conferred upon Mr. Monroe. He has no outfit of nine thousand dollars, nor has he a private secretary. So that it cannot be considered as a douceur to Mr. Monroe, but as usual, a patriotic sacrifice of his time and talents to the public service.