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Adams in the AscendancyTsar'sfleetfor many years. No w a cripple, he was fobbed offwith a paltry pension of a hundred rubles a year, not enoughfor even a life of poverty. O h please, Mr . Adams , she begged,can't you intercede with the Tsar for m y deserving husband?Adams, touched, reluctantly told her that such a case fell in noway within his jurisdiction, but did give her some money out ofhis own pocket. It was only later that he learned that Mr. Kellyhad been dismissed from the Russian navy for embezzlingpublic property, and that, although Kelly had begun his servicein our Revolution as an American sailor, he hadfinishedthatwar as an English sailor. 12Then there was the case of Mr. Donovan, an Irish-Americanof perhaps more rectitude than Mr . Kelly, and his troubleswith Levett Harris. O n i September, Adam s wrote to WilliamGray praising Harris, saying: "M y regard for him and confidencein him are such that for any business of m y own, I shouldnot only give a preference to the House [mercantile house] ofwhich he was a partner upon the usual terms of transactingbusiness, but even at some additional charge." 13 O n 19 September,Mr . Donovan called on Adams.Mr . Donovan's bitter story was that Harris sold to the mercantilehouse that bid the highest the services and influencewhich his position as U.S . consul bestowed on him, and thatHarris made the merchants he appointed as his consular agentsin the ports of Russia pay him a commission on the goods thatpassed through their hands. Donovan further claimed thatHarris was charging the masters of American vessels as muchas 24,000 rubles apiece to obtain admission for them to theports of Russia, and had done so in 1808 and 1809. The money175