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Run and the retreat of the Federalists to their in-
trenchments. They are not yet in a position to
assume an offensive attitude. The Confederates
have been equally motionless in front of the Poto-
mac. Washington has had another panic, but it is
not too much to say that it will soon be a vast in-
trenched camp, defended by redoubts, regular earth-
works, palisades, and abattis north and south, with
the Potomac flowing through the midst of it, which,
if properly defended, may bid defiance to anything
but a regular attack, and decisive victories over the
covering armies. New York, afraid of its returning
Volunteer regiments, has given them an ovation,
and is endeavouring to induce the men to re-enlist.
General M'Clellan is working with immense vigour
in constructing an army out of the various excellent
materials which have been forwarded to him from
the North and West in men, horses, and guns. He
has to make regiments, and then brigades, and then
divisions, and, over and above all, officers. He has
to quell a mutinous and disorderly spirit among
some of the troops, and to breathe into the mass the
spirit of subordination and discipline.
The taint of disaffection among the Northern
troops is
widely spread, and is most dangerous, for
it is, in my mind, quite causeless. This very day, in
spite of the despatch of prisoners to the Dry Tortu-
gas from the 79th and other regiments, outbreaks
'amounting to MOH* 'took- place tratorie the Men' of:
the 12th New York and a Pennsylvanian regiment,
which were to be disbanded yesterday. The 2d
Maine, the 21st New York, the 10th New York, and
other regiments have also been in trouble, and
General Butler was obliged to bring his guns to bear
on the mutinous. men of his command at Fortress
Monroe. The complaints of the men as to bad food
are utterly unfounded. No army in the world has
better rations than the troops of the United States.
But the men want " iced water, milk, and butter."
By the official, reports it appears that 40 officers
and some 500 men have deserted. They have not
gone over to the enemy, but they have got away
from their friends. Many of the prisoners may fairly
be considered as deserters in disguise after that.
I have just returned from an extended visit of
the lines, and from a short run into Maryland, of
which I must defer the account till next mail.
I found the camps on the Potomac in very
good order. The works are of the very finest
description of field defences, and on the north side
the army is at work forming a chain of redoubts
on the heights from the rear of Georgetown round
towards the Baltimore Railway. This enormous
series of intren chments will require an immense
force to defend send cover it, and, although troops
are certainly coming in, they do not as yet arrive in
sufficient force t o do all that will be required.
AUGUST 27.
As an instance of the inconveniences of the sys-
tem new pursued by the United States Government
and of the embarrassment caused to them by their
own acts, take fee case of Mr. Mure, an American
naturalised subject, as I believe, and carrying de-
spatches addressed to Earl Russell by Mr. Bunch,
the British Consul at Charleston, Mr. Mure is the
bearer of other letters written by people in the
South, who are, of course, Secessionists,--to their
friends in Europe. Mr. Seward discovers that,
among the property of Mi.. Mure, there is not only
matter of the latter kind, but a regular despatch to
the English Fore ign-office. What will he do with
it ? He applies to Lord Lyons to come and see it
opened, I believe, and assist him in disposing of it.
Lord Lyons decliLues to do anything of the kind.
The despatches addressed to the British Minister
have been seized. Th ey are in the oustody of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Wash-
ington Governm ant. Let the United States Go-
vernment deal with them. Mr. Seward, of course,
cannot send the .:despatches direct to Earl Russell,
and the strange proceeding of forwarding the com-
munications of a British Consul with his Govern.
ment by the Secretary of State at Washington, to
the American Minister at London, who will pro-
bably thereupon xemit them toDowning-street,will
be the result—with what after conclusion it is not
easy to say. Of ciourse any complaints founded on
matter contained in private and confidential com-
munications between individuals not owning alle-
giance to the United States, which become impro-
perly known owing to the seizure of the corre-
spondence and tb.e laxity of the authorities, can-
not be entertained; fora moment. Mr. Mure seems
to have acted improperly if he has indeed con-
veyed any despatches for the Southern Commis-
sioners under the covert of the passport granted to
him by the British. Consul as bearer of despatches;
but it is very doubtful, indeed, whether the arrest
itself was not um:lawful, as the British flag should
have protected him for any political offence, and if
the captain of the vessel had refused to give him up
the question would have assumed a very serious
form. It is quite probable that Mr. Bunch and M.
de Belligny, the Consuls of Great Britain and France,
may have asked Mr. Trescot to ascertain Mr. Davis's
views respecting the propositions agreed to by all
the Powers excerpt the United States at the Paris
Conference, in preflence of the fact that the Confe-
derate privateers sire becoming very active; and if
Mr. Trescot's repmsentations induced the Govern-
ment at Richmond, to agree to all these propositions
except the first, which does away with privateering
itself, no one can stay any harm has come of it. But
it by no means follows that the gloss of an ignorant
Secessionist is ccrrrect, and that the Confederate
States are by one Step nearer to recognition in con-
sequence of that act than they were after the battle
of Manassas. It would not be surprising to find
that Mr. Seward -was well aware an application
would be made to Mr. Davis, whom we have acknow