Star.
London, England, 1829-07-23 00:00:00

The outrageous extent to which the new Pre-ident
carried his proscription of the office holders who took part against
him in the late election is disgusting many of his friends, and lead-
ing to a reaction of feeling which may deprive him of a large por-
tion of his popularity. The patronage of the President is very
great ; and General Jackson is resolved to exercise his power to the
Istutost. He Is sweeping cam adherent of Mr. Adams out of the
public offices; not one, however long and valuable his services,
does he suffer to remain. The whole Cabinet is changed, and the
subordinate officers under the government are undergoing purifi -
cation. He bas recalled two foreign envoys ; and not a postmaster
throughout the Union will soon be left who is not a zealous sup-
porter of General Jackson. His political antipathies have led him
to dismiss even the brewer and milkman who till lately always sup-
plied the President's house. The editors of the scurrilous
papers who backed the General during his election are appointed
to the vacant offices ; and se reckless is the Gallant President
himself how be serves his friends, and so ready is he for that
purpose even to trample on the laws, that be has ordered the libra-
rian of Congress to vacate. hls office in favour of Mr. Meehan,
one of his retained libellers. Mr. Watterston, the librarian, stands
upon the law. by which be cannot be removed until a successor is
legally appointed and approved by the President of the Senate
and Speaker of the House of Representatives. This act is cha-
racterised in the papers as a high handed, illegal procedure of
the President, for which he is liable to impeachment." Every
public office will be filled by the partisans of this military chief.—
The discarded placemen are going back with heavy hearts to their
former pursuits. Mr. Adams himself has retired to the family seat
at Quincy, in Massachusetts, to which his father withdrew twenty-
eight years ago, on a similar defeat by Mr. Jefferson. Where the
legitimate power of General Jackson cannot reach his adversaries
directly, he succeeds in ousting them by some sinister artifice.—
Colonel lie Witt Clinton is connected by ties of relationship-with
the friends of Mr. Adams. Ile was employed as engineer in chief
to a division of the great Pennsylvania canal. His name was offensive
to the hero of New Orleans ; and as there was no pretext for dis-
missing se able and excellent an officer as Colonel C liton, the
President resolved to place him in a position in which his sense of
honour and duty would compel him to resign. The engineer was
responsible for the complete execution of the work he superin-
tended ; but, by some new regulations, he was deprived of
11 nearly all the power he possessed, which was transferred to the
acting commissioner, whose orders were obeyed in contradiction
to the engineer's. Colonel Clinton had no alternative ' • he resigned
his office ; and a militaty comrade of Jackson's enjoys the lucrative
employment. The people of Lewistown, in Pennsylvania, who
are much interested in the canal, gave him a public dinner to mark
their approbation of his conduct. Mr. Clay, the late Secretary of
State, and the intended competitor of the Presidency at the next
election, has gone back to Ms native State, Kentucky, where be
has met his old constituents, and delivered an eloquent and effec-
tive speech, denouncing the proscriptive policy of the ascendant
party, and contrasting it with that of all the Governments that
have preceded it. There were some removals from office when
Mr. Jefferson came into power, but his object was merely to pre-
vent a monopoly of office in hands which would have emitarrasseii
his Government, and not to establish p monopoly in the hands of
his friends. General Jackson will probably find out at last that be
cannot satisfy all his followers, and the malcontents will soon be-
come his enemies, while his violence is losing Wu the countenance
and support of hls best friends.