Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-08-11

paragraph, attributes the dismissal of tn,
gallant Presidents counscllors TO that in
iluence which
"-rulcs the court, the camp, the grove"
1t is to be hoped that our new Minis
ter will set the leading London journa
right in this particular, the moment HI
lands, and explain with the same preci
sion that he has to his countrymcn, tn,
real patriotic motives that led him to Civ,
the example OF resigning Office.
~ \. american.
! From the London Times.
The LATE AMERICAN CABINET
There has been a great deal of spccula
tlon in the English, and great lack o.
information IN the American newspapers
on the cause Oft sudden dissolution o
the late Jackson Cabinet. No conspir-
acy has been discovered to burn the Cap
ital or to blow up the Union, in which the
President and his official helpers could
take sides,-no new expedition had been
planned or roIcctcd against the Indian
tribes, in which the conscience or hu-
manity of the Ministers could lead them
to dissent from their Chief, and neither
the abolition nor the increase of the tar
if duties on foreign manufactures had
been brought forward as bone Of con-
tcntion. The twenty-and-odd States OF
the Confederation reposed in perfect
safety under the Jackson sccptrc, and no
adventurous Aaron Burr had arisen to
divide them by attempting to usurp the
honors of kingship p-Thc different Min
listers in the friendly letters of rcsigna-
ton to the President, beginning "My
dear Sir" never hint at any grave ques-
tion of foreign or domestic politics which
could separate them from each other or
from an Indulgcnt leader.
What, then, could be the cause oftheir
prccipitate dissolution? That cause, as
now explained, affords curious illustra-
ton Of American manners, and shows that
our Republican brethren west of the At
lantic arc not exempt from those private
influences in the management Of their
public affairs, which in their severer
moods they nscribc exclusively to the
old courts of Europe. A ,con,an ,cas The
cause Of The Trojan mor, and the slight
ed pretensions OF a minister's wife occa-
stoned the overthrow of President Jack
sons Cabinet.
"What dire offence from trling causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from little thingsn'
1t would appear that for some reason
or other, into which we forbear to i'll
quirc,) the lady was sent-not to Troy,
but---to Coventry, by her fair co-equals
in the official circle Of Washington, and
that, being supported by her husband,
as he was in duty bound, she formed a
faction against her rivals. The Prcsi-
dent, to show his inpartiality, ircqucnted
her parties, as well as those of the other
ministerial danes, and thus added jeal-
ousy to dislike. AT last the ladies con-
trived to embroii matters so much, and
to excite so many misunderstanding be-
tween their husbands that no business
could be done, and the President, in his
continued impartially, was obliged to dis
miss the whole batch.
We have forgotten the names Of his new!
Ministers, but we suppose that in their Sc
lection he must have taken security against
the occurrence Of similar catastrophe
by choosing bachelors, or that he must
have written on the presidential palace
one of the rules of the King of Navarro,
in Loves Labor Lost-"ltcm, That no
woman come within mile of my court,
on pain of .,sing her tongue"
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