Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-08-02
ALEXANDRIA. ID. C.
TUESDAY MORNING, aug UST2, 1856,


furnishes fit occasion for US to express our Ia
vorable opinion Of that genteman's talents, IN
lustrv, and requirements. lie is not. perhaps
to be blamed for the rather humiating manner IN
which the West India negotiation was conduct
ed, because his instructions from the late Secre-
tary of State compelled him to pursue the course
he adopted. His career in England. we believe,
has given satisfaction TO that government as well
as our own. Mr.. McLane is an old-fashioned,
honest federalist; so that his politics are rather
out of date with most Of those with whom he as
sociates. Nevertheless, he is generally respect
ed and esteemed. While in Congress, as Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means, he
acquired reputation which any statesman might
feel proud to obtain. On his quitting England,
his fellow citizens in London, as a mark Of re-
spect, offered him public dinner, an attendance
at which he was obliged to decline. Should he
accept the new Office to which he has been called,
we trust he will conduct its affairs with liberality
and fairness; that he will carry about With HIM
none of the feelings of a partizan-but act as be-
comes an American Secretary, notwithstanding
the undignifed example of the head OF the 60
vernment, and his late official advisers.
Let us not be over thankful to the late Secre-
tarles, for the truths they have revealed. We
are by no means disposed to screen their conduct
because they have at last confessed. The Bos-
ton Courier expresses our ideas fully on this head
"The manner in which we have final obtained
these precious truths should not be forgotten.-
Messrs Branch, Berrien and Ingham. ever since
their dismissal, have been shouting halelujahs to
General Jackson, and writing letters and making
speeches, full Of "dabolica inuendoes," but no
thing tangible When called to specify, they
have affected to be surprised at the public suspi-
cion of any want Of harmony in the Cabinet
They have been as chary of their knowledge as
if the President held patent, and no one had
right to disclose his infamy; until the good ge
MUS of MIR. Blair, who evidently intended to
know whether they were friends or foes, and
to silence them entirely or bring them out,
prompted him to apply the sconrse; and now we
have the whole beautiful story, coming like the
celebrated Magdalen Report, to disgrace the au-
thors, the subjects, and the readers"
We perceive, by the by, that our friends over
the water are making themselves quite merry at
gu rexpense. We have become subject for the
mirth and laughter of John Bull. One London
Editor advises Gen. Jackson to choose bachelors
alone for his Cabinet and to have written on the
presidential palace one of the rules Of the King
of Navarro, in Loves labor lost Item, that no
woman come within mile of my court, on pain
of losing her tongue" All this is notifying
enough to US native born, plain Americans, but
we must make a virtue of necessity, and "suffer
patiently"
WAsH1NcroN IRVING, Esq. Charge d'Ahaires,
from the United States of America. received the
honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law at the
Convention at Oxford, England, on the 9Th June.
This is compliment to our distinguished
countryman, rendered more 50, by the fact, that
when his name was announced, it was received
by the assembled thousands with reiterated plau-
dts, such as are seldom manifested.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scot
land have passed resolution forbldding the Rev.
Mr.. Irving from preaching in any church in Scot
land. This was in consequence of the publica-
ton of book by the Rev. gentleman, in which ,
he asserts the peccabiIty Of our Saviour. Mr..
Irving, it will be remembered, was the assistant
Of the Rev. Mr.. Chalmers, while in Glasgow
but afterwards being called to London, he there
attained much celebrity.
Master. Burke was playing, the other evening,
1t Newport r. I. The London Morning He
aid of the 9th of June states, that his father had
emitted to England $4,000, the proceeds of
lis sons exevtions in this country.
A Second Solomon. "A coroner's inquest was
leld on the 9th of June, in London, upon the
,ody of female infant, only FIVE weeks old; at