Litchfield enquirer., 1845-08-14
M~n GAe Baltimore American.

afford to hear a few words of censure. The hrst ohieciion which we have to make to the book Is indeed one of a very comprehensive kind-being simply this, that it ought not to have been pub lishpd at all.
 Ii is hardly consistent with the high dignity of m Ambassador who goes to a foreign Court as the representative of his country, to avail himself of inc posiiion which his official character gives him to keep journal of private conversation at dinner tables and to publish it afterwards. If that IS to be regarded as one of the privileges and accompa- nirnents of the ambassadorial function, Minister Plenipotentiary will come to he regarded as sort of chartered spy, not to be admitted to the easy intercourse of refined society, nor allowed any oth- CT courteses than those of external and official ct. iouette. Docs not the thing strike every mind at once as gross impropriety! MT. Rush gives us records of conversations with the Duke of We!- lington, which his Grace probably read with aston ;ehment and disgust not that any thing which he is represented to have sad IS at all discredltable 10 him. (whatever it may be to the publisher ot itO but because of the little expectation he could have had that any guest of his, especially one who came as the high representative of great nations sove- reionty. would make the confidential talk of pri- yate circle an item in public entertainment pre- pared for the whole reading world, and rendered peculiarly attractive by such hoarded contributions from the authors distinguished and titled friends.
 The atmosphere of high life in England seems to have fascinated Mir. Rush. One would think that his conceptions of Paradise were perfectly re" alized by the enioyments and charms of that ex- ouisite state of existence. Hence he cannot for. bear to make known 10 others the delights which so enchanted himself Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh. He keeps what we must call dainty journal" says British critic, 's and evidently brides himself on the purple and fine linen all around him." Whenever Lord Gas. flereagh, in the courtesy of his nature. and with the delicate refinement of gentleman-like diplo- fnatist, speaks a complimentary word of the Uni. ted States, the ecstacy of MT. Rushs joy knows no bounds, He looks eagerly around and up and down the fable 10 observe how far the remark has been heard; he is too happy. How his country will hold up its modest head when 1t knows that British nobleman, Minister of State, has paid it a compliment Not the representative of the pettiest prncipality in Europe, if the smallest of the small ever medatised away had representa- tive at the British Court, could have manifested more weak exultation at being so noticed, than IS shown by MT. Rush, the Ambassador of Repub- lie that is second to no power on earth-a Repub- lie that will compel respect and not sue for it. that however, humiliated in the person of its en- voy, is capable and will be prompt to vindicate its position among the nations without needing the guarantee of any.
 But Dr. Rnsh does not stop with the rehearsal of banquet scenes at the houses of nobles, and the reproduction of dinner-table anecdotes and con- versation-ft employment for an ambassador He
 
 his interviews with Lord Castlereagh and MT. Canning in their bed rooms, when confined by the gout he publishes official notes which passed be- tween him and the British Ministers-documents which were and are the property of the Govern- inent and which@he had no sort of right to use in this way.
 .'We do not think it possible" says the London Examiner, speaking of this very book. '" that a publication of this nature can be defended on any Just principle. It is bad enough that private man, who finds his way into good society, should, when he quits it, leave an open door behind him but in the case of ambassador or envoy the of- fence is more grave We cannot refer to Grotius or Puf1endorf; but no one doubts that if those learned pundits could have conceived such pOS- sibe outrage, they must have declared it sore misdemeanor against the law and the usage of nations"
 The Examiner goes on to say that it will not do to justify MT. Rush by his good nature. He is the precednet for an illnatured man. He says, and we do not doubt it, that he has been anxious to avoid any i'll use of the private conversations he records; but the question is, whether any use should be made of them. In short,' says this London journal, the practice is so essentially vile that nothing can modify or make it better."- The following paragraph contains, no doubt, the best exculpatory consideration that the case ad- mit3 of:
 "However, there is graver reason advanced by
 
 which it would be unjust to withhold. He refers in his introductory remarks. with an expression of regret very creditabe to him, to the less and less friendly tone that has arisen of late years in the public discussion of matters in dispute between England and America; and being, as rational peo- pie must be-, an ardent advocate of peace, he thinks that in publishing the negotiations he for. mery conducted here. and in showing by means of explanatory matter connected with them, how graciously and with how much courtesy such af- fairs could be managed by the Castlereaghs, Can- nings and Pushes, he may be able to awaken dis positions to calmer feelings and inquiry on behalf of the Ashburtons, Aberdeens and Folks"
 If the precedent Mir. Rush has set by the publi- cation of this book should receive no reprehen- sion if other ambassadors of ours are to do like. wise; the thing will come 10 such pass that the Government at Washington will be compelled, in order that it's envoys may be courteously received abroad to give notice that every Minister Plenipo- tentiary who leaves the Republic has entered into bond with good security, not to publish private conversations, nor the details of negotiations. II not this, what will be done? Something, certain ", if we do not wish to be marked in the person of our ambassadors, as people not safe to talk with or to deal with.
 .Mysterious,-A little before sun-down on "Wednesday afternoon, July 23d, two young men drove up to Bedford Hotel in great haste, and ap. parently agitated and stopped only long enough 10 get shoe put on to their horse, and have him rubbed down, and then drove on. Shortly after, a pedlar drove up iurousy, with his horse in foam, and inquired after the young men; and, on being told that they had gone, said that they had stop ped and bought silk handkerchief of him near Billerica. and paid him five dollar bill, and re. ceved the change, some four dollars and filty cents that he found the bill was counterfeit, and had driven back in pursuit of them He hired a horse and wagon to go on, his own being unfit, and saying he might follow them to Boston-and if SO. should, perhaps, not return till the next morning. He drove off in pursuit.
 A man returning from Boston. that evening. met