The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-08-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LEOD'S CASE.—This case, we learn, cannot be carried into the United States courts at all. It may be carried to the Court of Errors, the highest state court, but no further. The next step is, either his liberation or his trial, according to law. The probability is that he will be tried at once.— New York Herald of 17th ult. _ _  The Herald repeats a statement previously made by it, that M`Leod's case will not cause any difficulty between Mr. Fox and Mr. Webster. The Times and Evening Star, alluding to the opinion delivered by the Supreme Court, says, that the opinion meets with but little favour at New York, where it is considered unsound in its positions and principles, as connected with the law of nations and international law generally. Mr. Pickens, the author of the celebrated Report from the Committee of Foreign Relations, pronounced the opinion of the court " an able one, which never could be gainsaid in the United States or Great Britain." In a debate, in the House of Representatives, on the 16th ult., on the Fortification Bill, this gentleman, referring to M`Leod's case, said, " He trusted that M'Leod would be tried : it was due to the independence and rights of New York that he should be ; but he hoped that he would have a fair hearing, and, above all, it was due to the people of New York, to their character, to our free and glorious institutions, that he should have an impartial trial." Several other members, in the course of the same debate, stated their approval of the opinion delivered by Justice Cowen.  Mr. M`Leod's case was the prominent topic in the debate on the debate upon the Fortification Bill, inasmuch as, in the opinion of the speakers, it might lead to a serious difference between the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Brown, of Philadelphia, said, that he had, on the 15th, stated to the committee the utterly exposed and defenceless state of the city of Philadelphia and the shores of the Delaware, and the necessity there was for some early or immediate measures for their defence. " The remarks since made," said Mr. Brown, "by gentlemen of all political parties, in relation to the difficulties existing between this country and Great Britain, had convinced him that war was not improbable, but likely to come upon us." Mr. M'Keon said, that it did not become the United States " to quail before the insolent and arrogant power of Great Britain. He had no idea that she would be so anxious to declare war against us. The great interests she had at stake would induce her to consider well before she warred against this country, even if M`Leod be not released, or acquitted according to her request. M`Leod," added Mr. M'Keon, "must be tried : if guilty, he would be convicted. If he was not present at the burning of the Caroline ; if he can prove the alibi he says he can, let him at once submit to a trial, and then, in a short time, the whole case will be at an end. M`Leod's case would be at an end ; but the Caroline massacre and burning were not at an end. He gave gentlemen in power notice, that he would never cease his pursuit of that question. To that he would hold the present administration. As long as be held a seat on that floor he would unceasingly pursue the subject, until he saw satisfactorily settled a point which involved the question of a violation of the territory of the state, the burning of property, and the murder of one of his fellow-citizens. The debate on the Fortification Bill was resumed on the 17th ult. Mr. Ferris, of New York, in the course of it spoke in support of a large appropriation for the purposes of national defence. The conclusion of his speech was as bellicose as the speeches delivered during the debate generally had been. He said,— "Their country was not so poor, so impoverished, so exaattehlye should witne witnessed called caflolerd war.o n them to be ready. d Gs hausted, so crippled and broken down that she had not the means to build her fortifications and put herself in a state of defence. The scene God forbid, that he should expect it. No : he trusted that the sound sense and the good sense of the two countries would never allow their congenial blood to mingle in .the odthfeoyrbhidac, i that