manner, and with a voice of affecting tenderness,

and eyes raised to Heaven, "And yet, and yet,

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why should I despair? Providence has so many ways of saving nations.”

I experienced myself a remarkable proof of the influence of the name and character of Mr. Clay. During my voyage to America I had witnessed the distressing effects arising from the want of medical attendance on board ship, and both myself and son had suffered from the small pox. I made an attempt to pass a Bill through Congress to compel Passenger Vessels to carry Surgeons. The Bill was frustrated by the blind and ignorant selfishness of the shipowners, who were represented by a Whig Member of Congress for New Bedford, in the Committee of Commerce in the House of Representatives. Upon learning that the Committee might bring in a majority report against the Bill, I requested an interview with my opponent from New England, who alleged various reasons for his opposition. He first endeavoured to persuade me that I had "never had the small pox! that it was some other complaint!" Fortunately for my veracity, there is one small mark on my forehead

which all medical men would recognize as small pox. Next, he said, that the ship captains were the most efficient medical practitioners imaginable; in fact, that a sea-faring life is the best possible education for doctors and surgeons. Then he resorted to the miserable personality of saying, that the Americans were very glad to see me as a guest, but that they would not allow me to mingle in the Councils of the country. To which I replied, "That the Americans were too generous "to regard the means where the end was good, "or to despise the instrument where the intention 66 was useful." At length he had recourse to Congress, and gravely assured me, "that Congress "had no power to legislate on the subject.” “And "whose authority, pray, sir," said I, “will you 66 accept for that? For Judge M'Lean, and Mr. "Buchanan, and Henry Clay, have all assured me "that Congress has full control over the whole "question." "Oh!" said the Honourable Member, "they only told you so, in order to satisfy "and get quit of you." "And how, sir," rejoined I, "how dare you say that such men as these "could commit themselves to a legal opinion merely

"to get quit of a woman? And, besides, they "love me; they do not wish to get quit of me. "From Buchanan I receive daily proofs of regard; "to him I am ever a welcome guest. I have just

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passed ten days at Cincinnati, where I was in "care of Judge M'Lean; and I have but now "returned from Ashland, where I received from "Henry Clay each courteous act of kindness; "he esteemed my father-in-law, and my husband, "and to me and all my family his friendship has "been solid and unceasing." I saw the chord which I had struck, for, at the first mention of Mr. Clay's name, my Whig opponent betrayed some awkwardness, and I had the malice to trifle with his susceptibilities. "And," pursued I, apparently unconscious of these sufferings, "Mr. "Clay approved of my suggestion as an act of "humanity, and would have rejoiced in the success "of my Bill." And, at this, the Honourable Member looked (in vulgar parlance,) nine ways at once; and when I said "that I should see each "Member of the Committee of Commerce, and "that Buchanan had given his consent that I "should do so," he burst forth with obsequious

deference and said, "Perhaps, Madam, you would "wish to see these gentlemen when they are "assembled in Committee to-morrow."

"If you please," rejoined I, "the time and "place? And you will, perhaps, have the kind66 ness to introduce me?"

"Assuredly.

They meet in the Committee

"Room, in the Capitol, at ten in the morning.” "At ten in the morning I will be there.”

I shall never forget the countenance of the Honourable Member from New Bedford during this most extraordinary conversation, while I, wickedly, prolonged his torment, by dwelling on the name of Mr. Clay.

I cannot dismiss this anecdote without observing that I have travelled sixteen thousand miles in the United States, and resided among her citizens nearly fifteen months, have mingled in every description of society, and have this single instance alone to record of want of courtesy. This Honourable Member from New England is the one solitary American who possesses the peculiar distinction of ever having treated myself or my son with the shadow of rudeness.

"Free Trade," said Mr. Clay, "is the true "policy of England, and she is perfectly right to In her position I should do

"insist upon it.

"so too."

"Then all in which you differ from Mr. Calhoun "is time and circumstance?"

"Is time and circumstance," answered he. "He thinks that America is ready; you do not?" Precisely so."

My opinions on the Annexation of Texas 'keep me at home in Kentucky."

Mr. Clay is a Slaveholder. On the subject of Slavery, his opinions and wishes are in favour of gradual Emancipation, chiefly by means of Colonization.

The following correspondence between Bolivar and Mr. Clay, is full of interest; while it exhibits the unwearied and benevolent efforts of the latter in the cause of Universal Freedom, it proves that no flattery can blind, no deceptive arts escape him

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'BOGOTA, November 21, 1827. "SIR, I cannot omit availing myself of the opportunity offered me by the departure of Colonel

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