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re-crossed the Atlantic, in the fullest confidence of recovering pos- 

 session of his paternal kingdom of Naples and The Two Sicilies. 



The first letter of this work contains a general and very able 

 review of the three great divisions of the American Union, the 

 Northern, the Western, and the Southern, the palm being awarded 

 to the latter ! for the luxuries of a land of slavery appear to have 

 pre-eminent charms in the eyes of Achilles, the son of Joachim, that 

 was the King. The second letter contains a history and review of 

 the state of parties from the foundation of the American Constitu- 

 tion to the present time. His sketches of the several late candidates 

 for the office of President of the United States, are graphic, pointed, 

 and true to character : 



" John Quincy Adams, of Massachussets, son of the former President : 

 The greater part of his life has been passed in public employments, but 

 always out of the United States. He has been a professor of Belles Lettres, 

 and is altogether a literary man. He is remarkable for his style, and his 

 reserved and diplomatic manners, and is of that school that believes it to be 

 necessary to deceive the people in order to govern them. 



" Andrew Jackson, of Sennassee, educated for the bar, where he greatly 

 distinguished himself. At the commencement of the last war, he headed 

 some militia, and displayed great military talents against the Indians. He 

 gained the famous victory of New Orleans, and saved by his civil and no 

 less than by his military talents all the west from invasion. He is distin- 

 guished for his austere republicanism, the clearness of his views, his up- 

 rightness, probity, and purity above all suspicion. 



" Henry Clay, of Kentucky : His career has been legislative, he was one 

 of the Commissioners to Ghent. He is distinguished by his eloquence, his 

 address, his talents as a lawyer, and his personal amiability," 



Perhaps, however, some objection might be taken to the panegyric 

 of Colonel Murat on the latter gentleman, whose personal amiability 

 has not been proved we think by a very frequent recourse to his case 

 of duelling pistols, when opposed in Congress by the adversaries of 

 his crooked and narrow-minded system of protective policy. The 

 infamous bargain of coalition which took place in 1825, between the 

 parties of Adams and Clay, called forth some deservedly severe re- 

 marks from the veteran of the Rodnoake, John Randolph, where- 

 upon the said John was himself called forth to meet the leaden argu- 

 ments of Henry Clay. Clay is also the founder and most fierce sup- 

 porter of the tariff system, which now threatens to embroil and 

 destroy his country. 



The third letter is filled with descriptions of the origin, growth, 

 and present prosperous condition of the western settlements of the 

 United States. It contains much valuable information upon the sys- 

 tem of disposal of the public lands, and concludes with some very 

 whimsical views of the policy and probable consequences of the 

 annexation to the United States of all the British dominions, both 

 north and south of the Union, the West India islands and the Cana- 

 dian provinces. Much as we Iiave been accustomed to hear of the 

 probable desertion of our colours by the people of Canada, and which 

 as a point of political economy, is an event not only not to be dreaded, 

 but perhaps devoutly to be wished, we have never before, except in 



