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DEATH OF HoS. RoEERT SMiTti.-We md the
following notice of Hon. ROBERT SMITH, whose
death at Baltimore we briefly announced yester-
dsy in the Commercial:


Mr. Smith was long in public life and vet 4 Pc
rod of time allotted 10 a generation has passed
since he has lived in retirement. He was engaged
in the bloody and very unfortunate battle of Bran
DIVINE, where Washington attempted, but without
success, TO head the advance of Gen. Sir William
Howe upon Philadelphia, and where the young
and gallant Lafayette teshed his maiden swerd, and


first shed his blood in the great struggle for human
liberty which his lte cousecrated. Mr.
Smith was then volunteer from Baltimore He
afterward served several years il the Legislature
of Msryland-soretimes as member OF one
House, sometimes of the other.


On the accession of Mr.. Jefferson TO the Execu-
tive chair, Mr.. Smith was called to the Cabinet as
Secretary of the Navy. When, eight years after
ward, Mr. Madison reached the same proud s;a-
ton. on the 4th of March, 1909, be invited Mr..
Galaiin his associate in Mr.. Jeffersons Cabinef
as Secretary Of the Treasury 10 the State Depart
nlent This promotion, however was declined by
Mr.. G and Mr. Smith was called from the Navy
Department to that of the Sia,e-Mr Paul Ham
ilton of South Carolina coming into the Navy De-





in the Treasury. and Mr.. Eus.is of Massachusetts,
taking the War Department, hr. Caesar A. Rod
nev Of Delaware remaining as Attorney General,
and Mr.. Granger of Connecticut as Postmaster
General Both Hamilton aud Eustis were found
incompetent their places


The most arduous station then, as now, was that
OF the Secretary Of State. Our ong-standing dIih
cultes with England-ditficulties that had existed
and increased almost from the moment OF the ratln
cation of peace, in l793-and which brought on the
war of 1312-were then approaching their crisis
and upon Mr.. Smith devoived the conduct OF the
heavy and protracied correspondence with the
British Plenipotentiaries-the celebrated Copper
hagen Jackson and Mr. Foster. Eut, how
ever lust was the cause which he was called upon
to vndicete, and however patriotic ms intentions
it wa. not thought in that day, that Mr. sm.tn was
eoual TO the station he filed or to the disciplined
aipomatists against whom ii was his duty to con-
tend. :


The administration of Mr.. Madison was one 81
almost ceaseless turbulence; and there was niue
harmony in the Cabinet after the first year. DIS
sensions arose and these were followed by disrsp-
Smith retiring from the Department OF
State and Mr.. Granger from the Post Once. Nsf'
Smiths public life was marked byinsegrity, and, IN
the shades of retirement. to borrow the language %
the Bal1inlorc American, he lived without blemsh,
rcvered and beloved BY the large circle whlcs ne
adorned and in the last days of waning l'e, cool
collected and resigned his spirit departed without
a pang, rejoicing in the promises dear to the
Christian.