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Its responsibility, after all, is wholly exter- nal. The pages are but half filled, and pre- sent lank and meagre aspect, reminding the reader of stretched pamphlet. If the good acts of MT Clay are all recorded, his friends must be disappointed. By a strange neglect, one of the most important incidents in his life is entirely omitted, viz. the bargain with MT Adams. This we trust will be sup piled in another edition, in case another should be requird. The work, on the whole, falls far short of the promises made at the time subscriptions were obtained. It is a decided take ina sort of wooden nutmeg affair." The appendix contains an account of MT Claws difficulties with MT Randolph, and, as a matter of course, the first is lauded and the latter condemned throughout. As speci- men of the blind adoration which is paid to this sublunary deity of earthly formation, we give the following:-"Therew was ever some. thing in MT Clay's eye, before which his (Mr Randolph's. spirit qualed and blanched like a frightened thing. It is said to be in the or der of nature, that even the fierce crest of the wild Cat, covers before the majesty of a God-like face." This is all very fine, but unluckily, the face furnished by the publish CTS, at the title page, does not at all answer the description; the countenance of our - youngest apprentice is altogether more pre- possessing. One extract more, and the last; the account of the duel. "In due time the parties fired, and luckily for both of them, or at least, for MT Clay, MT Randolph's life was saved by his gown. This unseemly gar- ment constituted such vast circumference, that the locality of "the thin and swarthy senator, was al least, matter ofv very vague conjecture. MT Clay might have as well fired into the outspread top of an oak, in the hope of hitting bird that he supposed to be snug ly perched somewhere among the branches. His ball hit the centre of the visible object, but Randolph was not there, and of course the shot did no harm, and no good. After the first discharge, MT Randolph, by firing in the air, showed his disinclination to con tinue the fight, and is now living, to fight ano- ther day" MT Clay's shot, in this instance, it appears, did not take effect, and did nc harm, and no good. Such has been. and such we trust, will ever be the result of all shots fired at MT Randolph by his opponents, from Henry Clay down to I'ristram Burgess