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To my letter of the 25th of February, I received MT Calhoun's reply, dated March 2d, of which 1 feel authorized to publish such parts at least as are in reply to my ap- plcation. This right conceive results from MT Calhoun's having referred to this corres- pondence in connexion with the "plots" and their "sontrivers," without stating what its character was, and thus rendering 1t necessa- " for me, in vindication of myself, to give It to the public. The information had receiv- ed in reply to my inquiry, was admitted oy him not to be confdentially disclosed to me, and had so treated it. He could not after wards clothe it with that character; nor can so much of his communication as in reply to my reouest to be informed whether had cor rectly repeated his answer or hot' oe oohSi- dered as confidential.

 THere follows an extract from the Letter of MT Calhoun, already and very recently published.

 The residue of this letter, with the other parts of the correspondence, are not consider cd as important to this discussion. They Will be published, however, if MT Calhoun wishes it. The letter from MT Forsyth to me was not seen by any person until the autumn of 1928, when it was read by Major Lewis at my house.

 The circumstances under which copies of the letters written by Mir Crawford and by MT Forsyth, were communicated to the Pre- sjdent, are so fully and frequently stated in .ne ereotissPo"s-N"e. as to renderi unnecessa- ry for me to repeat tn, .,

 When the President. wnu ,laa. l presume, been informed oft import, expressed wish to see MT Crawford's statement, yielded to his request to communicate it to him, first ob- taining the consent of the writer to do so, from the manifest propriety of the course he proposed to pursue, and the more readily, as an opportunity would thus be afforded to Mir Calhoun to disprove statement so directly opposed to his own, or to explain his version of the same transaction.

 l never saw MT Crawford's letter to MT Forsyth, until after it was sent to the Presi- dent and to MT Calhoun.

 In this effort to vindicate myself from groundless suspicion, have confined myself to those topics which belong to that vindica- tion alone. JAMES A. HAMILTON.

 New-York, Feb 9, 1881.