WASHINGTON Clry, May 1, ls44.
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 THE BARGAIN BETWEEN CLAY AND AD- AMs.-The Nashville Union makes the fol- lowing brief statement, establishing conch- siYely the fact of a corrupt coalition between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, where by the former was made President and the latter obtained as a reward for his influence in bringing about such result, the appoint ment of Secretary of State

 l. "1hey who were before bitter personal and political enemies, suddenly became bosom friends. By the vote and influence of Clay, Adams was made President, and Mr. Adams, in turn, made Clay Secretary of State

 ,. The people of Kentucky were for any person but Adams, and lIr. Clay knew it. As anhonestnnan and their representative, he was bound to vote for General Jackson. What induced him to disregard these obligations Must there not have been a consideration

 }. Gen. Matcalf, one of the members from Kentucky, when he returned home to an ill., dignant constituency, stated as an excuse for voting for Adams We could not possibly get Mr. Clay in the Cabinet without voting for and electing Mr. Adams''

 4. Francis Johnson, another member, who had made speeches against Adams, said 1t was < to make Henry Clay Secretary of State"

 ,. David Trimbe--a man who had de- nounced. Adams, as an "apostate federaist. and an enemy to the West, who had offered to barter away the navigation of the Missis- sppi river to the British for mess of cod ishn-apologised for this vote, {; follows :: '' Ue distinctly ascertaiaed that 1Tr. Adams would make Mir. Clay Secretary of State, and that nall probability Mr.Jackson wouldnot.o

 6. Before the fact stated by Tfimble was '' distinctly aseertalned,o Henry Clay and all his friends professed to be < uncommitted,o D and on one occasion Gen. Metcalf remarked, "we must know somthing about how the Cabinet is to be filed" But when il was '' distinctly ascertaiaed that MT. A. acoaid make Clay Secretary of State," they doiled their neutrality, sacrificed their constituents, and consummated the bargain.'

 :. MT. Clay was duly installed in the office of Secretary of State, an office which he termed < the line of safe precedents He regarded his succession to the Presidency after Adams, as certain; bat he was a second time dsap- pointed. He and Adams were driven from the stations which the people never intended they should occupy. The State of Kentucky, by whose vote they had acquired power, gave lorge majority against them, and the verdict of the nation was-guilty.

 .sEver since Clay's ejectment from the line of safe precedents, he has kept the country in ferment, drawing pictures of distress, and offering various schemes for relief He is still bidding-appealing, through his projects, to the yenality and selishness of voters His ambition is sleepless, and we find nothing ill his eareersince 1895 to weaken in the slight est degree the proofs of the notorious bar gain.D