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Y The Intelligencer OF yesterday contains com


municaton from Mr.. CALHOUN, in reply TO Il re-


solution of the Senate, from which it appears


that "therc is no letter from the Texas Commis


sioner to Mr. Secretary CALHOUN calling his at
tenton to the letter of Mr.. VAN ZANDr on the
l7th FcLrSary last to Mr. Ursnue but that, III
the course of the negotiation of the Treaty oi
Annexation those gentlemen orally invited the
attention Of MIR. CALHOUN to the said letter."


1t is an unusual thing, comments the Intclll,
gencer.) if not unprecedented, for Secretary oi
State to indite formal despatch to Foreign
Embassy, in reply to an oral suggestion. II the
invitation to which the Secretary refers had been
in writing, we might probably have learned what
answer was given BY the late Secretary UrsauK
to the letter Of Mr.. VAN ZANDr, winch certainly
was not treated with so much discourtesy as 10
have remained wholly unnoticed. We should
have known also ,ohy, at the lest hour of the ne.
gotiation, Mr.. CALHOUN should have had his at.
tention drawn by the Texan Envoys to the letter
written to his predecessor three months before.


On Monday was communicated by Mr.. Cal
houn another curious statement, in reply also 10
a resolution of the Senate calling for information,
BY which it appears that the Private Letter
from England apprislng the Secretary of State
that the Government OF Great Britain was pursu.
ing measures deemed hostile to this country-tke
letter, in fact, which has been made the fouuda.
ton of grave and important official corgespon.
dence-nowhere appears upon the flies ofthe De-
partment but is, as Mr.. Calhoun "has reason
to suppose, among the private papers of the late
Mr.. Upshur." Not even can the name of ,se
writer of this letter be aScertained, as these pr
yste papers Of MIR. UpShur cannot be reached
by the Senate. Was ever an impoitant nego,;a-
ton, involving probable Wer, rapinc and dcyas,a.
ton in its consequences-was ever any negolia-
ton between two civilized powers--So lamely,
loosely and negligeatly conducted In the mad
and convulsve effort TO secure the object arrived
at, tn season for that object TO be made Grailabie
to its orginators, even the ord nary forms end re-
qurements of Diplomatic intercourse seem to
have been as thoroughly neglected, as the honor.
recklessly violated


These documents we suppose are the last that
the compressive powe. of the Senate resolu.
tons will be able to squeeze from Mr.. Tyler and
his reluctant Secretary; and in all conscience
they are enough Such record of blunders, bad
faith incompetency and imbeciity as is displayed |
by the whole course of this Texas negotiation is
enough to disgrace our Government in the ewes
of Statesmen, and 10 hold it up to the contcmp,
and ridicule of the whole civilized world