We took occasion d few days since to express our satisfaction at the nomIna- tion of this distinguished gentleman to the Court of St. Petersburgh. lfin- depedence of mind, unsullied integrity, admirable taiel,is. eoiiiiIiiiiis.sss spolit.cai experience, and comprehensive knowledge of men and things, qualify q man .tte represent this country al the first court in Europe, 1t would be diff cult to find parallel to Mr. RANDOLPH among the politicians of the present age. manners and deportment; intsie charms of his conversation, in the clear ness of his comprehension, and the In filBible sagaeity of his eehelaslons5 drawn from long experience and deep reflection, no man exceeds him. 0f his political life, fl is sufficient to say, that for more than 30 years, with but few intermissions, he has been before the people of the United States in the front ranks among the. advocates and defend CTS of their constitutional rights without finching, and acitltoat changing. That he has sometimes been seen in opposi- tiop to his ancient associates, will be found to proceed from their having al- tered their course, and thus come i'll contact with him, and not from the va tiation of iiis compass, which has al- ways pointed directly to the same objects. The base and malignant fol- ly of some of his enemies, who could not fathom the depth of his views, or comprehend the keenness of his wit, nor the elevated sagaeity.of his prophetic spirit, has slandered him with the i'm putation of madness. But such is the usual resort of vulgar and weak malig- nity, which, when unable to eonbact the majesty of unanswable reasDnings strives to arrest the sceptre from req son herself. II would be an outrage upon the genius to attempt to refute such silly calumnies.

 The Empire of Russia has at length fulfilled the prophecy of d man, who perhaps the calumniators of Mir. Ran dolph have also called mad-We mean Napoleon Bonaparte, the nsan of the age. 1t has become the first power in Europe, and the terror of the other powers. 1t comprehends an empire in each of the three quarters of the globe. Like the U. States, it has not vet reached its maturity, though in the wig or of youth, and, unlike the other pow ersof Europe, 1t exhibits none of the yanltles of dotage, or the imbecilities of worn out age. It IS great in the present, not in the past: nor does it, like the degenerate decendants of a privileged order of nobility, claim our respect merely on the score of the re- nown of its ancestry. In short, both in the estrength of it's armies, and the abil- ity of its deplomacy, Russia IS now de- cidcdly and unequivocally, the first of European powers.

 Ofour present Minister at that Court, lis not our intention to speak disfe- spectfully, or to deny that he is a gen. tleman of good ordinary talents, com bined with the advantages of an excel tent education and extensive travel. All who have the pleasure of knowing Mr. Middleton, will bear testimony to his polite manners; his intelligent con- versation; his liberal hospitality, and the excellence of his dinner at Kalora- ma.

 But still, he is not exactly the man we want at the present moment at the Court of St. Peterbufgh, the centre of the politics of Europe, where negocia- tons and intrigues are carrying on, and interests discussing, of a magnitude suf-

 cieiit to agtate both m tt the feoldi old oill lleaa i ia theme We want man of more than ordinary experience and sagacity. who can and will bear himself on terms of equality with the Diplomatists as- senbled there from all parts of the world; man that can cope with the aseenest of them in politics, and with the wisest and wittiest of themin argument and intelligence. The old Grey Fox ! of Diplomacy, Lord Heytesbury, wants some sharp eye to watch him, or he may, peradventure, mannuvre the Uni seti States odt *of their just participa- ton in the trade of the Black Sea.

 There is another point of view in winch ltls Of immense importance to the United States to have a keen sagacious representative at the Court of St. Pe- tersburgh, to conduct the growing and Important relations between the two pesess. It cannot be disguised, We shlnk, that there is little probability that England would be wrought upon hX clfl1. at,ci I z, rs, 1; ;l>,,.. Il.