Richmond Enquirer

The fact of Mr. Randolph's proceeding from Baltimore to Richmond, without having visited Washington, has not escaped the criticism of the National Gazette, and the N. Y. American. 'When it is considered (says the former) that the ride to the capital, from Baltimore, is one of five hours only, over an excellent road; that the weather has been fine, and the invalid might have derived benefit from the visit, it may be understood how he has treated the President and Secretary of State. If these gentlemen gave him a dispensation, we may conceive from this fact, the value which they ascribe to his mission.'—The American says that, 'to show his respect for the constituted authorities of his country, and his official superiors, he went immediately down to Richmond.'—It was certainly from no want of respect, that Mr. R. did not visit Washington. Immediately on landing at New York, he addressed a letter to the President—informing him of his arrival—expressing his readiness to visit Washington, if the President wished it—but referring to the very delicate state of his health, and the injury it was likely to receive by a land visit from Baltimore to Washington, &c. The President's reply reached him at Baltimore—saying that he should have been happy to take him by the hand but begging him to consult the state of his health, &c., &c. Mr. R. finding his health much enfeebled, availed himself of this dispensation, and did not visit Washington.—As to 'the value which they ascribe to his mission,' his dispatches would of course have enabled them to estimate it, without his personally seeing them. They would have understood from the interview which Mr. Clay had with Count Nesselrode, when he announced Mr. R.'s intended return to the United States, that if Mr R. had gone back to St. Petersburg, during the last spring, he would have been unable to accomplish the object of his mission—for, the negotiations would not be carried on, until the Polish affairs had been settled.

The N. Gazette says—'it is believed, that he (Mr. R.) has drawn his official stipend,' &c., &c. It is not in our power to give any information.—We do not believe that Mr. R.'s accounts are settled; but upon what principle they are made out, we have no information.

The Editor of the 'State Rights and Free Trade Evening Post' of Charleston, thinks that the report about Mr. Clay's letter 'can hardly be true.'—We could name the gentleman in Philadelphia who received the letter, and the gentleman to whom its contents were imparted. Yet it was put in notice that, suspicion on the part of the Charleston Editor, had led him to take up the pen—but to request him to correct the typographical error which he does have committed in re-publishing our paragraph. Our sentence said: 'When he (Mr. Clay) begins to waver, it is time for us to descend?'—The Evening Post makes it run. When he began to totter, it is time for us to depend'—A singular non sequitur, as De Chase would call it.