Southport Telegraph

From the Ohio Statesman.

WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR

The Cincinnati Gazette, received by the mail of this morning, has the following.—

Rumors of the same kind have reached us before, but we were inclined not to credit them.

A SPEC OF WAR.

A private letter from a very respectable gentleman in Philadelphia, was received in this city on Saturday, which created quite a sensation. The writer advises, that Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington, had received despatches from his government ordering him to demand of ours the immediate discharge of McLeod, and in case of refusal, to demand his passports, and leave the country! These despatches were accompanied by a private letter from Lord Palmerston, advising him that it would be best—or most politic—to make the purport of these despatches known to our government unofficially, in a friendly way—before an official communication of them is made—in order, doubtless, to give Brother Jonathan time for reflection, and to make up his mind what to do! Mr. Fox, it is said, has complied with his instructions.

Again, the letter states, that when Mr. Stevenson our Minister in London, after waiting for months, with becoming patience for an answer to his demand of reparation for the destruction of the Caroline, called upon Lord Palmerston to enquire when a reply might be expected, he was told by his Lordship that it had already been prepared—would be delivered when desired—and was a declaration of war

The writer of the letter is a gentleman of the first respectability, and gives unquestionable authority for what he writes. and we are informed that private letters from Washington received yesterday, confirm the main facts.