Kentucky Gazette

We have looked to the press, through our exchange papers, for the general opinion relative to the late duel in the vicinity of Washington, but find our editorial brother, Col. Webb, sustained by very few. Almost universally, the taking the life of Mr. Cilley, is pronounced MURDER.

We hope and trust, that the committee raised in Congress to investigate this matter, will discharge the duty honestly and faithfully, and whatever may be the opinion of individuals, formed by partial relations of the circumstances, and we are free to admit, that such relations have had their influence upon us, we recommend that no farther expression of opinion may be elicited until the report of that committee shall be made public.

For the blustering of our editorial brother, Col. Webb, the whole American people must have the most sovereign contempt; and as the following which we copy from the Baltimore Republican, cannot effect the deliberate opinion of any, in relation to the shedding the blood of Mr. Cilley, we give it a place in our paper.

The editor of the New York Courier & Enquirer thus notices the attack made by Dr. Duncan, Mr. Bynum, Mr. Boon, and others, upon the character of the "Spy in Washington," the correspondent of that paper.

"Mr. Wise said very justly of Mr. Gholson that if ignorance and impudence could constitute a blackguard, Mr. G. was one, and he might have included with safety Mr. Duncan in his remark; for surely, if vulgarity and ignorance, combined with a reputation for scoundrelism, which is proverbial, constitute Mr. D. a fit associate for Mr. Gholson, they may with safety be classed together.

To name the "Spy in Washington" in the same breath with Duncan, Bynum and Boon, would be to insult our intelligent correspondent to an extent which would leave us but little hope of our obtaining his forgiveness; and yet these men, feeling that they were safe in their persons by reason of their privilege as members of the House of Representatives, exhausted the whole force of their billingsgate upon an aged and respectable gentleman who is immeasurably their superior in birth, manners and education; and who, they well know, would hold them to a strict personal accountability if they had either the courage or the magnanimity to waive the protection which their being members of the house secures to them."

We copy the above from the Louisville Journal, to shew the consistency of Col. Webb. He acknowledges that Duncan, Bynum and Boon were protected by their privileges but says not a word about Cilley. To shew what amount of respectability his correspondent, the Spy, (M. L. Davis, the writer of the Jack Downing letters) is entitled to, we extract from the Ohio Eagle an article headed "Burr and Jefferson," which will be found in the preceding page.