Constitutional Whig

Curious Fact.—Mr. Knight of Rhode Island, a member of the Senate, and a gentleman of the highest probity, in a late letter to his constituents, makes the following disclosure in regard to the far-famed arrangement of the West India Trade.

"After Mr. McLane had entered into the arrangement, and he saw the use the British Government intended to make of it for the benefit of her navigation, and before he left London, he remonstrated against their proceedings—but it was too late to complain; he had made the bargain, and the United States must stand by it. This remonstrance was made on the thirtieth of November, 1830, and was never communicated to Congress, or made known to the people of the United States, until it was drawn from the secret files of the Government on the 4th day of April last, by a vote of the Senate. During all this time, from the date of the arrangement up to the day this paper saw the light, the papers, officers, and partisans of Gen. Jackson, were shouting praises to this arrangement, and hallelujahs to the President and his Minister for making it. And, at the same time, the President, by his Minister, was protesting against the use and advantages the British Government were deriving from it."