Lynchburg Virginian

Complimentary.—The speech of Mr. Clay, in the Senate, on the President's Protest, is published in the India Gazette, of Sept. 10, 1831, printed at Calcutta, in Hindostan. Mr. Clay's eloquence was already familiar in Africa, Greece and South America. In those cases, however, the subjects of the orator's discourses, intimately associated with the feelings and interests of the people of those countries, account for the partiality which gave them circulation. But the speech on the Protest could have no particular charm for readers in Calcutta, save its abstract and intrinsic excellence—and the compliment implied by its publication is consequently greatly enhanced. And yet there are some men who think that Henry Clay is ambitious of office—low office, too, filled by Andrew Jackson, and of which Martin Van Buren is deemed worthy! These men cannot appreciate Mr. Clay.