a
distance, and can scarcely be realized by those who beheld
them. A dictatorial power, assumed by the commander of the
American army--the military arrest of citizens, charged with a
civil offence--the violation of the sanctuary of justice--an
attempt to overawe, by denunciations, those who dared,
professionally, to assert the authority of the laws--the
unblushing avowal of the employment of military force, to
punish a civil offence, and the hardy menace of persevering in
the same course, were circumstances that must command
attention, and excite the corresponding sentiments of grief,
indignation, and contempt.'"

We have made our extract so copiously of this dangerous and extravagant
proceeding, because we wish it to be represented in the language of the
author, and not by any abridgment of ours. General Jackson having
received intelligence of the treaty which he chose to agree that he
relied upon, addressed a despatch to the British commander "to
anticipate the happy return of peace." We again take up our author.

"Jackson now paused to deliberate, whether these circumstances
did not require him, by a cessation of all measures of
violence, to allow his fellow-citizens in New-Orleans, to
anticipate this happy return of peace, the account of which,
the first direct intelligence was to bring to him, in an
official form--the untoward arrival of an orderly sergeant,
with a message from Arbuckle, to whom the custody of Hall had
been committed, prevented Jackson coming to that conclusion,
which his unprejudiced judgment would have suggested. The
prisoner had requested, that a magistrate might be permitted to
have access to him, to receive an affidavit, which he wished to
make, in order to resort to legal measures, for his release.
Arbuckle desired to know the general's pleasure, on this
application. Naturally impatient of any thing like control or
restraint, the idea of a superior power to be employed against
his decisions, threw Jackson into emotions of rage. Before they
had sufficiently subsided to allow him to act on the message,
some of his ordinary advisers came in, to recommend the arrest
of Hollander, a merchant of some note. What was the offence of
this man, has never been known; but Jackson's temper of mind
was favourable to the views of his visiters. He o