coffee-house, at the first call. This was not calculated to
allay the excitement of the public mind. The prostration of the
legitimate government; the imprisonment of the district judge
of the United States, the only magistrate, whose interference
could be successfully invoked, on an illegal arrest, under
colour of the authority of the United States, the ascendency
assumed by the military, appeared to have dissolved all the
bands of social order in New-Orleans."

The good sense, we are told, of some of the most influential characters
in the city, prevented the extremities to which these proceedings were
fast approaching. The injured and the irritated were assured, "that
Jackson's day of reckoning would arrive; that _Hall_, with the authority
(though now without the power) of chastising the encroachments of the
military, possessed the resolution, and would soon have the power to
punish the violators of the law." The court martial, by whom Louallier
was tried, acquitted him.

"Jackson was greatly disappointed at the conclusion to which
the court martial had arrived; he, however, did not release
either of his prisoners, and on the tenth issued the following
general order:--

"'The commanding general disapproves of the sentence of the
court martial, of which Major-general Gaines is president, on
the several charges and specifications exhibited against Mr.
Louallier; and is induced by the novelty and importance of the
matters submitted to the decision of that court, to assign the
reasons of this disapproval.'"

He gave his reasons at length, which only show how hard it is for
certain tempers to acknowledge a wrong, or return to the right.

"The court martial consoled themselves, by the reflection, that
their sentence, though disapproved by Jackson, was in perfect
conformity with decisions of the President of the United
States, and of the supreme court of the state of New-York, in
similar cases."

There is something in the name and character of a _Court_, which assures
us of its respect for justice and the law.

"The independent stand, taken by the court martial, had left no
glimpse of hope, at head quarters, that the prosecution of
Hall, on the charge of mutiny, on which he had been imprisoned,
could be attempted with any prospect of success--the futility
of any further proceedings a