It was to my extreme regret that Mr. Webster, whose powerful eloquence has so frequently been, in my own country, the theme of applause, both from the lips of Englishmen and of Americans, did not once, during my stay in Washington, speak in the Senate; and only once, for a very short time, in the Supreme Court; and he was even at that time suffering from a severe attack of indisposition. His speeches on the Oregon Question, and on Free, or rather on Fettered, Trade, were delivered, unhappily for me, after I had left the City. I was able, however, from the short specimen I heard in the Patent Case, to form some faint conception of his overpowering influence, when in the full tide of argument and feeling he pours forth that irresistible volume of words, which, by many, has been said to rival, and by some, to excel, the torrent of Demosthenes. His English, pure, and bold, and massive, is moulded by severe and classic taste, to convey the conceptions of a mind of vast proportions. In the knowledge and comprehension of all subjects connected with the sciences of Lawr and Government, he is a master, and has attained the distinguished appellation of “expounder of the Constitution.”