How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent

TIT FOR TAT. The following anecdote of Mr. Clay, at Ghent, is worth repeating. Being on a tour through the Netherlands preparatory to the negotiation, Hon. Henry Goulbourn, one of the British commissioners, procured and sent him a file of London papers, containing accounts of the burning of Washington by the British troops, with aContinue reading “How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent”