16 MARCH 1844, Page 11

By what we learn from a very discreet source, we

owe an amende ho- norable to Mr. Daniel Webster ; having been misled by an American paper into doing him injustice. A toast impudently countenancing the doctrine of Repudiation was reported to have been delivered at a public dinner, Mr. Webster being present. A gentleman who was there, how- ever, from first to last, says that he heard no such toast, and he is cer- tain that it was not proclaimed aloud. On such occasions, toasts are frequently handed up to the chair, which are not read at all, but which nevertheless find their way into the published proceedings. We are as- sured that Mr. Webster, of all men, never would have sat still and heard such a ribald toast : he is thoroughly imbued with Anti-Repudiation principles.