- Heap Samuel D.
- Whipple A. W.
- Almonte Gen
l. - Fendall Philip R.
Universal blossoming.—
Mr and Mrs Campbell
went off this morning by the Baltimore Cars for Philadelphia. Dr Heap
entered the service in 1804. as a surgeon in the Navy, continued in that
station till after the close of the last War with Great-Britain when he
was appointed Consul at Tunis; where he remained till the change of
administration brought in General
Harrison— Captain
Tyler seems to have determined, from the moment of his
accession to cast off the Heap, and without consulting him he was
displaced from his consulate, which was given to W. B. Hodgson, and Heap as if in
mockery was appointed Dragoman of Commodore
Porter at Constantinople— When he reached Constantinople
he found that Porter was a wreck to whom no dragoman could be of any
use, and besides had a dragoman of his own—his nephew—and Heap was soon after displaced there too.
He came home and is now with a large family; without employment and
without subsistence. He left a quire of papers with me to read, and
promised to call again to-morrow— Mr Whipple from St. John, New Brunswick, is the gentleman who
was so obliging and attentive to us, when in September 1840 we were
there— He comes now to solicit the appointment of Consul of the United
States in that City, and wished a commendation from me to Mr.
Webster— I called at the Department of State and saw him,
and told him the answer that I had received from Edward Everett to my Letter of 13.
March— I spoke of the recent debates in Parliament on the Ashburton Treaty, terminating in
the house of Commons, by the Speaker’s adjourning the house for lack of a Quorum— I
spoke of the lucky discovery of Mr Oswald’s map together with
that of Mr
Jay at New-York, and of their blowing up Jared Sparks’s impostures in mousing
among the papers of that old juggler Vergennes.— Mr Webster lent
me some Morning Chronicle containing reports of the debate in the
Commons—and a despatch and a confidential Letter from Edward Everett
about the maps, the debate and that gibbet-bird United States Geologist
Featherstonhaugh. I
spoke to Mr Webster about Whipple, but he
said they had had his application before them these six months and last
week had appointed a Mr
Anderson of Maine, recommended by Mr Evans Consul at St. John. I spoke of Heap, but he said
John Howard Payne had been
appointed Consul at Tunis and he thought there was no occasion for any
consul at Tunis; and that the Office ought to be abolished— I said I
hoped the case of Mr Heap would be
considered separately from that of the usefulness of the Consulate— I
called to see Mr Burnell, still confined to his chamber.—
Genl.
Almonte was here when I was out—and Fendall in the Evening.