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Petersburg. I have heard nothing of what has been done in the United States since I left it. The unclear superiority of Sir James unclear, on lake Ontario must have suspended our operations upon land for some time. That superiority I suppose was lost by the middle of last month. We have a number of vague reports here of disasters, none of which I hope are True. We Know nothing thro' the medium of the French news-papers but what comports with the wishes of the government. The term government, here, has not the unclear signification which it has on your side of the Atlantic. Here it emanates from the will of one man-- there it emanates from the great body of the people. They have a right to Know any Thing, and the printers tell them much more than every thing-- Here they tell them nothing-- or what is the same thing-- tell them what nobody wants to hear-- or what no body believes. This way very right in France, but I am sure the scurrility and falsehoods with which our news-papers teem, are not right in the United States. It is much easier, to unclear the evil than to devise and apply the remedy. I must