H.
Crawford, who was in Mr.Monroe's cabinet at that time, in a letter to Mr.Forsyth, says:--"Mr.Calhoun's proposition in the cabinet was, that Gen.

Jackson should be punished in some form, or reprimanded in some form." Mr.Adams alone vindicated Gen.Jackson.He insisted that inasmuch as the Government had ordered him to pursue the enemy into Florida, if necessary, they were responsible for the acts of the American general, in the exercise of the discretionary power with which he had been clothed.
Several cabinet meetings were held on the subject, in July, 1818, in which the whole matter was thoroughly discussed.

Mr.Adams succeeded at length in bringing the President into the adoption of his views, which Mr.Monroe substantially embodied in his next annual message to Congress.
The intelligence of the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister, excited the highest indignation in England.

The people viewed it as a violation of the rights of British subjects, and an insult to their nation, and were ready to rush to war.

Lord Castlereagh declared to Mr.Rush, the American Minister, that had the English cabinet but held up a finger, war would have been declared against the United States.