.. .Conananneations The following i the reply of Mr. CAL _not to a letter-t invittionl froni a Con anittee of our Citizens, who tendered hiin the cmnpliient of a public .uuner, fir his . ble ud patriotic s6rvices at the recent, Oventf'ul session of Congress. Fon-T HILL, Nov. 3rd, 1837. Gecntlemen, It is with very great relctanuce I decline your kind invitation to partake of a public dinner. From to quarter aid on no ocea .ion could an expression of aliprobatiou.be iore acccptable. but so short is tiho inerval i ween this and the next regidar session Ol onigress, and so indi-apensible is it, that I )ik1ildt devote it exelusivcly to lly domestic cerns, preparatory to mly oin, alsenc homse, that I am compelled to decline shonuor intended. ii sayuig that onl no occasiol could the pressi on of oir confilence lie imore wel -.iie, I inleu:d no Ittlillenningr cuitnilon ee.Durn;;the long; period of mly pub-_ lie service, nlever have I seen a more impor Z:!:: crisis, thia fle prescnt, and in none o I ever hacern compiA:led, in tie dis r'gc of my duty, to asnmic it gre:tcr ro :sib.ilhity. .I saw clearly on iny arrivail I'Vaslinigton, at the comiinenicement of r't- mie extra m'oiein, Inint Ottr attlrr, nat; ir cled the point, when, accordinig to tile e -ure we Might take, wo should reap the I !arvcst of our long and ardunis strug .i wiain4t the cecoachmeints ""rLoa" . . ,r l .....,0;- lose the -..1101. I learly saw, that g i am vi;norous attac ks had anade a nuMd sicecssful itipression. State in I- ition had overthrown the protective and- with it the American System, caut a stop to Conuressional usurpaiion: he joint mitacks of our party and that ri':ar li oppontils, the 'Naitional Hepu -a, had efctiullV lrounht down the r of the Ex celtive, antd arrested its ac 'Ialhments for tiie pre.-eut. It was for - -mrpose, we had united. True to our plc of-oppositiot to Ito eie-roacimentt er% (1, from whatever