Mr. Van Buren's advent to the office of President--Follows the policy of his predecessor--General Jessup's stipulation in favor of the Exiles--Sustained by precedent, and by National Law--Not contrary to General Jackson's object in commencing the War--Citizens of Florida protest--Compact ratified by War Department--General Jessup for a time endeavors to carry out Articles of Capitulation--Begins to yield--Promises to make arrangements with Chiefs to deliver up Slaves who had left their Masters during the War--Then declared he had done so--No such Compact found by the Author--Subsequent history shows that he had made such arrangement, by parol, with Co-Hadjo only--He also uses army to seize and return Exiles claimed by citizens of Florida--Revokes Order No. 79--Indians and Exiles take alarm--Flee to their fastnesses--General Jessup acknowledges _all is lost_--The War renewed. On the fourth of March, Mr. Van Buren assumed the duties of President of the United States, and General Jackson retired to private life. Belonging to the same political party to which General Jackson had attached himself, Mr. Van Buren was not expected to make any particular change in the administration of the Government. Indeed so popular had General Jackson been, that it would have required great boldness in his successor to attempt any very obvious change in our national policy; and so far as the Florida war was concerned, there was none whatever.