The Sun. — London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN; AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES) FROM A BRITISH AMERICAN COLONIST. [From a Halifax raper,3 AMERICANS, The individual addressing you is a Mitish subject, residing in a colony of that happy country to which your ancestors owed the first breath of life. He lives under t. e controul and proteetion of those laws which are the very sinews of. your own constitoti onal col-, and under the shield of that parental 2rrn which was long extended over you, and v.ould be.so novtkif you would allow it, in the defence of all that can be dear and valuable to men who owe their &scent to Britons. +le-lives under the-Government of England, partaking of the enjoyment of its pure and solid freedom, and submitting, for the guidance of his .moral and political condoa, to its long tried regulations, the very best that have ever been known to the world, free from the heavier burthens of the Mother State, and paying only those moderate tributes whichare imposed by Colonial Representa tion. - So you once lived, Americans ; and not thirty years have elapsed since you wert. declared by our parent count' y to be independent of those blessings of which I am now cordially bJasting the enjoyment.. Whether yOu are happier for that independence, I will notieven hazard. a conjecture ; perhaps you are -- , Avhether you are the more wealthy for it, does rot admit of a question ; you certainly are;—and whether,- by becoming more wealthy, you have made yourselves more respectable and more important in the eyes of the civilized world, is so plain in the affirmative, that I would not make it a subje& of su¢jed of discussion. Whether you .are the safer for your independence, in ,the possession of what your skill, your enterprize, your industry, and your good fortune, have acquired for you, is a question _totally dependent, you will forgive an Englishman for-saving so, upon the degree of affection that you may yet- cherish for thAt conntry, which, at one time, Lou emphatically and justly styled your home, and for that people whoa) you once considered as your brethren, by Zhei.ies of blood of every relative connection. England loves the Americans.; I say it not in the canting, hypetritical tone of Gallic usurpation, I make the assertion with seriousness and sincerity, and while I make it, I consider not the unjustifiable feelingS of,d prejudiced few among my fell ,w coun trymen, but I talk Of the nation colleCir..ely„as' pos sessing those sentiments of attachment and good understanding towards America which will well warrant my assertion, upon the reason of •the thing it must be S 3. A general and cursory view of hu man nature will cont ince us that it must be other wise'.: front what sourct.s arise those affeetions of tl Olean which unite us to each other as individuals? the bare circumstance of one common parent giving life to the offspring of one family creates brotherly lows, and will not the same rule affection apply to 'rations ? We have not on our part forgot the relationship ; we.daily feel that impression of regard inevitably re sulting from the'refledion that Americans and Eng lishmen have_) he same stock of. ancestry, the same spirit of enterprise, and the same love of liberty ; and let me tell you, Americans, those will be your hap piest days in Which you can, with sincerity, return an equal profession,of attachment. That every power of reason and atTealion Should impel the mind an.l heart to that iiiieetion, not one among yon c.m have a doubi ; it is your interest so to incline, yon - ive been oftemtold by many of your own coUntryrtie:i, and, should any, future event in in the political, world put.the position to the test, de pend.upon it you will find there was much wisdom in their . council., • p..iriii„ ; the long range . of two centuries, your forefather's were itabibing from the springs of the pa rent. S a.e all :those whole Some principles of a reli gious, moral, and political tendency, which forM toe brightest traits of your present - national character; to:them, and to your English ancestors from whom they were descended, you owe every_thing that now . gives yotl a.fespedable appearance on .the list of na tines; your commercial importance, upon which alone your aggrandizement:has been founded, and upon which alone your your -prOsperity and welfare can subsist, flows from the same ancient source ; your ships are of English construtlion, and your seamen of English origin, the less there is of British ingredient in either ot.them { the farther you must be considered as removed "from that nautical skill and in trepidity, which are your- just inheritance; your spirit ot enterprize, your thirst of commerce, and your z al of lauable speculation, - which have pro pelled you to the remotest Corners of the habitable globe, are all ot English extraction : to these cha racteristic qualities you are 'indebted for a hard earned prat . , that .I)as added rta your wealth and, 'your coilsemence, and which - , it preserved with cautious attention to your political relations, will, at solve future peridd not tar 'distant, render you a nation ot wisdom, of power and of fame. YOu are a people fond of liberty; and to whom do you owe this rational and . happy propensity,,but to the nation that gave you existence as a people ? From the Magna Charta of o.d England,-from our boated Bill of Rights—from our ats of Habeas- Corpus, pnd our acts of freedom of every denomi nation, you have derived your love of liberty : the sure way to retain it is by .an adherence to the in terest and prosperity, and exis:ence of that Country, out of tite heart of which you have obtained so great 2 olessing. Ii was Englaud that taught your fathers to ' snub the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze :" • take care, Amerians, that you do not io.e the efficacy of that - precept, by listening to the tclaiptin,wiles of theeotunion foe of the country.of -your incestors. • i:rom the same respeaable source you have de:i ri', , ktiTtiatse'laws of civil and criu Mal import, which coostitut4 the very snot of your Government, and witirnm which you could _have had netthera moral - nor a political existence, for no other la As tvouid have suited you ; }on had the blood and the spirit of EtOrstimen when yoti received your independ erc , _icrid no other: - constitution could have tan -iwt,red• the purposes of Jour newly .:“.quited situa liott, but the uses to which your forelcithets had been LONDDI\ : Printe .by 1110 MAS WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden-lane Covent-garden ; a nd published fiy WILLIAM ARMIGER SCRIPPS, South Molton-street,-Cr)sveyor-qua . :e. •At tnt bliti ()DEICE, No, 112, Strand, where_ Advertisements, Orders tor the Paper, Leiters for the Editor, &c. (post paid), must be addressed, go : lung accustomed, and I,vlth the value of .which you were so well acquainted ; that constitution, with very little. alteration or amendment, you had the wisdoM to adopt ; and the'more,there is of Eng lish essent in it, the greater chance it - has of free dom, of solidity, and of permanence. Your commerce, therefore, your liberty, and your laws, are all of British origin ; and for the sWeets of literature, the accompaniMents of commerce and of liberty, you , are also indebted to' the same parent isle. , From England, the seat of the arts and of the muses, the soil of, the brightest science and the pro foundest learning, you have at all times obtained the seeds of clasaie lore,arid the . fruits of general lcnow ledge ; when you were children, titular the imme diate saperintendance of that Most respectab!e ther, she afforded, you, .with. parental solicitude, all the pre-eMinent advantages of an English education ; to the truth of this, your many colleges, all• - of which, I believe, were foebded while you were lonists, can give undotibted evidence you 'were at no time kept in ignorance, you drafik at the Pierian spings of Britain with a free welcome, and to those springs you owe - all the blessings 'of literature thet have hitherto benefitted or adorned your country since the day of its iudependenee ; at this hour you cannot, nay, I am sure you would not, pride your selVes upon any work of literary distinction, the me rit and success of Which could not be traced Co your existence as Englishmen ; what , would' induce you to relinquish't hat right Which' you undoubtedly pos sess, of sty ling the mighty authora of British litera ture your fellow-coutitrymen ? in the mother tongue which you now speak, they wrote with elegance and sublimity, they are now your preceptors and your patterns ; and it will be well for you, if for ages to come, they, Or suchlike men of English hearts and understandings, are at all times your standards of li terary excellence. I would disoitm you as serung from Britons, if I thought you cherished' not the feelings of brotherly love for a Shakespeare, a Nth top, or a Newton, a Pope, an Addison, t..r . a John son—they were all Englishmen ; and do you not, Americans, feel an honest pride in the reflection that they had the same national bloodit hat is now fl :wing in your own veins? When you were colonies of Bri tain, there were men among you, and not a few,who gave evident proof of tie etlicicy of British litera ture in the refineMent and polish of the American mind, 0! these men, the agitation and turbulence of your Revolution drove some from your shores, many remained in,ahe laud, and became conspicuous in the annals of the revolutionary Contest, but Ihe genius and the talents of all of them, in whatever sphere they Fho,ne, were of English origin, S and owed their value and their eminence to no other Source what ever ; your Franklin, your Adams, your Hamilton, and your Ames,'were burn and bred under the flag and Government of your parent country, and I chal lenge,you to produce their superiors among those of more modern tame, who have been nurtured undei the authority and influence of your free and inde pendent dominion ; if you have no superiors to ihese,where will "ou find an equal to your Wash ington ? Your country, I have no doubt, contains a re apeaable proportion of wise. and good men, but I will venture the assertion, that the wisest and the best among you are those who nourish that, 'regard for . Englishmen which Englishmen nourish for Americans ; at the present awful period of Euro pean Convulsion, permit me then,, Americans, to inquire, whether if your interest, pecuniary or po litical, should ever so imperiously demand it, you could from your hearts oppose the present glorious cause of that country, from which you have derived the inestnoable blessings 4 have enumerated, and with which you have been so long filially connect ed; fOrtunately for you, however, and you know -it a ybur closest interest, upon every ground of poli tical and commercial consideration, would require you to take that side of the momentous struggle to which principle and honour, and eitfeiition, ought to lead you against the most rigorous force of inte rest. If it be your interest to live in comfort and in safety, to have yobr property secured, and your per sons prOte6led against abuse, .assault, and oppres sion, if it be your interest to preserve that com merce, without which I affirm, in defiance of the th..a)retical fancies of some of your late rulers, you cannot exist as a nation, if it be your interest to be wise and wealthy, to be religious and moral, to he good and great, could undr the wing of that coun try which has the power and the inclination to shel ter you : beware of offending her beyond the reach of forgiveness and reconciliation. You have frequently and of late tortured her pa tience, and put her indulgence to the severest test, if your infatuation or your imprudence should make you a prey to the machinations of her enemy, let nut his artifice cajole you into a rupture with a ceun try, which he knows you'ought to love, but which is the avowed ohje6l 61 his dread and envy. In those - days of revolutionary trouble, which are yet fresh in your remembrance, the wailare that was then cart ied on by ihe parent state, .against her revolting colonies, was not a system of confirmed hostility; it was a measure of necessity, commenced with rehictanee, and pursued with distrust and de licacyo—The British nation was by no means unani- Mous in the undertaking ; you were the objects of affection with some, and of compassion with others, for many considered your cause as their own, and many view our complamts—ehe just result of ri gorous and oppressive treattnent. But, 'Americans, if the sword of your nation be once drawn against the power of Britain in the pre sent contest, remember that it is not the cry of in dependence that calls you tothefight ; Englishmen, in the heat and tumult of a war, which they have long sustained for the freedom of the world, and in which they have bren worried and mortified by the defection of their allies, Will wonder what could have brought you to the battle; they Will impute your hostility- to an unnatural and'ill-grounded pre tereace for the cause of their bitterest enemy, and will consider you as -enlisted under his banner from the most unpardonable of all motives 7 -that - of ag grandizing yourselves at the expence of their down fall ; while van) would be your hope, and ruinous to you the 'attempt in so gad a puisud. And what possible views of interest could lead you to the side of our opponent? France, withali the united srrength of her European vassals, cannot ex- tend her arm octal tilt waterg of the Atlantid for the execution of hostile projects in British America, or for the more s3lutary purpose of your defence and 'your protection; your cummerce would be annihilated, and plunder for a while .ub- _ stunted • in - its room ;- but that plunder would be precarious, - and its .profits venomous to the indivi dual, and destructive to the state. Your territorial convests, were you able to effect them, you would not have the power to retain ; and were you able to retain them, they would afford you nothing but em barrassmen,t, annoyance; and discomfiture ; you have already more weight than your Government can wield ; and by adding to your territories, you would.only be increasing the political care and ditii cultiei of your comtrions.vealth. You are an infant country, of much well-grounded hope, and of great Promise ; but your infancy is your danger ; and -in Or! terrific contests of the present day, you require a guardian and a protector ;—shall it be France ? Can the object of your sekctkm be a country of a diffe rent language—difftrent religion—different princi -pies, moral and political, from your own-:-of diffe rent manners—of &filen' mode of thinking and of acting=--and of a totally - different nature in every re 'spect and circumstance ? . AMERICANS—that country cannot feel the most remote ,interest in your welfare and prosperity ; she loves you rot 3—she envies your growing import ance, and she detests your origin ; for to that origin she imputes your importance :—She cannot but consider you as -Englishmen, and you are, therefore, the natural objects of her hatred. An 'alliance in war with such a country, would expose you to all the horrors of maritime vengeance; yobr sea ports, of which description are all your cities of magnitude or consequence, would be open to England; the naval arm of your ally could afford you no defence; it is now completely paralysed, and in all probabi lity will remain for ,a long, period, without any effeEtual recovery. Where then would be your se curity ?—you would be left to your own means of warfare, and your ,own resourccs, ! —Separated from the land of your foreign confederate, by the waters of an extensive ocean—the dominion of your ene my,—Contending against the country of your - an cestors, and in many instances against your best friends, your wonkiest intimates,, and your dearest relations; in so wretched a contention you could find nothing to animate, to . console, or compensate you :—lnstead of Liberty and Independence rousing yoar military spirit and invigorating your Councils, you would carry on a heartless war, under the pies sure of the heaviest taxation, Without One objedt of national .or comnion interest,—having nothing to gun, and every thing to suffer and to lose.' Let an obscure inhabitant, therefore, of a British Colony, in your neighbourhood, advise . yOil to seek the friendship and protea-ion of that parent king dom which is still the parent of you all ; she has not yet, thank God, lost a single nerve of her native vigour, or one ray of, her national glory ;—amid many and stvere struggles, she yet stands free and great, and powerful; desirous of securing your re gar(' upon all honourable terms, and able and wil ling to assist you against every threatened attack-of the enemy of the We, who are near the threshold of your country, are doubly interested in the preser,ation of na tional goodwill and harmony; to us, who . are so near the door of entrance to the States of America, the tales of bloodshed and war fare would indeed be distressing ; to us, war with America would in re ality be a contest with our neighbours, our friends and our relations—of all contests the most affli6ting to men who have the principles and the hearts of Christi - ans. • But, Americans, the period, I tear, is fast aPproach4rg, when you will be called upon to determine, with firmne , s and with sincerity, to which side of the battle ) ou will condo& your host England or France must soon be the word of pre ference—and, whe❑ the solemn period of decision shall arri►e, may the God of all people and of all nations dire& your voice of preference to that coun try, from which you have' derived your invaluable inheritance of language—laws—liberty, and reli gion. ,The Persian Governruent has made a fi:e/bpppli-: cation at Bombay . for a supply of arins, in order io enable it to send out an expedition for expelling the Wahahets. Mirza Jahanjer Khan, third son of the King of. Delhi, has, since his banishment from his (other's court, held correspondence with the' Seiks, and is collecting adherents, with whom he threatens the north-west frontiers. There has, in consequence, been some movements of the Btitish ;loops in that quarter. SCINDEA has accommodated his 'disFuteS with the Jepore Rajah, by accepting from the latter, in lieu or all arrears of tribute, a considerable poition of territory. • • A duel took place last month at Bourdeaux, be tween two merchants.. Oa the first fire, one of the parties fell, and the seconds immediately approm bed, supposing that he was mortally wounded ; after a close inspe6tion they found that he had not sus tained any injury, his antagonist's ball havir.g glanc ed aside, and lodged in the trunk'of tree ; but he was nevertheless, dead: having, it is ,conje6tured, anticipated by his terrors, that fate which he might otherwise have escaped. His antagonist was wound ed in the right arm. Oa Friday night last, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Mason, carpenter, was going to his house, in Hill -street, Windmill-street, near Finsbury-squaie, he was snddettly attacked' when opposite the doOr of Mr. Cooler, the corner of Windmill-street and Providence-row, by two ruffians, by whose repeated blows he was knocked down ; and as he lay on the g►ound, one of the monsters, with•a kriife or some other sharp instrument, was in the aetotcutting his throat, when, pro',7identialiy", the shopman, who had just stint up the shop, and was then in it, hearing the fall of Mr. Mason on the pavement, and imine diately afterwards some groans, came out of the shop, on which the' fellows, who heard.the door unbolting, ran off. Mr. Mason wps then-conveyed 'home, his wounds were discovered not to be mortal, the incision, though deeil; not having reached a 'vital part. Nothing was taken from the person of Mr. Mason but it was, doubtless, the intention of the ruffians, to have deprived him of- property and. lite, had they not been disturbed. WAthßithii, 6‘..;;- , -'ester3ay itiiornint ; at an early hour, as ti young boy was passing along the edge of the river; 'about a quartet of a mile troth this city ; adjoining the road to Carrick-on-Suir, discovered a dead body lying - on he mud. SoMe what alarmed, and without waiting to make s.v examination, he ran and communicated the etc cuinstance to ,the inhabitants of- a house,. at nn great distance from. the pl ice. They immediately returned with him, and found a female corpse, Mangled in such a manntr as it would be horrible even to describe. On farther inquiry, the strong6i . proofs appeared, that the ill-faced being had been murdered at the termination of the wall leading to ti,e City, that the inhuman author of her death had thrown the body over the wail, that he then drsgged it as far into the river as seethed to be consistent with his own s3fety, and that he there left it, in 114 hope of its bin cat tied away t y the stre.im. blond, in considerible qlantities, ‘i'as visible on the wall,-on the adjoining. gate, and in some phice4 betwixt them and the : liver, whilst the mark of foot-steps, and the impression of the body, were easily discernable through the whole space from the road to the spot where it was abandoned.--;. A stone of several pounds weight, and nearly covered with blood, was found beside 'the 13,:dki with which it was evident some of the wounds ort the head had been inflicted. There were also othtr wounds on the head that bore the appearance of Ifaving_been given by a sharp instrument. Multi tudes yesterday visited the body, but it has no t yet been recognized by any person. The dress indicated the wearer to have been in an humble station of life, but it does not resemble that of the peasantry in 'this part' of Ireland, and there is reason to believe that its proprietor was a stranger. STATE OF THE Memorows.—The best preven tive Security.against every danger is a 20,0001. Prize in the present Staie Lottery, which any Pelson may obtain for a few Pounds, if bought on or before MONDAY the .C 204), as all the Lottery will begin Ott Nine o'Clock the 'next Morning, and finish the same day. M. Kirchoff has attracted great notice at St: Pe tersburgh, by an invention for extracting • sugar from the flour of different sort of grain mixed with potatoes. M. Amice, an astronomer of Milan,. has con structed a telescope seventeen feet •in length, iv :4 eleven inches ,in diameter. It is the largest ever made in Italy, and is said to equal the best -English glasses for observing the heave* bodies. — OA trial, it was proved that the'smallest wri~ing.ti~ig t, by - means of it, be read at the diStance of three hundred yards, and every .st ! ,,p and line stroke plainly discerned. - The magnificent church of Montreale, near RI. lermo, was burnt to- the ground on the t tth ul timo. It was an antique structure,. and 6utainti many curious monuments of ancient K!ngs. The entrails . of St. Louis, who died . before Tunis, .and whose body was conveyed ''to France, were de_pq sited in it. On Friday morning last, a bullock separated 2il a drove of beasts, coming from Smithfield IN/Lirter, and ran furiously along London, Wall, knocking down:every thing that was in his - way. He tnaje into the yard of the White Bear inn, Basini,hall street, putting every person in the yaro to Ilia: Bight ; and, then walked up the stairs into the gal lery, where not being able to turn himself, he was secured by the drovers, who, with difficulty, lower, ed the animal out of the gallery, with ropes slung round him. The neighbourhood, of St. George's Church in the Borough, was thrown into ‘a state of consider able alarm, a few evenings 'since, by the following circumstance :—As the landlord of the FoX public house, in White -street, .at the back of the chinch, , was going his usual round with beer, about ninc, o'clock in the evening, he perceived by the light proceeding from a lantern earried by a woman acci dentally passing, something standing in a recess its the- wall near his door, which particularly attracted. his attention, and on a closer examination he found it to be one of those-instruments called mauls, ren dered so teiritic by the dreadful use ma le of one of them in the nerpetrat on of the late ho .rid murders in Ratcliff Highway ; and on. turning round he .per ceived a similar instrument standing ir. the other corner of the recess. Informatinn was immediately given to Goff, the officer belonging to Union. Had who proceeded to the spot, and continued on the watch all night, but the alarm had been so widdy spread, that those-who deposited them there, what ! . ever might have been their original intentions, thought it prudent not to appear. •On Friday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, as Mr. Charles Fidler, of Ewell, Surrey, was re turning home, he was stopped on the ‘ DorkinF roa 1, - beiWeen Epsom and Ashsted, and robbed of hirk ing And other Bank notes, to urea nount ot - 2 1 01. by two men. lilR On Wednr!sday last, at Norton Conyers; Yorkshire, the Lady of Sir Bellingham Griihdin, Bart. of a Sun. MAR/tit - D. ' Qn Thursday last, at Aston, Mr. Farmer, of St, folin. street. to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Chattock, of rad:- I►ill, Warwickshire. On the t tth inst. at St. Ceoige's, Hanover•sgaare, Mr. S. Held, to Miss Mary- Aline Lucas: DIED. On Friday the 27th ult. at Atherstcne, in the County of Warwick, Dudley Balcter, Esq. On the nth inst.' at his brother's house at Stepney, Tho mas King, Esq. of the Ordnance Office. On Saiurday morning, at his house in StafFord,place, Pim lico, Mr. George Elsworth," eighteen years one of His jesty's Nlessengers: On tit;! Sth inst. aged fourteen months, Fanny - Lascelles jenner, daughter of Hubert leaner, Esq. LL. D. . Lately, Nlr: W. Collins, orG rest Portland-:street. I' RIL'E 0 r•STOCKS SAT U 3.4nk Stock, 231 NaVy 5 per ( ern. 94; I fish 5 per Cnt. 4 pet t...ent., 3 . ; !er Cent. Rea. 63 62. i 6; per Cent. Cons. 6! 6 L -1.1-ink 1.. Ann. r6i tours . India Stock, RDAY. HIGH ‘N;ATER. AT LONI. Morning, 5 min. aft& a. I ililia Bonds, 18s. pr. New Anr. Ji/ichey. Bills., 3d. per day, 2s. 4s. pr.-3ift. per day s 4s. 6s. pr. Uranium, g dis. 1 mperial Ann. ' Consols. for Op. 64 631-.61 )ON BRIDGE To.moß. )w. • Evening, 30 min. after A.