The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-16 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. AUGUST 16, 1852.

That a serious rupture between England and the
United States should take place would be one of the
most-to-be•regretted eventsthat could possibly occur.
A vast ocean rolls between
thetwo great nations,
but Steam has bridged over
the distance, and we are
connected, also, by historical associations, by similar
of
in3titutions, by community blood, by similarity of
language, by sameness of origin. Our laws,
literature are common to both. We cur
are proud of
the great people, sprung from ourselves
not
shake oft
f regard
who battled
feelings bravely for the boon of liberty, but.
didy
a r e
fond o
with
in their victory their hereditary
and respect for what, to this ,hoar, the
calling " the Old Country. To quarrel wit
the Americans would be unwise, unpopular, and un-
called-for. The Americans, talking wit in their
anger, will have more discretion, it, is to be hoped
than to quarrel with us. At the same time—and we
say it without bravado, or boast, or ill-feeling...._
England does not fear, and need not fear, the result
of war with the United States.
The Fishery dispute—for it has scarcely arrived at
the dignity of what Sir Lucius O"TRIGGER WOllic
call "a mighty pretty quarrel as it stands"--on which
the Press of both countries has already wasted a
great deal of ink, appears to have arisen merely our
of a misconception on one part and the appearance
(f
tor it really was no more) of precipitateness on the
oh
er. The international treaty of 1818 expressly
debarred the American citizens from any right of
fistzi •
ng wabin three miles of any of the bays coasts,
creeks, or harbours of the British dominions in
North America.
latelytfishien_g,u While an American schooner was
the within a musket-shot of the shore, in
she
was aroizFQ4undy (part of the prohibited limits),
.by the British cruiser Netley, by
order of our
sending ForeignthirteenSecretary, who backed his act by
English vessels into the Bay 01
Fundy to protect British rights. Intelligence of the
seizure, under the
tr
tion at Washington, twati, was received with indigna-
the Senate uncontinently
became " wrathy,"—h:irrt:
c
deli-
vered, angry resolutions passed,
speeches were
d, and an appeal directed
to the PRESIDENT to send
ase3: Americans quadron,
without delay, to the
possessions. The Americannext to the British
papers alway
up the excitement as
very warlike with their „ leade
best they r s
have kept
, s
cbeir—
elec electioneering partisans -of WINGFIELD os'lld. The
" milingtary " candidate for the Presidential chair_
are fanning the flame, it being their en, to she
advantage of having a warlike Chief of the ,:: the
appears er
Merit, in the event of a contest—and, what
remarkably strange, knowing the sagacity and
pr u
del'oe of the man, DANIEL WEBSTER has made -a
Speech breathing " double-barrelled swords and cut-
and-thrust blunderbusses." The British Government
h
strictly adhered f• tl—, tie;:*y of 1818 ; they
have seized ~o c
the
" vessel beyond the three miles limit,
of the shore ( schooner was fishing within musket-shot
'leave to fish II • the Bay of Fundy
at
8'
in
by Lord ABER-
being conteded, a, a favour, in 1844,
DEEN), and the Brit.
Is 4 squviron has been sent to
protect our fisheries on ihc, North American • •
. .
in compliance with repeated Amer:can coasts,
and urgent sol:cttations
to that effect from the colonists So far as Sir JOHN
PAYINGTON'S circular can beuinderstood (it is not f
very clear), it does not appear intended to withdraw
the permission of 1844, by which the Americans fish