The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-10 00:00:00

AMERICAN TRADING POLICY.

The credit due to the reports of Captains of Ame-
rican Vessels is now properly appreciated, and we
receive with due caution every account brought by
these manufadturers of political falsehood. The
shocking and bloody cruelties praaisai by the
,Black Emperor, DESSALINBS, on the Captains an,d
crews of Vessels, of every nation so Ltniorttninte as
to put into and port sukjeet to his authority, has
been for a long time a favourite and profitable
them:: of these Gentlemen, on which they have
rung the changes to great commercial advantage.
The details of these cruelties in his ports has h-a
the effect for which tliey were created, viz. of preL.
yenting"Eaglish Vessels from touching at any of
the ports of St. Domingo, and keeping a most pro-
fitable export trade entirely in their own hands,
The sagacity of ..our merchants has, however, at
length discovered that _all these cruelties and enor-
mities have only existed in the tales of American
Captains ; and that IjESALINES, so far from ex-
ercising cruelties on merchants coming 'into his
ports, has invariably given them every ehcourage-
•
went.

We understand Government, with a laudable atr
tention to the commercial interest of the CGuntry,
are on the point of opening an intercourse with
st. bomingo, 'which will prove highly beneficial
to the trading part of the Kingdom ; End thai
Vessels are now in the River freighted for Putt;
au-Prince.

A letter from Newcastle, dated December 6,
H says,
" The Achilles, Captain WEATERLY; is arrived
here, laden with staves, &c. from Dantzie hey
sailed from that port on the 24th of November, ar—i
rived at the Sound on the 28th, and got into Shieidsr
yesterday. An intelligent Gentleman belonging tq
a Merchant's Qffice in the town is a passenger.
The city of Dantzic \Vas making every preparation
for defence it contained 1.3,090 troops ; but 9f
these a number were invalids. They expedited daily
the arrival of the French before the plae. The
King of Prussia was in the neighbourhood of ran
dentz, and had collected 4 about 50,000 Prussian
troops, commanded by Count KAi.s.aatrru. A
Russian column of 18,000 men were arrived at
Warsaw, and other columns advancing into Por
land. It was supposed that the whole of the allied
force would very soon be upwards of 100,000
men. The great bridge ova. the Vistula at Thorn
had been destroyed ; as also all the craft upon;
that river which could serve the Fiend) troops tc4
cross it. •

" There was no account at Elsineur cn the eBti4
of the French entering Holstein ; on the contrary
the Danes were retiring from the frontier ; and ;tt
.the 6te named, no alarm prevailed at Elsineur fipr
the neutrality of Denmark. '
Mrs. JORDAN and the Drury-lane Proprietors, it
seems, are not likely to come to an amicable agree-
ment this season, as the Lady is thought to be mu qv
too high in her demands, particularly as Miss Du 11-
CAN was engaged to perform her line of charade rs,
and has become no small favourite with the Public.

MEGGETT, the new Roscius df Scotland,
made his first appearance last week upon the Edi
burgh Sfage in the charaeler of Oaavian, and c ri-
tical report is highly 'favourable to his talents. lie
is in the prime of life, possesses a good figure, an
expressive countenance, a firm clear-toned voice,
and has the recommendation of easy and animat, ed

Mr. JACKSON, the chief Proprietor of the
at Edinburgh, died last week in that city. He was
formerly an actor on the London Stage, but rut
within the memory of the present race of Critics.
His theatrical eharaCter was given with so much
severity by CHURCHILL in his Rosciad, that it ab-
solutely drove poor JACKSON from the London
Boards, on which he never afterwards ventured to
appear, but occasionally pursued his profession ia
Ireland and Scotland. He purchased the p ;tent
of the Edinburgh Theatre of Ross, once a respea-
able actor in London, who received a'n hundred a
year,. on account of that property, till his death.
Mr. JACKSON was not destitute of literary talents,_
however deficient he might be as an actor, but was
too apt to over-rate his powers in every respca,
notWithstantlilig the bitterness of CFtwicazu:s-sa,
tire. He was much "declined into the vale of life"
when he died, and had. been long •in a very ingrai
sate.