The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-27 00:00:00

FLAG OF TRUCE.

•
aPpeaiancc of a Cutter bearing au Union
4ack
jle Peak, from the French Coast, as no-
tice, ,
111 our Deal better, gavel:ise.to a strong re-
-11411 ,
1111 ell prevailed this morning, stating that a
tl4,
Truce had arrived with Pacific Overtures
-uONAFALTE.
he c
'ollowing from our Priyate Correspondent

inn
"113 the report
~caL, JAN. 26.—A vessel which was seen corn-
,.

"nd the South Sand Head was a Flag of
ru6er
. rum BUONAPARTE, xvhi:s.h, from a souther-

11'
b5.14d and a flood tide, is impossible to make
Istithour, and is now running for. the
ovvns„

we this day insert, at length, the Message sent
l'resident Mintsoz•T to Congress, of which
Te were enabled to give a very correct epitome in
hio "t 1 °F Yesterday. A document in every way
tr,11.-e:3lTe"sWe to British feelings, more false, in--
am l'lolent and perfidious, has never come
islcienr "r Observation. The cant of that delusive
14,111-s"PI)Y, the reign of which,, after a bloody and
telidc'nged illustration of its fatal principles and
Itt:rielr, is now drawing to a close in Europe,
t 1,04 to. have established its firinest bold upon
ibiuds of our Transatlantic adversaries, and
iti:bls°N presents from time to.time the disgust-.
asPect of an improving disciple in the school
afjp
rFeON ,
Nth:Message commences with the notice of th a t re •
so' "'which the appointment of the Amei lean En-
. ,1481 was originally d'esigned, namely, the rejection
Partoffireat Britain of any mediatorial
:.tate
qt -- her dispute with the United States.--7
144. "I"i3oti knew well enough that we could
th ajeent this mediation, because we must
by have admitted the discussion of rights
51:1 We have declared it to be utterly incon-
4:i t With our national safety to allow to be
into question, and he, therefore, with desa
I)4l.lste;e Qf cunning and --duplicity, worthy of his
oroes and character, procured it to be offered, in
11,:e,rto throw the odium of the war apparently on
ritisil Government. That Government he hOW
Droi as firm in war as•she is gentle in peace. To
tir,a rig the benefits and blessings of peace, A me-
he :`1 the world know how much forbearance
hoW many sacrifices we made sacri-
t4lbe.a "11'01 were ascribed tO pusillanimity and
fe:4l)ce• which was misconstrued into fear.
e will now see, and America •will now
t 'that
-rici having roused the Lion into vengeance,
Naqt at
him into wrath, he is not to be
with a bauble, or quieted with a few
`ll4hoi~:4 wolds. We will ourselves adjust our own
thro
tveaces with America. The sword haS been
1 " jut° the, balance, and the sword can
"ly decide those questions of. our dearest
%. 4nd most inalienable privileges which the
_14.1a
la" pretensions of the American Govern-
are raised, and which, consistently with
}I
°
14itlit.°"°"---our existence as a nation, admit
r
compromise nor of discussion under the
bit 4lent of other Powers.--I et America lopk
,Atatr Her Rulers may flatter her into a dreadful
ton °P.be 11Y their turgid and fulsome declama-
,
unnumbered victories in Wood and Lake,
Y
111, a a" Land. They may tell the people
t}ieunparalleled triumphs of Erie, Ontario,
ti otict •
0), I,l`gan, and Heaven knows where besides ;
(!tiku e
g`°Eies of the iminortal 'RODGERS, anti
tiAk? and HULL, and DEARBORN, and
40i.d4'. (of Chateaugay) and WILKINSON, (the
4 got conqueror of Quebec) and Lawts, am'
yr`ad of
other NELSQNS and JULIUS CIESARS,

' whom they prete(d to have discaverej'amonf; their
heroic hand.s.-11nt all these stories', were. they
true,,wotild only,serve as -a delusive ignis founts
to light them to their ruin, fiery and dazzling as
Mr. MADisos: paints -them in his inflated and boot -
bastic .Orations (reminding us of Tom Thumb and
Pom!,,ustes Firrioso), they will very 'speedily be
found by the Country to be ‘vandering
arising out of corruption and filth, leading liut to
betray, and possessed of neither the inherent qua-
lities of warmth or light.
Upon the more important. subject of natural
and acquired rights, which leads to the horrid
consideration of retaliation in the event of their
being disregarded, Mr. MADISON seems equally
unacquainted with the laws of God and of Alan.
He He proves himself to he profoundly ignorant of
the first elements of the code of nations, and or
their application in detail to the code of British Ju-
risprudence. With regard to Allegiance, the law
and usages of all Nations hold that therels an
implied original and virtual • allegiance due
froM every subject to his Sovereign (see BLACK-
STONE), front which be cannot be released by
any act of his own, and the
.violation of which
is Treason. "An Englishman (says the same
authority), who remnves to Fiance or China,
owes the same alregiance. to the King- of
England there as at home, and twenty years
hence as well as now. Fur it is a principle of
universul law, that the natural Tborn subject of
one Prince cannot by • any act of ,his own, 'no,
not by swearing allegiance to another, put off or
discharge his natural allegiance to the former ;
for this natural allegiance was intrinsic, and pri-
mitive, and antecedent to the other, and cannot
be dive Stied without the concurrent act of that
Prince to whom it was. first due," How does
Mr. Manisin,i . get over this ?—by procuring old
women to perjure themselves, in order to natu-
ralize British subjects, and then rocking them in-
Carolina cradles, to qualify the future perjury MC- •
(Mated to bring them off, in the event of their
being taken prisoners. But be cannot absolve
Britons from their natural duties, and the bare at-
tempt is monstrous. To counteuance it, however,
he has recourse to a gross fallacy; he says—

" A standing law of Great Britain naturalises,
" as is well known, all aliens 'complying with con-
" " ditions limited to a shorter period than those
required by the United States ; and naturalised
" subjects arc, in war, employed by her Govern-
ment in c,ofinnon with native subjects."
There is no such law in Byitain. In the first
place, every instance of naturalization requires the
formality
.of •a distinct Act .of Parliamept ; and
in the second, when passed into.a law of the land,
it does not withdraw the subject of another Prince
from his allegiance to that Prince, but conic's
certain privileges, and in return requires the per-
ftirmance of certain duties from him during his re-
sidence in this country. It is by the fallacy of
confounding the local allegiance of the alien to
the Prince of his adoption, with the natural alle-
giance of the subject to his natural Prince, that
cur Learned President has come to his false conclu-
sions. HALE distinctly lays down the difference in •
principle Between these two species-of allegiance—
the natural.
_we have already defined, the local is
entirely.of another complexion, it continues only,
so long as the.person-continues in the King's, do-
minions it ceases the instant be leaves the king-
dom ; it is, therefore, only temporary, while na-
tural allegiance is perpetual. And the prin,
ciple is shortly this : for protectiOn from the
Monarch the subject owes fidelity, and as th?.
Monarch is bound for ever to protect his natural
born subject, so the allegiance of the subject can-
not be absolved, whereas the Alien naturalizen is
only protected by the Monarch while living- in his
dominions, and his allegiance ceases from the mo-
ment he ceases, by removing, • to avail himself of
that-protection.
Such is the law of Britain and of nations : now
we_simply ask the question,. how it can be made
appliCable to British born subjects tiken in arms
against their own county; and invading her pro-
vinces to subjugate them to a foreign State ?

With this view, we need not say, that every
hair
.of a Britain's bead injured by . the American
Government, under the plea of retaliation for
British subjects punished for the erhne of treason
against their country, is upon the responsibility
of that Government, and that they must be -made
answerable for it, whatever may be the 'conse-
quenceS.

We giAie some interesting extracts from German
Papers, which bring down the connected his-
tory of the campaign in Italy to a later date than
hitherto received. _

• It is reported, that Don CARLOS of Spain, and
CLARKE (Duke of reltre) were the initruments
treating between BIYONAPARTE and FKRDINAND
VII., that a copy of the Treaty had reached Ma-
drid, and that its chief condition► was, that FER-
DIAND,, in gratitude foi• his restoration, should
drive the British from Spubz—they had better
have said Frairce! !