The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-06 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

Yestorday Mary Davis was charged on,suspicion
of -stealing live silver spoons. It was stated -by
John Thomas Holmes, ()Weer of the New Surrey
Roads, that having received information that a
woman was offering sonic spoons to sell in Black-
friars-road, he went to thehouse, and upon-tries-
' tinning the prisoner, she said that the spoons were
her own property, and that her husband was cm=
gloved under the Duke of Wellington. Holmes,
however, was not satisfied with 'her account, and
took her into custody. He then endeavoured to
find out an o,vner for the spoons, and at length,
by means of the' engraver who engraved the
crest upon them, found that they were the pro•
perty of Mr. Ranking,' of Cavendish-square, and
.were stolen out of the butler's pantry a day or
.two_before. The butler and Mr. Raiiking
and proved the property, and Davis -was com-
mitted.
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ConowEres Its:ouzs-r,—Tirestlay evening. an to
quest was held on the body of MARY PAVNE, at
the Coach and Horv.s, Little Otinoud-street.---,
file deceased kept a house iti Orinond-street, and
-was about 45 years old.. ‘il'servant in the liblisp
stated, that as she ,was lighting the fire-in the
morning, she heard that Mrs:PAYNE was sud-
denly taken. very ill, and On gOilig into the bed-:
rooin,„,..forind the deceased in convulsions. • Mr.
Is,.E'RNANDE7„ apothecary, -found her in -a state of
)ost:risibility, and in,strong convulsive fits, ditf,:i'-
•ing very.little in appearance front apoplexy but,
whilst he was considering what. the attack could
be under which she was labouring, the husband
shelved hint,a..loter written by the deceased;
which .left .no -doubt on his mind that she had
takewpoison. usually.given to per-
sons in such a state were administered, but with-
out effect; as she died about noon ; and subse-
quent circumstances, a bottle being found con_
ccilerl which had contained latulanunr,-&c.icfc no
doubt that she had poisoned herself. Verdict—
L:unacy----poisoaed herself.

.A.AIEJ.IICAN EXPOSE'.

EXPOSE
OF THE VIEWS OE GOVERN'AIENT.
We have already expressed ,onr
,ideas relative
' to the probability of„ an. early acquisition to the
United- Mutes, by cononest, bolh. the 12'anculus.
They may prove erroneous. May not obtain
po'Ssession of these territories in the next summer,
Bu.; eventually they must be. ours T. anti it is worth
while to inquire into their value, and the means
of holding them after they fall into our power.
The value of-the acquisition has been question-
ed, and indeed vociferously denied on the floor of
Congress, ott election grounds, and elsewhere.
Here is an ample field of observation to the States-
man anti Philosopher, whom,we invite to explore
but, fortunately for us, it is. equally open to
the view of the common observer, in which ca-
Tacity we will venture but afew.reinarks.
The two Canadas embrace and command the
outlet and entrance, whilst they share the whole
extent of the two great waters of North Ameri-
ca—a water of itself equal in magnitude to the
Rhine, the Volga, or the Danube, and in im-
, portance, when viewed in connexion with the
Mississippi, the Great Southern outlet, is equal
to all these mighty rivers of Eutope put together.
Our readers will realiae our ideas of its import-
ance, when they reflect, that the St. Lawrence
and its waters alone, form the natural channel of
inutort of a country, of sufficient ex-
' tent and fertility to;-sapput I << -1.7,9,,d,0irin of ten
millions or More. Recently this •inaieStic water
bore, upon its bosom and upon our border, the
exclusive power of Great Britain. All nations
are liable to the storms of war, and particularly
nations with each other whose territories are con-
tignotts. Could we, then, in our right reason,
expect long to remain in peace with a nation
holding a s" ay on our horsier, which eNPeri-
(ice has proved to be vexatious' ; .and command e
irig an ootlet to - the sea, . the possession of
which was so highly important to our northern
territory,. Canada must some time or other have
belong-ed to the. United Maas, or some of. our
Northern States at least must have belonged
to Canada. The longer 'delayed, the . more
difficult would have been its acquisition. Since
then our enemy forced us to war„ and com-
pelled us to territorial reprisals for her oceanic
outrages, and still persists in
_refusing a recogni-
tion of our violated rights ; we trust_ our readers.
Will generally agree with us, that the Cauadas
once oars, they shall he,,, as these states have
been, for ever divorced front British Sovereignty.
Their conquest was in vain attempted by the he-
roes of the revolution, when fighting in, defence
of their rights'. Their descendants have now at-
tempted it, ail(' in the event of success, which we
will not doubt, will have achieved the designs
which their fathers had the will but not the power
to carry interexecution.
As to the mean's we haVe of holding these pos-
sessions in defiance of Great Britain, the advan-
tages we possess are, in our view, pepaliarly'strik-
ing. Every enterprise on her part against us
must at once be attended with no little hazard,
great expellee, anti, utter uncertainty as to the is
sue. .Hazard, in the. great 'distance and stormy
seas to be encountered in every outfit, either from
Great Britain,"or
,any of her possessions; exces
.sive- expellee, front the same circumstances, as well
as from the, total ignorance to what extent she
mast go to nroduce any effect-;, anti utter uncer-
' tainty as to the issue, or, rather absolute. certaiuty
that every measure must be altogether inefficient
and abortive, because it is impossible that any ar-
mament of sufficientanagnitude to authorise the
remotest hope of efficacy, against Qtiebec in our
hands 'eon be sent thither without our govern-
ment obtaining a knowledge of itain tittle to meet
it with a greater. The , Measures of the county
taust be begun and finished within the space of
five months in each year, -at a remote 'ensconce
. whilst we have twelve months in which to coun-
teract them hi our -immediate vicinity, and with
the greatest facility. In short, we shall have
possession, which •in war, as well as the' laws,
throws the burtlien of denithistration atit attack
upon cur adversary, and places us literally on the
vantage grounds.
Front natural causes, perhaps no single posi-
tion in the known world so efiectually guards the
only entrance front the sea to a country of equal
extent,
,as does Quebec the' whole country draineg
by the St. Lawrence. Whilst, front similar causes;
there is probably no one' point in any country at
which the resources of all its parts may be so
easily abut 'speedily concentrated. And, when the
distances to the variou's quartets whence they may
lie so collected are considered, there is nothing of
the kind in any country to bear a' comparison.
ye are informed by a correspondent, whose
means of inforMation arc abundant, and intelli-
gence and veracity unquestionable, that some few
improvements of trifling magnitude, and no diffi-
culty in French Creek and the entrance of' Pres-
qu'isle Bay-, are, alone necessary to the transpor-
tation of alMost any 'quantity (say a thousand
tons) from the river Ohio at Pittsburgh to any
point on. the St. Lawaence, in twenty-five days,
at one dollar or less per lianderd weight. At Pitts-
burgh, supplies are abundant and various'at the
lowest rates : flour, for instance, at three to four
dollars per barrel, and generally other articles in
proportion, and in almost' inexhauctiess,quanti--
ties.—From the extensive and populous countries
on both shores of La,ke Ontat io, we are informed
at similar quantity may lac transported in ten days
at a third, of a dollar per cwt.a—but the first cost,
though moderate, something higher than at Pitts-
Froin the North river, where
.rnay be Col-
lected more titan one-third of,the produce of the
United States, transportation to the St. Lawrence
may be had 'for 50 cents per cwt. and the rout per-
formed in from five to ten days.
Front each of these great sections of country,
troops may be arrived with equal ease and celerity,
and from Pittsburgh, much more speedily than
heavy stores can be transported, .these requiring ,
by a river navigation, front fifteen to twenty days,
where troops would march by /and onlylB6aniles.
It- must then be evident, that 100,000 troops, if
necessary, with such provident arrangements as
arc to be expected front our government, might
on any emergency be • collected on the St. Law-
rence in a few weeks. By a state of preparation

etoe:rseits)yit:otiofthe use of means .0 2-13nncl'Ilit'ittisi;e'.1
ele";
their use will be greJtly (1.0,'1, i 5 I°
The expense of hulling Q .l .c tod "1- toY
I,oltl the Canadas I": )1 ' iiiosin' re
he thus. reduced. ' against i()reg'n . tilotler
scale. to
have alreadyt :rhet::::t:.-it::llp:l7:ttit:r ''t'lst•
l:;::
o.tit!i)ritegliansci:i:ir i-NaTl.u'orit':;:sae:Treasin'islt''tithsc3esto::::l:,:.ilit:::i.
is every excitement to the utmost ekelti`i)::e ''''
on our own exertions add „nil ed ctfort.':oll'
petrels the time. (beyond the 10th jua'••Pt:'. •
it shall be ours. ,
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