The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-15 00:00:00

ing successively-by different vessels a dozen of letters, in which 1 GRAND NATIONAL AQUEDUCT FROM LONDON
Messrs. Esmangart and Laujon expressed their impatience on TO PORTSMOUTH.
account of the delay of the person who was to be the bearer
of my propositions. But by art inconceivable fatality, which
always turns aside the French Administration from the ap-
proximation which it ever appears so desirous to efFeet_bai
by a system of tergiversation which prevents it, at the moment
of concluding, admitting the proposition already admitted, or
which leads it to reproduce the pretensions which it had aban-
doned to create for itself an opportunity'of alleging the instil:ll7
ciency of the powers of my agents, the mission of the -eitillenft
Larose and Rouanez remained, like the preceding ones, iwith-
out result. They therefore finind themselves under the neces-
sity of demanding their passports to return to the Repiiblic,
where they arrived on the 4th instant.
Their conduct answered my expectation. It will also entitle
them, I have no doubt, to the national approbation. The ac-
count whic7i they rendered to me will be annexed to the official
papers which I have mentioned.
I have ju't made known the facts, and I surrender them to
the tribunal of public opinion. Hayti will have it in h power
to judge whether her Chief Mayi:tride has ju►tified Cie confi-
dence placed in.him, and the wol, I, on which side was the good
faith. I shall confine myself to declare, that the Ilaytians will
never deviate from their glorious resolution, but will wait with
firmness for the issue of events. And. if ever they shot:l-1 find
themselves called upon to repel an unjust aggression, the uni-
verse will again witness their enthus.asm and ener,o, in the de-
fence of their national independence.
National Palace of Port-au-Prince, October 18, 1824, the
21st year of the independence of Ilayti. • DOVER.

A plan for forming a great National Aqueduct
from the River Thames at Deptford to Portsmouth, is in a
great state of forwardness, and will shortly be submitted to the
consideration of the Public. Its vast importance to the Empire,
and particularly to the Port of London in universally acknow-
ledged, especially during War. The late Mr. RENNIE, was,
we understand, a zealous advocate for. the undertaking, and
had he lived, there is little doubt, but that long before this time
" His Master Mind" would have brought to maturity, the
plans he had in some measure prepared for it. The work should
be undertaken by the Government under the sanction of the
Legislature, and there is no doubt whatever but that the transit
of Ships would produce an income to leave a fair return for the
money expended upon it—exclusive of the public advantages
which the Nation would derive in the facility of communica-
tion. it would create between the Metropolis and the Naval Ar-
senals of Portsmouth and Plymouth. The saving to the Mer-
chant and Ship-owners in premiums of Insurance, and other
charges incident to the passage up the Channel by the Fore-
lands to the River Thames would be very great, from which the
rate of toll to be paid, might be calculated. Besides, an Ague_
duct to admit Ships of large burthen to pass from London to
the Isle of Wight, would be a National Ornament which would
give credit and splendour to the present reign.

The following is the substance of the official
account given in the French Papers, as to the
course of the negociation, and the cause of the
rupture :
The Deputies landed at Havre on the 1 lth of June, but it
was not till the middle of July that the negociation had mat]
any progress: the questions-then discussed were, the recogni-
tion of Hayti, a pecuniary indemnity, and commercial advan-
tages for France on the footing of the most -favoured nation.—
These points seemed- to have been nearly settled without diffi-
culty. The pecuniary indemnity offered by Hayti was indeed
less than the French Government seemed to expect; but this
difficulty was not considered of great consequence.
'When both parties had nearly agreed on these points, M.
Esmangart, for the first time, spoke of the Eastern part of
• Hayti which belonged heretofore to Spain. The King of
France he observed could not stipulate for the King of Spain.
The Deputies declared that they could not admit. a distinction
not embraced in the overtures made to their Government. They
suspected that there existed an intention to draw out the nego-
tiations to an excessive length, or to get some pretence for
breaking them off'.
The term prescribed by the President of the Hayti ap-
proached, and on the 23th and 30th of July the Deputies
wrote to M. Esmangart on the subject, and -he in return pro-
posed an interview between' the Envoys and the Minister of
Marine and Colonies, which took place on the 31st July.
The Minister, the Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, opened
the conference by saying that he had invited the Deputies to
the interview to lay before them the royal ordonnance " which
sanctioned the independence of Hayti as they desired, and in
which his Majesty only reserved to himself the external Sove-
reignty"— (1a s niveraincte extcricure.)
The Deputies expressA their astonishment at this reservation
thus mentioned for the first time, and declared its utter inad-
missibility in strong language. llis Excellency then adverted
to the question as to the rest of the island, and received the same
answer as had been given to M. Esniangart.
His Excellency thn proposed that one of the Deputies should
return to Ilayti to lay the difficulties before the President, the
other remaining in France. This they declined to accede to.
M. Esmangart then- broke off the treaty, by a note in these
words, ila,:ed August 3 :
" The Government, after the conference you have had with
the Miniver of the Marine, has decided that, for want of suffi-
cient powers vested in you to accept the conditions established
in the Royal Ordormance, with which you have been made
acquainted, the negociation cannot proceed."
The Deputies accordingly left France on the lath August;
There is a great appearance of want of good faith in France
through the whole progress of the negociation. The Minister
of Marine attempted to persuade the Deputies that the reserva-
tion to France of the nominal sovereignty, would be for the
interest of Hayti, as France would- then be engaged to defend
tier against all foreign attacks.- The Deputies said that, with-
out assuming any temerity, they might ass!rt that Ilayti could
defend itscif.