The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

[Bitl-Tlll PRESS.]

lye have 'cicelved letters from Rio de Janeiro,
dated the 16th of September. Our correspon-
dent states, that the .Brazilians are very well sa-
tisfied with the result Of Sir Charles Stuart's di-
plomatic labours. The merchants confidently
look forward to a general improvement in all
branches' of commerce. It was expected that
the treaty between England and Brazil would
have been made public on the 15th, but it had
net appeared on that day. The.only difference,
according lo repot, between 'this and the. former
arrangement with ,the Portuguese ,Govern-
ment, relates to the abolition of the Slave
Trade, which the Emperor of Brazil; it is un-
derstood, binds himself to reduce gradnally.every
Year until it be completely suppressed. The term
fixed for the entire abolition is ten years. When
the treaty with Poittigal was published, on the
7th of September, the rejoicings were universal
and enthusiastic. There was one of.the grandest
Court days yet known at Rio de Janeiro. The
most distinguished honours were rendered to Sir
Charles Stuart. He was the first presented to
the Emperor, whO received him in the most„cor-
dial manner. The splendour of his Excellency's
appearance excited general' admiratiOn.

[MORNING CHRONICLE]
The. French claims to excellence in war lave
occasionally been questioned ; as cooks they are

pot even nniversallrallowed a superiority over
their neighbours ; but, as dancers, they are by
pniversal confession unrivalled in either hemis-
phere. Our' readers may well judge of our asto-
nishment when, on opening the Constitutionnet of
Sunday, we found a paragraph, which our readers
yvill see in another column, stating that the
Clergy of France have determined to interdict
the peasantry' from dancing. Interdict the French
frOni dancing! What, in .God's name, do the
Priests intend to do with them? Dancing is as
much associated with all-our ideas of a French-
man as tnrtle with our ideas of an Alderman:—
Who'could put such a thought into the heads of
the P4iests ?—Make Methodists of the French !
treach them to walk as if they were going to the
gallows, and to draw back with pious horror,
from the spectacle of a fiddle! Surely, surely,
the experience of the lait thirty years, one should
think, might have taught the Priests" that the
energy ora Frenchman cannot possibly find a
safer outlet than from • his heels. Why the
eleciiical conductor is not a hap Pier inven-
tion for drawing down the ,thunder than danC-
ing is for drawing the Frenchman's energy
downwards. If the heels are 'placed under
restraint, the hands may be the more active,
And the Priests cannot surely have'forgotten that
they have suffered more from the hands than
the heels of their countrymen. We imagined
that a sour envy of the happiness and enjoyment
of others,was peculiar to England. But it seems
that "111-nature, like every thing else, is catching.
Mr. fluskiSson has in vain tried to establish an
interchange. of Manufactures. between the two
countries, the exchange of bad feelings has esta-
blished itself with the utmost ease. A cracked
fiddle animating two or three pair of heels will
now, 'it seems, be as great an abomination in the
eyes of 'God and man in France as in England.
It will tin longer be.
". . . . gay land of social ease,
' Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please."
Ode thing, however, consoles us in this—As the
English.liate 'the French cordially, it is not im-
probable that when we see sourness taken up by
them, we may leave it off ourselves. Who knows
but fifty years hence, the " surly Frenchman"
and.'.‘ bland and courteous Englishman" will be
the fanguage, of the world !