The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

President AitusitoE, in his Message to Con-
gress, has given a highly flattering and just state-
ment of our public interests. In no period of our
history does the state of this country appear so
prosperous. With the exception of the Cuba pi-
rates, we are at peace with all other people, awl,
what is still more, without any of that oppressive
debt on our shoulders, which. with other matioos
in Europe, are the fruits of unhallowed ambition,
and Si Inch weigh the people down to the earth.
The blessings of this Govehunent wilt be handed
down to posterity unembarrassed by any pledges
to 1w redeemed out of the earnings of their in-
dustry. Our children will be left to use the
means furnished by•their own tittles towards the
still further advancement of their national inte-
rests. A few years more will find those on the
stage free front debt ; a regular Government,
still more consolidated by experienc7e and age,
will ensure to them the permanent ana lasting
blessiugs of freedom. The boundaries of state
anti national rights and privileges will, in a short
time, be ascertained and fixed as to all substan-
tial points ; our natiou increased in numbers,and
its internal sources explored, may.bid defiance to
all hostility front without, and a due appreciation
of our blessings, it is to be hosed, may fur ever
keep in check factions within the country. No
stronger test of the high value put upon our pri-
vileges can be given than the hearty welcome
paid to General LA FA YETTE as one of the great
instruments of obtaining than. The canals al•
ready begun and those now projecting will
shortly form a chain of eti'ltniction along the
whole of our western frontier, and from them
communicate with the seaboard. Although the
fortunes of war might drive us front the ocean,
the inconvenience would be light—the facilities
of internal communication will enable us to ex-
change northern manufactures and products for
the luxuries and other commodities of the south.
Another important circumstance which may be
mentioned as adding greatly to the strength of
the country is the steam-thmt navigation. In a
territory so extended as the United States, the
distance is virtually diminished m proportion to
the certainty and dispatch witlt which the com-
munication may be kept up between the extreme
parts of the Union. In no country could this
advantage be equally felt with our own, owing
to its widely-extended territory and :he formid-
able current of its shores. in short, it is difficult
, to point out any natural or derivative advantages
possessed by any nation, which are not to be
found here. Nor is it necessary to go abroad for
a comparison to enable us to forma just estimate
of the blessings we enjoy—they are felt uni-
' sersally by our citizens, and envird by all fo-
reigners at all acquainted with this country.—
( .linerican Paper.)

SPANlst' ANIERIC.I.—The substantial recogni-
tion by this country of the independence of the new powers
which have risen up on this Continent, no one could' suppose to
be agreeable to France ; and the remarks of the Coint Papers
on this subject, full of spleen and .scarcely repressed anger, are
in proof of it. 4111., yet, why should France, unless she
were governed-.by' narrow views and an inverted ambition,
be uneaSy at a step which it were her best interest to follow ?
has France to do with the Holy Alliance any more
than England ? Does she hope to- get possession of Spain
•byit ? Tne example of Buonaparte might warn the Bourbon.
Does she co-operate in putting down not mere revolution,
but all rationally liberal principles throughout the Continent ?
Why should the Bourbons make their own throne insecure,
to prop up those of Austria and Russia ? The interest of
the Royal Family of Franc4e so obviously lies in the middle
course between an oppressive and a careless government,
that nothing but a course so wise and moderate is necessary
to erase entirely the memory and lingering inclinations of
men to Buonaparte, his family, and the revolution. It was
this opinion of Charles X. and a few overt acts, which looked
towards a better system, though equivocally, which pioduced
that marked popularity with which he commenced his reign,
and which, though somewhat ebbing, has not subsided. Where
arc the eves of the advisers of that Monarch, that they cannot
trace the direction and bearing of so plain a path ? The com-
mercial interests of France equally demand that wiser policy,
and that separation from the principles on which now the Holy
Alliance has planted itself. So long as France remains the sub-
stantial controller of Spain, and that country is not restored to its
independence, it must be an object of jealousy and aversion to the
new States; so long as France stands openly to view, confeder-
ated with the other Continental Powers, against the liberties
of mankind, in their soundest and most legitimate exposi-
tion, so long is she disqualified for forming any relations of
friendship with those new States, or acquiring any influence
among them. In the degree in which this state of things
prevails, her commerce must be restrained with these rising
Powers; and just in that proportion must they identity
themselves with Great Britain and the United States in a
common cause. The true cause of the whole of this blindness
to large views and permanent interests in France is the influ-
ence of Popery and superstition. The religious reasons tOr
keeping America subject to Spain surmount all • political con-
sideraf ions, and these priest-ridden Ilionarchs must still be
faithful to the church, though at the expellee of misrule,
and poverty, and ignorance, and wretchedness among their
subjects, and at the hazard of future Revolutions. The
impression made upon the commercial community of
Great Britain, by the late wise proceedings of the 3limatry,
has been'eihown in the honours just paid to the Earl of
Liverpool and Mr. Canning at Bristol. The Ministry, we are
persuaded, never stood on ground so firm and so flight ; and
these two distinguished statesmen have especially the ap-
plause and gratitude of the empire. As firm in difliculty, as
energetic in availing themselves of every opportunity of pro-
moting their country's interest and glory, they have weathered
the storm, and now spread the full sail to the propitious wind.
The character given of the prosperity and prospects of the
empire by Mr. Canning, with his usual felicity of expres-
sion, is certainly not exaggerated ; and it is, nor will it be for-
gotten, to the right principles and firm minds of the Earl of
Liverpool and Mr. Canning, and not either to timid or to fac-
tious Whigs, we owe it, that such congratulations on the state
of public affairs arc grounded on the happy sobriety of truth.—
(Liverpool Courier, Jan. lw.)