The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-10 00:00:00

worthy Of a letireaf Sage, talked only of the wel-
fare of the generation to come.
We will no longer delay the curiosity of our
Readers. The letter offers the whole of Mr. JEF-
FERSON'S library. We have heard it objected,
that it might have been more generous in the re-
tired Patriot to offer his books as a donative. But
the objection is just of the cold and short-sighted
nature that might proceed from an Englishman,
and of course an enemy. What- would be the
effect on a Commonwealth hitherto unequalled in
the purity and fair-dealing of its commerce, if
the honourable principles of exchange and barter
were to be thus thrown into contempt by the
example of the great Statesman. The disregard
too of personal opulence,- which the example
cowing from so high a quarter, might seem to
sanction, could not fail of having the most disas-
trous consequence among a people, who know,
that to be rich, is to he respectable all over the
earth. Observe too, how the new world rises
superior to the old.
A Statesman dying in England would have
thought that he paid his share of gratitude in
abandoning to sonic public collection the litera-
ture which he could not carry %vitt] him to the
grave. America " Novo gaudens splendore," has
the pride of holding forth to our envy and won-
der a man who, during life, consents to part
with treasures not to be rivalled in the land
to which he has consigned his immortality, and
of whose valuable bindings, elegant editions, and
wire-wove paper, he exhibits all the conscious-
ness of an intellect exquisitely in its prime. The
abundance and fertility of this great conception
pullulate and swell upon the mind, on every newer
view. Think of this glorious revenge upon the
Vandals, who hurried the sideboards and plaster
casts of Washington ; thiuk of the lofty triumph
that is to compensate the desolation of the Na-
tional Intelligencer. The Private Correspondence
of NAPOLEON has perished, to the weighty loss
of American diplomacy : the grand effusions of
that mind, which, after overwhelming Europe, was
to give the United States the fraternal embrace,
arc scorched for ever; the first hints of the march to
Moscow, and the invasion of Bengal, are beyond
ti e reach of mortal eyes : but, if these are lost,
" all is not lost." The Corsican Correspondent
will find the only compensation left to the world in
tile diplomatics of the retired Patriot. The inge-
nious views, the generous forbearance, the honest
and candid sensibility that led to the War in
Spain, may be followed 'at no slight interval by
the celebrated President's views on the Floridas.
The manly spirit that encountered the hostility,
while it respected the legitimate place•of England
in the European system, and which confers such
_undying honour on the ill-starred Corsican, may
find its rival in the genuine good faith which dis-
tinguished the Peace of the American Statesman,
his scorn of petty altercation, his noble resist-
ance of the temptation that glowed round hint in
Louisiana and the Canadas. " They were lovely
in their lives." If their tombs are to be divided,
their memory must go together. 'What remains
of their spirit must be invaluable. That 50,000
dollars should be asked for the library of THOMAS
JEFFERSON may astonish those who are unac-
quainter! with the merits of a collection which has
been hitherto supposed to be compiled of Ob-
scenity land Atheism, VoLNEY and VOLTAIRE.—
But we are to remember that in that collection
are to be found the nurture and the produce—
what formed the mind of the late American Presi-
dent, and what that mind formed; that in offering
his books to the study of the Legislature, he has
given them a standard by which they may gra-
duate their own vigour in vanquishing the pre-
judices of natural feeling, and a tuition, under
which they may leave the craft and obliquity, the
obsolete cunning and wily intricacy of European
Machiavelism, at a distance, hopeless, immeastu
able, inapproachable.

The PRINCE REGENT is expected at Carlton
House from Brighton either to-marrow or Mon-
day next. His Royal Highness was to give an
elegant farewell ball and supper. last night at' the
Pavilion, to which all the Nobility, Gentry, and
several of the principal residents, had been ho-
noured with invitations.

Early yesterday morning. Mr. PEGLER the King's
Messenger, arrived at the Foreign Office with Dis-
patches from Lord CASTLEREAGH, at the Congress
of Vienna. A Messenger was expected to be sent
off last night with an answer to them.
Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign Office, and in the evening Mr. METTS,
the Messenger, was sent off with dispatches to
Lord GAMBIER, Mr. GoULEURN, and Mr. ADAMS,
the Commissioners, at Ghent.

Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE sailed from Halifax
the fatter end of October, in the Tonnant, of 80
guns, for the Gulph of Mexico, to superintend
the expedition that had been sent against the ter-
ritories off the mouths of the Mississippi : the
troops that were ordered to embark at Jamaica are
supposed to be destined to assist in this enterprise.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has issued
his cards of invitation for his Cabinet Pinner on
Wednesday next.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.