The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-08 00:00:00

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"TIE TRUE SUN" IS NOW
INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1838.

Aprehensions are entertained, by persons who
profess great .knowlede on the subject, that, in the
contelit with Canada, England has much more to fear
from the inhabitants of the United States, bordering
nn the Lower Province, than from the aggrieved Ca-
nadians themselves ; and blame is attached to the
Governor, for sending his troop 3 to attack detached
insurgent parties, without disposing a portion of the
forces along the frontier line, to drive back intruders.
If this to the only subject for blame, Sir Jomr Cot,
BORNE has not much to answer for. To guard a line
of some two or three hundred miles would require
twice the number of troops now at his command, and
even with that number, stragglers, in quest Df
plunder,_ would find less difficulty in evading the
soldiers, than smugglers find in passing a line
of Custom-house officers. The danger is not to
be met in that way ; and if such danger exist, the
Csa*lians will find that it will operate with much more
foroe marina themselves, than against the British
forcos, or British settlers. It would then become a
naticaal war, and the sympathy which many now en-
tertain for the Canadians, would be converted into in-
dignation against their co-adjutors, who, in defiance of
their own Government—in defiance of the rights of
natilllns, and without any regard to the merits of the
dispute—enter on a marauding warfare, not for the
purpose of redressing the wrongs of the French party,
but to enrich themselves by plunder, and rob British
subjects of property, which the imperial Parlia-
ment, is bound to protect. The affair of Texas
is bed, but this would be infinitely worse.
The North American and Mexican Governments had
serious grounds of dispute. England and the United
States are on the most friendly terms—but a year ago
England interposed her good offices to prevent a war
with France—the prosperity and happineseof both
countries are bound up in the continuance of peace—
no two countries have so much to lose by war, and all
the peaceable, the industrious, the honest, whether
rich or poor, of both nations would be enlisted against
men who might entail the most grievous calamities on
both, by commencing a selfish and bloody inroad upon a
people against whom they hare no just grounds of
umplaint. " Already rifles have been sent to Canada,"
, vs Mr. RoEBUCK—" Men who can handle those
'fles with deadly dexterity will follow." Sue-
: ese Mr. ROEBUCK is right, will these men who
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vernment of wh;cli has denounced them ? England is
not so enervated by peace, or so oppressed even by her
enormous debt, as to he unable to stand up fur her
rights. She resisted the united force of America and
France in the last war, and no Government could now
to submit enlist
iinsurgents who ally themselves with these lawless
... arauders. Ile is no friend of the Canadians, who
. commends such a mode of wai fare. They would have
'Obtained justice in time, by the force of public opinion
—we trust they will obtain it still, though they have
broken through the rules of constitutional resistance ;
but we should look forward to their cause with despair,
if they trust, not to themselves, but to indiscreet ad-
visers, and to the support of freebooters from Maine
or Vermont.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S speech at Carlisle, which
is a sort of omnium gatherum of crude conceits, fana-
tical votchets, and flippant impertinences—as will be
seen by t,4a.r.,,port of it, which appears in another part
of !o-day's Run—is every way worthy of this very
eonsi.sttat politician, whose wrath and spleen, long pent
up, have at length found a safety-valve. After this
furious—and what is a more serious matter—lengthy,
outburst of bile, the Right Hon. Baronet. will, we trust,
be able to " sleep ol nights," for some months to come.
At any rate, he has given us quite enough of his acrid
humours, and ill-concealed jealousies ; in fact, exhausted,
we should suppose, his whole stock of malevolence.
His Carlisle oration can scarcely be called so much.
a speech as a collection of speeches, strung
taigerEsti-r at random, and ranging over a vast
field of nolitical controversy, as if for the
desperate purpose of making up for lost time. Poor Sir
•JAMES! Nothing pleases him. He finds fault with
all things and with all people, with the sole exception
of his dem friends, the Tories. Reversing POPE'S
adage that " whatever is, is right," he has come to
the conclusion that '' whatever is, is wrong." The
Whigs displease him—the Radicals displease him—he
is horrified at the idea of the Ballot—'' perplexed in
the extreme" with the Canada question ; and convinced
that our poor clear old Constitution has got, like Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT, " a chalk-stone in its heels,"
and can only limp along, like a cripple, upon carches.

The Right Hon. Baronet commenced his infliction
by an alarming attempt at the pathetic. Alluding to
the late election, he bewailed in the most moving terms,
the indignation expressed towards him, which he said
was " disgraceful to the free institutions under which
we live." We thank Sir JAVES for this sentiment.
Lix wholly new to us. We did not know, till now,
that the '' free institutions" of our country were com-
promised by cur expressing abhorrence of a turn-coat.
Wo always thought that the fact was just the
reverse ; and that we might manifest our opinion of
• a great Cumberland Baronet without in the slightest
degree periling.; our national freedom. But, suppose,
instead of indignation, the Cumberland yeomanry had
testified approbation of the conduct of their ex-Mem-
ber ;—in that case, we presume, our " f.ee
tions" would have stood on a higher vantage ground
than ever. Really, we cannot sufficiently admire thet
,modesty of a man who seriously apprehends danger to'
the katitutions of his country, because his own
vr.ttify It met,., with a check, instead of encouragement
Talk it the three tailors of Tooley-street I They
never evinced bashfulness equal to this. Sir JAMES
must bava been baptized recently in the waters of the