The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-08 00:00:00

one country, we see every thi►►g having a tendency
to make man what his Creator intended him to
be, lending itself to this grand social consumma-
tion—universal education, cherished ; industry
encouraged ; person and property enjoying the
most perfect protection ; and the population in-
creasing with a rapidity to which we can find
no parallel, and what is more extraordinary,
without the vice or misery with which it is too
often accompanied in other countries. We may
use this language now, in speaking of the Ame-
ricans, without hurting the prejudices or the
pride of a single rational Englishman ; for their
prosperity, instead of proving a source of alarm
to us, has materially contributed to our own ;
whilst their emulation in the arts which we
cultivate in common, had served only to call
forth the energies of our national character. This
is so true, that the wealth, commerce, and power
of England, have advanced at a pace fully as ra-
pid as that which• has characterised the progress
of the Americans since the establishment of their
independence. Yet, for half this period we
were involved in a war of unparalleled expence ;
and, in spite of this drawback, we have no
reason to fear a comparison. The external re-
lations of the United States present as favourable
an aspect as their domestic interests. The same
spirit of justice and moderation animates both ;
and the results are the most perfect concord at
home and abroad. Their foreign policy, as it
regards Europe,consists, according to the Message,
in cultivating peace and friendship alike with all
nations, and in carefully abstaining from all inter-
ference in their disputes. But this abstinence does
not extend to transactions, where European and
American interests are mingled ; and here the Mes-
sage assumes a lofty, though not an assuming tone.
It states distinctly, that any attempt to interpose
by force in the affairs of the new States of the
American Continent will be regarded as hostile
to the interests of the United States. This im-
portant declaration is made without the slightest
air of bravado, but it will tell better on this ac*
count ; and the simple and almost indirect man-
ner in which it is made will encourage no Eu-
ropean Power to slight it. In speaking of the
relations with those new States, the Message con-
tains no novelty, except a hope that it expresses
that Portugal will speedily recognize the inde-
pendence of Brazil. The American Papers,from
which we have copied the President's Message,
contains intelligence of a recent date from
Mexico, where some slight disturbances ap-
pear to have taken place, but more the result
of a bad police, than of political discontent.—
When the Government consolidates itself, dis-
orders of this description will be of more rare
occurrence ; and we cannot feel any surprize at
the insecurity of person and property, that still
prevails in a State so newly erected and so im-
perfectly organized, when we recollect how slow
we were ourselves in obtaining good police
regulations : even those which we now have,
are very far from perfection, but such as they
are, and they are incomparably better than they
were a few years since, they date their origin
in a great measure from the commencement
of Mr. Secretary Peel's Administration, as head
of the Home Department. There is a loose re-
port of a second victory over the Spaniards in
Peru ; but the confusion that marks the rumour,
may be accounted for by the circuitous mode of
conveyance, without overturning its -probability.
Though it does not mention the precise corps that
has been beaten, nor the place where the engage-
ment was fought, yet as it concurs with a.- former
report, and with the circumstances of the hostile
forces, as described in the last official advices, we
are disposed to give it credit. It is represented
in the mean time as a complete victory, the enemy
being reduced, it is said, to a state of nullity.

[NEW TIMES]
The feeling produced by his Majesty's recog-
nition of the South American States has been
quite electric. Throughout Great Britain the
measure will be received with one universal gra-
tulation. The name of Mr. Canning is honour-
ably associated with an event which tends to
secure the blessings of civilization and hide-
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pendence to so large a portion of the globe. It
is not merely that he happens to fill the office
of Foreign Secretary at the moment of the
recognition, but that he has. for,,above a
twelvemonth so ably and so steadily jvuoued a
policy directed to this great result. The. depen-
dence of the Spanish Colonies on the Mother
Country had de facto ceased. The Kingdom of
Spain and the Indies had become a vain and
empty hypeitole ; but still the Spanish Cabinet
might, by judicious and temperate measures, have
secured to their Sovereign great advantages in a
new arrangement with the Independent provinces.
The disinterested anxiety which Great Britain
shewed to promote such an arrangement, entitles
her to the gratitude of both parties. Mr. Canning
from time to time urged the Spanish Ministers to

adopt an enlightened policy suited to the occasion;
but as they appear to have constantly shewn an infa-
tuated blindness, on this subject, it has at length
become necessary for the British Government to
act independently of the wishes or pretensions of
the King of Spain. There are many important
points to be regulated in our commercial inter-
course with Mexico, Colomhia,and Buenos Ayres,
It cannot be supposed that people like the
inhabitants of those regions can all at once
have' attained the most enlightened notions
in respect to their commercial policy. There
are imposts to be removed—there are vexatious
regulations to be abolished—there is a freedom
in the exercise of religion to be secured ;—on
these and numerous other points we may easily
believe the powerful mind of Mr. Canning has
been long employed, and the all-powerful in-
fluence of Great Britain will now he exerted in
securing them by Commercial Treaties.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Wednesday are filled
chiefly with articles relative to the new projects
of law. Some of the journals have not yet finished
the Speech of M. de Martignac. The Royalist
indemnity is the subject of every conversation ;
all parties agree in objecting to the mode in
which, according to the project of law, the
Board of Claims is to be constituted.—