The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-13 00:00:00

TTIOII sense:'

We said yesterday that common sense Would
repudiate such a bargain, but we thought the
common sense was all on the side of the Haytians
t 9 reject, 311(1 the French to accept the Treaty.
The Drapeau Blanc thinks otherwise, and deems

thecommon sense to be all on the side of the
French Government, who could not, without a
sacrifice of the principle that has hitherto held
Colonies dependent on the Mother Country,
acknowledge the independence of St. Domingo.
" For a period of forty years," says the Drapeau
Blanc," during which England has recognized by
treaties the independence of the United States of
America, no other power, however circumstanced,
has renounced. its rights over distant possessions ;
and it would not then be becoming _that a dero-
gation from principles which have hitherto re.-
mined ".'ititchanged, should be commenced by
Frar=ce,nt the risk of what might result from it,
and for a colony whose politica; importance is
very much beneath that of South America, as
respects Spain and Portugal."

We are thus desired to believe the French
Cabinet will decline to receive six millions ster.
ling, for saying " Ilaytians be Free."

An article from Nurernburg in the Journal de
Paris of Sunday, states that tl.e Cabinet of
Vienna is at thii moment much PCLPIged
'new financial operation relative to Om interest of

the Public Debt, which will be reduced from
5 to 4 per cent. Holders of 5 per cent. stock re-
fusing to accede to this reduction will he paid off.
Negociations have already been commenced with
several Bankers, at the head of whom is ILOTAIS'''
CH LD, to contract for a loan, the amount of which
will be employed in paving oil those who dissent

from the proposal. •
This plan of harrowing money of a new set of
creditors at a reduced interest, with a view tq
,pay off an old set of creditors at a higher rate of

interest, is an expedient to reduce the expen..,
diture of the Government adopting the measure.
We do not, however, perceive that this system
of economy is carried through every branch of
the public expeUditure, or that, 'whilst. the,
public creditor is required to accept, of a les
interest for his money, that. the afrairs:df Govern-
ment are administered on a less expensive
and offices and binec re s abolished wherever the
exigencies of the state, admit. It would
however, as it appears to. us, be too much to es-.
pect that, previously to any reduction of the na,,
tional debt, due exertion should be made to apply.
the same rigid economy to every department
of the:Government ; or that, At any rate, a re-
duction of the interest of the public debt shoal(;
be accompanied by a corresponding reduction io,
other branches of the public expenditure,

In such a view of the case, perhaps the plan
about to be adopted by the Austrian Cabinet,
might be as just as we doubt not it is expedient ;
but, as it is, however, it appears to us a positive
breach of faith, and a.dishonourable attempt tc?',
escape from engagements solemnly entered into.
There is all the difference in the world betweeo,
paying off one's creditors horn one's own fund§
and paying then, by borrowing from others. 10
the first instance, the creditor has little right to
complain that his dehtur •chooses to apply hi°
surplus cash in reduction of the demands out-
standing against him ; but, in the.second instance,
he might very reasonably demur, seeing that the
reduction is made not with any view to the public`
benefit, but only to keep up a wasteful and t
ex r3°
vagant expenditure of-the public money for the
private advantage of the public officers and their
friends, and which, but for this seasonable re•
duction, could not be very long maintained. Th.
creditor of a nation stands, in this particular, ha
a different position from the creditor of the pr."
vate individual—a distinction, indeed, too obviout:
to require elucidation.

The declaration of Mr. CANNING in t,}:eh iel a"
of
. ;
of Commons on the sth instant, that
declined to .nter into any negotiation vrith! , ,
J.,
mercantile Gentleman who had -been appoiel '''
Consul for Buenos Ayres," has, it seems, berm''berm''
productiveiiooiign:
of strange misunderstanding and W'iis •
representation. We canl however, see in Olt.,
but a wilful perversion of the meanie:, ot
Mr. CANNING, for we are persuaded no per"o I;
,li i
could read what the Honourable Gentleman '
say, and put any other construction upon it o°l
e
simply, that he meant generally to condemn 11'I i
appointment of mercantile men as Consuls frIIII
those States to England.
n'
The impropriety of such appointments is - i r
deed sufficiently obvious, from the fact that 421' 1 e '
connexions with those States are necessarily more
of a commercial than a political nature. Mr.Cit'is'
KING declined to put those persons into possessl°ol,
of the intentions of Government with regard '
SouthAmerica,because such information would-II"
without doubt, first employed to their own 7-gas.:
vantage in their own mercantile transactiO
Nor is there any thing in this that in the leis. ,
degree reflects on the characters of those 111
e
dividuals, for it i 4 only natural to . supP°/1,
they would so employ the information obt"lid.
ed, and in doing so could not he char,aeo•
with fraud or a dereliction of their duty os ise
suls. With the conduct, however, of tl'eof
persons, we have nothing to do, but the W0111%4
a Minister of the Crown should not be torture
• of
to suit the interested views of a writer to s i,
newspaper, or employed to cover heavy accus'ol i
tions, howsoever correct they may Iw. If the SI/u ' .
American agents are as devoid of character as the
0,
writer of the article in question represents the ao
let him declare it on his own responsibility, %.
not endeavour to shift the odium of the tic° e
tion from himself to the Honourable Secret:r, •
for Foreign affairs, by misrepresenting his W°r_ole
....„,
o'er w',
and drawing from them inferences that n
intended, and which they will not bell.rn'ect
If Mr. CANNING had really entertBl-tte
such notions of these Gentlemen, sure we are of '
is not a man' to shrink from openly avowing 11:6i•
to convey his sentiments by covert and darn 100.
nuations, if his duty required such a tleclar4`
at his hands.

•
The RUSSIANRUSSIANAmBAssAnott. hail a lonZ inter,
view yesterday with Mr. Secretary CANNINGioet
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, another Catioiel%
Council was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-streeitt„ister:
rat in deliberation till three o'clock. The following .All-0, th.".
were among those present :—The Duke of Welltngt°olo'
Viscount tolftriarrbY
Melville, r. Secretary c:‘ , r. ecre
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Scc. &c. oblg •
,iviLh'erpool, 11,p-estimalrielasnd, at,nrdyit,_'`oing'
The Lords of his Majesty's Most 1101"'" to
Privy Council had a meeting yesterday afternoon, -wadi
o'clock, at the Council Office. The Lords peel.; oticeol •
The Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chief
t`b-e C•otie
the Court of King's Bench, the Master of the itollgz, rip,lo. •
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord ciii6f je'd'aln;ll
Judge Advocate, and Sir Henry Russel Their 44-
were occupied in hearing cases of A ppeld rerpPcttng
claims, till half-past four, when their Lordships seParh''