The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-18 00:00:00

CASE OF 31R. 31'LEO.D.

We understand that official intelligence has been re-
ceived from Wasliing,ton of a much more satisfactory
nature than might have been supposed from the news•
paper accounts received by the Acadia.
There is no reason to doubt that the authorities of
the State of New York will liberate Mr. M'Lcod upon
bail. Indeed, they would have done so already, but
Mr. Nl.Leod, being a stranger in the neighbourhood of
Lockport, was unable to procure the necessary sure-
ties. Sir J. Harvey, however, we understand, gives the
guarantee of the Colonial Government to the parties
undertaking to become bail for Mr. APLeod, who, it
was expected, would be immediately liberated.
It has been stated in previous accounts from the
United States, that Mr. M'Leod had refused, or would
refuse, to avail himself of the opportunity of being li-
berated on bail. There is, we believe, no foundation
for this statement. On the contrary, he was known to
be anxious to return to Canada, and was somewhat ap-
prehensive that his trial might have been postponed till
next year.

The liberation of Mr. M‘Lcod will remove the more
immediate cause of the apprehension which has existed
in this country since the fact of his arrest became
known. For, although he can prove to a demonstra-
tion that he was not present at the destruction of the
Caroline, even a defence so conclusive might not have
protected him from a jury partaking of the general ex-
citement that prevails upon the subject-.
The American Government will, in the meantime,
have received the remonstrances of the British Govern-
ment, and will, we trust, see the injustice of allowing
a case of this kind to be taken out of its own hands, and
transferred to the jurisdiction of a local tribunal. Look
at the first and necessary effect of such a course. At
present the affair of the Caroline is a subject of nego-
tiation between the two Governments. This tribunal
has been selected by the American Government itself.
Suppose, then, that Mr. M'Leod is brought to trial by
the Government of ona of the States, ar.d that upon
the merits of the case he is either acquitted or found
guilty. How can the general Government pretend to
negotiate upon a question already judged by one of the
States, whose delegated authority that general Govern-
ment administers? If I\l'Le4cl be acquitted upon
the merits, it is a legal decision of the State of New
York that the destruction of the Caroline was justifi-
able. Would the Government of Washington feel it-
self stopped by this decision from entertaining the
question further ? No. Their doctrine is, that the
British Uovernment is accountable to the general Go-
vernment of the States, and for the same act the
servants of the British Government are accountable to
the particular State in which the act may have been
committed.

By referring to the British Government for expla-
nation, the American Government recognised the case
of the Caroline as one of those provided for by its own
constitution as a subject for national negotiation. If a
jury, in the State in which the question may arise, is
to conclude the negotiation upon the part of the Ame-
ricans, the Queen of England should take into consi-
deration the propriety of accrediting an Ambassador to
each of the several States.

Let us suppose, again, that Mr. INPLeod bad been
brought to trial, found guilty, and hanged, in the sum-
mary way that Lord Stanley so very feelingly appre-
hended ; that after the lapse of some time it was proved
to the satisfaction of the Central Government that Mr.
M'Leod was not even present at the destruction of the
Caroline, that the witnesses had mistaken him for a
brother, or that the cvidence collected by the British
agents and laid before the American Executive during
the negotiation was a satisfactory defence of the de-
structio❑ of the Caroline ; with whom should the Go-
vernment of England account for the murder of a Bri-
tish subject ? The State of New York? Or is the
whole Union to be dragged in as abettors of its wrong
doing ?

The consequences of transferring a question clearly
international in its character, from the authority pointed
out by the American constitution as the agent of all in-
ternational questions, to a local tribunal, not the most
likely, we fear, to be impartial judges, arc not merely
inconvenient, but must prove in time fatal to the exist-
ence of the federation. In the present case we trust
that reflection will convince the American Government,
not only of its impolicy, but of its deep injustice.—
Chronicle.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The parishes of Thame, Towersey, Sydenham, and
Tetsworth, in this county, in the gift of Dr. Slater, of
Wycombe, being now vacant by the death of the late
Vicar, the Rev. T. J. Lee, arc immediately to be se-
parated, and resident clergymen instituted to each of
them. The Rev. James Prosser, of Loudwater, has
been presented to Thame, the mother church. This
is an admirable arrangement, and worthy of being uni-
Nersally followed.-o.llbrd Herald.
The Rev. T. W. Peile, M.A., late Fellow of Tri-
nity College, Cambridge, and Senior Tutor in the
University of Durham, has been appointed to the Head
Mastership of Lepton Grammar School, in the county
of Derby.

The Rev. J. A, Mortis, to the Vicarage of Hamp-
ton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of
the Rev. H. T. \Voodington.
The Rev. G. Rigge, M. A., to be Evening Lecturer
of St. Mark's, Lincoln.

The Rev. John Muck, to the Rectory of Walsoken,
Norfolk.

The Rev. John Brown, 8.A., to the Rectory of Bat-
come with Upton Noble, Somersetshire, vacant by the
death of the Rev. T. Coney.
The Rev. T. M. Cornish, 8.A., to the Rectory o
fleathfield, Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev. T. Cornish.

The Rev. George Gore, M.A., to the Rectory of
Newton St. Loe, Somersetshire, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Peter Gunning.
The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have
been pleased to present the Rev. Mcyrick Beebee,
Vicar of Alston, and Domestic Chaplain to the Duke
of Somerset, to the Rectory of Simonburn, Northum-
berland, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wiliam El-
liott.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has ap-
pointed the Rev. F. Russell Nixon, perpetual curate of
Ash, one of the six preachers at the Cathedral, in the
room of the late Rev. J. Hamilton.

The Rev. John Dobie, 8.A., of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the perpetual curacy of Royton,
Lancashire. Patron, the Rector of Prestwich.
The Rev• W. M. Hurlock, M.A., of St. John's
College, Cambridge, has been instituted to the vicarage
of Hurstbourne Tarrant, with Vernham Dean, in the
county of Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev. I'.
S. Fisher.