The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe )
We find that sort of satisfaction i the rru3_l of the
Report of Congress by the Committee of Fee c'en Affairs
—which arises from the impossibility that a cit irzed end
et:lightened community should rush into war on such a
cause. Otherwise we should have been apt to read it with
very melancholy rcflectione. Tuis, then, is the sort of
language whiela men, responsible to no power but opinion,
feel irresponsible enough to set before the eyes of their
fellow-ei ii.eus ! It is said that the Report was passed by
the partisans of the defeated party, merely with a view to
embarrass their successors I There are too many prece-
dents in our own history for this sort sf dishonest tactics to
permit us to feel or affect 'retch surprise at any offspring of
political profligacy. Certainly, however, this bantling
is not a little one—.sot susceptible of extenuation by di-
minutive epithets, like the small six-pounder, which the
Committee admit as part of the bsggege of one of the
Caroline's passengers. It is surprising the Committee
should fleecy they can invoke with consistency the rights
of eeutrale, and the rights of non-neutrals—the right et
having from us peaceful treatment, while making upon us
pi,enical warfare. This blowing hot and cold with one
bieeth pervades the report. In one sentence we are tell
their citizens could not be expected to distinguish between
one portion of British subjects and another; aid it is
the tacit inferertee that therefore they hal a right to
astiit ono portion in fighting the other, and to maintain
warlike occupation of an island "nominally" in the Bri-
tish dominions I Now the same sauce that is mood for
the goose is good for the galdcr. If the fact," that
portion sf British subjsete was ready to receive
the assistance of American citizens in committing
arson and rebbeey on their fellow subjects., is suffi-
cient to justify those citizens, who could not, it seems, be
expected to distinguish whether they ought to fraternise
with peaceful neighbours, or with rebels in arm!, if this
fact is sufficient to justify the American sympatbi-ers in
taking possession of the territco y. and fl leg upon toe flag
of England—then a lake difficulty of discrimination jus-
tified our reprisals. You cannot eat your cake and have
it tea; you were either neutrals—and neutrality has itsdu-
tic as arell as its rights; or elee you failed in neutrality from
en incapacity for nice distinctions ! It is but equitable,
surely, to excuse the like dulness on our parr. Indeed, it
was the more difficult for us to distinguish between the
neutral and non-neutral territory, and citizens of the
States, as all the local resotrees of that territory, and all
that we saw of those citizens, appeared to be entirely at
the service of our assailants.
(From the Standard.)
We do not complain that Lord Melbourne offered
no explanatory reply to Lord Mountcasbell's question
upon the report of the foreign policy committee ef
the United States Representative Assembly. Silence
was probably as much his Lordship's duty as it was the
duty of Lord Mountcashell to show that, though our
G esnment are prudently silent, the people of
Eng'and of al ranks and parti .5 have their eyes intently
fixe 1 upon the subjecn The fate of Mr. Mt Leod ievelves
the honour of the Britiie empire and the future safety of
British subjects in all parts of the world. If our Govern-
ment yield now one heir's breadth, no Englishman's life
will be safe anywhere, one hour of er he shall quit
the dominions of his Sovereign. Whenever a-iy nation
shall have a desire to bully us without incurring the dan-
ger of ear, it will be only necessary to entrap and mur-
eer an Englishman or two; and, alter we shall have sub-
mitted to the wrong and insult in Mr. M‘Leod's case, how
can we resent any one doing so ? We have lately been
reading Lord Jocelyn's delightful sketch of the Chinese
campaign—as spit ited, graphic, aid unpretending a little
volume as ever came into our hands; and we have been
forcibly struck Kith the fact that the United States'
mode of adjusting a national dispute and vindicat-
ing Americae honour—very American honour—is pre-
cisely the same resorted to by the tricky and cowardly
Chinese. Seize an unprotected individual—it is
nothing to the purpose that he had taken no part
against his captors, or that the avowed orders of his
own recognised Government acquit him of all personal
responsibility—seize him, murder him, and his blood
is a salve for the wounded honour of the country.
That the indignation of this country is fe •menting
strongly under the insult offered by the Republicans
of North America, it is not our duty to conceal ;
but we have still a hope in the better sense of the pelt
body cf the Representative Assembly, and of the now
Government, that war may be for the present avoided ;
but neither now nor hereafter will the chances of
war bo diminished by a truckling conduct oa the
part of the British Ministers. This country has
already borne quite enough from the States, and
with what effect must be obvious to every one. Had
an indemnity for the injuries sustained by our Canadian
fellew-subjects from the pirate rabble of Buffalo, Schlosser,
&c., been peremptorily insisted upon, we should hear no-
thing, now of the burning of the pirate vessel as a subject
of complains. It is always dangerous to submit to a wrens,
doer, for if you do not avenge the wrong upon him, he will
avenge his consciousness of it upon you.
(From the Courier.)
The Chronicle this morning contains what, from the
quality of the internal evideuce, may be assumed to be
the Downing-street view of the Report on Foreign
Affairs laid before Congress and published in the Courier
ester day. It is a clear and decisive, but temperate
resume of circumstances and principles involved in the
reline affair, and, we have no doubt, on collation her,-
after, when the occasion is presented, wilt be found al-
most a fac simile impression in its main features, if not
hi form cf words, of those deapatches of Lord Palme--
ston to Mr. Fox, and of the notes of Mr. Fox to the
American Seer e'ary, by which the whole responsibility of
ales act of the Caroline's destruction was accepted on ac-
count of the B itish Government and people. We repeat
qanpi atically the " British Government aad people ;" for
get this head there must, as there can be, no mistake, and
te is insprrtaut to be published through the aad
br' a Ith of the civilised world ; for the sake of Upper
Caned*, which so gallantly vindicated her loyal adhe-
rence t the parent country in tha most critical times, at
groat odd,, at all hazards, and at the cost of her lest
blood and treasure; Er the sake also of tee conti-
nuance of peace and fri ,ndship with the United
States, the couple of which might otherwise be grossly be-
treyed into the grievous error of mistaking the single note
creakinga of Mr. Joseph Hume for the voice of the
people of &glees!. We should hope that the indignant and
universal reprobation, here and in Canada, of his pernicious
and treasonable counsel to the latter to cast off the "baneful
domination of the mother country," would have taught the
people of the United States that Eng'and and her colonies
ore one and indivisible in effectlons as in interest, and th,t
nei her people nor Government here a e so peace-at-any-
price infatuated, as basely to surrender the cause r f those
more ci tent porei ins cf the common empire which have
butte el from the wanton aggressions, aid ale yet exposed
to the rapacity and amLition of the ceizens of a State with
out a head, or of a host of petty State tyrants who arb
tiara./ domineer over the feeesal throne.