The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

tend her arm octal tilt waterg of the Atlantid
for the execution of hostile projects in British
America, or for the more s3lutary purpose of
your defence and 'your protection; your cummerce
would be annihilated, and plunder for a while .ub- _
stunted •in - its room ;- but that plunder would be
precarious, -and its .profits venomous to the indivi-
dual, and destructive to the state. Your territorial
convests, were you able to effect them, you would
not have the power to retain ; and were you able to
retain them, they would afford you nothing but em-
barrassmen,t, annoyance; and discomfiture ; you
have already more weight than your Government
can wield ; and by adding to your territories, you
would.only be increasing the political care and ditii-
cultiei of your comtrions.vealth. You are an infant
country, of much well-grounded hope, and of great
Promise ; but your infancy is your danger ; and -in
Or! terrific contests of the present day, you require a
guardian and a protector ;—shall it be France ? Can
the object of your sekctkm be a country of a diffe-
rent language—difftrent religion—different princi-
-pies, moral and political, from your own-:-of diffe-
rent manners—of &filen' mode of thinking and of
acting=--and of a totally-different nature in every re-
'spect and circumstance ? .

AMERICANS—that country cannot feel the most
remote
,interest in your welfare and prosperity ; she
loves you rot 3—she envies your growing import-
ance, and she detests your origin ; for to that origin
she imputes your importance :—She cannot but
consider you as -Englishmen, and you are, therefore,
the natural objects of her hatred. An 'alliance in
war with such a country, would expose you to all
the horrors of maritime vengeance; yobr sea ports,
of which description are all your cities of magnitude
or consequence, would be open to England; the
naval arm of your ally could afford you no defence;
it is now completely paralysed, and in all probabi-
lity will remain for
,a long, period, without any
effeEtual recovery. Where then would be your se-
curity ?—you would be left to your own means of
warfare, and your ,own resourccs,!—Separated from
the land of your foreign confederate, by the waters
of an extensive ocean—the dominion of your ene-
my,—Contending against the country of your- an-
cestors, and in many instances against your best
friends, your wonkiest intimates,, and your dearest
relations; in so wretched a contention you could
find nothing to animate, to .console, or compensate
you :—lnstead of Liberty and Independence rousing
yoar military spirit and invigorating your Councils,
you would carry on a heartless war, under the pies-
sure of the heaviest taxation, Without One objedt of
national .or comnion interest,—having nothing to
gun, and every thing to suffer and to lose.'
Let an obscure inhabitant, therefore, of a British
Colony, in your neighbourhood, advise .yOil to seek
the friendship and protea-ion of that parent king-
dom which is still the parent of you all ; she has not
yet, thank God, lost a single nerve of her native
vigour, or one ray of, her national glory ;—amid
many and stvere struggles, she yet stands free and
great, and powerful; desirous of securing your re-
gar(' upon all honourable terms, and able and wil-
ling to assist you against every threatened attack-of
the enemy of the
We, who are near the threshold of your country,
are doubly interested in the preser,ation of na-
tional goodwill and harmony; to us, who .are so
near the door of entrance to the States of America,
the tales of bloodshed and war fare would indeed be
distressing ; to us, war with America would in re-
ality be a contest with our neighbours, our friends
and our relations—of all contests the most affli6ting
to men who have the principles and the hearts of

Christi-ans. • But, Americans, the period, I tear, is
fast aPproach4rg, when you will be called upon to

determine, with firmne,s and with sincerity, to
which side of the battle ) ou will condo& your host
England or France must soon be the word of pre-
ference—and, whe❑ the solemn period of decision
shall arri►e, may the God of all people and of all
nations dire& your voice of preference to that coun-
try, from which you have' derived your invaluable
inheritance of language—laws—liberty, and reli-
gion.

,The Persian Governruent has made a fi:e/bpppli-:
cation at Bombay. for a supply of arins, in order io
enable it to send out an expedition for expelling the
Wahahets.

Mirza Jahanjer Khan, third son of the King of.
Delhi, has, since his banishment from his (other's
court, held correspondence with the' Seiks, and is
collecting adherents, with whom he threatens the
north-west frontiers. There has, in consequence,
been some movements of the Btitish ;loops in that
quarter.
SCINDEA has accommodated his 'disFuteS with the
Jepore Rajah, by accepting from the latter, in lieu
or all arrears of tribute, a considerable poition of
territory. • •

A duel took place last month at Bourdeaux, be-
tween two merchants.. Oa the first fire, one of the
parties fell, and the seconds immediately approm bed,
supposing that he was mortally wounded ; after a
close inspe6tion they found that he had not sus-
tained any injury, his antagonist's ball havir.g glanc-
ed aside, and lodged in the trunk'of tree ; but he
was nevertheless, dead: having, it is
,conje6tured,
anticipated by his terrors, that fate which he might
otherwise have escaped. His antagonist was wound-
ed in the right arm.
Oa Friday night last, about eleven o'clock, as
Mr. Mason, carpenter, was going to his house, in
Hill-street, Windmill-street, near Finsbury-squaie,
he was snddettly attacked' when opposite the doOr
of Mr. Cooler, the corner of Windmill-street and
Providence-row, by two ruffians, by whose repeated
blows he was knocked down ; and as he lay on the
g►ound, one of the monsters, with•a kriife or some
other sharp instrument, was in the aetotcutting his
throat, when, pro',7identialiy", the shopman, who had
just stint up the shop, and was then in it, hearing
the fall of Mr. Mason on the pavement, and imine-
diately afterwards some groans, came out of the
shop, on which the' fellows, who heard.the door
unbolting, ran off. Mr. Mason wps then-conveyed
'home, his wounds were discovered not to be mortal,
the incision, though deeil; not having reached a 'vital
part. Nothing was taken from the person of Mr.
Mason but it was, doubtless, the intention of the
ruffians, to have deprived him of- property and. lite,
had they not been disturbed.