The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-04 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

It has been remarked with great satisfaction
I►y the enlighteded friends of both countries, that
for some time the most liberal and amicable eel).
Orients have been growing up between the inha-
bitants of Great Britain and the United States of
North America. Within a short period a greater
approximation of feeling has taken place than,
a few years ago, we could have expected it
ball a century. The identity of the foreign
policy adopted by the two Governments, and
the daily-increasing extent and importance of
the commercial intercourse between the two na-
tions, have brought home to the knowledge of
the people of both the States a sense of corn-
triunity of interest, which, founded upon and
supported by the sameness of their origin, laws,
and language, and the similarity of their cus.
toms, character, and institutions, has taken from
the natives of either country the irksomeness of
considering themselves foreigners when visiting
the other, and stimulating them both to a wise
and generous determination to stand together
against the world. We should only deceive our-
selves if we supposed that this feeling in the
United States is universally diffused. There are
some who look with pain and envy on this happy
union of sentiment between England and her
transatlantic descendants. Mr. Addington, our
Qizarge ripires at Washington, addressed a
note, at the close of August last, to Mr. Adams,
the American Secretary of State, stating, in sub-
stance, that " much inconvenience lied Ween
found to result from the use of the Union
Jack, as a signal for pilots in foreign countries,
it had been determined by the British Ad-
milky, henceforward, to substitute for that
signal a special {lag, namely, the British Union
Jack, with a broad white border added to it;"
and in conclusion suggesting to the American
Government, " whether it might not be deemed
expedient by them to adopt on their part, for
the use of the American navy, some distinguish.
log flag, as a special signal for the same purpose."
Atethe ground of this suggestion, Mr. Addington
stated, what is well known to all persons en-
gaged in the American trade; viz. that much pm-
"Yrassmiint, and, in many instances, serious
dilitress and danger, are at present occasioned
to the vessels of the United States on foreign
stations. A suggestion so important and yet so
perfectly disinterested * It
vrott t , one "mg have
anticipated, have been received, not only
as it was by the Government, in the, spirit
of good-will and friendship, in which it ori-
ginated, but also- by every American citizen,
of every party, with at least effected satisfaction.

But it will be seen, that there are some who have
pretended to discover in Mr. Addington's Note
ars endeavour to dictate an acknowledgment of
our naval' superiority, by a compulsory con-
formity of signals! No conclusion, however,
could he more erroneous than that which would
lead' us to believe that the feelings that per-
vade many of the American journals with re-
spect to British questions, are those of the peo-
ple at large. The press of the United States
is principally in the hands of Irishmen, who
have been obliged to banish themselves to that
country on account of their political offences ;
and they seldom miss an opportunity of avenging
their supposed wrongs, by vilifying the English'
character, and infusing jealousy and suspicion
into the breasts of the. native Americans. We
have thought this explanation necessary, in order
to disabuse our countrymen of the mistakes that
would naturally result from regarding the Ame-
rican press as an image of the feelings and dis-
position of the American people. It is import-
ant to the welfare of both countries that they'
should not be duped into prejudices with respect
to each other, by the misrepresentations of ma-
lignant individuals on either side of the ocean.

[MORNING POST.]
The paper which first gave the miraculous his-
ory of Mr. Fauntleroy's private vices and dis.
sipations, seems not unnaturally irritated at the
falsification of the tale implied in that miserable
defence. " It is not usual," quoth our
contemporary, " to assume as proved facts the
declaration of one in his unhappy situation." No-
thing can he truer—but we did not " assume"
them " as proved facts ;" we expressly said they
might be false, and that a proper examination of
thu books of the Banking House was necessary in
order to settle this point satisfactorily. Mr. Faunt-
leroy, however, by alleging his criminal con-
duct to have arisen from the embarrassments of
the Berners-street Firm, has indicated the means
of detecting the incorrectness of his statements.
Nay, he has made a strict scrutiny into the sub-
ject indispensable ; and we may observe, should
the result belie his asseverations, the very end
which he had in view—namely, to exonerate
himself before the public from the charge of pro-
fligate habits—inast not only be defeated, but an
additional stigma affixed to his character, calcu-
lated to blacken and aggravate with its peculiar
heinousness, all the other acts of depravity of
which he has been accused. In offering his de-
fence he discarded the idea, as he had before evi-
dently lost the hope of thus or any wise averting
the dreadful fate dile to his crimes. He looked
solely to the future opinion of the world respecting
his motives for committing them,and he must have
known that until the truth shoeldr be hereafter,
finally and fully elicited, that opinion would not
be decisively formed. We mention these circum-
stances not to extenuate this wretched man's
guilt ; but when rancour would fain extend its
sting beyond the grave, we deem it only common
justice to let facts speak au honest language to the
public. What we complain of is, not merely that
a fallen fellow-creature should be trampled on
(such is the lot of humanity), but that the oppor-
tunity should be taken to heap opprobrium and in-
famy on an individual, which there is no proof he
deserves, and which, if there were, it could serve
no public purpose to promulgate. Can any
thing either be more cruel, than when a 'man is
on the verge of eternity to suggest inferences
against his veracity althat awful moment on flim-
sy pretexts. Mr. Fauntleroy leaving said that
the expences of his house at Brighton, where his
mother and sister mostly resided, were (exclusive
of wines) under 4001. per annum, we are told
to consider the statement as a lie, on no other
evidence than the external appearance of the pre-
mises ; and forthwith a general conclusion as to
the falsehood of all his other declarations is hung
upon this most inconsequential assumption. But
" when bad begins worse remains behind." Our
contemporary trumped up a wondrous tale of
licentious excesses, and now, to preserve a few
appearances of respectability, that vile piece o
fiction nicest be boltered up by hints and insinue,
tions, equally unfounded in reason aied dates
able in object. Bow much better had both bet
avoided ?

[NEW MUM)
Consols closed yesterday at 964, after having
been 961 for the Account.—The veracity of the
last accounts from South America being much
doubted, or rather the accounts circulated here
being grossly exaggerated, the speculators in
South American Securities were less sanguine
yesterday in their expectation that the reported
victory of the Independents would be confirmed.
The' prices' consequently were lower, and the
stigma of first raising the false report of the
successes of the Independents was cast upon a
party extensively interested in this description of
property, but with what justice we pretend not
to decide. Mexican Bonds, after being at
67i, closed at 661; Colombian Bonds, /Aft.—
Yesterday the new Neapolitan Loan, respecting
which so much interest has existed for some time
pasts was brought into the market, at the con-
tract price of 94 It will be recollected that
this loan was negociated so far back as last
August by Mr. C. M. de Rothschild at Naples ;
its amount is 2,500,0001. sterling ; but as it is di-
vided lo equal proportions between the houses
of Messrs. Rothschild of Paris, Naples, and Lon-
don, only 800,0001. of its amount was brought
into the English market. The dividends are
payable on the Ist August and Ist February,
heariug interest at 'the rate of five per cent. per
annum, and this includes the dividend from
August last.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
No confirmation has been yet received of the
late favourable intelligence from Peru ; and some
days may elapse before it can be ascertained
whether it be authentic or not. In this inter-
val of suspense the Public must prepare them-
selves for a succession of sinister rumours re-
spec:ling General Bolivar ; of which they had
a specimen yesterday, though of, so clumsy
a texture, that it is surprising how any ra-
tional being could believe it. Yet this gresa at-
tempt at deception partially succeeded ; and had