The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

LETTER TO CAPTAIN PORTER.

My Dear `if,- Neititur in our"i-onvcrsations,
nor hi the accompanying letter, !hive 1 mentioned
your sword. Ascribe my remissuels in the first
instance, to forgetfulness- consider it only in
Jov s'ervatit,'s pofsession with •my own, until the
tuaster :nay please to call for it : and although I
oinitted, at the moment of presentation,. from my
inind ben; much engrossed in attending to pro-,
fe..3sional to offer its restoration, the hand
that 'received it will. be most gladly extended,to
pot it in po,session of him who wore it so ho-
.noUrably in defending his country's cause.—Bt-
licyc we, iny dear very faithfully yours,.

Stich is the officer So grossly traduced. by
! what Capt. Pint er,ll inielf; is, We
Jingly leave his own book to declare'; his charac-
ter is,there drawn at full length i• and so cringe-
-1)ial- is it with that of liis country. nien, and so re 7
spectahje iu the eye of his goverarient, that we
have just read _(without surprise) in one-Of their
public papers, tirg,Mr. Madison has appointed
.Pprtcr,.Esq..such as our readers:-have
teen one of the Counnissioneri-Of'the Arne-

This volume concludes, like the former, With
ft reference: to -Lord Ansim ; and our 'Author
• thinks,-that wbcu his tuaterjals shall he. dressed.
tvith'.the same taste, the voyage of the Essex'
(especially her -hoinewurd voyage) might not'
to yield the palm to those of •I'nson and 'Cook
1413.
This 15 not our opinion. let the* itAteriali
he &est' us they may, there will still be a had sa-
vour about them!: they should, izs uncle Toby ob-
serves,. hare Tip et 4st, end no more
said, :Cai)taiu. Nutter may,. ilideedi•••easily perL
ru,~►te ills cotnrry,ilten, as he lutsiindOubtedly-per-
suddej his: Cruize' rivals:or eclipses
the -‘ Voyagt-,' of our great circumnavigators
Int thc iselisc will aiways be coutiadd to

Selre!. Anson inc; men of high

age, honour", "add genertisity, ITOok, in p-Irtieu-
lar, (of !vhoorDavid Potter,,E`ititiire. slOeaks4itir
'insoledt contempt,) was' born fOr all ages and all
countries, and will he held in grateful admiration
lung after his ridienlous-' rival' is' fdrgOtten, fir
only remembered Nvitir derision. It is not Pot'lsible
to read the '.Voyages' of these great men without
an expansion anti" elevation of mind. The best
feelings of our nature are interested in their ad-
ventures ; and we accompany them through a cap-
tivating alternation of suffering and success, with
pity, respect, and triumph. In toiling through
the Journal' Of Captain Porter, the Mind shrinks
back on itself read nothing from page to
page, but painting,' " new-dress-
ing,' mud a number of other little 'artifices,'"
in which the huckiter contends with the ---;
or of an utiterminable series, of unprovoked ag-
gression: extortion; and cruelty, which converts
disgust. into horror. To have done with the
subject—we are compelled, as far as the present
authiwis concerned, to retract a concession which
we gladly made in the case of the liberal and en.
terprizing Kraizenstern ; Les marina ecrivent
mal, ?tuns aver assez tie candeur.' Captain Porter
writes ill, bu,t not with one grain of candour.'

JAMAICA.