The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

' husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and
contented in retirement." General Harrison's heart, in
! the hour cf social quiet, surrounded by the remnant of his
family, responded to the sentiment, and doubtless klt
the vanity cf all things earthly. Alas, how fully have been
the dark forebodings of the wife realized I Shc who a
week since was the " good old wire," is now the lone
widow, and before the eyes of the reader are fixed upon
the paragraph we write, relating the simple story of a pious:
and good woman, her's arc filled with tears at the loss of
one dearer to her than life. How often will the recollec-
tion of the wish we have named return to her, and how
many and painful will be the regr?ts that husband and wife,
who had lived so long and so happily together, were sepa-
rated in the hour of death.

" There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave,
But nations swell the funeral cry,
And triumph weeps above the brave."
A nation now swells the funeral cry for the dead. We
hope the general mourning of the nation, the sympathies
and prayers of the people, will be remembrances for the
consolation of " the good old wife" of the deceased pa-
triot who has 1-ft us.

PRESIDENT TYLER'S ADDRESS TO THE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Fellow-Citizens—Before my arrival at the scat of Go-
vernment, the painful communication was made to you
by the officers presiding over the several departments,
of the deeply regretted death of William H. Harrison,
late President of the United States. Upon him, you
had conferred your suffrages for the first office in your
gift, and had selected him as your chosen instrument to
correct and reform all such errors and abuses as had ma-
nifested themselves from time to time in the practical opera-
tion of Government. Whilst ceandik, atthe threshold of this
great work he has, by the dispensation of an all-wise Pro-
vidence, let en removed from amongst us, and by the pro-
visions of the Constitution, the efforts to be directed to the
accomplishment of this vitally important task have devolved
upom myself. This same occurrence has subjected the
wisdom and sufficiency of our institutions to a new test.
For the first time in our history, the person elected to the
Vice-Presidency of the United States, by the happening
of a contingency provided for in the Constitution, has had
devolved upon him the Presidential office. The spirit of
faction, which is directly opposed to the spirit of a lofty
patriotism, may find in this occasion for assaults on my
administration. And in succeeding, under circumstances
SO sudden and unexpected, and to responsibilities so
greatly augmented, to the administration of public
affairs, I shall place in the intelligence and patriotism of
the people my only sure reliance. My earnest prayer shall
be constantly addressed to the all-eite and all-power-
fel I3eing who made me, and by whose dispensation I
am called to the high office of President of this confede-
racy, understandingly to carry out the principles of that
constitution which I have sworn "to protect; preserve,
and defend." Tho usual opportunity which is afforded to
a chief magistrate upon his induction to office, of present-
ing to his countrymen an exposition of the policy which
would guide his administration, in theform of an inaugural
address, not having, under the peculiar circumstances
which have brought me to the discharge of the high duties
of President of the United States, been afforded to me,
a brief exposition of the principles which will govern Me
in the general course of my administration of public affairs
would seem to be due as well to myself as to you.
In regard to foreign nations, the groundwork of my
policy will be, justice on our part to all, submitting to in-
justice from none.
While I shall sedulously cultivate the relations of peace
and amity with one and all, it will be my most imperative
duty to see that the honour of the country shall sustain no
blemish. With a view to this, the condition of our mili-
tary defences will become a matter of anxious solicitude.
The army, which has in other days covered itself with re-
nown, and the navy, not inappropriately termed the right
arm of the public defence, which has spread a light of
glory over the American standard in all the waters of the
earth, should be rendered replete with efficiency.
In view of the fact, well avouched by history, that the
tendency of all human institutions is to concentrate fa-
your is the hands of a single man, and that their ulti-
mate downfall has proceeded from this cause, I deem it
of the most essential importance that a complete sepa-
ration should take place between the sword and the
purse. No matter where or how the public moneys
shall be deposited, so long as the President can exert
the power of appointing and removing, at his plea-
sure, the agents selected for their custody. Tho Comman-
der-in-Chief of the army and navy is, in fact, the trea-
surer. A permanent and radical change should therefore
he decreed. The patronage incident to the presidential
office, already great, is constantly increasing. Such in-
crease is destined to keep pace with the growth of our po-
pulation, until, without a figure of speech, an army of
office-holders may be spread over the land. The, unre-
strained power exerted by a selfishly ambitious man, in
order either to perpetuate his authority or to hand it over
to some favourite as his successor, may lead to the em-
ployment of all the 'mans within his control to accomplish
his object.
The right to remove from office while subjected to no
just restraint, is inevitably destined to produce a spirit of
crouching servility which the official corps, which, in
order to uphold the hand which feeds them, would lead
to direct and active interference in the elections, both
State and Federal, thereby subjecting the course of State
Legislation to the diction of the chief executive officer,
and making the will of that officer absolute and supreme.
I will at a proper time invoke the action of Congress
neon this subject., and shall readily acquiesce in the adop-
tion of all proper measures which are calculated to arrest
these evils, so full of danger in their tendency. I will
remove no incumbent from office who has faithfully and
honestly acquitted himself of the duties of his office, ex-
cept in such oases where such officer has been guilty of
an active partisanship, or by secret means—the less manly,
and therefore the more objectionable—has given his offi-
cial influence to the purposes of parts-, thereby bringing
the patronage of Government in conflict with the freedom
of elections. Numerous removals may become neces-
sary under this rule. These will be made by me through
no acerbity of feeling. I have no cause to cherish or
indulge unkind feelings towards any, but my conduct
will be regulated by a profound sense of what is due to
the country and institutions : nor shall I neglect to apply
the same unbending rule to those of my own appeintmeut.
Freedom of opinion will be tolerated, the full enjoy-
ment of the right of suffrage will be maintained as the
birthright of American citizens ; but I say emphatically to
the official corps, " Thus far and no further." I have dwel t
the longer upon this subject because removals from office are
likely to arise, and I would have my countrymen to under-
stand the principle of the Executive action, In all the
public expenditures the most rigid economy should be re-
sorted to, and, an one of its results, a public debt, in time
of peace, be sedulously avoided. A wise and patriotic
constituency e•iil never object to the imposition of neces-
sary burdens for useful ends; and true wisdom dictetee
the resort to such means in order to supply deficiencies in
the revenue, rather than to those doubtful expedients
which, ultireating in a public debt, serve to embarrass the
resources of the country and to lessen its ability to meet
any great emergency vs hich may arise. All sinecures
should be abolished. The appropriations should be di-
rect and explicit, so as to leave as limited a share of dis-
cretion to the disbursing agents as may be found compati-
ble with the public service. A strict responsibility, on
tie part of all agents of the Government, Should
be maintained, and peculation or defalcation visited with
immediate expulsion from office, and the most condign
punishment.
The institutions in which we live, my countryman, se-
cure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
The spectacle is exhibited to the world of a Government
deriving its powers from the consent of the governed, and
having imparted to it only so much power as is necessary
for its successful operrnion. Those who arc charged with
its administration should carefully abstain from all attempts
to enlarge its range of powers thus granted to the several
departments of the Government, other than by an appeal
to the people for additional grants, lest by so doing they
disturb that balance which the patriots and statesmen who
framed the Constitution designed to establish between the
Federal Government and the States composing the Union.
The observance of these rules is enjoined upon us by that
feeling of reverence and affection which finds a place in the
heart of every patriot for the preservation of union and the
blessings of union, for the good of our children and our
children's children through countless generations. An op-
posite course could not NI to produce factions intent upon
their selfish ends : to give birth to local and sectional jea-
lousies, and to ultimate either in breaking asunder the
bonds of 'lrian, or of building up a central system, which
would ultimately end in a bloody and an iron crown.
In conclusion I beg you to be assured, that I shall exert
myself to carry the foregoing principles into practice during
my administration of the Government, and, confiding in
the protecting care of an ever-watching, and overruling
Providence, it shall be my first and highest duty to pre-
serve unimpaired the free institutions under which we live,
and transmit them to those who shall succeed me in their
full force and vigour.
Washington, April 9, 1841. JOHN TYLER.

FLORIDA.
On the 21st of March General Amistead had shipped
between 200 and 300 Indians from Tampa; 100 remained,
90 were at Sarasota, and a few at Fort Cross. Cosa Tus-
tenuggee, who promised to bring in 81 people, was inter-
cepted in very bad company by Capt. Kcr—viz., some of
the warriors who fought Lieut. Athertis. He had 20, old
and young, with him, and pretended to bo on the road to
Tampa ; but Capt. her, to insure the matter, brought him
back to Furt King, from whence Col. Riley will sec him
safely forward.

VENEZUELA.
The following infornueion will be deemed impothst. I.v
our euniniereiAl readers. his coriett fern tl.e Li:nu/Lc/a
G'azettl of the 24th January last, and (Ada( :
" itErooLie OF VENEZUELA.

" Office of the Secretary of State, CLraccas, Jan. 21.
" His EKcelleacy the President, with the advice of the
Council, granted on the 24h of December last, the fete
importation into the port of Vcla of Indian corn, rice, end
every description of pulse (beans, peac, &c.), during the
year 1841, on tccount of the scarcity of these articles from
the failure of the last harvest.

" On the 9th current, on the application of the autho-
rities of the capital, and in obedience to the same autho-
rity, theca was wanted, for the period of eight months
Irons the time of the application, permission to introduce,
free of duty, the same articles into the port of La Guayra.
" And at the request of the authoriticr of Porto Cabello,
on the 16th of lattary, the same privilege was granted to
that putt, and fur the same length of titne."