The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-27 00:00:00

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The PreshfenKliessage to the Congress of
the United States, on the 2d inst., has reached
this country. it is impossible to avoid remarking
the essential difference between this periodical
communication from the Executive Government
of the first R,epublic in the world to its Legisla-:
tore, end those documents which are termed
King's Speeches, addressed in like manner, but,
in substance far unlike, to Lords and Commons,
to Peers and Deputies, in kingdoms near home.:
The latter class of discourses, having for their!
apparent object to elude inquiry and to dis-,
twit imitioulverliioo, may be looked upon as a

complimentary form between parties who area
thrown together by overruling necessity, and
who meet under feelings of reciprocal suspicion
and distrust. As sources of intelligence—
as indications of policy—as keys to national his-
tory, they have 91 late years dwindled to nothing,
realizing with curious accuracy Talleyrand's de.
&titian of the use of language-*". an instrument
for concealing rnen's thoughts." The genius of a
popular Government rejects these mysterious de-
vices, which we are sorry to see practised ainongst
any people alive to the natural atid almost indiS.
Soluble intimacy between franknessof speech and
rectitude of action. The President's message of
the united States is a paper breathing business in
every It is at CHICO a picture of the period
elapsed since the labours of Congress were last in-
terrupted, a prospectus for the forthcoming year,
the detailed report of a commissioner, and the for-
real acconnt of a trustee. On scarcely any occasion
do we recollect a message from this high officer
of the United States, delivered Wog a. time of
peace, which might out he cmoutted as a safe and
Pregnant authority for the events and politics of
the crisis at which it was made public, whether
;with regard to the concerns of the Unioo, or to
those of surrounding niktions, in, (no Present in*
stance) we have read this State Paper with en

interest more profound than any of its precursors
had excited. The foreign relations of the United
States are at this moment so deeply involved-with
those of Europe, of South America and of Eng-
land, that we turned impatiently that division
of the Message, and it well repaid us. There
are two passages
,to which we shall especially
direct the attention of the reader : one seems
designed as a warning to Russia—the other to
those Powers who meditate, or may attempt, an
interference hostile to the freedom ofSouth Ame-
rica or of Mexico. The President, referring to
certain amicable negociations, proposed by his
orders to the Court of Russia, and by that Go-
vernment to Great Britain, " for arranging their
" respective, rights and interests on the north-
west coast of the American continent," adds
distinctly, that this 46 occasion has been judged
" proper for asserting, as a principle in which
" the rights and interests of the United States
‘4 are involved, that the American continents,
" by the free and independent condition which
" they have assumed and maintain, are hence-
",forth not, to be considered as subjects for
" future colonization by any European Power."
Now, this grave and somewhat novel doc-
trine, being connected by Mr. Monroe him-
self with the subject matter of the dispute with
Russia, touching the occupation of the north-
, western shore of America, looks to us as if the
Cabinet of Washington had determined to carry
its resistance to the famous ukase for mobopo-
lizing as well the ocean as the coast, beyond the
mere maritime branch of the controversy ; and
to exhibit some grounds of opposition to the esta-
blishment of Russian colonies on the shores of
the north-west continent, and of its adjacent.
islands. There is little doubt that if such be the
design at Washington, full power exists to carry
it into execution, let Russia act how she may.