The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INFORMATION

The Writer, iu a subsequent part, offers these
judicious remarks on the politics of America a 3
connected with the question of trade : •

". Most nations are rivals in some degree to
each other ;—the extent of the glegrve will con-
stitute our interest. The Americans have too
much asperity towaeds Great Britain to• become
very soon her political friends. The very Fe-
deralists• arc more friendly to the French than to
the English nation, and therefore we have no
obligatiOns to shackle us besides those we arc
wthing- to wear. It there is any friendship, then,
it must of a commercial nature. We will,
therefore, examine,to what this amounts. If we'
draw a hue from the .0100111 of Chesapeake Bay
to Ow head
_of it, anti thence to Fort Pitt, at
the head of.the Ohio, We shall have two dhisions
which will very fairly comprehend, the one side
the Northern, the other what are termed the
Southern states. In the latter, they produce to-
bacco, tar, pitch, alul turpentine ; rice, cotton,
and sonic; twiny at then) articles superiorto Act, at have hitherto been procured
in quality
from other nations., and especially necessary to
the manufactures of Great Britain inhabi-
tants of the counti.y, besides, are by no means in-
clined to commerce, but %ery luxurious; and,
therefore, in taking a large supply of foreipma-
unfact ares and proditce iu return for such essen-
tial articles, will yield tkat carrying trade (which
if they plessil, would naturally belong to thew-

selves), to any nation who can bring them what
they want at the cheapest rate.
" Now, let us examine the Northern side of
this line, and we shall see a people of farmers,
fishernien, woodsmen, traders, and carriers,, all
rivals to Great Britain and. her Colonies, bated
by the inhabitants of the Southern States, and
incapable of supplying them with a single article,
except what they procure from. other Nations.—
The only object, therefore,•which British Nego-
ciators, should have in view, will be to make such
arraogements with respect to her own trade and
manufactures, and with foreign Nations, as will
chime in unison fur exclufling the Northern States
from-being still, as they long have been, the Car-
riers for the Nations of Europe,. and no doubt, in
her present elevated position, if she terminates-
the war with the States honourably, she will be
enabled to accomplish it.
I have in this letter endeavoured to give you
a sketch of those domestic politics in the United
States. which may, in some degree, tend to clear
up the apparent. inconsistencies of NI-. Madison's
conduct at this juncture.",

Most of the points here touched upon are
worthy of serious attention, and, perhaps, if we
take into our view, at the same time, the epigram-
matic and ableCnAaAoTErt OF TILE ANIERICNNS
drawn by the same hand, it may help us to some
wholesome conclusions. They are, shys Ile—

" Ever craving, never gratified ; sturdy impu-
dent beggars ; too proud to acknowledge an (Ali-
gation, but sneaking, sly, and circuniventing in
obtaining the substance of it.; guided solely-'by
interest, hey will b'ecorne condescending .to any
iiianness to appease power, which • they cannot
resist, though vain, shameless, hectoring; fierce
and insolent wheri chance gi-ves,them a suitable
opportunity to indulge themselves."

The Recorder-notices some squabbles which have
arisen in Halifax, bet Ween the Inhabitants and
Press-gangs, and other parties of Naval Officers
and.Sailms when -on shore., but they seem to he
unworthy of being mentioned, and far less dwelt
upon except. for, fac.tious purposes.,
The only other extracts we can make from- these
Papas follow :

" DEC. 3.—Yesterday evening his
Excellency the Governor-in-Chief arrived in town,
after having been several weeks in Upper Canada.
`°Arrivals at Quebec from the 26th ult. to the
lst instant, thirty-five vessels. Nineteen of which
are from England and Ireland with detachments
of troops, and Government stores ; two from Hali-
fax, one from St. Johns, N.B. with rum, sugar,
and molasses.--The rest are schooners and sloops
from the fisheries."