The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-27 00:00:00

tions in the United States. Reserved as the Address
prudently is with regard to the questions upon which
public f. cling is more immediately excited, it ex.
presses, broadly enough, a desi, e to control the dan-
gerous tendencies of parties, and to correct the car-
stitutional defects which give scope to their exerci-e.
( From the Morning Post.)
The bent and habit of mind which suggested to the new
President the topics of an addre.3s devoted almost exclu-
sively to describe the peculiarities of the American Con-
stitution, the advantages of which it was intended to be
the source,•the dangers to which lie Ccems it peculiarly
liable, and the precautions against those dangers which ho
is most anxious to recommend, are pledges more effectual
than any express declaration, however emphatic, could
have afforded, that General Harrison is sincerely desirous
to preserve the cherished institutions of his country from
the dangers and trials incident to a at ite of war, and must
be anxious in the same degree to render justice to other
independent nations. But the Inaugural Address, if it
adverts very sparingly to the foreign relations of Amrrica,
adverts to them for the exclusive purpose of proclaiming
the pacific disposition cf the distinguished speaker.
There is only one passage in the Address in which
foreign poli ics are alluded to. The abstinence is well ex-
plained. The speaker could not enter into details respect-
ing pending negotiations, of the actual state of which he
was not yet officially informed. Neithe: could he omit
the opportunity of declaring his determination that those
negotiations should be prosecuted by his Government in the
spirit of peace, and hi: confidence that a kindred spirit
prevailed in the. Governments with which he would have
to deal. We regard this as by far the happiest part in the
Address, fir it has the rare merit of saying net a word t .o
little or too much. Many persons will lament that Geo.
Harrison should have used language in any degree calcu-
lated to discourage, or even to moderate, the expression of
feelings adverse to slavery. We are not sure, however,
that, with a view to the safe and even the speediest extir-
pation of this evil, his admonition may not be a wise one.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The Inaugural Address of General Harrison, on the 4th
instant, on being installed President, at Washington, is at
length before the British public. Thu excitement of re-
cent events, and especially of the transactions connec ed
with the case of Mr. M'Leod, and the difficulties of the
Boundary Question, had produced a degree of interest
touching the probable contents of this speech far more in-
tense than documeats of such a kind usually create among
us. Yet for what regards these two engrossing topics of,
we might say, ever, European interest, our readers may
search this very extensive disquisition (for such it is) al-
, most in vain. The case of M'Leod is not even touched
upon, eo noniine, by the new President; and we cannot
quite concur with our Liverpool Correspondent and others
in holding that passage, which is supposed incidentally to
glance at it, rca ly was intended by the Speaker to touch
the subject. The passage runs thus :—" In no case can the
same persor, at the same time, act as the citizen of two
separate States, and lie is therefore positively precluded
from any interference with the reserved powers of any
State but that of which he is, for the time being, a citizen.
He may, indeed, offer to the citizens of other States his
advice as to their management, and the form in which it is
tendered is left to his own discretion and sense of pro-
priety." To us, this sort of reasoning on the relative and
the general character of citizenship in a subject of the
United States, seems to be as distant from the case of Mr.
M'Leod, as, we fear, are the chances which that gentle-
man has of experiencing an impartial trial within their ter-
ritory. Much more to the purpose of Mr. M'Leod's case
—more encouraging as holding out some prospect of the
cessation of unprincipled and vindictive persecution against
our countryman—is that sort of manifesto of honourable
and just intensions on tho part of General Harrison's Go-
vernment, which was conveyed in Mr. Buchadsn's state-
ment in the Senate.