The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

NEWS FOR THE AMERICANS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The late accounts from America give us the pleasing
prospect of a speedy settlement of all differences with the
United States on fair and honourable terms. This is devoutly
to be wished by every person who wishes well to both coun-
tries ; but it will still be prudent for us to be prepared for a
different result, in the event of the faction who now rule the
destinies of America being resolved on war, and exposing
their own country and ours to all its calamities.
I trust I shall be able to show that in this case we possess
the means of meeting them with an overwhelming force, and
that we far surpass them in power and resources, and this
from a quarter from which they never expected to be
assailed.

As by our treat• of peace with the Seikhs we obliged them
to disband their army and give up all their guns that were
opened against us, and as a great proportion of their army
have brothers and relations in our Bengal army, we have
now an excellent opportunity of taking a large number of
them into our service and of having them disciplined and
commanded by British officers, on the express condition of
their agreeing to proceed along with our Sepoys to North
America, should the Government require their services in
that quarter.
The pay of these troops is moderate and they are easily
fed, and they are proverbially brave, disciplined by French
officers, and will attack their opponents hand to hand. Their
artillery is also of the first order, and their gunners excellent
marksmen, and in our late battles stood defending their
guns until bayoneted by our troops.
A force of 20,000 men of these troops, with an equal force
of Sepoys, and a proportionate number of British troops,
would be sufficiently powerful to retain possession of the
south-eastern slave states of America, until such time as the
British authorities should proclaim liberty to the slaves in
those states ; binding them strictly, on granting them their
liberty, to remain as servants for five years, on fair and
equitable wages, with such of their former masters as should
remain peaceably on their estates after the country had been
taken military possession of by our army, and guaranteeing
to the negroes the full liberty of serving in the British army
as soldiers, to be raised for service in America and the West
Indies during this period, if they should prefer it, to serving
their former masters.

These corps could be organised and commanded by officers
from the half-pay list of the British army, and might con-
sist of a major-commandant, a second in command, and five
lieutenants and five ensigns for the ten battalion companies.
The filling up the superior ranks would give a fine opening
for promoting and placing upon full pay meritorious officers,
who are now wearing out their lives in listless inactivity, and
the forming of the junior ranks of lieutenants and ensigns
would give a noble opportunity to the Commander-in-Chief
of promoting deserving sergeants to the rank of commissioned
officers, who, when called upon service, would, it may con-
fidently be expected, prove themselves worthy of the new
rank conferred on them. This promotion of so many ser-
geants would also prove highly beneficial to the service
generaily, and would induce numbers of men of the very best
description to enter into our battalions; and the emancipated
slaves themselves would prove a much more formidable
force than might at first be imagined, as they would see the
necessity of acting with determined resolution as soldiers
under their new masters, well knowing the fate that would
await them if again brought under the American yoke.
At the same time that we were granting liberty to the
slave we could form a treaty with the yet free State of
Mexico, by which we would engage to send British officers to
organise their troops, who make excellent soldiers, and lead
them against the Americans, who, by fraud and circumven-
tion, have deprived them of Texas and are making continual
encroachments upon their territory. And along with this
we could serd a force of Europeans and Sepoys from India,
who would chase the American squatters from the Oregon
and place it entirely under British rule ; and our forces in
Canada could make a demonstration, and attack the Ame-
rican frontier in that quarter, whilst the whole sea coast of
the Atlantic would be placed under a strict blockade, which
would prevent all commercial intercourse between the United
States and other nations, while the southern states, under
British protection, would have free intercourse with every
part of the world.
These are the consequences which the Americans would
quickly feel if they should plunge into a war with Great
Britain. Without commerce, and unable to raise a dollar
on credit in Europe on account of their having forfeited all
claim to character by their having repudiated their own
bonds, they would be unable under the heaviest taxations to
pay one-half of their national expenditure, and with a daily
increasing debt they would be under the necessity of resort-
ing to a paper currency, which would be immediately depre-
ciated within their own territories and of no value whatever
beyond it.
I observe that the question of peace or war is left by the
American Government to the discretion of Mr. Polk. When
settling this momentous question which will decide the
destiny of millions of the human race, it is to be hoped tatbtoe
will seriously consider the heavy responsibility attached
his conduct before he' publishes his ultimatum. it beeas forily
peace the two Governments, of a kindred race,might
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JOSEPH MASON
.—The v. —The following letter has been re-
ceivedw Lord Morpeth, by Mr. Isaac Wood, brother-in-
j-oosmeph Mason, who has lately returned from Norfolk
Island,ato from
to which place he had been unjustly transported :
"London, May 16th, 1846.
Sir,—Sir James Graham informs me that he cannot
direct any commission to be instituted in the matter com-
plained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason. The
complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting
justices of York Castle ; but now that Mason has been re-
turned to his home with hi .s character completely cleared and
acknowledged, I cannot advise any proceedings which now
might bear the appearance of a vindictive character.
" Sir James, at the same time, authorised me to state that
he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason,
as a small token of the unfortunate misapprehension under
which he suffered. I cannot help thinking that Mason
would do well to avail himself of Mr. Hudson's offer.

" Your humble servant,
" Mr. Isaac Wood." " MORPETH.
tr,cl,r9tand that nlcar. nr)l7 cripl7,v,cl 13t tl.re Y(.rk
Railway station, a situation having been provided for him
there, through the kindness of G. Hudson, Esq., 111,P.
Leed; Alercury.