The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

eking measures for organizing themselves, preparatory to an
mmediate departure ; arms and ammunition will be furnished
them, and their passage paid so far as Natchitoches.
NOTE.—The Committee, composed of Messrs J. H. Cald-
well, W. Bogart, W. Bryan, J. N. Niven, W. S. Hodge, T.
Banks, J. Ramage, and W. Christy, will receive donations of
muskets, rifles, and ammunition. Those wishing to aid the
cause by subscription' can do so by appliCation to any member
of the Committee.--New Orleans Paper. • • -
Accustomed as we are gradually becoming to the law of -
the stronger, and habituated as the General Government seems
to be to the assumption of the highest powers by individuals,
we should supp•se that this outrageous manifesto, this flagrant
usurpation of the right vested in the Legislature of the United
States to declare peace or war, would arouse them from their
supineness. Here we have a knot of. citizens of the United
States deliberately taking measures fur organizing, arming, and
maintaining a force for the purpose of entering into an alliance
offensive and defensive with a set of frontiers-men styling them-
selves Texians or Texonians, against Mexico, a peaceable Go-
' vernment under relations of friendship with that under which we
pretend to live. There has never, perhaps, been a sounder article
of international law,:uor one the moral justice of which is less
questionable, than that which constitutes a high and capital
crime for an individnal to levy war upon a Government—this
is the article on . which Joachim Murat was condemned and
shot at Naples ; this is the article on which General Jackson
relied when he hung Arnbrister and Arbuthnot., when we
were at peace with Great Britain—both of which executions
were not only per se just and legal, but have received the
sanction of the world as such.
" Now, to look briefly and impartially into this matter, wo
shall find that there is not the slightest shadow of right on
the side of the Texonians, nor one circumstance to call forth
sympathy or commisvrathn. A party of land speculators
of our large cities have cast a longing eve on the rich and
fertile province of Texas, as they might have done on An-
dalusia, or the county of Kent, or the plains of Austrian .
Italy, or any other portion of the globe whatsoever, which
is evidently and unquestionably the property of some fo-
reign Power. These land speculators obtain tracts of land
under the then constitution of this foreign country, and pro-
ceed, with all the tricks and stratagems usually resorted to in
such cases, to induce American citizens to emigrate to their
newly acquired territories. This done, and a large popula-
tion of Yankees from the Eastern States, and backwoodsmen
from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, being established
in Mexico, these aforesaid land speculators endeavour by all
means to induce the General Government to purchase Texas
of the Mexican Government. This notable scheme fails, and
the speculators then determine, as a last resource, to conquer
the country on their own hook, calculating that when they
have done so they shall he enabled to prevail on the United
States to admit them, to the confederation. This, then, is the
clue to the whole matter—circumstances have caused the plot
to explode a little too soon, and the engineers seem to run
some risk of being " hurt by their oven petards." They can-
not as yet count enough American rifles to drive the rightful
Lords of the soil out of their own country ; and therefore they
make up a pitiful face and cry oppression, and call upon indi-
viduals to, shoulder their lilies and come to their aid, and
inform them, as an inducement to do so, that they have mil-
lions of acres—of Mexican land, be it observed—which they,
with unequalled liberality, will bestow on those who shall
aid them to conquer them. So long a 3 this matter
solely rested with individuals we took no part in the contro-
versy. If American citizens thought fit, as individuals,
to go forth on this crusade, running their own risk of being
hanged, and acting on their own responsibility, Government-
could not well interfere. If these chivalrous individuals had
been caught warring against the Mexican authorities, pro-
ceeded against as robbers, murderers, and land pirates, and
as such been ordered for execution, our Government would of
course hive left them to their fate, Prevent them from going
about their own business it could not.
" This affair is now, however, changed in toto; Caldwell,
Bogart, and Co., whose principal.s we doubt not may be
found in Wall-street, propose organizing, arming, and import-
ing at their own or their employers' expense an American
force into the territories of Mexico for the avowed purpose of
supporting armed relrls against a friendly Power. Nay, this
is not all—the San Felipe, a vessel owned, armed, freighted,
and navigated from the United States of America, goes out
on a smuggling expedition to Texas, a province of Mexico,
but is very naturally and properly stopped by the Corm), a
Mexican vessel of war of the revenue departmlmt, and imme-
diately proceeds with the utmost sang.ftoid to capture and
bring into New Orleans the Mexican revenue cutter.
"-With exactly the same propriety might a Baltimore clip-
per sail with a freight of contraband tobacco and a heavy ar-
mament for Deal or Dover, or any other English port, and on
being stopped by the British revenue cutter, capture her and
bring her into New York, or a British smuggling trader, with
a cargo of steel and broadcloth, take our revenue schooners
and carry them as prizes to Liverpool. It is a hard rule that
will not work both ways, and if this rule were to work thus,
we sluitild be little surprised if the affair were to end in smoke
between Andrew Jackson and Great Britain.
The moment, therefore, has arrived, when the Government
,f the United States must interfere or violate the first princi-
des of international law. Every principle of equity, justice,
Lnd morality, call upon us •to interfere for the prevention of
his outrage on society—nor is this all, every principle of
iolicy, of expediency, and of self-interest.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Last night was played at this theatre a burletta, which,-
besides being new, is, as the bills aver, " original." The
following is a sketch of the plot :--Mr. Ralph. Reckless • .
(Mr. Vining), who has been very bUsily employed -in
sowing- hiS wild oats and falling in love, is travelling under
an assumed name, when he espies the object of his affec-
tions, Miss Flighty (Miss Malcolm), at the window of a
house to which she has been conveyed for security by her
guardian. The domicile in question is situated on the river
,bank, and the water, it. appears, flows up to the very walls,
and is a considerable depth immediately under the back
windows. While Reckless is puzzling himself to obtain ac-
cess to Miss Flighty, he discoVers, first, that his servant
Tom (Mr. Salter) has an intrigue with Fain:!, Pepper_
(Mrs. Orger) ; secondly, that having had a stock of
grocery left between him and his brothers, he is about
to send his share in a large hamper as a present to
Fanny ; and thirdly, that the said Fanny fortunately lives.
in the house which Miss Flighty o'cupies. Reckless there-
upon takes the place of the sweets in the hamper, and a
note is put under the direction to explain matters to Fanny.
The hamper is brought into the presence of Miss Flighty
and Mrs. Facile, who has just been bewailing the to
easy and accommodating, disposition and imperturbable
good, humour of Me. Euclid Facile (Mr. Keeley), and
the grievously pert and unaccommodating disposition of
Fanny ; moreover Fanny has the unpardonably bad taste
to ape the dress and manners of Mrs. Facile. lift.
to conciliate his wife, presents her with a case of drawing in-
struments,
which she, much to the delight of Fanny, who
admires the 'spirit of it, flings from the back window into the
river. .211s* Facile being alone after the delivery of the
hamper, Reckless jumps out from his hiding-place ; she
screams, he expoitulates, and finally she insists on his return
to the hamper, when she quits the room to order the servants
to carry the hamper off. She is no sooner gone than Reck-
less again comes forth, deposits in the hamper some heavy
articles, and conceals himself in a closet. Fanny next en-
ters, blynders. out the direction on the hamper, discovers the
letter ,which she puts in her pocket unread, and concludes
that tlie hamper contains a present from Tom. Going to
the window she descries a party in a boat ; Tom is amongst
them ; a lass is there also, whom Tont salutes ; of course
Fanny Pepper burns for revenge. She flies to the hamper—
the spirit of Mrs. Facile possesses her—she would cast the
hamper and its contents after the drawing instruments into
the river, but it is too heavy for her to move. life. Facile
appears and is persuaded to help her. Between them it is
raised and tumbled into the water. It is not long before Mrs.
Facile makes known to her husband that the said .hamper
contained a man. Facile is almost petrified with horror ;
Fanny is scarcely less terrified : the letter is referred to,
elle story is- confirmed ; their dread of detection is a source
of much amusement. Reckless, impatient of his -confine-
ment, at last -peeps out, and, .seeing Facile, recognises him
as an old friend; He at once introduces himself, and being
exhausted, asks for some wine ; a decanter is brought con-
taining wine, with which Mrs, Facile has mixed a narcotic
for a friend. Reckless drinks fours or live glasses, feels a
swimming in his head, declarer, he is poisoned, is led to a
sofa, and he cioi
base'
again
nes iohnle.
inli
murder.tted ./7((cl and Fanny
imagine, i,,aeiieniy
imagine. thety
pro-
poses, when night shall come, to throw the body into
the river. In the mean time, the sofa lid (the sofa
being of that description which is convertible into a bed-
stead) is removed, and the body being let into the
" well," the lid is replaced over it. -A visitor to the
family now arrives, and he is offered, in default of a
bed, the accommodation of the sofa bedstead ; but Fanny
having solemnly protested that it cannot be "made up,"
the visitor- contents himself with retiring to rest upon the
sofa. As soon as he has fallen asleep, Facile and Fanny
enter for the purpose of cutting the under lining of the sofa
and getting out the body ; white they are at work they
wake the visitor—the light is put out. In a state of alarm
be sits 44 bolt upright." Reckless has recovered from his
drowsiness, .and begins to stir underneath—the visitor is
upset—an outcry is raised--the family come in—light is
thrown upon the dark deeds that have been perpetrated—
and, to the infinite satisfaction of Me. Facile and Fanny,
they learn that they have committed no murder. All the
performers exerted themselves -considerably. Mr. J. Vining
was a dashing and agreeable Reckless, and Miss Malcolm an
exceedingly pretty Miss Flighty. Mr. Kelly and Mrs.
Order were both superlatively good. The piece was an-
nounced for repetition amid considerable applause.

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TITHES.—Strange as it at first may seeim.thects
of the legislature have little or no efTect- on tAxe yriicP,of
agricultural produce—except by tithes—other thapj?3,
rits
restrictions on trade, enhancing to the farmer the p9K:of
those things for which he actually exchanges his corn,
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