The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-04 00:00:00

451ERICil.

BOSTON, JULY 30.—There are a number of con-.
siderations which wilt readily occur to every reader-
on. perusing the dispatches frpm Mr. Erskine, which-
We hate now publi,bed, and the .very singular de-
clarations made ,by Mr. Gallatin. We hare all
heard,.and repeatedly, of the dissensions .in the Ca-
binet, and we have seen, in papers which were de-
voted to Mr. Jefferson, the most pointed invectives
against Mr. Gallatin. We have ofteil sen it sug-
.gestedi that he was to be, or ought to be, dismissed.
There is no doubt blit't I at this Gentleman has been
brought tool,he alter-trait% eof being abandoned by all
the adherents of Jefferson, or of thus li-taking- public
the auteiide honourable, or such statentenis as tuight,
be deemed necessary to obliterate the growing sus-
p:cions against the-integrity of the late and present
A' ministration, in their management-of our foreign
relations. It is true, we did not expect such att act
of humiliation on the part of Mr. Gallatin, because.
he must kno•... that with inieilig-erit men, in this and.
every oilier-country, the nrea3ures which our Go-
vernment lime adopted towards the t wo great belli-,
gerent powers 4tiords a weight of testimony more
powerful and coi.;clusive than the representation of
any individual w hatever. The UttnOlt he could do,
would be to cctivince the -,woild twat he' had been
dup,d, if sincere in his statement, or that he was
sacrificing ►eracity to place, if otherwise.
The question or tad, as to the "' undue aniipa-
.atid attachments " which Washington depte-:
cated in his day, and witnessed in the patty by
'which he was opposed—the -pifity which has since
rien to the direction of our public concerns, we
cannot admit tar be now capaute of dispute.. Ibe
evidence of partiality tonne,- and inexorable intipa-
thy to the other; stands recorded for posterity on
the Journals of our National I,:gidature, and in
-the Correspondence relating to; Negociations be-
tween- our Government and those at kidllee Aid
Gi'uat Britain.

But the question of fact, as to Mr. Gallatin's hav-
ing wade the suggestions
saliuded to by Mr. Erskine,
i, now before us For the present, we shah aJtq.t
s,,ine .etycanoid and rational retnarks on the 'Sub.
jeci, troip at. artici‘ in the Boston Gazette
of yestero,y. So interest,ng a point will, of course,
be resumed nett-after.

"Chat Irir.'l?altatin nvi not make tnese suggestions
respecting th,.• krench pnitialittcs of President Jef-
terson, is periectiy established: it is established
that -tie rwade such an impres.ion upon the mind of
Mr. Eiskine.
,But the guarded eontradiction of Mr.
Eiskine's statement by Mr. Gailartl. would 'only
icave ihe q, eition of tact at issue bey ween these
(...4entivinen, and by no means decidL d, even' it ,there
were not indny clieuinstdrices In the cases to favour
Mr. Erskine's relation. 'these c.:ircurnstatices, are
to be found,
_ . _

t s 6. In the lice and undisguised manner in which
Mi,lirskine makes uut his story, and the number of
preuharittes ,in the wanner in which Mr. Gallatin.
communicated toe insinuation. lie then eniorcts
the Sallie fact upon his.own author,ity, in the foithvv-
ihg orals knew (says Mr. Erskine) that I
must have obsei ice! that Mr. Jetfersun never spoke
with approbation of any thuig that was Br dish, and
always took up French topics in. his conversation,
dild always pialsed the people. and couutt'y of France),
and lcvec lost an oppoituniv of slit:Wing his dislike
to. Great Britain.

2dly, The delay which Mr. Gallatin has made in
produchz his replication. He had received the
pamphlet which contained Mr. Erskine.s dispatches
i;eiore the Q lst of Aht il, bud did not Publish•his
re-
ply until three months atterwaids. . •
3jiy, The guarded terms in which• Mr. Gallatin
correits the asset tion of the British Ministers. Here
is his ieply let it be stated.—" Mr. Erskine must.
cave mistaken my assent to die exthience of sur•
rises of partiality in Mr. Jefferson. towards France,
for an acquiescence of the truth of them." He says
ire " might have spoken of Mr. Madison as having'
neither bias nor enmity towards Frahe or England.
But I never could or did contrast his sentiments in
that respect, or ascribe toihitn opinions on the sub-
ject of our foieign relations, at variance with those
a Mr. Jefferson.

• Now, it this can be cnnsidered a prompt, expli-
cit, and unequivocal denial of, the suggestions which
Mr. Erskine . has declared -that he made, we, allist
suppose the persons " whose belief is ,thus easily
turned either very ignorant or very credulous. £lr.
Gallatin acknowledges.th;it be assented to the.exist-
ence of surmises of ; partiality toAards France, in
Mr. Jefferson's character; but does not-affirm that
he positively denied the truth of them. So with
regard to Mr. Madison j, he seems to admit, that
his having neither "
,bias nor enmity towards
France or Great Britain," really produced a con,rast
betw,een his character .and that: of Mr.- Jefferson,
but he " never could or did" make the contrast.
4th. Another reason which niiikes in• favour of
Mr. Erskine% accOu.nt is, that after Mr. Gallatin's
G.7.planation oi; all the Imlm:rim points of thp.coutro—
versy, which were t reated on in the conversation, Mr.
Etskine's relation is substantially correct. And he
is only contradicted where the evident erica of his-
assertiops4 might destroy Mr. 'Ga. ;latin's waning po-
pularity, .

It is lucky for us that in England the people are
made acquainted with the state ot national con-
cerns, and that the press is used for this laudable
purpose. We, republicans, might have remained
ed for ever strangers to the dispatches from Mr.
Erskine, while
,resident Minisier , here, now par-
tially exhibited. These were k,.-pt a profound secret,-
untd the arrival ot pamphlets in this country, con-
taining Mr. Erskine's correspondence at large, ten-
dered a longer suppression impracticable. To know
hoW long our Governtneft Most have cionceale.l
these papers, though in their possession', see the date
ot Mr. Gallatinipaper.
These traitors to the honour and indeinudence of
our coi.ntry, whp feel a soicere though concealed
wish that Buonaparte may give law to the world,
attempt to give plaushility to thei-r, favourite
trea-
sure,, by professing to be actuated by the laudable
principles of hutuaniiy. This dishonest cant takes
with Many persons of good teelitt, who are _ not
destittite of patriotic sentiments, but wally suppose
that by the system. of pacy our rtileti adopt to-.