The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-30 00:00:00

[PRICE SEVENPENC F.

I'ION.

[FaOM A CORREsPoNDENT.]
This subject is now become so interesting to
the Politician, the Philanthropist, and the in-
tended Emigrant, that, however anxious to di-
rect the tide of 'Emigration to our own settle-
Merits, we feel that the cause of our country will
be best served. by a fair and iinpartial exposé of
the true state of the ease. Many will go ; it is,
therefore, ati act of benevolence to point our to
our uninformed fellow-citiiens thetie' w!),o ought
nut to go, it they have any regard.for themselves.
or folmilieS. With this feeling we give the tot-,
lowing fetter from an Irish Paper, written by a
highly respectable and intelligent Irishman. who.
lies resided'for more than tivo idaiiin New York,
dated New York, Bth Feb. 1819:

" I.wenld; rdnder all circumstances, recommend my coun-
trymen to stay at borne; except such' as possess money suffi-
cient to buy a tarm, or have some good trade, such as car-
penters, enaCh-make,s, black-smiths, and a few others. A-,;
common labourer can du better in any part of this country,
than in England or Ireland ; persons brought up about ma-
t ufactorieS will not get employment here„ as articles of dress
are generally imported ; I hate seen a few poor weavers from
Dublin, trying to make out an existence by the business of,
begging, and genteel young men, who bad either failed in
business cr got out of employment at home, working corn-,
mon labouring work; persons of such descriptions coming
here with a view of employment as clerks, may be certain of
disappointment. Farmers who have-failed at home, and think •
of coining here, should hare the price of a horse and cart, to
take up the business of cartthari, by which a-hard working
honest man may support a family'—if they have not this they
bad better stay at home; such persons need not flatter them-
selves with the expectation of getting easy employment in this
country. Portrait-painting is an excel:ent business here, anti
that -of landscape is almpst as ,good as- a weaver! I would -
strongly recommend every man in England and Ireland. in a
declining 'business, (such as shopkeepers, &c.) to wind up their
affairs and come to this country, if they can bring 5001. or
upwaids, to purchaSe land and heCeme farmers. Such per-
sons will be always certain of a competency, and the means'
of making their children comfiirtahle. Editors of News-
papers or Periodical Publications must be mad to conic here.
Nothing can he done in a foreign, political, or literary way.
There are three Papers here supported as well as any in Eu- '
rope, principally by advertisements. The celelrrated'Cobbett
and Cox, you are aware, are both here some time, and, like
many -others before them, in a similar line, have been ob-
liged to give up publishing- Papers, the former has become
an experimental faemer, and the latter an importer of Irish ,
whiskey, halos, &c. 'Touching the American character, L.
must do there-the justice to say, as welt in condition and '
manners. talents, and moral character, from the President to
the humblest mechanic, there is-a great similarity—) on will -
not see that description of low 'ruffians to be found in one
country, and th.ere is nu matt more the Gentleman than the
educated American; modest and unassuming in his manners,
be feels 'himself the equal of any mao, mid superior to no
one; some tra yellers. and ivrii ers. have given them a lid '
name, which, I. do believe, originated either from ignorance
.of their real character, or from prejudice or interest."
As a fair counterdoise to this, however, we may•
with propriety add the fon,,Wing tern a ks, front a.
recent nunzber of the Edinburgh Review .
" As for einigration, every man, of course,'
must 'determine for hintself. A carpenter under •
30 years of age, who finds .himselt a Cincinnati •
-with an axe over his shoulder, and ten pounds in
his rocket, will "get 'WI in America, if time change
of climate does not kill !din: So will a farmer
who emigrates early with some capital. 13ut any
person with tolerable prosperity hem e, had better.
remain where he is. There are considerable evils,
no doubt, in England but it would be madness •
not to admit, that .it is, upon the whole, a very
happy country, and vet, are snitch mistaken if the
next 20 years will not brink with it a • great deal
of internal improvement. The country has long.
been groaning. udder the evils of.the greatest fo— -
reign war we were ever engaged in ;, and see ate
just beginning to look again into our home
atrairs.

" It is oat pleasant to emigrate into a corm-
try'ot changes and revolution, the size and inte-
grity of whose empire no man can predict. The
American.; are a very sensible, reflecting people,
and have conducted their affairs extremely well ;
but it. is scarcely possible, to conceive that such
an empire bhould very long remain undivided, or
that the dwellers on the Colninbia should have
common interest with 'the navigation of the Ilud•
son and the Delaware.

". England is, to be sure, a very expensive
conntry-; hot a million of millions have been ex-
pended in linking it habitable and comfortable ;
and this is a constant source of revenue, or, what
is the same thing, a constant diminution of ex-
pence to every man living in it. Thesprice an.
Englishman pays for a turnpike road is not equal.
to the tenth part of what the delay would cost
him without-a-thrnpike. The New River Com-
pany brings water to every inhabitant of Londort
at an infinitely less price than he could dip for it
out of the Thames. No country, .in fact, is so
expensive as one which human beings are just be-
ginning 'to inhabit ; where. there are no roads, no
bridges, no skill, no help, no combination of
powers, and no totce of capital.
" How, too, can any than take upon himself to
Say, that he is so indifferent to his country that he
will not begin to- love it intensely, when he is
5000 or 6000 miles from it ? And what a•dread-
tul disease Nostalgia !limit be on the banks of the
Misouri I Severe and painful poverty will drive
us all any where ; but a wise man should be
quite sure he has so irresistible before he
ventures on the Great or the Little \V hash.
should he quite sure that he dues • Hot go tittle
from • ill temper—car to be pitied—or to be re-
gretted—or grom ignorance of what is to happen
to him—or because i.e is a poet—but because ise
has not enottgit to cat here, and is sure of abun-
dance where he is going."