The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-07 00:00:00

DOIVNING-STREET,' 1817,

" Sin.—Tri reply to the enquiries which you have made
with respect to the encouragement which will be given to
persons proceedirig as Settlers to Canada, I am directed by,
Lord BATtitrawr to acquaint you, that it is not the intention
cof sic Mielpetr'ittinvvrtnutist ./..44:44/C +l. • L
year uny.means of conveyance for persona tlesitous.of emi-
grating to British North Ameriea. Butllial if such persons'
can provide for the expence of their own vonreydOce to Ca.!
nada, Lord BATHURST will recommend them to the (.over-
nor of the Province, in order that they may receive on their.
arrival a Grant of Land prorortioned to their meatis.of culti-
vation, and some assistance in Agricultural Implements.
" But as NO person can proceed to North Arneriest as a Set-
tler with any prospect of success, unie:is he takes his depar-
ture from Ens orie early in the season, it is to be clearly.un-
derstood that nu Settler will be entitled the Advantages
held oat in this Letter, unless he shall embark in some Port
of the United Kingdom for North America previous to the
lit of June.

" At the same time, those persons who may be linable to
leave the United Kingdom previous to that date, will nitre
with no difficulty' in retching nest year fresh Letters of Re-
commendatioan to the Governor of his Malcaly's Settle-
ments, of which they may avail themselves in the ensuing
Sitting.

" I am, Sir, pouf• most obedient Servant,
HENRY GOLTLBURN."

The following is intimately connected with the
same subject. We 'alter it very slightly, from the
Dublin Correspondent :
" We have, at different times, encountered the
headlong and rm:fleeting passion for Emigration
to America, which has, since the termination of
hostilities with that country, prevailed to a most
unfoitunate degree; and we resume that dory
again, in the hope of succeeding, to some
extent 'or other, in restraining the inconsi-
derate rashness which has driven thousanda of
our countrymen into beggary and wretchedness in
a foreign land. For thisirurpose we have selected
from very late New York Papers some documents
of unimpeachable authority---and from those we
shall spew haw deeply and calamitously misfor-
tune has followed the footstep of the emigrant in
his transatlantic speculations.
" The doegonents to Whiell'•we adVert. are re-
ports of the state of the Charitable Establishment
at New York, called the Alms-Hisrise, supported
by the fund raised from a duty levied On sales by
auction; and in those, it appears, and nobody can
question such evidence, that there were, at the
latest period of making the estimate, nine hundred
and five foreigners—adults, dependant for subsist•
ence upon the Institution. Of these nine hundred
and five foreigners, we know, from the best
authority, that almost the 'entire were Irish,
and emigrants too, of late arrival in the
country : anti there is to be adder! to this list

• )f want anti poveity, a large number of chil
dren, as represented in theennmeration, who, hav-
ing beet born ofirish paent,i in New Yolk, share
the thiserahlt destiny of tlinse who ove'thent be•.
ingl If we had not befnre our eves -tile trurne-
.
rous erntiarkatious that Wit place itt aiediffe'ent
Pnrts of this cotrotuv of adventurer-3 fur ktneriew,
•we could not believe that, jn one elfs, alorie;tlio
destitute British provided for by that it y, arnotmi+4
to nearly nine hundred and flee in wetolter, ex-
clusive of children, whit,' primps, runic up' to
half that amount !' We have Marked.-provided
for, because: there must be ~a _great portion, of
struggling poverty, not altogether so helpless as to
tall into arrangem-ics which humanity has prow
vided for the shelter of the wretched, and, there-
fore, not noticed. - All this—we would Mikes, it
on such of our countrymen as ha's.* yet escaped
the:edelusion-7-is in one city;• and, when the ex-
tent of America is contemplated, what may we not
suppose of the total amount of foreign tnisery and
poverty throughout that Country We shall close
the subject for the present, by the insertion of a
letter which accompanied the NeN-Yowl: Papers
The writer is obviously in littruble life—but the
better able, therefore, so judge sof what he is re
luting. He alludes, it will be seen, to the docu-
ments we have been .noticing •

. .
" NEW FEB. 4U,, t817.--,The Editor is respectfully
furnished with the chief Democratic Papers of New York,
wherein he will perceive from a Memorial therein set forth
by the Mayor, that there are in the Abas-house of New
York 905 foreigners-'—that, is Irish. Entigrunt.r; and of the
City and State, tont ; and that these Foreigners are prin-
efpally adults, which proves that they are'cidefly- the urefor-
tonate Emigrants that have come over, and cannot get em-
ployment. Add. Millis. (I regret it does not appear in this
Paper, brit the fact is so,) that there are upwards of I ACT! per •
r,ons confined. for debt in the gaol limits; ancl,,whenit
known that thirty days liberates a debtor, the state of this,
Courhtry may from these facts he better known. InclOsed,
also, you have a list of Insolvents for one week. the state,.,
merits now and. then in the Dublin Evening Pail has ruined
many at home, and occasioned many to curse their belief in
it, who were led fronAts stories to come to this enthstry, and
now they swell the number of paupers. I. admit, that %ten'
I came here this country was eery difft cent, but now distress
pervades every rank. hope my-countrymen will be Onrneulu
and if they wtittld but work at honit as many of them have to
do here, they would be better off. • • •

" AN IRISIIMAN,
" And nn Unfortunate. Emigrant."

The following is a copy of a Circ►►htr Letter
from the Secretary for ti►c Home Drparttnent to
the Loris Erientenants of C(iti'w ies

COPY.',,XIitCULAR
47, I nl7-

/40111)—As it is of the greatest Importance to pre-
'vent, as far as possibte, the eirculAion of blasphemous and
seditious, pamphlets and writinAs, of which. fcr a consider,
etas ttu vitsi, great numbers bale hymn sold and distri-
buted throughout .the country; I have ,thought it my duty
to consult the Law Officers of tin:Crown; whether an indivi-
dual found selling, or in any way pUblipting such pemphiets
ur writings, might he brought immediately bckre a Justice
of the Peace, under a warrant issued for the purpose, to an-
swer lor his conduct. The Law Officers having according-
ly taken this matter into their consideration, have noti-
fied to me their opinion, thitt a Justi.:-e of the Peace ratty
issue a warrant to epprehenti a mrson charged before him,
upon oath, with this publication of Tibels of the nature in
question, and compel him 'to give hail to answer the charge.
Under these circutustandes, I beg leave to cell your Lord-
sitcp's attention very particularly to this subject ; encl.! ',ace
to request, that if your Lordship shotild not psopose to at-
tend in person at the next General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, to he holden in and for the county under your Lord•
ship's charge, you would make known to the Chairman of
such Sessions the substince'of this communication, in order
that be may recommend to the, severall&gistrates, to act
thereupon in all, cases where any person should be found'
offending against the law in the manner above-mentioned.
I beg leave to add, that persons vending pamphlets or other,
publications in Ibe manner alluded., to, should be considei eel
as Coming under the provisions of the Haw'ker's awl Pedlar's.
'Act, add be dealt with accordingly, unless theYshew that
they are furnished with a license, as required by the said Act.

I am, &o.
To his Majesty's Lieutenant of the

SIDMOUTH.

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