The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-28 00:00:00

The Bill for amending the Poor Laws, with re-
spea to the settlement of persons renting premises
of a certain value, %,as read- a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time on Tuesday, the 2d of
April.—Adjourned,

MAILS.
ARRIVED—I Waterford.* Dtat—i Dublin, a Waterford.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY f2B, 1811.

"Windsor Castle, Feb. zB, tBtt.
" His MAJESTY continues to go on fdvourably."i

(Siened as usual).

The Poictiers, of 74 gnus, has arrived from Lis-
bon, which placeshelett on,the IGth, and nothing
new had occurred up to that date. . . • - • -

•
It is stated in the MORNING CHRONICLE that all
discussions have terminated between this Govern 7
ment and the American Plenipotentiary. The same
Paper proceeds to add, ". we understand further,,
that, in consequence of the decision of his Ma-i
je,ty's Ministers not to recognise the neutral rights
of the United States, the powers, of
,Mr. VINICNE Y
have ceased under the instrudions he has received,
so that-ad hope of conciliation seems now to have
disappeared." We beg leave to enter the strongest
protest agaist this mode of stating the point at issue.
between the two countries ; his Majesty's Ministers
have in no one instance refused to recognise the neu-.
tral rights of America; it is the American Government
that has suffered them, almost without a murmur,
to be violated by France. The measures that have
been adopted by the. British Gwernment were net.
adopted from any feeling of hostility towards Ame-
rica—they were the result of necessity. The violent
and unprecedented Decrees of Berlin and Milan,
left our Governmont only the alternative of-issuing
the Orders in Council, or of seeing our own
trade `destroyed, a bile that 'of our enemy was
safety carried on, notwithstanding our nail su-
periority by means of neutrals. But it is said that
BUONAPARTE has 'repealed, his Decrees, and that
therefore We. ought to rescind. our Orders in Coun-
cil. We do most positively deny that the Berlin
and Milan Decrees are revealed. , BUONAPARTE did
indeed say, that after the tat of November they
should cease; but have they adually ceased ; Has
any ono ad. of the French Government. since the
tat of November proved that BUONAPARTE consi-
ders these Decrees as bring no longer in existence'?
-DO The GoVernment:ano People of America believe
that these decrees are actually and Substantillly re-
pealed ? All the accounts tram America afford a
negative answer to that question. We laid before
our Readers, on Tuesday, a letter from Boston,
which began thus : "It is now sixty-nine dtqs
since the'tst Of Nos ember, and yet no direct ac-
counts from-Fiance after that date. Had the De-
cree been repealed on that day, should we Out pro-'
bably have had, some arrivals before t his."

We have every reason to believe that the British
Go►eriimeut have expressed a disposition to rescind
the Orders in Council, provided the Decrets w hich
rendered them necessary are really repealed, and
more the American Government has no right to
ask.—Whether the French party in America have
influence enough to force that country into a war
with Great Britain it is impossible for us to know;
our opinion is, and, we do not advance it upon light
grounds, that awar will not take place. We trust
that his MAJESTY'S Ministers will persevere in the
firm but temperate course which they have adopted
towards America. We hope that a war ber+A (len the
two countries may be avoided; but it cannot be de-
nied that fur a lung time past the American Govern-
ment seem to have forgot that it neutrals have rig'its
to protect, they haVe. also duties to perform ; that
Government has, towards Great Britain, been most
pertinacious in elainiing the rights of neutrality,
while it has almost uniformly manifested the most
undisguised hostility.

Since writing the above, we have been favoured
with American 'Wets to the 23d ult. from which
we have only time to make the following extrAct :