The Sun.
London, England, 1816-01-09 00:00:00

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'r apm-Ttiß sint•liitti.tt.'“E•itAt.rt tr Nov. •'l, 1515.
looe.been favotirt.:l with the two follow-
ing Extracts of Letters front Fort St. Joseph, nit
Drunimond I.3latiti, written by tsth Gentlemen to
their.friends in tins city. elotidate, in plain
latignage, the designs of the Amtiticaa Got ern-
niencon the Indian rribes
"Drimeutaut Island, Sept. it, 181-b.
" Captain Anderson 0; just arrived flout the
'7illi.4ssippi, and has pet formed his important 'duty
to satisfactioo;.. Cipt. A. will give you some in-
• lereNting detailsas to tlie.MissiOpi Red Children.
Some of their speeches evince mita shrewdness
ao:): doll sense, andc besides", animated, ex-
. pressive, and affecting, in no small degree. "They,
iu soinenteasure, darkly foresee their- We; which
)ant m•iy be assured, if the), olipose (brave ,furl
high sprite(' as they are, oppose they will), is an
)ndiSeriminate slaughtec. The Anietican,§ltail not
attempted to move from St. Louis, on Captain
depart tire. lrr (fist, 1 MCI inclined" Oil thinic
their" scitones.elf compteit atid.stiiiingation must
be inthiiii)netl (ill ticxt yei-a ; and if so, a blessed
'woe !or the poor Indians, which I am convinced
• was chilly owing to our late retention of Maki-
' lOW. 11iotild oti circnistace have saved them
front the intended MASSACIV, or seen for a time
tact t d it, Wit 1113 V aft consider it tlic most for-
tunate. event or init. rms."

'' October 10th, IEIS.

" settling of the country' is tier grand object
;lod aibio‘.t art. y,enertilly of opinion that the
Caoadians And Emigrants from Feurope are the
i,eople most to be depended upon, though nut so
t.:Npat iu clearing will lands as the Americans ;
'..yet habit NV 0 lila SOrta make them equally quAii6ed
:with their more expel Hiatt rivals. Goou roads
natnrally keep progress ‘t itlt the Sett kint.M(S.
and 00'01101:v11f td liiiW ti;!; its powerful HMI
din ityport or liberal priteilles, by which alone
,the country (7111 tlintrish„ The idea of opening
a;; it were convenience of the Awe._
lie;tos, or for It rain digplrry, Of magnificence, is too
Absurd to dwell ilium for te momeht. The natural
inlets of St: Johns, Coteau :de Lae, awl the Chau-
-teengay,:tehere'clistOm-hottscs are established, an-
6wer every ptirpose. All the produce of Vet mom
awl the State of New York, upon Lake Cham-
plain; will contd. in by St. Johns, and- consequently
to Montreal; And wilett-!• Qiehec will bare
0,1 y," the siippilei will he -from Oar OWEI town-
tpir: ato not front 'Now ilampshire, as was;
• Horici pared .!so for as Craig% Road fa-
eonted`the' towti-liipii; so' far the opening of it was
tpief4ions• relating- to.our agriculture
n▪
od navigation depend upon 'the pol;cy 'whidli the
..:11otlicr Country will pursue in 'the West Indies
nod Newfoundland Fislielies. If this Colony is
assured that' Abe Americans *Of' be
tooled iii future- from -rallying on trade'to the
.4)ther.Colonies; then cat! We. proceed in this coun-
try with entire-canfidothei we can rake produce
to .toy aonottnt, anti he pretty certain of finding a
a>teady-ifiaii;el.l.l - . '

1N DEM NITIES of' Po wr GAL by thePEACE
of Nov. 20, 1815 x
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Otttrueto kola' the intestigrubr Portupie: for Jan. teta.
Let us now say a little of ourselves
e: ctt the Portuguese Maim]. In truth, 'if our
tugtil Must estimat'e 116 r valtre by the itifietit.;
stlty which is given her, she is the least &set v-
ot all the States of the'Cireat Confederatino !
Not todely Sardinia, and TSwitter:
tot; - are preferred:to her in point of services',
. !rift, to still wearer cOnfusiOn, she dews not
Weigh much rttt even pcipp 311 in the incoreop
1:1!,..nte of the Siirereigni ; for, to the iat-
tt r are ;111,,ttt fl two awl abalf Of francs,
but to us, the last and'loWeSt, In the seale, only.
.two ! In this hitpipe the great potentates
lrf littrope, those judges'. of the niet its or nations
in life universal conflict; declare, that eltir's have
4teen nothing or of wiry small importance; for our
indemnity has been calcolated at the lowest rate.
defence of this treatment, unheard of in the his-
tory of alliances,Ave cap only be told that. the other
stations of the second rank were more considered
in the divlsign, because, being conterminous to
France, they 61101.0 more ample means to Rate
themselves In a defensive attitude against any new
t•ttacks which that country might make upon
them. Hut we wonld ask, is Denmark also con-
tertninnui with France ? It is not however, with
Slot half million more of francs assigned to her
that we are dissatisfied ; it is of our political con.
sitter:on-at, of one honour, that -vu ,are jealous ;
joy sorcly there, is ita maw who would dare to coin-
"pare the tardy and insignificant services of Deal
mark with the heroic, and brilliant ones of Por-
tugal,
Besides this, if the circumstance of bordering
open France is to have so much weight, what
cotuary, more deset ving of indemnities than Por-
tugal In all the wars into which I?•nrope tins en.
ered in eousetioenee of flui. imisetertue rivalships
betweeu Entail(' and France, Spun. always Made
common cause with the latter, whether doring
the time of the 'Bourbons, or during the reign of
the Buonapartts ; and what she has hitherto
dOne for'ages,.she will cert4Wy contiiole to do in
future; Oar frontier,, therefore, may in tact be
voi,sidered as bordering. upon France ; and on
that.ground, bgsides the enormous :losses 9 have
vilanted, we were entitled to :a sufficient sum to
form for ourselves a line of ;defence against the
'attacks. of Spain; which always- have been, and
alWays will be, those of France. It not, let them
tell Ity we lost (iliveoza.,, and some time
afterwards saw.; by snrprise, our provinces of the
,North and SOinhin the power of the Spaniards
Let us not-be told, that by not littring made
oor appearance in the plains of Waterloo, we lost
Oar claim to indemnities. In that memorablehat-
tie, in which alao there Were no tklops Of the
greater pelt of thenatious which have ail Teceiv-
ell a larger portion than ?Ortega!, the, fate of En-
rope was not decided ; that was „already decided
by -the first abdication of .11tionaparte, when the
Vortliguese attlaii, victorious at the gates of 'Tou-
louse ; audit is second appearance:in France, which
was in fact an act or tleveration, could tic longer