The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-15 00:00:00

with troops for Batavia, and subsequently put back,
had again sailed. The health of the King of PRUSSIA
continued to improve.

In another column will be found copies of the cor-
respondence which passed between Mr. VA uG trik sr,
our Minister in the United States, and Mr. CLAY,
the Secretary of State, on the subject of the interdic-
tion of intercourse between American vessels and our
West India Colonies. All these letters, however, are
of antecedent date to the two documents of primary
importance in the discussion, ,viz. Mr. CANNING'S.
Note of the 11th Sept. to Mr. GALLATIN, and the in-
structions given by the Government of the United
States to Mr. GALLATIN in Mr. CLAY'S letter to
that Gentleman of the 11th Nov., which we published in
our Paper of Friday. These two papers distinctly
state the case of each country, with the most powerful
arguments which can be brought forward in support of
either, and therefore may be said to be the principal
features in that part which has been published of the
correspondence to which this question has given rise.
That which has since taken_ place we may conclude
has been of still higher interest ; but of its actual
nature, or even of its general tendency all must be at
present conjecture, beyond the fact, that a British Ca-
binet Messenger was despatched to Washington with,
(as may safely be inferred) the answer of the British
Government to the Note, which Mr. GALLATIN
would-have presented to Mr. CANNING on the receipt
of Mr. CLAY'S before-mentioned instructions. The
question, therefore, as far as depends on the decision
of our Government, may be considered as settled, but
it remains to be seen in what manner that decision will be
received by the Government of the United States—whe-
ther they will consent to abandon their claims, or will be
unwise enough to risk the interruption of all friendly
• tin ercourse between the two countries, by re-assert-
ing them in a tone and style which we shall not be in-
clined to brook.- GOD forbid that the latter result
should ensue ; all the motives which we mentioned on
Saturday, with a thousand others which might be
urged, should powerfully operate to prevent it ;• while
we know of no good argument whatever, which can
be used by either party, for producing it, nor of any
advantage which one could derive from hostilities
against the other. Both Governments, however, are
decided in their view of the question, considering jus-
tice and right to be on their side ; and when such is
the case with disputants—and those disputants rival
nations, struggling for commercial advantages—it is not
impossible that the dictates of prudence may be dis-
regarded, and the certainty of the evils of war incurred
in preference to the abandonment of the prospective
benefits expected to arise from the commercial re-
gulations which have been adopted.
In the discussion itself the United States are de-
cidedly wrong ; nations not interested in the question,
and unbiassed in the consideration of it, will declare
them to.be so. Indeed we know of only one weak
point in the whole of the case as respects this country.
That is more a matter of taste Oian one involving the
merits of the question ; and although it affords a
specious argument to the United States, (not perhaps
exactly founded in truth), it cannot affect the real
question in any degree. We allude to the circum-
stance of the Act of 1825 not having been officially
communicated to the American Government. As it
materially affected a subject which had been before
discussed between the two Governments and left un-
settled, we must admit that we think it would have
been candid to have communicated the provisions of
the Act, as soon as it had passed, officially, to the
United States, with a frank and manly avowal of the
principles upon which this country was determined to
act in her Colonial trade. So far we may admit that
a want of courtesy may have been shewn to the Go-
vernment of the United States, but it is also evident
that no want of courtesy was intended, but that the
communication was not made, simply because of
the notoriety of the provisions of the Act while
in progress, and when passed. The Acts of the Bri-
tish Parliament, particularly such as regulate Foreign
Trade, are too well known all over the world to allow
the argument drawn from the assertion of the ignorance
of the American Government of the scope of this Act,
to have any weight. They must, and evidently did,
know of its provisions : and it strongly shows the
weakness of their case, when they attempt to bolster
it up by such misrepresentations.
It is not on such poor pretexts' that Great Britain
rests her case. It is founded on the immutable prin-
ciples of justice; and supported by the irresistable ar-
guments of Mr. CANNING, advanced in his official
notes, almost with the eloquence which distinguished his
harangues,
it must prevail, if reason directs the Go-
vernment of the United States of America. If reason
has not its commanding influence with the United
States, let them rue the day on which they resolve to
interrupt their amicable relations with a Power, who,
of all other nations in the world, is the truest friend in
peace, but the most formidable opponent in war.

BrUssels Papers of the 13th instant have been re-
ceived this morning, but they contain little of particu-
lar interest. It appears that the Great Council of
Lucerne opened its sittings on the 27th ult., and next
day confirmed the permission previously granted for
the introduction of the Protestant worship at Lucerne,
by a majority a 52 to 39. The friends of religious
toleration must rejoice to see the cause of liberality,
though working slow, yet making certain progress in
its enlightened march :
BRUSSELS, JAN. 10.
From the 26th Decemher to sth January 47 persons died at
Groningen.
The Emperor of Russia has just decided that the nobility con.
ferred on individuals of the class of merchants, for services ren•
dered to the state, shall be for their own lives only, and not be
transmitted to their descendants. This decision not having any
retro-active effect, does not affect those persons on whom such
favours had been previously conferred.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 11.

Dr. Andre, of this city, whose fortunate cures of three children
born deaf and dumb we hays already mentioned, has just operated
with the same success on the son of M. Maurus, baker, at Bruges,
aged 14 years.
We fiad in the Gazette of West Flanders the details of this
operation, which took place on the 26th of December, and for
which the lad came to Brussels with his father. The perforation
of the left ear was effected in less than five minutes, and, at the
same moment, the boy heard the ticking of a watch and the bark-
ing of a little dog. The operation of the other ear took nearly
half an hour, because the lad, too deeply affected by his new sensa-
tion, could scarcely contain himself. _ _