The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

EruToa,—Permit Me, through the medium
of, your respectable 'Journal, to correct a mis-
statement that,has appeared in several of 01.. late
Poston, New York, and Philadelphia Newspa-
pers,, respecting myself as the Author of a Work
now before the Public. The pAragrapb,'which
originated, I believe, in a New York " Mei Ca-
n Advertiser," is to this effect ;
\ v‘ Robert. James, who, many of our readers
will recollect, was, about nineteen years ago; sen-
tenced to the New Yolk State Prison, at haul
labour for life, on a conviction of forgery, but
.afterwards reprieved by, the Governor, is now
making a con'spicuons'fignr; in London as a poll-
ticarwriter. He 'has imblished whit lie etills, a
Description i'bf..th.e.Naial Occurrences of the late
War between the United States and Great
liti-
taitt, in which he has attempted t,, skew that
great dispropOition of .force existed in thos.e con-
tests ieherein the ships of both countries were
nominally of the same weight of metal, and pre-
tends to expose, what ,he impudently
,terms, the
arrogant pretensionS of America on the snhject
It is highly recommended by tlre London Jour-
nalists, who say, the Lords of the Admiralty have
ordered forty copies Of it, in teStiniony of• the
masterly manner in which it is executed."
Desirous that the American people should par-
ticipate in the bentifit to be derived from wit-
nessints, the exposure of falsehood, particularly in
matters to which they are in some degree a party,
rhasteh to remove what was evidently intended
to throw discredit upon My statements, and prevent
the " Nava' Occurrences " from being reprinted,
or even read, in the United Statet. Those Ame-
ricans win) may have seen no more than the title
page of the work will discover the error in my
Christian name.. I need only add that, " nine-
teen. years ago," 1 was but nineteen years of
age ; that I left England, for the first time, in
1803., and arrived-in the United,States, for the first
time, in 1812. :

Trusting that the 'American Newspaper Editors
will be as ready to insert this letter as one of
those Gentlemen was tolnyent, and the others to
adopt, the scurrilous paragraph in question,

I remain, Sir,
Your obedient bumble servant,.
wILLIAM JAMES.

13, Clarendon-street, Clarendon-square,
170 January, 1818.

13UNTING.--The Hatfield hounds. meet Mon-
day, at flitch Wood.; Thursday, at Barnard
Hvatlr ; Saturday, at Dowdells, at half past ten.
The East ESs-ek Fox Hounds meet this day, at
Trays Wood Mornky, at Weathersfield Town ;
Wednesday, at the White Hatt, Little ‘Valton.—
Mr. Conyer's Hounds meet this day at Matching.
Green:

Yesterday an inquiry took place respecting the
fctid corpse, recently brought to Hoare's' Wharf,
Wapping, closely-packed' ttp in a *widen chest,
anti directed for Mr. James Davidson, Aberdeen,
It now appeared that several packages of a.,similar
descripiion had hen shipped. in the sante way.—
Under all the circumstances of the case, there-
fore; it was• etinchided that 'the body .was about to
be exported for dis,ection.
To make, the Revenue of the Country exceed the
Expenditure is the desideratum in Finance.' The
saine applies' to private -Life; but the Mioister
mast resort to Taxation, to 4ccomplish the means,
\eltilst the private man has' only to court a smile.
from Fortune,, -who having now One Hundred
Capitals to disperse among her 'Favourite, she
may by the mere turn of a Wheel, tin the 4;11.
March; confer upon him One or Two of the Three
Prizes of 30,000/. in the present Lottery, and
thus 'establish the Ways and Means for ever, in
Sterling Money.