The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-17 00:00:00

[Morning Post.]

It Is rumoured in the American Circles that the
Commercial Treaty now in progress between Gre'at
Britain and the United States is in a state of great
forwardness, and neatly completed. It is insinu-
ated, but we hope without truth, that his Majesty's
Ministers intend to concede to the Citizens of the
United States a permission to FISH on the coasts
and shores of the British North American Settle-
ments. It they do, we wish to know if the sub-
jects of other nations are to have the same indul-
gence, and it his Majesty's subjects are to be al-
lowed to fish in the hathouts and bays of the
United States. After the firm and dignified con-
duct pursued by the present Government on this
subject in the early part of their Administration,
we need not expect that such a concession would
ever be made by them. But if this report is well
founded, air) this impolitic indulgence is to be
granted to the United States without equivalent
advantages, the British Fisheries iu these seas
must be given up, for it will be impossible for the
Colonists or the Merchants in Great Britain now
engaged in them to pursue them any longer.

The private letters received from Aix-la-Cha-
pelle contain intelligence of some interest, and if
it be correct, of some importance. It is stated
in one of them " That the Emperor Alexander
has caused a Note to be given into the Congress
in which he requires of his august Allies, that
'Napoleon might be conducted from the Island of
Sr. Helena to a mote healthy place, and insists on
the moral necessity of acting with mote consi-
deration towards a man with whom Sovereigns
have treated upon a tooting of equality, and who
is allied to one of them." The Emperor of Au-
stria is said to have supported the demand, the
result of which was not yet known. This, if
true, has probably been the result of Maria
Louisa's intercessions in behalf of her husband.
But we strongly doubt the whole statement. It
ur,fortunate, however, that we originally con-
sented to make linonaparte the prisoner of the
Allied Powers as well as our own. To us alone
he had given himself up, and had we not shared
his custody with others, no one could have had
01:y right to intetiere in the manner in which

„re ',teased to settle the residence of otr captive.—
(Mid )

October 16.

Mitch has been said to endeavout to repress emi-
gration, that evil which drains the conntry of the
chief elements of her Crength. Something too
has been done, as the practice itself could not be
entirely repressed, to give it a less injurious direc-
tion, and enable our own Colonies to benefit by
the loss of population which we experience at
home. This intention, we are .surry to find, is al-
most entirely defeated by the superior activity of
the American agents, and the supineness of our
own, or the want of proper persons to direct the
emigrants how to act, and where to settle when
hey reach our transatlantic frontiers. Thns,
whatever encouragement we give them to repair
to Canada, only serves to add fresh subjects to the
United States, whose population inereaSe3 with
sufficient rapidity, without receiving suck a con-
stant and po werfni accession through our means,
or at least through our negligence. It is enough
to see a giant grow, without administering to his
strength. We cannot but consider the United
States as the future rivals with whom we shall
hare to contend for the trade of nations and the
empire of the seas. Let us not hasten the hour
when that rivalry may appear in its might, and
seining for the contest, may tell us :—'‘ You have
been—let the word decide who shall be."

The following Extract of a Leiter from Canada
shows how far the evil which we have described
prevails in that State :

" Montreal, Avg. 29, 1814.
" Nearly 7000 Emigrants are arrived this season at Clue-
but I ant sure more than one half have gone to the
states from this, and at Prescot. The American land-job-
bers have agents here to decoy them over, and there is no
person on the part of our Government, or otherwise, to assist
or direct them how to act, which is to be lamented, as those
who have conic ant this year, are a more.• decent set of people
than came in former unes."—(//iid)