The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-09 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,-As it is evidently your object
to admit miscellaneous matter into your loyal and
amusing Paper, and to bring before the Public
suggestions, not only for the moral and intellec-
tual improvement of Society, but also whatever
may tend to their comfort and pleasure, I wislfi
to be informed by some of your Lancashire
Readers, why that, justly celebrated Town, LI-
VERPOOL, is so shockingly ill paved and lighted.
It is. certainly the worst paved town in the King-
dom. I can assure you, twat on a recent visit
there, I'could, not help abusing the Corporation,
for inch a total disregard of their own credit, and
the convenience of the Public.—ln every other
respect, the Town cannot fail to impress its visi-
tors with a true hot ion of the Public Taste, Spi-
rit, and Liberality of its Inhabitants.
A TRAVELLER.
Castic and Falcon, January 7, 1818.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, which were
dHC this morning, have not come to hand.

This morning we received Halifax •Papers to
the 2d of December.. •
(Front Me qua. Arcadian Recorder of Nov. 79)

QUEBEC,. Nov. 21.—Arrived in this Cily 'on the
19th inst. COI..BOCCHETTE, Surveyor-General of
Lower Canada, accompanied by Captain CAIRN ES,
late of the 60th Regiment, and Mr. J. BoucnErrg,
junior. We have only been able to learn respect-
ing the progress of the New Boundary line, that
the exploring Survey has been prolonged from the
source of the St. Croix to the River Ristogouche,
a distance of about 100 miles, in the course of
which the parties of both Nations experienced
difficulties and sufferings of the most arduous
nature.

The Americans employed in the Survey may be
expected here in a few days by the same route, on
their way to the State of Vermons, the British
Party having returned to Saint Au4rews, New
Brunswick, by the River St. John.

- We wanted room yesterday for any comments
which the SPEECH of THB PRESIDENT Of the
UNITED STATES might have suggested, even' if
there had been time sufficient for a clue reflection
on it contents. It is a very important Document,
not only as it affects the character, and indicates
the ambitious views, of the American Government,
but as it relates to this Country and its Depen-
dencies. Well, therefore, might we yesterday
suggest to the British Cabinet, that it is entitled
to, and we may add imperiously demands, the pro-
found consideration of our Rulers. The Ameri-
can Government, we know, are increasing their
Navy at a time of profound Peace. Such a cir-
cumstance would have alarmed the Statesmen of
former times-, and we trust that it will not be
overlooked by the present Ministry. It .strongly
marks ulterior designs on the part of the Ame-
ricans, which may lead to the total loss of our
West India Islands. A danger is not the less to
be regarded by sound Statesmen, anxious for the
welfare of the country committed to their care,
because it may be remote and contingeutal.—,-The
purchase of Lands from the Indians, in order to
extend the American territory, and of course favour
the increase of its population, is another point
entitled to the notice of our Rulers, but the prin-
ciple which the President lays down as a kind of
national right, is one of the most daring instances
of a contempt of justice that was ever manifested
by the Government of• any country. The Presi-
dent insidiously says, after adverting to these
purchases, and the advantage's likely to be derived
'from them : " In this progress which the rights
of nature demand; and nothing can prevent, making
a growth rapid and gigantic, it is' our duty to
make new efforts for the preservation, improve-
ment, and civilization of the native Inhabitants.
(Amiable Moralist.) The hunter State can
exist only in the vast uncultivated desert. It
yields, to the more dense and compact form, and
greater force of civilized population.; and of
right it ought to yield, for the Earth was given to
mankind to support the greatest number of which
it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right
to withhold. from the wants of others more than
is necessary for their own support and comfort."
Here is a pretty specimen of national justice
Might we not suppose that the Politicians who
entertain such principles, and avow such
doctrines, were, if the word is not offensive
to Modern Patriots, the Legitimate Descend-
ants of Ma chuit4 and his gang. Upon this

principle every man who possesses a.n estate
has a right to rob his neighbour of land, provided
it will improve his own possessions, and of that
he is to'be the Judge. Mark, Reader-the Indians
were the original possessors of the soil ; by arti'.
flee, by force, and by' purchase, they have been
driven to distant regions, and tow because the
hunter State " can exist only in the vast
uncultivated desert" they are to be deprived °I
that retreat !! ! Here is no talk of purchase-O°P
it is what " the rights of nature demand, and no'
thing can prevent"—ank, the " hunter State 01
right ought to yield." There is no artifice, no so-
phistry, in this open declaration of national ambi'
Lion and thirst of power—no—" the greater force
of civilized population" must not be prevented from
despoiling the poor Indians, in due time, of all
their
means of subsistence, till the whole of the race
is exhausted, and they are starved into-antail'
lion. Amiable, wise, equitable, philanthropic.
al
Republic ! ! That artful Legislators might for
such designs would not be surprizing, but it was
reserved for this age of JacObinicat audiciti
openly to avow them. 'But we reserve a. fur'
ther consideration of this curious Document till
we have an opportunity of animadverting 013(1f1
those points which more immediately relate t°
British interests ; and in the mean time we 11141
venture to say, that the Speech altogether i 5
bold exposition of the views of the American G°'
vernment on the whole of its immense Continent'
of which they seem, to contemplate the entire
possession. So far is it from being a Speech °f
Peace and Good-will, it breathes sentiments of ga
opposite nature, and may be fairly construed
this light, since it is uttered amidst•active preps'
rations for war. •

The Friends of Homanity and Good Order will
read with no ordinary degree of pleasure the ac-
count which they will find in our Fourth Paf:64
of a Meeting which was held yesterday at the
Crown and Anchor T,vern, the laudable purpose"
of which was, to open a Subscription for the Co'
tire extinction, if possible, but at all wilts to les'
sett, the evil of Mendicity in this great Metropolis'
It is gratifying to os to add, that ;be Meelil/6
was suffered to proceed on principles of pure bd-
manity, and was wholly undisturbed by seditioos
declamation, visionary Reformers, and flagitious
Revolutionists.

,
A Flanders Mail arrived last night, from 10
c
it appears that the Duke of Kevrr presided 1913
Thursday at a meeting of Englishmen respecting
the English Chapel. The report of the depariag
of the Austrian troops from France is also Pos.'
tively contradicted.