The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

CONCESSIONS TO AMERICA.

Ishilids givArtied 10 the Uni-teci Stiates
the British 'Contittisioner Boundaries, Colonel
Tialict..kr, are Moose island, Dudley island, and
'Frederick Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay, and
these %important sttrions are 'about to he alittn-
•dotietltvirhout any stipulation that the Arneriran,
"Government. shall not erect fortifications, Ste.

upon thew, so that in the event of war, the valu-
able trade from this 'country to St. Sohn's and
Sr. Andrew's will be totally lost. We. do not

'understand that any order for the delivery of
these Islands to the United States has been sent
out to the King's Representative in the Colonies,

we therefore trust it is not too late to stipulate,
that the American Government shall not esta-
blish arsenals or erect fortifications on them, to

the annoyance of our trading intercourse with
New Brunswick. After the experience of 1803,
and the sentiments previously expressed in 1799
by Lord GRENVILLE on this subject, we did not
anticipate such result under any circumstances.
If we were to refer to the proceedings at Ghent,
we should find the principle we- advocate broadly
laid down by the English Commissioners, sup-
ported by evidence, the most clear and indisput-
able. After this ruinous concession, we. have
little reason to complain of the miserable Treaty
of .1783, and Mr. OswAt.n's conduct on that occa-
sion. The etidetice of the Right of his Majesty
to these Mantis has so often been before the
rublic, that we are astonished these Concessions
'Could have been made) and we flatter ourselves
that they will not be confirmed without the quali-
:fication and restrictions we have mentioned.
That the Public may have an npportunity.of look-
ing at the authorities we refer to, we shall briefly
enumerate then), as we cannot suppose that such
en abandonment of British 'l'erritnry be' suf-
fered to he made without observation and inquiry.
Sir WILLAM ALEXANDECs Grant of 1621—esta-
blishes unequivocally this right. The Grant to
Faaseis BERNARD, Esq. and others, in 1765, re-
acknowledges it, and the Correspondence between
Lord SIDNEY and Governor Yalta, in 1783, con-
firms it. But the subsequent Correspondence be-
tween Lord Gaet4vlLLE and Mr. LISTON, and
the puke of PORTLAND'S Circular Letter of the
Ilth April, 1799, to the Governors of Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick, places the question urged by
the Americans beyond the possibility of a doubt.
This Letter was occasioned ty a Note addressed
to his Grace from Lord GRENVILLE, then Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, comalunicatiog
63 Extract of a Letter, which his Lordship bad
received from Mr. Lts-rox, " on the subject of a
doubt that had been stated respecting the Boon-

chivy of his Majesty's Province of New Brunswick
and the American District of Maine." On that

occasion his Majesty's TH EN Government was
justly alarmed to find the right of water •way,: or
harigaiion, described in Mr. LISTON'S Letter,
claimed as a right deduceable from the Treaty ;
apprehending- it was intended to deduce there-
from, as a farther consequence, a right to the
islands in Passamaquoddy Ray, lying on tht
American side of such water, water-way or navi-
gation. In fact, the Islands now awarded to be
surrendered ; for the Americans, at that time,
had not the imptudence to claim, as they have
lately, the Island of the Grand Manan, in theßay
of Fundy.
In 1803 the American Government bad by their
usual finesse, drawn the British Government into a
Concession of ONE of these Islands, namely, Moose
Island, but 'Mr. JEFFERsoIi, by a fortunate coinei-
knee to Great Britain, refused to ratify this Con-
vent ion, and the Treaty of 1806, but the affair
of 1803 having attracted the attention of the in-
habitants of Brhish North America, they have
since that period, up to the Treaty of Ghent,- fre-
quently attempted to• impress on the King's Mi-
nisters the value of these Islands, forming as they
the Key to New Brunswick. That. these Re-
presentations were attended to, it ts only neces-
sary to refer to the negotiations at Ghent, and the

preliminary opening of' the King's Commis-

sioners at that place. For the present we shall not

pursue this sub ect—the consequences are fatal to

:New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, nay, indeed to
the whole of the British Dominions in that quar-
ter, if it is true, that a more fatal concession has

been made as to the boundary of the province of

'Maine, We however trust it is not so, as we

cannot suppose it possible, after what ()centred at
Ghent, and the knowledge of the British Commis-

sioner of the Limits in question, that s►►ch a sacri-
fice has been made. In the mean time, we hope

the Government Will not send out any order to

deliver up the possessions of these islands to the

Americans. We think, on a due consideration of

their importance, in a naval and military point of

view, the surrenders will not be made without re-
striction or qualification; if they are, we shall

We received this worping the Paris papers of
Saturday List. The ft_dlowitpg are extracts

" CHAMBER OF, DEPUrIES. JAN: 16.

" The discussion on the rficruitment of die

'at my was resumed.
" M. Royer Collard observed, that France, stir-
rounded by powerful nations which maintained
regular armies, required to have an army capable
of causing her independence to be respected. The
Projet fur creating this army appeared to bins to
be in perfect accord with the charter, and there-
fore he supported it with some amendments.
" M. tie Vogu6 contended, that there was 'no
essential difference between the plan now pro-
posed and the conscription, and he opposed the
Proiet as uneonstiticional, as well as destructive
of the Royal Prerogative.
" M. Bourdeau maintained, that the Charter,
in abolishing the Conscription and its abuses, or-
dained, that the mode of recruismeut should be
regulated by law, and did not forbid a ballot.
tie supported the Projet, with the Amendments
proposed by the Committee.

" 11. de la Bourdonnaye urged, that the Projet
was nothing but the Como iption under another
denomination, and declared his intention of not-

ing for its rejection.
" Discussion adjourned till to-morrow.
" PARIS, JAN. 17.—1 t is said the Duchess

d'Angooleme intends to take a journey next
month to Bout deaux and the southern provinces.
" Yesterday the Prevotal Court condemned to
five years imprisonment, a fine of 500 francs, and
ten years surveillance, a mai) of the name of Jac-
quemard, convicted of having used seditious
expressions.

" The ship Bon Pere arrived at Nantes, hat
brought intelligence, that the Chevalier de Lafitte,
t he new Governor of the Isle of Bourbon, arrived
there the 27th of June last, and entered on _ his
functions the 29th.

" It is said, that Mauhrenil, who,escaped from
prison at Douay, has crossed Belgium and arrived

n Germany.

" FIVE PER CENTS.

" Friday 65 f MSc.

" MADRID, JAN 3.—According. to out Royal
Almanac, our army consists of 10 Captains-Gene-
ral (tour of them foreigners, viz. the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Beresford, the Marquis de
Saint Simon, and Don Joachim Blake), 133
Lieutenant• Generals 5 201 Marechaux-de-Camp ;
459 Brigadiers.—lnfantry of the Line : 50 Re-
giments of 3 Battalions each, of which 46 arc
Spanish, 1 Italian, and 3 Smlss ; Light Infantry,
12 Regiments, and 1 Battalion.—Cavalry : '3O
Reg:limas, of vvbich 17 are of the Line ; 5 of

Pr?gifon,7.; 4Of CilasSeltrs; and offittsskra.
: 813 Oflicers cat all classes ; 150 Cadets ; 5
Squadrons of Lii.,4lt Artillery; 64 Artillery Compa-
'lies of the Lint ; 75 Companies of 'Militia; IS
Ditto of Wor'Kui(•ti ; 5 Battalions of Train Sol-
diers. Engineers : 10 Officers General, &c.
" LET?SIC, Jaw. 3.—The Censorship does not
permit the publication of any Work respecting
Madame de Krudener.

" The new year's fair here-is going On well,
notwithstanding the proximity of that of Easter.
" Faitt.K‘FoßT, J. 12.—The Count Las Casas
has received orders to proceed to Kesnigsgratz, and
to remain there tinder ;urveillance, lie will quit
Frankfort in a few days. The Prussian Commis-
sary of Police who is with him, will accompany
him to tie frontiers of Bohemia.

" Shortly after the resumptioii of the Sittings
of the Diet, a demand is expected from the Courts
of Vienna and Berlin, requiring the passing
of several laws obligatory upon all Germany, and
which are called for. by circumstances. The legal
establishment of the Liberty of the Press, with
meas►rres against the abuse of that liberty, con-
stitutes one of these objects."

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVITE LETTER FROM PARIS,
DATED JAN. 16, ISIS.

Every one hoped, without any very good reason,
it is true, that the Ministry would withdraw the
hateful CONCORDAT. This mark of respect for
public opinion, on the part of the Ministry, would
tisile produced an excellent effect ; already the
simple idea that the Government would not insist

on carrying a measure so contrary to the true in-
terests of- France, had calmed the public mind,
and began to unite parties. The old Ministerial
majority began to form itself anew without ef-
fect ; the divisions occasioned by the discussion
on the Liberty of the Press, began to disappear ;
but on a sudden the public learn that the Com-
mittee, appointed to consider 'the Concordat,
has resumed its labours with new activity; that the
Duke de RICHELIEU and M. Laturt press the
members of it to nominate their Reporter, and
that in a few days the'Report will be made to the
Chamber, the discontent has been the greater, as
the news of the abandoning of it by the Mini-
stry had caused so much pleasure. As to the
Committee itself, Li e know that it is divided in
opinion. Four of the members reject at once the
Organic Law ; of these we may remark, M.
DE,PATYS, a - most .respectable and learned old
man, Member of the Constitnent.Assembly, and
strongly attached to Constitutional Monarch v.
Five members are willing to accept the law with
amendments. Of these M. Marteum.ns and M.
TRINQUELAGUE do not think it, even as it is, suf-
ficiently ultramontane. They wish to annihilate
the ancient liberties of the Gallic Church ; they
• have even declared to the. Ministers, that if the
amendments be not accepted, all the cote droit (the
ultra side of the house) will reject the law.
For our own parts, we cannot conceive bow
the Ministers, knowing as they do the state of
opinion, can hesitate a moment to withdraw a
law'so fatal to the Monarchy, for there is not the
least doubt that nine-tentlis of France regard it
as unconstitutional and anti-national. it is, be-
sides, well known that the new Ecclesiastical
Cireonscription, and the erection of new Bishop-
ricks, are the work entirely of M. de BLAcas ;
that the Pope attached no importance whatever to
these measures, and that he would have been per-
fectly satisfied in giving one Bishop only to each'
Department. But M. de BLACA3 has 'been -the
instrument of a party, and be has sacrificed to
petty interests and miserable passions the interest
of his KING and his Country.

(From tl.e Commercial Advertiser of Dec. 22.)
EXTRACT OF A LUTTER DATED WASHINGTON,

DEC. 20.

" The report in your paper last week, of the
President designing Mr. ROBERT WALSH as 111 -

ster to Prussia, is, I can assure you, nut entitled

to any credit or be!ief. 1 learn here, from a
source that may be depended on, that if the Go-
vernment reciprocates the appointment uf the
King of PRUSSIA, Mr. C. HUGH ES, of yonr city,
now, residing at Stw..kholm as Charge (PAL-fairs of
the United States, will have the Place. his high
standing wi!li the Executive here, and dignified
representation of the nationat character abroad,.
will fissure him the appointment."

(From the same Paper.)

The Bill for die Commutation of Soldiers'
Land for a stij►ulate(l Slim of Money, is now under
seri►nis dt.bate in the Ho' Se of Iteprrsentatives.—

Front %%11:it we. have seen, the adoption o this

measure appears to us to be by uo menus so pro-
bable as tee once supposed it. A1.4,,y Members
have spoken on the measure, and odic rs probably
rill! avail themselves of the future opportunity
()M.!! ell them to present their views of it. The (Pies-
[ion is as important as any of internal policy likely