The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-05 00:00:00

EMIGRATION 10 AMERICA.

[from a Belfast Paper.)
We- annex two atfiliviis on this subject, which
we trust will set the matter at rest for ever.
Private letters'hy the.trestpoiht represent the state
of the emigrants at New York as most dreadful
hundreds, nay thousands, Without e►npioyment ;
and bankruptcies daily takirt!.; 'plate, render their
future prospect still mote del►ltirahte:.

Port Pe(fast.—Before ute, Francis, Taggart,".publie notary,
by lawful authority duly admitted, and legally constituted
and sworn, practising and residing ih the town of Belfast, in
the kingdom of Ireland, and a Master Extraordinary in his
Majesty's High Court of 'Chancery in the said kingdom, per-
sonally'appeared Thomas Reid, wbO, voluntarily made oath, T
on the Holy Evangelists, and saith—That he is a linen.
weaver by trade ; that, he left Ireland for Ainerica on the 7th
of May WV; that be arrived at Newl'orP, butcOuld get no
employment whatever; that he evelf went'3ofr miles into the
country, but,toulttget po empleyter`nt whatever in the way
of his trade; that he, 'has just now returned to this port pep
the Wc'stpoiut, Captain 13 earne ; and that when he left New
York there were 'hundreds of Irishthien in a state of the
greatest distress,, without empleynient, and who would re-
turn home If the! had but the mcantot.i,aying their pastaos
that a number of other passengers arrived h.'y the same verses
herewith him, forced to COrPtr from the want of employment
in the united States.--Sworn before me at Belfast, this 214
Angust, 1816.

FRANCIS TAGCMRT,
Public Notary, and NitiveJ ,Extraordinary in Chancery,
his
TfIONIAS REID,I.Sw. orn in the presence of Andrew Hill.
tukrk.'

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Before me also appeared Thomas Boyd, who arrived in this
punt in the before-m4utioried 'vessel, and made oath and saitit
—That be has read the affidavit of Thomas Read, and that he
believes it to be corfeet; that he was in the United States for
nine weeks; that there was great di3tress among hiscountry.
men there from a total want of employment; that there were
immense httaihers album most anxious to return to Ireland*
had:they but the means of paying their pahsage; and that '—
numbers were daily applying
,to the Britiih Consult at New '
York:for asiistanee to enable them to retain home. •
Sworn beforeine at Belfast, this e,l at Aug. tai'.
'FRANCIS TAGGART,
.Ptibk.NOtary, and Master Extraordinary in Chancery;
TOM BOYD. Sworn in poesence of W. G. FOGINGTG

THE ENGLISH JOURNALS.

The Journal de Pars of the 30th ult. has the
following,artiele
if a thing-good in itself couhr4 tlepreciated
in the es,tiuustion of enlightened men by this
abuses which may he nrutle of it, the cause of the
liberty of the press would have much to fear frtim
the excesses to which certain English Journals
give theMselves ttlt, We do. not speak merely ,
of such of those Journals as arc ji„tt through•
out all Europe by their demago% 'rinciples, and
their Hatred' to 'all legitimate' As
to the latter, they have in sotnedegreelost their
power of doing mischief, and :their name alone i
beCome a sufficient preservative against all the ca-
luthnies which they'circulated.
“. This is a privilege which thus share with the,
Nah: Jaunt; and the Mereure Surveillant. ut ko ;„'-'1
happen's it, that Journalists whii profes4'moxiar.
chiral principles, .who during the long straggle
out of which we have come, have shown theth.
selves the . steady friends of the throne and the
altar, can new'make themselves the echoes of pas+
slims often the most vile, and always the least dis,-
interested ? Why 'do they not Moth at daily
ta-
Visitio abuse on men -whose chief crime in the
eyes of the ambitious ik their enjoying the coon.
(knee of the King, but -whose stilt greater crime in,
the eyes of the energies of France is that of having
succeeded in compressing agitators of every kind,
of having calmed too lively knquietwiess and, utter
so many disasters and calamities, of having re•
stored confidence betweenthe throne and tlu
nation.

Hftppily, falsehood betrays itself by the ali
strrdities to which it leads'; and it viol er betrays
itself more evitAinty than when it thinks it 'wets..
nary to enter into explanations and reasonings, in
order to reconcile the facts which it asserts with
those which are known and cannot bs denied.",

FRENCH PAPERS,

IititCEIVED THIS

PARIS, OCT. 2..1.-4-Ori the ISth of this month
the II:Oval Court will give geutence upon the
Appeal of the Abbe Vinson.
A ship arriving at Nantes, on the 27th, brought
'the following 'news from Martinique, 'extracts
front the Gazette of this Coltiny, dated Aug. 34 :---
" The yellow fever has appeared at Mart itsigne,
in the Place Point-a-Petre, at the time of its sur-
mnlcr to the French TlOOl4. Happily, the COM-
rilander-in-Chiet of the Britannic fcrees (Sir
3.IITICS Leith) taking all the measures that huma-
nity 'commanded, offered to Lieutenant-General
Oount de Lardenoy, to leave provisionally some
black troops tt Point-a-Petre,`. and all the
French garrison was accordingly caniOned in the
.fit4cl of Bettu7Sofeil, till the malady shout() cease.
All necessary preeantions were also observed to
preserve the test of the Islaod frOni the cauta-