The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AMERIC4.
" No, my good friend, it is not true that We
e wed after the war. Our democratic news-
Papers say we are ; and tomeof yours, I see, that
*are not very abstinent in violent assertion,
per-
baps-,ay the same--but the 'fact is not so. V 4'e
w
*ire convinced in our hearts, that the tear has
shewn your mighty power, and our madoess anti
imbecility. All our effOrts, and those Strained to
the utmost at the hazard of batticruPtcy, pnt
to the extreme stretch, at the peril of our federal
union, could pot dispossess you of a reninfecolony
in contact with our very frontierS ; and at a time,
too,when yon were obliged to'keep in check the
Tiger of Europe, and to take a peculiar attitude
of strength and circumspection amongst. the
great military powers of the old world. With
only half a hand yOn smote its Sorely and in-
'delibly, and we yet writhe front the
the war Itself' has conferred little' cOnsolatiiin
optin oar envious vanity, its effects hate tint
been more thtteriog to our interests. . We have
lost all onr co'rcign trade almost ; and that w!aiell
we,earry on at home is confined to the most
actable retailiog, which the most staguant
tiou of affairs reciires. Government credit there
is nom.. Commercial credit languishes in the
tictpest dvjection----money has disappeared, not-
withstanding the expedient; used to. keep all over.
Tate curieney in its chanoels. There is not
tontenttd face of business to he' seen throughout.
the UniOn ; and as to our burthens they are itn-
nieuse, compared with our ineansof beating them.
What, then, should we felicitate ourselves for ?
Onr, democracy ?, 'God help you ! if you would
lice in itlever at! your life, with the rattle of lg.;
noiance in.yoto'ears; and' the strut of vulgarity
before your eyes—withooly those exceptions that
private society,supplies, and it supplies. m ,-any--
come hither to its. bone over to our ree•taw
community, if you have a taste t'or abortive bus-
* 'tie and unproductive disoniet ; for innuisitive',.
nest that would .reekon,the teeth in !your ,head
anti speculation that-never fails, to endeavour to,
count et/try coo in a stranger's pocket—for to-,
miljarity, against. which European mendicity
would revolt, Come to us, if yon .have a taste
for universal contention—for the most. Vehement
competition', in party views, professional views,
schemes'of -trade, or projects of commerce. Your
lazy, rich, old London, is stagnationi itself to
one of our provincials metropolis lit tle, towns ; but
all this melancholy animation is not.the witness
of our prosperity, but, the offspring of. our po
verty and cupidity. Those :tribes of unfortunate
beings, which your regular and orderly.form. of
totiety, rejeetsv .and casts- opOw-otte shore---the
save-,dl of the living miscellany., of men—those
tuelaneholy examples ofdesperate credolit y—t hose
mournful exemplifications of, impracticable hopes
and exothit ant expeetations-s-those.corious
illus-
tratfons of 11111113t1 some tit those it yoUr
philosophy can endure the sight , Mot come over to
tiro,- stet in a short time you May convince your-
' self, that the America which now exists is no more
that which the revolution found it-s-,no mine'
that scene of primitive and pasforal life,',of which
so many delightful descriptions have been given,
titan England is what she W4S, witch her
liament endnred to he called " brute folk,, ' and
the proclamations of tier Monarch set,re as bind:
ing' as the acts of the legislature. . believe
you like your co.V.it countrY,too-7welLtaLvisit mine;
anti. as you are,-.I guess, not likely to be the pur7
veyor to your own curiosity in America', matters,
or to the love of information coot:caning them, I
Shall entle4votir, in some nt uty future letters, to
comply u,itit the injunctions under which; you have
already laid me,, awl to giye you a morc.correct
view of our intrticithir. position
,at present, than
yon can possibly collect from the !aides published
in Eogland, concerning
,our ,renown and our
riches, our power and universal felicity, in which
you seem to have gone too deeply.",,

AI4fitICIATION 110 It TUB itettEp Oy.THE Poon.—
Oue would naturally so pose that the Committee.
oft Asticiation voulil gladly receive donations
from all persons charitably.disposed ; and that
thq itliplOre, the public to eoutri-
buie to the relief of a starving multitude would
not reject even the. smallest °tiering. What will
our, readers think of. those gentlemen 'when we
stale a fact, the authenticity of which we can
vouch for, On the tlay of the Grand Meetitig„
the professional Gentlemen, Dr. Cooper,
Jr.. :Mont°, Dr. Duncan, and F. C. 'Esq.
subseritnid one guinea each ; a sum of three
neas was at' the same time presented' from the
Aledical Board. The persoti belonAing to' the
Committee, whose business is to publish lists of
the Subscribers in the daily papers,- stated thiS
donation: in this following. terms :—" Messes.
cooper, Munro, and ;Duncan, 71. —Since then,
Itwother donation of three guineas was'sent from
the Medical Board ;. and the CUmmitiee, front
motives. best known to themselves, iefiv;eit tf-t ac-
cept it. We wiih to know whether this act be
consistent with the enlarged vie kvi of benevolviee
on which the Association has founded its claims

to pOblic 3uppol't, or ivitether partY undertaking
, to promote t great national objeet 'should be
permitted to tuix its little .narrow prejudices in a
question where' there can be but one common
fcelingsthat Godlike virtue, 'charity, towards
our suffei'llig fellow-creatures ?—Soppose the Gas
Light Company, or any other body recently 4stft-
blithedr . doiotioo, *old& any
Ftpleamisll individuals of the Committee be josti-
tied in refustng it because they could mit- con-
descend to a6krusrwledge. the of existence Bitch a
body '?----(lt;'whA ground, then, hare they Awe-
sullied to reject 'the subScription .of u body' of
Gentletnen whose bathes huVe appeared itl sever3l
charities in town.

On Titesday genni4ht, it most splendid ni
was given by Sir BeNimktui and Lady 1104Lowitt.t.,
boatd liis Alajestv'6 slril, the Tounant,,of
gtms, the4hig-ship in. Cork Ihrbour, to which
the Nobility and Gentry of the surrounding
country were invited.