The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

In peace a lamb, in war
A gallant soul art thou, Lieutenant Bury !

very fury

But here we pause, nor further need describe
Our mirth's bright sallies, wit, or pleasant gibe ;
How we beguile for days the livelong hour,
And chase away, with an unconscious power,
The megrims, low spirits. and sad looks, that be
Accompaniments fell to the demon Ennui!
Fellow pilgrims are we—on the ocean of life
We meet and we part, not in coldness or strife,
But with tempers all sunny, that spread o'er the way
That we journey together a bright joyous ray !
Of all climes, and all creeds, far removed as the poles,
In intercourse friendly we mingle our souls :
Then with each and with all let kind wishes go—
" May our reunion be swift and our parting be slow

Steam-ship Caledonia,
Off Halifax, 18th Nov. 1810

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PRINTER'S DEVIL

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

THE COLONIES AND COLONIAL TRADE OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
(From the Morning Herald.)
st the many important questions bearing
zn and colonial interests, little has been
t, about one scarcely less mo-
h has recently occupied so much
of public attention—we mean the question of the
north-eastern boundary line. The adjustment in a sa-
tisfactory manner of that point is indispensable to the
North American possessions. We
have justice on our side, and we may be said to have
necessity. It is impossible to yield to the demands on
this subject of the republicans of the United States
ceding to them possession of the

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maintenance of our

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Canadas.
The Canad

of infinite consequence to Great
of prodigious value;
is unsurpassed in all

country is

f British colonists

the best social qualities by any people on the face of
the earth. Of the political importance of the Cana-.
das, it is difficult to form too high an estimate : their
commercial importance is absolutely incalculable.

The United States were lost to Great Britain by
gross mismanagement on the part of our rulers. The
conversion of these states from dependencies of the
British empire into noisy democracies has not (as we
venture to think) added much to the sum of human
happiness. England lost, at the time of the change,
a large portion of her dignity and moral influence
while she has since

gainea an extensive, precarious,
unprofitable foreign trade, she has, to at
least the same extent, lost a secure and most valuable
colonial commerce. The United States have become
scenes of bustle, noise, and money-getting. In that
the new country" as the inhabitants delight
to term it—

and at tim

country

—many of the least amiable feelings of our
nature have full scope, and amongst these unamiable
feelings, we may be permitted to class the sentiment of
deep hatred with which, Great Britain is regarded by
all in America who incline to the democratic faction.
Let the deep devotion with which the interests of Eng-
land were defended by the loyal Canadians during the
late troubles be contrasted with the bitter enmity which
the democrats of the United States entertain towards
the mother country, and then let the most profound
adept in the casuistry of "liberalism" venture to say,
whether the stock of kindly feeling has not been les-
sened by that, the first of our modern " glorious re-
volutions."-

and whether any cause that shall suffice
to weaken the bonds of -affection between .men of the
same race, be likely to strengthen the solid interests of

the human family.
Whatever be the valu

these su

ggestions—about

one fact, at all events, there can be no dispute; and
that fact is, the longing desire of the whole democratic
party in the United States to wrest the Canadas from
England. The northern republicans have learned to
regard every portion of the soil of America as theirs
by a sort of indefeasible right. They do exterminate
the red Indians without scruple ; and they would, if
they possessed the power, exterminate the Cana-
dian assertors of the supremacy of England with
quite as little hesitation. The English power in Ca-
nada is a source of weakness to the federal republic.
That federation is, in all probability, destined to endure
for but a brief period. Often already has it been on
the verge of disruption. Let, however, the period of
its existence draw to a close, while the power of Eng-
land shall remain unshaken in Canada—and it is far
from being impossible, that the next generation of En-
glishmen may witness the re-union of a large portion
of the United States with the British Empire. The
possession of the Canadas, at any rate, places the
United States, in the event of a war, to a great extent,
at the mercy of England. The possession of the Ca-

posal the energies of a hardy,
ishes harbours of
of war—and en-
f a colonial trade, which,
t render the expenses even

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