The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-07 00:00:00

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CIRMAN SMIOR.INTS to the vNirED ST.4TE3.

The following is a letter addressed by Mr. Joh%
lattincy Maws. in the *awe of the American Usprtrw
slant, to N. Maerire de Ferstenwaerter, whose baton-

teat efforts to relieve the thetreseee of the Clemens are
well koowo,

Wasikeem. June 14. 1!710.
Su-1 have had the humor ut receiving your letter
of the Mid of Aril, with the enclosure of the Baron de
Oaten, your relative, and a copy of your printed report:
1 hope, and indeed entertain no doubt, that the latter
may be of great utility to such of your countrymen as
may have formed erroneous ideas with regard to emigra-
tion from Europe to this country. It has bees clearly
shows to yea, that you have accurately seised the idea
in your report, that the Ooverneseet of the United States
has sever taken any steps to invite or encourage emi-
groats to come from auy part of Europe to America. It has
never held out any induce:mats to draw to this country
the subjects of a foreign State. Motives of hemanity
have sometimes determined it to offer certain facili-
ties to some emigrants who may have arrived here
with the intention of establishing themselves here,
and who had seed of particular assistance for executing
their intention. Neither the tiovernmeat of the
(Teton, see the different States that compose it, de-
spise or disdain the increase of strength and prospe-
ray which the nation might receive from a mass
of sew inhabitants, healthful, laborious, and temperate ;
nor are they more indifferent to the great advantages
which this country has derived, and is still deriving,
from the concourse of adopted children ceasing frog
liermasy; but there is one principle on which all the
institutions of this Republic are founded, and which is a
permanent object to granting favours to new corners.
This is not a artistry of privileges, but of an equality of
rights. The Sovereigns of Europe grant to certain
claims ofiedividaals certain privileges, which have some
object of public utility; but it iv the general opinion
here, that privileges granted to one class of people are
necessarily an injury to some other.
Emigrants from Oennany, or from any ether country,
beiatant en arriving here any favour to expect from the
ti; but in case they should desire to become
the State, they may flatter themselves with
same rights as the natives of the country.
If they poems property, they may reckon upon finding
the mesas of increasing it with moderation, but with
certality; if they are poor, but laborious. honest, and
know host to be satished with a little, they will succeed
in rai enough to support themselves and their fa-
mi tee; they will pass an independent, buts laborious
and painful-life, and if they cannot accommodate them-
selves to the moral, political, and physical state of this
country, the Atlantic Ocean will always beopen to them
to return to their native countries. They must bend
their characters to necessity, or they will assuredly fail
as Americans is all their schemes of fortune; they must
throw A as It were, their European skin, never mere
to resume it; they must direct their thoughts rather
forwards towards their posterity, than behind them to
their ancestors; they must persuade themselves that
whatever may be their own sentiments, those of their
children will assuredly approach more to the habits of
the cosstry, sad will catch something of the haughti-
ness. perhaps a little contemptuousness, which they have
themselves remarked with surprise io the general cha-
racter of &Wimple. and perhaps still more particularly
in the Individuals of Wrenn origin who are born in this

country.
This aesdmest of superiority over all other nations,
which sever leaves them, asd which has been so very
displeasing to foreigners who have visited our shores,
proceeds from the opinion entertained by each indivi-
dual, that is quality am welsher of society, there is so
person is this country superior to him. Proud of this
kenos, he regards with souse haughtiness those nations
among whom the snags of the people are regarded as
subordinate to certain privileged classes, and where
men tun treat or insiFneficant by the hazard of their
birth. list from this it also happens, that no Govern-
meat in the world has so little means of bestowing favour
as that of the United States. The Uovernmenis are the
terrains sf the people, and they are regarded as such by
the people, who ereate and depose them.
They aro elected to administer the public affairs for a
short spass et time, and whim the people are not satis-
fied with them, they cease to maintain them is their
fanotioss. But if the means of the Uovernsient to do
good are limited, the means of doing ill are limited
also. • here in the affairs of Government is
precisely s the inverse ratio of what takes place in
Berope. The people here do sot depend upon thine
that govern them ; but the latter, as such, depend con-
stantly spite the good-will of the people.
We know very well that of the quantity of foreigners
who year come to oar country to fix their abode,
prone of tbMs come from taste, or from any regard to a
estuary to which they are totally strangers, and of
which the Ottomans do sot asiltrstascl even the language.
We Meow that they come here hot for our advantage.
but fee their owe ; sot to labour for our prosperity,
bat to numlionste their own condition. Thus we expect
to me very few isdividsais of &rope, who enjoy is their
own country ease, hIppiONO, or even gratification, come
sod settle fs America. Those who are happy and con-
tented remain at home. and it requires a principle of
antis* sot less powerful than west to remove a man
from his native country. and the place where the tombs
of his sweaters are plead. Of the small number of
emigranat of femme who eadeavoured to settle in our
cowry, a cessiderable portion *ere dissatisfied with
oar Mortise customs, and after a certain residence re-
horsed lame. There are certalsly 00010 exceptions ;
soilluthe most spoked and distisgnished class of our
fellereitisens„ we have the good fortune to count sonic
ladlviduals who would hare acquired fortunes and die-
tincfioss, eves had they sot passed into a sew country,
sad another portion of the world. We should feel great
astbdastitis la *Wag yourself among this number,
aid that it maid accord with year dispositions and
aeadmeats.
I have the bosomy to be. Sir. Sm.
Jams Quince' ADAMS.

homonym—Extract of a letter from Lisbon.
Dea is The amateurs of the arts moseeded in
Kr. Robertson, before his departsee to
redeem a dismal is .a parachute, which had newer been
witnessed he this eqgiaL Yesterday (Slinglay. the 14th)
Mt. Reseed ilisieseteen, the son, mended is west. see of
the arse 14bOty (who bed subs cribed fog ills• isdeee-
sent) sad of as tomense eseeoures of the imigabitaitts of
He nee with rest rapidity to a height of
1 Ivensh feet. bwawdietely she coronet separated
himself fess the bailees, and the double pareelentog
which his fatter kneeled in lOW espiaided majesti-
espy. aged deposited the intrepid traveller in safety shoat
UK a beng Liebe., alter • Isamat of sheet 'IS
adasten. Mk hardy superisset enjettpd NNadi cu-
riosity, that the ressipt .seeded llieePlestrm Mr.
Robertson to set" est imassiesoly for Madrid,
to repeat Ms espevieeents.
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swum 'Flog sad R. Banc. was mods oa Iteasitider
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