Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-08-09
From the N. Y. Mirror.
WILLIS LETTERS FROM EUROPE.
NUMBER FIVE.

NUMBER FIVE.
My DEAR MonRrs-ltis is more matter of re-
Joicing to Americans abroad, than Congress sup
poses, when Foreign Ministers are the kind of
men, in manners and mental culture, TO dc credit |
TO the country. Mr.. McLean's appointment as |
Minister to England is worthy succession to !
that of Mr.. Evcrett-two more admirable repre-. |
sentatives little likely to appear at the English
court for any nation. | was dining day or two
since with former member of the Queens ca
binet, and, in the London papers of that morning,
Mr.. McLean's appointment had been announced
Our host spoke of Mr.. Mclean and afterwards
of Mr.. Everett with whole hearted tribute to
their qualities as men and diplomatists, that
would have gratifed the friends of these gen
tlemen not little and, indeed, wherever go,
Mr.. Everett is lauded without measure. He has
been in London in trying time for representa-
tive. Our national credit--umped without dis
tInction of States in one sweeping dshonor-has
been like visible cloud about him wherever he
has appeared, and he has been waited on, of
course, by committees on questions he could not
through all this, he has steadily risen in the re-
spcct of those around him, and now stands per.
soually higher $50 was assured by one who
spoke with authority than any diplomatic re-
preventative now at the English court. AT an.
{ other party heard very fine description given
of the effect Of his singular eioqurnce upon one
or,hcse committees They had felt, in deliver.
ing what they bad 10 say, that they had plac rd
him as the respondent in position of over.
whelmng embarrassment His reply was wait
I ed for with a sympathy for him as man. From
/ every one of these gentlemen, however, h. drew
tears $50 the descrber stated,) and they left his
/ house enchanted with the man, if lot more con
/ tent with what he had to oftr on the part of his
country. Surely the difference between such a
[ representative and others who are capable of be.
lng sent abroad, is worth the countrys looking
a, and influencing
The Morning Post of to-day contains Long.
mans first advertisement OF the English edition
OF my "Dashes at Life" and in another column
is the following formidable passage, showing he
humor in which anything American is likely to
. be handled 1T occurs in a review of Mr. Rush
book on England
There is so much in tn American character
20 excite the contempt and DISCUS, of all upr CHI
and honest men, that we scarce be excused
for letting slip an opportunity Of abusing them
but Mr.. Rush so ov-rwhclms us wife his courte
sizes, and so gratefully and handsomely acknow
lodges the splendid hospital!ties with which h,
was received by the noble and wealthy British
,rs,' that we must SwfHer un2tr our rcnOm III
same more .fiting occasion far nfing IT.
What with Lockhart aud Foublanque for a
vowed adversaries (ofold) and the corps of cri
ties whom Macready keeps for his uses, and wh
will now retalIate upon me, my having dissent
ed from the homage paid in our country to thi
artificial actor, my Tales are ''put." as Falsa
says Of his soldiers, "whore they will be wei
peppered :" May it make them sell