.Our neighbours in Canada appear to be mightily disturbed by
that agitators the Papineau party ; whose agents in England, I observe, seem particularly anxious to impress upon the minds of the British people the almost certainty that exists of the Republicans of North America intriguing to possess themselves of the two Canadas, that the citizens of the United States feel the warmest sympathy in favours! Papmeau and the French party, &c. &c. I beg you will give this the most unqualified contradiction. The citizens of the United States are noted rather for minding their own business, and not interfering with other people's affairs. Sympathy for Papineati polities ! Why, no- thing can be more truly ridiculous. Intelligent Americans regal Monsieur Papineau and the French party as people who merely speak of Republicanism as a cloak—a mask ; and that their real object is to introduce priestcraft, and conserve all the old Canadian rights of seigneury, and the feudal system, than which nothing can be more com- pletely at variance with the principles of a republic. When the Ame- ricans became possessed of Louisiana from France, by treaty, they swept away all such Gothic customs, arid idle, trashy laws, in a moment. And that is just the way Papineau and company ought to be served. Let that faction bawl and shout, it will prove to be vox et prawns nihil—Correspondent of the Chronicle. What will Mr. Roebuck and his friends say to this. —Courier. [They will say, that the letter was written to suit the politics of the Chronicle, or the interests of the indi- vidual who sent it to the chronicle; and that they must be very igloo. s rant indeed of the United States, who suppose that the Republicans • look with indifference on the progress of affairs in Canada, or that their sympathies are with Gosford, Head, and Company. 'rile Arne- ricans, when they got Louisiana, swept away sonic of the old instita. tions ; but they gave the people an elective Upper as well as Lower House : they gave the Frenchmen that freedom which we refuse to the Canadians.—Spectator.]
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