OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIRST PUBLISHED IN a THE SUN, UNDER THE SIGNATURE OF DECIUS. -- ADVERTISEMENT. -- Ta following Letters have already ap- peared in the SUN Newspaper. has been suggested to the Auth OS, from W It several quarters, that a collection of them in the form of a might be useful in the consideratioll of our differences with AMERICA, vhich is likely to occupy much of the attention of Parliament. Having been writtell at different times, occasionally in inuch haste, and not with any view to forming a complete treatise, tile Author is apprellensive that there illay be repetitions of the same remarks, and that the vhole is illore desultory than he would williilgly llave publisll- ed it. But having no opportunity of altering the form of the publication, he has csinmitted - the letters to the press, as they originally api peared, with a very few additional notes. -. It is to be observed that the following taMe of dates, refers to the days of publica- tion and that the letters were, in some cases, nctually written several days previous1 y to their insertion. CONTENTS, PETTER. PAGE .... 9 ........... 1. Nov. 13, 1307 Introduction 1 11. Nov. 14 .......... first to Fifth Articles dis- .......... cussed .............. 4 ......... 111. Nov. 17 Sixth Article. p IV. Nov. lg .......... Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Introduction to the Eleventh Article 15 V. ATov. 24 .......... Eleventh Article ....... 19 VI. Nov. 26 .......... Eleventh Article continued ............... 28 VIZ. Dec. 2 ............ Eleventh .ArticIe conti- nued ............... 39 VIII. Dec. 8 ............ Eleventh concluded -- from the Twelfth to the Twenty-thirdconsidered 5a 1X. Dec. 14 .......... Twenty- fourth and re- maining Articles,- and the Notes, .......... 56 X. Dec. 26 .......... The Note on the French Decree considered .... 60 XI. Jan. 6, 1808 ....... Concluding Remarks.. .. 65 OBSERVATIONS, C. .c. SIR, THE publication, in the American Papers, of the Treaty concluded with the United States by Lords HOLLAND and AUCKLAND, gives me an oppostnnity of appreciating the collduct of the late Ministers, in a point on which they were exceedingly tenacious. l what indination Lord Ho WICK received the slightest iilsinuation from Mr. PERCEVAL, as to the concessions wlicli he was supposed to have made to AMERICA how confideiltly he always appealed to the terms of the Treaty itself how deeply he regretted the necessity of concealing that imlostant document with what eagerness hc looked forward to the day lhe.11, by its production, he might confound his accusers these circuinstances no love of caodour, no disposition to impartiality can entirely efface from my rccollection. B I out . .1f, ilowe,ver, the question as to t31e merits of the Treaty, as it now appears, were merely personal, I should hardly think it necessary to enter upon a detailed examination of its a-ticles. 1 should feel assurcrZ that the late illinisters, with whatever arguments they might be - preparecl to .defnrl their measure, mould hardly venture to rely upon it for my addition to the fame which they imagine themselves to have entailed upon their administration they might attribute to untoward circunstalces the failure which others might captiously impute to their own deficiencies, but they would scarce1 yenture to deny that n failut-e itrere was. But the discussion of this Treaty is sc intimately connected with the Countrys vital inte- rests, the topics whic11 it embraces are of such lasting importance to GREAT BRITAIN, that I feel it impossible to suffer the Paper thus to wear its own remembrance, nor can I refrain from entering upon an investigation of ille particular articlcs, as wcll as of the spirit ancl general tendelcy of the Treaty...