Met nation, rousting rong man after sleep, and sy yout tON ON tY OF thE PRESS.

    It is  t I observe terary animosity daily gro curiosity e  to ted States, and teemed ravels t tended to diffuse error rat, notanding tant intercourse betions, t mass of tision, or entertain more numerous prejudices.

    Englisravellers are t and t in tives of pride or interest intervene, none can equal ty, or faition of external objects; but  or reputation of try comes in collision  of anoto te extreme, and forget ty and candor, in tic remark, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.

    ravels are more  and accurate, te try described. I  con?dence in an Englision of taracts of terior of India; or of any otract o picture out  I iously receive  of e neigions s of most frequent intercourse.  be disposed to trust y, I dare not trust his prejudices.

    It  of our country to be visited by t kind of Englisravellers.  and cultivated minds  from England to ransack to penetrate ts, and to study toms of barbarous nations,  intercourse of pro?t or pleasure; it  to tradesman, turer, ter and Birming, to be ing America. From sucent to receive ion respecting a country in a singular state of moral and p; a country in  political experiments in tory of ts t profound and momentous studies to tatesman and the philosopher.

    t sucs of America, is not   a matter of surprise. t offers for contemplation, are too vast and elevated for ties. tional cer is yet in a state of fermentation: it may s frot, but its ingredients are sound and o settle doo sometantially excellent. But ting to strengt, and its daily indications of admirable properties, are all lost upon ted by ttle asperities incident to its present situation. tters  e interests and personal grati?cations. tty comforts e of society; udying tite and self-indulgence. ts, ant in timation of narro ackno terbalanced among us, by great and generally diffused blessings.

    ted in some unreasonable expectation of sudden gain. tured America to tives y, and rangely and suddenly ric easy manner.

    t indulges absurd expectations, produces petulance in disappointment. Suctered against try on ?nding t t sory and talent; and must contend ies of nature, and telligent and enterprising people.

    Peraken or ill-directed ality, or from t disposition to cenance tranger, prevalent among my countrymen, treated ed respect in America; and, omed all to consider ty, and brougy, t, on ty; ttribute to tion; and underrate a society inctions, and wo consequence.

    One ion coming from suc ion by t tives of ty, tunities of inquiry and observation, and ties for judging correctly, inized, before tted, in sucent, against a kindred nation.

    t furnisriking instance of ency. Notics y of traveller ant and comparatively unimportant country. s of a pyramid, or tion of a ruin; and ernly ributions of merely curious knoing faitations of coarse and obscure ers, concerning a country  important and delicate relations. Nay, text-books, on y hy of a more generous cause.

    I s, opic; nor sed to it, but for terest apparently taken in it by my countrymen, and certain injurious effects tacoo muco ttacks. t do us any essential injury. tissue of misrepresentations attempted to be  giant. Our country continually outgroer anotself. e  to live on, and every day ion.

    All ters of England united, if  suppose t minds stooping to so union, could not conceal our rapidly groance and matcy. t conceal t t merely to p also to moral causes--to tical liberty, tained energy to ter of a people, and ional power and glory.

    But o the aspersions of England?

    o be so affected by tumely so cast upon us? It is not in t ation s being. t large is ter of a nations fame: s t nesses a nations deeds, and from tive testimony is national glory or national disgrace established.

    For ourselves, t is comparatively of but little importance ; it is, perance to illing   anger and resentment into tion, to gros gros strengters are laboring to convince er to ?nd an invidious rival, and a gigantic foe, sers for ated ility. Every one knoerature at t day, and s control. tests of temporary; t in t is to forgive and forget t to t; t in t spirits; t in t morbidly sensitive to t tri?ing collision. It is but seldom t any one overt act produces ilities betions; ts, most commonly, a previous jealousy and ill-ion to take offence. trace to ten o originate in ters,  and circulate t is to in?ame the brave.

    I am not laying too mucress upon t; for it applies most empically to our particular case. Over no nation does te control tion of t classes makes every individual a reader. t of our country, t does not circulate t of it. t a calumny dropt from an Englistered by an Englisatesman, t does not go to bligo tent resentment. Possessing, tain-erature of tely is it in ruly is it y, to make it tream ions mig toget in turning it to ers of bitterness, time may come tle moment to  ture destinies of t country do not admit of a doubt; over tainty.

    Sake  empires  been exempt--s at uation, in repulsing from ion s o roying he boundaries of her own dominions.

    t ted States are inimical to t country. It is one of tly propagated by designing ers. tless, considerable political ility, and a general soreness at ty of t, collectively speaking, trongly in favor of England. Indeed, at one time ted, in many parts of to an absurd degree of bigotry. t to tality of every family, and too often gave a transient currency to teful. t try, ted o it enderness and veneration, as t repository of ts and antiquities of our race--ternal ory. After our ory, ted--none oy. Even during te unity for kind feelings to spring fort  of ts of our country to s, in t of ilities, till   kept alive ture friendship.

    Is all to be at an end? Is tions, to be broken forever?--Per is for t--it may dispel an allusion al vassalage; rue interests, and prevented tional pride. But it is o give up tie! and terest--closer to t t ill make us cast back a look of regret as ernal roof, and lament t t ions of the child.

    S-sig or England may be in tem of aspersion, recrimination on our part  of a prompt and spirited vindication of our country, or t castigation of  I allude to a disposition to retaliate in kind, to retort sarcasm and inspire prejudice, ers. Let us guard particularly against sucemper; for it ead of redressing ting as tort of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and an unpro?table contest. It is ternative of a morbid mind, fretted into petulance, rato indignation. If England is o permit trade, or ties of politics, to deprave tegrity of ain of public opinion, let us be to diffuse error, and engender antipation:  of national jealousy to gratify; for as yet, in all our rivalsy. to ans ti?cation of resentment--a mere spirit of retaliation--and even t is impotent. Our retorts are never republis, t ter a querulous and peevisemper among our ers; t ?oerature, and sos blossoms.  is still e try, and, as far as t, excite virulent national prejudices. t is t especially to be deprecated. Governed, as irely by public opinion, tmost care saken to preserve ty of trutes a prejudice, ion of rys strength.

    te. tions of to come to all questions of national concern s. From ture of our relations   questions of a dif?cult and delicate cer ion,--questions t affect t acute and excitable feelings: and as, in tment of tional measures must ultimately be determined by popular sentiment,  be too anxiously attentive to purify it from all latent passion or prepossession.

    Opening, too, as rangers every portion of tiality. It so ex an example of one nation, at least, destitute of national antipat merely t acts of ality, but tesies wy of opinion.

    o do ional prejudices? terate diseases of old countries, contracted in rude and ignorant ages,  little of eacrust and ility.

    e, on trary, o national existence in an enlig parts of table igably studied and made knoo eacages of our birt sional prejudices, as itions, of the old world.

    But above all let us not be in?uenced by any angry feelings, so far as to s our eyes to tion of  and amiable in ter. e are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models, in a great degree, from ting nations of Europe. try more udy t of itution is most analogous to ours. tellectual activity--ts of ts erests and most sacred cies of private life, are all congenial to ter; and, in fact, are all intrinsically excellent: for it is in t tions of Britisy are laid; and ructure may be time be someterials, and stable in tructure of an edi?ce t so long oempests of the world.

    Let it be ters, tation, and disdaining to retaliate ty of Britiso speak of tion  prejudice, and ermined candor. ing bigotry rymen   admire and imitate every t is Englis t out ion. e may tual volume of reference, o tical rengto embellisional cer.