The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-11 00:00:00

SPAIN AND HER COLOMIES. (Continued from Monday's SliN.) At no period does there appear to 'have been any just-ground for accusing clot South Americans !of pArtidlity to France_ That they were not de .-sirons of obeying a French king on the throne of Spain, their copritter -at tl a i a t t i me i n di sputa bl y roves; not a symptom 0 1 ; such a disposition ap peared in the Caraccas, irThienos-Ayres, in Mex. ieo or in Chili. That :they ever desired lo be Enhjects of the Freii'.f empire, independently 01 Spain, is inconsi,oent with their views and pro -fessions, and in itself perfectly unintelligible. It should be rev,irded to their honour that they dis dained the i;origues and promises of Buonaprrte, and his vlempts to confound t!eir cause with his own ambitious projects. The secret•instroctions givers to Duinolard, which were lakell, and -ate published in the 'Outline of the Revolution in Spanish Ameiica,'—prove the extent of 131:0(14 frame's designs, and the exertions of' his agents and it is well known_ how completely those de signs and exertions failed. It was reserved for the more refined intellects of European States men to decorate• Napoleon with the attributes of freedom ; to• lament his fall as;the extitaction of liberty, and the triumph of desPotie,and illiberal principles.—But the less cultivated Americans treated' his pretensions to this character with na tive rudeness, and seem to have concluded, that the invasion of Spain, the attempt to subjugate and enslave an unoffentling people, and to force his brother on their throne, were not the hest claims to - the admiration and support of nations contending for their own independence. It is not then without extreme astonishment, and an 'emotion of the ridiculous - , that am tug the competitors who are expected t o atte m pt to share in the tempting prizes, which these magniticeut regions offer to ambition and to avarice, we have heard mention of the name of Joseph Bamiaparte ! That the military officers of France,, driven - by political events faint their native country and un able to hear the inaction and insipidity of peace, that ambitious spirirs of every nation should enlist themselves in a cause which flatters the hopes of distinction and of interest, cannot be matter of surprise—but that king Joseph—the bottle-king-- the laughing-stock of his own palace—who can scarcely have recovered his breath since the flight Of Vittoria—that he should ever be the candidate - Mr a , second throne, will appear most singular even to - this generation. • But how infinitely will that weroder•be increased, should we find him se- lecting-SOut h ,Amer ica for the. second display of ltisregal and military virtues ! By that country his pretensions were rejected with universal con tempt.—. His emissaries were no sooner de:ected, titan they were cast rut° pt isou tkonselves, anti their papers and proclamations into the fire ; or they were sent to Europe by his loyal subjects for the information of his enemies. IVe have said enough to show that it is from nn ill will to the Spanish Colonies that we are doubt ful as to the probability of their immediate erec tion into empire's, and decided as to the policy of encouraging and aiding them in drat enterprise. This latter-opinion is not in any - degree strength ened, in our minds, by the view which is taken by the Abbe de Pradt of the effect to be produced by American success ou British power and pro sperity. ,As the Abbe de SFeyes produced a constitution fur any, country on demand, the Abbe de rradt apptars to have a hook prepared for every rli tical sultjt.ct : no wonder therefore that he has written and is writing Most copiously on the im portant subject of the . American Colonies, which, be - has well remarked, will now become the principal oject of attention to the European 6tmes. The sante vivacity of style, the same vein of acute observation, and the same ambitious pursuit of effect and of white bears' in' writing, as they were termed h) Lord Chatham, will be foam; in this, as in all the Abbe's former works. But we must confess that his talents appear to us better adapted to the lively description of characters,and to the invention of an excellent sobriquet, than to the diseussion of great political questions, and the Eotletnent of political difficulties. His passion for generalization often obscures the subject which he is anxious to illustrate; and at other times in duces him to express, in stately and solemn dic tion, trite matters of fact, and truisms as new as they are profound. There is a chapter in the first volume, Des Colonies,' on the Constitu ent Principles of the Colonial Order.' These be has by great labour reduced to the small number of ninety-four ; but when the importance and no velty of those which lie has introduced are ma turely considered, the only cause nt . surprise will he, how lie has been able to refrain from adding several hundred more to this list. ' 45 - . The independence of Colonies is nothing more than the declaration of the majority.' 34. Money does not return from India.' ' The separation of Colonies leads to the Establishment of a great number of States.' 86. The nation which is sovereign in India is superior to those which arc nut su.' These and such as these, are the Aln's pro fotiod maxims of stare-policy, arid at a strik ing proof of that simplicity which is the charac- teristic of great discoveries. The Abbe desires the independence of the South American colonies, becluse it must lead to the general indei)endence of America, and, by ceriain consequence, to the emancipation of Europe from the intolerable yoke of Engla►►d, which he repre sents to be as severe as the oppression of Buona parte. He foresees the formation of independent and naval powers in America, who, with their combined fleets, shall in the fullness of time come to the relief of oppressed Europe. lie predicts the birth of the Admiral who is destined to cap ture the bridge of London ; but the English .„ ~ reader will be somewhat consc►led by hearing, that the production of this tremendous infant will not follow for many ages the death of the General who attempted to blow up the bridge of Jena. We cannot be too grateful for t!►i3 lon g ; respire. But let the ci-devant Archbishop offer a few watch for • himself. The Reroluron, he says (p. 414.) 'has given up the ocean to England, and with it all the colonies and all the. navies' of Europe. By its position in the centre of the European ocean, England stops all communication bitween the nb;:th 14,1 the south. Where can they have any intercourse ? Every thing that would pass through the Sound would be stopped at Heli goland and Ferro; it would have to pass under tint !nag battery which extends from . Yarmouth to Plymouth ; the 'Channel is a sea enclosed by the Englith ports, and , is .rom pletely an English roadstead,. through which the sqoadrons of France and Holland world not dare to pass,. At the first signal, Brest, Cadiz, and Toulon, would be hlochaded. Gib raltar commands the entrance to the Nieditetraneau, Malta occupies the centrt of it, and Corfu rules the Adriatic ; where can we unite, or through wlrere'can we pass ?- It is just the same in every Other part of the world. England has possess ed herself of situations which deprive other nations of any hope of inccess; so that a coalition between all the maritime powers of Europe against England is a creature of the imagi- Some of the parties tot his coalition are ton much mit ion. exposed both In tlreir commerce acid in their colonies not to prefer their present sufferings to any aggravation of them, which. would be the inevitable consequence of a rupture with England. She has just left them colonies and commerce enough to form a bond composed of fear, and of an attention to that conduct which she is always dictating. An everlasting states quo is the only calculation of those powers; provided. that lasts, they are satisfied. At the Cape of Good Hope, at. Ceylon, at Trinidad, at Barbadoes, and at Halifax, the Eng lish are in the same position with regard to the colonies, as t hey are at Heligolond, Gibraltar, and Malta, with regard to Europe. Every thing it in subjection to them there as it is here. Whilst .things are in „this state, all the naval force of Europe is a useless expences subject of triumph prepared for England, aria, since we mhst speak out, a complete ab surdity. Europe must not look at home for the means of obtaining maritime freedom ; she cannot rest the lever firmly here, which will raise the burden that is crushing her—it must be rested in America. From henceforth her liberation must originate there. We have just haul a proof of this in the war which the United States have been waging against England : they I: we tormented England more than all the navies of,Europe united together have done. The reason of Allis is very simple: it is the distance of America. England, at such a distance from the seat of empire, lost part of the advantages which render her so formidable in Europe; conse quently the greater number of States there are in America► similar to the United States, the greater number of allies will there be for Europe: fur all these States being, like the United States, in their nature maritime, and possessing an infinite number of ports •and rivers inviting navigation and commerce, will have the greatest interest iri the liberty,of the seas, arid in forming an alliance between the weaker ma ritime powers against the stronger, who are the natural op.' pressurs of the former; consequently every standard of liber ty planted in America will cover the seas of Europe with a, tutelary shade. Let us suppose some free states in America, like those of Brazil, the United States, and Mexico; and on. the other side of the Continent, Peru and Chili, to he in that state of freedom whirl' they must arrive at sooner or later.— Is it not plain that in them are raised up as many rivals to England, and as many fleets and as many arsenals as there are in the United States, and all of them at the service of Eurnk, against the common enemy, the mistress of the sea; evhatever name she hears; fur by being . the.mistress, she is 'an enemy to all who are weaker than herself, and all are equally enemies to her.' Is it not plain that a general contest for the intlependeneeof the sea will arise with :titans of sup- I porting it, a contest which, in this can', would not fail of hawing its effect, favoured as it would be by the position of 1 the nations who would talie part in ,it, while it is iMpossible that Europe alone should-institute such a contest, on account of its position and its proximity to England? She is an enemy sebum' we cannot affront till we have drawn her from home, and forced her to divide Ler strength. When England shall have to blockade at once both the whole of Europe and the whole of America, that blockade, instead of being an iron chain, which it is impossible to break, as has been the case for the last twenty years, will be only a cobweb which can be pierced ut pleasure. When her vessels shall hare to guard stations at the distance from England of many thousand leagues, and wi,hout secure harbours; and when her com merce, banished from the two Continents, and pursued by swarms of crilizers, shall stretch its suppliant and afflicted arms towards the mother country for peace; then will a ma ritirne independence be established for Europe, which it is not able to obtain by its own means. ' The chief error in the policy of Napoleon was this ; he wished to render the seas free by means of Europe, whilst it was only by means of America that it could be done : he turned his back upon the object he aimed at, when he went to seek for it in Russia, where it certainly was never to be found. Such is still the error of Spain : she does not perceive that by labouring to re-establish the dependence•of America, she is only confirming her own dependence upon England, who will thus be enabled to turn all her force against her, which would otherwise be required against America.' We sho►►ld not have trespassed.on the patience of our readers with this long rhapsody, did we not know that the sentiments it conveys are the common property of all the Revolutionists ; that the numerous disciples of that .school . of anarchy which Fiance has scattered over the world, affect the same terror of the naval power of England, the same tender regard for the insurgents of Spa nish America, and the same hope that, by the fer ment at present working in that distant p ar t o f the countries of Europe, now settling into repose, may again be roused, and kindled into confusion, plunder, and regicide. Contempt for the whole fraternity, of which this man is a feeble echo, must not prevent its trou► such remarks as are dictated by a regard to the peace and happiness of mankind, and by the love of that genuine liberty which can subsist only with law% order, and legitimate authority. In the station which England has acquired, during the long war reluctantly waged by her in defence of the civilized world, it is not even pre tended that she has obtained any other than de fensive posit ions ; or that, having acquired them, she has applied, or shown a disposition to apply, their possession to any other purpose than th,at of securing general tranquillity. (To be continued.) Lord GAGE, a few days ago, sent to the PRINCE ItEGaNT, as a present, a Pike which weighed 28 pounds. This fresh-water shark was taken in Marestield tuiU-pond, on his 'Lordship's Sussex estate. 'PRICE or BU woN.—The only variation in the price of bullion yesterday, from the preceding ac count, Was in New Dollars, which were at ss. 4d. THE.ATRICAL REGISTER. • Performed Last Tnt it n !twit!. :• Ininlo, Mr. Fisher ; opheli3, Miss K&lly. - After which (first time), litsfit. THTATItE RovA, , ; 13iroii, Mr. Young- ; Isabella, Mi-s O'Neill. After which, _Husbands and Wives. To which was added, Mo - ta's Love. • • , 11M1 LS, • AnntvEn-1 Ooftenloirirh, Dublin, 1 Waterford. Du E-1 Trance, 1 Lisbon, 1 Guernsey and Jersey. rater 0 THI3 PAY AT r STOCKS wELvm o'ctmcK. Bank Stock )11. India Bowls 99s. pr, 3 per Cent. lied. —4321 $43 Exch. Bills.-- .139 255. pr, 4 per Cents. , .991 ii Cons. for Acc0unt........841 Bank L. Ann..... 2 t 1-16th ft Ineal WATEIt AT L()ND()N 131111) . GE 'I6•NIORROW Nforning, 19 minutes after 5. I Evening, 44 minutes after THE SUN. SOLEM QUIZ DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, TIIIIRSDiIk, DECEMBER 11 , 181 7. Boston Papers to the I,Bth nit., New York to the 15th, and Charleston to the 7th, atrived this morning : (From the Boston Palladium of Nor. 11, 1 A 17.) FLORIDAS, Capt. Attrunri, of the ship incey Ann, from Bonnie4ux, has brought out dispatches for Go vernment from the American Minister at the Court of Spain. It is presnmed that thege dispatches relate to the negociations carrying on between the United States and Spain, as to the purchase of the Floridas. • It is distinctly understood, and,. on very good authority, that Great Britain has said to Spain, "If you choose to keep the - notifins, is well, but if you determine to sell them, we think we have a right to the preference, and we shall expect the first offer." This language has off«mded andembarrassed the Court of Madrid, although We do not believe it will influence its determination ; indeed we fed confident that the determination is made, and is now in the United State s . We come to the con elusion from a 'knowledge of the fact, that the Spanish Minister, Don. Onts, has at this moment in his possession sealed dispatches f:otn his Court, which dispatch.es he is'direeted not to °pin until the Meeting of, Congress. Accounts bare been received from Caraccas to Cct. 6:h, which represent the Spauir.h Royalists as completely successful in that quarter.' A Pro clamation of conditional amnesty, on the part of King \ Falun NAND, bad been published, and num bers are accepting of it. Prisoners - are released • as embraced by-it. MlX't. NEW ORLEANS, OCT: 9.—The Spanish dis patches respecting MINA say, that on the 15th oh. he, with 600 men, was overtaken on the moun tains by a Spanish force. under General Ds ',MAN, and Was briskly attacked, hot that he ef fected his escape in the night, favoured by the wind and rain, which fell in torrents. It is yet believed, that their dashing partizan's force is far from being annihilated. NAVAL DEPOT. NEW YonK, Nov. 12.—0 n the subject of the proper site for the Naval DepB!, the Editor of the National Intelligenrer thus expresses his opinion It is probable, we think, that, so long delayed, the decision will now be deferred until the Presi dent shall, as it has been intended, make the tour of Chesapeake with a view to examining the pro minent points of the coast, and determining on the best means of defending the entrance of this important estuary. A letter from Ilavannah, of Oct. 29, says, that the Consulado fleet are all passed over to the Royal Navy, by order of the King. (From the Charleston Courier of Non. C.) A dangerous malady prevailed at Natchez about the end of last month. lu an Official Statement of the select men of the town, we find it stated, that it is not believed that people can safely in habit or frequent the City.. The place of meeting of the 'UW Legislature is, ill consequence of a Proclam.ition of * the Governor, changed from Nachez to Washington. ' Letters from Havanna!) to the 2Sth of October, are received at the °thee of the Boston Palladium; the latter says they contain an account of tl►e tak ing of A fort called Sombrero or Com ORO, front whence MIA made his escape. The Royalists immediately destroyed the fort, and shot all the prisoners whom they took in it. Gen. GAINES is marching against the S:manrde ind;eins, ‘vho have manifested a dispositivn against the It'hite Inhabitants residing on the frontier of Georgia. The fever in Charleston (Sou►h Carolina) has suly.ided, and businss is reviving. The quarantine regulations have been suspended by the City I►►tendmnt. The Sea Serpent has again been seen in Milford Harbour (says the New York Gazette, of the 12th Nro'vethiter).riltettiigrat-ion from E iblern (1"cr; , 44 to the Western Uotintv, frittit Septanber 19 to •:, Ociolia 24, exc'ee . cred 3DM pel•solts. • • We are accused by The British Press, this day] . not designating the SOnth A mer i can I n d epen dent, by any other n a me th a n t h at o f R e b e l s. " - As The Preis thinks proper : t o notice what we say , it 31,0,0 consider thesCope and bearing of (mi . remarks. 'We never styled:the Revolters Rebels, but as tb their relation with Spain, and to the al; Nance between that Country and Great Rritain.---' to Spaiti they are certainly Rebels, however j,:st may be their o:iposition to the Mother Conic 'try, and if Great Britain were to assist ibc.it opposition; it Would take part against an Ally, and support the cause of .Rebellion. Such is . the qualifies; manner in which we have always poken on the subject of the R evolted, Colonists, and have never called them - ribeti in the abstract. As to their cause, it has never been fully stated to the world at large, and are 0: a nn e x in which it was supported by the Opposition Writers in this country tended to excite suspicion against it. 0111 . efforts Dave been chiefly to prevent the tish Government from interfering one way or the other ; not to assist Spain in any sys• tent of oppression against the Colonies, in or• . der to crush the rising spirit of independence, if founded on right principles, nor to assist the Revolters against the authority of Spain, if,,tanglit by the courseof events and the lamentablecounseis of experience, she were disposed to exercise thel authority with a due regard to the proper clairo4 of the Colonists. Such was our comfort, and therefore we trust we have sufficiently answered the allegations of The British Press. " We learn (says the Mornini Chronicle of this ay) that an important change has taken place ill the French:Ministry. M. DE Ca-zs has withdiAwn from the office of Police, and is. to have a higl4 situation in the 'Honsehold—M. 'JUNK reties altOgether, and is succeeckd by M. MOLE, as Ali , ' nistcr of the-Interior." Not having received any Paris Papers this morn• ing, although three days Journals are clue, we are unable to say whether any credit is due to the. above statement, Our do eve know through what channel it could have arrived. iVe merely there.• `ore give it as a rumour in circulation. 'THE Fu NI DS. —A great deal of business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this - morning Consols lktt of yesterdAy very heavy, tit 84 for I . IIC Account, but they opened this morning at 84f, and the maiket is brisk at that price. --Th e C‘i nt o missioners gave 83 money For Reduced, and wets served by the Jobbers, BRum - roN, DEC. 9.—V - csterday and tn•dag e REGENT took exercise in the riding-school, in preference to going out of the P villiot' grot►nds. 'flue Marcl:►is of Ile R rFoan arrived at the Pavilliom this afternoon, on a visit to the REGENT. Prince LEorotm sbews the sine(' ity . of his grief 'in a manner trhich cannot fail to be observed/ find to increase, it possible, the esteem of the pub' Lc for his whole character. A letter from Rio Janeiro, of September 30, states the arrival thLre of a Portuguese squadron, with troops from Lisbon. It has hcen stated in a Morning Pf'per that JOHN EGERTON declines offering liiinsclf for 06 -Representation of Chester, butWe believe with• out foundation, notwithstanding the reference to a -letter said to have been written by this Gentle' min, signifying that he withdraws from a contest. Sir FRANCIS BunDETT,has suddenly been callett from Ireland, by the illoizss of Lady Bunoei•T, at Bath ; a circumstance that all who know bet amiable character must hear with regret. 'A new market is nearly built between Market' lane and the Haymarket, for the con v en i ent . e (:( the inhabitants o f' the neighbourhood, instead of that of St. James's, now pulling down. SMITHIIELD CLUB.—The Milt:ft( nth Annol Exhibiti,ttof this _Society is now about to co nio mence ; last night the fat cattle, sheep and pig4r intended for exhibition, began to arrive in Ajr• Sadlet's yard, where they wi!l, this day, be cw mined by the judges, who will -award prizes for the tacit animals under ail circumstances of age. feeding, &C. The following persons sent in sock yesterday evening, viz.—Oxen—l from the Hoop B. Simpson, '1 from 11Ir. kVestcar, 2 from Mr! John C. Gilson, 1 Mr. Clark, 2 Mr. Oldaeres,&c . —Sheep. 3 Laid (;a t e. 2 Mr. Stokes, 3 '.llf• Rowland, &c.-- 7 ---Pigs, 5 Mr. Pdltner, 12 :lir" Chambers, &c. EXECUTION.--A few minutes after eight this morning, Jahn rarty, for forging a cheTie for 4001., with an intent to detraud his eniptoyert' , Messrs. 1 31tFNcnt.EY and Co. Bankers at Gr end, 'George Pectrsofl, for forging a warrant t" r the payment of 225/ with intent of defrauding Messrs. WILL.T.ors and Co. Bankers, Birch lane, and Thomas Da/try, for a highway robbed." on John Thwans, on the 13th of October last: were excented, pursuant to their sentence, helot' the Debtor,' Door at Newgittc. The crowd %v.' not near su great as we usually observe•on 00 6° occasions. ThP first Of (hose fortunate vow" men, none of u..hont txceeded 22 yeari of eg';' that tv:is brought on the scaffold, was yibut!,'", vurty ; he ‘vpis (Ivor:ea in a hi r e c oa t, wi(1) g" (rattans, grey p an tal oons a n d half-boots ; . ; ntxt ; he wore a grey coat, white and hall-bnotr;; Pearson wai last; they were m i. tended by the Bee. J. Co-rrotg ; they diet, pc" i ' tent, and !nut their fate with becoming failiitid"