The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-07 00:00:00

TRADE WITH CHINA.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT AT CANTON.)
_ The Chinese Government are exceedingly
anxious to exclude all foreign intercourse and trade,
while the inhabitants of that country—that is the
governed—are equally desirous and anxious to en-
courage foreign trade and intercourse. We will
be assuredly excluded from all commnnication with
that empire by the authorities, unless we exert our-
selves forthwith to establish a communication with
the Chinese, on such a footing as cannot be ren•
dered subject to loss and spoilation as heretofore.
This cannot be obtained by diplomacy, as we know
from experience that we shall be-outwitted, and that
the Chinese will not abide by any commercial
treaty, pretending to hold trading as derogatory and
contemptible: iVe cannot with safety trust our
persons and property to their bad faith ; for, not
being in direct communication with the Govern-
ment, all treaties will be nullified by the local offi-
cers, with whom only we can come in contact. Tht
only sure plan is to settle the affair off hand.
We are considered barbarians—so let it be. Em-
bassies are useless from us. Let us give then
cause to send one to us, or to whatever authority our
Government may please to depute, with • ful
powers to settle the question. The only feasiblt
and decided plan of operations is to occupy tilt
mouth of the Canton River, in the first place. I
is of no use making any attempt upon Canton, as
it ivould only injure our friends the trading commu-
nity. The possession of the forts commanding tht
river intercourse would astonish and alarm the Go-
vernment. This should be followed up by .possess-
ing the Island of Awoi and Chuson to the north-
ward ; and also the island of Keo to the west o
.Lintin, and forming a good harbour close to tht
mouth of Canton River, half way between it and
iVic.ao. These three islands ought to be held
entrepols for the western nations, entirely free o
Chinese authority. This is the only way that tilt
" red-haired barbarians" can trade with safety with
the Chinese. There arz: a great number of island,
on the coast of China, which, being rocky and un-
productive to the Chinese, would answer the above
purpose. The only difficulty is which to prefer.
If the Chinese Government do not accede to this
plan, at once let loose the hordes of disaffected.
The Pekin authorities will soon come to terms ; but
if they should not, it would not matter, as in these
situations they.could not injure us. They are so
wretchedly defective in the art of war, that their
strongest forts are mere batteries—guns mounted
upon stocks, so that they cannot elevate or depress
them, but merely fire point blank. Their gunpoWder
is only fit for fire-works. Five thousand well
appointed troops, with a good proportion of
guns, could walk from one extremity of the kino•
0
dom to the other. But money here will do every
thing, for when our ships of war were lying at
Whampoa, watched by innumerable war-boats, they
were supplied with the bulky article of fir-wood.
and abundance of live pigs. The possession of
these entrepols would greatly extend our commerce
with several other ports as well as with Canton ; and
we would be placed in such a position as to depend
upon ourselves. The Chinese monopoly of the Hong
must be upset, else our manufacturers will get no
good by our intercourse with the three millions of
Chinese who purchase our goods. The Opium is
a difficult question. Opium the Chinese will have,
' and. if it does not find its way under the British
flag, it will under other flags over whom we can
have no control. The manner in which they have
seized the two millions' worth of that article is the
Same as if we had seized, confined, and threatened
with death, all French and Dutch, and their na-
tional representatives, in London, because a quan-
tity of brandy and Geneva was on the English
coast, and we had not energy enough to seize
the vessels containing it.

seady have informed the public, that an organise f
and armed insurrection has broken out in the counties of
Monmouth and Glamorgan. It is an insurrection ce.
those same fanatical rebels, so extensively prepared and
associated throughout the northern counties, .under the
came of " Chartists," which the Duke of Wellington
denounced above eighteen months ago, as a iource of
the most just and serious alarm to the State. The
affiliations of this criminal confederacy extend ell over
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to which we have stood in-
debted for the -reduction of the military force in Ire-
land to a pitch of weakness utterly incapable of protect-
ing lite or property, when Mr. O'Connell, having first
provided for Isis own safety, shall order the flag of con-
fiscation and massacre to be unfurled. It is the
Chitrtist league which suspended the sailing orders of
several regiments destined six months. ago to relieve
a portion of the Queen's troops serving for twelve years'
pest in our distant colonies, and which, unless mat-
ters mend at home—a dismal chance, we apprehend—
bids fair to keep the bulk of the British army in
perpetual exile. The accounts we refer to, state that
combined attacks have been planned against some im-
portant towns the above-mentioned counties. In
Newport, where the two tolders were a certain well-
known Mr. Frost and Us son, the Magistrates assem-
bled to deliberate on the best mode of preserving the
public peace were stamina: besieged by the insurgents,
their Council-chamber fired into, and the inn where
they met in great part demolished. The Mayor, who
read the Riot Act, was severely wounded. The handful
of. troops (one company of the 43th Regiment) sta-
tioned in the important town of Newport did their duty ,
beautifully, but were sharply reaisted, and forced to
slay many of the rebels. The result of that particular
outrage was the total rout and dispersion of the
insurgents by about thirty men, or In•If a company,
of her Majesty's troops, but not before many loyal
inhabitants of the town had been wounded, and much
confusion produced. How far this melancholy oc-
currence, ending so calamitously fur the rebels, may go
towards an entire and absolute evinction of the con-
spiracy itself, it is riot for us to conjecture.. Toe deaths
of some dozen or so of iosure;aits can serve but little
towards eradicating the ficrea Jae iess disposition
from which the outbreak sprung, or tee ar insuring us
against futur?. Yid uce of ,he same mitur In the mean
time, as we stated in the Times o: y• steed iy, John
Frost, the insurgent leader, was captured on Monday
night, and aflerwards imprisoned on a cearge of trea-on
and sedition. It will he seen by the I o tie r accounts
,se publish to-day, that he has ber u fatty committed fur
high treason His printer, Partridge, was also -secured,
with ten or teelve others of his accoinseices. Frost, of
course, if feted will be tiu• g, as a 'scaPC-
goat for her Majesty's Constitutional Ministers. Ir.
:nay he observed :hat yesterday morning'; Trea-
sury journal introduced the subject of the Bristol
movement as follows :----" The rising of the Chartists
at Newpott, communicated in a second edition of yes-
terday, seems a roost, inexplicable affair !" This is piti-
ful affectation in the Downing-street paper. The re-
bellion is by no means inexplicable. it is the offspring
of Lord Melbourne's own loins. It is tte spawn of
Whiggery in office, truckling to sedition for its daily
bread. It was begotten by the disloyal and reckless
faction which stormed the palace gates of good King
William, and has since existed no otherwise than by
keeping the Crown, the Church, and the lay proprietors
of Great Britain in terror ; which has fostered in the
working classes a spirit of hatred towards their em-
ployers ; an unbridled appetite for pewee, without re-
ference to principle ; and a contempt for all established
rights and institutions, save only in so far as they
might be supported by a resistless physical force.
Such, we affirm, has been the unvarying policy of
this mean and unnatural Administration, which
makes change the rule of Government, and stability the
exception ; treating licentiousness as a generous element
of public life, but order, decency, and respect for the
iaws as Toryisms, to be discountenanced both in Down-
ingstreet and at Windsor. Who is this same John
Frost, ostensible chief of the insurgents who assaulted
Newport, and would have sacked it, but for the steady
discipline of a few brave soldiers? Mr. John Frost was
in station a middling shopkeeper of the town of New-
port. Under the blessed Corporation Bill, which the
Duke of Wellington describes as having made every
town in the kingdom a scene of factious turbulence each
succeeding year, Mr. John Frost became a town-coun-
cillor and one of Lord John Russell's justices of the
peace. As was in perfect character with a potentate
who derived his honours from so pure a source,
John Frost, now a prisoner for high treason, was a
frequenter of what were called " Reform" (!) meet-
ings, wnereat he made revolutionary speeches so
intolerable that Lord John Russell, instead of striking
iis name from the roll as a disgrace to it and to the
Queen's commission, "wrote a letter" to the worthy
Chartist. This drew from a worshipful traitor a con-
umacious and abusive reply, which be read aloud at
.übsequent meetings, and boasted of as a triumph over
Lord John Russell ; for his perseverance in which course
ne was dismissed, not by reason of his being a seditious
revolutionist, but for the higher crime of rudeness and
impertinence to the Whig Secretary of State. Now,
here is a pretty palpable illustration of the genius of
Whig policy, and the fruits proceeding from it. Here
is an exampls of the sort of Magistrates provided by a
Reform" Government, - to beard or supersede on the
bench of justice the men of birth and fortune throughout.
Great Britain, the ancient gentlemen of the land. But
are our readers weak enough to imagine that
Frost stands alone, the single vagabond under the
-iuspices of Whiggery selected for the administration of
justice 7—that there are no more municipal anarchists
but he ? Why the Corporation Bill started from the
post by covering the whole Magisterial Bench with
easy, vulgar, overbearing, and covetous rascality.
Taere is not a country in Europe so disgraced es Erg-
i.ind has been by the worthless knaves and upstaits
li!ted over the heads of their betters by this municipal
reform, which, please God, shall not, without a large pile-
gation of its evils, be inflicted on the Protestants of Ire-
land. It is true that the nation are everywhere getting
sick of the nuisance, end pitching overboard the offensive
.ntruders on their peace. But that is no merit of
her Gracious -Alajesty's advisers The Municipal Bill
treading in the steps of the Reform Bill, has been
distorted into an instrument of low and grasping fac-
tion ; but like the Reform Bill, it is destined to visit
the crimes of its authors on their own heads, arid to
make their condition front day to day more irretriev-
ably desperate and powerless than it promised to
be on the Ist of January, 1830. We say once more,
that the Chartist rebellion, in the same way as the
fatal riots at Bristol, and as every other atrocity which
has desolated England during the last eight years, may
be traced to Whig maladministration. The impetus
given by Ministers to rabble power, by coquetting with,
and cherishing, and feeding its excesses, under the base
guise of " liberality," has gone far towards- the ruin of
all civil government amongst us. If the main founda-
tion of lawful power be opinion, what do those men de-
serve who carry on their government by systematically
impairing all respect for laws and institutions which ac-
tually exist, and have for centuries formed the great
framework of the teonarchy—encouraging change for
the mere sake of change—promoting every crude and
wild speculation in politics, and setting, so far as in
them lies, the current of feeling amongst the lower
cle.sses of the people in a direction adverse to
the repose and permanency of the commonwealth !
To the speech of Lord John Russell at Liver-
pool last 3 ear and his implied permission to let lawless
violence run its course without being checked until the
latest possible moment, may we rightfully attribute
the subsequent increase of Chartism, and the prevailing
confidence among the rabble that the Melbourne Go-
vernment either would not or durst not interfere to
molest their most daring and criminal proceedings.
But what shall we say to Sir John Campbell 'and his
exhibition at Edinburgh—his modesty, his prudence.,
.his sagacity, on this very Chartist question ? " I have
put down Chartism," qunth the hobest Attorney-Ge-
neral—" I have put. down Chartism without shedding
a drop of blood." What! whence, then, came the at-
tempt to storm Newport ? and was there no blood
t . state
spilt there ? But it is all of a piece—false-
hood, chicanery,
the vast They
crificed the country, and not saved them-
selves. They
havveenalloopkeerdfidya. at soeflvegslo.rious
England with the gaze of
a miser at
a money-bag, and would have made of it the most
l, by tehne fthhuel and
preciousvilestdiadem"practices.
of
tTheythese
realms, and put it in their pocket. But the nation has
begun to cry out upon them—e
usuri-
ous
7u I idn t leave
Ile imperial diadem is
ours—not yours, -ye cheats! The Queen of England is
Queen for our welfare, not for your 6t, ye peculators r.
of
The Government and State thep profit,
British empire are
not mere flounces to the
Royal robe, or hangings to
'the drawing-room, or cushions for the boudoir : re-
sponsible Ministers of the Crown shall not sink with
impunity into recreant Lords of the Bedchamber, nor
Women in Waiting become secret and irresponsible ad-
visers of a British Sovereign." We can reprehend the
vehemence of Mr. Bradshaw, yet dare to speak on be-
half of our countrymen the wholesome end unquestion-
able truth,