The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-12 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

From the number of prosecutions for smuggling
and bribing Officers, of Customs and the Pre-
ventive Service, which have been brought into
Court lately on the various circuits, it is not to
be wondered at that Mr. Iluskisson should have
been so bold in striking at the cause of this
smuggling and bribing system. Had our present
enormous taxes on foreign goods continued,
England might have got into the same relative
situation as Spain—her people might have re-
solved themselves comparatively into .bands of
illegal traders. In a general respeCt, it is
bad policy to encourage home manufacturers
by too heavy a tax on imports ; it causes them to
be careless as to what they manufacture. It causes
many. to be cheats, if the protecting duty be very
high. Who can now purchase a pair of woollen
stockings which his boots will not wear through
in a week ? Who can use a cotton night shirt,
but in a quarter of a year it is ready to fall to
pieces. Even a linen shirt does Hot wear half
the time it used to do some 20 or 30 years since.
It is difficult to procure a penknife or a razor
that shall last a. month, without its wanting set-
ting again or grinding. Thousands of hats are sold
plated ; that is to say, a good outside appearance
is given them, which wears away after a little
time. The system, of excessive protection to
master makers, which, in too many cases, ope-
rates as a bounty to make them cheats, extends
also to the men they employ. They, in their
turn, become lazy ; and in order to remain idle,
and to receive high wages, they combine, as
we see the well-educated Scotchmen did not
long since. The system of cheatery on the part
of master manufacturers and work-people might
last as long as there was war, and prohibit-
ed goods,. or highly-taxed goods, could not
he easily got into the market, and.when smugglers,
if caught, were pressed into the sea service. This
system of making_things for show, and not for ex-
cellence, might do till other nations found out our
cheatery. In consequence of the bad iron-Work
exported for a series, of years from Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and other places, to the United
States, the people became so tired of them, that at
length they manufactured the articles themselves,
A. reasonable tax on all goods imported from
abroad is but fair, not only as the best mode of
deriving a revenue, but also a fair protection to
manufacturers at home; but an excessively high
tax, or a prohibitory- law, with a view to the pre-
venting the introduction of a foreign manufac-
tured article, is neither decent with regard to
other nations, nor is it expedient as it respects
ourselves.

[TILE PUBLIC LEoGEn..j
-The was art arrival yesterday of New York,
Boston, and also of Jamaica Papers. In the
former there is a statement of so curious a de-
scription, that we are loth to believe, and yet
cannot bring ourselves to reject it. If any other
name but that of the Spainsh Monarch appeared
coupled with the alleged transaction, we should,
without the least hesitation, pronounce it a hoax;
but the character of that amiable personage throws
over it at once an appearance of consistency,
aod even of probability. The association, too,
of French agoncy,'so meddling and immoral,
does certainly ans,:thisig but invalidate it. The
two Powers, it is stated, had invited Bolivar to
declare himself Sovereign, and pledged themselves
to uphold him, should he comply. The reply
is so much :in unison with the character of this
great man, that it is completely in keeping with
the rest of the statement. But if the Liberator
were merely an "ambitious man, the overture
would not be so ridiculous as it is now; and
as neither the French nor .Spanish Cabinets
have a high opinion of human worth, they may
not have thought. Bolivar an ,exception. They
have since found their mistake, it is said, and
'have been undeceived, too, in a way that will
'not lessen their chagrin, Bolivar, having lost
no time in laying before the Colombian
'Congress the papers containing the overr
ture. had the manceuvre, however, succeed-
ed, the consequences could not have failed to
be most injurious to the cause of liberty in
the New World ; though in the end, the fate
of the usurper would probably be the same as
that of Iturbide. But in the interval all C"11-
deuce would be shaken, and discord would be
the order of the, day; whichthe partisans of Spain
would not fail to ',turn to their account. autt
even if the latter part of the calculatio“ol,o,i
er secured still the
and thesecurhis prize?
principle would
adoption of the monarchical

be a clear gain; and Ferdinand would be
no longer harrowed by the spectre of po-
pular rule in his rebellious Colonies. At
the; same time the new .Sovereign would at-
tatli himself to the PO‘Too, 'U whose Sugges-
tiOn he had :betrayed. the 'confidence of his fel-
lowcitizens'; and-the alliance of England would
be as stodiously,discarded. The supposed plot
is therefore not in the least discreditable to French
and Spaoish diplomacy ; and if it want probability,
it is not_on account of the part, which is assigned
to these two Powers in the transaction. The
play, however, of foreign intrigue, iaall but ex-
tinct. in the . new Transatlantic States ; and the
latter wilt be soon as unassailable in this respeet,
.as their northern neigh boers. The mere suspicion
of a bias towards Spain is followed by ex-
pulsion ; and as her standard is now every
.where torn down, there will not be the same.
temptation as there was formerly, to incur risk in
`her behalf. We learn,too, by a letter from Panama,
in the Jamaica Papers, that a Br'itish frigate
had arrived there, having on board the fifteen
Generals made prisoners in the last battle in
Peru; together with the whole of the Royalist
a rniy, A' the whole were stowed on board of
single vessel, they must have had very bad ac-
commodation on the passage, or, what is more
likely, very feW of the troops clung to the for-
tunes of their Chiefs. Their departure is
worthy of the promptitude that distinguishes
Bolivar; whilst it is another instance of his good
faith. The Peruvians, delivered from the sight
of their former oppressors, will 'enter on their
new career, with unalloyed hopes ; and the re-
collection of their fornier yoke has. probably
ceased before now to excite any other feelings
but those of execration.

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF BREAD.

The highest price of Bread in thy Metropolis, is t I (I. for
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SEEDS, April 11.
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Old Ditto .... .
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