The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-01 00:00:00

THE COLONIES.

CANADA.

(Front the Quebec Gazettes from the 17th to 24th A7:2.1
QUEBEC, JUNE 17.—The information on which we drew
up the paragraph that appeared in our last number respecting
the projected union of the two Canadas, now appearing to us to
have been defective, we take the opportunity of modifying
what we then said, by the following brief outline of the inea-
sure, as described by one of the Gentlemen connected with the
Colony, who was consulted on the occasion—we at the same
time cannot pledge ourselves to the entire correctness of this
statement, which has come to us, like• the former, through a

private channel.
It is stated not to be the object of the plan to unite the exe-
cutive parts of the Governments of the two Provinces, but
merely the two Provincial Parliaments. These shall form a
Congress to meet at such place as the Governor-General shall
appoint—the numbers of the Members of both Lower houses
remaining the same, except that six new Members shall be re-
turnable from the Upper Province for places not represented;
but no other change will take place in the machinery of Govern-

meat.

is also particularly stated, that it is not the intention that
this Colony should in any way be taxed by the British I'Arlia-
ment for the support of the civil list of the Colony, but that the
act of the Imperial Parliament, allowing certain drawbacks on
rum, by which the Colonial revenue has been very
,much di-
minished, should be repealed ; and that for securing the Colo- 1
nial trade from disadvantageous.competitors, a small counter-
vailing duty shall be laid on the same article brought from Eng-
land, which would otherwisz, (since the recent expiration of
55 Geo. 111. c. 5.) have an advantage over that brought direct
from the West Indies.
We can state with certainty that Mr. Marryat has declined
to act upon the nomination made by the House of Assembly
during last Session. Mr. Marryat has been highly gratified by
this mark of perfect confidence which the House of Assembly
have had in his integrity and talents ; but he at the same time
remarks, that without the concurrence of the three branches of
our Legislature, he could not communicate with the Colonial
Department and his Majesty's Ministers as an accredited agent ;
and would be unable to act with that efficiency which the situa-
tion demands.

A Steam-Boat is now building, to run on the Mohawk river
from Schenactady to the little falls.
The subsistence of the Indiana on the North West of the
Rocky Mountains is chiefly derived from the water ; their nets
are excellent; they are made by the women of the inner bark
of the willow, spun into a strong cordage, and sometimes of
the nettle; the latter are chiefly used for taking the smaller
kind of fish. About, tyre beginning of April, the fishing com-
mences on the smaller lakes, which afford them trout, carp, &c.
On these they subsist for two or three months, and when the
season is over, return to their villages, and pick up various
herbs, roots, and berries, which they eat with their dried fish.
ills serves them till about the middle of August, when the
salmon make their appearance in incredible quantities.
There was discovered about three weeks since, on the north
bank of the Black river, opposite to the village of Watertown,
an extraordinary cavern, or grotto, the mouth of which is about
ten roods from the river, north of the falls and of Cowan's

island.
The great extent of the cavern, and the great number of spa.
cious rooms, halls and chambers, into which it is divided, and
the immense quantities of calcareous concretions which it con-
tains, and different states of those concretions, from the con-
sistence of lime mortar, to that of the most beautiful sta-
lactites as hard as marble, render it difficult, if not impossi-
ble, to describe it.
The Floridas, as far as I can understand, may be considered
as a great forest of pine, interspersed with irreclaimable swamps,
and intersected with rivers, whose banks are subject to inunda-
tion, and the low grounds, though rich, unfit for cultivation ;
and, as soon as these low grounds are passed, the pines again
present themselves. The good land is confined to the head-
waters of the rivers, and is in small proportion.—Such is the
general physiognomy of the country—l do not think any part
of it adapted to sugar, and none, I feel confident, to coffee.
The staple of these parts capable of tillage must be cotton. It
may generally be deemed a sickly country. The winters are
damp, chilly, and extremely unpleasant, with frequent and
heavy rains, and much wind. The atmosphere, at that season,
very unfavourable to persons of catarrha and pulmonary habits,
diseases of the lungs being very prevalent. From the absence
of marshes, remittent fevers are not very common, but those of
a high grade sometimes occur. The place has been visited by
yellow fever.
NIAGARA, .TI'NE B.—On board the Frontenac, on Monday
last, we observed no less than twenty-one bullocks destined for
the Kingston market ; they must have been all stall fed, being
in guild order, and would weigh from nine to ten cwt. each. Ifh
every district in Upper 'Canada could turn out an equal quan-
tity of the produce of the country with this district, it would be
unnecessary to enact laws in this Province, to lay a duty on
produce (4 any kind coming from the United States.—Our
lands in Canada are cheaper, and equal in quality—let us there-
fore exert ourselves so as to undersell those intruders.—We
have no doubt but when the roads are more improved, but
all the markets from hence to Quebec may be supplied from
the western districts of this Province, at as reasonable a price
as from the United Settes.
MONTREAL, JUNE 22.—An ingenious machine attached to
a wheel carriage for measuring the distance passed over, was
exhibited here during fae last week. The inventor is Mr.
Charles Delaurier dit Cotineau ; he intends to apply for a pa-
tent during the next Session. It is regulated by one whole
'revolution of the wheel, the length of which is exactly known,
and by some other machinery makes it visible to the traveller
in the front of the carriage.
QUEBEC, JUNE 24.—We understand that his Majesty's
Ministers have kindly offered to purchase for the use'' 1! the
British Navy one fourth of all the hemp grown bete, piqvided
it can be furnished in England on as cheap terms as its brought
from Russia; and as a stronger encouragement to tie exten-
sive cultivation of the same article in this Colony have ordered
the Navy on the Upper Lakes to be exclusively furnished with
hemp raised in Canada, provided it is furnished as cheap as it
can be had from England.
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Tuesday

Thursday,

Friday,

PRICES CURRENT OF 24T11 JUNE, 1822.
" Ashes Ist sort 'Pot -34 s 6d a 35s per cwt.
Ditto, Ist sort Pearl - Ps a 39s 6d'per do.
Beef - -42 s 6d a 45s per bbl.
Pork - -55 s a 57s 6d per do.
Hams - - 7d aBd per lb.
'Butter - . -10 d per do.
Flour, Superfine -27 s fid a 23 per do.
Ditto, Fine -25 s per do.
Dried Cod Fish -12 s 6d per cwt.
Salmon none.
- .
Oak - ls 6d to Is 10d per foot
Red Pine -10 d per do.
White, ditto - 4d a 5Ad per do.
Staves' Pipe, 51 feet by 1 on* } 371. a 38/ lOs per 1200 p s
Ditto, Pun.l3l feet by 1 ditto.
Deals, 12 feet 11 by 21 ditto 9/ per 100 ps.
NOVA SCOTIA, (HALIFAX) JUNE 3.—By a letter from
Rear-Admiral Fable, commander-in-chief on this station, in-
formation is given to the merchants of Halifax, that one of the
squadron will be at Jamaica on or about the Ist of July ensu-
ing, in order to bring from thence such money as may be in-
tended for this or the neighbouring British provinces.
• It appears by the treaty between the United States and Great
Britain in 1783, and also the treaty of Ghent, that the boundary
line shall run from the source of the river St. Croix, due north
to certain high lands, and " thence along the said high lands,
which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river
St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean."
The extensive territory of wild lands owned in common by
Maine and Massachusetts, must remain unsettled, useless, and
undivided, till the British boundary question is settled.
The line contended for by the British Commissioner will take
off about one-third part of the territory of Maine, com-
prising a tract of valuable land equal in extent to New-Hamp-
shire, Vermont, or Massachusetts.
The subject, in case of a disagreement between the Commis-
sioners, was, according to the treaty, to be referred " to some
friendly Sovereign or State for decision."

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
ENGLAND.
Monday, • August 5, LoNDox: Nos. 5, 27, 39, 82, 210,
'
223, 289. Com. Bo°s
School at 7.
COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64. 72, 102, la,
191, 202, 219, 267, 311,
380, 369, 372, 398, 43,
498, 502. 503, 509, Lill,

632, 638, 644.
-6, LONDON'. Nos. 9, 240, -281, 287,3169
331.
COUNTRY. Nos. 21, 127, 130,167, 170,
180, 184, 196, 204, 04,
310. 385, 387, 476, 47/,
307, 512, 532, 544, 551,
557. 592, 639, 640. 649;
Vedaesday, -7, LONDON. Nos. 35, 75, 220. Grano
Chapter.
COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124, 139, 146'
• 207, 229, 339, 465, 4„,,",.,' •
491, 505, 513. 526,
543, 581, 505, 656, 711,
713,725.
Nos. 6, 18, 194, 271, 2997
301, 326, 333, 499.
CouNTRY. N 05.51, 110111,135,153,
172, 178, 269, 278, 35f,
397,506,531,540, 59"
657, 670.
-9, LcniimN. Nos. 128, 161, 273.
COUNTRY. Nos. 53, 282, 283.

-8, LONDON

IRELAND.

Monday, August 5, CORK. No. 347.
Tuesday, -6, CORK. No. 95.
Wednesday, -7, CORK. Nos. I, 95, 41

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS•

nousr OF COMMONS.

Mereurd, 31" die Milii, 1522. 1/3
Mr. Speaker reported the Royal Assent,—to Lotteries
and King's Bench Business Bill.
EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL
STAMP DUTIES REDUCTION (IRE-
LAND) BILL
BARILLA DUTIES BILL
DEEDS REGISTRY (IRELAND) BILL

Read a third 61136'
and. passe"

APPROPRIATION BILL
KOCH'S NATURALIZATION BILL 1
CHAPLAIN—ResoIved, " That an humble Address he_APT;
sented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously Ple"7•,.
confer some dignity in the Church upon the Reverend %,1'
Liam Frederick Bayley, Chaplain to this House." „nil
CANADA GOVERNMENT BlLL—read a second time •
committed ; considered in Committee, and reported ; Bail,
ars
consideration of Report on this day three months ; O''''
MESSAGETPBRDOaeSbrtitaao ogerkAes
DBElsirßlt aelltaexdansdndßrd:e.
amended, to be printed. nts
CORONERS (IRELAND) BILL / Lords alllendille
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL ) agreed t°. ma to,
siß:
CommercialE
Bill,
forl LORDS—That
Rw
ißeturns
with
th r nc
sCredit(lreland)
,e, Amendments.d
of i (
all
lirl e
ifiy a
fines
d have
Bill, Greenland Fisheries Bill, Isle of "-cot
Bill, wlie/,eot
amendment; and Insolvent Debtors Bill, and In
paid by the proprietors of land in Trinidad,essianncde • reDts
atilW
nistration ox Government in that Colony
by
Woodford. 01
'
" Of the Proceeds arising from the sale of lands in Trill
confiscated to the Crown since that period. OfOcerl
"Of the Fees paid to the Governor and other Public ts of
in Tnnidad, under the Proclamations respecting Grall.-- •
'Land in that Colony. A (o_4o
" Of all Fees paid to Sir Ralph James Woodforr istaat•
Secretary', for permission to land upon, or reside in! We
of Trinidad. Wt
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" Of all other Fees paid to Sir Ralph James W
ther as Governor or Judge. a bY
" Of all Fines imposed upon individuals in that Isle° ot
of
Sir Ralph James Woodford ; distinguishing the names „oat
parties by whom they were paid, in casts where they e'"
to 50 dollars or upwards. otir
" Of all Estates in Trinidad having Royal Grants ;
_jo-
guishing those that have been enregistered under the rOregii•
tion of the Ist December 1818, and those that remain. iPiern*
agi-leiti-i e.;
tered, as far as the same are known to the Colonial 0::.
ment, and the extent and number of Slaves of each eitsbe roll'
" Of all Estates occupied or cultivated previous tortr , title
quest of Trinidad, for which the occupier prayed lc! f the
o a
under the Proclamations of the sth December 1816, and,,
7th November 1816, respectively ; showing the qua trait titY ,jolt,
claimed, the proportions cultivated and granted, ,esEee:ble I,fl
the amount' of fine and quit-rent paid now, or efiregrantW
future, upon each, according to the terms of the ride
and tire grounds upon which such fines were hnP°s,,r, from the
"Of all occupancies granted by British G° the Island °A
19th Feb. 1797, the date of the capitulativl °"1, Woodr,
Trinidad, to the 14th June, 1813, when Sir Ritll)',., tbr
assumed the Government of the Island ; distinguisnt lowipit
occupied and cultivated from those that were not
china
those that were prayed to be confirmed under the Pr:i die 0:
of the sth December 1815, the proportion (J 11601411 the
tent confirmed, with the terms of the grant; Slon,e qu.
amount of fine imposed and paid in each case, anorniptir
rent charged, and, if redeemed, the amount of rel'
paid '
O:—f Flritish (1°1;
" all Permissions of Occupancy granted bY -,,,„ Cro._.%.
vernors, the allotments of which were resumed by '-fiholsv°
under the Proclamation of the sth December, 1815,
~,ntl,
the subsequent, ppropriation of the same. OP
" Of the Allotments and 'number of Quarrel of Cr°,ish ill;
and of uncultivated occupancies (distinguishing 13r1, "wing !r4
Spanish) to which the preference has been sold, 5".°,05130
amount of sales, and the proportion received; dis.tliept fr
the amount and rate of the redemption of the I:lltoient. -ad
the amount obtained for the preference of each all°thipthit:of
"Of all sums received on account of the'sales ce'SiotioP •
the appropriation thereof ; distinguishing the r ' r hp,
quit-rent from the amount of the sales. • arnotiolloe
" Of all Spanish occupancies of which the consbclollg;a bi
not been prayed, showing to whom the same now returlierties,
extent, cultivation, produce, and number of Slsve3 pre (110
each, or, where the same have been united w other those
the name and owner of such estate; distingoisb4 of the
are abandoned. • all
"Of all Quit-rents redeemed, not included 111_,„,e. pi;
aforegoing Returns, and the appropriation of the su;olipoil
" Of the Fees paid to each Public office:lWO order ; the
distinguishing any taxed costs that may have heenideratilieo
the motives that appear upon the records for
,red freP"
parties in the same ; distinguishing the titles /o'l ur tbe,
tow plc
that remain undeliered. of I'lll the ,
" Of all Lands Maken for the use of the „which "ad,
Proclamation of the sth December 1115, and II or in ,}Aiti °-
prietor was remunerated in other Crown Lailu.„ooo i „t
and the extent and valuation thereof, and the ".. fitted ato
agreed to be paid, and to whom. oafore't. ae
Of all Lands granted by Sir Ralph W° • 0°- f
quit , 0
any other consideration to the public than the il ,oitler •,,t
whom such grants were made. ,1, lei
" Statements of Committee appointed by ,--e.,eta, cc,
Trinidad, and delivered to the Colonial Departo ,t of
November 1816, and 31st December 1817. ertitnet/of S
" Copy of Examinations taken by the o°lndente
lumbia, respecting the treatment of the inclePe
America, by Sir Ralph Woodford."

NOTICE of MOTION .for 310NOV.ec%:;---nPetitrll
Office of CoronewraY
to inquire into Judiinc);
llides and Skins Act
Mr.
Martin
ar6:(RotepoGrateretal
election day
Ireland to Counuiss . 4
the DAY, for MOND.A 1 sod 53 ''
ORDER of
Acts PO Geo. 3, c. 9 (Irish),
.:10
en.oesreinferirelrliaq:di.ry,a;;;;;r;leo, 0
to see t3h:1•11-1: tbe
Colie". Lay of the young Gentlemend Gentle,
ge, great numbers of Ladies on VI/
for the ire
days.
In the evening they had their
_rs vie
~
gatta on sPelfptiltuscc4ti'
the Thames and the
numerouse to see them, proceed on t.--ir of ' °'
.x..c.ursion. We had a numerous 01 055011:
raetau:itiipy bevigairore
bled on
Gentry, and respectable person to Ilea',
on the Terrace on Sunday eveninViorroil
the
e First Life Guards Band play owe. geoel
pieces. The neighbourin Nobility ill tOO
ocelleillo ltd
attend the Terrace to- hear this
whose days of performing are Suona.
Thursdays.