The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-22 00:00:00

TItE LONDON JQUIti\IAL.

VITRACTS PROM THE D'a Ll' 'MORNING PAPERS,
May 22, 2.

[NEW TIMES.]
SCEiTteIY any public docUment has appeared
for a. long time, calculated to awaken more pain-
ful and humiliating reflections, than those soar-
gestO by the perusal of the despatch recently
f.cldreased by Lord LondOnderry to Sir C.Stewart,
tgiathe aobject of the extensive continuance of the
neve Trade under the French flag. That in
t'l+Sis day and age any state of circumstances could
exist to call for such a remonstrance frcra one
Christian Power to another, and that too after
such ample and repeated exposure of the multi-
form evils of this dreadful traffic,is truth which
the future historian of these times will blush to
have to record to a wondering posterity. What
to be, urged in excuse for the laxity of
Freneh discipline, in enforcing the execution
cif the. abolitionary law, we confess. ourselves
at a loss to conceive ; hut sure we are, that
itxnust be highly satisfactory to every British
mind to observe the firm and consistent tone
Which our Government takes on the occasion.—
May its remonstrance be heard, and tend to the
utter removal of this reproach from among the
nations ! It has been insinuated in the French
Senate, that the. complaints of Britain on this
score proceed solely from the injurious effect
which our West India Colonies (rigidly deprived
themselves of the means of importing slaves)
experience in competition with the settlements
of other Powers, with whom the abolition
has been but a name. And if this were the
only ground of our complaint, who could question
its justice ? To how great an extent are our
Colonies depressed, because we keep faith in
this matter, and others do not ! But the real fact
is, that the effectual and absolute destruction of
this branch of commerce was, in this country,
the consequence of a moral conviction that it was
wrongful and inhuman : averse alike from the
laws of God and man ; and that no nation perse-
lering in such a traffic, after its true character
had been exposed'to view, could hope to experi-
ence a continuance of the protection of that .Pro-
-iidence whose laws it so flagrantly outraged.

[THE TIM Es.l
Mr, Wallace's speech on Monday night, on
what may be called the new navigation law, de-
serves the attention of the commercial world.—
On the detached provisions of the law in con-
templation, we shall say nothing at present ; but
we perfectly acquiesce in-the propriety, so for-
cibly urged by the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, of simplifying our ancient laws, and
bringing them into one compact form or. body.—
Vie would, in this view, recommend that the
proposed law should be complete and entire in
itself, with no reference, as is but too usual in
modern acts of Parliament, to antecedent laws.
There are many subjects upon which a man
cannot understand what the whole law is, with-
Out travelling throuEh the statutes of a dozen
reigns,. We would wish this evil to be avoided
in . the present instance. We would have the
forthcoming statute to embrace the whole sub-
ject in itself, so that the merchant may he
able to hind it up, and place :t by the side of his
kedger,and refer to it promptly and satisfactorily
upon all points of difficulty. But Mr. Wallace's
speech h; also interesting in another poiot of
view ; inasmuch as, though it does not positively
recognize the independence of the South. Ame-
rican States, it does that which is nearly
egii-
valent ; for it intimates that the new law is to be
so framed as not to delay our commercial inter-
course with them one moment after the recognition
has taken place. This is undoubtedly just and pro-
per. We ought by all means to inscribe our names
as Ligh as possible in the list of those who are
ready to enter into commercial relations with the
rising Slates of South America. With them we
canlave few other concerns than those which
are of a friendly nature• Proximity of territory
.may fregnently bring the south Americans into
collision with the United States of the North.
We shoul.l be ready to take advantage of these
feelings whenever they spring up, by having
made a previous lodgement in the affections of
the '4paoiards.

[MORNING POST.]

t circumstance occurred last night in the
.ffouse of Commons, to which we request the
sarticular attention of the public. Some days
bola':, Mr. Hume gave notice that he intended to
.move for certain returns, specifying the manner
in which the Irish Civil List was appropriated,
and the names, &c. of the individuals on the Irish
pension List. He was then informed by Minis-
ters that there was no objection to grant those
returns. 1./:F.,t night Mr. /fume accordingly
made his motion ; but in doing so what was
his conduct ? He rose to ask for Itvturns
in order that himself, the House, and the
Public, might be in possession of information
of which his very motion implied that all the
par;ies were now ignorant ; and while thus
certain of receiving that information, and while
thus ignor:•.nt of what that information might be,
F proceeded to make a statement, from his own
imaginary and 'fallacious notion of it, implicating
the character of individuals whOrn he publicly
mined, and condemnatory of the Government of
the country ! The reproof which the Honourable
Alit. !her receivNi from the Marquis of London-
derry, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Goulburn, and
even from : Sir John Newport, on his own
Fide of the House, ought to make an in-
impress:on upon • any mind not case-
hardened in blundering. We cannot sup-
to.e it posSible that any Gentleman would
wilfully circulate a delusion and an injustice
through the House and the country for wee,
before the one could be removed, or the other
repaited,•by the official returns demanded. On
• the 'contrary, We are sure that Mr. Hume acted
as jte- did last night through gross mistake—that
iiO4ounded the feelings of 'the most meritorious
servants of the public through inadvertence—and
that be vented anticipated calumnies (castigat au-
&Nutt on the Government, by accident. But