The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

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M Dim), APRIL PC ti rr ntVerSal of the
etst, says--" We are assured that his MAJESTY

has issued orders for the recall of the Spanish
Charge d'Affaires at Turin. All the friends of
liberty will see in this determination a proof of
the enlightened patriotism of the Minister
who advised it. Was it not in fact a monstrous
thing that an Agent of Constitutional Spain should
reside at Turin, as it were to be a witness to the
insults which were every day directed against
his country, and which in some measure gave
birth to the chastisements inflicted upon those
whose only crime was the wishing to be go-
verned by the Constitution to which Spain has
sworn."
Arfur, 18.—(Extract of a Private Letter.)—
The Council of State met on the 16th. M. Mar-
tinez de la Rosa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
has for some time past made almost daily jour-
nies to Aranjuez, after which he has had fre-
quent interviews with the French Ambassador.
On the 17th the Council of State again met, and
its members, who were summoned the day be-
fore, received pressing intreaties not to absent
themselves. Although these interviews and
meetings of the Council of State have ceased to
excite such lively alarm as formerly, and the
rumours of approaching war have almost entirely
vanished, still a great deal of anxiety is felt at
Madrid, because it is clearly perceived that sub-
jects of momentous impOrtance are under discus-
cussion between the Courts of Madrid and the
Tui leries.—(Journal de Paris.)

(Extract from another Private Letter of the
same date.)—The general rumour in Madrid
lates to an approaching rupture between France
and Spain. It is asserted that on Friday next a
communication will be made to the Cortes on this
subject. Several notes have been .sent to the
French Ambassador relative to the cordon of
health, which the French Government very un-
necessarily persists in maintaining upon the
frontiers. We really do not wish to be consi-
dered as either physically or morally pestilential,
and the existence of this cordon is an insult
equally intolerable to our gallant reformers as to
our physicians.
M. Lagarde having been unable to give any satis-
factory reply to these just remonstrances, passports
were offered him for his retirement. M. Lagarde
immediately waited on the King at Aranjuez, to
know whether his Majesty's views on the subject
lof France were of the same nature. Ills Ma-
jesty assembled his Councils, and the Council, in
conjunction with the Ministers, decided that it
was necessary to demand from his Excellency the
A mbassador a distinct explanation of the conduct
of France, in thus obstinately maintaining troops
on the frontier. M. Lagarde replied that he
would dispatch a courier to demand further i
structions from his Government. We are
sured that this courier set off yesterday. It hi
added that orders have been given to intercept
all communication with France, with the excep-
tion of the Government couriers.

[Extract of a Letter from Norfolk (Virginia), March 20.1

" We shall rejoice to see our trade with the
British Colonies renewed upon a good footing ;
but if, as it has been rumoured, and as we may
reasonably calculate, our commerce with them
is to be burthened with heavy discriminating
duties, the advantage to us will he in reality no
greater than if they were closed against us :
our vessels will still continue virtually ex-
cluded from the British ports, while theirs
will engross the whole of the carriage of our
productions. The trade of Canada appears
to have been considerably less last year than
the year preceding. There was a consider-
able falling off in lumber ; the freighting is prin-
cipally done by vessels owned in England.—We
are informed by the arrival of the Brig Dispatch,
from Havannah, that a fire broke out in the
suburbs at that place on the Ist instant, which
destroyed two hundred buildings ; a large quan-
tity of sugar was also destroyed. Two pirates
have been shot at Matanzas, and fifteen more
have been imprisoned; part of the crew of a
host fitted out at Regla has been captured in
the Bay by a party of Spanish soldiers, after
killing six in the action. The two men shot
were a Captain and Lieutenant of a schooner
that had burnt a vessel some time before off
Havannah."

WEST INDIA INTERCOURSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—The time is now arrived when the in-
teresting question relative to the relaxation, or I should rather
say, the abandonment of our navigation system, under which
the Nation has flourished, and arrived at the utmost pre-emi-
nence of human prosperity, is to be placed in jeopardy through
the contemplated enactments of Parliament. Other Nations,pro-
bably,will wonder how a doubt on such a subject can arise in the
minds of any statesmen within this kingdom, who are gene-
rally considered to be as wise and prudent in commercial af-
fairs as those of any other country are or have been. But Par-
liament surely will pause before it risks a measure from which
it can never recede, either with safety or with honour. That
Body will assuredly not only call for proofs of urgent neces-
sity for any important change which shall have the shadow
of doubt upon it, but it will also weigh the interests which
exist in every quarter likely to be affected by that change.—
It will maturely consider whether desperate people in our
own country and dependencies are not goaded by their
circumstances to propose remedies which may sink them,
under future probabilities, in deeper distress than they al-
ready endure.— It will examine into the interests of the appli-
cants themselves, and strictly ascertain how far their motives are.
legitimate ; it will inquire into the motives of those with
whom they are united ; and who, having no stake in our wel-
fare, but, on the contrary, being rivals to us in every point
appertaining to policy or commerce, may be likely, as far as
interest stimulates them, to adopt every expedient to obtain
their present ends, anticipative too of future advantages.
Convinced that Parliament will thus act cautiously, I have
no doubt it will ultimately be found to have acted, also, not
only prudently but honourably : and, in its progress through
this very important discussion, that it will render justice to all
concerned, and correct many hardships inflicted on the parties
now absent, or actually before the national tribunal.
Under the most perfect relince upon the best intentions of
the individuals composing the LOslativo Body, but not
quite certain of their universal expCrience in all the bearings
of the case, I will take the liberty to Direr some few hints

which occur to me on the subject ; and, having so done, leave
it to others to enlarge, if they see fit, upon them.
The West India Proprietors of Land and Shipping solicit
that the traders of the United States should be admitted into
the ports of the Islands and the Maine, that they may, through
them,
_be furnished with, the necessaries with which they are
not, as they say, supplied from other places within the British
dominions ; and that they may, through that medium, find vent
for a redundancy of West India produce, to be purchased by
those foreigners in exchange for their supplies.
But can the claimants produce satisfactory proof, by prices
current or otherwise, that the articles they require are not al-
ready at a price, and always have been, which reason would
allow to the present importers ? I say they are at teat price
already, and that, if a committee of inquiry is appointed, and
time given, the Northern Colonies will produce proof of the
assertion. I therefore say, that an increased supply of fish,
lumber, and other North British American produce, is not ne-
cessary to the West India- possessions ;—why do not the tra-
ding inhabitants of the West Indies, 'as they have often been
invited, fit out vessels, and resort to those colonies where those
articles abound as much, or more, than in the United States,
and fetch for themselves ? The answer is obvious, and at
hand, to the West India dealer,—the profits are so small, and
the supply, except in time of sudden natural visitation, already
so steady, that they rather choose to trust to the importations
of the traders from the northern Colonies.

The expectation set forth by the West India Planters, that
the dealers of the United States will take the Sugar, Rum, and
Molasses of the Islands in exchange for the legitimate imports,
is a very great mistake. The American western country now
produces, and is increasingly producing, all the advantages of
the Sugar-Cane ; and a very few years will put those articles
imported from foreign countries into the United States, under
protecting duties, or perhaps under prohibition.
And then under such circumstances, or those of war or em_
bargo, enacted in a fit of spleen or interest, how will the British
West Indies procure supplies; the Northern Colonies no
longer able to renew their former trade; or their capital dis-
persed in other investments, and no longer able to trust to the
changdable policy of either the West India Planters or the
parent state.

In the mean time the Northern Colonists having lost their
trade in every quarter, will no longer have the means of pur-
chasing West India produce, or the manufactures of the parent