The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SouTnwAnw., May 13.—We have nothing new to copuriu.
nicate ; our trade is very quiet.
MAIDSTONE, MAY 13.—Our Hop plantations assume a very
unkindly appearance generally,partieularly the Goldiiig and Can.
terbury sorts, their state of debility rather increases ; with respect
to the Grape, the bine looks very yellow and unkindly. 'I -
ing under our view the whole of the Kent plantations, we coast_
der them in a very unpromising state. Fly we have already ftiiind
pretty general ; the hedges, fruit trees, &b. are becthninx filctiy.
This being our fair day, we have had an opportunity-6f corivers-
ing with several of the Sussex planters • the accounts they have
given us are very unfavourable; they have a great deficiency
of bine, besides a large reduction in their plantations,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
May 15, 182'2.

[THE TIMES.]
The motion respecting the appointment to the
Fw i3s Cantons was, as will be seen in the Parlia-
mentary report, postponed last night. It is con-
ceived that it may be comprised in Mr. Lennard's
-motion on the third class of the Civil List, ap-

pointed for to-morrow ; and if the more general
motio4 fail of success, then will the Swiss Pleni-
potentiaryship be brought forward separately.—
Yee rather regret the delay, though still the
tope44llhe kingdom,' and of all the counties of
-which it is composed, must, we should trust, rest
-upon-aHlttrif foundation, when. it is understood
that•theiifeastire is. now reduced to a mere con-
tPst bet:Ween. the Grenvilles and the Country
Gentlem.en ! Alas ! to what are the Country
IGe:tlernen of England reduced, Iv hen it is doubt-
ful whether they can weigh in scales against one
family, and that family fattened out of their
estates ! •

[NEW '1131E5.71
We are somewhat surpri.sed that the attack
-which has been so long in preparation against
inisters should havebeen last night postponed !
For the last month the drivelling Jacobins of
The Old Times have lavished their venom on Mr.
Wynn's appointment as Minister to Swisserland.
Yesterday morning they expected a motion on
this subject to take place in the evening, and they
therefore gave full reins to their fury. Mr.
Wynn's appointment was " an atrocious project"
a " flat roguery," an " iniquitous job," an "
odi-
OM job," &c.—and yet, after all, the mo-
tion is put off! How is this to be explained
Did the intended Mover shrink at the magnitude
of his own conceptions—

And hack recoil, he knew not why,
E'en at the sound himself had made'

For our own part, as Mr. Wynn is a total and
absolute stranger to us, we shall not pretend to
offer any opinion of our own on his personal fit-
ness or unfitness for the appointment. Only we
remember that when " the Talents" were in
power, they appointed this same gentleman
lli-
'lister to the Court of Munich. We must there-
fore presume that he was, at least in their judg-
ment, fit for a diplomatic situation then'; and the
fifteen years which have since elapsed have hard-
ly reduced hinr to a state of decrepitude. In-
deed The Old Times calls him " Young Wynn,"
tie being, we apprehend, somewhero between
and 50 years of age. But, we repeat, we have
nothing to do with his age or his youth, his ex-
perience or his inexperience.— The King has
drought fit to appoint him to a diplomatic situa-
tion ; and the simple question is, whether the
House of Commons will attempt to controul that
exercise of constitutional power.

[BRIT,ISII PRESS.]
The Chancellor of the Exchequer told the
House of Commons last night, in answer to a
question by Mr. Grenfell, that he will not suffer
the public to be made acquainted with the terms
of the negotiation now pending between the
Governmert and the 'Bank of England until the
affair concerning the payment of -the Half-pay
and Pension List shall be completed. This,
we believe, is the translation of the obscure lan-
guage in which the Right Honourable Gentle-
man thought proper to convey his intentions.—
Parliament, therefore, is to know nothing about
the terms on which the Bank Charter is to
be continued for ten years beyond its pre-
sent limits, until another difficult and intricate
matter has been settled, and no time left for pro-
p-4.1y discussing so serious a topic. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer supposes that if the ar-
rangement with the Bank of England were ge-
nerally ,known, it would produce an injurious
influence upon the negotiations with the South
Sea Company. Is the arrangement then with
the Bank so very disadvantageous to the public,
that a knowledge of it is likely to affect injuri-
ously a distinct pecuniary transaction with ano-
ther Company ? The words of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer raise this inference, and will
not, we presume, be lost upon the South Sea
Stock Proprietors. These Gentlemen will natu-
rally presume some very improvident bargain,
and will conduct their negoci': tion with the Lords
of the Treasury upon the same footing as if their
worst suppositions had been actually supported
by published facts.

[MORNING HERALD.]
If Mr. Vansittart be correct in his assertion,
that there is a Sinking Fund of five millions, we
cannot imagine why he should «•ant to get rid of
the payment, on the part of the nation, of the
army and navy pensions, and to put the same on
the South Sea Company—at a profit to the latter,
there can be no doubt, otherwise they would not
undertake the trouble. If Mr. Vansittart's state-
ment be true as to the redundancy, of the reve-
nue, and there being a real Sinking Fund of five
millions, why should he so devoutly wish England
to enter into a contract with any Company,
or any money-lenders, for any such purpose
as is at present in contemplation ? If England is
able to punctually pay the annuitants, why
should she wish to contract with others to do it ?
Why should England give unnecessarily to any
Company, or body of money-lenders, any money
that she can by any possibility save ? Mr. Hume
and the Honourable House of Commons are con-
tinually asserting that any savings, however tri-
vial, should be attended to. Why, therefore,
fling away to money-lenders that which ought to
be saved ? That the Agricultural Interest should
have been so silent on this subject, of throwing
away the money of thv nation, appears to us to
be quite paradoxic'al ; but we sincerely hope
that the Agricultural Interest will arouse from
their torpor, and effectually oppose the Minister
in this his new scheme of putting off the evil day
from the present generation, and thrusting this
part of the 'War Debt on posterity.

LMORNING POST.]

After the reiterated and laborious examina-
tion which the Agricultural Question has received
during the present session, we may reasonably

' hope that as soon as the Marquis of Londonderry's
Resolutions are passed into a law, the public mind
will, on this point, be allowed some repose. It
is only perhaps such as, like ourselves, are daily
obliged to observe the business transacted in Par-
liament, who can conceive the time and attention
which have been expended on this subject, or the
material interruption and suspension of theordinary
general affairs of the nation which it has already
caused. Besides the elaborate consideration of the
state of the landed interest, immediately after the
meeting of the two Houses, it has since occupied
a Select Committee for many days. In the mean
time not a single agricultural petition has, up to
the present moment, been presented without
originating a separate discussion, often of very
great length ; and lastly, the House of Com-
mons has been for the 'whole of the past
week sedulously (it might be said exclusively)
engaged in scrutinizing this question and de-
vising legislative correctives for the existing
evil. The Agriculturists, therefore, should
their distress continue, which we are sure it
will not, can attach no blame to any quarter,
unless to fate. The Government, the two Houses
of Parliament, and they themselves, have em-
ployed all their intellectual or other resources
to restore the Country to its natural state, and
have eagerly embraced the best means of doing
so which their combined wisdom could discover.
Those means, too, we must again observe, have
been chosen at the most favourable period
possibly for the landed interest ; for the public
at large, who are, by the way, most concerned
in the arrangement, not content with silent
acquiescence in the proposed measures, have
sacrificed their speculative principles to satisfy
the desires and allay the transitory distress of
the present sufferers. One important lesson, we
think, may be impressed by these facts, namely,
that time and individual exertion only can now
produce advantageous results. Whatever relief
could be otherwise derived, consistently with the
general permanent welfare of the nation, has been
freely granted, and neither the Legislature can
do, nor the Agriculturists expect, more.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE:I
The modern Colonial System of this Country
is a revival of the Proconsular System of ancient
[tome ; and our new Colonies are merely theatres
for the exercise of the most odious abuses. The
unhappy beings who live in these Colonies are
completely at the mercy of the Governors and
their favourites, who may plunder and. op-
press them in every possible way with a per-
fect disregard of consequences. Borough In-
terest regulates the appointment, and Borough
Interest protects the delinquent. The com-
plaints of the sufferers, where the voice of
complaint can find its way to this country, are
not only in all cases diSregarded as a matter of
course, but they are sure to subject the parties to
fresh wrongs and indignities. The old colonies that
possess Houses of Assembly, in which the people
are represented, can, in a great measure, protect
themselves against would-be tyrants and oppres-
sors; but the new colonies are altogether defence-
less. Of all our possessions governed arbitrarily,
those under the care of the East India Company ex-
hibit alone any traces of a beneficent regard
for the welfare of the governed ; a benefit which
they would soon cease to enjoy, should they ever
come immediately under the British Government
and Borough Patronage. The lonian isles, not
by the bye our Colonies, but an Independent
State placed under our protection,and fraudulently
deprived by us of their liberties, afford a striking
exemplification of the truth of the above re-
marks. No Turkish Bashaw is more absolute
than Sir Thomas Maitland has made himself
in these Islands. In him centres the civil
and military power,—he is the Legislature
and the Bench,—he rewards and punishes
as he pleases ;—in short, every man and every
thing under ' his government are • entirely at
his discretion and mercy. Complaints after
complaints have reached this country of the man-
ner in which these powers have been exercised ;
the grounds for these complaints, unfortunately
for the national reputation, are but too well
known to all Europe, in every corner of which
the wrongs of the lonians are loudly proclaimed ;
but the House of Commons lends, and will con-
tinue to lend, a deaf ear to them.