The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-06 00:00:00

In their internal concerns. No obstacle will be
raised to hinder them in constituting their Go-
vernment, and forming such a Constitution as
shall be adapted to their local situation and their
political relations..
NUREMBURG, jzTLY 24.—The Directors of the
Rhenish West India Company are at this mo-
ment engaged in a plan for the formation of an
establishment at Vera Cruz, the principal port
of 'Mexico. The Agent of the Company, who is
at Port-au-Prince, is to repair to that place, and
the first vessel consigned to it will sail in the
course of the summer. A circular letter to the
German manuNcturers of articles fit for that
market invites them to take a part in the first
attempt to open a direct commercial intercourse
between Germany and the rich countries of
South America.
BRUSSELS, Auo. I.—The Minister of the Colo-
nies has just informed our Merchants, that, in
order to prevent a contraband trade in salt and
tobacco, *the Government of Dlamatia has de-
creed, that after the Ist January, 1823, no vessel
loaded with these articles, whatever flag it may
carry, shall approach within a cannot shot of the
coast comprehended in the circles of Zara, Spa-
latro, Ragusa, and Cattaro, on penalty of confis-
cation of ship and cargo, except in cases of dis-
tress. A letter from Antwerp of 31st July says,
that the celebrated Chapeau de Paille was pur-
chased by Mr. Smith for Mrs. Coutti, who had
commissioned him to purchase it at whatever
price.

JULY 30. Letters from St.
Petersbuqh of. the 10th say, his Majesty the
Emperor has given orders that the Grand Duke
Constantiie shall take the title of Commander-
in-Chief of the Army in Lithuania, and shall for
the presert have the command of the Govern-
ments of !Vilna, Grodno, Minsk, \Volhynia, Po-
dolia, and Bessarabia.—For some days past war
has been more talked of than before ; but per-
sons who are well informed assert that hostilities
are not tEought of. The cavalry of the Guards
has lately arrived in the city, and we are assured
that the other regiments of the Guards will be
here before the end of this month. The Grand
Duke Constantine has gone from Warsaw to
Lithuania.
STocitaoLm, JULY 19.—The King returns on
the 30th inst. from Norway, and will go there
again in the autumn to open the Diet. It is said
his Majesty has desired the Crown Prince to
shorten his ,tour, that he may be present at the
opening. of the Diet; but that the Prince has,
however, leave to visit Switzerland and Italy.
SEMLIN, JULY 11.—It is reported at Belgrade,
that the Greeks had made themselves masters of
the fortress of- Larissa before the arrival of
Chourschid Pacha, who was marching to its
• relief, and. that this Pacha was afterwards to-
tally defeated. The report of the surrender of
the citadel of Athens is also again announced.—
It is said? that on board the Turkish Admiral's
ship, which
.was blown up, there were 86 Eng-
lishmen,iniong whom were several officers.

HAGUE, JULY 29.
SITTING OF THE SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES

GENERAL.

1/he President announced that he had received a revised pro-
ject of law relative to the duties to be imposed on the produce
of the national distilleries, in the room of the project on tile same
subject which was submitted to the Chamber on the sth of
June. The' President stated that the Memorial containing the
answer of the Government to the remarks of the Sections, and
the project itself, were in the Press, and would be distributed
to -morro w.
A Message from the First Chamber announced that it had
acceded to the laws on the Excise of wine and sugar, adopted
by the Second Chamber. -Many Petitions were presented.
The President stated that the Tariff of import and export
duties, in the French language, would be distributed to the
Chambers in the course of the day.

DURHAM AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY

Little are tilt disquiethdes of the farmer's breast known to
those whO indolently consume the fruits of his toil and labour ;
the •snow-white bread that decks the breakfast-tray, and the
smoaking sirloin that graces the festive board, have been equally
the objects of his care. He is, with all the blushing prospects
around him, at the mercy of the elements every hour; storms
and tempests are only temporary and transient obstructions to
other men, whilst to him they too frequently bring ruin and
misery : the pouring torrent of a thunder storm may beat his
crops to the ground ; or the wild and impetuous wind may scat-
ter his ripened grain to the fowls of the air. Last month he was
languishing for rain ; now for fair weather. Under the present
feeling of those vicissitudes of weather, the sage philosopher (Sir
R. PhillipS) of Bridge-street, need use little rhetoric to obtain
the farmer's signature to a petition to the Legislative Body of
the nation, to take his marvellous proposal, of regulating the
quantity of rain according to seasons and necessities, into their
high consideration, Few people interested in the productions
of the soil can view at this, season of the year any lengthened
continuance of rainy weather without regret ; aq, when we
consider thetiforning's anxiety and the evening's hope, that have
diurnally accompanied the farmer from the first beginning of
spring, to the time when the objects of his care are ready for the
scythe and the sickle, it will induce the most stoical amongst us
to hear his complainings without reproof. How different is the
'appearance of the country within a few days ! At the begin-
ning of the month the fields presented to the eye a charming
sight—now, the best and largest crops are lodged and levelled to
the ground with the heavy rains ; consequently a loss will be
sustained both in the sample and quantity of the grain ; and
Wheat, the most valuable of the growing crops, is ever the most
subject to be injured ; and unless an alteration in the weather
speedily follow, few fields will be free from the taint of mildew.
Barley and Country Oats have improved with the wet weather,
and offer to be a much better crop than we predicted in the last
report. Would that our disastrous prophecies were always falsi-
fied; for we know and feel too much the poignant solicitudes
of the farmer, ever to torment him upon slight and trivial oc-
casions, with dreary and gloomy prospects of the future. The
Hay harvest is far from a conclusion ; a great deal remains
to be cut on account of the present unfavourable weather, and
too much, we are afraid, will have been deteriorated and
rendered worthless by the want of sun and dry weather.—
The Turnips have been materially benefitted, and are braiding
every way successfully ; the frequent rains have put an end to
the ravages of the fly, but the yellow turnip and rutabaga will
be in general a failing crop, for few plants of these kinds sur-
vived the scorching. wedther of June and the beginning of this
month ; the want of which will be seriously felt by our eminent
graziers, as they are of incalculable advantage in the spring of
the year. In the markets for grain there is some little altera-
tion ; indeed, every change of weather, upon the approach of
harvest, has always a manifest agency in the price of corn, so
that we cannot obtain any certain data to found solid hopes
that this partial rise will continue graduating upon a rising
scale for any length of tirne.-31st July.