The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-23 00:00:00

,ssing ;

q tQII
Cet

if°"'

oihet.
)T •
cei 3(1.
:111 the

itt;
rhe' .5
jettel

SIICP.
PlSlgt'
CC7,j
siiishor
here, 0
tiie
;el,Ze
30n 1,1;i30

f the
:es
P 31,01—
hOl7Aati
er 10
f 16°r c,
,e,
frillFpr
i°'rtea
roc)

,/iter;°'
ing t*be''

to
owl'
al feel'

int; of surprise and indignation was excited
throughout Europe and America, by an as-
sumption of arbitrary right on the part of
Russia, for which the history of the most
arrogant nations scarcely furnished a prece-
dent. Mankind had been accustomed to see the
immense regions of the new world conveyed
away in magnificent gifts to crowned heads, by
the ostentatious exercise of the Papal authority ;
but even the Popes, in all the plenitude and pre-
sutuption of their power, never dreamt -of giving
exclusive possession of the ocean to the chosen
favourites of the Holy See ; and it was re-
served for the Russian Autocrat not only to
assert his., pretension; to a vase territory, but
to make- an absolute and exclusive claim
° Ole whole extent of the ocean within
a hundred Italian miles of its shores !
Ile United States of America have made
a spirited resistance to this imperious and
extraordinary proceeding, which has placed the
two countries in_ a 'position that may almost be
termed hostile. We do not see how a rupture
can be avoided without very powerful interfer-
ence and mediation by other Staes. The Ame-
ricans have declared that it is a part of their
rights, as an independent people, to appear
within the prohibitory line marked out by Rus-
sia. Russia, on the other hand, has pronounced
6r resolution to enforce respect for the pre-
'tensions which she has set up. It will be
extremely difficult for either party to recede,
Without au obvious surrender of national ho-
40nr; and the appearance of the first American
1 ip •
Z ithiu the forbidden latitudes, therefore,
Will probably be the signal for war.

r \VEST INDIA INTERCOURSE.--We understand
LTD
• rA the most unquestionable authority, that the
duties intended to be imposed on produce and
°ther articles imported into the British West
y
India tslands FROM the UNITED STATES will
afford 110 protection whatever to the British Arne-
tican Colonists or to the British Shipowners.—
e are at a loss to conjecture on *hat grounds
dsthe Board of Trade can justify its preference of
the Sugar Colonies and the United States, and
iS'negleCt of the two great Interests we have
Mentioned.---We refer to the Reports of the
Privy Council in 1784 and 1791 for the grounds
?four objections to this impolitic innovation on
°llr Colonial System, and we refer to the Price
Corrents of the West India Islands, which will
311ew the COMPETENCY of British North America
to suPPly the Mother Country, at CHEAP rates,
14 British Shipping, with •all the articles re-
(il'ired by the West India Planters.

t 1 le friends of the country may reasonably
eel alarm for THE CONSTITUTION in Church and
State from the attempt.to bring Popery into our
6islative Bodies, and to endanger our corn-
Lgerciai Prosperity by infringements onrour Navi-
gatiOn Laws, the great bulwark of the coun-
As to the Roman Catholic question, we
rely
On the wisdom of the House of Lords,
arid
On His MAJESTY'S sacred regard to THE
Co,
I:DNATION OATH, which binds together the
Ai
—arch and the People, for a firm support of
religious establishment ; and we also indulge
th
std
hope that our Statesmen will trace back their
atP3i and, reflecting on the maritime strength
biti commercial importance which the British
',flaw
ore has acquired by our Navigation Laws,
suffer them to fall a sacrifice to visionary pro.
Jects
and destructive theories.

'Ji l'he Chief of the Radical Press complains
tter!
r against the Judicial Bench, on account
the lightness of the punishments which have
;en inflicted on the persons connected with
1:14 null' This is an illiberal, ground of corn-
' lUa''44) and comes with a very ill grace, from the
rter alluded to, which for many years has
been
every day venting the most bitter slanders,
e"temptuous sarcasms, against all persons
,I°llneeted with Government. Granting that
I,°l, n
aali has been bold, and too daring in his
sotl -4fities, they have been chiefly, if not
eiY, directed against those who oppose Go.
I:Theat from party spleen' dad private interest ;
,tautllthe
A-aper in question has .not only been con-
nlY venting the grossest attacks, not only upon
pre suPporters of Government, but upon the first
pre
of our Monarchical Constitution. We
°III(' refer to its comment
this very day on the
4
iigttit PPnintrnent of the Irish Bishops, which, in ma.
bY of substance and vulgarity of style, would
scandaldisgraceful even to the lowest dealers in
4. and sedition. Nay, it has gone so far as
stroilllPench the motives of our Judges, and
bee tiglY to insinuate that their decisions have
thou i
influenced by political considerations;
those
l'e gn t is universally acknowledged that
ofnerable Expounders and Administrators
I ur Laws are deservedly held in the
gheSt estimation for their profound legal

khowledge, and. the purity of their private cha-
racters.—As a proof of (he antimonar:hical prin-
ciples of the Paper in question, it " suggests the
propriety of the People's possessing the power of
.motion, taking due precautions, at .the same
time, to secure a Judge against every popular
gust." The absurdity as well as the malevolence
of this passage is obvious, for what but" a po-
pular gust " could in that case remove a Judge ?
and therefore the People, according to this con-
sistent reasoning, must be opposed to the People !!!

The late accounts from Holland and Germany
bring the most favourable reports as to the weather, from all
parts of the European continent. In Sweden, throughout Ger-
many, and in Russia, nothing parallel was ever remembered-
So early as the 16th ult. a thunder-storm was experienced in
Stockholm—a thing never before known in that month of the
year. From the 7th to the 24th April, they were enjoying the
most enchanting Spring weather in St. Petersburgh, accompa-
nied with a warmth such as they had never before experienced
so early. The consequence was, all public places were crowd-
ed with promenaders. In the sun, the thermometer (REAU-
aunt's) stood at 23 degrees ; and in the shade, at 16 to to 16•
The place for the popular amusements in Easter week, oppoe
site the great national theatre, was filled with a countless mass
of people ; and swings, roundabouts, &c. as arrreenwich Fair,
were in great abundance, and in full activity. Several rows of
the most brilliant equipag...s, too, added to the splendour of the
kene. On the last day, the imperial family honoured the place
of festivities with their august presence, and were received, as
on all occasions they are, with the most enthusiastic applause.

LIVERPOOL, I%Lt 21.

QUARANTINE.—Copy of a letter, dated Coun
cil Office, Whitehall, May 8

" SlR—The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council having had under their consideration your letter of the
3d,instant, stating that the Superintendant of Quarantine at
the Motherbank, referring to my letter of the 2d October last,
has requested to be informed, whether vessels arriving from
Cadiz, free from sickness and with clean bills of health, are
still to be placed under quarantine; or whether he is merely to
put the question and receive the answers from the Masters, as
is practised in the case of all other vessels arriving from places
not within the Streights of Gibraltar—l am directed to acquaint
you, for the information of the Commissioners of his Majesty's
Customs, that the Lords of the Council are of opinion, that
under the present circumstances nothing more is necessary with
respect to vessels from Cadiz than to ask the preliminary
questions. " JAMES BULLER."