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

TROTTING MATCHES.

Mr. R. Ladbroke's match to trot his horse sixteen miles in
an hour, and to carry ten stone, was undertaken yesterday
morning over a two miles piece of turf, in Ashford.Park, near
Romford, for 300 sovereigns. The horse was backed at sto 4
to win, and the ground was done as under :
MIN. SEC. MIN. SEC.
First two miles in - 7 26 Sixth two miles in - 7 52
Second ditto - - 126 Seventh ditto --7 50
Third ditto - - 7 12 Eighth ditto - - 7 42
Fourth ditto - - 7 28
Fifth ditto --7 39 GO 29
The match was lost by the 29 seconds through the horse
breaking npon the trot in the 13th and 14th miles, which Sub-
jected the rider to turn him round twice. The horse was not
distressed.
Another match over the same ground, on which at least five
hundred Sovereigns were pending, caused much sport. A Mr.
Goodchild undertook to ride first a galloway. on the trot 13
miles in one hour, and next a horse 13 miles in another hour.
and to complete the twenty-six miles within two hours.froin the
time of starting. The galloway -performed the distance well in
three minutes within the given time ; and Mr. Goodchild
mounted the horse, and won the match with 49 seconds to
spare. The rider was dead beat, to use a sportsman's phrase.

FALSE ALARM.—Sunday night the greatest
curiosity was excited, and various conjectures were afloat,
at a light being observed by the watchmen and passengers,
in St. James's Church, Clerkenwell.• The general idea was,
that it was some supernatural being paying its nightly
visit to the edifice. At length the circumstance was named to the
sexton ; and he, having possession of the keys of the church, pro-
ceeded, in company with several others, to ascertain what it
really was. On opening the doors of the church all was very
silent, and, with fearful steps,, they explored the interior,
when, on reaching the vestry, they were dreadfully astounded
at a loud snoring ; and, on further inspection, they found the
fire alight, and two women very comfortably seated in chairs,
fast asleep. They were instantly roused from their slumber,
and called upon to account for their beingc, in such an extra-
ordinary place at that hour in the night, when it turned out
that they entered the church to hear a funeral service in
the afternoon, and, having fallen asleep, were locked in, and
did not awake till it was quite dark, and they had found out
the coal cellar, and the tinder-box, by which means they
ignited a fire. They were taken to the watch-house, and
yesterday morning were brought to Hatton-garden office,
where they related their adventure to the Magistrate, and
there being no reason to doubt the truth of their statement,
they were discharged.

Yesterday an Inquisition was taken at St.
Giles's Workhouse, before Mr. STIRLING, Coroner,on the body
of a woman, name Unknown,who died in Tottenham-court-road,
on Saturday last. It appeared that she was going along the foot-
way, and being taken suddenly ill she sat upon the step of a door,
and in a few minutes expired. She was about the middle age,very
poor and emaciated ; she had no money in her pockets, nor any
thing whatever which would lead to a discovery who she WA!.
There were no marks of violence upon the body, and the Jury
returned a Verdict—Natural Death.
A GOOD AIM AND A STEADY MARK.—A few
days ago, in consequence of a trifling wager, the following cir-
cumstance took place, which certainly rivals the eelebrated feat
of William Tell. In a yard, within a short distance of our of-
fice, a professional Gentleman of this town stood with a tumbler
glass on his bare head, and with his face to another individual, a
tradesman, who at the distance of 12 yards, discharged a bullet
from a cross-bow at the glass, and broke it to atoms, with-
out injuring, in, the slightest degree, the mortal target which
bore it. Our readers may depend on the truth of this state-
ment; but we know not which they will declare to be the
greatest—the skill of one of the parties, the nerve of the other,
or the folly of both.—(Liverpool Mercury.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

IXTIt 4-CTs FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
August 6, 182'2.

[THE TIMES.]

A Petition was yesterday presented to the
House of Commons by General Gascoyne, and
stated by him to have been signed by every mer-
chant in the great commercial emporium of Li-
verpool, the course of whose business gave him
an interest in the relations between this country
and the Republic of Columbia. It will be at
once perceived that this Petition hinges on that
very precise question which we pointed out some
months ago, as of the tnost critical importance ;
viz.—whether. a mere permission on the part of
oUr Ministers for Columbian vessels to enter the
British ports would be of itself sufficient to se-
cur e to our countrymen the benefits of a trade
with the Republic. We then stated what we now
repeat, and what the Liverpool Petition confirms,
that the circular declaration of M. Zea offered a
trade with Columbia as a favour to those States
only, whose Governments should within a, spe-
cified period acknowledge her independence.
It was obvious at the time, and we so described
the case, that such a condition might not be satis-
fed by a simple admisSion of her vessels to our
harbours ; or, in other words, by our offering as a
favour to her, that which she had previously ten-
dered as one of great value to us. Now it seems
that the mercantile body have been at length
roused into that apprehension for which we so
long-ago prepared them, and have actually begun
to stop their ships and suspend the execution of
their orders for Colombia: under the unpleasant
prospect that the Government there may be as
good as its word, and-may shut its ports against
the commerce of,England, because her Ministers
have been false enough to. the real interests of
this nation to withhold from a free people the re-
cognition of their liberty. The reply of Mr.
i.ushington- to General Gascoyne was in the na-
ture of a puff to Ministers; but.to the Liverpool
petitioners, or to the commercial interest of the
empire, he gave not the slightest satisfaction.

[NEW 'rpm.]
That there have been plots for insurrection in
many parts of France is now manifest : and that
there was a central Directing Committee in Paris,
we think equally certain. This Central Com-
mittee, be they Deputies, Bankers, l'eers, Gene-
rals, or whatever else, must be traced out, seized,
tried, and publicly executed, or Louis XVIEL
is not King of France. It will naturally be
caked why the French Ministers have hitherto
proceeded with so much hesitation in bringing
the criminals to justice. One of our correspon-
dents mentions a fact, which in some measure
accounts for this. 44 There are" says he, " cer-
tain Liberals oho have of late assumed the garb
of Royalists, and have been taken into extraor-
dinary favour by certain Members of the Ministry."
These false Royalists, it seems, continue to help
their former party in two ways; they first dissuade
the Minister from taking strong measures, and then
communicate to their old associates the appre-
heirsions which they have created in the Minis-
ter's mind. Certain Members of the Central
Committee of Treason (or at least persons
strongly suspected of belonging to that body)
had actually taken passports, it is said, to escape
from Paris ; but, encouraged by their friends
about the Ministry, they have resolved to remain
and brave the storm. Meanwhile great efforts
are made and sums lavished in every direction
by the heads of the conspiracy. It is believed
they have obtained an influence over the Juries
at Colmar and other places. Various plots have
been laid to rescue the prisoners, or, failing in
that, to destroy both them and the witnesses, in
order to prevent the truth from coming to light.
Hence the conflagration which took place at Par-
tlienay, where Berton was in custody, and the
explosion at Colmar, where another set of con-
gpirators are on trial.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
•.,The• New Times, aliuding • to an article
The Chronicle on Friday,. and, another in The
courier on Saturday last, observes, " It will
be seen, that the principle of foreign interfer-
ence is not only recognized by both Journalists,l
but is the very basis of all their reasonings. One
says, it is lawfnl.• for, the Spaniards to - invade
France, the other that it is lawful for the French
to invade Spain ; and they only differ in this,
that The Courier gives an obscure and contin-
gent approbation to a measure on the one side,
which Tice Chronicle distinctly recommends for
immediate adoption on the other:' We _have
only to remark, that our contemporary must surely
have been under some singular hallucination
*ten he wrote these observations, for our recom-
mendation to. the Spaniards. to avail themselves of
the disaffection existing in France was expressly
• 'adVocated on tho principle of retaliation, having
rst endeavoured to chew that there was a gene-
ral Confederacy of the Kings and privileged
classes of Europe against real- and effective po-
litical regeneration in any one country, and next
that the .French Government had positively
afforded aid and encouragement to the Spanish
Insurgents, and- kept a large army hovering on
the frontiers, which covered the rebels, and could
only be destined to act hostilely against Spain..
We have ak condemned the system of
foreign interference, when by such interfe-
rence is meant an attempt to prevent a nation
from regulating its own internal affairs in what-
ever manner may be deemed' advisable by it.—
We have always condemned, for instance, the
frequent attempts made by the Bourbons, with
the aid.of o.ur Tories and Jacobites, to oust the
Hanoverian Family as usurpers from the Throne
of these Realms, as we COndemned the involving
this country in a ruinous was, bechuse the French
chose to follow an example set by ourselves. But
:though averse to unnecessary war, we are not
(leakers, and never entertained the visionary
idea, that a nation should not both repel foreign
aggression, and retaliate • against the.aggreSsor.---
Whether and how far Spain ought to act on the

principle of retaliation with regard to France, is
entirely a question of prudence.

[MOUNING POST.]
One of the leading points insisted upon by the
British Ministry, at the Congress of Vienna, was
the abolition of the Slave Trade, and the princi-
ple was solemnly recognized by every contract-
ing party to the grand pacification of Europe.
Yet year after year has negociation been spun
out, by reason of the barefaced perseverance
of Spain, Portugal, and France, in this nefa-
rious traffic. The voluminous and endless
correspondence on this subject is truly sick-
ening. The hypocritical excuses and pro-
fessions of the perpetrators are nothing but
disgusting. That France could at once ex-
tinguish this traffic, as far as regards her own
subjects, cannot be doubted—but it is not her
interest. 'Her West India Islands require fresh
supplies of slaves—and in defiance of every prin-
ciple of good faith and of humanity, the Slave
Trade is carried on more extensively by the
traitors of France, than even by those of Spain
and Portugal. The achievement of the boats of
his Majesty's ships Iphigenia and Myrmidon, in
capturing a whole squadron of French slave
traders, Kill be read by every friend of humanity
and justice with heartfelt satisfaction.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Last night, the attention of the House of Corn-
mons, or rather of the half-dozen Members who
were present, was called to the great and im-
portant question of Columbian Independence.
Gen. Gascoyne presented a Petition, signed by
all the opulent and respectable merchants in Liver-
pool, stating that the commercial interests of this
country would be most materially affected by ab-
staining from the recognition of Colombia as an
independent State. The same Petition mention-
ed one fact, of a most curious nature—namely,
that in the beginning of April last au official
communication had been made to all the Govern-
ments of Europe, and consequently to the British
Government, that Colombia would hold no inter-
course with any country that did not recognise her
independence. How comes it, then, that this corn-
munication,involving such important consequences
to the trade of England, should be closetted up as
a State secret, and no notification made by the Go-
vernment to those extensive interests whom it so
deeply concerned. Surely we are not to be met on
all occasions with the old stale diplomatic cant, that
it would be " inconsistent with the policy of the
Government to divulge confidential communica-
tions." Is the commerce of England, upon which
its prosperity and true dignity depend, to be sa-
crificed to the bugbear of mere State courtesy ?
If we are to wait the pleasure of the Court of
Spain, the present condition of Columbia, like a
Spanish welcome, shall continue for a thousand
years (mil annos).—The system of piracy now
prevalent in the West Indies is the consequence
of this state of things. The Buccaneers in those
seas consider all trade from Europe with South
America fair game. They are chiefly Spanish
subjects, who carry their prey to the ports of
Cuba, where they find at once refuge for their per-
sonal safety, and a market for their plunder. To
our disgrace some cases have occurred, in which,
for the prctection of British property, our mer-
chants are indebted to American interference.
This is letting down the naval superiority of
England with a vengeance. Our recognition of
the independence must take place ; but it will
come too late for British interests. It will come
after the United States of America shall have
completely forestalled us in the Columbian
market.