The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-29 00:00:00

• WEST iNthd COLONI,ES:

Att Incutiry into the State ot: the I3r tish West I '
By lostpit

(Confirm' jrwm -Tlleiday)

As few.
workslave lately been presented to thc!
Public,. more valuaille in ,t heir conteri:i, as relative.
to the ctmmtereiai affair's
,of this Country, then the
Pamphlet befor4-t. us, we deem it our duty to refer to
it again, and again to recornsilLo it to all who feel
for the nation:it iuteretits, ani wish for real informa-,.
tion, supported by substantial on the .
immediate subject whieh the IluthOr had in view.
" Afier.Fo many years of snaering, the present is
no season for itideLtsion. The Planter had long com-
plained in .vain,, ;Ind it is but lately, since he found
complitint unavailing, that he ventured to saggest
the roballe neces,ity of laying open the monopoly.
tadvise him to a 4; here to this declaration, and

raise th 6 voice of remon.oniuco to a ',miler note.:
I.et him tell. thel3rilish Gov,fornatent that if he coo-;
'Craws stibica, to, ruinous rest ricliOni, he must trans!,
Iliatscl;"_ankl h;s neg,roei to Coloty*ws where such.
restri6tiuns are not etiforced. LA him tell the Alt:!r-

esant, wh,o rat her than tbrego the advantages attach•.

ed lathe itioo6poly, contented to acquiesce in the.
oppres-ion of the CUlonii:!s,,that 16 his solicitude to
preserve his profits•he wt ill lwe ltia capital ; but let
him add, that traps troy be devised. by which the
monopoly may he relaxed, and the returns due from
• the Planter _to -the Merchant continue to be paid.
Give as a fair price in for our sugars, or
open a fme market in the Islatids,,, and we will cheer-
fully submit,. to such aill..rdtiOn4 in the system of
Ckgonial-Law as the interest of our creditors at home
may-appear to. require. Since. the abolition. of the
Slave Torte,.onr estates arc no loncs,er 'to be, con-
* sidfred Mot state Of progresiiv.extepsian—t!sey are •
stationtryiasto dal, quantity of their Produce, rind'
altivt4ilet we hope, to improve its quality, we da'nut.
nokv- etaim all that indulgence, in 'regard. to *gni.
timisures, which wa.s nt...cesini); in flu; inlanq'''orlinr
. settlements. Your linpolitic regillations, yeah 7ci 1101
de! Ay in redressing ourgrievances, have converted a
blessing into curse., Zt would litive.boen better
fur (Ai to have Ittniwo the worst, and' to.have seen
our properties sold by public auction many year.s
ago,: than to have accumulated debts .which theia-
bour•of our Pies "Can'not repay. Will YOU then still
rause .to per.tiit
.us to make the- most of our pro-
perty by rernovitkg all restraint on' the mode of our
manufacture, or On the channels of its export ?:`
SUch should be the laupage of the oppressed;
Planter. Let it derive firmness from the conici-
-01110e:is of justice, and energy from the - presiure
ofcalainity. An appeal is at last made to the,'
giskilre in his behalf=—if that. appeal fail its; eprtr'
• curing hi t 1 nylief, let bi,m be prepared to'carry, atlt
hutriV.e hat tirgeut ddres to the feot of the Th

Tite.Avtthor does not cotttioe hirnielf to. the -oh.
jet which chit tly induced him to take up his pen,.
but enters into the following otzservations on the
important subjedt at ['env!:

•' who are apprehensive of the conse-_.
quence; of peace woulado well to look hatk tosior,-
tiler periods ef our hiStory, and >ee how often we
have experienced the same terrors. 'One hundred
and tweaty years at m, Louis XIV. had,the greatest
Marine in Europe ; his shipi were better built and
more nutnerous than our's, but the battle of La
Bowie pot in 'One day an end to his hopes,
,:,His
priwcr by land vas ne„irly as formidlyble toJhe rest
of Europe as that of Bonaparte is at prosent. , He
bad.. fonr hundred thousand men on .foot,,anl'.;the
Emperor of Germany was his only antagonist ; Ibt
Russia at that litne was almost
Franco ••sts dins over groWn, We saw Spain' about to
be governed by a branch of the same timily, We
thought 'our ruin inevitable, and we 'fought 'eleven
ye.ar, to avert it: At last we ;agreed to make peace,
and to santiton tlie.connetffion between Frauce,and
Spain. -In.every saceeedin,4 war,, Spain has sooner
or later taken part with Frauee against us. And to
what' has her hostility led, excOt to an extension
Of borsht:et:is ? In her alliance with-Spain, there-
fore, .France now possesses no more than she has
had;for3 centuty., " But 'she hasbliewhicacquired
Italy and Holland.“—ltaly is remote DOM us, and
her possession will ner influence the fate of on
pires. In regard to Holland, it' would be:1%41511g tol,l
conceal fiom onrselveS that its conquest lias,given,.'
the Fiench three road Steads, Flushing, HeNeet, ;Rid
the Texel ; and that tiittnerly the' Freud had, not
to die north et 'Brest a single' harbotar tit f(ir the re,
eopti< n. of 'a ship of the line. It is equally mac,
that if invasion be aver tried, lite prebibility is that
the principal at'e npt will lie Made' from, -Holiatid
But the'infcrence reOrds not our it but our
If we desire conipkie security, we mu ,t essentially
ritf,,ran'the cotistitutien of ocirarm;. but as to our
vary, the only danger, from inva,,ion, whether from
Unhand or elsewhere, 'will be,- lest 'our enemies
should be so fortunate as to elude' ns. - • ,
it is well to remind those persons who would
have us continue at war with llottaltrte because he is
tyranni.;al,' that those very acts or his which most
excite our !ieseptinent, 'afford a certainty that the:
countries ik:ibica to b:l4 &Way Will u. tuutbleto
cope with us Insteid' of giving rt faea constitution
to these coni,t, ies, he has ab,,o-cbcd all power in
self and his tinnily. policy is not to appeal to
the generous. feelings of in which alone
are the sources of national 1.-;reatne:.s-,,-his aim 'ls to
carry every point
,by, nicbace and Comptilsion:
wilt bear no, co n tradiEtion-;'ht will listen to no con
ciliariug ad)tts'nuents between his o*n will and the.
h2B of his inferiors ; his cendal Ahrerighout be
sperikS the P,initraryhabitsof. a Soldier 'inflated
,by
success, ant impelled' by inherent violence Of tem-
per, Soeh a chara6teri. while it excites our hatred,
affovds.us the consolatory assurawd" that the power
which it establishes Nvill not, be durablO,'-because
that power is reared not on the solid interests of the
people., but on selfish views of personal aggrandiie.
ment.

" It may be said, however, that although England
is independent.of France, the Continent is st►bjeCt tq
her rule—that she has humbled Austria, dismemberl
ed Prussia, 'and intimidated even Russia. True, but.
a continuance of the continental war offered, at pre—'
s-nt, no prosped retrieving these disasters. Every..
battle of the last campaign has shown the stworiorpo

ty of-the Itnsstan sol:11.0ver
,the French but the
inferiority 'of their Officers has been equially
.The :Bailie observation appliei*-to- almost .the ti--
ibrtunateate:effort3 of the 'Austrians;:'!lt' is not that
Austria and Rossia want numbers, and still less that
they want br.,v,.try, but wisdom is lianting in their
councils, to give to that bravrry a just direction.
Europe, except the Austrian Government, seemed,
to knew that the cause of 'their reverses lay in the
defeas of their, tat-tics ; 'yet sO' blind was that GO-,
veruinent, that, . aftr twelve years of, experience,
entrust an army to General Mack; Surely
while- our Allies were thus iiifatu*d, it was in vain
to de4ire a continuance of hd4itYkies On their part
against the vigour of a revolutionary government.

Much better- had • we, urged thetn to Torbear war,
and r improve their resources in peace ior future

contest under better, auspices. We, are at last
awakened, -to this truth, though many of us think
t►tat;we have learned it too late, .But it is not too'
late. Austria has twenty millions of subjeds, and

may double both the nuitiber and the resources of.
;her armies by persevering in 'a liberal:and:enlighten-
ed policy. . Russia .is of all cwntries, that which
wonld gain most iapidly by a similar system.
"The opiniou whi At has Hely' becpme so prc,va-
that Rbssia will in :future lean to the side of
Enke, is no less groundless titan our °tint appre-
herisions: Russia can twver become a greatmaritime
power ; auctEngland, on t be'other hand, will never
be the rival of Ruisi4: in
.the commonwealth-of -Eu-
rope. But Fiance will not only have .an opposite
interest to Russia in the general affairs of the Con-
tinent ; she has also attired sub., t of contention In
the spoils of Turkey,- -;Whatever be the future con 7,
dint of. these two Powers--;.whei:her in deference to.
England, and from dread of each other, they refrain
at present from thy- partition or Whether, as is less
likely, they,unttke a temporaty ageeinent and divide
the prey-1n either the littkisli dominions:
rye permanent source oficitrcd bet ivehi France
and Russia, and a consequent bond 0 amity between
Russia and England.--Austria, lnlike manner, is the.
natural ally of Et-gland, the inveterate cueniy,
of France. • If ytitt wish to appreciate her strength;
read Clairfait's'camp4ligti of 1795,.ana see what won-,
d,erfi, the Austrians are capable of performing when
reedy commanded. if :you doubt the vcoweo of the
study the, battles of the last campaiAn from.'
Pultusk to .Friedlandi in spite of the, ignorace of
their, officers and the smallness
.of their numbers,
they appear to hhve. defeated the French in every
ti6tiou except the last.: All these, fats lead to this
conclusionunuer present circumstances it contest'
by land against France is, a vain effort, but if Austria
and Russia will do in tranquillity
„what France has
clone in commotion, that is, if they will draw forth
the talents of their subjeas, and giye 'to merit \vita
they have hitherto given to favt?ur and to rank, they
may ch..fiance to France, and disdain her controul.
So 0'.3,at.0 chanze, hirNeiler, from inveterate customs,
could not be produced' by a sacklen effort, Rctycrse3
win war were necessary to inculcate its necessity,, and,
the repose of peace is requisite to accomplish its eke-
' cution. , , .

" The late arransemmts of France on the Continent
evidently increase her power during Bonaparte's life..
tithe, but they do not lay the'seeds of ltture empire.
Italy and Germany have ton!? :been, on account of
their division into nuinberless'principalitit4,, the scene
of oppression to their inhabitants,'the source Of wars
to Europe. The policy of Bonaparte has been to
6xtiviith the smaller anti aggrandize the greater
poWers. Italy is now almost entirely comprehentied
to two`kitigdoms; and Germany, instead of an
pity of petty States, presents the efficient govern-
Merits of Saxony, Bat arht,'Westphalia,.and Wirtem-
burgh. Had these changes been' accomplished by
the Emperor of Oprrnmy, should we-not have t••• ,
juiced at, events which thus converted Wettkues into
strength ? The day is not far distant when these
governments will be 7 d&trous to shake off the can-
trout of France. Throughout all these countries the
French name is detested ;
,every thing ip their cos,:
tarns, their larigdage, their prcludices, is, adverse to
an incorpot ation with their gatlie neighbourit... The
terror of Bonaparte's name, and' of tiVe hundred
thousand soldier, will restrain th'em for a while, but
the Influence of these causes is tmuperavy, whae.the
operation, of opposite causes _ _

• " Even in its mote immediate elects, the poltcy
of Bonaparte will of4ht be found
.to lead te results
very different:from what he eputeiriPlates. By taking.
Poland from Prussia, and giving it to Saxony,: he
considers that , has weakened an enefily and,
strengthened a friend. •Now,tiiiiconduoi. has till the
evils of a half measure.- By-this ate{ he hai not only
lost the it.tachtlient of the Poles, who hailed him as
the rotorer of their intkpendenee—he 'has also in-
dissolubly united Austriaand Ito.-,sa. Without yen-
turing: to proclaim the liberty of the Poles, he has
done-enotlgh to awaken the tears of both these. Em-
pires, for he has told them_ that he waits only a fair
opportunity to add qallicia and Litlnapia to tit(;"
Duchy! of.Warsw,!' .'••

• Yesterday, about h&.niorning, as Mr. Itoi
bett Wilson, a Clerk to a Coal-merchant, was walk-
'ing over the coal barges near Biackfriars Bridge, he
slipped and fell into the River. Several boats im
mediately pui',Citf to his assistance; but every eftbrt
to tind the body proved •fruitless. . It is supposed h©
was 'sacked under the barges. • , .•
A garden, situated in Rotthviton-lane near Can-
, , ,
tilbury, 'having been of late -repeatedly robbed', a
person was appointed to watch it on 'Sunday night
when, about midnight, a villain .fentered. the: pre-
, raises, and, soon -commenced hiS depredations, by
gathering some peaches;. his aotions being observed.
by the other, he levelled a musket, and threatened
to 41100 t him, but was prevalled.on to desistt, by. the
--entreaties of the villain, who implored, mercy on his
knees; he, however, no sooner saw his antagonist
off itHguard, thifti be.knoeked hint down ; attar
severely bruising him, made his escape,. leaying
hat in.the garden. We aro sorry, tl) learn... that VP
discovery has yet been made. .
On '..luesday evening ,two thoughtless young Vo-
lunteers, retuning from drill in the Mews, tired off
their muskets on their entrance. into Castle-street ;
the horses in a coal waggon
.(passing at t he revival)
took fright, and, ran furiously, against the shop %sip),
dew of Mr. pALMER, cutter, in that street, which
they almost demolished; two Ladio, who were
unfortunately close by tho shop, were severely cut
and bruised. .