The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-11 00:00:00

Spanish Cortes have recently declared the treaty
between General O'llonoju and the Mexican
Chief Iturbide null and void. It is highly pro-
bable that the views of Iturbide and his party
i:1 be entirely changed, and that Mexico and
Guatimala will follow the same political course
as the Republic of Columbia."

We cannot but consider the refusal by the
'aegisla:ure, of permission to grind the foreign
corn in Warehouse, into flour for exportation, as

Peculiarly ungracious and unnecessarily severe.
It appears to us that the notoriety of the fact,
that there are seven hundred thousand quarters
of foreign corn warehoused, and ready to be
Poured into the home market, as soon as the
Price shall reach an elevation, that is, still ten

shillings under the importation price, is much
more injurious to the British Agriculturists than
all 9 possible mischief that can be apprehended
from a portion of the same corn escaping into
the home consumption, if it should be permitted
to be taken out for the purpose of being ground.
---Besides, it would certainly be possible to
adopt such precautions as should secure the
6°l2a fide exportation of the flour in ques-
tion, the expellee of such precautionary mea-
sures as might be found necessary, to be
wholly borne by the proprietors of corn who
might think proper to avail themselves of the
Permission which the rejected clause contained.
As it is probable that a Bill will still be brought
into Parliament, for the purpose of effecting this
object of good policy and justice, we think it
our duty to say thus much in favour of the pro-
Position, notwithstanding its rejection last night
by the House of Commons. There is one point
of view, indeed, in which the re-exportation of
the warehoused foreign corn will, under any Cir-

curnstances, be injurious to British interests.
There is no part of the continent of Europe to
which so large a quantity ca❑ be transmitted,
without aggravating the depression which is now
universally felt ; and as even the legislative mea-
sure now in progress in this country does not
enforce the absolute prohibition of foreign
produce, whatever increases the depression ow
the Continent must have a tendency to affect,
immediately or remotely, and perhaps in both
ways. the English markets. If the warehoused
corn, on the other hand, should be sent in flour
to the West India islands, it must come into
direct competition with the produce of our Co-
lonies, already suffering even more severely than
the agricultural interest of Great Britain.—But
Notwithstanding these reasons, the presence of
the warehoused corn in this country, the heart
of the Empire, is more prejudicial to its
vital interests than the effect of any other
manner in which it can be disposed of; and
as no one will contend that it ought to be
destroyed, the least disadvantageous mode of
getting rid of it should without loss of time
be adopted.—lt is amusing to see the incon-
sistencies into which Mr. RICARDO falls, in the
discussions on the agricultural question. lie is
the staunch advocate, on all general questions,
for free trade. When the measures for the relief
of agriculture, however, come under consideration,
we find him admitting the necessity of, and if
not arguing, at least voting for, protective re-
strictions in its favour. He does this, it is true,
en the ground that it is obvious, in the case of
the agriculturists, that if they are not pro-
tected they must be ruined. But that is the
'~'hole of the question between the theoretical
advocates of a free trade and its practical oppo-
nents• The former, with Mr. RICAItDO, only
See that it would be fatal to agriculture. The
latter, by more extensive practical knowledge,
are enabled to perceive that it would be equally
fatal to all the other branches of the national
industry. Mr. RICARDO, in abandoning the ge-
lieral abstract principle, on any one measure,'
abandons it entirely.

711 e Chinese Viceroy, who has suspended, or
,rather prohibited, the Tea Trade, until this
Q.nuntry shall consent to the performance of an
act not less weak and dishonourable than unjust,
Uses language of insult, and evinces feelings of
Contempt and determination, which afford very
little hope of an amicable adjustment of the dif-
ference which has unfortunately arisen. With
all the arrogance of the Turkish character, he si-
leuces the representations and reasonings which
are addressed to him, as useless whining or unprin-
tipled sophistry ; and with inflexible coolness
declines all discussion, until the original sacrifice
of " life for life" be conceded to his demand.
fie know not how far, under all the cir-
cumstances of the case, it would be jus-
tifiable to employ more weighty arguments,
ehan the Hong merchants have the power to
mnploy; bat we fear that nothing less that!
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h°stile visit of a British squadron will