The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-13 00:00:00

frequent audiences to the French and English
Ambassadors, particularly the former ; and the
object of these interviews is said to be a new plan,
strongly recommended by France, for the re-
cognition of the Independent South American
States by the mother country—the independence
or recognition to be purchased for certain stipu-
lated sums. The scheme, it is obvious, is founded
on the precedent established by France in the
case of St. Domingo. Spain must havernoney—
the Government cannot go on without the
64 sinews of war." It could not the other day
get troops to run after Bessieres and his few
mad followers till their arrears were paid ;
and as the Government will not acknowledge
the. bonds, all efforts to " raise the wind" by
means of a loan have proved abortive. The pro-
ject now broached, and alleged to be urged by
France, is, that each State shall be recognized by
Spain, on paying a certain amount ; and France,
if report speak truly, is not very disinterested in
the advice given, because, in the event of the,
plan succeeding, France stipulates for reimburse-
ment on account of expences to restore Ferdinand,
and when at the head of the restored Government,
to keep him there. The plan seems feasible
enough, and perhaps at one peria the new States
would not have hesitated about compliance; 'hey
might heretofore, to put an end to expensive
struggles, and to get formally acknowledged
amongst nations, have willingly engaged to pay
large sums. But now, when they have effected
much towards their complete deliverance—when
they are retorting upon the mother country, es-
pecially by their privateers, &c.—when they
are, in some degree, recognized by England and
the United States; and when England, through
Mr. Canning, has declared that interference,
by force,• on the part of France, in the ques-
tion between Spain and her revolting colonies,
will be looked upon as hostile movements—the
Independent States of South America may not be
very willing now to pay large sums for Spain's
recognition, however the Spanish Treasury may
yawn for South American gold. But the acknow-
ledgment, even now, might be deemed worth
some sacrifices.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.]
We perceive that the Lord Mayor is extremely
anxious to extend the provisions of the Cruelty
Act to the cases of overloaded cattle. This mea-
sure' he judges absolutely necessary, because, as
he was riding in the neighbourhood of Kingston,
Ile observed a solitary horse vainly endeavouring
to drag a load up a steep hill. Here we have the
old story, the customary plea for a law. A gen-
tleman has the good luck to see something amiss
in his walk or ride, and straightway he sets about
fashioning a clause for it. 'Squire Richard, the
hope of the ancient house of the Wrongheads, cries
out in the comedy, when he hears that a saucy
Carter had threatened violence to the family
coach, " have him before the Parliament, fa-
ther ;" and in like manner the Wrongheads to
this day bawl out for the redress of the Legisla-
ture on every trifling occasion ; it is the Hercules
that they are perpetually invoking, and the mis-
fortune is, that it is too ready to listen to any
invitation to meddling, and seldom or never an-
swers, ' put thy shoulder to the wheel.' When
persons of this stamp are weeping over over-
laden asses, and contriving laws for their better
comfort in going up hill, we would ask them whe-
ther there is in the whole universe an ass whose
plight is more pitiable than that of the great ass
which has to bear on its back the wholeweight of our
statutes at large—there is a precious load for a poor
patient dumb public ! and yet every Professor of
Humanity is for adding his mite to this intoler-
burthen ; any little matter that he picks up by
the roadside is turned to law and flung into the
mass of rubbish. If the Lord Mayor is correct
(and we believe he is) in stating that overload-
ing a horse is more injurious to it than a severe
whipping, we may rest assured that the practice
will never prevail to any alarming extent, for no
one in• his souses will wilfully injure his own
property. The poverty of a wretched coster-
monger may indeed compel him to place
a greater load on the hack of his founder-
ed cattle, than it can well carry, but will any
one contend that this is a proper case for punish-
ment ? Would there be any wisdom or humanity
in throwing a huckster out of bread, because he
Cannot afford to keep a horse equal to his work ?
We would further inquire whether all the good
people who walk the streets, are to be accounted
judges of what is the proper load for a horse. If so,
we can anticipate strange fancies, and whimsical
applications of the law. Some tender-hearted
Christian would go into fits and agonies at seeing
his Grace the Duke of Buckingham on the back
of a horse, and would call for penalties for so
grievous an oppression ; the sensibility of others
might be shocked by learning that our beloved
had ventured on a ride ; indeed, there
would be no end to speculating on the whimsies
that would be encouraged by such an enactment as
that suggested. People would compete for the
palm of humanity, and each would endeavour to
carry the fineness of his feelings a point beyond his
neighbour. The condition of the old man in the
fable, who tried to please every body on the road,
was unhappy enough, but the condition- of the
rider or driver, who is compelled by law to please
every body in the government of his cattle, or to
suffer penalties, would be yet more difficult,
and possibly in the end, the very best thing he
could do, would be to follow the example of
the worthy in the fable, and to carry the jack-
ass, which would doubtless be a gratifying spec-
tacle to all tender hearted mortals. Mr. Nobler—
by the way, what an unlucky, inapposite name this
Gentleman has got ; he is manifestly any thing
but a hobbler, and seems, indeed, of all created
beings the least likely to get into a hobble, for
he has the air of a surprising wise man—Mr.
nobler, we say, followed the Lord Mayor,
echoing his words in a manner very edifying to
the world, and agreeable to his Lordship. Mr. H.
who has a fine idea of oratory, concluded with a
grand period turned adunguem. "It (overloading)
was a thing of frequent occurrence, and certainly
required to have the avenging hand of the
Legislature exercised on it!" What are the
people about that this gentleman is not in the
Senate?