The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-10 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

By a very important document,.which we pub-
lish in another column—(see another column of
T TIE SuN)—it will be seen 'that the Batavian Go-
vernment has found it its interest to give up the.
narrow and mistaken views of commercial illibe-
rality, which, to the present time, so particularly
distinguished the Dutch system of trade. His
Excellency Baron Vander Capelle has not taken
this step one moment too soon, for our establish-
ment at Sincapore was ruining the Dutch trade,'
chiefly in consequence of its being governed by
liberal principles of commerce. This proclama-
tion appoints, besides the Entrepots of Batavia
and Rhio, already existing, a third at Anjer, in
the Presidency of Bantam, and declares that the
same shall be established at all other ports where
the interests of commerce require it, and no
weighty reason to the contrary exists. The
oppressive and vexatious regulations which for-
merly rendered their Entrepots of little utility,
are repepled, and those substituted in their place
are fair and equitable. An entrepot duty of one
per cent. is laid on the original invoice price of
the goods, and the difference between that sum
and the duty already paid, on goods at present
entered in entrepot, is to be refunded. What
the effect of this alteration of measures will be,
remains to be seen. It will, in all probability,
be beneficial to the Dutch, and although it may
injure our Sincapore trade somewhat—or rather
prevent it from advancing so rapidly as it would
have done had its rivals in the east continued to
oppress their commerce with absurd and clogging
regulations—yet it must be of advantage to our
mercantile interest generally, and as such, it has
occasioned great satisfaction to the commercial
world.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
New York Papers, which arrived yesterday to
the 21st ult., contain, in addition to other inte-
resting matter, the copy of a letter from Bolivar
to General Santander, Vice-President of Colom-
bia, in reply to a communication from the latter,
announcing the recognition of the independence
of Colombia by England. In this, letter, Eng-
land is designated as the " Mistress of Na-
tions;" and in a style of fervour, which chews
that this high compliment was not a mere
flourish, the Liberator congratulates himself,
his country, and the Vice-President, upon
this proceeding, which, he says, " crowns
the Colombian People with blessings, the
soldiers with laurels, and the Government with
glory." With a modesty, the usual companion
of true merit, he disclaims for himself all share in
a transaction so honourable and beneficial to Co-
lombia, and places it wholly to the credit of that
army which, he had so often led to victory, and
to Santander, who had•oTciated in his absence,
and who, he generously declares, is entitled to
the gratitude of Colombia and of the human race.
How nobly this modesty sits on the brow of a
man who occupies a re-eminent place amongst
the best and greatest men of his time ; and
whose name, Should his career unfortunately
close to-morrow, would be classed with those
of the greatest benefactor of mankind. But
his enthusiasm betrays his real feelings, and shows,
what his modesty would disown, that he consi-
ders-himself its the chief author of that prosperity,
which has induced the 46 Mistress of Nations" to
conclude a Treaty of friendship with Colombia.
What a glorious part England plays at this mo-
tnent in the transactions of the world—a glory,
too, unalloyed by a single bitter reflection, but,
on the contrary, rendered ineffably resplendent
by the conviction that it is conducive to the hap-
piness of all nations h

[MORNING POST. 3
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The rapidity with which the communications
with America are carried on is really surprising.
if the improvements in navigation continue at
the present rate, in less than a quarter of a cen-
tury, time and distance will, have become nomi-
nal things. The Crisis,. packet ship, arrived
yesterday from New York,. not at Liverpool,
but at Deal, in the short space of seventeen
days. She has brought American Papers to
the 21st ult. They 'contain extracts from
the Bogota Journals, and in particular a very
gratifying letter, written by that true patriot
hero Bolivar, on learning that " Great Bri-
tain—the Mistress of Nations," had recog-
nised the independence of the Colombian Re-
public. It is evident from the whole tenour of
this letter, that the Liberator cared more for the
sole recognition of. England, than for that of all
the Kingdoms and Empires of which the rest of
Europe is composed. The " Mistress of Na-
tions" having spoken, he considers the enter-
prise of giving liberty to the New World as ter-
minated. This., alone is .a sufficient reward for
the noble and glorious policy which we have
adopted, and which Makes Great Britain, in
spite of the Old. World, and by the acknowledg-
ment of the',New, the first of earthly Nations.—
From Carthagena .we have advices so late as the
23d of September. -A large. naval force was as-
sembling there for some important expedition,
.which .however, remained a secret. . Dr. Gual,
Secretary-of State for Foreign Affairs to the Re-
public of, Colombia. was 'expected to arrive at
Carthagena, on: his way to meet the General Con-
gress, the duties.of which had been marked out
by Bolivar in a circular. The Navy of Colombia
was to be greatly increased.' The duties of the
Intendente of the Department of Carthagena had
been separated, the civil and 'military- forming
now distinct Departments-.
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[MORNING HERALD.]
The horrible practice of plundering wrecks,
and turning that calamity which ought to awaken

compassion in the most obdurate hearts, into a'
source of rapacious gain, we are glad to find, is
likely to be repressed on the shores of Cornwall
and Devon, where the barbarous habit has so long
prevailed. An Association of Gentlemen has
been formed in Cornwall, whose object is to put
down by active exertions the inhuman system
that lets loose upon shipwrecked people
and their property a savage banditti, who,
in the midst of the most afflicting scenes of
human misfortune and suffering, 'are only
anxious to seize upon the goods of those
who are either dead or perishing around
them, and who, with more of the spirit of infer-
nal than human vice, often deprive of life the
supplicating wretches whom the fury of the ocean
has spared. We trust the Association will act
up to the intention for which it is embodied.
This is one of the instances in which the co-ope-,
ration of many is wanted ; for individual effort
would be quite unavailing. Where numbers com-
bine against the lives and property of the unfortu-
nate, and where the law is too remote to do them
any service, it seems necessary that the humane
should unite to protect them. It can hardly be
believed by those who have not resided for some
time on the line of coast to which we have allud-
ed, how great a portion of the population are
taught, from infancy to old age, to look upon the
fatalities of the sea as the most fortunate occur-
rences that they can possibly witness. Early
and constant habit has so corrupted their nature,
that the first and most common instincts of hu-
manity are utterly got rid of. The shrieks of
the sufferers, heard through the storm, not only
does not excite any painful emotion, but becomes
like music to the ears of the human vultures
" who await their evening prey." Were it to be
told to the naked Indians, whom we are so anxi-
ous to convert from their ignorant and cruel
habits in the South Seas, that there are in Eng-
land many thousands of people called Christians,
who make it a trade to strip and murder those
whom shipwreck throws defenceless upon their
shores, what would be the amazement of the
calumniated savages ! Would they not naturally
tillok that their teachers ought to have cleared
their own country of barbarity before they tra-
velled so far for subjects of reformation ? They
would think so; but we hope the reproach will
continue no longer.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
There is no county so famous for spring guns
as Suffolk. Within the last twelve months, not
less than a dozen people have been shot by, these
Aristocratical inventions in that district, not to
mention those deservedly prepared gentlemen
who have had the luck of getting a taste of their
own shot by divers accidents. It is certainly ra-
ther odd that this barbarous man-slaying and
man-maiming practice should prevail to so great
an extent in a county which is richer than any
other in Parsons. Surely these Reverend Gen-
tlemen might exert their influence to abate the
unchristian custom of setting snares, and devising
pit-falls for the steps of the unwary. In a
Morning Paper of yesterday we observed the
following' paragraph, which records the last ca-
sualty from spring-guns in Suffolk :—‘4 On Tues-
day last a poor woman was shot by a spring-gun,
, whilst getting acorns in the Link Woed, Brad-
field, Suffolk, belonging John Moseley, Esq. The
woman was conveyed home much wounded, and
has been confined ever since the accident. On the
same day a fine sow, upwards of 51. value, the
property of Mr. George Biddel, was shot dead
by one of the same engines whilst in search of
acorns in the above wood."—The maiming of a
poor woman 'is an event not likely to make any
great impression on the 'Squires ; such accidents
to human beings are common, and what are the
guns set for but to shoot trespassers ? But the
slaughter of the fine sow, worth upwards of
five pounds, cannot but be considered in a
serious light by the farming mind,, An( it
must suggest to 'Squires the alarming reflection
the lives of brutes are exposed to danger from
these ~ engines. It was a Mr. Biddel's sow
that came to an untimely end, but it might have
been 'Squire —'s valuable pointer dog Ponte,
—would it had been ! for no catastrophe short
of such a one as this will bring the game pre-
servers to their feelings. If it could once be made
apparent that the lives of valued brutes were put
in peril by these murderous machines, the huma-
nity of the Country Gentlemen would take the
alarm, and the spring-guns would fall into dis-
use. When uttering an 'aspiration for the murder
of a pointer, however, we would be understood
as being actuated by no feeling of to
those sagacious brutes, for whom we protest, and
call Heaven to witness, we entertain a truly Bri-
tish tenderness. But as we some time wander by
wood sides, copses, and coverts, and feel at such
times a passing concern for the integrity of our
limbs,and the uninterrupted continuity of our dear
skin (if we may be allowed a learned phrase), and
also some sympathy with other folks' limbs and
skins, the damage of which makes us think upon
our own,—we should consider one dog as use-
fillip sacrificed, if by his untimely death the
humanity of 'Squires could be alarmed, their
canine sympathies awakened, and spring-guns
an rendered hateful to spotten, by xeason of their
dog-slaying properties.

FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—Yesterday evening, a
little after five- o'clock, as one of the Bath and
Bristol travelling vans, belonging to Mr. Dalli-
more, of Doctors' Commons, was proceeding
down Ludgate-hill, when nearly opposite the
house of Mr. Blades, the front axletree suddenly
snapped in two, and the van, with its load, fell
across the fiagyway. One passenger, hearing the
report of the axletree, fortunately got into a shop,
as did the driver. The accident happened, it is
supposed, in consequence of the van being over-
loaded.

The Sieur VENITIEN, surnamed the French
Hercules, after having gone through his astonish.
ing exercises, and exhibited his extraordinary
strength at the Brussels Theatre, to general satis-
faction, has at last had the misfortune to fall
from a great height upon the stage, where he lay
immoveable until the curtain was dropped.

THE GREEK CAUSE.