The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-22 00:00:00

COMMERCE with the SPAI'I.4II MITS.

The following Extract of a Letter from Bar-
b:Woes, dated the Bth April, was posted Yester-
day at Lloyd's :-
64 We are informed that assurances have been
giv,en by the Governor of Porto Rico, that
no British vessels, however bound, even to
blockaded ports on the Spanish Main, shall be
molested by any Spanish cruisers from that Island,
unless they should have arms or other munitions
of war on board ; and if any should be sent in, the
Courts shall not be allowed to hold a jurisdiction
over them, though in fact, he has no power whatever
over the judges; bathe %Oil take upon himself the
responsibility to order restitution forthwith. We
presume the same line of conduct has been exacted
of the Colombian Government, and that this
has most likely been the object of the mission
of the Commanders of his Majesty's ships sent
along the Spanish Maine, since the arrival of the'
squadron under the orders of Sir Edward Owen,
of which the Valorous, Capt. Murrayovas the first
dispatched, and must have touched at every port,
from Carupino, whence we heard of his first call
going eastward to :Jmnaica. Notithstanding
his condemnation 6r the ship Aurora, from
Greenock and St. Thomas's to Ilunduras, the
most wanton act of aggression, most assuredly that
could be committed, Sir T. Cochrane, after much,
remonstrance, and some delay, did succeed in get.
tin;; an order from the Spanish authorities of Porto
Rico for the restoration of both ship and cargo to'
the owners, and though the cargo had 'been sold
and distributed throughout the country, and the
ship was a wreck not worth receiving back, still
it was an admisSion in principle of their own
wrong, and must serve as '
the best basis for re.
!motion from the Spanish Government. From
all this we may infer we shill have fewer acts of
aggression upon British commerce in these seas
fur a time."

WEST INDIA Co'ststrsslON.,--The Mfrbaduei
Globe of the 27th of March, says—". The Com-
missioners of I nquiry,sai led on Friday for Tobago,.
on -their mission through the islands, after having
finished their business here ; the nature of which,
if we may judge from the cases we were in.
strumental in laying before them, as well as
others we have heard of,must have furnished them
with a good stock of information for his Majesty's
Ministers, and thereby given them an opportunity
of discovering,that to the profligacy of those in au-
thority over us, are owing to the discontents which
prevail, and not, .to the morals, religion, or want
of loyalty in society, as has been artfully whis-
pered into the ear of the Executive. From what
11 we can Midler, it will not be necessary for them
1 to rcntuht Ipnger than .the 'next. autumn, having,
in this Island alone, waded through nearly all
the dirty work."

The Papers from Ireland throw some light
upon the views of the insurgent peasantry in the
south of that country. It appears that the oh.
ject of their threats and violence is to root out all
the middle men who stand between the head land-
lord and the occupiersor the soii. Ina recent case,
in which their vengeance was directed against a
farmer of this class, the charge alleged against
him was, not that he was a new, purchaser, but
that, on the expiration of a lease of land which
he had enjoyed for fifty Tears. he had taken
a renewal instead of dividing th 6 land among
his tenants.—Much of the misery and degra-
dation of the peasantry of Ireland has been as-
cribed to the system of mesne landlords, in many
cases amounting to four or live, between the su-
preme lord of the land and the, man who culti-
vates it, each of them deriving a profit rent from
his inferior 41 the series, and the lowest pressing,
like the base of a pyramid, with the accumulated
weight of all above) upon the peasant.

SPRING AND NEATE.--A good Account of the
Fight will appear in 4‘ The Englishman" on
Sunday. No advertisements 'whatever are in-
serted in " 7110 Englishman" Sunday News-
paper, which is a large Folio Journal of twenty,
columns, of the same size as 46 The Observer."
It is regularly published every Sunday Morning,
at the early hour of four o'clock, at Messrs.
Ss writ's, lin, Strand, London. The price of
" The Englishman" is Sevenpence.

Many young men, we may say to.the exent of
hundreds, have of lute left various places in Gal-
loway, and gone to Englund, to prosecute a
in which they are
They are engaged by
newstyi e
db,r,asticcoeti
soh! p
ebduisate.s„s
extensive merchants, who employ them to hawk
tea, soft goods, &c. in large towns and the surround-
ing country. Arrangements are so made, that a
certain district, or walk, is allotted to each
individual. This he travels over us often as
necessary, taking orders upon one visit, and
calling with the goods on the next. By this
means he evades the hawker's license, and effects
sales to a very considerable amount. Their
terms of agreement bind them to three years'
servidude, for which they are remunerated by
boarding, clothing, and washing ; and at the ex-
Oration of this period they are allowed the credit
of a few goods from their employers, with
the privilege of commercial business ma their
own behalf in the walk which they formerly oc.
copied. In honour of our young countrymen, it
may be mentioned, that so high an opinion is
there formed of their honesty and assiduity, and
so anxious are the wholesale merchants to be sup-
plied with the true Scottish breed, that they dis.
missed a young man because his mother was an
Irish woman.--(Stirling Paper)

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