The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-01 00:00:00

GRAND SAILING MATCH.

A fine Sailing Match for a peter boat, of the value of 331.
given by the Members of his Majesty's Coronation Fleet, took
place yesterday. The start took place exactly at a quarter
before four o'clock, when the signal-gun was fired for the boats
to take their places at the four centre arches of Vauxhall'
liridge—seven at the three first piers, and the remainder at the
fourth ; in all, twenty-seven boats started. At twenty minutes
after the first signal guts, a second and starting gun was tired,
when the Commodore (Edward Nettleibld, Esq.) having
lowered his colours, the Four Brothers (No. I), owner, IL
Walker, of PceThes-er, tonic the lead, followed by the Daniel and ,
Elizabeth, 1). Parrot, master, also of Rochester, the Four tiro
there keeping the lead until she came opposite Wandsworth, and.
on going round the distance boat, which was stutioned ofr the
powder-house, the two first-named boats went round- so com. A A
pletely together, that it was scarcely possible to tell which was,
the headmost boat; this was exactly five minutes after five ,
o'clock. At 7 minutes after five, the boats No. 4 (the Lively),
Arnold Freshwakr, master, of Dlittbrd ; and No. 71 (the
Favourite), Samuel of IV andswerth, followed, and
at nine minutes after five Parkins,cleck, No. Captain Wheeler,
of Debtibrtl, passed them all. No. 14 (the Victory), Thomas
Brill, owner, of Wandsworth, was the fifth boat, when, at ten
minutes befbre six o'clock, the Lively passed all her eompeti,
tors in grand style, and won the prize • Nos. 7 and fl came in
immediately afterwards. It was a very fine race.
.The winner
of the prize took possession of her t but it was understood that
she would be given up on a future G day in the Gardens.

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DAILY
Extrude from the Mornilw Pupas) July

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Some garbled extracts have been published
from a letter said to have been addressed to
Iturbide " by a respectable merchant residing at
Vera Cruz." The object of this publication is
to shew, that in the opinion of the writer it is ab-
solutely necessary to the independence of Mexico
that Iturbide should resume his imperial sway.:—
This partisan, who, we suspect, is much less
mercantile than-military in his pursuits, is so san-
guine as to assure the ex-Emperor that he will
be able, with the greatest ease, to re-enact the
return of Buonaparte from Elba. "So firmly,"
says the anonymous correspondent of Iturbide,
" ani I persuaded of this, that were you to land
to.morrow in Mexico, attended by only one ser-
vant, you would certainly in less than a week be
at-the heed of ten thousand men." We shall soon
know whether the prophetic powers of this mys-
terious person are equal to his political sagacity.
Ile is constrained reluctantly to admit, that the
British Commissioners are satisfied of the suffi-
ciency of the present Government of Mexico to
maintain the independence and tranquillity of the
State ; hut he ascribes this opinion to the " infa-
tuation" under which they labour. To balance
their judgment be cites that of the officers of the
Valorous who visited the metropolis of Mexico,
and who, we are gravely told, are " prepared to
report the persons in power wholly incapable."
—This •" merchant" seems to think that that
judgment must be the soundest which is
held by the greatest number. We differ from
him. Naval officers are not always, in our opinion,
precisely the best qualified, by their habits and
education, to give judgment on the political af-
fairs of a foreign country, especially if, to the
obvious diltdvantages under which they are na-
turally at all times placed, be superadded an en-
tire ignorance of the peculiar circumstances of
that country, except what they derive from a few
weeks' passage through it. The judgment of the
Commissioners Is that on which every rational
man will rely. It it much More probable that
the correspondent of Iturbide is infatuated, than
that those gentlemen can have suddenly lost the
soundness and temper of mind that belonged to
them. With respect to Iturbide himself, in whose
favour an attempt seems to be making to hold him
up as a person somehow or other entitled, us of
legitimate right, to wear the diadem of Mexico,
we shall only make a few observations. Ile
had rendered some services to his country, which
he cancelled by endeavouring to enslave her. His
countrymen rose to emancipate themselves from
the new yoke be sought, to impose upon them,
and, compelled him to abdicate. The army of
which, like all usurpers, he had availed himself
to seize upon the Government, was very speedily
so disgusted •with his tyranny, that he dared not
trust his fate in their hands. Ile appealed to the
Congress, the representatives of the Mexican
people, the constitutional authority which he had
tried to destroy ;-he supplicated their protection.
The Congress, with a generosity unparalleled in
blistery, settled upon him a princely pen-
sion, and allowed him to retire to
Europe in
order to enjoy it. They rewarded his me.
rits, while they forgave his offences: The pro-
clamation issued by the,congress on the occasion
orlturbid e's abdicatiotyleclared his political exist.
ence to be " incompatible with the safety and
happiness of Mexico." He was then under a
military escort, conducted to the coast, and ba-
nished for life from the shores of
his country.—
lie had scarcely arrived in Europe when he vio-
lated the condition on which he received his pen.
Rion by removing to England, us it is now clearly
apparent, for the purpose of more safely carrying
on the intrigues by which he hoped to resume his
reluctantly renounced sceptre. The bad faith on
which he has acted throughout, Is rendered more
strikingly manifest by the publication of this let-
ter of Ids adherent. It is avowed now that his
object is to seize the sovereignty. In his
letter he disclaimed any such design. hie aparting
ffectect
to be wholly disinterested personally, and to de-
Vote himself, like another Decius to the good of
his country. We have already° expressed our
wishes that his enterprise may fail, and that
be himself may suffer the punishment which
the general voice of mankind has denounced
against the disturbers of public order; and we
repeat now, that we shall deeply regret if he
meet with any countenance on his landing, which
may tend to prolong the civil war into which,
for his own selfish views, he would plunge his ,
country. The last advices from. Mexico state,
°rat the mow Dictator, General Bravo, is adopt-
ing the most effectual measures for securing the
peace of the State and the safety of the Govern-
ment. The Lion schooner had arrived at the
island' of Sn:riticios with specie for the Mexican
service, and two messengers had proceeded from
Alvarado to the capital, with dispatches relative
to the Loan.

rrn ,rtstun.l
Parbadoes Papers received yesterday are full
of the proceedings on the West India question
which took place in Parliament about the middle
of'March. The spirit of the colonists is not yet
(if we may judge by their newspapers) prepared
to receive contentedly the propositions of the Go-
vernment, or cordially to co-operate in the mea-
sures prescribed by it, for producing n gradual
Change in the relation of white man and negro.
Great exception has been taken to the speech
with which Mr. Canning introduced the subject
to the House of Commons, not so much for the
policy which it recommended, as for the jokes
indulged in by the Right Hon. Gentleman. Cer-
tainly, on time point we may be suffered to
remark, that making •every allowance (and we
are disposed to make the fullest allowance)
the fears and di,trii,se3 of the West Ilebody,for
the domiueeringlndian
language employed, - by time
gentlemen of Jamaica particularly, who threat-
ened England With something like a- revolt of
her colonies if she persisted -in meddling with
the. condition of the slaves, this language could
have been met by only one of two answefs : there
was no alternative but to rebuke it severely, or

good-humouredly: to• laugh at it. Mr. Canning
chose the second method, and in our opinion he
was right; since it was the mildest treatment he
Could exercise towards men carried by a momen-
tary paroxysm of irritation to the entertainment
of designs, or, more prep‘rly speaking, to the use
of language, (for it could be nothing more) which
their better judgment and returning self-pos-
session would soon enable them to disavow
as equally .dnprovoked and unprofitable. The
Barbadoes Editor feels some alarm at what
he calls 46 the good understanding between the
Wilt India body resident in London, and the
Saints," which he seems to regard as a 46 very
ominous" circumstance. We are, on the other
hand, truly rejoiced to hear that such a con-
summation has been effected; for really, con-
sideritig the violence of the above parties in
their previous hostility towards each other, we
had been used to think, that so far as the slave
question went, there was very little, if any, un-
derstanding, .to be boaited of between them.—
Wisdom here, as in most cases, lies equidistant
from the extremes of enthusiasm and of selfish-
ness. The state of the world 'generally makes
it impbssible that the bondage of the Negro can
exist to its actual extent, or in its present form,
for over ; but surely the Negro must, by very
different means from that of sudden emancipa-
'don, be rendered wore like the rest of the world
before be can.be fitted to enjoy it.

[MORNING uxna.r..D.]
The pawnbrokers seem doomed this year to
encounter opponents. No sooner had Sir Wm.
Cougreve's Equitable Loan. Bill expired under
the hands of the Lords' Committee, thau up start
the Directors of the [link of England with their
new project for lending money upon pledges of
the public funds. Should this proposal succeed,
so difficult do the Bank Directors find it to em-
ploy their capital so as to maintain even the re-
duced dividend of which Mr. Gurney and others
complain so bitterly, that we should not wonder
if we next saw them take Sir Win. Congrevo's
plan out of his hands, and lending money, first,
perhaps upon plate and jewels, nua at last upon
shirts and petticoats. Indeed we are not quite
sure that the latter would not hare been the
most useful and least objectionable scheme to
have begun with.

. , [raw TIKES.]
The Leiters from Alvarado to the 2d of may
May announce positively that Gen. Bravo is ap-
pointed Supreme President of Mexico. On the
other hand, a letter from Vera Crus on the 16th
of April, said to have been addressed to General
Iturbide himself, assures him that many even of
his enemies are now clamorous for his return to
resume the Imperial dignity. From these confused,
and contradictory statements, we find it difficult
to determine what is the real state of Mexico ;
but they both seem to show that the Republican
Government recently established there has little
prospect of stability. The struggle seems to lie
between the adherents of two Military' Chieftains,
neither of whom can reasonably be expected to
have any very deep or sincere attachment_ to
liberty. -----.
Advices from Zinte to the 12th of May re;
present the affairs of the Greeks as going on Suc-
cessfully r we must, however, allow somethi
for the partiality which generally dial.i ove rn-
% tes the
accounts from that island. The (,Greek Cng
ment, it is said, addressed a
Manifesto on the 4th
,
of May to the inhabitants,
"rr nkiivecors to name
the primary
l
Assemblies for the choice o
Deputies to tile congress which was to meet on
the Ist of June. Nauplia and, Tripolizza are oc-
cupied by the Greeks ; the Government of Elis
is entrusted to the Eparchs Sismis, Gastone, and
Calamegdarsis. Telegraphs by day, and signal
of the Egean sea;
an
yEaster eve to surprise
tires by night, are estadblibshedmeaallosaloolfigotileiesecotaisiet
Greeks were enabled on
and destroy a squadron of 18 Turkish transports.
—(lbid )

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
By the way of the Havannah, letters have been
received from the city of Mexico, dated on the
22d April, and from Alvarado, dated on the 3d
of May. The contents of these letters are satis-
factory. Information must have been circuitously
received at that capital, previous to the 14th of
April, of the Loan which Mr. Magoni had con-
tracted with the eminent establishment of Messrs.
B. and A. Goidschidt, Hertz, and Co.; for on
that day the Minister of Finance Francisco de
Arvellaga, drew bills on the agent of the
Mexican Government In London, In part of
the Loan contracted by him, as specified in
the bodies of the bills themselves, some of which
have already reached London. This circumstance
is a sufficient refutation of the absurd report
which has been for some days circulated by
the enemies of the freedom of the new Re-
publics In the Western Hemisphere of the
Mexican Congress having refused to ratify this
Loan. Geneneral Bravo bad commenced his
office of Supreme Director with great energy.—
The greatest annoyance to Mexican society has
latterly been occasioned by the robbery of peace-
able commercial travellers' by brigands, whose
sole merit WEN their possessing the rank
of soldiers. The Supreme Director had, pre-
vious to the 22d of April) made an example in
Mexico, by the execution of three of these des-
peradoes ; and the leaders of the miscreants who
murdered Mr. Crawford, and plundered him of
his property, had been arrested, and were forth-
with to be brought to trial before a Military
Commission. General Bravo had also issued pe-
remptory instructions to the Governors of Dis-
tricts and of Cities, to arrest all suspected of
robbery, and to bring them before Military
Courts for judgment, without waiting for the too
slow process of civil trial. These are the sure
and only means for protecting the property of in.
dividuals in young states, for the energies of the
great, virtuous and determined characters are
certain proof of wholesome freedom,

[MORNING eon.]
The attack which has recently been made on
Mi.'Secretary Canning by the Etoilo for his con.
duct respecting the New States of South America
seems to have wefully deluded the enemies of

Government in this country. Is it really ima-
gined that the whole secret of the opposition
evinced by that Journal does not consist in its
dread of the liberal policy and principles of our
distinguished Foreign Minister ? The French
Ultras would have Mr. Canning an enemy to the
independence of the former Colonies of Spain,
and they therefore ascribe to him a temporizing
duplicity of conduct and principle, conformable
to their own wishes and designs. It is most
trite that Mr. Canning correctly defined the va-
lue of a recognition, of the New States of Ame-
rica by this country on the evening that Sir Jas.
Mackintosh presented a Petition from the Mer-
chants of London. Can any man question the
justness of the distinction then illustrated be-
tween a recognition on the part of England and
of the Mother Country ? So long as the lat-
ter is withheld, difficulties must be encounter-
ed, and doubts and uncertainty more .or less
embarrass the acts and policy. of. the rising
Governments of South America—accoinpanied
by hazards to those States which may form an
alliance with Powers in such a situation of half
acknowledged, half unacknowledged maturity.
But because this fact was ably pointed out, and
a reason thus assignsd (as regards the interest or
the New States themselves) for the conduct
hitherto pursued by the British Cabinet in endea-
vouring to obtain the acquiescence of Spain to
whatever act of recognition we might deem expe
dient, is it therefore to be inferred that we either
fearor feel reluctant to adopt any measures which
the interest and honour of the nation may suggest ?
Does the Etoile imagine that England is less ca-
Able of incurring the consequences orrecogniz-
ing the independence of South America than the
United States? Grant that the King of. Spain
may " hang Bolivar" if lie get him within his
power, would the act 'itself necessarily involve
us in a war with the beloved Ferdinand ; or if
it should, is Great Britain to be intimidated
or checked
England
Ica)
dk ealdfl followingemi(iisilyw o fsapprehension otv
_jusGt coooudnciGlsodbyl
s
Spain ! And yet what does
the vapouring in the Etoile amount to less than
this ? The truth, however, is that the forbear-
reisbtaybolef
atolicpeistyhefworn btlyietitliieslcpoltu,snstnreyssisofwhhoilslyMasacj
Madrid.--Were he in anywise able to vindicate
his own pretentious—were the British Govern-
-the delay
Govern-
ment in any respect less conscious of its own su-
premacy which has taken place might
be referable, to'doubtful principle. But in reali-
ty, we have been generous in the extreme to Spain
—both because its exhausted state demanded a
compasionate respect towards its claims of former
Sovereignty, and because our own greatness, in-
ternally and externally, could amply afford such
a sacrifice of immediate interest. So far as we
may be alltwed to comment on Mr. Secretary
Canning's profound remarks, they went to ex-
plain points which ought to be %yell under-
stood by the people of England and America
recognition of such
previously to be expected
t nations' They
into the remit" 9llTteudependon
went to show that. I"wwituowletigment of a new
States as might be found qualified for adnusston
G ovi.remumf (lid not iieceakmrity ;1,701,0 EL r
fensive and defensive alliance with it, and thus
rather to remove objections which might exist at
home to the adoption of the measure, than to raise
obstacles to its speedy and effective accomplish-
timid. We think, in short, we may say, that a very
little time will dispel the visions of the Etoile on
to the world that the
-
ft,liiriseisitunbj le)oclti,oyatld p
of
Etirgoivaend
is
equally
straight for
ward and honourable—equally courteous towards
Spain, and liberal towards South America.