The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON* JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extract: from the Morning Pdpers, June 18.
THE TIMES.)
A mail from the Leeward Islands arrived yes-
terday, with letters from St. Thomas's to the 17th
Of May. One letter, dated the 13th, contains a
vague account from Laguayra of an action having
taken place in Peru between Bolivar and Canta-
rac, in which the latter was victorious, and in
consequence gained possession of Lima. No
'dates are given, nor is any place assigned for this
battle. The circuitous route by which the news
has travelled, renders it barely possible that the
advices from Peru can have been brought down
to a date so recent as has been previously re-
.ceived by way of Jamaica, when it was known
that a negociation had been set on foot between
the President and the Royalist Generals. That
there should be an engagement at all, at least
-while the negociation was proceeding, is a most
unlikely event : but the credit of the story is
perhaps more completely destroyed than by any
Teasoning on its improbability, by the silence of
of all the other letters from St. Thomas's, some of
which are dated two days later than that in
"which the account of the battle is contained.—,
Some occurrences of an unpleasant nature are
stated to have taken place at Maracaibo, where
the irregularity in paying the troops had led
to a mutiny, the result of which was not known,
as no vessel had arrived from thence for
more than a month. By the papers from
the West India Islands, we perceive that procla-
mations have been issued in the name of the King,
for the purpose of counteracting the impression
known to exist among the slaves that orders had
been sent out for thir emancipation, declaring
such impression to he erroneous, and enjoining to
the slaves submission to the laws and obedience
to their masters. At Barbadoes advices had been
received from Demerara of the 26th of April.—'
These supply one very remarkable fact, taken in
connexion with the late proceedings in Parliament
relative to the case of the unfortunate Mr. Smith,
the Missionary, which is, that the Rev.
Austin, a clergyman of the Established Church,
and Mr. Arrindell, the prisoner's Counsel, had
.had the boldness to circulate letters in the co-
lony itself, after the proceedings had closed,
expressing their belief of Mr. Smith's entire in-,
nocence. The general interest excited here by
the case will justify our giving the extracts from
the letters alluded to :
Extract from a letter of the Reverend W. S. Austin :—" I
feel no hesitation in declaring, from the intimate knowledge
• which my most anxious inquiries have obtained, that, in the
late scourge whic;i the hand of an All.wise Creator has in-
flicted on this ill-fated country, nothing but those religious
impressions which, under Providence, Mr. Smith has been in-
strumental in fixing—nothing but those principles of the Gos-
pel of Peace which he has been proclaiming—could have
prevented a dreadful effusion of blood here, and saved the
Jives of those very persons who are now (1 shudder to write it)
seeking his."
Extract from a letter of William Arrindell, Esq. of Deme-
rara,Mr. Smith's Counsel, addressed to Mrs. Smith; after the
proceedings of the Court-Martial were closed :—" It is almost
presumptuous in me to differ from the sentence of a Court ;
but, before God, Ido believe Mr. Smith to be innocent. Nay,
I will •go further, and defy any Minister, of any sect what-
ever, to have shown a more faithful attention to his sacred
duties, than he has been proved, by the evid,enec on his trial, to
have done."
'A meeting was held on the 3d of May of the in-
tiabitants of Barbadoes, for the purpose of pre-
paring a petition against the Alien Act as in force
in that island. His Majesty's ships Eden and
Scout had returned to Barbadoes from Para,
which they left in a state of tranquillity. It was
said that the Scout had been fired at by the fort
in passing up the river, but silenced the batteries
by a couple of broadsides.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
, The Treaty with the Netherlands respecting
possessions in the East, against which so much
bas been said, was last night discussed. It is
agreed on all hands that Lord Castlereagh, in his
eagerness to stand well with the great Monarchs
by whom he was cajoled, sacrificed in too many
instances the intere,ts of his country, and, we
believe w e may add, that the stipulations into
which he entered with regard to the Dutch Pos-
sessions in the Eastern Archipelago, are generally
considered not the least objectionable of his mea-
sures. Mr. Canning, in introducing the subject
of the Treaty to the House, took care not to
charge himself with the responsibility of the as-
signment of the conquests from the Dutch to the
new kingdom of the Netherlands. The fact is,
that ndther Lord Castlereagh nor any of those
who accompanied him to Vienna, knew any
thing at all of the countries which he so
generously disposed of. That they are of
the utmost importance no one who looks
into Mr. Crawford's account of the Eastern

Archipelago, or reads his masterly evidence
before the Committee of the Lords, on the Fo-
reign Trade of the Country, can doubt for a mo-
ment. 'I he worst of the matter is, that we have
transferred to the Dutch, what we had no right
to ourselves—many millions of the natives. It
was observed by Mr. Hume, that " by our atten-
tion to the interest of the natives, we had
brought J.,va to a state of civilization, equal, be
would say, at least to that of the people of Ire-
land ;" aed with " a violation of good faith, our
Government had delivered over the natives,
bound hand and foot," to the Dutch, who were
detested in the East more than any other Eu-
i-opean nation. In fact, We had, " received
—Hanca from the natives under the express stipu-
lation of not giving it up to the Dutch."

• LMOII.NING POST.]
We are somewhat at a loss to account for the
complaints daily urged against the temporary
renewal of the Insurrection Act, when his Ala-
iesty's Ministers have declared that, in thus pro-
posing it, they merely wish to obtain breathing
time for the introduction of more constitutional
means of permanently governing Ireland. It has
filways indeed been admitted, that this severe
law was resorted to as a matter of necessity;
and rather as an experiment to check a malig-
nant distemper which could • be referred to
none of the- ordinary sources of disease, nor
prescribed
for on reconized principles. What,
then is the use of condemning now a law which
,
never was
defended on other grounds than those

of immediate exigency, and which is continued'
for a few months longer merely as a protection
for the lives and properties of his Majesty's
peaceable subjects, in those districts where a
lawless insubordinate spirit may impose the pain
of resorting to such a system of coercion. Were
the latter not the case, we should ourselves per-
haps think that a more judicious enactment than
the one in question might be devised. But all
considerations, doubts, or speculations of this
nature vanish, when we reflect that the com-
parative merits of the measure come not rea-
sonably under review. Many of its defects (to
use the mildest term) may have been exemplified
by the evidence before the recent Parliamen-
tary Committee—but the point for decision is not
whether the Insurrection Act be faultless—nay,
whether in any respect it be the best means of
preserving peace and establishing tranquillity in
Ireland—it is, whether having employed this law
heretofore, the Legislature will prefer continuing
it another year, or at the close of the Session en-
deavour to concoct some new empirical Bill to
meet the evils of a few months more, when an-
other and better system shall be brought into
operation. Upon these grounds we deem it sheer
trifling with the Public to dilate on the theo-
retical imperfections, or the practical inefficacy of
the Insurrection Act, at the present moment.

[MORNING HERALD.'
The Scotch Judicature Bill, which passed the
Lords without a division, was last night abandoned
in the Commons. The Lords had treated the
County Courts' Bill in the same way. Here
was a Rowland for their Oliver. One of the
objects of the Bill was to facilitate and shorten
the forms of proceeding which now prevail,
by reducing the quantity of printed and writ-
ten papers presented to the Courts. This im.
provement in the form of Process Mr. Peel would
have passed without any hesitation or delay, but
that, in that case, the postponement might impute
a disapprobation of the rest, which respected
innovations in the administration of justice, by
extending the Trial by Jury in civil cases. Mr.
Peel, who moved the second reading, explicitly
declared that he approved of the Bill, recom-
mended as it was by the Scotch Commission, and
evidently calculated to promote the administration
of justice. lie proposed to abandon it for the
present Session, solely on the ground that the
lawyers and freeholders of Scotland had had no
opportunity of examining its merits. Mr. Aber-
cromby expressed the greatest dissatisfaction and
despair at this course of proceeding. From the
analogy of the Scotch Jury Bill, he inferred that
the Lord Advocate would issue his mandate to
his obedient freeholders, who would of course pe-
tition against the Bill. The promised success of
the Jury Bill he could not anticipate for this
Bill, because the one was intelligible to English
Members, and the other only to Scotch Members.
Thus it was thrown out for this Session. Peti-
tions for delay had been presented from the Fa-
culty of Advocates, the Writers to the Signet,
and the Freeholders of Edinburgh. Mr. Aber-
cromby displayed with triumph the names of dis-
sentient Advocates—Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Jeffrey,
Mr. Moncreiff, &c. On the other side was Mr.
Cranstoun, Dean of Faculty ; but Mr. Aber-
cromby claimed his heart, though his official sig-
nature was necessarily on the other side.

[NEW TIMES.]
Very little business is transacting in the funds
at the present time, and the prices in conse-
quence are stationary. Consols yesterday closed,
after experiencing little fluctuation, at 951- for
account. The Foreign Market continues equally
dull. Mexican Scrip recovered to 1 premium,
and closed at about tsi. Colombian Scrip was
also higher, notwithstanding the exertions of a
strong party to produce a decline. The other
Securities remain at their previous prices.—
Conjecture is busily employed in the City, from
the circumstance of an insurance having been
effected at Lloyd's upon a vessel freighted with a
considerable amount in specie, bound from Gib-
raltar to llavannah, upon account of the Spanish
government. This vessel is known to belong to
a celebrated Loan Co►►tractor in the City, and
various rumours were in circulation from this cir-
cumstance, as to the necessity for so large a sum
in that quarter. The premium was 15s. per cent.