The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-10 00:00:00

[THU . TIMES.]

Our long extracts under the fiend of West India
Policy will be read with general interest. It is
plain that Government has had to encounter great
difficulties, in endeavouring to act upon the reso-
lutions of the House of Commons. There is no one
measure of prudence, benevolence, or sound po-
licy,no symptom of regard for religion or humanity,
which has not drawn down the animadversions of
the Colonists or of the Colonial Agents, as
diminishing the value of West India property,
or menacing the lives of our countrymen resident
among the islands. In their communications
with the Committee of Correspondence, and their
demands upon Lord Bathurst, the colonial agents
press into notice the necessity of adopting some
plan for the restoration of tranquillity and credit
in the West Indies. For this purpose grave com-
plaints are made, and various measures are recom-
mended. It is stated that "dangerous impressions
66 have arisen in the minds of the slaves, from the
CC resolutions which were passed in the House of
" Commons last session (1823), and from the
" consequent dispatches of the Minister to the

" constituted authorities in the Colonies." The
agents inform the public, that the above docu-
ments have been intercepted by the Negroes at
announcing that their emancipation is to ernana te,
more or less immediately, from the interference
of Parliament—an idea which had lowered the
price of property—rendered life itself precarious
—destroyed all confidence between master and
slave—produced a general disposition to turbu-
lence, Which was manifested by actual conspiracy
and insurrection—and called for a reinforcement
of troops to keep down the rebellious spirit of
tho Negroes. Lord Bathurst consented to
issue a proclamation, denying that his Ma-
jesty had grunted or offered freedom to the
Blacks; and declaring that they would for-
feit all claims to theltoyal protection if they should
fail to render entire submission to the laws, and
dutiful obedience to their masters. His Lordship
does not notice, and is reproached with omitting
it by the agents, the demand for more troops, to
extend and prolong the means of coercion. But
while they are thus decided as to the use of
strong and bitter medicines
dicr are equallyr
inesfor tt distemperedarreetto
Negro, these gentlemen
disavow all partnership with that respectable body
of West Indians at home, who had suggested to
the King's Government measures for the " addi-
tional comfort, intellectual and religious " kn.
provementond extended privileges of the slaves in
the colonies." A mild and salutary regimen like
this last, the agents are not a little anxious should
be left implicitly to the adoption or rejection
of the colonists, while the harsher diet, of threats
and soldiers, they wish Ministers imperatively to
prescribe. Now, with regard to the prevailing lau-
gunge of some West Indians, that the multiplied
protections, the increased indulgence, and reli-
gious instruction held out, or actually provided
for the Negroes, are to be reprebated as eu-
that
couraging amongunhappy race the hope
of emancipation at a future period, end leading
directly to such a result, all wise and bene-
volent beings, on the other hand, consider the
projected measures of immediate improvement as
chiefly to be valued for the sake of that very
freedom to which they so naturally tend—a con-
summation, until the arrival of which' the foul
and unchristian stain that now pollutes this em-
pire,
itio4reevpeerl bt
let e octi tregrea to
tf' di
ctoi rs
i sit'ientgi tlaiui be
selfish-
ness, in adjuring so often the spirit of liberty,
and the rights of two great quarters of the globe;
while those of Africa (and we may add, in a pa-
renthesis, those of Asia) are made a prey to the
most sordid and uncommiserating of human ap-
petites.

Lotto COCIIRANE.—We have before us a letter
from RIO Janeiro, dated the Ist ult., from which we copy the
following :—" Lord Cochrane, has lost here much of his influ-
ence. An affair lately took place which may induce him to
leave the service. About ten days ago a Brazilian frigate, corn-
mended by a young Englishman named Orenfelt, arrived from
Para, having 'on board a large sum (perhaps 200,000 dollars)
resulting from the seizures made at Para, soon after the affair
of Illaranharn, when Cochrane got possession of about double
that sum, which he has ever since retained, upon theplea that
he.wouldaccount for that money when his IVlvesty I)on Pedro
would account to him for his Portuguese prizes. Soon after
Orenfelt came to anchor he went on shore to see Cochrane, and
whilst he was absent, Pedro the First, having been advised of
the money being on board the frigate, went in person and ab-
solutely took possession of and brought on shore the whole of it,
together, as at is said, with all Grenfelt's papers, &c. This
joke, so constitutional, and so dignified, did not please my
Lord Cochrane..: lie told his Majesty next day that he bad this
time -4.out-generalleti him.' Poor Orenfelt, however, who en-
joys the reputation of having been the cause of destroying 252
Brazilians at Para in October last, in the hold of a vessel, has
disappeared, and whether he be concealed by Cochrane, or on
board one of the British ships of war, is not known."--{From
the National Gazette.)

COI '
V}A, SEPT. mostmelancholy accident
hr!s just happened here. As Cu tuus LAm BERT,
Esq. of Osborn.hnuse, and his second son, a
youth of about 18 years, were bathing in a ma-
chine, the youth, who could swim but little, got
out of his depth, and sank toirise no more ! His
father, in endeavouring to save him, would have
been drowned also, had not the guide got hold
of him just as be was sinking. The body was
brought up by a young man, a gentleman's ser-
vant, who (lived several times, and at length suc-
ceeded in finding it. It had been above un hour
under water, and the vital spark was gone. It
is not easy to describe the feelings of the parent
and two brothers, who were eye-witnesses of the
dreadful catastrophe.
Thomas Coombs, charged with having shot
James Morgan, at Battersea, was yesterday re-
examined at Union Hall Office,
when, after a
number of witnesses had deposed,he was remand-
ed to Thursday.