The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

ME DICUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sitt,—As Mr. Fox Malik appears to treat the subject of
military flogging so lightly, in reply to the humane inquiry
proposed by Dr. Bowring in the Commons' House of Parlia-
ment, permit me to propose that the Hon. Member be re-
quested to receive only twenty-five lashes, instead of 150,
from the same military butchers who so generously but-
chered poor White, and then perhaps the Hon. Member will
speak of military flogging in a much more feeling and
humane way, and will doubtlessly use his Parliamentary
influence for its immediate and total abolition.
Military flogging has very long been considered as a disgrace
to a civilised, professing Christian country, by every reason-
able and thinking individual. Is there a man in England
who will dare to swear that poor White's death was not
caused by the flogging? Would he have died without the
flogging? That is the question for Mr. Fox Manic to an-
swer, and the people of England will be satisfied as regards
poor White —I am, Sir, &c.,
July 24, 1846.

A CONSTANT READER.

TO THE LORD JOHN RUSSELL, Sze.
My Lord,—l again address you on behalf of my brother
colonists, for the delay of the objectionable measure now be-
fore the House places another day at my disposal.
My position as the representative of a Liberal constituency
and division of an important county demands that there
should be nothing left to conjecture which may elucidate my
severance from your Lordship at a time when there is so
much confusion in the State. My duty to my country,
county, to you, my long adopted leader, and to myself, alike
call for the most ample explanation.
I still draw my exposition from the colony with which I
am so well acquainted. In Berbice there have been 472
sugar estates granted for cultivation, extending over the dis-
tance, more or less, of 250 miles up the river. Of these all
are now abandoned but 35.
These 35 estates in the last year made 8,800 hogsheads of
sugar; and if you will permit us to obtain labourers for our
hire, these estates can be made forthwith to return 35,000
hogsheads of sugar, buildings and conveniences on the spot.
It I understand you correctly, you stated that all the free,
colonies together were incapable of supplying the sugar re-
quired for the mother country; but, on consideration, you
wail see that my colony of lierbice, let alone her sisters in
13rifish Guiana, Demerara, and Essequibo, if simply placed in
due position to receive your free -trade principles, would cover
a vast extent of the demand.
The 472 estates quoted by me, extending over 259,500
acres, every other acre being made to return one hogshead of
sugar, would give, errors excepted, about 130,000 hogsheads
for home consumption.
If this would be the case, and my argument be correct.
why are the constituencies of this country to be led astray by
the assertion that we, the colonial children, are unable to
maintain our parent in the sugar she requires to reduce her
prices and keep her alive without the free admission of the
produce of the foreign slave ?
Test our capabilities by affording us the full and fair
means of honest exertion and emulation, and if we are found
wanting, then dismiss us as an useless appendage to a great
nation, but do not condemn us without a trial.
I bow, my Lord, to your decision, that the cry of imtno-
rality cannot be fairly raised to prevent the admission of slave
sugar; we have transgressed all moral defences on that head
too much in cotton, wool, &c., to make such reasoning avail
us now • and I, for one, will wear on my arm no shield
with the durability of which I am not conscientiously ac-
quainted.
I simply and steadily call on you, my Lord, for protection,
and for protection only, till you enable us to obtain labour
and render it available.
Your relieving us from local restrictions in our markets,
though it sounds well in the ears of casual listeners, and
people unacquainted with the true worth of the relief, is
scarce a boon at all when compared with the injury and ruin
your political measure will inflict upon the helpless, who cry
alone for simple justice.
Unless we have labour, all you offer is but as a drop of
moisture thrown into the ocean ; your gifts will be lost and
swallowed up without raising the tide of our affairs above
the miserable low-water mark to which it has been so long
and ruinously levelled.
Had labour been afforded us, as I prayed that it might
have been, in 1840, by this time Berbice would have been a
flourishing colony, ready to receive and embrace your free-
trade principles, well able to compete with all the nations in
the world from sources sanctioned by law human and divine,
an honour to herself, and a splendid support to the mother
.country. The navy might have beon manned from her
sailor school, and her innate colonial demand for the manu-
factures of this country been of the most remunerative de-
scription.
asr &benefit ; and,
We, the West India body, hive been reduced by faulty
legislation to an evil, instead of kept
good intention
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for the
future struggles.
I do not hesitate to charge against the splendid fact of
abolition of slavery, that, under legislative error,_ it has been
made to increase the horrors arising from forcible man-cap-
ture instead of diminishing them. I affirm that a wide and
general free-labour system would have done more to diminish
the trade in slaves than all the cruisers placed upon the
various stations put together.
While it is not yet too late let me impress upon the Go-
vernment the crying necessity for a system of free labour.
guarded as you like, but full, free, and sufficient for all pur-
poses of culture. I call on you, my Lord, for it, in strict ac-
cordance with your liberal principles! Let the market be
open, let us be free to procure labourers whencesoever they
will come. Your door at home is not shut against the artisan
from any country, though you need them but for luxury;
the foreigner in the colony Is necessary to our very existence. -
then we have a better right that he should be admitted. We
demand that the Croomen, and all other free tribes, of what-
.soever sort or locality, shall be allowed to accept our offers if
they approve of them, you, my Lord, taking good and tuffi.
cient care that your immigration agents in all the British
colonies should watch over and carry out the fair principles
a free-agency between the employer and employed.—lour
most obedient humble servant,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
Berkeley House, July 24.

DEATH OF SIR ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, BART.—WC
have to record the decease of the above Baronet, who expired
at Garscube, North Britain, on Thursday, at the advanced
age of 77 years. The deceased was son of the first Baronet,
the Lord 'President of the Council of Session, better known as
Lord Succoth. He was horn in 1769, and married in 1795
Miss Balfour, eldest daughter of Mr. James Balfour, of Bal-
birnie, Fifeshire. In 1809 he was appointed a Lord of Ses-
sion, when he assumed the title of Lord Succoth, and subse-
quently was made Lord of Justiciary. In 1823 be succeeded
to the baronetcy on the death of his father, and in the fol-
lowing year resigned his appointments on a pension. The
late Baronet is succeeded in the baronetcy and family eatatea
in Dumbartonshire by his eldest son, now Sir John Camp.
bell, born in 1798, and married in 1824 to Miss Sitwell,
daughter of Mr. F. Sitwell.
THE GOODWOOD CUP.—This piece of plate, which
has just been completed by the Messrs. Garrard, of the Hay-
market, from the design of Mr. Cotterill, is an exceedingly
rich and elegant vase. The lower portion consists of a nobly-
shaped cup, and the upper of a flagon, around which is re-
presented, in complete relief, the picturesque mythological
tale of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster.
This is executed in Mr. Cotterill's best manner. The grace-
ful form of Andromeda, the beauty and spirit of Pegasus,
and the terrible figure of the sea monster, form rich and
agreeable contrasts; and the artist has displayed great
judgment in so balancing the different masses of the compo-
sition that whatever view is taken of the vase it presents
symmetrical, though diversified figure. The whole
.is
richly adorned with tastefully designed and elaborately
finished ornaments ; and the Goodwood Cup of this se
aten
_seta
may safely be pronounced one ofthemdost chaste and
racing plates which have been pr oduce of