The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-10 00:00:00

to" OF A PROTEST PRESENTED BY THE WEST
I-VDIA MERCANTILE BODY OF LONDON TO THE
iIIGHT HON.'LORD VISCOUNT GODERICH,APRIL
6, 183.
" We, the undersigned West India merchants, after
f(fving the most serious and attentive consideration to tlic
et of the the King in Council of the 2d of November,
i'll
,831, and to the correspondence of the Secretary of state
"the 0! •• • . i'the ' '' -of the lr I
, ',nips wtt i ,overnora
N, aiid w.th other parties interested, as appears in the
741lers printed by order of the House of Commons on the
of I) cember, 1831, and the 15th and 16th of March,
18, are of opinion—
' That the said Order of the King in Council is unjust
14(1 oppressive, inconsistent with the Parliamentary Reso-
"ions of 1823, and destructive of the rights of property.
cs That the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to pro-
Ne to Parliament to adopt fiscal regulations for the pur-
P!Ae of coercing the Legislative Colonies is cruelly oppres-
...e to the colonists, in the state of commercial distress to
which they have been reduced, and is in itself a course of
Policy time most deplorable, not only from its having been
virtually abandoned by Parliament during the American
Revolution, but because, in the present dangerous and ex-
Cited state of the Colonies, it is calculated to produce no
other effect than the ruin and destruction of the proper ty of
the colonists, and ultimately the degradation and barbs.

ism of the negrr." popUlation.
" That all attempts to induce his Majesty's Ministers to
nrsue a more safe and prudent course of policy in the go-
vernment of the Colonies having hitherto failed, it becomes
our duty to protest against the sa'd Order of the King in
Council, as regards the Crown Colonies, against the appli-
cation of fiscal regulations for the purpose of coercing the
Legislative Colonies, and against the arbitrary interference
with the rights of private property, without first providing
a Parliamentary Fund for compensation; a course which
has always been adopted with regard to property in this
country whenever it has been interfered with for public
Purposes; and, if the principles of justice are to be impar-
tially maintained, the same course ought to be adopted
with regard to property in the West India Colonies, which
his been acquired and is held under the same sanction of
law that all property in this country is held.
" We therefore throw the responsibility for all the con-
sequences of those proceedings upon the British Govern-
ment, and transmit this memorial to the Secretary of
State fur the Colonies as evidence of our protest and claim
of compensation for any loss, deteriora,ion, or destruction
of property vested in the Colonies, under the sanction of
the law, that has been or may be incurred in consequence
of the measures pursued by his Majesty's Ministers.
Colvile and Co. Manning and Anderdon
W. Fraser, Alexander Neilson, Cavan, Brothers, and Co.
and Co. Beckford and Rankin
.:'homson, Hankey, and Co. Hawthorn and Shedden
Hankey, Plummer, and Wilson Davison, Simpson, and Davison
G. W. S. Hibbert and Co. William Morrice
Davidsons' Barkly, and Co. Brooke, Smith, and Co.
W. R. and S. Wilson and Co. Alex. and Jas. Campbell and Co.
John Deffell and Son Chauney and Lang
John Henry Deffell and Co. Thos. and Wm. King
Nelson, Adam, and Nelson Timperon and Dobinson
narles and Win Armstrong T. R. Bartrum
Hall, M`Garel, and Co. Archibald Paull
W% Vaughan John Tunes
rnggin Whiteley, and Co. John Kingston
Gordon& and Co. Ede, Bond, and Pearse
A. Stewart and Westmorland Augustus E. Fuller and Co.
Alfred Latham Thomas Daniel and Co.
Alexander Grant Robert Wm. l'ulsford
John Mackie and Co. Fullarton and M'Donald
Cottam and Mortan Rainey, Bruce, and Co.
Robert Shedden and Sons Moens and Dauncey
Boddington and Davies Judah Cohen
Thomas Todd and Co. S. Baker, Phillpotts, and Co.

ASMoDEUS AT LARGE."—The public are
tor the third introduced to this very amusing and communica-
tive devil in the present number of the New Monthly Magazine,
and will recognize in his renewed flights the same alternations
of gaiety and reflection, and the same spirit of free inquiry
into passing topics, as before. His visit to the King's Theatre
is full of point and purpose, and his hit at " Managerial Mo-
nomaniacs" will probably be relished by all but those immedi-
ately interested.

Au Act to regulate the making of bread in
Ireland, directs that all loaves shall be sold by weight, and
shall be composed of nothing but flour of wheat, barley, rye,
oats, buckwheat, Indian corn, peas, beans, rice, or other grain,
or of potatoes, mixed with common salt, pure water, eggs, milk,
yeast-barm, leaven, or potatoe-yeast. The Act does not extend
to fancy bread, although we should think that these ingredients
compose all the varieties at least of any wholesome fancy.
A paper has just been laid before the House
of Commons, containing an account of every increase and di-
minution of expenses in all the public offices, during the year
1831. The increase amounts to 87,389/. 19s. 6 and the de-
crease to 261,1714 16s. 5 thedifferenceofl73,7Bll.l6s.ll d.
is the only saving to the public. The principal diminution has
been made in the Naval Yards, the Customs, Excise, Ordnance,
and Commissariat departments.
The following are the returns of our effective
land forces in the West Indies. The amount would seem sufficient
to suppress any apprehension of the success of negro revolt
:
Alen.
962