The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-21 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, FEB. 16.—Accounts from Flushing
say--" The tortifications and means of defence in and
about this fortress are to he considerably increased ;
heavily armed block ships stationed in the rivers are to
hinder the approach to the town; we also hear that the
place is to receive a numerous garrison, and be well pro-
♦isioned. The Eurydice, Comet, and Proserpina men-
of-war have a'ready resumed their stations in the Scheldte,
and the itedusa bomb boat sails for the river to-day.
Great numbers of seamen continue to offer in all parts of
the country to serve as volunteers, on board the ships
lately put into active service."

General Caunt Orloff, Aide-de-camp of. his Majesty the
Emperor. of Russia, intro-ted with a special mission to his
Aliijesty the King of the Netherlands, arrived here on the
night of the 13th.
Bors4.E•Duc, FEB. 18:—The Prince of Orange and
Prince Frederick leave us on Saturday next to go to the
Hague. The Duke of Saxe Weimar and Generals Meyer
and Constant Rebecque are now in this town.
ofNothing certain is known here respecting the forming
camps or the removal of head-quarters.
11BEnA, FEB, 14.—Acconnts from Zealand of the i,2th,
srcak 1,1 a resolution that h;:s been taken to arm all the
forts that are in our possession along the Scheldte, and on
to
thestren coas
wte of Dutch Flanders and elsewhere, and still farther
niehed gtith canhen thnot re ose that a already garrisoned and fur-
alml'ohste:hifi
PlesbeviTieing to the squadron in the Schehlte have
' follow. *whirl, and the remainder will speedily
Tbs reports from the 4th and 45th districts continue to
announce that every thing is quiet : in the 4th district a
reinforcement
of troops is zis ked e lgians °4
part ofth
at
intic), 8... e frontiers at West Caprllethand Watervliett ahre
our"otiter.
there tneeQueVoinlerit front Nimeguen informs us that
in the
entarenn assetalige of the troops is spoken of, probably
in this a'6,l camp near that city, the measures taken
fore to , other parts of our country seem, thete
fi.r important tte that immense preparations are making
roachin
a ppg
spring, tbeu
centa in the course of the
hostile attael without giving reason to imagine that a
trArY, their uP°,3 Belgium is intended ;a; the con-
an attack. k'ouies seem rather to be precautions against

THE (11'41 the Journal de la Hoyt.)
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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 21. 1832.

I The late insurrection in Jamaica is a fresh
proof of the urgent necessity of putting an end
to the anomalous state of things which has too
long existed in our West India Colonies. It is
not only the present disastrous consequences of
the occurrence that are to be lamented, but the
almost certainty of a repetition of similar cala-
mities, unless the social relations in the West
Indies can be placed on a footing altogether dif-
ferent from that on which they have hitherto been.
The proximate cause of the disturbances ap-
pears to have been the indirect zeal, to use the
mildest term, of the Baptist preachers. These
Ministers of Religion seem to have considered it
a part of their vocation to inflame the passions
of the ignorant blacks to a degree to dispose
them to the destruction of the property, and the
endangerment of the lives, of the planters. The
Missionaries are reported to have filled the
minds of the negroes with false and exaggerated
reports of the determination of the British Go-
vernment to emancipate them forthwith, and to
have acted on that principle of the necessity of
agitation which has excited so many tumults in
Ireland and elsewhere. We do not quite go the
length of the Jamaica Courant, in hoping
" that the bodies of all the Methodist preachers
convicted of sedition may diversify the hanging
wocds in St. James's and Trelawney," but we
cannot sufficiently deprecate the fanaticism that
has stimulated these Ministers, calling themselves
Christian, to the instigation of the roost abomi-
nable of offences against society.

There is no pretence for denying the justice
of the claims of the negroes to that freedom
which is the indefeasible birthright of man, and
of which no municipal laws can ever authorise
one class of men to deprive another under any
circumstances whatever. The broad principle of
natural liberty is too strong and too sacred to be
shaken by any of -the devices of oppression, of
however long endurance in law. Butt if the
slaves have a right to their freedom, there is a
duty incumbent upon them as well as upon
others, to submit to moral restraint and to a
sense of duty which ought to dictate to them
that resistance to the laws is always criminal, and
violence always abominable and wrong. If the
ignorance of the slaves be such that they cannot ,
comprehend the force of moral restraint, the fault
becomes the graver in those who excite their]

unruly passions to actions which they are not
able thoroughly them elves to consider. The
physical condition of the negroes is by no means
a bad one, and their moral one depends wholly
upon the state of their mental capacities.
the friends of freedom, on the one hand, urge,
unceasingly, upon the Legislature, the justice and
wisdom of negro emancipation, they are entitled
on the other hand to protest against all prema-
ture attempts by the blacks, and their associates,
to take by storm and violence that liberty which,
in the fullness of time, will be granted and
secured to them by the law.

The Government has instituted inquiries into
the state of the colonial trade, which must
result in proof that that trade has been reduced
to utter ruin. It has, we fear, reached a crisis,
at which recovery is next to impossible. Ex-
cessive duties on colonial produce, excessive
charges added thereto, in the shape of commis-
sion and so forth, by mortgagee-consignees in
England,—the carrying on the foreign slave
trade to a great extent—and the successful con-
curl ence in the market of the almost unlimited
proguce of foreign colonies—are among the
causes which seem to have affected the West
Indian interest with a permanent and increasing
depression. The planters and the slaves are,
at this moment, equally disaffected towards the
British Legislature; and if to that Legislature
is attributable some supineness, in allowing the
evil to grow to tie bead it has reached, there is
imputable to the colonists no small portion of
ignorant selfishness, and to the emancipationists
no trifling amount of hastiness, and sometimes
even of fanaticism, in pressing their great ques-
tion to a premature crisis.

The Paris Papers of Sunday, with the Even-
ing Papers of yesterday's date, have been re-
ceived. They contain no further news of the
cholera being in that capital, but the Govern-
ment were adopting the requisite precautions to
meet the evil, should it appear. Paris continued
quiet. If we may credit the news respecting
the interference of Spain in the affairs of Por-
tugal,. the Northern Powers are to back FERDI-
NAND. This will of course produce a collision
with France and England—a circumstance not
very probable in the present " good understand-
ing" of the respective Powers :
(From the Quotidienne of Feb. 18.)
LISBON, FEBRUARY 'l.—According to letters from
towns on the frontiers of Spain, it appears that the
local authorities, in conformity to the instructions of
their Government, continue to arrest all who at-
tempt to throw discredit on the entrance of the Spa-
nish troops now in cantonments mar our frontiers.—
A secret fermentation reigns in our capital, in
consequence of the intelligence we receive. Don Miguel
seeks to inspire his partisans with confidence by his fre-
quent journeys from Queluz to Lisbon. On the Ist of
the month he came to the Palace of I3emposta, on the 2d
he as,isted at a ceremony in the Chapel of Aguda,
and on the 3d he went to the church of St. Lucia to cele-
brate the feast of St. liaise. He would have been at
Lisbon to-day, no doubt, but for the arrival of a packet-
bout from Ensland, with dt.spatches from M. Ribeiro
Sataida, Charge d'Affaires of Don Miguel at London It
is said that these despatches relate to the island of Ma-
deira. A Council was held on their arrival, on the break-
ing up of which a vessel was despatched with letters to the
Governor of that island.