The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN.

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LONDON,
TEEDNESD.,4I% AUGUST 27, 1817.

The Paris Papers of Sonday last, which were
due this morning, have not come to hand.

The following is an extract of a letter received
in town this morning by the Lisbon Mail, dated

August 12 :
" The last accounts from South America men-
tion, that a severe Battle has been fought an the
Banks of the River Oronoko, between the Pa-
triotic and the Royal Forcts. The Royal party
were so strongly entrenched on the grand bank,
that an attempt to dislodge them was thought to
be an hopeless expetiment. The Patriots endea-
voured to gain the other bank of the river, by
which means it was hoped they would be able to
draw the enemy from their entrenchments, where
they could not be attacked but with manifest dis-
adrantange : the artifice succeeded—the Royalists
were thus drawn from their strong holds,
and a general battle was fought, at the point of
the bayonet. The Royalists sustained the impe-
' tuosity of repeated charges with the greatest firm-
ness ; and when overpowered, slowly and reluc-
tantly retired from the field ; at length the Pa-
triots, flushed with success and confident of
Victory, charged the "s- etteathig cuiumns of the

eneniy mionbled fury, and compelled them
to fly in every direction."

Ire refer our Readers to another column in our
Paper, for the CONCORDAT recently concluded be-
tween the French Government and his Holiness
the Pope. This CONCORDAT has been stiled an
;input tant Document by one of our Competitors,
and it is so far important, as it spews the sub-
terviency of the King of FRANCE to the infallible
authority of the Papal See. If the King of a power-
ful Monarchy can be thus submissive to the Head
of his Church, upon points, too, that affect the in-
terior concerns of his own Government, what but
the most bigoted obedience can be expected front
the Roman Catholic Priesthood, and all the Ro-
man Catholic Body, wherever dispersed, if the
SOVEREIGN PONTIFF should issue any decree, open
or secret, against the Government under which
they reside. To give political power, therefore,
of the slightest kind, to the Roman Catholics,
would be to prepare a vital stab to our
present Establishment in .Church and State,
when we consider that the Members of the
Roman Catholic Church deem it meritorious to
keep no faith ►with Protestants, if they conceive
that by any violation of faith they can promote
the interests of that Church, and effect the down-
fal of the PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

AT LIVERPOOL, DATED AUG. 25.

Arrived this day, the Flora, FORSYTH, from
New York, in 28 days—cargo, flour, &c. ; Prince
of Brazil packet, TAYLOR, from Baltimore, in 27
days, with flour ; and Betsey, MERVILL, from
Savannah, in 69 days.
The zirmenins, Eagle, and Protection were to
sail from Baltimore in 3 or 4 days, for this port,
when the Brazilian packet left.
Four ships sailed, yesterday for the States.—All
the other vessels from the States, as mentioned in
a former letter, sailed previous to the 2lst.
Our Flour Market as per last.

The ships Wexford and ffurora arrived yesterday,
the former in the Downs, the latter at Portsmouth ;
they left China the Ist of April, and St. Helena
the 10th July.

We stated on Monday that The Morning Chro-
nicle hnd not ventured to deny any of our facts,
but had founded its reasoning on its own miscon-
ceptions. Our readers will now fudge bow far
we were justified in making this assertion. We
are accused of broaching the absurd (" Mini-
sterial" The Chronicle calls it) doctrine "- that
treaties with Spain are not binding when any
commercial advantages are to be derived from
them by Great Britain, &c." This is twisting.
and torturing the fact with a vengeance ; what
we said, however, was merely this, that bases may
be proposed for a definitive treaty of peace, upon
which. to build a Commercial Treaty at any fu-
ture period, if thought mutually expe►tient, with-
out binding either of the contracting parties to
the acknowledgement of such a measure after-
wards.' To the question put to us by The Chro-
nicle, where those manufactories of Spain are now
earlied on, to which the introduction of British
cottons could prove so destructive, we answer
without hesitation, that they abound in the pro-
vinces of Catalonia, Valencia, Granada, and in
many otheVparts of Spain. We know nothing
of the deserted buildings which The Chronicle
• speaks of at Avila, Cuenca, &c. but we do not
suppose that The Chronicle means to say, that be-
cause some shops or warehouses are here and
there shut up in London, the world is therefore
to conclude that we have no trade. It would no
doubt suit the purpose of the Opposition writers
marvellously well to have this additional com-
plaint to make against the Icing of Spain, that
he had prohibited British cottons from pure envy
and enmity -against us, thereby depriving his peo-
ple of a necessary article of doodling, and hin►-
self of On enormous revenue, only to gratify his
hatted to every thing British. One thing appears
to us, however, perfectly clear, which seems to
have escaped the recollection of The Chronicle,
namely, that either the inhabitants of Spain must
have some manufactures of their own to sopplY
the want of ours, or appear like our first parents,
ADAM and Era, in the Garden of 11:len, in puris
noturalibus. We cannot very well understand
what the Inquisition has to do in a qaestion re-
lative to a Commercial Treaty, or for what pur-

pose The Chronicle has brought the holy tribunal

forward on this occasion. If to prove that the
hatred to British industry is fotnente,i by its mem-
bers, it will be some consolation to The Chronicle,
which we feel pleasure in affording, to learn, that
f►ow the Grand Inquisitor, down to the meanest
Familiar, they are every one of them clad in Eng-
lish broad cloth and English stuffs. It is truly

laughable to hear of the laudable endeavours of
" the Marquis DEL,CmgrO, for the establishment
of a Commercial Treaty, having dwimilticl into soul

post-6{71,2e atid tiee estubl;..:.;l;4vvt.
of packets betwcen Falmouth and Coruntia,"
much diplomatic skill, or any negociatiOn at all,
had been required to point Out the necessity of t
direct communication between the two countries,
after the war with France in 1793 had cut off the
one Avhich had till then c7;isted overland.

The Chronicle iii bringing- upon the carpet the
communications between Mr. CANNING and Ad:-
tuiral APODACA itr NOS, forgets that its observa-
tions of last Thursday, to which we Answered iii
our Paper of Saturday, referred to the Treaty of
Peace in 1814 ; any thing which may have passed
with Admiral APODACA SIX years before, and at a
period when, in consequence of the war,. the sip
tuation of Spain was, as we before stated, totally
different from what it is now, is therefore foreign
to the subject. The circumstance May serve,
however, to spew that the blame, if any, which
now attaches to the King, and draws upon him
the severe and perpetual censure of The Chronicle,.
equally attached to the Government of the Cortes,
which it has so long supported, and exptesses
upon every occasion a desire to have restored.--
The fact is, that unless the Court of Spain could
be prevailed on to disregard the interests of the
Spanish Manufacturers for the sake of ours, and
to establish a Commercial .Treaty upon this Fin-,
ciple, none is necessary fur the establishment of as
unreserved intercourse between the two Countries,

since that intercourse is already existing.
lire have already stated that our observations
on the Fiscal Regulations of Spain refer to a state
of peace ;—the warning given by Mr. PITT 10 the
Spanish Merchants in London of the prObability
of a war with Spain in 1803, therefore proves nt47
thing. It only sherds the attention of the Minis-
ter to the interests of the individuals, to prevent
the recurrence of the losses which bad been sus-
tained by the confiscation of British property on
the breaking out of the war in 1796, and it is but
justice to the Spanish • Government to say, that
such confiscations, on the breaking out of a war
between the two Countries, mid never taken place
in Spain until that Country fell under the infl4.-
enee of Republican France.
We are not more disposed than The Chronicle
to approve of ill treatment to Prisoners of War, cr
those detained in consequence of political disseu-

'ions. .We only quotee, the treatment which the
French received. iu Spain in answer to the pati-
ality stated by The. Chronicle to exist in Spain ita
favour of the French. In canciusion, we must ob-
serve, that The Chronicle must have been very
much puzzled for an answer to our arguments, to
have had recourse to Such tar•ietched and inte4r.
Tant matter as it has brought forwai di on this cc-

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