The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-06 00:00:00

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I'Ylllnber of THI!, COLUNIA.. joi.;IN.IIL,
beliii0_11ot41:(1 a, a v:iiiiaolciieliodicid %%•(,;K:
'chi; .1\1;1111116er COlttillll9 several Artielts nigtily

tetestwg to those concerned in trade w•it:;
ern Anicrica, those who cuntelliplate a removal to

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North Amelica, those who tiiihk :11,:t oue of the

most effectual remedies for the distres,e4 0;. the
poor, and the heavyheo of the Poot's Rates.
is to be found tti CLONtz.vr:or::, nnfl, not least,
those connected with the British West Indies.—
lre shall, however, give the best idea of the na-
ture of the Work, in the Preface to the thiid Vo-
lume, which we now subjoin :

" The interest which irresistibly attaches itself
to the objects presented by this publication, has
much rattier increased, than diminished, since thit
recent commencement of our labours. `'Abe Co.
lonics,' says a contemporary observer, 11.4va
o,,en that plai.•e,H in. the attention of the world,
which, for five-and-twenty years was filled by !tie
French revolution' (1). The Cobrutes of •Spain„,
in Not di and South America, have, by the trouble 4
of which they have been so !wig the theatre;
given this direction to the politic inindi the re-
pose; to which &trope herself has at last attained,
affords leisure for the contemplation and the lutist-
ence- which the Colonies, Irons ther
imagnitude
are able to exercise upon the fortunes of their pa-
rent States, and upon all States together,
them forcibly into view, Os furnishing quetions iti
general politics. The Colonies, therefore,; are, at
this day, entitled to, and receive, the regards, not
of those only who are immediately connected wit tl
them, but of the European public at large, and,
for obvious reasons, of the British public more es-
pecially.

"To this universal attraction of the affairs of
the European Colonies, few things areelikely to
coon-Unite more actively titan the writings of the
Slime Author whose words have jitst heels cited, (2)
and %chose views; hardy and extensive, are not
the less adapted to a favourable consideration,
from foreign countries, because they are ent;neotiV
hostile to the grandeur of Great thitain. That
politician, alto' poortrayitte, in warm colours,
the iinporeenee of the Colonies in genetal, to the
welfare of Europe in general .; after desctibing
England as the sole .Colonial power, (die soe
power possessed of profitable Colonies, and the
.sole power that is capable, from the wisdom of
her Colonial principles, to maintain Colonies,)
goes on to insist Ott the right of Europe in the
total, as paramount to the rights of particular
States, to the administration of airtilS iu which
Entope in the total is so iareely interested ; Hod
that as Weil in what relate,;•
to questions already raised, as to gnestioska
which he wottlti liatte rai•ed to succeed them,
he would commit to a CoLc) NM. CONGRESS,
to sit to Europe, and to he composed of
the European Powers (3). Front the principle
sought to be established by the formation of sftch
a Connress,.(to say nothing of the avowed ob-
jects of its deliberations,) Great B itaio, as a Co-
lonial power, must for ever 4iisstrit ; but aimed, as
,that principle is, against the ascendancy. of Great
Britain, commercial, maritime, sod, political,. it
does not the less follow, but that soolrer ter later,
it will be seized upon by her Ilya's, arid employed
asaweapon of offence. The discussion of sack a
principle, in the mean time, brings the Colonies
into the comment eve of Europe, and renders their
concerns a part of ordinal y
" But it is not the trounles of the Spanish pos-
sessions alone, that turns, at the present moment,
in an unusual deg.:cc, the thoughts of &trope to
the Colonies. .Civilization accelerates, at all
times, the progress of humati increase ; men,
assembled in too great numbers upon any given
spot, become hurtful to each other ; and Nature
has taught the natural remedy,----in dispersion,
Or, by another term, in COLONIZATION. It is in
this manner, that from the beginning of time, the
earth has been progressively peopled. But the
operation of the principle, which is perpetual, is
itself liable to acceleration, from the influence of
circumstances and events ; and circumstances and
events, of the description in view, have occurred,
and are now existing, in Euror.e. Of the motives
for Colonization, such tts ougtit to govern indivi-
duals and states, it would be too long to enter, in
this place, into a review (4) ; it is sufficient to
observe, that they are now in actioo, and that
their effect cannot fail to produce a feature in A
Colonial Journal of the day. To those who
would direct the instinct of colonization for tha
welfare of their country; to those whose loura•
fury seek to make it beneficial to the individuals
tliatare to become the actors in it ; isod to those
who are to embatk, perhaps their property, Dna
certainly tl:e hopes of their lives, in the adventure,
an intimate ecquaitottoce, if procurable, with the
circumstances. phys',cal ann moral, of the coun-
tries that are the seats of the Colonies, of the
prospects of success \Odd) are presented, aed of
the limitations, many or few (but always of im-
portance), with which those prospects are to he
understood, most always be desirallle. That spe-
cies of knowledge it is one of the ends of the Co-
lonial Journal to collect ; the present et-dame, its
particular; has sonic pages whicli'atruld valuable
contribut•ons toil 5 and those which shall sue.
reed will always be compiled with an *eat nest
anxiety for its increase. The prospects of new
settlers in British North-America, the (It sesiptim,
of settler ho mac plottliSe thettlS;;lVeS SllcetSS,
rite particulates of diffiwe, 'soil, and agrietilture,
&c. are, under this head, among the subjects

(1.) Trois Derniers Mois VAr.ierigue M6riJionale, Sm.
4'12) M de Pi.ii:t.
3) Dtts Colonics, et de ;it 11611.11tioa Actitelle de 1./Imo-i-
-gl/. Set pitc,c NI of this voitt Dlr.
(4) For some review of the'sre tootives,and for a practical ia-
forceinent of theiti,see, Propos.ll for .2,itahl.staing, in Lorntun,
a new phiiiiiithropichl and patriotic Institution, to he [cal!cd
the patriotic Metropolitan Colonial lastitutiop, atS..&c.
E. A. Kendall, sti. F. A.S.

4nlitiPtl to Ortmlhr iktention, te,iclertit
1". Iti H nnriicular manner, by the circumstances

of tire moment.

The value of the ColonLd Journal, as a me-
dium of t-orrinTnnication between the Colonies and
/he Mother Country, and lictween the Mother
I..:,nntry and the Colonies, reciprocally, was
ii,•C't!it noon at its outset. The importance of this
coAimunication is obvious, even under the single
of assisting. eini,,4ration,—an act whic„).l,
when judiciously conducted, iS sJibSetVient to the
)velfarc, both of the Colm&s, and of those who
-repair to them; hut, when otherwise, is often as
iiThir.ons to the former, as it is fatal to the lat-
ter (3). lint this is no more th:ta a solitary ex-
a.op!e. A special vehicle of communication be-
-I‘.vt en the Colonies and the Mother Country, and
;cc' cetct, by iht-ans of viiich their mutual ac-
-9n iintunce tn,iy he promoted and increased, is al-
w:,ys of importance. It is eminently so to the
T.Hrish Colonies in the West Indies, the peel'.
.liaritv of who-se situation, and the existence of
partidor circumstances, render an increased in-
tercourse with the public at home most earnestly
to be soue.ht fir. Their prominence in the view
of the Mother Country, and their own close ob-
servation of what is passnig here, are particularly
demanded, at a t•inte when a public and powerful
association in England (the AFRICAN INSTITII-

-trot`). is distinctly avowed to have, for one Of
its '‘ leatliNg objects," the purpose of a control
• over communities (6) ; when ;hat associa-
tion,' in its zeal to degrade, awl then subjugate
and oppress, the Vest India Colonies, has had the
audacity. or the infatuation, to set before the
British public, that which, in the ►violation of
trnir or its own Directors, is " preposterous scan-
day " impossible to be credited by any rational
mind (7) ;" when six thousand copies of that
4‘ preposterous scandal"—that libel, so pro.
nuanced by a Court aitd Jury—have been distri-
buted by the-it association, iu all directions, in
all parts of the- kingdom (8) ; when a conviction

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and punishme►►t of the agent of that association,
:cud the most- solemn reproof, by an English
Judge, of the immediate conduct of that associa-
tion (0), have been no more than the signals for a
rye,"" outrage (10) ; and when a conviction for a

-libel, 'woo the island of Antigua, is followed by
a fresh libel,•ottered against the island of Barba-
d es (11). Such are the incitements, in this
view, to the continuation of a periodical and per-
manent Journal at the Colonies, in which, amona
other things, some efforts, however feeble, may,
firm time to time, be made, and those efforts he
placed upon record, against the ceaseless attacks,
either of unblushing falsehood, or of insidious
misrepresentation."

(5) In those cases, in which the industry of the Emigrant
-is not available fur the benefit of himself, he becomes a bur-
den to tho Colony, where, in many instances, a ntnuerous
poor already i equire rep f.
(6.) See the printed Speech of Mr. Stephen, at the annual
meeting of the African Institution, 20th March, 1817,

page G.
(Tt r. Stephen's Speech, p. 49, note.
(s) See the Report of the Trial of the King v. Hatchard,
page 4t5 of the present volume.
(9) S.•e Mr. address on pronouncing the
judt,,aient of 111 V Court, at page 511 of this A-oluate.
(:o) The reader aiJI wake hi, own comment on the fol-
lo‘Aing passage, extracted from Nlr. Stephen's Speech, ohnve
refereed to Strangely ignorant must that man he, of the
manners tit' the West ladies, and of the evidence of incon-
..twstible aluc.idv before the (public, to suppose either
cuttiose.Getaleuvui ,:Mr. Wilberforce or Mr. Stephen) could,
tvittr a view to iojnre the character of the Colonies, think
s:/o•oi eo-th ineeatiag; for, to whtt,in that respect, Biel
it toot tt, !pit that some ~,;10..:1 had whipped his slave with
inlumoinity, in:l that a Gt:irt;! .fur-y iii tire. /rest ludies, liad
the .wo out a bi:l preferred against him for that offence!"
7%iis is the story of which Mr. S. is is just before said, " It
may recur, to he sure. impossible, that such preposterous
scandal could he credited by any rational mind.' Mr. Ste-
phen's Speech, page 49. Note.
(I I) ldeti,p 11.