The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-06 00:00:00

FRO2t! TUI FRONTIEP-S OF POLAND, OCT. 20.

As the greater part of the Lithuanian corps of the
army has now taken up quarters in the 'kingdom of
Poland, the total amount of thP troops now as-
sembled in it is between 70 and 80,000 men ; the
priu•Lipal portion stationed along the southern fron-
tier. Notwithstanding the prohibition to export
corn to Turkish pot's, the price remains high as well
at Odessa as in South Russia, Podolia,&c.; undoubt-
edly because the great demand for the army is ex-
pected to supply the loss of those markets. Even in
the fertile provinces of Great P.ussia, as Kerc3k,
Orel, Wuronesch, &e., the speculators are buying up
corn to be sent to Odessa, as soon as the roads are
practicable for sledges.

A letter from St. Roque of the 16th oh. re-
presents the fever at Gibraltar as still increasing,
and that in one.day 43 deaths had taken place,
being the greatest number of sufTerers since the
commencement of this fatal disease.

The following is from Brussels Papers of
yesterday's date, received this morning. The
war in Jr; ;a seem.; to he as endless as the climate
is unwholesome :

BRUSSELS, NOV. 3.

The Java Gazette of the 26th June, announces
the departure of Lieut.-General Van Geen, who
returns to the Netherlands, after a stay of eight
years in Java, where he has performed important
services, but greatly impaired his health.
The number of the 28th June contains a report
from the Lieut.-Governor General de Kock, dated
Magellang, the 17th of June, from which it appears
that our treops were engaged in erecting intrench-
ments in (damping, and that on the 12th June they
had had a serious engagement with the insurgents,
whom they succeeded in dispersing. Capt. Kruse-
man was slightly wounded in the leg, and some of
the allied Javanese troops killed. It seems also that
the enemy make frequent but fruitless attacks to
hinder the construction of the entrenchments.

Another dispatch from the Lieutenant-Governor
General, dated Magellang, 19th June, states that the
insurgents had made a vigorous attack on the posi-
tion held by the Pangerang Afangko Dinigrat, our
ally, on the left bank of the Progo ; at the same
time a body of 500 of the enemy attacked the camp
of Major Bauer, but were repulsed with loss. The
construction of the entrenchments continues. The
same number states that the rebels had been driven
beyond the frontiers of the Residency of Pekalongang,
after having reduced to ashes the village of Goenong
Coegel.

The Java Gazette contains detailed instructions
fur the propecatiQo Qf the Napal plant and the CQ-

\ •

s

•
chineal, Bad she rawyke of naturalising tlao pleat and
the insect in the island of Java.
In the Second Chamber of the States-Genertal
yesterday, a prcieet of law was presented for raising
an additional loan of 15 millions of fiorin,..: if_r the
East India colonies, to be guaranteed by the state
in the same manner as the prewiing town of W")
j

1 ~:~+-GW

The present Number of " Blackweecel's Maga=
eirie" seems deeply infected with all the pre--
ve!ing faults of this formerly spirited but now
feeble publication. Besides the Noctes it con-
tains eleven long articles, most of which are dull,
containing little amusement and still less instruc-
tion. We admire the easy and playful effusions
of a fertile imagination, but we are soon wearied
by elaborate vivacity and studied salliee of plea-
santry. Now this is the character of all the
fanciful effusions in " Blackwood's Magasine."
They are stiff and constrained ; they have no
ease, sr natural grace ; and there is in all the
sketehes which are given of life and manners a
coarseness and an extravagance which own:::
propriety, and go entirely beyond the modesty of
nature. In those, more especially which are in-
tended to be humorous, every thing is over done
and carried to an extreme ; quantity is substituted
for quality ; and there is a quaintness, a conceit,
! and frequently a vulgarity and a grossness, which
is revolting to good taste, and reminds us of the
laborious efforts of would-be humorists ; a
monthly contribution of merriment is too heavy
a tax for the moot fruitful imagination. Hence
the stream has run dry, and vain are all the
attempts to replenish it from artificial channels.
We need not enter into any particular examina-
tion of the articles which compose the present
Number. Those on the subject of Ireland are
in the usual strain of irrational violence and
abuse of O'CONNELL, SUEIL, and the Papists,
as they are called. The article " Shakspeare,
a Tory and a Gentleman," is diffuse, desultory,
and frequently not very intelligible. That "On
the character of Hasnlet" has the usual fault
of inordinate length, while nothing new is ad-
vanced on this hacknied subject. " The recol-
lections of a Poor Proscribed Animal, written by
himself;" extends to the length of twenty pages,
and seems throughout a mere tissue of unalloyed
absurdity. The " Shaving Shop" is also long,
and inexpressibly vulgar and senseless—all the
vivacity, in short, which formerly distinguished
this publication seems to have evaporated : there
is one account of a Journal in the United States
of America which is amusing; and the " Duellists"
displays talent and consmiderable powers of de-
scription. We may observe, however, that the
remarks on America breathe a spirit of national
animosity which cannot be too strongly dis,
couraged ; the comments also on the American
tariff lately adopted, and the occasion thence taken
to oppose the principles of free trade, deserve some
notice. The writers itt " Blackwood" triumph
greatly because America has taken up the system
' of commercial reitri-ctions which Great Britain
has thrown away. But what does this prove,
except that monopoly being always for the in-
terest of a few, these few have persuaded time
American Legislature to sanction their selfish
views. Do the philosophers in " B-laekwood."
mean to argue that it is for the advantage ef the
Americsan people that they shieuid he compelled
to buy dear goods from their countrymen, rather
than cheap goods from Great Britain ? That
this is advantageous to the few who sell is obvious ;
but is it not in the exact proportion injurious to
the many who buy ? and whether, setting aside
all consideration of justice, a Legislature should
consult the interests of the few or the many,
we leave our readers to judge. America finds
monopoly a necessary defence against the supe-
riority of tie British manufacturer. The rude
American artisans are undersold on equal terms
in their own market by the greater skill of the
British ; and they require prohibitory duties to
shield them from the unequal competition. But
because they, on account of their weakness, shrink
from the contest with Britain, and impose re-
strictions, is that a reason why Great Britain
should follow the example, and also impose re-
strictions ? Is the policy of the stronger and
the weaker party the same ? If America is
forced to defend herself, by monopoly, against
the too powerful competition of Britain, is not
this a clear proof that Britain requires not the
aid of these contrivances; and that what may be
useful to America for her own narrow objects,
would he a mere encumbrance to Britain ? As
to all that is said of the progress of art and in-
dustry in America, does any man imagine that
improvement ran he prevented among an enter-
prising people? Those who believe this must
have more faith in the effect of human contriv-
ances to controul and keep b.ick the energies of
a rising people than either reason or experience
seem to justify.

Hamburgh Papers of the 30th ult. contain
the following article upon the unequal duties of
Norwegian and other timber :

LOWBR ELBE, OCT. 21.

It is affirmed, that on the 12th inst. the Hano-
verian regiment of infantry entered the district of
Thedinghausen, belonging to Brunswick, and was
followed on the same day by a detachment of Hu-
lane. The consequence of this military occupation
is looked for with impatience.

CHRISTIANIA, OCT. 18.

Before the opening of the late Storthing in March
last, M. J. H. Thorne, of Drammen, inserted in the
mercantile journal of that place an article tending to
prove the absolute necessity of doing something in
favour of the export trade of timber, which seeme to