The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-21 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

Dutch Papers were received this morning.
The .chief article, Which led to a long and not
very interesting discourse, is as follows :
" Bitussm.s, MAY 17.—The Second Chamber
of the States.-General continues to be engaged, in
a Committee of the whole Chamber; in discussing
the articles of the new Civil Code. From the
great extent of this 'important work, and the at-
tentive discussion which the various articles
undergo, it will occupy a considerable time.
" The cause now pending before the Court of
Assizes against the Vicar-General of the Diocese
of Ghent, which has all along been considered
as important, attracts a much higher degree of
attention since the commencement of the public

proceeakigS of the Court. It was known that
M. Goethals was accused of having published
an inflammatory letter of the Ex-Bishop, and
Messrs. Martens and Boussens of being accom-
plices in this proceeding; and, secondly, of
having all three, in October 1820, spread 'mates,
accounts, and news, tending to alarm itnd dis-
turb the public, and of having at the same time
committed acts tending to excite amongst the
inhabitants disunion, mistrust, and quarrels.
" HAARLEM, 1111 Y 16.—Accounts from Stock-
holm, of the 4th, say, that the Crown Prince has
had a slight relapse. The physicians have ad-
vised him not to attend the.camp at Liukopping."

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

BRITISH WEST INDIES.
FLOUR FOR THE TROOPS.

COPY of a Letter from Mr. Tni-soiti addressed to GEORGE
ILeiftersgx,,Esq. dated 20th February 1821, relative to The
preparation of Flour for the use of the Troops.
"London, `February 20, 1821.
Slll,—Havin# been informed that it is intended to kiln-dry
flour for the service of the troops in the West Indies, I beg
leave,with very great respect, to observe, that kiln-dried flour is
discoloured and bad flavoured.

Flour, to be kiln-dried, would have to be decomposed, to be
packed, after having been packed, and be packed again. It is
the opinion of learned men, that the decomposition of' flour ad=
mits of the air to impregnate, by which insects are generated ;
to my humble capacity it causes waste, expense, and delay.
The American method of manufacture is approved of in the
West Indies.

In the United States., wheat' hich is intended for exportation
in flour, is kiln-dried previously to being ground, to prevent
any latent ill effects from moisture and ammalculte. It is to
be observed,- that wheat is kiln-dried in the husk.
The-meal being dressed, and while at the mill, is, at the
proper time, compressed in-barrels of a fixed cube measure,
winch is convenient and customary, contains 14 cwt. This pro-
cess is no less simple than altogether understood in the British
flour trade.

In the West Indies, it is considered that flour .keeps better
in wood than in sacking ; indeed a flour sack is of a spongy
texture and a sultry warmth ; • and flour "should in every situa-
tion be preserved from wet and moisture, and no -where with
more caution than at sea, and in a warm temperature.
It may not be immaterial to observe, that the ordinary price
of a flour barrel at New York is one shilling and one penny
halfpenny English the wages of cooperage,-however, are pro-
bably no where so low at this time as in the south of-Ireland,
from the diminished demand for cured provisions. •
In the year 1816, I had the honor of suggesting to Mr. Her-
ries, that the troops in the West Indies might be supplied from
the port of Limerick, which is the principal outlet for Irish
corn, and that port of the United Kingdom most contiguous to
the West Indka, and the cheapest corn mart.'
But this suggestion had more for its object to encourage the
manufacture of wheat in Ireland.

The principal consumers of the bread corn exported from
Ireland are British manufacturers.- Were Irish wheat manu-
factured in Ireland, these manufacturers, instead of paying for
the land and sea conveyance of five bushels of wheat, for in-
stance, would only pay fur the conveyance of one hundred
weight and three quarters of flour, added to which, they would
be relieved from the payment of the additional labour which is
employed in the conveyance of the more bulky commodity ; be-
sides, the manufactures of corn and live cattle are the only
manufactures which are or can be cheaper manufactured in Ire-
land than in Great Britain. •

To prohibit the importation of Irish- wheat in the raw state
would be of mutual benefit to the Irish, corn growers and the
British manufacturers; the prohibition could only be preju-
dicial to an intermediate class, the British corn dealers.
I have made inquiries (since I made- the suggetiein to Mr.
Herries) in the United States, and I 'ain humbly of opinion,
that no other process of manufacture than the American will be
successful. British flour contains more substance than that of
the United States ; it produces more bread, and of a superior
quality-;_ however, it is prepared for immediate home consump-
tion, and not for exportation.
Should it be considered necessary to have the flour inspected
previous to being shipped for the troops, I would pray the
]tight Honourable the Lords of .the Treasury for that employ-
ment ; but I am not competent to interfere in the manufacture.
I have the honour to bit.. with the greatest respect, Sir.
tatinnie servant,
Geo. Harrison, E. (Signed) K. TRENOR.

THE COLONIES.
NEW BRUNSWICK.-TIMBER DUTIES.

To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of
the United Kingdom ol Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia-
ment assembled.
The joint and humble Petition of the Council and Assem-
bly of the Province of New Brunswick in General As-
_ sembly convened, _ . .

Most respectfully shewcth--That your Petitioners contem-
plate with deep anxiety and concern the subject referred fox
final decision to the consideration of the Imperial Parliament of
the United Kingdom at their present Session, involving the ques-
tion of exemption from duty of, timber from this and his Ma-
jestv's othet Provinces in British North America.
that a discontinuance of this exediption or any relaxation
of the existing duties upon foreign timber imported into the
United Kingdom from the North of Europe, would, as your
Petitioners humbly conceive, be destructive to the welfare and
prosperity of these provinces, and more especially of the pro-
vince of New Brunswick, which, although hitherto highly fa-
voured by the fostering care of his • Majesty's Government, of
which a grateful recollection will be ever cherished, has from its
earliest establishment struggled with fortitude and perseverance
against difficulties peculiar to the settlement of a wilderness by
unfortunate exilei from their native soil, on account of their un-
shaken loyalty and attachment to their King, and the British
Constitution and Laws; difficulties, from which they have
lately been gradually emerging by their successful and almost
unexampled exertions under the salutary provisio'ns of diverse
acts of the British Parliament, more especially under the pro-
tecting duties, which by the wisdom of Parliament have been
imposed, and hitherto continued upon foreign timber, a diseon-
tinuance of which, at this time, would plunge them again into a
state of suffering, from which there is just ground to apprehend
that they would abandon all hope of being again-relieved.

That your Petitioners; with all humility, beg leave to
-bring unacr the consideration of your Lordships, that the
efforts which have been thut successfully made,. have not
been merely' beneficial to the general welfare of this with
the other Colonies,,but have materially 'contributed 'to the
maritime gratness, and to the :connnercial and manufac-
turing interests of the United Kingdom, by the great num-
ber of ships and seamen, altogether British, employed in
this trade.' and' by the returns for the timber, which have been
exclusively confined to British manufactures and other articles
supplied from the British market, both which sources of national
wealth and greatness would instantly be cut off' by any altera-
tion in the existingstate-ekfthis qade,, Which would favour..the
competition of foreign nations With his Majesty's loyal colonial
subjects.
-

' 'That your Petitioners feel a. just confidence that the great
principles of the navigation laws, upon which the naval superio-
rity and 'commercial interests of the BritiSh Empire are founded,
and by which its agrieUltural interests at home have been sup-
ported, will not be suddenly abandoned for a system of untried
maxims, so contrary to the successful_ policy in this regard,
which has hitherto distinguished -the, counsels of the British
Government, and calculated, it is to be feared, in the first in-
stance, to ruin many of the most valuable dasses in the com-
munity, if not ultimately. to sap the foundation of British
greatness. -
Your Petitioners, aware of the discussion which this subject
has undergone in much abler hands, by whom it has been con-
templated in all its various and extensive bearings and relations,
and of the attention with which it must have been examined by
the enlightened and distinguished Members of the British Par-
liament, will not presume, by enlarging upon it, to trespass fur-
ther upon the time of your Lordships on this occasion, but will
confine themselves to an humble representation of the ruinous
consequences which must result to the interests of those, for
whom they now most respectfully solicit the interference of your
Lordships to save them from the evils which they dread from
any alteration of the existing laws• upon this important branch
of British commerce, so essential to the welfare of all the British
North American Provinces, in whose behalf your Petitioners
most humbly pray that they may be heard by their counsel at
the bar, Ur in the committee of 'your Right Honourable House
upon any Bill that may be •dependiiii, for the alteration of
the duties in question, and that the advantages and preference
secured to his Majesty's loyal subjects in these provinces against
foreign competition, by the wise policy of the existing laws in
this regard, may be continued.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
JOHN SAUNDERS,

President of the Council pro temporc.
W. BOSSFORD, •
' Speaker of the Hous.i of Assembly.
Fredericton, Nor Brunswick, March 19, 1821.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS).

Ella 21.

•
TlNte.s.
;If the averts made to redUcelthe,public expen-
diture Serve no other beneficial purpose, they at
least tend to enlighten the country as to the cha-
racter of those majorities by which reduction is
resisted ; and the only rational argument dedu-
cible is, not that the estimates are proper because
they are so voted, but that a reform should take
place in that body which can carry through esti--
mates so disproportioned to the situation of the
people. indeed, any independent man had
been previously. of opinion that the estimates
were proper. and reasonable, he would surely
begin to suspect the justness of that opinion,
when he discovered that they could only be car-
ried by a phalanx of placemert. Buonaparte's im-
perial guard, the old and the new guard, were
better clothed and paid than' the rest of the.
French troops ; but then 'they were always re-
served for services of extreme danger and hard-
ship., In the same manner are certain adherents
of Ministers, old and new, excellently well pen-
3ioned ; but they also must fight on occasions
where men of more scrupulous feelings and more
regard for public opinion do not wish to appear.

[MORNING POST.]
We have received a variety of interesting in-
telligence . by the Foreign • -Mails of yesterday ;
but the most important is that which relates to
the unhappy state of Spain. In the Sitting of
the Cortes of the sth inst. the Minister of the
Colonies delivered a Message from the King, on
the subject of the atrocious inurderof Vinuesa.—
(See another column .of TILE SUN.)—The evi-
dent fact is, that there is something radically
wrong in the new Constitution of Spain ; and
that the measures at present pursued or tolerated
are alike dangerous and unjust. The experiment
of a democratic revolution is, howeverrmost pro-
perly left (as should be the case in so large a
country) to work its own way to confusion, with-
out controul or interruption from ether, States ;
and to that result, to the operation of the experi-
ment, with the fullest facilities for all its pro-
cesses, we repeat, let it be left. It is due to so-
ciety, that where ill means are employed to an
ill end, the mischief of the means and of the end
should be shown to revolve directly upon their
contrivers, and indirectly against those who
stand tranquilly by to see such things, and who
need a lesson from some inconvenience against a
continuance of their torpidity ; and a short time
will probably shew that•the means of the Spanish
Revolution are as dangerous to their authors as
they are unjust to their victims.—We shall take
an early opportunity of pursuing this important
subject. At present we have no room for any
further observations.

[3IORNING CHRONICLE.]
We cannot help thinking with one of our con-
temporaries, that a more wicked and unjustifi-
able invasion of the rights and privileges of Eng-
lishmen was never attempted, than that in the
Newington Select Vestry Bill, which is every
way deserving of the most serious attention of
the people of every part of the country. One
of the most important of the rights possessed by
the people of this country, is that of controuling
in the different parishes-the sums which it is re-
quisite 'for them to raise for local purposes. This
right; as is observed by our contemporary, is " as
well established by law, as the,right of the King to
the. Throne, or of the Peers to sit in the House of
Peers, or of the Members of the House of Com-
mons to sit. in virtue of the choice of the various
constituent bodies.7-7The importance of this
right is best proved-by the abuses which are wit-
nessed in those parts of this country where it does
not exist. The Magistrates of the Scotch Burghs,
for Instance, who are self-elected, and not ac-
countable to their fellow-citizens, and have the
power of imposing rates for. local purposes, over
which the citizens possess no controul, have al-
most uniformly abused their trust in the grosstat
manner, wasted the. funds at their disposal, and,
in several cases, deprived the most useful chari-
ties of the funds bequeathed for their support,
and besides contracted enormous debts. A sys-
tem nearly similar to that of the Scots Burghs is
now attempted to be established by the Newing-
ton Select Vestry Bill. One hundred and six of
the Parishioners, with the Parson'of the Parish
(whose name is Onslow) at their head, come to
the House of Commons, praying for the appoint-
ment of a Select Vestry, not chosen by the Parish,
and that the Members of this Vestry may, like
the' office-bearers of the Scots Burghs, have power
to name their own successors, and to raise as
much money on the Parish as they please,
and in what manner they please, without being
obliged to account for it to the Parishioners.—
Against this Bill there are nearly WOO rarishion-
ers, 106 of whom are rated higher than their
opponents, in the ratio of four to three ; and thus,
whether numbers or property be taken as the
criterion, we find the balance strongly against
the proposers of the Bill. What, then, is the
pretext for this daring attempt to deprive the
Parishioners of Newington of so valuable a
right as that of controlling the expenditure of
the money raised upon themselves? We blush
to think that such a pretext should be listen-
ed to for a moment in the House of Com-
mons. There are parties, forsooth, in the Parish,
and once or twice there has been great.
noise in the Vestries, which are held in the
Church ; and parties being a bad thing, and
noise in a Church being incompatible with the
sanctity of the place, it is_expedient to disfran-
chise the majority, and to place the power in the
hands of the minority, which, it is supposed, will
put an end to parties and to noise in a holy place.