The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-23 00:00:00

PIZO\ANcIAL iouitl•-L‘Ls.

it is fair to presume, that had ti e. sentiments
the Pt:INCE RECOUT been those of loi(plahijud 31)-
probation, Sit' ItALVH Woof) Pain) would have
Promli!i tend triumphantly proclaimed them to
the lishabitants,of Trinidad ; and vet, when the
last accounts came from the Island, they wet e still
kept hack in mysterious and suspicious silence.
Vour old Correspondent aFsi..rts, that this Me•
imolai is the production of " it cabal against the
Goverwsr of 'Trinidad-, tortned by
.a set of men
who have disturbed the peace of that colony ever
since it became British, by an idle and senseless
clamour !fn. the introduction of British" !au s ; that
the Spanish Code of .jurisprudence is almost di-
; and that Tsioidad makes advances to consi-
deration and prosperity, unexampled in the his-
tory of British Colonixatiotl." 'llse hest of these
assertions is. disproved by the tistinerous and
unanimous petitiOns for British Laws, and re-
monstrances against the existing system, which
have been presented Iro's ail p.rties interested
itt the Colony, .as I haVe already stated.—
The divinity of Spanish Laws ve as first set up by
a party, (sue of whom.lsas declared, " His Ma-
jesty's Ministers will let us adopt almost any
measures we please (re,spectiug Africa), pro-
vided we will bat sate them the trouble of
• thinking..'! These Gentlemen have shown as
eager a desire to govern the West Indies as
Attica ; hut have happily been disappointed in
their attempt. They persuaded his Majesty's
l‘liuisters to reserve Trinidad as a farm of expe-
rieac'ut ; and prefer Spanish Laws to British Laws,
because the latter would he an insuperable bar to
the. continuance of their experimental system.
Wihh regard to the 8 dva,nces made by the Colony
io considera,ion and prosperi-y, as none know
vAtere the shoe p'neites so welt as those who wear
it., the pries who haee•property in Trinidad will
rrols,bly be thought better jndgys than your Old
(.;(wresvondent. I shall thesetore give their sen-
timents, its opposition to ,his, a,,d .leave your
Readers to decide. for themselves. With this
view, I ropiest their attention to the foll Owing
Ressolut hnts, with Which I shall Conclude this
letter:—

We feel great pleasure in extracting tke ft,l-
- just and- eaniiitl article trout the Bristol
Journal of Saturday last,- as we may fairly infer
that the sentiments which it contains are conge-
nial wirh those of the great Commercial City in
which that Journal has so long cojoyed a high
and well-tnetired reputation :

RVEROSPECT.

" We should he grossly negligent of our ditty,
did We not attempt to lay hetore our. Readers a
short sketch of the Parliamentary Session just
terminated—a Session which, we will venture to
say, has been surpassed by none in our legislative
•
histot y, for integi it y of principle, firmness of con-
duct, or importance of result. Never did the Le-
gislature more ably or more conscientiously dis-
charge tbe functions of is high trust ;----never did
it merit warmer g v,p,it nth., 01. steadier attachment,
either from Sovereign or People.
lVe cannot have forgotten that gloomy at-
mosphere of misety and discontent, with which
the . I3st winter closed ; that cheerLss fog and
haze of doubt, which magnified terror and relaxed
exertion. Nothing was alive and active, but the
venomous reptiles of disaffection, and sedbion,
and.treason. To sneak without figure, the poor
were distressed, the rich alarmed, property of all
kinds depreciated ; commerce and agrictainre
were stagn.ant, and though cash was sthundant,
yet the Stocks were muchlower than the state ort
he money-market seemed to
.justify. Of the
causes, which. had led to this state of things, we
need not now speak ; but it is certain that their
evil effect was infinitely aggravated by the Sedi-
tious Press, which had gradually preintred the
minds of the lover classes for Revolution, amd
which was aided in its endeavours by the imbeci-
lity and folly of some less criminal writers.—
Bence proceeded, in regular gradation, spiteful
and vindictive calumnies against individuals in
office, daring libels on all our admirable instill,-
i Lions, insults on the Legislature, in the shape of
" At a General Mectiag of the Planters and Merchants in- 1 petitions for Parliamentaiy Reform, audacious ha-
terested in the Island of Trinidad, held at the City of Lon- , rangties of p min g :it e vill,iiiis to large and seditious
doll Tavern, on Friday, the 6th of Julie, 1817 ;
.meetiegs, secret consiiracies to undermine the
.Totem MaaavaT, Esq. M.P. in the Chain principles of loyalty, morality and religion, riots,
" Resolved Unanimously,
ons, plunder, bhuulshed, Still at last a
" Th at since the cession of Trinidad to the Crown of Great : inSurrecti
Britain, the continuance of Spanish Laws has been a subject Sanguinary outrage directed against the very life
Of repeated complaints, both-front the Inhahitants of that ;01 the Prince Regent, at the moment of his lis-
t olony and the British. Merchants connected with it; and dinr.ri 1„ ~., . f' the hi,oicst functions Of: sove.
that these complaints -have. increased, in proportion as the I . • t+ I 6 "" "
stature and erects of those Laws hare been better ascertained -; reignty.
:itui understood. 1 " :7:Oill were the auspices under which the late
" That Spanish Laws otter no security for the property of ; session 0. Parliament was opened. It was a time
his Majesty's Subjects; that they oppose great and, in some ,
cases, insuperable obstacles, to the recovery of justlichts ; iof fearful augury ; but the hereditary and repre-
thar they are destructive of credit, more partieolarly reqoi- I sent ative Legislators of the realm were not to be
site in every young Colony, and which in every country is - (let ei.i.vd ',ow their great task by unpropitious
given in proportion to the facility,vith which debts can be .
reovi red; and are injurious to the valne of pro rtv, hich °"I"S• 'rhey addressed theinsei Ye!)b the con-
e propPty, w
under the present system has been already depreciated, audis ; flirt with those Powers of Darkne*vhich had
atiti .leprectating 'in a most alarmilt4 degree. '! so diabolically laboured to destroy 'Constitti-
" That these evils have been increased by the various, sad i
in many instances, contradictory constructions given to those , Linn—and Tii E CoNSTITUTIoN WAS SAVED.
Laws, by the different persons appointed to administi•r them 1 "It is well worth while to trace the progress
since the cession of the Island ; and that the difficulty of 1 „f this great work ; and to observe how its sue-
finding mitish Subjects sufficiently acquainted with Spanish ;
law• huts led to• • the necessity ut appointing F„„.4o,ers to CesS gradually re-animated the whole tramp Of So-
high judicial situ.atioos in the Colony, in the capacity of as- 1 cloy, and catised those holies to bud and blossom
tie,sors, upon whose advice the deci-ion of all important.' a-fresh, which seemed to have been blighted to
cases hi the highest. Court of the Island depends. Exec tit ive Government felt,
"'chat repeated-assurances have been given by his Majesty's 1 the vury ""t• . The
Ministers, that it was n,,t their intention to continue the ad- 1 that at such a June; tire it should candidly an
rather
d cor-
mitiistratimt of Spanish Laws in Trinidad as a permanent 1 dishy unite itself with the Legislature, mud
sl,sttan, particularly by Lord llotiAttv, in his Letter to (hover- I
nor HtsLor,, dined (ire •2.4 .4 February, 1803, which expresses consult the sentiments of the latter, than dictate
the anxiety of his Mai*. •ty's Ministers to introduce into the the weas,ires ot a policy which might at first sight
}stand of I'r.oll-lid• with the least !iossible delay, so 'ouch of 'appear harsh and severe. Ministers, therefore,
Site Laws of Great Britain as may be judged expedient fur the
- came down to Parliament, with the important in-
security of the persons and property of his Majesty's subjects, • . • •
and fur the general advancement of the interests of the Set- •: formal ion which they possessed, and which Was
Clement; by Lord CAmocN, at a conference with a Deputa- l only ut a nature to be laid, on this, RS on all
trail of the .aleiViants of London, in the year 1805; hy his ,A. • • . -.. •. ,• •
M.,IJESTY himself, in the year 103,1. •l' I before C
it being declared hi the ; 'comet• occasions of a Sim I at sin( , ow-
l'reatult!e to Judge Ssturies Commission, that it was exne- 1 IllitteCS of Sect ecy.*Those Committees were coil]-
client that Spanish Laws should remain in force until a Go- 1 posed, in both Houses, of the most distinguished
vermuent and Laws for our Colony of Ttinidad could he • d• • 1 i i
frathed; and by Lord LtYcIIPOOT„ ill a Letter from Mr. PEEL, ;In tvu.tia s o all p:irties ; and they were rinani-
wr.tten under his Lordship's directions to the then Agent 1 mous In ICC° nnuending that . the Crown should be
for tint Colony, and dated the 6th of March, 1811, scat-
invested with ex:raordimary powers for the sup-
lag his Lordship'a wish to come to an early decision up-
•I, pression of sedition. In consequence, the Bills
on the question, to what extent it may be advisable to
alter the present administration of justice in the Island of ! ftgai Wit Seditious As,,eniblies, agaillSt seducing sol-
Trinidad, and upon the nattire-oLthe alterations with which diet's from thelr allegiance, and for the protection
it maim he moat advisable to continence. I of the late of the Prince Regent, were passed with-
" That under some or other of these assurances, many !Sri- 1
tish subjects have been induced to invest their property in 1 out opposition, and the Suspension of the Il:theas
the Island of Trinidad, and therefore are justified in calling 1 Col pus Act was adopted by very large ainficont-
- - - ' lid the seirctions

upon his Majesty's Ministers to adopt measures towards ear-
vying these assurances into effect.
" That to remove any objection to the establishment of Bri-
tisir Laws in the Island of Trinidad, and to guard against
aoy ejudkes which may exist with respect to the provisions
or those Laws, as administered in the other British Colonies,
tins Meeting think it necessary.to declare, that they will cor-
dially concur In any rezolations consistent with the rights of
p y which the Legislature may think it necessary to enact,
for the protection of the free people of colour, and the moral
improvement of I he.slaves.
" Th-at the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Members
of the committee appointed by the Landholders of Trinidad,for
their various representations to the Secretary of State for the
Col,nia! Diiart went, on the subject of the Spanish Grants,
rim! f.r heir statement, dated the Ist of November last; and
that they he requested to make such farther Representations
and Statements, either to his Majesty's Ministers, or to Par-
liament, as:lli/war to them best calculated to obtain redress
of the grievances under which the Inhabitants of Trinidad,'
and the British Merchants connected with that Colony at
Present labour.
" That a Copy of these Resolutions be sent to
the Fo•it Lotd of the Treasury, and the Secretary
of State for the Colonial Department.".
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
July 21, 1817. ONE OF THE TRINIDAD 'MEETING,

Tarp;, on Sunday morning last, Jontil...lttowti,
r.“l. of Oieenockmains, was killed by his own
ball. The du:vial first attempted to attack a boy,
who flea out of his way, and next attacked the
ni..sttr with such a deadly aim near the heart, that'
though the family were in a tew mioutes alarmed,
and cAtrien hint home, he was only heard to utter
()lie word, and died in a few minutes. Abottt six
xrctlis hrtore Giibtrt Anderson, a farmer in
thesame neighbonthood, was also attacked by
his t.Wli bull, and besides having one of his legs
brokt. was otherwise very much bruised.—He
is., how evt.r, i.appily recovering. Neither of the
l,an before shorn any vicious habits.—
Joa,afei.)
About three weeks ago a young lady of great
rPcnr,:!mbility (21 years of age) bathed at BO-
•,a1 vrton, in the initldie of the day, and dried
t,sit i,i.mediately in the sun, which was then
d;lr!ing its !;!.!iitiiat»'.ys with unosind. fervency
she ,v;,; ,hortly afterwards taken ill, anti synip-
ton., of it :aui:y were apparent the ensuiht.: day•
continued ever since in a most ;Haan-
,;! at e of mental derangement.

manding .majorities, In vain s.
Papers, and their supporters, the weak and in,
becile Prints, exclaim against a measure necessar.
to the public peace. Parliament and the Nation
went hand in hand with the Government, Libels
were restrained. The chief I,heller, Cobbett, fled,
in terror, to America. The doctrines of Annual Par-
liaments and Universal Suffrage were every where
held up to ridicule and contempt.----Such were the
measures which, it may be sand, were essential to
the safety of the Constitutioo. •
" lis the Administration of the Law many im-
portant changes -have taken place, 'by the new re-
gulation for'facilitating the transaction of bits'''.
IIeSS in the Courts of King's Bench aml Exche-
quer, by the Statute for correcting the abuse of
Extents in Aid ; and in Ireland by the Bill for re-
gulating the Presentments of Grand Juries. The
ennemliatatiOts ca.ttle haws affecting spiritual per-
sons, has placed also the situation of the"Ctergy,
on a better and more intelligible tooting.
" The great hopes of sedition were •built on
the actual sufferings of the Poor ; these therefore
it was a great object of the Legislature to fathom,
and as much as possible to relive. Bence was
appointed a Committee of well-informed indivi-
duals to investigate the system of the Poor Laws,
allowed On all hands to•be defective,
.or inappli-
cable to the existing state of society. The former
Committees on Education and on the Police of
the Metropolis, were also revived, and continued
their labours with new industry. A judicious and
benevolent plan was deVised by the Minister, and
adopted by. Parliament, for issuing Exchequer
Bills to be applied to the employment of the Poor
in various works of public or private utility in the
United Kingdom. flabits of economy were also
encouraged in this class of society, by the laws for
the promotion of Saving Banks in Great Britain
and Ireland ; nor should we wholly omit to no-
tice a law tending to ameliorate the condition Of
a very depressed class of poor; we allude to the
Bill for abolishing thy. practice of sweeping chim-
nies by distilling boys. The Poor, too, !mist be
indirectly benefited by the attention that has been
given to the encouragement of the Fisheties. A
great question, that of the exportation of Cotton
Twist, has hecn brought also to the notice of Go-
vernment; and we bc,pe its a future
.Sussion will

THE SUN.

sotr.n Qt? DICEISS,.,.FALSUM AUDEAT.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY,, JULY 23, 1817.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. Under the head Bourdcaux, an
Extract is given 'cit Trivate Letter from Lisbon,
dated 2d instant, respecting the restoration of
the Royal Autho'rity at Pernambnco, but it con-
tains nothing new, and Huh beyond tlie announce-
ment of the fact, which has been already detailed in
various. shapes.. Three near relative's' of some of
the Insurgent Chiefs were, it is said; arrested, and
immediately put to death. There is DO deliuite
statement in any of the actotinti hitherto pub-
lished of number of the InSurgents, or of
their Chiefs who escaped into the Interior, nor is
'any thing said as to the means.. they might possess
either of making a 'stand or of exciting Insur-

rect ion.
The Bulletins continue to give very nearly the
same favourable account of the health of the
Duchess tie BERRY.
The following are Extracts
pmus, JULY 20.—The Duke of Wellington

arriyed here yesterday evening.
" The French Colonel Brun, Chief of the In-
surrection at Grenoble, has bven arrested at Genoa,
at the moment he was about to embark for Ame-
rica with' five five of his accomplices.
Lacy has arrived at Majorca, where be is to
wait the result respecting his sentence. The