The Sun.
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only 5,000 feet, there being only two sands E.N.E. of
F, where there are only 21 to 4 fathoms water.
F. From the buoy F to G. and as far as the Rustring-
siel Augsentief S. E. Width of the strum 7,000 feet, '
and before the Rustringsiel Augsentief only 3,500 feet ;
depth of the stream 5 to 6 fathoms.
G. From the Rustringstel Augsentief as far as the .
buoy 11, S. by W. Width of the stream 3,500 feet; depth
5 to 84 fathomss.
H. From the buy II beyond the Rel buoy, as far. as
the White buoy, S. by W. Width of the stream 4,000
feet; depth 81 to 3 fathoms.
• i. From the White buoy as far as the Vareler Roads,
S. by E. E. Width of the stream 2,500 feet; depth 3,
2i, and 14 fathoms.
Of these buoys, the one marked Jahell will remain
moored during the winter ; the buoys 2to 7 will be re
placed in the beginning of November by Bojin, the
buoys Bto 12 will be then removed altogether. All the
buoys removed in Noveisber be replaced in spring,
as soon as the weather permits of it.
In order to cover the expenses of these buoys, a ton-
nage of eight groten (gold) for each oat last of the
burthen of a vessel entering the Jahell, will be levied.
Such tonnage must be paid to the receiver appointed by
the bailiship of Minsen by all vessels of five oat lasts
and upwards, whether they seek a place of refuge, or
freight, or to dis•clirirge their cargo, if they come to an
anchor in the Jahell south of the black buoy Sub.
No. 7, or if they visit a port or er,ek of the Jahell.
Each vessel will, however, only once a year be liable to
pay tonnage.
All bailiships bordering on the Jahell are hereby
ordered, at the request of the lawful receivers of such
tonnage, to assist in levying it in the same mariner as
other public taxes, and to decide on cases of dispute ac-
coriing to the foregoing regulations. From the de-
cision of such bailiships, an appeal can only be made to
the Government.

Grand Ducal Government.
(S:gaed) NIUTZENBECIIER BUCIIOLTZ.
Oldenburgh, June 4, 1844.

ANOTHER CASE OF PIRACY AND SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
SUPPOSED MURDER. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
Within the last day or two -letters have been re- GLQBE.—The bombardment of ;Tangiers by the
eeifed front Dundee, communicating to the under- Prince de Joinville's squadron, intelligence of which
writers information respecting the brig Hannah, be- reached the British metropolis yesterday, and was
longing to that port, from which strong suspicions are announced in the Globe, seems to have taken all par-
apprehended that the captain, Mr. Lowther, was mur- ties by surprise. Hostilities between France and
tiered by the crew, fir the purpose of possessing them- Morocco— vvhich it was hoped and believed had
;elves of the vessel and cargo, but afterwards their been averted by the interference of Mr. Drum-
plane were frustrated :by the hip becoming leaky. mond Hay—have actually commenced. " The dogs
The particulars, it appears,_ were brought over by the of war" have been let loose ; and the capital of
Hibernia, steamer, from the Lloyd's agent at Quebec, Morocco is laid in ruins by the cannon of France.
and are as follows : Another difficulty is thus created in the pending
On the morning of Monday, the Bth of last month, negotiations between the Cabinets of England and
when the.harque Scotland, William Hamilton, bound France ; from which we sincerely hope the two
to Quebec, was within ten hours' sail of that port, two countries will, by the wise policy of their Ministers,
boats were discovered several miles to the leeward, be extricated, without being involved in war with each
The captain, suspecting they belonged to some ship- other. Such an event cannot be too strongly depre-
wrecked vessel, immediately bore down and picked sated. The discharge of the first hostile cannon in a
them up, when he ascertained that they belonged to dispute between France and England, from whatever
the brig Hannah, of Dundee. The boats contained cause it might arise, would be felt as the shock of an
seven men, and the statement they made to Captain earthquake, by every civilised nation in the world.
Hamilton was to this effect : The interests of every Power would be effected in a
.. They stated that on the night of the sth the greater or less degree, in proportion to their local posi-
Hannah encountered a heavy pie of wind, and on the tion upon the map; nor could the most far-seeing
following day it was found she had sprung a leak, statesman set limits to the extent of the hostile
for there was upwards of two feet of water in her operations, nor predict the duration and effects of
hold. They all turned to the pumps, and finding, the conflict. Such are our deliberate and deeply-
after twenty-four hours pumping, that the water, felt opinions respecting the consequences of war
instead of diminishing, had increased several feet, between France and this country. It may fairly
they urged Captain Lowther to take to the boats, be asked, why the hostile position in which France
which he refused, Saying there was a chance of saving and Morocco are placed toward each other, should
the vessel, and that he should not leave her. create fears that England will become involved
.There being nine feet of water in the hell then, in the contest? Are not the two former coun-
they determined to leave the vessel, and launch- tries completely independent Powers ? May they not
ing the two boats, which was all the ship pos- quarrel and fight, if they please, without involving
sessed, they jumped in and left her, leaving the cap- England in the strife? The question, in this abstract
twin, without any possible means of escape, on board. form, seems capable of an easy and satisfactory reply.
It was then twelve o'clock at night, and at daybreak There is nothing in
necessaril a war betwee
invon „Fran
th isce
the following morning they looked round, in the and Morocco which, y, lvee
hopes of seeing the ship, but she was nowhere to be country. History and experience, however, prove
seen. Captain Hamilton, suspecting the truth of that events far less likely tote roduce war, of. a COM.,
these statements, resolved, the moment he reached prehensive range and of prcted duration, than the
Quebec, to acquaint the magisterial authorities, upon present quarrel 'between France and Morocco, have
which a brief inquiry was instituted, which resulted caused the sword to be drawn by almost every
.
„in the committal of the whole of the ship's crew of Power, on one side or the other, -until the whole
the Hannah to the Penitentiary, the magistrates continent of Europe became converted into the scene
having a strong belief that some foul play had been of its calamitous operations. -Nor is this the only
perpetrated -on board. A. few days after their source of our apprehensions. The war party in
committal, a vessel that had put into Quebec re- France possesses considerable and growing influence.
ported that the wreck of the Hannah had been dis- M. Guizot, it is evident, is disposed—probably more
covered on the banks of the Anticosti, and that it had, from compulsion than inclination—to a seeming corn -
he believed, been taken in tow by, another vessel, to pliance with its incessant clamours for military
bring her into that port. Her arrival naturally was demonstrations. The Prince de Joinville's pain-
looked for with intense interest, and on the 28th the phlet—though a mere feather in the scale
it vv wars
Hannah Hannah was brought safely into Quebec, with very caught at with avidity. As a feathea .
in
little damage. It is needless to say that the unfor- thrown up to ascertain the. popular I;4Am;
tunate master, Captain Lowther, was not to be found, France. The experiment was successful. Its senseless
nor any of the ship's papers. The prisoners were to gasconades were largely quoted as indisputable autho-
undergo a second examinatiou on the 12th inst., and. rity by the mischievous party with which this hair-
in the meanwhile every possible inquiry was to be brained youth had joined himself. His vanity was
made. The Hannah was heavily laden, but the na- fed by applause ; and his warlike doctrines were quoted
`ure of her cargo is not mentioned. by the French press, as though they had proceeded from
an oracle. If prudence had actuated the French Minis.•
try, and peace had really been its cherished and deter-
mined purpose, would a youth like DesJoinvilk have
been appointed to the difficult mission with-which he
was entrusted—a mission in which the alternative of hos-
tile attack was to be preceded by negotiation? To
our mind the selection of the Prince dejOinville for
this service seems pregnant with suspicion -as to M,
Guizot's desire for peace. It indicate a pre-determined
purpose, on the part of the French Ministry, that
negotiation should be the precursor of hostilities ; and
not that it should prevent them. We will assign one
or two of the reasons which induce this opinion. The
first is the language held by the Paris Globe—M.
Guizot's own organ—on this very subject. The fole
lowing extract from an article on theAforocco war=e
though written some days before the Vi-ench expedie
tion appeared before Tangiers, anticipated the result
and avows the real purpose for which it was under-
taken. It will be seen that England's power in the
Mediterranean is to be reduced by the subjugation of
Tangiers :—" Morocco is evidently the dependent
of England, who maintains and protects it. Eng-
land can only hold Gibraltar, as long as no
great Power has possession of the coast of
Morocco and 'rangier. Place French cannon on
the African coast of the Straits, and the import-
ance of Gibraltar will diminish one-half. England
is, therefore; obliged to maintain the Islamism
of Tangiers in order not to have France there, as she
is obliged to maintain Constantinople, in order to pre-
vent Russia from taking it." Another reason is, the
manifest importance which the French attach to the
possession of Tangiers, as the means of securing their
Algerian territory. That Abd-el-Kader had greatly
annoyed the French in their military progress,
is unquestionable ; and that he was able
thus to impede their operations, and, to a consi-
derable extent, frustrate their quiet settlement in
Algeria, cannot be denied. But Abd-el-Kader's
irruptions into Algeria supply no justifiable reason
why the Emperor of Morocco should be attacked,
and his capital bombarded. To implicate the Emperor
of Morocco, it was necessary to show that he connived
at, and assisted, that formidable chieftain in his
sallies, and in his other annoying proceedings. Whe-
ther implicated or not in' the hostile irruptions of
Abd-el-Kader—the alleged provocation given to
France by the Emperor of Morocco—nothing can be
snore certain than that England cannot permit France
to possess herself of Tangiers. An attempt to appro-
priate to herself a single foot of land in the Empe-
ror'-of -Morocco's dominions, would—at least, if the
Cabinet of England be not criminally imbecile, and
traitorously indifferent to what pertains to the honour
and interests of their country—be followed by a de-
cisive protest against the act. This, if not .imme-
diately successful, an armament, on a scale sufficiently
large to give effect to that remonstrance must in-
stantly be dispatched, to enforce upon France the
necessity of keeping within those limits which the
preservation of the balance of power manifestly pre-
scribes. England has no disposition to acquire fur-
ther territory. She neither seeks to add to, nor to
make a boast of, the strength she wields. A tran-
quillity of spirit—the result of a 'consciousness of
power to resent insult, and to protect herself against
aggression—pervades the nation. A force is con-
stantly at the disposal of our rulers, which, if pro-
perly prepared and employed, enables this country to
rest quiet, devoid of fear, and as little disposed to
boast.
STANDARD.—The affair of Otaheite is, we trust,
in a course of satisfactory accommodation by the only
parties who can properly or safely meddle with it, the
responsible executive Governments of Great Britain
and France. Certain it is that the facts which
come to light day by day are not of a character to
make the accommodation more difficult on the side
of this country. Already Great Britain seems to
be scarcely a party in the dispute, which in substance
lies not between France and this nation, but between
France and an anomalous sort of government in
'Otaheite, in which power is divided between thenative
Queen and a society of missionaries, as jealous of
the influence of Great Britain at least as of the
influence of any other European power. Were it
not that by an unlucky chance the missionary
prime minister of the Queen has obtained the cha-
racter of a British Consul, which, however, he
solemnly renounced four months before the acts now
complained of occurred, Great Britain would really
have no concern in the affair. A writer in this day's
Times, whose statements are entitled to the considera-
tion due to those of every man who verifies what he
says by his name, gives an unpleasant view of the
moral state of the higher authorities in Otaheite, and
even charges the missionaries with conn
they ivanc
cean-
at
what they ought certainly to condemn, if
not prevent it. This writer, who
ou rn signe, s., his
char name
" Walter Brodie, the Gore, Eastbges
Queen Pomare with bigamy and habitual drunken-
ness, intimating that a considerable portion of the
missionaries themselves are the reverse of teetotallers,
and mentioning the imprisonment " in the stocks"
of Mr. Pritchard's representative, the British Vice-
Consul, whose habits are, it appears, rather too
jovial. This outrage upon British rights was, it
appears, offered by the Otaheitan Government ;
but we have not heard that any reparation was de-
manded for the restraint imposed on the Vice-Con-
sul's legs. Mr. Brodie alleges against the Otahetian
Government and its missionary adviser the graver
charge of having accompanied, by unneces-
sary harshness and indignity, the deportation
of the French missionaries two years ago
the "fons et origo" of the dispute with France.
Now, these considerations are of great importance,
not merely in relation to the question in dispute
between Great Britain and France, but to the
continued progress of true religion and its conse-
quences—the civilisation and happiness of the human
race. As regards the present diplomatic ques-
tion there is much in the state of society which
we have been contemp!ating in Otaheite to com-
mand a great relaxation on the part of diplo-
matists on both sides. Our free-acting ancestors of
the eighteenth century used to hold, that whatever
might be the state of political relations in Europe--
" there was no peace beyond the line." Now it
may be wise to adopt the same discrimina
toting
boundary, for a somewhat more pacific purpose, and
hold that rigid rule of public law ought not to extend
much beyond the northern hemisphere, more, especially
in the imperfectly civilised islands of the Paciitimic
I;t1-
deed, public law being, like all other law,
-andca n n ootf well
tions anywhere. The second, and immeasurably the
more important consideration is, theht throtem.wn byThat
the
events at Otaheite upon the missionary sys
the missionaries have wrought an immense amount
of good in the South Seas cannot bedisputed ; even
the least satisfactory picturieofhto,retachoteonitlteels,
ettla
sihet
has
reached us presents a glorious)ut a
contrst tate of
redfiftlYetioenar,s ago'
this good likely. to be
itahnecihsol tn,
permanent ? Is it not even apparent, that
under the missionary. government the Coiree Of