The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-02 00:00:00

,ATIONS

COMME

CASE OF THE RELATIONS OF OUR GOVERN-
MENT WITH THAT OF HOLLAND, BRITISH
INDIA, AND THE ARCHIPELAGO.
In our City article of Wednesday last, we published
the following statement :
" The private commercial accounts received yesterday
from India and China are upon the whole considerLd
very satisfactory. It is most certainly true that the sales
of British manufactures in the Chinese ports had been
much less than was expected, and in too many instances
at prices below those marked in the invoice. Still therei
was not any head-over heels work —no appearteit
at
desire to speculate too largely, or indeed to any extent
all we rth notice."
And under the head " Market Intelligence" on the
tame day, it will be seen that in the most important
commodities of necessity or luxury, the products of
Java, Sumatra, and various islands of the Indian Ocean,
the seat of the Dutch Commercial establishments in Asia,
such as sugars, coffee, peppers (black especially),
Vices, rice, &c., there was a much increasing demandit
here, at advanced prices. To many of our readers
may seem unaccountable how the sugars, the coffees,
and rice of Java and Sumatra—the cotton of Timor—
the popper of Borneo, and the spices of Gibolo and
Ceram,—should be able not only to find their market
against the redundant supply of these commodities
which our enormous territorial possessions on the
main and in the seas of Southern Asia, and especially
the peninsula of India, at all times command, but
should compete with British Indian and Asiatic pro-
ducts to absolute advantage. It must appear equally
surprising that the ratification of the very fair tariff,
and the advantageous treaty with China, by which it
has been promulgated, should, although immediately
14110 wed up by the opening to British commerce and
traders of four or five additional ports of China, situ-
ated in commanding positions on the extensive
enasts of that mighty empire, have failed to create any-
thing like a corresponding degree of activity in our
exPorts of manufactures of hardware from hence, or
in the
direc " eisuntry trade," as it is called, which carries
t
between British India and China cargoes
composed
of the natural products, raw and
manufactured materials of both States. In
the present condition of our general trade,
the
among very natural anxiety which prevails
ii
a" classes of our people to remove all unne-
lices
essary restraints and restrictions, to abolish monopo-
, to multiply the demands of foreign customers,
and to facilitate the supply of them ; these state-
Meats would present themselves to us as matters of
very
them Paramount importance. But when we couple
with the strangely unimproved, though match-
con less, advantages of local, moral, and political influence,
nexions, establishments, and capital that we pos-
sess both in China and throughout the wide range of
our Indian domination, the case assumes an aspect of
graver concernment than that even which its com-
mercial hearings communicate to it. We largely
discussed, in a former number of The Sun, the in-
sidious and aggressive policy, pertinaciously pursued
by the Dutch authorities in India to the serious and
increasing detriment of our commerce, and the injury
of our honour and authority, in that portion of Asia ;
and even more strangely permitted, acquiesced in, and
formally recognised, by the Anglo-Indian policy of
our Government, both here and abroad.
It is known that, independently of the disgraceful
treaty concluded by our Ministers at Ghent, with the
United States of Holland, in 1814—a subsequent
treaty with the same Power was executed by us in
-'24' Which we shall never cease to denounce as a
still more scandalous surrender of British rights and
and Possessions, territorial and other, negotiated by
those who represented the British Crown, as a still
More Portentous and shameful ignorance of the in-
terests which they then sacrificed. The only defence
ever attain
pted for our continued toleration—first, of
tthe diplomatic blundering of our profound negotia-
tors ; and, secondly, of the admitted evasion abd frau-
dulent violation by the Netherlands Government of
even the one-sided stipulations in their own favour,
.'w ich they duped us into making—is, that the treaty
baring been full
continuousy consummated, and established in
impoc operation, it would be at once difficult and
to press the Dutch to consent to re-open
and modify it. 'We shall now lay before our readers
a more connected view of 'the effect of the treaty as it
zstands,e than some of them may, possibly be in posses-
thof. But we shall address ourselves, previously,
_ ebbjection taken, in limine, to its revision.
The famous transatlantic mission of Lord Asn-
-I_lll4oh last year was attended with one result, at
;_asti not to be impugne en the fiercest oppo-
aents of the Boundary Treaty. It at once supplied
anircedent for the re-opening of negotiated questions,
1., suggests the particular instance in which it may
be ez .
-t.
„Redient for our Government now to act upon
it.
of :we should be the last people in the world to
ate) as a general principle, the right or policy
diea.tsinsoitating political questions, after their adju-
twecann. under the stipulations of solemn treaties be-
fraught ndependent Powers. No doctrine could be
with Peace
and 1 consequences more dangerous to the
show, , good faith of nations, than to cay that they
Comm oc. at liberty to " review," on every pretext of
._::n rcoial injury or political inconvenience, the en-
here% e f.
- .8 tha.ey
* one have reciprocally entered into. But
that, es the contracting parties can clearly show
miich,nethoen..teired into such engagements on data
4Pted b thou announced by the other, and ac-
Preyed Y _ himself, for facts, have been dis-
pen
infaold destroyed by later inquiries; or
rrnation °4 by which, though equally acted
d's " .both parties as authentic, has since been
Leftered
,nrealv,
is
latoid bfe erroneous ; a plausible ground, as-
duly instr or the abrogation of any treaty, thus
tither
a.,. ucted, and for the substitution of an-
k •IV nether or not the Government of the United
Aates were
Plea in the 1 till a condition honestly to press such a
lion
_e
,_ a e negotiations at Washington, is a ques-
eie . w have no intention now to discuss. It is suffi-
t.at for our
-.tice of a Purpose to show, that, in another in-
Po
another treatyp negotiated eighteen years since,
eouisi °Wel', our Government has a case for
Nen,
.0P !Ste.reeiew and reconstruction of the instru-
sitt; which it was a subsidiary party, infinitely
kissu_B.ear in the essential elements of the stated pre-
%,,,h:, ad the equity arising u
li the 11_ Pon them, than any on
eliesti-„„_ lilted States have relied, and relied suc-
tat i'B"lY4l.as to the re-opening of the treaties of 1783
iy,:l'ileti:trith,e_ national wrong originally inflicted upon
''n whi„li raisin by the treaty with Holland of 1824,
alt t._,
a't
tislvee are. now referring, should have been tole-
vs'everntaentPeriod of its original infliction by a Tory
Z,sl,nguished ' of which the present Premier was a dig •
ore. Butzlierhber, is a circumstance we may de-
114at are a a.n.Y merely personal considerations
vs SCICIEIted with that contingency cannot
l't°}) arlY wei ht •
r,• able amount g with us, in estimating the
ghat Rao of injury produced to our cha-
tast tueeuessiuvr commerce by such national wrong.
3,taystie,
eLoe. Governments, both Whig and Con-
>mer is, and
,in uld have acquiescei during so many
irizti • .`"" to the present time, not merely in the
.I,llllzl a
rueusuints:lhtischw
0,44 42,11.141'Y, but in the many superadded encroach-
hfich. have constantly flowed from
"t‘sit'g the Matt urnishes the strongest reason for
' of th., et:, without further delay, under the
:eat the ' Public, Isi li .
s)„. 0r5,,,,:_
c, os y, it may be premised
I,;Litatie "l' flanges which were effected in the
apish
c .esarl
s epnbs_ a of the East India Company, under the
t„ai •"ent of ss
,t
.ia Lis_ the removal of Which we shall de-
Firel it,il `"s name of the foreign
tet. 131 this treat
,q ,
~s. °of Great Britain and Holland, in
t ihoand , i
nt haogugrg ha v
aatni n
ga ctchie-
t • ' Yet
GOlpEerr;
taae i a Powerful
~
me onsequences e '
pp„,"e treaty, .K.„ensuing to our trade from
t,i'.'est....and •'°w the grievances against which
. , hie_ , _
commerce of Great
, t,5,....,y De shortly thus stated:_
,(41 %tie. , y (concluded between the Ple•
q tot '.l the
0. _ _
rthiplati
hangexcw of Alarch, 1824), a sort of bar-
4,sli ago,
kale Was.
,_ dignified withall the forms that
.
• mille - eoaracter of h
(141 however, as holl h nations. It was a trans-
, 3' end
lig a ow and unprincipled "on the
that ,_ bsurd nd rkl
isreckless on the other,
1155 Yet Earn•
h It ,ished the bases of State
re ••as e
th Dut4tio_
.equally creditable to the old
e of A „,. " for um—.
k• . -CI) i• 'Lupulous cunning in dealing,
14.1,„ licit n
ish
tNreity in be_ diplomatic reputation for egre-
tlts Y' (ireat 13 being' dealt with. By this memo-
ii 1
,bri the
c_ ritain ceded all the English set-
terel2f, to li"easii t of Sumatra, from and after
is ' the Dud--Holland ceding to her, in
) atid the :E.I! o establishments on the continent
ty of Malacca on the Malayan

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and his loyal
Highness Prince Albert received the Sacrament early
yesterday morning.
Tbis morning the Queen and Prince Albert, attended
by part of the Royal suite, went to the Riding-house to
see the poor receive her ajesty's bounty.
In the afternoon the Royal party left the Castle forsan
airing, her Majesty and Prince Albert in a pony phae-
ton, his Royal Highness driving ; the Marchioness of
Douro and the Hon. Miss Hamilton following in another
phaeton, with the Shetland ponies ; and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback, in attend-
ance on her Majesty.
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater has succeeded
Colonel Bouverie as Equerry in Waiting on his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. Colonel Arbuthnot remains
at the Castle as Equerry in Waiting on the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, will
join the royal circle at dinner.
Lady Montagu and the Hon. Miss Montagu, Viscount
Anson, the Hun. Mrs. Arbuthnot, Mr. George and the
Hon. Mrs. Hope, and Sir Henry Wheatley, will also
have the honour of joining the royal dinner party at
the Castle this evening.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, left town at half-past ten o'clock
yesterday morning, to honour the Earl of Cardigan
with a visit at his seat, Dean Park, Northamptonshire.
Previous to leaving town the Royal Duke visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House.

The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica,
and for the Governors of the other West India Colonies.
The Earl of Haddington has returned to his residence
in the Admiralty, from the seat of Sir George Warren-
der, Cliefden House, Berkshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial.
office, from the Governor of Sierra Leone.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—WOOLVVICII, JAN. 1.--
The Gladiator, a fine first class steam-vessel, is ordered
to be commenced to-day, and the shipwrights will be
employed by task and job work ; and as the greater part
of her timbers have already been converted, it is expected !
she will be ready for launching in about three months
from this period. Two new steam-vessels are to be built
at Deptford, one to be named the Spitfire and the other
the Porcupine.