The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-21 00:00:00

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A Leeward Island Mail arrived this morning.
Letters of the 16th August confirm the accounts
-or the taking of the Caraccas and Laguira by
the Royalists, also of the blockade of. Puerto Ca-
bello ; they
,state that the cause of the Spaniards
is most desponding.

[l7:nl:art of a: Letter from Alexandria (Louisiana,) July 14 1
" The Province of Texas IS again beginning
to attract the attention of the enterprising ; not,
however, as heretofore, for deeds of arms,'-but
for honest trade. We are informed that about
200 families have recently settled near the road
from the Sabine, and that a great number are
daily entering the Province at various points.
The Spanish Government- being now considered
a liberal One, and affording there great encou-
ragement, the emigration will, no doubt, be con-
sid era ble.'!

• [Extract of a I.4?tter froth Quebec, data August 4.]
• " The -Earl of DALHOUSIE was waited upon
by a Deputation of Indians from the nation call-
ed Courtes Oreilles, 'demanding. that an Algon-
quin, who is said to have murdered a man and
his wife belonging to them, and who has been
confined in this prison for a year, be delivered
up to them for punishment. It appears the mur-
derer's wife -first' revealed the. atrocious deed,
being herself threatened by him and her life in
danger; he was then apprehended, and lodged
in this gaol, but .his trial -was deferred for want
of evidence. An answer was returned them' that
their demand could not be granted.; that the
prisoner having been delivered into our custody,
must be tried according, to our laws, The In-
dians agreed to the justice of our reasoning, and
having received presents, returned home well
plea3ed with the reception they met with froth
his Excellency."

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The extract which we yesterday, took from the
Quebec Gazette, contained a just, dispassionate,
and convincing representation, of the severe in-
,jury inflicted on our American Colonies, by the
two-fold operation of - our Navigation and Corn
Laws. Of the former (the, Navigation Laws)
the Quebec Gazette has . too much sound sense,
•and' accurate, knowledge of political economy,
to complain. They are evidently •essential to
the prosperity and power of the whole 'Empire,
and the interests of the Colonies,.therefore, are
equally involved with those of- the Mother Coun..
try in their preservation. But the same defence
cannot be advanced. for the policy of the Corn
Laws, as affecting the Colonies. However wise
or necessary it may have. been thought to
make the attempt, by prohibitory restrictions, of
giving ample protection to the British farmer
against foreign competition, the same principle
cannot be applied, either on maxims of justice,
or with views of liberal and sound policy, to our
own Colonies. We have a right
..to 'protect our
own interests from the injurious competition of
foreigners. We have no
_right to make an abso-
lute sacrifice of the interelts of one portion of the
subjects of the Empire, in order. to promote the
interests of another portion. What would be
thought, if, during a temporary depression of
the agricultural markets, a law were passed pro-
hibiting any corn to be furnished to the_London
market, from Ste more fertile counties of Eng-
land' in order that the cultivators of the inferior

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soils, by manopoiizing tire supply of the Mefrefr
polls, might be enabled to command a remaget
rating price for their produce ? Such a measure
would be as unjust in principle as it would
be impolitic and iejurime; in its effects. It
would not diminish, in the slightest. degree, the
aggregate amount of difficulty or-distress ; f(or
though it would 'undoubtedly prevent the evil
from falling upon the owners of the less fertile
lands, it would throw the whole of the calamitYl
with considerable aggravation,. upop. the holders
of the best soils, and upon the inhabitants of the
metropolis, compelled, by such a law, to paY
much higher price for articles of consumption
than those articles would otherwise have ob-
tained. The operation of the present Corn Laws.
upon, the -Canadas, is precisely of this deserir
Lien ; and the application of them to the
Colonies is exactly the same in principle'
arid produces exactly the same results'
as .if the distinction were between different
counties in England. And surely thie is. LI
principle on which the Landowners cannot wish
that the British:Government shodld continue to
act. These are results of which the Colonisj.s
have good reason' to complain, and which th.e
people of
,England must, for the interest of there-
selves,
was ell as of their fellow-subjects abroad.;
desire to see remedied. lf, as respects Englco
alone, the interests of the whole people were,
only to be considered, there could Pe
very little difficulty with the question.
sidered as one body, it is obviously the in'
terest of the British people that their eustenefic
if its permanent supply, can be depended Or!'
should be obtained at the lowest price which 's
possible. By taking a large portion of it frolast'
our fine Colonies, we should directly benefit
the Mother Country by the increased- abuliv
dance and the cheapness of food,' and b°
stimulating the. increase of population in
threse remoter parts Of the Empire, capable
of sustaining a hundred •millions- of inhabi"
tants, and thus opening a vast mart for 6°r
manufactures. The argument in favour of re'
strictions, that. England ought to produce 3't •
sufficiency of food for its own coneamption,
she should be exposed to the danger
during a war, is not applicable to the claims
the Colonies. With our superiority at sea, the'
harvests of our American Colonies can be broght
to our ports with the same safety during war 0
during peace. But unhappily the supposed 41:
terests of a portion of the people are too oftel
oppo*d, and with a fatal success, to the IA
interests of the whole. To keep up the reirt.s;°
land in England, at an unnatural elevation, the i'1;1
terests of the Colonies are sacrificed, the gra'cliji,
vents for oar manufactures contracted and fina-:
closed, our home population rendered idle arid di'';
contented, and inadequately supplied with foot-Lba,..
an exorbitant price: The necessary result mast 5
a diminished population, and the fall of P'''cem
and rents, in spite of every futile attempt
support them, after the channels of our prosperity
f
shall have been dried up, and the po,ver of
England withered in her grasp. By promatil
nu.
the prosperity of the Colonies, on the other ha
we should directly increase the employrrierV
wealth, and happiness of our own people ;
these are the only permanent means of ireeP".)
up the value of land. In a great commerco:
country land is always, without the aid of all- •
ficial laws, of great and increasing value—a vaiger
• et c'
depending upon the progressive accumuletio
of scarcity,.
wealth, in the hands of persons who are inevitab:.,
disposed to vest it in the security of -the soil.
a country whose manufactures and commerce;
the other hand, are declining, riot all the
which the ingenuity of man could devise can Ptrs'
vent the value of land from declining with ie
declining prosperity of the State.

We •havethis, day insetted the conclusion °r
.
very interesting Documents %illicit we receiv6.'-'
from a, highly respectable Correspondent, on tr'e
.
alleged conduct of the Governor of Trinidad, to-
wards those unfortunate persons'who were
by the cruelty
of the Loyalists from the Spit
Mainrand who sought an asylum in that IsWu:
It was hardly possible that Mr. MA 11 11Y-IT WOVI.CI
have stated in the House of Commons what be
had not.vouchers to support. We haVe given those
vouchers to the public, in justice to the Gover");
of Trinidad, as well as for the sake of truth /lilt'
humanity, that they may no longer be
circulat:
ed merely abroad, but that they may be subtnittea
to the world at large, and thereby to afford 10",'
an opportunity of vindicating his character ao"
conduct in the eyes of mankind. It 1'
reasonably be expected that Mr. MARP-":'
with such vouchers in support of his slat'?
ment, will resume the subject in the House Of
Commons, and that, in the meantime, the Alf!r'
qtiess of LosooNDEa av and Air. will
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provide themselves with such information as
induce them either to admit the validity of P 74
MARKYAT's statement, or to refute it two'
grounds of indisputable authority: ,••

I There are two Morning Papers that to
s"mero
be rivals in the race of rancour, 'which Per"vth
e
in their attacks upon the subscripti°" fo.t
Life Guards, though that subscription i 5 at aft
end. " The merits of the case." to use.tha"'"isri
of one of these competitors for' public repro":
tion, like PorE's heroes for the prioe of l')linc!'
lie in a very small compass; the Life Guar:ds Ftr
the• performance of their duty were assaile°
a brutal mob, who, not contented with utterirci
the most abusive language, severely
many of theta by missile hostirty. 'The -I'4';
Guards bore all this furious treatment
exemplary patience, and instead of retaliliicit.
in such a manner. as the prevoc-atioii
i
they received -might fully justify, on't• 'hun-
might have occasioned the destruction. tilt
dreds of the deluded 'rabble, did not ac' fell
requisite for self defence, and then only t‘r.c:.
victims among the whole of the furious assa'fa—ts
iis
A band of patriotic and generous Citie.l„!..
feeling the highest respect for
diers thus cruelly treated, and a just 114-=,
Lion' of their exemplary forbearance, prol'"st=e,...
public subscription, as a mark of public bpPrau-
-
tion. The subscription flourished in such.a flMi"
n eras.to be highly honourable to public Oh!'
rality. The delicacy of the Life Guardq, 1")-1-

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ever, induc4d them to decline a reward for
a mere discharge of their duty, and the
amount of the subscription is judiciously
transferred to a Military Institution of great
..,
national utility. Such are the real merits of
the case," to repeat the words of the rnalignan!-
:; Print, and hence the promoters of the Subscrip-
lion, the Patrons, and the Soldiers, deserve the
- ' esteem and gratitude of a moral and 'a patriotic
People.

T' e have been favoured by-a respectable Con-,
respondent with the following Copy of a State.H anent, brought by Captain DII3OIS, of the Row
AH
cliffe, which arrived yesterday in the Down.l
from llonduras
*EXTRACT from the LOG of the Brig FRANCES (JACOB
Ditnarmoxia, Master,)-,from St. Jago de Cuba, for Phila-
delphia.
July 31, 1821.—Cape Antonio, bearing North about six
thiles distant, at 4 P. M. saw a small sail standing from under
the land ; at 6 p. ar she sweeping fest towards us, appa-
. rentiy full of men. Judging her to be a PiratiCal vessel, kept
way W.S.W., and made all sail to escape; at dark, the chase
fast upon us, was nearly astern, and commenced firing.
lire continued our course, until the shot fell thick around
us, and at nine hove too. She immediately hailed, and or-
tiered our boat on board, which was sent
with three men,
I,vlto were detained and the boat tf
W , reurned 'full o armed people,
ho irrimediately jumped on deck, and with blunderbusses;`cutlasses, and pistols, took possession of the brig and drove al3t,
ads below, cutting and'inahning every one within. their reach":
they then proceeded to put the brig about, and stood in for the
call
land; in doing which, myself, the mate, and one man, were
„
e 4 uP c-
" below to assist in working hex—they standing
Omen 4' with Cutlasses, and the most horrid imprecations. T‘YTwo' "tiled, went below into the cabin, where Captain DgFai-
M°N.
their "d a passenger were confined, and presenting pistols to
breasts, demanded an immediate delivery of all money,
watches, and apparel on board, on pain of immediate death,
these threats being accompanied by severe strokes of the sabre,
a" a menace that in the event of any thing concealed being
disco V` 4 genera massacre should take place. Under this
oizipressiOn, and well convinced, from the desperate appearance
these
Men, their threats would be earthed into execution,
added to which we overheard them; consulting about running
ti-rtl brig on shore, we deemed it expedient, for the sake of our
?re) and the preservation of the vessel and cargo, to deliver up
Shine Possessed, consisting of four trunks and one chest, con-
ge„
souaring apparel—cash in dollars, doubloops and guineas;
`"valuable gold and silver watches, with chains, seals,
‘.c. ; a writing desk and valuable contents, a spying glass,
double-barrelled
1 5 gun, pistols, sea clothing, beds and bed-
cclours, wines, &c., leaving nothing but the clothes
1711 r bad. The vessel appeared to be a large open boat,
lack, with two white streaks, two sprit sails, square sail
ads jib, the tack of the jib coming down to the stern—the
large Ilarannah packet boat--full of men, apparently of all
_as 4ti'
T rls, but of the Most ferocious and diabolical class. She
tiri full of goods, doubtless plundered from other vessels, as
mss of
acknowledged having overhauled a vessel the day
before• At eleven P.M. after stripping us to the skin in search
' et, Illore money, left as and made sail for the land, in a state of
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siderable intoxication.
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.as become necessary, (says The Journal
tli„PerPignan of the Bth), to cut off the commu-,
:,ation between Barcelona and the port of Bar-
t,,°netta.- From the iq to the 4th of this'
5-'4", thirteen died in the port, and fifteen per-
tVsi were taken ill; whilst in the lazaretto of
100 ere
of the Vice-Queen of PERU, five died
"ID j;
B.X
new Patients were admitted in the same
'Aerl"' who had been brought from.Barcelonetta.
decree of ,r • •
the municipal Administration of
thr. 'etc)", of the 3d of September, prescribes
of- measures to be adopted for the preservation.
v.. halth in the present state of the town. 4m.44' letters are apprehensivelor BarcelOna itself,,
'CtheY state that this scourge has appeared at,
4ir`°3a, and was communicated there by a vesH
144,4114=h came from BarCelona. To these de-
Iv
hi he same Journal adds the following news,
ters
cn are scarcely less afflicting :--Private let-
hay of a recent date state, that the yellow fever,
Ca .I)Peared again in Andalusia. We learn from
la that it -has manifested itself at Xeres de
are r o ntera and at Port St. Mary, and that they-,
}'cats- alarmed for that capital. The great
wit Prevailing in this province, accompanied
tot,- , almost constant winds, must necessarily
-.),;`l)ute to the rapid progress of the contagion.
\till '4e journal de Paris says, that his MAJESTY
Ceo "Ynediately after landing at Calais, pro-.
court° Brussels, stay there two days, .and then
‘viii 'nue his route to Germany. His Maarsti—
.rpot visit Paris until he returns from Hanover.
tolk.„1 R"0";(-I drove through the west end of the
Witt: in a very handsome private coach,
drayal.gr''en todv; ,and Qnly one footman in a
lye" .
xt heurritl.
bet,t) lastbeen erroneoviy stated, that there have
PlirstTl2..Y four Portraits of the late: QUEEN
JLANI:.z\.a this Country, viz. one by. SirTIIOMAS
Pa'ated.. about twenty years ago; two
bbY a i\iriaw3t- Year by Mr. LONSDALE; a fourth
"r,r)(vinn, whose name we never before
Ala`e Q COSWAY painted a Portrait of the
Queen
doe; sa " about the same time as that which
The f •rntiell honour to Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE.
lenmtkitlr Artist in that Picture gaves a whole
guard, -c-ortrait of the then Princess of WALES,
ter the late Princess CHARLOTTE with ma-
TAN.vt,s°lic,i!lide, under the protection of BRI-
J tO th,;
~the allegory was highly honourable
was co-wialr Artist in design and execution, and
The- soon after in a beautiful Engraving.
adopted'harl of DUBLIN, which we are told is
the by the KING for his travelling title on
"tinent, was one of the titles of his late
Yal nighness the Duke of KENT.
The •
•
tar room
Brecon Priory, the seat of the
lh„q""s ‘-'-k-14DEN, in which the KING slept on
one is nit-Olt, on his way from Milford to Lon-
a'as' is called King Charles's Room, and which
W4l°ccuPlect by that Monarch, on his visit to
-
Ater me stone
,',rly two centuries ago.
where the KING landed at the
°f Rowth, the shape of • MAJESTY'S feet
uve Hs
41)0 en worked to the depth of three inches ;
th,r is intended. to have a silver plate sunk
INQt‘,l", °Pon which will be engraven a suitable
14etc:
"!,, aIEATI-I
11-roN tany„lsq. is for the second time
Mayor of Lincoln, and Mr. YATES and
1,