The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-17 00:00:00

k(EDEILI A FINC,IN.I

We have been desired by an old and vtiitabk
friend to co'py the following Letter from another
Publication', but we need no additional vinitilus
to urge us in sopporting the great cause of huma-
nity. It 13 the object of the writer to incite the
great Confederating Powers to adopt the Aboli-
tion of the Slave Trade, " as part of the Public
Law of the Civilized and Christian World, Sc'
become Parties by mutual recognition, if not by
express guarantee, to all TreatieS and Conven-
tions respecting- the African Slave Trade, now
subsisting between particular Pos.vers, and to add
to thel'n a genera' IrtiaCy tor an httiV'etsal and
petotil abolition of the trade front the year 1520,
when the Spanish branch of it is to ceaite'. To
this general Treaty, or grand aftican COrnpact, he
pursmses that all Enropeau Powers not represent-
ed in Congress, and the United States of Ame-
rica, shall be invited to coneur.”—As it is impn,-
sible tts to add any thin; to the powerful
reasoning and eloquent humanity which the subject
itself enforces, we shall Only add that we con-
ceive it to be our r yto suhwirt it with s:rennott&
zeal and perseverance.

',Erna 1.

kro THE I;owEits ABOUT TO ASsENIB:n fa CONGRESS

AT AIXILA-CHAPFLLE.

Great and Mai;tiininious Sovereigns,
The work which you are ast+en►bledl to fittis!'t
is worthy of the illustrious Archi►ects.

The political system which binds together and
blesses the nations Of Europe was broken and al-
tnost destroyed. Shaken by revolutionary earth.
'quakes, its stately columus had fallen, its twin-
clati.6'f':sl were rent asunder, and those parts of the
magnificent fabric which yet cohered, laid one,'
to e've'ry blast, and tOttering at every shock,
threaened us with new crushes, and more ex-
truded ruin.
The Mrnighit' at length looked down with pity
on this wreck of the best 'social institutions of ci-
vili7ed man, his own secondary work, the fairest
sublunary fruit of created intelligence and wisdom.
At his behest, the crater of pad ambition gave
vent in the north to its pernicious elements ; awl
the central mischief ceased. The shocks that
followed had lost their subverting energies ; and
the Continent at leiioll was still.
To you, august Sinereigns, did God in hi's
mercy next commit the renovation of the goodly
edifice.
By you, as iris beneficent instruments, the
happy balance of European Powers has heel) ri._7
stored. You have raised again the filler) Thronct.
of France. You have given back their sceptres
to the li:hugs of Spain, of Portugal, and Naples.
You Piave raised the house of Orange to more thail
its former dignity and power. Lven the Roman
Pontiff received from you the restitution of the
temporal Sovereignty to which ages of possession
form, or attest, his right. 'lO most of the 6,..rmata
Powers your have also given hack what they hail
lost by Itevolutionary War.
If tine former state of Europe has not been more
universally restored, it is not, I trust, from your
disregard to the fair Claims of justice. bonne
Powers, perhaps, bad, justly forfeited the rights
they once pt ssessed and, in some eases, no pursue
successfully the system of redintegration ma}-
not, Consistently with
(beneficent pOlicy, or evert
perhaPs with strict justice to all parties, have been.
within your power. Your general uprightness
unit liberality in this great work, Under Circum-
stances that enabled you to give law to the con.
tinent, entitles you, at least; to the presumption,
ln cases of doubtful consistency with those prin.
smiles, that your motives have been pure.
That your arrangements on so vast and compli-
cated a subject as the pacification and
ti
meut of Europe 4k h ()old b srrch as to leave no
malcontents, could not rationn'lly be hOped. It
would have been au event scarcely less wonderful
than the revolution which gave occasion to the
work.

lint the dissatisfaction ainone the candid and
intelligent has borne an insignificant proportion
to die cordial appluuses ; and I trust tiro your
glorious labours will be so completed at the 141)7
proaching Congress, that the historian, when re-
leased front the fetters of cotempurary passioni
and Prejudices, will record them with unqualified
praise.,
Guided by a vdriliey at once liberal and wise,,,
you will take the best turan9 not only to perfect.
your work, but to insure its stability. You wilt
be the benefactois not only of the present, but
twine generations, and be venerated to divan;
times, as the deliverers and regenerators et
Europe.
Von linv dell4red its from revolution and froni

svar ; and it is you'r desii e also to redeem us from
the fiends b'y whdur those scourges were woven,
by the discourageinent of infidelity mull sire. Volt
have lookol beyond the clouded atmosphere trt
}minim policy for direction in your generous course..
You have publicly recognised the moral govern-
ment of Gcr,lover the world which lie created, midi
have fixed your eyes on religious principles as the
polrir star by which the riders of mitinns should lid
gn`nle,4. Some of your Imperial and Royal Ma-
reslies hale gone further, plediiig •rrnrselves by
;.1 solemn pact in the lac, of 1.,;:t.0pe to employ rill
proper means tor checking tre progress of
and prornoting the benign influence of the
Christian tait h.
Anirwited by. these high anti sacred tit inc.:plus,
you hmve not i„ the inte,,,,/z,,
of your 05511 dominions, or thole of that great
lannly of eieilked nations to which they belong.
You have eordiAllv seconded the efforts of Grehr
Britain to give deliverrruee to ;mother quarter eI
the globe ; to %v.:ire oil' the kinks( blot that ever
stillied the Christi.in name ; and rescue the on-
fri.rturraie nat is es of Allier; from the miseries under
Which they lirive groaner) for ages, through the
merciless avarice of Europe.
The Declaration of the Congress at Vieana oa
this illbiret Wag a Abvimit tniiauntehe (Aft! a ithr.

r dicr i,f ytoil• 11.111;11iro11. ot your grpitit mat 1(i
1)1, Olt. l'rovideuce 1.. r !he allee you 117u1 ro-
t +turd. atul of vinir to promote The
gt•uriii scelhile fit ni,tukimi.
I'le,tl• 16111 ge•lit•l otIA 11,1triltatel ! it is to tills
p,rl i t your great lv,l k that I would now invoke
y,ur a!tei lion. The dulivetanee awl renovation
Efflope is .rtectunipli.lied. Lillie at least re-
, 11v tvotidrawitu: your armies 11(1111
Ft olve, 10 re1111)•t• tile •catrohliog front the wear
tdifyce vou have rebuilt, and to guard it by a wen
u.,..Hucted federal skreen iu tinst tempestuates

ty, iver.
li.ot for Africa, every thing remains yet to be
(I,ne in spite of your noble declaration and he-
,o•volent designs, she still lies prostrate in the dust.
coll,empt of your avowed patronage, her old
tottoentors are again intlictiog upou her the most
inhuman w tongs, tearing open those wounds
even which Were partially healed, frnstratitt
all the efforts of British humanity for her ree,)-
%et v, and straining every nerve to finish her de-
s:roction.
Yes, Sires, it is a melancholy and opprobrion:
truth, that the liberation of Europe lots been to
Africa a calamity and a curse.
The maritime war had enabled Great Britain not
only to give effect in a great measure. to her own
laws for abolishing the Slave Trade, tAtt materially
to check its prosecution by those powers whose
flags wt re hostile to her own, by exercising at sea
bet right of visitation and search. Her possession
of the French Settlements in Africa, anti her own
Colon :al Erttblishment at Sierra Leone,enabied her
especially to check Ole Slave Trade on the wind-
ward coast,and to promote the growth of civiliva-
lion and innoceut cotutuerce. But the sacrifices
she uurde for the satisfaction of the French people
land rhe repose of ,Europe, in the restitution of
(;once and Senegal, together with the cessation of
:the maritime rights %% hich she possessed whtle
belligerent Power, have put an end to tho;e ttleiinS
of protection and itnpuoVrptellt. I harpies of
the Slave Italic have consequeotly returned from
every quarter, and fastened again upon their hap-
less ploy.
Spain. and Portugal, indeed, hare by treaty
agreed to abandon this shameful commerce, on
that part of the coast which lies to the north of
the equator ; and, all other civilized nations have
Passed laws fur its entire and immediate prohibi-
tion.

But while the practice. is openly sanctioned in
one part of Africa, mulct• the sanction of two ci-
li'ized Powers, and its actual suppression by
others is lett to the ordinary temedies of their own
municipal laws, those partial triumphs of religion
arol humanity can produce of practical good.
Not only are the subjects of France. Holland and
America, hot those of Great Britain herself, en-
abled to perpetrate again their .forater crimes,
without chastisement or conttoul ; they may set at
defiance their own municipal prohibitions, while
they laugh at the laws of nature and oeGoil, since
the assumption of the flag of :A y country that has
not yet wholly abolished the tilare Trade, is
enough to insure their safety. Nay
,the flags of
Po,%crs that have fully concurred in that reforma-
tion may be !hos thiltonoored ‘vith impunity, on-
there sh,mld happen to he an armed ship of
their omit nation in that distant quarter, with or-
ders to eoforet• its law.
Peace has not only giv,n security to the crimi-
nals, but also iticieased the temptations to the
crime. .•

'Foe restitution of roost of their Sii4lar Colonies
to France Kiid Holland the pacification of
and the establishment of its seat of etiipne
in South America, have concurred, with the pro-
gressive settlement of new lands in the '1';,1%1 Iskind
of Cuha, and the revival, of coninivicial ,nterpriie
at Cadiz and other, ports of Sp-tin, to cre4te more
than an ordinary demand for sh i ea in the lVcsreni
world. The tear also that the haritaioos Corn..
nierce ‘‘'wild soon, by the common indignation of
Christendom, he nnivereally e‘setl,.h.us or-
rd ;tn atltiitiomat stimulus to itf. immediate ',rose-

consequences have been pot less calamitoos
to Attie* than disgraceful to Ate civilized world.
The 'traders in human flesh have resumed their
iniquitous practices With nn sharpened hH
the restraint which they had ltefore endured. They
have excited the wretched tint,isfes Of the coast with
mote, than former assiduity to multiply tho,,e atro-
cious crimes by which :vendible and exportable
sinveryis t here created• Their spirituous liquors, to-
bacco, am! other pernicious luxuries by which the
poor Africans are stimulated to their Tegria*, and
Varion‘ other iniquitous modes of slave-mai:lug,
have been dealt out to them with increased effect ;
for the dearth of 1:10se fatally 41MaCthe 11111101.tb,
. and the difficulty of obtaining them, which bad
been partially produced, rather .intlatord their ap-
petite fOr them than put an end to their use among
the barbarous Chiefs.
Your iNi,tiesties will hear, therefore, without
surprise, thotigh not without pain and indignation,
that it is doubtful whether the trade does not at
this hour prevail to nearly as great et numerical
extent as ever, and at a still greater expense of
!Inman misery and guilt. It is obviously im-
possible to ascertain with any accuracy how
!flatly slaves are annually exported front so
immense a range of coast, especially-as
notch of the trade is clandestine ; but so far
WS comparative estimates can be formed, by the
most competent judges, the mini her of those mi-
serable victims of commercial avarice C• 111 hardiv
he less titan at the worst antecedent period, except
;hat, perhaps, - which immediately preceded the
Revolution in France. At that memorable epoch
the crimes of Europe against Africa had reached
their t(-141e, both in number and degree; and the
colonising powers were vying with each other to
the utmost in that race of oppression anti of blood,
. rill ihr scourge of the French Revolution fell upon
them, and compelled some of them to pause.

The distinctive name fur the must ordinary description of
wars; thnae which are FsTuree(ll waged fur the were
ut slate-making !!!
(r„ hr continued.)

The 118nii,y of mushrooms this year is un-
commo•i y large in nll art of the 15100 d. 0
0
the WO; round Gloucfster they exhibit the all-
-0,0-Alice of a regularly raised crop, and are sent
c•irtloads iwo that city, where they cell at 6d.

EAST ',"4NDIA INTELLIGI;NCE.

(From 0.-he Bonztaq Ga:ette, April 22.)

.1.11 e force
nuf.et
Get,.
__unto, in the sonthern
part of the Deckan, have taken Belghautn, ant;
were marching to the attack of Nepauner, one of
their srongest holds, alter reducing which they
would march further east, in the direction of
Pnwlerpo'ir, where many forts are still iii posse,-
sion of the enemy. Our cot tespondent informs
iis that the country hereabout is most delight fal,
being an extensive plain, rich beyond tlrscription,
the viihtge4 kr;:c and populous, surrounded with
icees, and many sitio.tte on the hank of rivers ;
((wage is in plenty, and provisions Abundant, as
tkis inirt of the country has Out b,lore been the
sem of war.