The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-25 00:00:00

AMERICAN COMMERCE WITH THE

BRITISH COLONIES.

PROCLAMATION,
BY Trir PRERIDENT OP THE UNITED ISTATE3.

`Whereas by the sixth section of an Act of Con-
gress, entitled " An Act to regulate the Commer-
cial Intercourse between the United States and
certain British Colonial Ports," which was approved
on the Ist day of March, in the year of our Lord,
1823, it is enacted, " that this Act, unless repealed,
altered, or amended by Congress, shall be, and con-
tinue in force so long as the above enumerated Bri-
tish colonial nets shall be open to the admission of
the vessels of the United States, conformably to
the provisions of the British Act of Parliament, of
the 24th .June last, being the 44th chapter of the
Acts of the 3d year of George the Fourth. But if
at any time the trade and intercourse between the
United States and all or any of the above enume-
rated British colonial ports, authorized by the said
Act of Parliament, should be prohibited by a Bri-
tish Order in Council, or by Act of Parliament,
then, from the day of the date of such Order in
Council, or Act of Parliament, or from the time
that the same shall commence to be in force, Procla-
mation to that effect having been made by the Pre-
sident of the United States, each and every provi-
sion of this Act, so far as the same shall apply to
the intercourse between the United States and the
above enumerated British colonial ports, in British
vessels, shall cease to operate in their favour; and
each and every provision of the Act concerning
Navigation,' approved on the 18th of April, 1818,
and of the Act supplementary thereto, approved on
the 13th of May 1820, shall revive and be in full
force."

And whereas by an Act of the British Parliament,
which passed on the sth (lay of July, in the year of
our Lord, 1825, entitled "An Act to repeal the
several Laws relating to the Customs," the said
Act of Parliament of the 24th June, 1822, was re-
pealed; anti by another Act of the British Parlia-
ment, passed on the sth day of July, in the year of
our Lord, 1825, in the sixth year of the reign of
George IV. entitled " An Act to regulate the trade
of the British possessions abroad," and by an order
of his Britannic Majesty in Council, bearing date
the 27th July, 1826, the trade and intercourse au-
thorised by the aforesaid Act of Parliament, of the
24th June, 1822, between the United States and
the greater part of the said British Colonial Ports
therein enumerated, have been prohibited upon and
from the Ist day of December last past, and the con-
tingency has thereby arisen on which the President
of the United States was authorised by the sixth
section aforesaid of the Act of Congress of the let
March, 1823, to issue a Proclamation to the effect
therein mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, Presi-
dent of the United States of America, do hereby
declare and proclaim that the trade and intercourse
authorised by the said Act of Parliament of 21th
June, 1822, between the United States and the
British Colonial Ports enumerated in the aforesaid
Act of Congress of the Ist March, 1823, have been,
and are, upon and from the Ist day of December,
1826, by the aforesaid two several Acts of Parlia-
ment, of the sth July, 1825, and by the aforesaid
British Order in Council of the 27th day of July,
1826, prohibited.

Given under lily hand, at the City of Washington,
this 17th day of March, in the year of our Lord
1327, and the fifty-first of the Independence of
the United States.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
By the President,
H. CLAY, Secretary of State.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1827.

We are unable to communicate any decisive
information regarding the negotiation with Lord
LANSDOWN, farther than that it still continues.

Mr. SCARLETT is appointed Attorney-Gene-
ral, and the Solicitor-General has most hand-
somely waved his pretensions to that vacancy,
rather than stand in the way of the proposed
arrangements.

It is reported that the duties of Commander-
in-Chief are to be executed by commission. We
trust this arrangement will not take place, for
in all such cases, one individual is sure to mo-
nopolise the power, and only to share the re-
sponsibility.

The Gazette of last night contained, as we
mentioned that it would, the notification of the
elevation of Sir JOHN SINGLETON COPLRY
to the dignity of a Baron, by the style and title
of Baron LYNDHURST, of Lyndhurst, in the
County of Southampton.
It was expected that the same Gazette would
have announced his Lordship's appointment to
be Lord High Chancellor of England, but it is
understood that it was postponed for the purpose
of appearing with other Ministerial appointments
in Friday evening's Gazette.

We received last night the Paris Papers of
Sunday, and the Etoile dated Monday morning.
They contain, however, nothing interesting, with
the exception of an account of the arrival of
Lord COCHRANE at Napoli di Romania on the
16th March. His Lordship was Mailed as a " new
Messiah" to Greece, and was received by all
classes with the mcst ardent enthusiasm. If the
affairs of that unhappy Country are entrusted to
his Lordship, the energies of his mind will sur-
mount innumerable difficulties, and Grecian in-
dependence may yet be achieved.

The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies
on the motion of M. de la BoEssIERE, for ap-
pointing certain persons to report the debates,
was continued on Saturday, and adjourned to
Monday. There is no privilege more valuable
to the people than the publication of Parliamen-
tary proceedings ; nor is there any from which
more national benefit is derived. It leads all
persons to take an interest in the affairs of their
Country, and obliges the Government to pay re-
spect to the opinion which the public at large
may form upon any question affecting the in-
terests of the nation which may be under the
consideration of the Legislature. The French
People ought never to be satisfied until the un-
qualified publication of all proceedings in these
Chambers is conceded to them.
We subjoin the following extracts !
(From the Constitutionnel of Sunday.)
TRIESTE, APRIL 12.—" During the celebration at
Nauplia of the late victories obtained over the Turks,
salutes of artillery from the fortress of Palamide announced
the arrival of Lord Cochrane. This brave mariner entered
the port of Nauplia on the 16th of March. Scarcely was
the name of this new Messiah for Greece heard, when all
the population hastened to the port. In a few minutes
the whole shore was lined with men of all ages and classes,
and the women, impatient to see the long-expected hero,
soon filled the ramparts of the fort. Lord Cochrane no
sooner stepped on shore, than the cries of joy burst forth
on every side. Ne just idea can be given of the scene.
We are assured that Lord Cochrane and all his suite were
much affected by the enthusiasm of the Greeks. Ho en-
tered Nauplia amidst reiterated cries of " Cochrane and
Liberty." The women on the walla scattered garlands of
flowers on him. The Government Commission has ren-
dered all possible honour to the hero who comes to em-
brace the cause of Greece. This new defender of Grecian
liberty has had some conferences with the Greek leaders,
and he had determined to sail in three days with 15 ships
under his command. We know not whither he intends to
direct his course; but he has found every thing he had re-
quired ready. The Greeks who have conversed with him
are full of enthusiasm. They recognize in him a man who
does not lose his time, but who is eager for action. Ac-
counts from Zante state, that this news having reached
that island, three regiments of volunteers were formed there,
and the' chiefs are only waiting for a favourable opportu-
nity to ship them for the Peloponnesus. We trust that
this year will prove a fortunate one for Greek independence.
Every thing is favourable, and the spring commences under
promising auspices for Greece.
" Pants, APRIL 21.—Lady Cochrane has arrived in
Paris. She could not have come at a moment more oppor-
tune or more glorious than on the very day on which we
learned that Lord Cochrane had entered Nauplia. A few
weeks wore and a new prospect will open for Greece. All
the friends of the Hellenic cause should now unite to make
a lust and necessary effort. The French have hitherto
shown too much generosity and affection for this great
cause to allow their zeal to cool at the moment of need.

New York and other American Papers to the
25th ult. reached us last night. They contain
a Proclamation from the PRESIDENT, prohibit-

ing all further trade and intercourse between the
United States and the British Colonial ports,
enumerated in the Act of Congress of the Ist of
March, 1823. This course has been imperative
upon the President, from the state of the exist-
ing law on the question, and Congress having
recently separated without passing any other
enactments with reference to it. In other re-
spects the contents of these papers are unim-
portant.

(From the National Intelligencer.)

Received at the New York Coffee-House.---The un-
dersigned Mexican Minister has received orders from
his Government, stating that no Spaniard, nr subject
of the Spanish Government, shall be admitted into the
Mexican Republic, unless provided with a passport from
the President of the United Mexican States, according to
the law of the 25th April last. The petitioner should
apply for it from the place of his residence, through the
Mexican Minister. PABLO OBREGON.

Washington, March 20, 1827.
(From a New York Paper.)—We have received from
Port-au-Prince a copy of a lam, removing certain export
duties which has passed the Chamber of Communes and
the Senate, and was approved by President Boyer on the
23d of February. The law is in the following words :

Art. I.—From the moment of the promulgation of the
present law, the products of industry, and of the soil of
Hayti, shall no longer be subject to the duties of exporta-
tion in their shipment, from the territory of the Republic.
Art. 2.—A1l provisions of the former laws, which are
at variance with the preceding article, are hereby annulled.

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A very strong pamphlet, in the shape of a
letter to Earl BATHURST, has been published
by Lieutenant-General Sir RUFANE DONKIN,
who administered the Government of the Cape
of Good Hope, during a period when Lord
CHARLES SOMERSET was absent from the
Colony. It makes out a strong case of the
treatment which Sir RUFANE has received, but
we shall not enter further on the subject until we
are enabled to lay extracts of the pamphlet before
our Readers.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 18th inst. has
been received. If we are to believe the extracts
from the Oriental Spectator, Austria does not
make common cause with the other European States
to induce the Porte to settle the affairs of Greece.
Such conduct is perfectly in keeping with the un-
generous policy of Austria, but the Greeks have
little to fear from the enmity of such a power.
Its friendship would be far more dangerous, but
less sincere :

SMYRNA, DIARCH 9.
The Oriental Spectator of this date, has the following
article :

" His Fxcellency the Imperial Austrian Internuncio, it
is said, has officially declared to the Porte, that his Go-
vernment does not think itself called upon to require con-
cessions in favour of the Greeks, and it would, therefore,
talc. no part in the negociations which might have the cha-
racter of an interference in the affairs of Greece. It is
added, that the Ambassador of another great Power had
not indeed given so formal a declaration, but had lately as-
sumed a reserved and temporising part, the result of which
would be nearly the same as that of the declaration of the
Austrian Internuncio. If these accounts are true, hut for
which we cannot answer, the settlement of the affairs of
Greece will be very distant, and we shall probably see the
war in the Morea recommence with increased activity in
the ensuing summer.

COELENTZ, APRIL 8.
The Special Commission appointed by his Majesty to
consider of the modification which may be judged necessary
in the introduction of the Prussian code into the Rhenish
provinces, and in the choice of the ancient provincial laws,
the revival of which may be thought advantageous, is to
meet at Berlin on the 23d of April. The President of the
Commission is M. Von Sack, who has convoked the Mem-
bers of the Commission, and also invited them to read, pre-
viously, the necessary materials. It appears clearly from
this summons, and the President indeed expresses it, that,
according to his Majesty's will, tha Prussian code is to be
introduced into the Rhenish provinces at all events, and
that the task of the Commission will be only to discuss the
necessity of certain modifications, arising from peculiar
circumstances, and the advantage of reviving some
provincial laws. Discussion on the superiority of one
code to the other, either on the whole or in part, so
far as they rest on general principle., are no part of the
business of the Commission. On the other hand, it is to
judge of all the modifications on the introduction of the
Prussian laws into the Rhenish provinces, the arguments
for the necessity of which are der'ved from the character,
the manners, and customs of the inhabitants, the state of
education, the tenure of landed property, the relations
arising from manufactures, commerce, Fee., and with re-
spect
to which the propriety of their combination with the
principles and enactments of the Prussian code can be
shown. The President, M. Von Sack, was fur a long time
Commissioner of the Government at Coblenta, and was
highly esteemed for his honourable and active administra-
tion : he is brother to the Chief President in Pomerania.
President Michler, in Berlin, is referendary to the commis-
sion, which is to meet on the 23d of April.

We really derive so little profit or pleasure
from perusing the wretched notions of deists and
free-thinkers, that we do not usually see a Sun-
day paper which is notorious for advocating these
principles ; a friend, however has informed us of
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severe. He charges us with inconsistency in at-
tacking Lord ELDON for dilatoriness in giving
judgments ; and says, that we never discovered
this to be a crime till now, when his Lordship is
out of place. We beg to inform the Examiner
that this is about as correct as the generality of
its statements, and that we could point out
many instances of our commenting on this failing
in the EX-CHANCELLOR, when there seemed
every chance of his continuing in office till the
middle of the present century, at least. But we
are satisfied with the approbation of our friends,
and are not anxious to include in that list the
admirers of Tom PAINE.