The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-04 00:00:00

T iE COLONIES.

NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK•

We beg ',cave to call the attention of otir Com-
mercild `tea(let•s to the following Bill, which has

not been printed, b.,t was read X- first time on
it on.dav ni4ht, and a second time last night.

We

hive great doubts of ics propriety and expediency,
nor can we learn On whose aPplication it has been
broo4ht forward, evidently not at the request of
any of the Mercantilelloues-in the City, con-
nected with British North America—as they are,
we are itaortned, mild) alarmed at it. It will have
a ruinous effect on the Shipping belonging to
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, without

ing in any degree the Shipping of , the Mother
Country—as the heavy duties imposed on their
entering the United States, will preclude their
employment in any intercourse between these two
Provinces aid that Country. We are afraid this
is a further sacrifice to propitiate the Government
of America ; and we are confirmed in that appre-
sbeusion from the last chose of the Bill which re-
lates to tie Export (It GYPSUM—WhiCb is con-
trary to the provkions of two existing Acts of the
oviucial Legiblatures of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, petssed only in 1816, and confirmed.by
the Crown, and are in force until 1821.

It this Measure is adopted, we Shall consider it
as prelude to a further relaxation of the Colonial
System, and to the admission of. FOREIGN Ship-
piog into the other Colonies of His MAjcsty, iu
A,oerica and the West Indies.

We lament sincerely the recurrence of these in-
roads on the Old Policy of the Country ; and we
anticipated (from the Circulars of Lord BATnuRST,
since the Peace, to the Governors of Colonies,
that Vol ei4ti Vessels should pot be admitted into
thttn), that it was the intention of Government
to enforce strictly the Navigation and Colonial
System, in order to secure constant employment
to British Shipping.

We find, on enquiry, that the power given by
the Acts referred to in the BM were rarely exer-
cised in Nova Scotia and Nesv Brunswick ; and we
are satisfied tlo the same are nut now necessary.
We should like to know if the Act of Congress,
passed last yeLar, to Prohibit the Import of Gyp-
sum into the United States from thet,e Provinces,
has been repealed ? If it has not, our fears will
prove well rounded, and we shall not be surprised
to hem., by the next packets, that the American
itizens bay:: been again allowed to Fist; on the
:iiiores, and within the harbours and creeks of our
Colonies; and that the American Frigate which
is gone to take po,session of the Columbia River,
and the Norill-West Coast of America, is per-
mitted to do so with the Privity and Knowledge
of His Majesty's Ministers.
All the provisions of the following Bill are tip:
plicable only to a trading intercourse with the
United States ; and, with the exception of the_
feulaoicles of Provisions, cannot, in any manner,
be of use to the inhabitants of the King's Colo-

especially in time of peace.
A BILL to allow the Impiftation into Parts specially ap-
pointed by his Majesty within the t'rut•ince of NOVA
SCOTIA and NEW BRUNSWICK of the Artielei therein
enumerated, and the Re-Exportation. thereof from such
Ports.

Where .s, by an Act passed in the 47th year of his Majesty's
Reign, intituled, "An Act for permitting until the ebtioi day
of March, 1809, and from thence to the'etid of the then next
Session of Parliament, the importation of certain enumerated
Articles into the British Colonies on the Continent of North
America, from the United States of America, and the ex-
pottation of other enumerated Articles from the same Colo-
nies to the said States," which said Act was continued and
extended by an Act passed in the 49th year of his Majesty's
Reign, intituled, " An Act to authorize his Majesty to per-
mit until the 25th day of March, 1812, any Goods and Com-
modities, to be imp rted into and exported front Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick in any ship or Vessel whatsoever," which
last mentioned Act was continued by an Act passed in the.
5-2 d year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, ".An Act to con
thine several haws relating to permitting the importation of
Tobacco into Great Britain from any place whatever, and
to permitting Goods and Commodities to be imported into,
and exported from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in any
ship or vessel until the 25th day of March, 1815, and 10 the
amending an Act far consolidating and extending the several
Laws in force, for allowing the importation of certain Goods
and Merchandize into aid front certain ports in the Nest
Indies, until the 25th day of Alarch, 1314," sundry Aiticles
svere allowed to be imported into, and exported from certain
ports in his Majesty's Colonies of Nova Scotia and. New
Brunswick, front and to .certain foreign ports, which Acts
have now expired :—And whereas great advantage resulted
to the said Colonies, from the facilities given to the trade
thereof by tho said Acts:—And whereas it is expedient to grant
simila facilities at the present time;-=Be it therefore enact-
ed, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by aqd with the
advice and consent of the Lords SpirituAl and Temporal, and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, That from and after the passing of
this Act, it- shall and may be lawful any British-built
ship or yes+rl, owtied and navigated according to Law, CR' IN

ANY snip OH ViiSSEL BELONGING TO tmr: SUBJECTS OF ANY

SaeEnv,' els OR STATE Is: A '4I7Y with his Majesty, to import
into such ports as shall lie specially appointed for that Fa-
ros., by his Majesty, within the province of NOVA Seorm, or
NEw 3 at; NSW icF, the following articles, viz. scantling planks,
stives, heading hoards, shingles, hoops, or squared timber
s any sort ; I,ores, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or

We received last night the missing Paris • Pa-
pers of Friday last, and this morning those of

Sunday.
It is curious, that though the Paris Journals
are completely silent, under the head of their
domestic news, respecting the attack upon the
Duke of IVELLINcroN, yet some of the Papers of
Friday give the following article, dated from
Frankfort, the 21st ult. and quoted from the
Journal of that City :
" Private Letters from Paris state,.that two in-
dividuals had been 'arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the attenyt upon the lite of the Duke
of Wri.LINGToN. Both were known to have worn
mustachios, but at the time of their arrest they
tvere with out them. One of them was disguised
as a mendicant, but had about him 1500 francs in
specie. The pistol was found in the Rue de la

Madeleine ; it ha 1 two barrels, one of which
remained charged."
The following are Extracts from the Pap ers of
Sunday :