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London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS,

[ILI I ) .111.-4CTS .1

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

"[Morning Post.]
THE QUEEN.
We have this day_inserted another of those ot-
fen.sive donments produced‘liy the evil Advisers
of the QUEEN (see -a- subsequent column), and
which are matte to appear as her Majesty's an-
swers to the' Addresses of the Radicals. in this
she is made to, Say that she will never give her
sanction to the views or projects of any party;
and that she will never forget that the Queen
of a faction is only half a Queen. Would to
lleaven that her actions corresponded with the
proft'ssions Which her hypoeri ti cal and mischievous
,advisets thus cause her to make. The direct re-
Nerseis, alas l too obviously the line pursued by
het ;- for she has unfortunately lent herself to the
basest and most infamou,:faCtion that ever dis-
.graccd this. or any country upon earth, and
mito,ze • revolutionary object is but too well
st-,ved by the inflammatory language which
evil advice she now alnuist daily so lament-
ably consents to use., In regard'to the frequent
allusions which in these answers are made to the
ever •to,be lamented Primr,ess Charlotte and his
late Majesty, motives of dOlicitey forbid us at pre-
sent to say,any thing., though in •due time we
shall have much
-to offer upon this subject; but
we cannot permit to pass unnoticed the base in-
sinuatioto of the cowardly libellers by whom her
Majesty is so lamentably misled, with respect. to
.the upright. Statesmen whom. they dare to term a
faction—the assertions ‘respecting whom we do
not hesitate to pronounce as grossly calumnious as
they are wilfully and infamously false.
[Morming Chronicle.]

A most important iiegociatiOn is at present in
vprogresS between the G overnments; of this coun-
try and of the ZN. etherlands, principally conduct-
ed our part .by llr CANNING, and on that of
the NetherlandS by .Mr. Er...iusT, a gentleman of
probity.and talent, .with the advantage of a per-
sonal and local experience of the chief subjects
•under discusSion. We anticipate solid-- advan-
iagt,s to all parties. concerned, and to ourse'lves a
restoration of just rights from this negociation,
:which is said to be conducted, as it ought to be,
In a spirit_of liberality and conciliation. •The sttb,
jed of :the negociation is the Indian Islands, a
portion of the, globe so curious, so interesting and
extensive, that the French geographer who pub-
lished a laboured work on the subject last
year, is almost justified when he views it as
thilfd portion of the .globe, and designates it, in
:coutraditinction to,ihe 01d and the New' Worlds,
3laritime World; By the hasty and inconsi-
derate convention of 1814, our interests in those
regions were certainly sacrificed ; but it 'would,
perhaps, be Pash or unjust to ascribe the 'whole
blame of an unconditional surrender to the sove-

reignty of Holland. to °lir Ministers. Respecting,
'these countries the Ministers showed the common
icmorauce of the rest of the station ; and 'even Hol-
-I;nd was as little acquainted with the value of
what she was receiving, as England was of what
she was bestowing. It could not well be other-
wise, for our essential experience of their trae va-
lue is of little mo. re than six short years standing.
For more than 'two centuries they were locked
np from European knowledge, by a system of
policy the most perversely foolish and ruinous
that the vanity and ignorance of Legislation ever
Meddled in. Facts speak for themselves ; in the
proudest.period of the Dutch yestrictive system,
the intercourse between those countries and Eu-
ropean nations hardly, employed. 20.,000 tons of
:shipping., No sooner Was European genius and
,capital allowed •a little fair pla“and it is but a
Jittle that has been yet allowed), than the re-
sources of those countries began to.be elicited,
Commerce advanced with rapid strides, and it is,
perhaps, estimating very moderately the European
. .
'and American tonnage at present employed at not
than fire times what it ever was before ! The
'lndian Islands, in their utmost extent, contain an
estimated population of 15 million's, spread over
more than five Millions of square miles,. gene-
rally :docile, and, from their situation, by na-.
"ture.cOmmercial. From the insular character of
these countries, they are every where accessible,
'and; from the peculiar nature of their climate,
the intercourse is even safe and agreeable. They
• produce a superfluity of animal, vegetable, and
.mineral wealth, all useful, or curious, or peculiar,
•.and such as the tastes of one nation
.or' another'
make them believ'e 'they cannot be dispensed with.
They will naturally-carry on the greatest trade
with the richest people, or,.in other words, with that
,people who can supply them at the cheaKst rate'
-.with their suPei'lluities.
.They are consequently,.
of-peculiar interest and importance to this coun-:
try-, and we have seen a few years, *from,
;, scarce consuming, an ell of British muslins or•
Cottons, a' great portior, of the population actu-
' ally clothed in.both—from scarce knowing the
name of British iron, seen the rich fields of Java,'
and thelnore distant Isles,•tilled with plough-
shares fabricated. from it.. But the Archipelago of
the Indian Islands is not only- of importance iw
itself, but of deep and high interest from its
_connexion, geographical and commercial, with.
those great nations, the,most civilized, and; which
:is the same thing, the most populous and indus-
4rious people .of all Asia. The Islands lie in
qt deep and unbroken chain along the-whole coasts
'of those countries, whicb,are utterlyunapproach-
able bitt by passing- through them. This is strictly
•tilie.of all the rest.of the globe in reference to
-tliose countries, whether the navigator goes from
'the Eastern or die-Western Hemisphere, or re_
lurns•to .either.... These .countries, if We include
Japan,' contain _more than a•moiety of the,. popu-
lation of the .habitable. earth.' Thus Siam. has
'l5 millions, Cochin-China., and its dependencies
125,. China has never been- reckoned. under 150,
nor Japan under 60 millions, .making the enor-
-mous aggregate of two:hundred andfifty millions
Joist) Henry, ESq. Barrister-at-lair, • and for-,
merly Chief Justice in the lonian Isles, pester-