The intelligence under th...
The Times, 1824-08-27T00:00:00

The intelligence under tlih head of mtHh America though not of a stoTmy nature, possesses a certain tdegree of interost and animation. An anniversary cliliner has been given at Bnenos Ayrrs, where the NTorth Amnerican Minister playen first fnreign personage, and Mr. PARISH, our Consul-GOneTal, the secondx. Northi America has, through her public Mlinister, representing the sovereignty of the United States, acknowledged the sovereiguity of her 3istcr republic,-that is to say, she is bold cuough to admnit a truth which has long star ed the whole world in the face, and has c-ased to be questinnable by any rational being. Why Great Britkin is behind in this cmutest of friendly in- tercourse and of national justice, we fain would have Dir. CAvNNixO cxplain to his couintrymet ; for MIr. P.AIsis bas leFl the mater just where he founid it, not cven going ebe Icngth of his aasociitc Consuls, who have dined an(d madat speechts in others of the Intlependtiet States, by promising that their existence shiouldi be recognizel sat same time hereafter. AMi. PA tsise's dry reserve, however, ur:ht n'M. if counidered in all its bearings, he without a be.iaeial efteet. Fie tool; eare to apprise the authorities of La pata, that a portion of"his dutywmia to collect information sro the &tu-il conditioni of affairs in their Givernment ;" thv in other words, admonishinig the Bueuos-Ayreaus to behave well, mind their business, and kick tp no riots with each other, or he shouldl be compelled to make of them suc7 a report as would just ify his Government in postponing indefinitely the much-desired homage to their independ- enice. *Ve are not sure whether a warining of this kdnd might not have produced more advantage elsewhere, than the confident and flattering language of soine other British functionaries. If the American patriots be given fully to understand that a reasonable amount of union amongst themselves is a sine qua ntoin in that body of evidence on wvhich must hinge their speedy admission into the commu- nity of settled states, a powerful medicine may be thereby administCred to the predominant disease of countries under process of revolution. We are, at all events, happy to learn, an authority which there seems Po reason to distrust, that the basis of a commnercial treaty has been actually laid down between Great Britain and La Plata ; and that it is probable the public may see a representative from that commonwealth, formally accredited and accepted as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's, so soon as the conditions of that treaty shall have been in every particular matured. If this be the case, it amounts to a recognition at least of this State from which an Ambassador is so accredited and re- ceived ; if not, it should be understood that mere consular missions do not imply, of necessity, a positive acknow- ledgmlent of the States to whichl they are accredited- no principle being better establishedl, than that a Consal, as such, does not enjoy the immunities of a public Minister, anA is not unler the protection of the law of nations; al- though the Sovereigni ernploying him may, without the title, confer upon him, by the very nature of the insti uc- tions which he has to execute, the character and preroga- tive of an envoy. The Papal power, it seems, has been playing off some characteristic manceuvres among the Chilians, which, ne- vertheless, not having yet produced the mischiefs antici- pated from them bv the Holy Alliance, may do eventual good, by raising, in the minds of the patriots, a timely and salutary suspicion.___-.