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JESIrs ORDNANCE do hereby fifes Notice, • prtorgleit -will be received at their Office. in Pa il-Mali, sor b e tan WEDNESDAY, the 3+l July nest, from such Pa w, as may be willing to undertake the Vierformance of the BRICKLAYER'S WORK, for Service of this Department, at (w h a m, for a Portal of Three Years. determinable after the d onjon of the first Year, upon Novice of Three Months, at W ee of either Party. r at her particulars, together with the Terms and Conditions d tin Contract, may be known upon application at the Of o(Ordnancte, at Chatham, and also at the Secmtary's 011iev, " - psi og a gt, enrebaid, any day between the bouts of ten and jot o v n ek, where the Proposals must be delivered. sealed si d endorsed, " Proposals f the Bricklayer's Work at at but no Proposal ca or n be admitted after the said at Twelve o'clock at noun of the same day, neither l oos Tender be noticed unless the party making it, ur an is his behalf, shall attend. pt Ortter of the Board. P.iRLI4MENTARr PROCEEDINGS. from Mr. CALCRAIT and Mr. D. Minor, were ordered to lie on the Tel*. '1 he Chatham and Sheerness Lands Bill, the Natty Half Pay Rill, the Silk Bounty BBL the Rape 'Peed Bill, the Cemeteries Bill, and the Fraudulent Bankrupts Bill, were read a third and passed. Mr. GORE LANGTON presented a Petition front the County of Somerset, praying as Alteration to the Po3r Lawe. Ordered to lie on the Lible. _ _ HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE la. Counsel were heard respecting the Scots cause of " Raid sad Harney,"—To proceed again on Friday. The &vision of their Lordships was given en the important causes from the Irish Exchequer Chamber, of " Hancock •. Henry." and s` Jones •a. Hancock ;" which was an affirmance of the judgment of the Court below. Lord HOLLAND adverted to the important question respect • ing Proxies, which he had felt it his duty to agitate in an early parr of the Session : it was one of that nature which he thought ought to be set at rest as soon as practicable, with a view to the future guidance of the House in such casts. It *as right also rbeir Lordships should have As nitich information onsthe subject SS could be obtained. In this view, It was his intention to sub mit a proposition to their Lordsidps ou the subject on tomor row se'nuight . The Edinburgh Police and Customs Officers' Widows Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Counsel and Evidence were I untie, heard respecting Dyott's Divorce bill—Further consideration to-thorrow. floe Three Millions Batik Advance, the Sugar Bounties, the Watch and Ward, the Irish Paper Duties; and the Cemeteries Regulation Bills, were brought up front the Commons by Mr. 13110GDZIK. Sir Lutes Mr. GIDDIr, and when. and read a Bras time. . Mr. Alterman ATKINS presented a Petition complaining of the nuisance arising from the Establishments of the Oas Light Company, in Brick-lane, St. Luke %, which was described to be a source of great annoyance, and very Injurious to the health of the inhabitants Ordered to lie on the Table. On the question that the House should go into a Committee On the Savings Baulks Bill, Mr. W. l&. K. DOUGLAS spoke at tome length on the Orin elple and provisions of the Bill; after which the House resolved list If into the Coutntittee. Mr. FiNLAY objected to the Once in the Bill "which pro vided that the money shoulti be placed in the Public Amis. as their fluctuations might in someinstautes &Inse t s less to be sus. tained. This was strongly urgedsgainst the measure in Bcottand. He concluded by moving that the - clause be referred to should be R. H. CREW. Secretary. .E 4157 DI.I NOUSE, Just 19, 1816. raCOURI'II DIRISCIVORS of At UNITED COMPANY MARCHANTS of ING.LAND,rredies, iskjATI.NDIES, do iterebygive The a General Court of the said Company will beheld at their Ikea, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the Sd July ot, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Report front tb,Conitnittee appointed to inspect tbe Company's Bye Laws, .hies wa s laid before the Court on the lath instant , f or ordain %why Alterations in and Additions to the existing Bye Laws, ojett to the alproblloll of a future COW'. .1 he above-wen Report suggcsu alterations and additions to the following heists', viz. Chapter f, Accounts, Sections 1,4, S. Mina 6, Directors, Officers and Servants, Sections 9, le, 19, 20. Chapter 7, Elections, Section 2. TbeCoutt of Directors do also give notice, That the said Re ran ern at the East-India House for the inweetion of the Pisptietta. .7.42118 S CO.DB, Secretary. left ow of the Mr. ROSE defended the claws. He thought there sid be no security tur the Subscribers if the my wry was not placed to the Public Funds. He had oat objection to leave Scotland out of the present Bill altogether. ' A thou discussion ensued, in which Sir. C. Monett, Mr. Cou ILT►MST, Lord COMP roN, apd Mr. H DAVIS participated; after winch the House divided, when the numbers were 7 -For Vie Ainendmeut, s4—Agaioat it, US—Majority to favour of the 'I be Orders respecting the Irish Grand furies, snd•tbe Habeas Corpus Act Amendment Rills, were postponed till tomorrow. 'I he Earl of LIMERICK having moved, that the Amend• men, made to the Irish Tenantry Bill be now taken into most. &radon, some conversation took place upon the point. Earl S rAN HO PX ohm vv.& that when the amendments were formally agreed to in the first instance, it was certainly with the general undetatinding, that they would be taken into deliberate consideration on a recommitm.n: nt the Bill; be, therefore, could not agree to the m own of the Noble Earl. He then moved that the MU be re com ttt i t tett Clause, 56. _ When bumpers were re-admitted, Mr. V. Fl IZGERALD, un moving that one of the Orders of the Day should be discharged, took occasion to offer souse observations on the Bin for regulating Irish Grand Juries, which it bad been understood be would bring id. After a few words, in reply to the speech ot the Right Ho nourable Gentleman, irons Mr. Aseacsoutiv, Sir P. FLOOD ' and Mr. Coors*, the order was discharged. On the motion ot Mr. PEEL, a Committee was appointed, to inspect the Journals of the Lords, to search for the Fees belonging to the office of Clerk of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. _ . The Earl of LIMERICK said the Bill had been a long dine before their Lordships. and had undergone repeated discessaus; its merits were therefore well known to the House, and consider. ing its importance anti the necessity for the measure, be must de precate every thing like delay upon the subject. Fart S I'ANHO s'E did nut wish to interposenny unnetessary delay ; but inch was the sense of their Lordships at the time, when, for convenience, they formally assented to the Noble and Learned Lord's amendments. LONDON DOCKS. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the LON DON POCK COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That Traufer Books of the sa.d Company will be Shut on i DAY tett, the 21st instaot, and Opened again on `Ft:eta:lV, the e3d *ant. XODINSON, secretary. Loudon Dock House, June 18, 1816. Mr. PONSONBY presented a Petition, the allegations of which, he thought, 'deserved the attention of the House, and particularly that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. '1 he Petition was horn cenain'Persons signing it, who were :Maus. facturers of Earthen and Stone Bottles, against the Bill now in Lord RI:DE:WALE seemed to think such was the under standing of their Lordships when they voted (heir incorporation with the Bill.—(fLer, hewr! )--I . lirre e some farther amend. mews which he would now propose, but these were chiefly verbal. There was Aso an addition.i clau,e which hi wishes'. to insert, in consequence of what was .:ated rcs/Kcting the Asds tint Barristers. _ _ _ the House. After a few words from Mr. CMACII7 and Mr. PONSONEY, the Peatinti was read and ordered to he on dui Table. KENNKP AND AVON CANAL NAVIGA I'IUN. 'ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, "l'hAt the Pro proturs cf the Krllliet and Avon Canal Navieation. to; doing Clit.unittec Men tor the Lond:n Music: or the Year enaa E, will wee; on TuasnaY, the 14.1 ttly ut July new, at Leen it.the Clock in the kor.noort, at the Ct ra ur Lou liist.:..ogate-straet, in the Ci.y of London. Dated th lo* day of Jute, 16.6. WAMD aud NILRKI:VIAN, Principal Clef kb. —.------ The Earl of LIMERICK brialy expla•nei, end observed be ha.: no aoject:ou to tic gutug mum a Cutnnt:ttee of the whelk House tu.roGrrow. It was ortfered accortlitt,oy. Some col - A - ma-tint, of an explanatoty t ature eleti took place between Lords lluLLAt:o and ft sok respectic of certaist parts ut amendments kroptbed by the latter. But of dos. 1 Le Earl of LIMERICK deprecated the continuance, as no question 'electing the measure was then rezulatly before the House. ItEADING SCHOOL. THE Rev. J. HORN BUCK LE, one of the CLAs- WOOL. ASSISTANTS to the Rev. D. VALTY, p:oposes to .niesive into b. House Sit young Gentlemen. on the following Tams t—Buard aeso--Ciasiicai hti.eition Jett). 101.--WrOws tad Arithaute 24.4..—Wasting £4. es. per annum. The Young Gentlemen w ill receive the advantage of Education it the Othool, together with Mr. HURNLUCKLE'S turther assist- Axe at elm bows, and be conaldered as forming part of his katiiilf Dancing, Drawing, Fi etch, or Mathematics, be re. !geed, 4 Guineav per Aiiront will be charged for each. THIR YY THOUSAND POUNDS illa7 be gained by a single ticket, NEX. r TUESDAY, ALI. TYt turf CRY WILL SI -DRAWN ON ?NAT DAY, With Prizeaul .4a0,0n0, £lO.OOO, £3,000, &es THE pee - eminent success 'mulch has attended the Offices of I'. BISH, ine.oc:s him to hope With confidence Sirs eunthmance of that patronage which he has hitherto so libe rally experienced. 'llw summer Lottery, consisting of unly 6000 lkkrs, will bean du rain N. xt futoday, on which Day, One Ticket may obtain aclo 000 Ihe Scheme contains Price of 410,00, 3eloolo. &C. &C. Those of T. Inan's friends who have not yet favoured him With their Orders, may now secure themselves against disappoint. meat by making an burned ate.,purchate, but in doing so, there i' ns tilde to be lust Tickets and Shares are Selling by T. 131311, Contractor, at Ilia Officer; 4, Cornhill ; and 9, Chati , g-Ctoss. Where he said one 1 Poise of 893,000, one of aect.oo, awl 113 other Csplels w the Low! just inteu-d. • OREM' SUCCE:;S AS USUAL, AT WEBS'S OFFICES, IN THE LAS l' 1.0 I EERY. WEBB,grateltil to the Public for their encreas . 1.1 Patronage, is happy to announce that Fortune has again non liberally rewartleil many of those. Persons who ho tamed him with their commands, in the Lottery just finished, Ake taming Capital Prizes having been Shared and Sold at his Wltces, 9, CORNHILL, and 17, LUDGATE-S ERLET; No. 12090 a Prize of £31,000 3,134 a Prize of £3,000 7.38 a Prize of £l,OOO 8,906 a Prize of £3OO lie above were dish buted to the Public in 37 Shares. 141. W LOll ERY of only 6,000 ICKE I'S, containing 1 . Prize of - ,120,000 1 - Prize, of . seio,otlo 2 • Prizes of - se3,OlJO 3 • Prizes of - sel ,000 &c. Ike. rill be all drawn in One Day, on TUESDAY, eSch THIS MON l'H, (June). Ticket, and Shares are 'anis at WEBB'. Fortunate Offices, and 17, Ludyateistevet. TO „BE SOLD BY AUC lON, At the Carom House, DO% Let, on Tuuasomr, the 27th of June, at One n'elock in the Afternoon, In Sundry Lots , T ILE FOLLOWING GOODS, VIZ. four Carnelian Necklaces, 9 Pair Bracelets, 4 Pa!t Ear Drops, 4 ereK etitit 41 - tea.l4, cod S ei Ulbeb ; 897 Yaras 1 Orta,l Lace, .f. 29 Yards silk Lace, 10 Yard,. Tr'..nuning, 6* az(l4 bilk 0 Snuff Bares, 2t) :'air Garters, 432 Wicker ` ai gds, I Picture, 8 Patna:it. on Copper, 23 Diawir.gs, u 37 4 4 ? er Vrintt, 2 Musical Seals, Cfa Oro:um:utak Combs. lb You •`"%liP 3 / 4 Pounds Worsted Crewel, and sundry other Articles. 'pa THIL DVTIL.i: . 11eT en CIOCkS, 4Time Pieces, k 7 Pair bronze and gilt Cand l e . saths,l6l Pi eces French Porcelain, I Mandrake Root, 434 Silver 1.44111 , 23 Pictures, 116 Paper Prints, 1 Ornanuntal Comb; Which may b e viewe d (111 office hours) two days preceding, and on the morning of the day of sale. N. B. A Deposit of .e.t6 per Cent. will be required. ---, - --------- - 7._ INSTAN I LOM HAND OF MON EY. Motley Office, No. 2, Duke-stri.et, Adelpld. MONEY to an unlimited extent is ieady at this °age, for good securities of every description, and instant &hums made to persons of known property. Bal. Discounted, !le.N l Clouds bold upon Consodssiou, and every descrip tion of ' 4 . 0114 y liusinc4s transacted as usual, by way of Amok) , or mettivise.—Atiendance from lO tin 5.-I..ettors to be post-paid. PRICEOFSTOCICS YES I'ERDAY. •-• %a Stock 2 t 9 214 Omniunt pay. g Pet eZ• Red. 63i 621 63i et India Monde 2 3 , 4 8 Pie Cent. Cam. abut Inds dtock es :IPor Pit ient. Tait, • I El* Bak 2 pee. .. Navy shot Consols for Ace. Mil &beg x. 1510.16 11 Lottery Tickets, 424. 7.. FREEtTOLD ESTATES BILL. Earl GREY mowed the second reading of the Free hold Estates 11111, for rendering the real Estates of persons dying indebted liable, in default of personal assets, fur then simple contract debts. His Lordship urged the expediency of this measure on the general grounds of justice towards creditors, and more espe cially with regard to trustees of the personal pro. petty of infants, making use of that property for the purchase of estates for their own use, and against the inheritors, which estates the deceased trustees having made no provision by will, the infants, although per haps by this freed reduced to indigence and distress, had no remedy. With regard to the objections made on former occasions, that such a measure would throw all the landed property of the country into the Court of Chancery—that estates could not be sold by those succeeding to them witle..ett a decree in equity; and that it would tend .tre alter the whole system of landed property, which the law had fenced round 1 with so mItlY securities, his Lordship argued. that Ito inconvenience had been felt, nor had any obstacle to the sale of estates arisen from their being affected by specialty debts ; and As by this Bill simple contract debts were to be merely put upon the footing of spe cialty debts, there was no reason to believe That any inconvenience whatever would arise from such a pro ; and also that there was no foundation in rea lity for the objxtion that the system of lauded pro perty would be materially altered by this measure, the objection itself not being derive d from a true view of our system of legislation as affecting landed property. Another objnetion made to the measure was, that is did not go tar enough—that it ought to extend to copyholds as well as freeholds. This might be a proper subject for future consideration, but it formed no just ground for rejecting the Bill as it stood. The Act for making the freehold estates of persons who during their lives were subject to the bankruptcy laws, assets at their death for the payment of the i r simple contract debts, had been in active operation fur several years, and no inconveniences had resulted from it, nor were any to be. apprehended from the measure which he had the honour to propose. The Noble Earl concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time. Lord RE DESDALE contended, that none of the former objections which existed to this measure had been removed ; and that if it were adopted, it would eventually alter the possession of landed . praperty in a way that would be must injurious to the Constitu tion. He snored as an amendment, that the Bill be reed a second time that day three months. The amendment was agreed to without a division- The other Bills on the table were forwarded in their respective singes, and the House adjourned. 'lire following Protest against the rejection of the Freehold Estate Bill, was entered on the Journals : " Because it is highly luespwlient and unjust that persons who have contracted debts, and have the means of paying them, shookd be allowed at thok deaths to transmit to their twiner to theirde visees the secure enjoyment of their property, while by the non., performance of their engagements theft essathilled credifOn may be reduced to bankruptcy and ruin; and this ',justice is the more flagraut in the cue of a trustee, who. hawing employed the mosey entrusted to him in the purchase areal awes, may transmit to ISIS representatives the fruits of his violated trust, whilst the or phans or others whom Ws conduct may have redoodte foilsman are left without remedy or resource. (Signed) " Our." • HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CURWEN prorated Petition, front Wank sad three other Townships in the North Riding of Yorkshire, allgrol of the present system of charging the Poor Ratei, by the great Worthen - of maintaining rue Your was throws oaths Leaded bitereen, to the tachisiun of the Mine Proprietors. The !Nation bobs been rad, gm a hw obsetadisi Mr. CANNING presented a Petition hots the Journeymen Stone Bolls-makers, against the /dill for imposing a u.:w duty on Stone Boules.—Ordered to lie on the Table . A Mestage from the Lords announced their Lordships' assent to the Alien Bill, with Amendments, and to several °dux Bills, fur which see the Lords. • Sir F. BUKDISfT presented a Petition from Mr. Mallison, the Inventor of the Lite Preservers, to save Mariners hom Drowning. Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. BENNET!' wished to know if the Noble Lord (Lord Castlereagh) proposed taking into consideration the Amend ments made by the Lords to the Alien Bill to-morrow. Lord CAS' LLREAGH answered in the affirmative. SLAVES l/sT THE WEST INDIES. Mr. WILBERFORCE rose on the present occa sion to correct the misrepresentations which had gone abroad touching his conduct ; and while endeavour. ing to remove these misconceptions which had arisen in the minds cf many people, it would be necessary for him to remind the House of stetenients formerly made in that House by persens of much greater im portance tl.an himself, who were now no more. He had ao object in view but to perfoi m what ne consi dered to be a sacred duty. Mc was going to state, as inoffensively as he could, the ouligations that House was under to cart y into effect the Act for abolishing the Shire Trade, which some years ago received the sanction of a large majority of its Mem bers, and doing this, he should have to describe the present condition of a large portion of the population of our West India Islands. Those to whom he al luded, notwithstanding tome persons Viewed them but as strangers, foreigners, and barbarians, were still British subjects, and it was our duty to do all we could fo: their comfort in their present situation, and he had only to regret that gieater blessings still than any he could hope they would be allowed to patticipete in, under existing circumstances, could not be secured to them. He was anxious, above all, that Gentlemen in that House would not think it beneath them to provide for the comfort of those to whose toils this country owed all the riches, power, and greatness derived from our West India posses sions. He was anxious that the real state of the slaves, whom it had been our policy for two or three centuries to transfer to the Western hemisphere, for our own aggrandisement, should be known. He en treated the House not to shut their eyes to the real state of the case—he wished thein to take into their consideration—slavery and human nature. These words were sufficient to prepare them for all that was to follow. The unfortunate persons of whom he bad spoken, were exposed to every thirtg that could exasperate the human mind, as the unhappy. beings were made the objects of degradation and contempt. He believed many proprietors of slaves were men of benevolence, but their benevolence tcx?k a very diffe rent character when excited for distressed objects in this country from that which belonged to it when its attention was directed to the sorrows ot those labour ing for them in another hemisphere, at a distance of four or five thousand miles. These afflicted petscns, governed by interior agents, did not experience that consideration which they might hope from the pre sence of their owners. The consequence ot this was, they were Less profitable than they would otherwise be, for it was an eternal moral law of the ALMIGHTY, that where great evils were inflicted, they did not merely affect the immediate sufferer, but invariably extended in some way to those with whom they ori ginated. Notwithstanding the reports made to the contrary, by those who could not Icok into the inter- , nal state of the plantations, but who pronounced on , them, as a traveller might report on the suite of a town, from its appearance on a fine day, from facts' and experience it was known the present condition of slaves in the West Indies was deplorable in the ex treme. It was the bounden duty of Parliament to endeavour to increase their comforts. Negroes, in awry part of, the world, were remarkably prolific.— That they were not so in our West India Islands, he ascribed Si the treatment they received. Even in JA getica, where they were used much better than in ions of the other islands, numbers of theta were lost every year from being over-worked, ul.ier.fed, or • from being subjected to other hardships. The qt. tem,of sending nut persons to govern them whn were to exact from the slaves the rrereimine of lelotir, and ro do this at the minimum of expense, caused the Negroes to suite- muds, as the persons.set over them were compelled to try to raise a large crop at a small expense ; since, it they did the reverse if this, the consequence was, they lost their sinietions and could not get others. He complained diet when persons talked of4eing Negroes they generally spoke of their food to d Ind ing— they spoke of them as in des .country we talked of feeling and working cattle, and did not reginel them as their fellow creatiees. This language, livid by those who defended the present system, glade for his argument - , an.; peered the de gradation to which the unforttinate Negroes wore snb jected in our West India ISl4rltil, whereteey ware wor ked ander the whip, not merely The faults they committed, but worked under it like c.ittle.— If it were necessary, he might mention many instances to prove that the natural dispositions of the objects of his concern ,were well worth cultivating—that the Negro character was distinguished by the bat affec tions of the human heart—that these dispo sitions were proved by acts which would do credit to any indivi duals of any country. But there was one argument • which would be revived against the measure of Re gistration, which had formerly been always made use of against the advocates for the abolition, and to which it would be necessary for him to call the at tention of the House. When arguing in favour of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, he had often beau asked what he meant to do with the Slaves in the West Indies—did he mean to continue them in the same miserable condition in which they then were To this the answer had always been —Ne. And there were some who went even farther than, merely replying in the negative ; -and, in perticul•ir, one great man had so fir turned his great mind to this question, as to lay before the House the patticulars of a plan for amt.:it - luting the condition of the Slaves in the West ledies, by which he hoped to reform the abuses which then existed. as to the treatment of Slaves. This plan embraced t'.e esoblishment of Schools in all the Colonies, for the insttuction el the Slaves—the division of the Islands into ceitaiti di. stiicts—the appoilltrucnt of persinis in each of those . districts to superintend the Slaves, for the put Foie of examining how they were treated—that twice a year there should be a general inspection of the state of the Slimes throughout every Island, and that some of the most promising negro children should he sent to Great Britain to be educated, and to he sent back to the West Indies when they were thoronghty edu cated. These were some of the heads tif Mr. Burke's plan; which, however, had been rej e:ted by the House. In 1792 it was also proposed by Lord Mel• that all the Negroes born in the Colonies after the year 1600, should be born tree. And yet, after uch propos uls had been made to the House, they were now obliged to contend egaiest a strong oppo sition to the Iteg4try Biil. But at the t!me w: , ert these plans had been proposed, the great object for which they were contending was the Abolition, and it was CO ebtaining it that all their efforts were ex elusively directed ; because it was the greatest and most efficient measure, and therefore they would lave been content to obtain it at a time when ' greater and bolder measures were proposed. What he now chiefly regretted was, that the abolition had not been immediately followed up by the Registry. But then it was a little too hard, when they had pre. (erred the Abolition as the most important object in the first instance—when to attain it they had for the time rejected the niiimni.s of the plans of Mr. Burke and Lord Melville—after all this, it was a little too much to rail at those who now broterea forward the e measure of Registry, as if it were the truest extrava. gent, the most absurd, the most mischievous and Idangerous measure ever brought before the conside ration of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.)— It was said they wished for the emancipation of all the Negroes in the Colonies. Now upon this he begged to call the attention of the House to the real facts, and once Finore to state his sentiments on this subject, if pos sible to rescue them from snisrepresentation. Ot all those who had advocated the cause of Abolition, there was not one who had not repeatedly declared that he wished to succeed, because the Abolition would be the means of improving the condition of the Slaves—of alleviating their miseries—of im proving them so much, that in after times, by pro gressive steps, the West Indies might be Cultivated by a free and happy Negro Peasantry.—(Hear, hear.)—Still, the great cry against them, since 1738, was, that they wished to melte all the Staves tree. And yet so tar was this from being the case, that they thought the'negroes incapable ef liberty ; it would be insanity to innancirate them—(Hear, hear.)-130t then they might Le gradually improved to such a state, that in tune they might be susceptible of free dom. This part oh the subject naturally led him to another, ivhich it was very painful for him to touch upon ; and the concern which he telt in alluding to it was mingled with much surprize. What he mean: WAS the imputation that the Registry Bill was the cause of the late insurrection among the slaves -(Hear, hear.) —He really should have thought it impossible for any rational man gravely to assert this; and he would tell . the Home ashy. 'Moses& lice deserted that the advocates for the abolition wished to wake the slaves free, did not confine themselves to e ssetting it in this House, but they said so elsewhere; —they did more—they printed and circulated these asoitigns in the West India islands—(Near, hear). —They were printed in all the West India netts. papers. This *tact Was quite enough to .hew the cause to which these lamentable effects were to be traced. He held in his hand, letters written front the West India Islands since the insurrection, and from persons of the most iespectlble character. He then read an extract from a letter written by a Gen• tleman in the island of herbadoes, dated a week be. fore the insurrectiou broke out, ii i winch the wrum