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By Virtue of a Commiffinn of Appraifement and Sale, iffued from; the High Court of Admiralty. On THURSDAY, the 12th Day of MARCH next, will he Ex poled to SALE, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at Wynn's Hotel. FALMOUTH, ABou I' ONE HUNDRED and TEN TONS of DUTCH BARK being the Cargo of the American Ship HR TTY d. tained on her voyage from Rotterdam to Cork, by the V4rra Cutter, Licut DANIEL CARPENTER. Commander. The Bark may be viewed, and further particulars known, by applying to O. C. FOX. Jun. y'd C LAZ. HS I'ON, 'U M Dated February I[6, PARLIMANT4IR r PIi4iCEE NGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FFE. 31. The Houfe, on the motion of Lot'd WARWICK, was. ordered -,te be fummonrd for Friday next. The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord REDFSDA LE con curring in opinion that there should to farther argument in the cafe of MUILKLC ,rficx, Connie, were ordered to be heard on the fame to morrow. The Newfoundland Filh Importation Bill was read a third time, and paired . Several Bills, among which, were the Qiiit-rtnts and Auc tion Duty Bills, were brought up from the Commons, and read a firß t mr. . _ Mi.. Robinfon, from the London Dock Company, and Mr. Longman, from the Itccords Office of Scotland. preftnted Papers relative to the fame at the Bar.—Adjourned till to-morrow. ' HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. FULLER, Chairman of the Maidflone Committee, ap peared at the Bar, and reported to the Houk that George Simfon and George Longman, Elem. were duly elected to !rive in this prefent Parliament, and that the Petition agaiuft clam was not fltvoloua cr vexatious. Sir E. KNATCHBULL gave Notice. that he would or. Thurf day make a Motion f Complaint agairft a Pedal who had this day appeared before the Committee on the Sandwich Raad Bill. Mr. PARKER CCKE, Chairman of the Downpatrick Com mittee, reported that certain Evidences were wanting from I rclal.,!, in order to a due inveßigation of the fulijeet ; and that the Com mittee had adjkxtrned till fucb evidence could he obtained. Mr. EYRE, Chairman of the Chippenham Eledl:on Com mittee, reported that Charles Brooke, 1 fq. was not duly eluded for the laid Borough; that James laawkirs. Efq ought to have been returned ; but that Mr. Brooke's oppofition to the Pe tition was not frivolous or vexatious. ILIr. WI-II [BREAD Lrought in his till for the Promotion and Enwuratement of Indialry among the lowerCli.ircb of the People, for the Rciief of the nectfatous Poor, and for dittinguillhing I,e tweem the ciiniinal and ncccfLous Poor, wi...ch was rtad a fitft time. Mr WHITBREAD fail, he hoped the Houfe would have no irdlion to the Bill ',dog read a fecund time, and going through a Committee tome now, merely pro forma to fill up the bLnks, that it n:ight be immediately after primed. and ditpatehed into the ci untry time enough for the Quarter Scfficus. 'lle Bill was or dered for a fecond reading to. morrow. Mr. BA I'HURST brought up a Petition from the Brian] Dock Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the Drel, and Hat ln.ur of Briftol Ordered to be referred to a Committee. _ _ Mr. 1 OV EDEN brought up *Petition from the Board of Agri culture. praTiog pecuniary aid. Ordered to lie on the !ahle. Sir JAMES PULTENEY gave notice,thathe would to morrow tnrve certain Refolutions relative to Finatace. lithe Houk thould receive them, it was his intention to follow the example of the Chauceilor of the Exchequer, and move to have them taken into counderation on a future day. Mr HOBHOUSE brought up the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means. The Refolutions relative to certain Taxes on Hearths, Horfes, Ike. in Ireland, were read and agreed to, and a Lill on'ered to be brought in thereon. The Committee on the South Sea Trade Bill was pollponed till 0 morrow. '1 he Second nading of the Oak Bark Bill. and the Report en the 1t1f22 Stamp Duty bill, were. foverally potli:oned till this day fesnight. The Thames Police Bill was ordered to be read a :Wad time to morrow. . . . The 1::;11 Fragar Drawback Bill went throve' a Committee Report to bt received to-morrow. The German Yarn Bill war read a third time, and rafted. The liei,orc of the Committee cf Supply vw:,s pelltpuuctl WI Fti day, as were the Committces of Ways and COMPENSATV•N TO INDIVIDUALS. Mr. MANNING raid he had, on a h:rmer occ. Pion, given notice, that in the event of the Houk agreeing to the Pill for the All , Ii Lion of the Slave Trade, it was Ida {moth n to fuhodt to the a motion to grant Compenfation to cereal', individuals who would be thereby injured in their property. He thought this the molt proper time. to make fuch motion, and wilbed therefore then to ark his Msj. fly's Miniiters, whether they were prepared to give Ins Majelty's eltdent to fuch Compenfation ? lie believed his views cm the fuerjedt were not fn extel.five as Nliniftt rs might have bad rearms to eapeet, from what had been EMI by other perfons. He fpokei,. h half of a large Oafs of men, who had always proved tltemitives !nyal fubjedls, and faithfully attached to the caul . ; of their King au.' Country; and the amount of the compentation that was look( d for would he exceedingly finale, in coloparifou to the claims of other perfons who ight env c forward tor a fimil ,r pur pate. The ("Ales he alluded to were, firll, perfons who had fettled lands. and flocked them w.th nrgrors, under grants from the Crown ; and the fccor.d clafQ, thole who had purchafed Innis in the Welt India laands on the faith of l'arlisnirtu, itnnirdistily pre ceding the firlt agitation of this queltion, which he believed was in the year a 783. Many perfons had done to in St. Vincent's and other Molds. lie would not, therefore, take up m. , re of the time of the Houle at prefent, but ccertent himfelf with alking whether Mini titers were prepared to give fuels eot.P.t.t? I.ord HOVeICK Paid. he was mt author ifed to give content in any Inch apilic.tion, and it would he uonceiii..ry bur huts to lay more at preEnt ; but the vny candid manner in which the Hon. Gentleman had brought for ward the fubject induced him to fay further,that be thought this was not the proper lage for ar.hating the quiftion. It was not regular. nor had it been tire practice of P.aliAment. to entertain arty fuch fohject as that of compel:fa; ions, belotc a Elf had paired to cited the ant:4lre .tgainit which fuch compctif,tions were prayed. He thought therefore, the Hort. GentLman would do well to drop the matter at prefent. AB , LITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Lfrd HOWICK moved the order of the day, on tie adjourned debate, for the Kittle to go into a Committee on the Bill for Abolifning the Slave Trade. His Lordfhip laid, that he believed it was now almoft generally aliuwed that the tialEc was fraught with cruelty and injuitice ; and that the re fults from it in Africa, were the moll frightful ntife- T ies to the unhappy natives ut that country. It had long been a fource of encouragement to kidnapping and robbery, and had created incentives to the molt barbarous murders; and, in every fence in which it c.oild be viewed, it was a actin and a difvra . ce to ci vilized nations to continue it. Flom this pact ut the argument tie was, therefore, in a great me:dote to lieved : there was, however, one part of the qtiettion which deferved lonic obfervation, name:y, that of carrying naves to the Weft Indies ; and it gave him great fatisfatilion to think, that the Houk had, on the prefent occaluiti, heard nothing from the Learned Connie' at the Bar, of the luxuries of the Middle Palfage. Thefe topics ha.l now vaniThed; and he believed there was not a wan in the Houle, svho did Lot allow that the Middle range had been fraught the moll dreadful rsiiiichiels. There had, he believed, been one or two individuals, who had dif fered from him on this fubjed ; one of whom had even faid, he was in well convinced of the propriety and policy of the Slave Trade, that he viewed it as a bleffing to the Africans ; and if there way no filch traffic, he would himfell propole to eflablifh it. In another ?lace it had been laid, that it was julliiied by Scripture ; but he was of opinion, that it was con trary to every principle of humanity, and every fen- , • • • ' timent of the Chriftian religion. It coold, there fore, only be fairly faid, that it exited in policy and julliste, and not in humanity. In policy, becaufe it had become. as "very confiderable branch in our fyfa tam of camtherce ; and in juftice, as it In deeply concerned the interetts of our merchants. In regard to.jultice, we might to take into confidcration what was dire to Africa, as well as to the merchants of Great Britain and the Well Indies. In this view the Houle ought to take it on the broad ground of com parative and relative jullice. With telareft to the merchants, they had nnquettionably a claim to Jul. lice, and that we could accord to them within our (elves without longer doing injury to our moral cha rafter, and without being guilty of the groffelt in juftice to others. If it had been (hewn, as, in his mind, it had moll clearly, that this trade could not be carried on without direally encouraging robbery and murder, he thought it was not jullifiable either fur individuals or nations to perlit in fuch a ctuel and nefarious traffic. Feeling confident that it WAS contrary to the principles of juftice and humanity, he Should contend forahe abolition, as molt neceffary for the honour of Parliament and of the country. — It had, however, now become a queltion of policy and convenience, and he would take it up on that ground, and if it could be eftablithed, that it was not for the interefts of the merchants and planters in the Weft Indies, nor for the benefit of the revenue of this country, that this trade Should be continued, he hoped thole merchants and planters would hencefor ward ceafe to- oppofe its abolition. It had been Rated by the Counfel for the merchants of Liver ' pool, that the trade carried on to the coat of Africa had been the foundation, and was the grand fource of the commercial opulence of that large and fiou- Tithing town. His Lordfhip then went into feveral Statements relative to the tonnage in Live. pool com pared with that of the whsle of our export, both as to merchandize and to fearnen ; the retults of which were, that on an average of three years, the tonnage was equal to 1-4th and ,-23 d of (carmen. Could it then be fuppofed for a moment, that channels might not be found in which thole flips would not he as uteitilly and as advanrageoufly employed ? The whole value of our exports in taco was fomewhat more than 9,cc0,0001. and dedu&ing the produce brought home, and other charges attending the trade, the difference to Liverpool would not be more than t o ooo,oool. in three years. He hoped, therefore, this would not be an ohjeat to prevent the Houle from doing what would be a great at of national juftice. It Should alit be recolleated, that fince t Soo , the foreign flave trade had been aboithed, and o the r parts of the trade to our different colonies had been greatly retrained, and by Sir William Young's Rate• meta, it appeared, that the amount of negroes was only 35,c00, the property in which, by being abolith cd, would amount but to 1 47th, ar.d the proportion of the whole to one per cent. whica would not be more than 1-4oi. Fifteen thaufand flaves, he faid, was the amennt of the trade that nowiemained to be aboliffied. The value of the goods, to purchase them in Africa, did not amount to much more than 250,0001. but allowing it to be 500,0001. which was the ',moll it could be pretended to be, taking the whole capital a: 55,05c 0 c001. which would make it t-1 loth, could fuch a fum be put as an argument to prevent the abolition ? This ltatement would, doubtleta, relieve tl,e minds of marry perfons from the apprehenfions enter tallied as to the ifs this country would (ultain, waiah could not at all be allowed to be a total lots ; far tritely other channels would be found into which the trips and capital would be em ployed, perhaps not much le( lucrative, and infi nitely more cold - truant to the caufe of humanity.— The Counfel for the Merchants of Liverpool had Rated the great importance of the dock duties, and the injury the abr litiorrwould be to thole, for he faid they amounted to 50001. a year, and that mug entirtly ceafe. By a Ilatement lie (Lord Howick) had then to make, jn 1772, the total of Iflaps employed in that trade was 175 ; in 1779 they were reduced to 29. The town of Liver pool had its full (hare in that tedilation, and yet during that very period, thafe dock duties were molt luccefsful, and only 4001. (hurt of the relent amount. The cona met ciAlinter ells of London and Brian! had for many years been greatly on the decline. In London, in deed. the trade had almolt entirely ccafed, till the conquejt of the Dutch ill-s o ds unfoitimately gave Inew force and vigour to ii ; but, tak ng tire whole of ,• the commercial interells at the highet amount that had been contended for, there could be no rational ap r prehenfitin on that Lead. In another branch of the argument it had been flared, that 'hi , trade was of the utmost importance to the I;ritifh Navy. For his own part, Lc had always been anxious, by . every I means in his power, to promote every tl.iag that.' could tend to favour taule intcoafts. During the , Short time he had been in power in that department, he became teeiingly alive to the impottance of main taining it in its Italica force ; and he was well con vinced, that cutting at* the Slave Trade would not prove llama -us to the navy,but cii , etaly the contrary. It had, in fait, been very deftrualive to our fearnen. It might he faid, perhaps, .hat the regulations of the 1 Middle Patatoe had produced-the molt Salutary feats on the healthy of our lea men. It bad donhtlefs produced Some benefits, but he was afraid not nearly fir many as hart been afcribed to it ; and when he coufidered the cantles which produced the calamity, l it was not to be much expeatea there would be more. The principal of tlir le were, the expofure of nor feamen to the climate on throe, in order to oh ' tain !laves ; the inevitable loflas which took place in the aft of 11Y:titling them ; tire Sleeping on deck, in order to guard them properly ; and. more than all, he was afraid the fevetiry of punahment they received from the Slave Captains, contributed very much to their lois. Added to all theta, the bad air occafioned by the confinement of fo many perfons within fo narrow a Space, had- caufeel a very great diminution of our fearnen ; and it appeared from the mutter rolls of the Liverpool and Briara (hips, that I the number of deaths in them, compared with thole I employed in the Welt India Trade (which was not one of them ft healthy), was as eight to one. Betides this, the difability of the feamen was to be taken in- to the account . When the '( hips in the African tradesl arrived in the Weft Indies, our (hips of war, though ever fo much in want, were Scarcely able to find a Tingle man capable of Serving in the Navy. He had been mid, and In had the Houle, that our (hips of war in the Weft Indies could not be manned without fupplies from the Altican (hips; 'the fad was, the i feamen belonging to thole Mips, were man eager to get abdard the King's (hips, an argument which i.e thought (poke very fir ongly againft the trade ; for in all others the featnen are prone and defirous to desert from the King's (hips, and enter into the Merchants fervice, on account of the fuperiorito of wages,—a very (hong proof that the African trade trots a very fatal one to the lives of the men employed in it ; and what mull the charafter of that policy be which wf uld thus cut off the fources of feamen for the B, itiihNavy —and from the nature of the fervice and the fitua• tirn of the (hips no Ids was to be feared. It. had been lived, that it would be impoilible to carry on the cultivation* of the Wands in ti.e Weft Indies, without tient importations of Negroes.— He wifhed to examine how that affertion flood. We had received accounts of that kind previous to tBo - o and the returns had in fame degree jullitied them ; but Mr Pitt had clearly (hewn that since that period the deaths had gradually decreafed, and there could not be a doubt that by care and management nature would at there as the did in other parts of the world, and by that management particularly, which the abo lition of the trade was likely to produce, the population amongft the negroes would greatly be increafed, un lefs repreffed and kept back by the violence and cru elty of the meaftwes which had been fo long ufed towards them. In the 'nand of Jamaica, from 1763 to 1768, the increafe of deaths was equal to 24 per cent.—from 1768 to 1774., the excels of deaths was only equal to it per cent.—in the third period, to 1787 it was only 1 in 3456—and in the fourth period, to 1802, the excels was In minute and ineonfiderable, that the deaths and births were nearly equal—there fore when the new importations ceaft, and the caufe of death ceafes with them. the prefent population would keep itfelf up. In Dominica, the population had been greatly fuperior—for in the three years from 1799 to 1802, the increafe of births were fevenry five above the old flock. From all the other Elands the fame conclutions appeared to he jug—fo that it teem ed evident, that if the Slave Trade was abolilhbd to morrow, no material diminution in the number of naves was to be apprehended. It had been already frequently (fated, that if it were not for fume unna tural caufes, ariling from bad management, and other circumliances, the population of Negroes in the Welt Indies would increafe equally as it did in other coun tries. In North America, where the treatment of the Negroes is humane and careful, it had been dated by Mr. Long, that they would double their (lock in the comic of twenty years. It was well known, that the climate in the Weft Indies was as fay..urable to an increafe of population among the Negr.es, as it was in America It was a fa& well afcertained, that the Maroons had increafed in Jamaica, and the Catibbs in St. Vincent, &c. and even in Bencuolen, which was one of the m .ft unhealthy climates in the world, the Negroes cardiderably increated in poptila lion. What erodes were there why they ibould decreafe in the Weft Ir.dies ? The climate that was moll adverfe to them, was a cold one. This would operate much more againft them in Ame rica, than it could poftibly do in the Well Indies, for in America the cold was very intenfe indeed dur. ing the Winter months, and in the Well Indies never. It bad been dated, that the difproportion of the fexes was one z eat caufe of the decreafe of population. and this had been urged as a very forcible objeft againft the Abolitionir•f the Slave Trade. He was lorry to find that after all the warning g i ven on the lubjeft by that Houfe—after all the regulatiar that had been adopted, and the Reps taken to • once the determination of Parliament to .effroct ::. loon as cir cumllances would allow, a graduai, but a total Abo lition, the Weft India Plante's !Lould have gone on in their old track, and that the difpat icy of the texas (hould (till prevail. If in none of the islands the de. create is loch as to create apprehenfion—if in many there was no decreafe, but on the contrary an increafe, he was inclined to helieve that the Itatements as to the difproporti.en of the fexes had been much crag gera ed. The Learned Counfel had, he believed, dated it at ten to one; be thought, on the contrary, it was not more than three to five ; and, therefore. whatever it might he, the Weft India Planters, after all thole war nitro, had none but themfelves to biome. Diffolutenels of manners, and the promifcuous infer courle of the fetes had been mentioned as the lecond caufe of the deco tale of population among the negf nes. Fte thought that a proper attention to their morals, and giving encouragement and holding out incentives to marriage, would put an end to thole difadvantages, and in a courfe of time would tend to introduce' morality, and prove of the greaten advantage to the population of the islands. What, he afked, were the other mires which had fo firongly npera. ed againft the population of the negroes? they were fevere treat-I )tent and bad food ; and feeing that filch were the coniequences of their mode of treatment, one would think would have induced them to look more care- I fully to their own interells. Mr. Long, in his Hinory, (fated, that donrellic negroes had more children than 1 thole employed in the fields; and especially more than thole employed on fugar plantations, who had the lealt of all from the onhealthinefs of the labour,which was a proof that with mild treatment, which dome( tic negroes generally meet with, and not forcing t h em t o more than they could tartly bear, the popu lation of the negroes might be very much increafed indeed. This judicious treatment, and not (training (nett'( beyond ;heir ttrength, would be one effeft of the . Abofition, for when the Planter found he could not g:t trefh fupplies of negroet, from Afric'a, Le I wou'd take more care of thole he was already pof fefted of, 'which he thought would not decreafe, bat ino.reale the poprilatinn, and lee believed ultimately the quantitrof cultivariou a fo. One of the caufes his Lordlhip laid, which retrained or totally pre vented population was, that the women were either employed in fact) a way as to prevent the child from being born, or elfe to contribute to its being de flroyed afterward;. All knew how delicate the htua• tion of women was in a Rate of pregnancy. On • the Dightell !tight or violent furprize, their nerves were liable to loch throng emotions, there could be little doubt, but that when fuffeting under the cruel and bloody lath of the overfeer, the women were fre que'ntly apt to milearry ; or by the mother L..ing forced to go into the fields to Rork, during the tenderell in. fancy of the child, it was left in the hut, midefend- I l ed from the cold, unprotefled and utefupported by i the mid: of the mother, which loon became bad from ! hard treatment, and thus vat numbers molt cruelly and untimely perilhed. He . thotight, therefore, that itrom what he bad aged ) it mutt be clear the abil... 1 V tion wou!d not prove injnrions in any confideralsk degree to our generat'export trade ; that the (bums of the ravy would not be likely to fuller by i. ; that not only the :ovulation of Negroes in the Welt In. d:a Hands would not decreafe, but might be expelled to increafe. which were fo many cogent arguments ' in favour of the meafure, and he hnped wrintd in , duce the linufe to ado et it. The Houfe had be-n i told that the Wed India Blinds were in danger from infurredion and revolt, if the ab o lition lhould take place, • and much fault had been found on that fepre with the preamble of the Bill, which had been Rated to hold out to the Negroes that this trade was founded in cruelty and inhumanity.--- He was altonifhed to hear fuch an argument. What, after this trade had exidect for Inch a length of time, after all that had taken place on the fuhj e a in that Houle for the lad twenty years, is it neceffery to tell the Negro frotn Africa, who has been toot from his parents, or from his wife and children, that hi. lot is cruel and fevere ? Is it not written in his mind, and impelled on his feelings by the great hand j of Nature. Is it neceffary to tell him, in the pream ble of an Alt of Parliament, that his being in the Weft I Indies is an aft of inhumanity and injusflice? Merciful heaven! mutt he not feel his unhappy file (very hour (c f his lie ? Would he not read it every day i 1 the I bloody (tripes of his fellow flave's back ? Alas, raid I his Lordfhip, there needs no preambl e to conv i nce them feelingly on that head—but finely nn fear or app' thenlion could be entertained on that feore, for the Planters had lhewn them, in v it i 'us publications, t all that had naffed on the fubjelt in thatHoofe, from the queflion's being fiat agitated to the prefent mo ment. Nay, there had lately appeavd in the Ja maica Papers, art account of an infuriation which had been difcovered in fume of the Mends, in which the whole of the plan was developed in filch a man ner, and its various bearings delineated fo minutely, as could not fail to infirult every negro that could read in the whole of its orgsnization, and how they might proceed if inclined to funilar pr..ceedings. If the Hutde would look at what had naffed for the lalt twenty years, fince this fobjed had been agi tate...'., they would find, he believed, lefs of infur reetion than had taken place in any former period. —lt was not true, that new Negroes were b ught to diminith the labour of the old, bust to make up for rise decreafe which the fevetity of that labour had occafioned. They had alto been told that a new importation of negroes was a great confutation, and thnfe who had been there before were glad to hear news of their relations. A very ingenion. argument truly ! Bat what mutt be their feelings when they fee perhaps a near relation of their own brought nu. fh re, and not fold to the fame matter, but rent to home d. 'ant quarter—their feelings mull he mod puligent. —He could not agree to the character Oven of the African negroes He believed them to be rather mild in their dispofitinns, and th-re was n , o, on that ac count, In much danger of infurredi us from old fettled negroes as from thole who were fmarting under the lath f having been recently torn from all that were neat and dear to them. The colony and fate of St. Domingo had been held up a; an example againd the abolition. On the c .ntrary, he thought it a thong argument in its favour. It was well known, that tuft before the troubles began in St. Domingo, •here had been a very large imp •r- ation of new negroes, and thole had ever been mod forward in promoting in furration ; hut the fate of St. Domingo was owing Ito the French Revolution. The whole Colony had !been divided into different patties, each driving to carry his point ; and thole fangninary and ambitious people Simulated the negroes to MEd them in their different views. Therefore :here WAS no argument in I the cafe of St. Domingo. He was ready to admit the fad that had been hater', that emiffiries had been fent to our iflands, and otos—, inlligatieg the negrott to revolt and infurredion, the belt and lafell tnetta.d to avoid which was to attach them to us by kind treatment, aad pre.per triage. This had been ctiarly lhewn in Surinam, the only colony where intimation had atually taken place, and where thrtfe negroes who had been well treated flood by their matters, and a flitted them to quell the revolters. He thought therefore ti is argument as to intimation of no weight, and hoped the lloufe w old countenance this Bill, which came fo warmly and powerfully recommended from the other branch of the Legiflature On theft grounds, he for his own part Ihould be inclined to tupport it. It had been Paid, tt if you abolifh the trade, you fh-uld abolith ;revery." l'his, he thought, migh' Ballow, as was the cafe in Greece and Rome; and, even in modern times, in a certain deg*, in the Portugnefe and Spanifh Settlements, where negroes having faved a certain tuns of money, were allowed to emancipate themfelees. Another argument was, that if we abandon this trade, others would take it up : this however, was the favourable moment to do it. The French and Vetch had no power to do it during the war. Denmark had abolifhed it, and fo had all Not th An erica, except the province of South Carolina. If the ab Won produced good effeas in Africa, he hoped France and Holland would be in duced ro follow the example, which would iednund fo touch o the honour arid humanity of this country. A further argument was, that the trade had been fandioned by men of the greeted talents in this country, and Lord Clarendon and Mr. Locke were cited . s having held that it was right. This had been ably anfeacred in another place, and perhaps it would be unneceffary to enter any fur tl•er into it. Lord Howick concluded in the fuelowing tern s: I. But, Sir, if we ate to rely upon authority, slo c are names of the !sighed relpatability in owls:ion. to this trade. Need I mention that of the Prefident Montefquieu ? Shall I add to his influence two of the molt - dittinguifhed politicians of our own times, who applied to this fubjeO all the energies of their power tut minds, and who, risals c.n every other topic, united in one common feeling and lentiment on this grand que! inn ? Let us, by palling this Bill, raife a monument t-• them more forendid than any the labour or ingenuity of man could ere& It was Mr. Fox who Silt propofcd this meafure, which it was the &area aka of his life to aecomplifli, and the with for its fuccefs quivered on his lips in the laft moments of existence. After the high authorities I have Waled, it would be abfurd to lubmit inferior names to your n nice. There may be and there have been differ ences as to the time, mode, and circumdances of thg abolition, but on the necafity of the° abolition i felt in fame form, .1 believe, there la no difference of .pit ion between ntyfelf and thole Gentlemen 6 ith • . whom I pad the mistortune to elifagrec on num . .