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From the very favourable reception I have experienced on my vulvas, I entertain the confident hope that the result of the ballot on this occasion, will place me in the honourable situation of a Di• rector of your Affairs, and I once more beg to assure you that, in the event of my success, I shall endeavour faithfully, diligently, and zealously, to discharge the duties of that important trust. _ • I have the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful and humble Servant, • • H. ST. G. TUCKER. No. 3, Upper Portland-place, 10th March, 1824. Mr. Tocsin's Committee will sit daily at the City of London Tavern; Blahopsgate-street, where any communications front his Friends will be thankfully received. STRATFORD-PLACE. Elegant TIGUSETIOLD FURNITURE, brilliant PIER and CHIMNEY-GLASSES, superb CUT-GLASS LUSTRES, • LA MPS, and CANDELABRA; a CEI, LA It of fine-flavoured WINES, &c. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, fly Mr. ROBINS, - • (Of Warwick-House It-gent - street), Ca the Premises, No. 16, on the West Side of Stratford-place, , ()161rd-street, TO-MORROW, the 18th March, 1824, and following day, at Twelve o'Clock,. Tao! PROPERTY Or • GENTLEMAN. T HE Fashionatle and Excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: Comprising lofty Four-post, Tent, and other Bedsteads and Furni ::.-es, prime seastrod Feather Beds and Bedding, Suites of-French r• Drawing and Dining-room Curtains, in Chintz, Cotton, and handsome Grecian Scroll-end Couches, Sofas, Chairs, 4);ramars, &c. en suite, brilliant Plate Pier and Chimney Glasses, cf large dimensions,' Statuary, Marble and Rosewood l'ier Tables, saperh Lustres and Chandeliers, capital well-made Cabinet Articles, in Rosewood and Mahogany, Card, Lon,• Sofa, Library, and .Dining Tables., &c. Iled-chamber Moniture. in Wing and other Wardrobes. Chests of Drawers, Presets, Dressing Glasses, &c. Tarkey and Brussels Carpets, numerous Kitchen Requisite!, and s:..rioui Effects. May be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday preceding the Sale, v..hen Catalogues may be had on the Premises, at One s.ch; and of Mr. Robins, 170, Regett-street. MONTHLY SALI4. RF.S in the NEATIL WILTS and BERKS, and PORTS:. 7,10UT11 and A RUgDEL .CANALS, and PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, TO BE SOLD BY ACCTION, By Mr. M. RAINS, (Successor to the late Mr. licters), At the Mart, on WEDNESDAY, March 31, at Twelve o'Clock, VEATI-1 CANAL: Two Shares in This Concern, which divided last year £1.3 per Share ; but this" year the Trade upon the Canal having improved, an increase of Dividend next July may be confidently relied upon. In the Wilts and !Jerks Canal, Twenty Shares ; Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, Sevin Shares; and Eight Shares, in the Provident Life Office, Regent stree;.—Particulars at the Mart; and of Mr-. M. Raine, Canal and Pink Share and Estate Broker, No. 2, Great Winchester-Stiret, 137uad-street. 140.111.45 T IGHTS GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY r.sr.Arxim. 14,n Perkins, Upper Thames-strcet, stationer, from March 2 to May 11, a: eleven, at dm: Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basingliall-street. . BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Frectity, Acton, Midditses, carpenter. NKRUPTS. Thomas Boswell, Surrey-street, Strand, tailor, to surrender March 7.!.1, and April , 27, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners ut . Isaukrapts, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Richardson, \Valhi.°6k. Joseph Underwood, Blrnwich, Staffordshire, =hater, April 6,7, and 27, at eleven, at the Yoe Inn, Shrewsbury. Attorpies, Mr. Foster, Liverpool ; or Messrs. Willis and Co. Tokenhouse-yard. Wil!iam Callis Corrie, late of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, dealer bi lace, March 24, at six, 25, and April 27, at eleven, at the hind Inn, Wellingborough. Attinnies, Messrs. Hodson and Burnham, Wellingborough; or Messrs. Bridges and Quitter, Red Lion. square. Jos,•ph Berle, late of Waterloo road, stationer, March 23, April to and 27, at eleven, at the Court of Contmissioners of Bank rupts, Attornies, , Messrs. Oriel and Leader, Wormwood-street, Bishop:late-Area. NATAL INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY OfFICE, MARCH 16. reference to my letter of the 24th of last month, respect the convoy to Gibraltar, I am commanded by my Lords Corn_ t, , l,sioner: of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that no ship having appeared for eonvoy,his 'Majesty's sloop PANDw.P.A has been ordered to sail from Falmouth; but if their Lordships are informed at any suture time that any inimber of ships are collected, a ship of war be sent to convoy them.—l am, &c. • (Signed) Tu the Chairman of the Committee for Managing the Affairs at Lloyd's. JOHN BARROW. A letter front Captain WimtauK, of the Potton, dated the 11th cF October, mentions his safe arrival at Calcutta, without any notice !:aving been on shore. The Agnes, ItEco, bound to Liverpool, has been condemned at .a , olerara, having sprung a kak. Maser' 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Champion ! - f Wales, Moasov, from London; hclina, WILDCOOSE, from ditto - r Demerara ; Sisters, Ihsnor, from ditto for Naples, wick loss of Sailed several coasters, bound round land. FottiNtovrir, AIAILCII 16.—Wind S.W.—Sailed his Majesty's P:2 : 1) CLueersvca, for Chatham. Arrived irons the Downs, the Patriot, Bocc, for Cadiz; Richardson, Diegrassori, for I '";9i:rn: Priscilla, alas, for Brest ; Sarah, .How, for New Pro. vt‘l7.ce; and Sir Henry Stanhope, nASON, for St. Michael's. DEAL, MA Ken W.—Arrived and remain, the Mary, l !") 110135 St. John's, Yew Brunswick. Came .down from the :Ind remain, the Obi Maid, Ttim.r, for Sierra Leone; and . C.INNV U., for Dominica. Two of-his Alajesty'a steam hwe atehr.rLd in the Downs from the Northward. ?le i'•able: Si - 11 , .rougli, BATTY, from Rio Janeiro to liamburgly h . .:1 passed at the bat k of the Goodwin Sands. lorg-expe,. red Novel of The Hiffhhurders," from t‘to of the .Author of the Ilertnit in Lemann, Hermit Abroad, " 111 appear in a E-w days. If the Author displays as much throin9mot his story, as he has shewn in his short Sketches of: . 31.-upers, he tn.:). uoticiptite the most decided traccess. Li "! AND Sr. PATRICR!!!—Thi , being St. Patrick's st.r,nid Day of Drawing of the Ste Lottery, and No. b jut: the Prize, is entitled to no less than Three ". I*l scoo Consols, )1. 1 ,000. Money, and tet:oo Consols. 1 .•1 , curious Prize vas SALI by liasH, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing (:•, is) Teo Sit:tires. A i . , , ,,t)er Ltunty Thonsand Pound Prize, Drawn this snitt in Shares 'el IlAza an and Co. (No. 12,299), hrt y . .n, oll•ai.ds already sold by them lei the first pre-t la Lottery. i't ctst at.-14:.ohen Martin and Defoe fotigkt t:est , ll•day at Moul t Y Itfat,, for 10ogs. The battle lasteti one hour and seven 1 .4:4:11,)1111:g 'Z.I rounds, aild ought to have terminated d& ;: r "0 1, u. I..vour of bcfoe, but he threw it away: he gave Martin ~ I..st the battle, after having hen taken up by itlartin ':tie h r.mstl) by the hams, c thtuten to the groattd with • 'elltiau. PA RI, I AIENTA Rl' 1 1 .1,10CEE D ENOS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH a • Petitions were presented for the Abolition of Slaver* front Frome Selwood, by the Marquis of ; from Cerne and Sher burne, by the Earl of Dtaar ; trom the Inhabitants of Wellington, !.y the Duke of WELLINGTON ; from Wollaston, and Hut ltetford, by Lord CAWDOG ; and from numerous other places. SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES. The Order of the Da/ having been moved and read by the senior Clerk, Earl BATHURST rose.—lle commenced his obser vations by stating that he had now the honour of laying on their Lordships table, by his Majesty's command, some Papers which were referred to in the Lords Com missioners Speech on the first day of the present Ses sion, and these Papers were prepared in consequence of the 'Resolution passed by the' House of Commons, which he would *read to their Lordships.—(Here the -Noble•Earl read the Resolution adverted to.)—lt now became his duty to state to their Lordships what mea sures bad been adopted by his Majesty's Government in consequence of the Reicilution of the other -Hobse of Parliament. Two Circulars had, in consequence, been issued with respect to the West Indian Colo nies ; one was dated 'the 28th of . May last, and the second was issued on the 19th of July in the same year. Of these recoMmendations on the part of his Majesty's Government, thesubstance of the first aimed at the re ligious observance of the Christian Sabbath in those Colonies; it was also in contemplation to elaOlidi the, custom of whipping by proxy ; and, further, it -was wished to abolish for ever all domestic kinds of punish ment, in relation to slaves, and in contradistinction to what was considered, and very _properly so considered, as judicial punishment. Another of the recommenda tions of his Majesty's Government related to Negro marriages. • There was likewise a provision for the power of willing, or bequeathment, of property on the part of such slaves. To these advantages were super added the saving power of manumission, as it re spected masters, and the taking. in certain cases, and under clear distinctions, the evidence of slaves in civil and in criminal cases. Such were the regulations which Government !fad proposed- for the consideration- of the Colonial Assemblies; and if any of their Lordships were of opinion that his Majesty's Ministers had gone too far, though right in theory, he had, nevertheless, the_satisfaction to state those instructions and regula tions had "been received Aith deference by the great body of the West India Planters ; it was true, however, that tin distinct proposition had actually been accepted, though it was admitted, at the outset, that all our pro positions were in themselves well worthy of conside ration. if, on the other hand, there were among their Lordships those who thought that his Majesty s Go vernment had not gone far enough, he could only say, that he believed. that no recommendation of- the Im. .perial Legislature had been unattended to. Witt• re spect to the great majority bf the Colonial Legiilative Assemblies, it should be understood by their Lord ships that our propositions were still under conside ration ; and althoug-h those Assemblies might have erred with respect to certain points, he still hoped that some measures which his Maje.ty's Government had recommended would be adopted. He should deceive their Lordships, if, during this statement, he ventured to suppose that the recommendation of Government would, in all cases, be adopted in its details; yet, ex cepting the Islands of Barbackes and St. Christopher, which were left freely to choose their allotment, there were no apprehensions to be feared. With respect to St. Lucia, Tobago, and Dominica r it was to be.appre , hended that these Islands might feel opposed to the measures which were recommended for their adoption. With respect to the House of Assembly in Jamaica, that. Body was likely to adopt the greater part of the recommendations addressed to them. With regard to Tobago, it should be recollected that the Legislature met only in July last, when, however, they adopted several of the recommendations and resolutions proposed by his Majesty's Government; and when they - separated, they separated under an idea, that if they once adopted. all the resolutions, then they were pledged to the utter extinction of all slavery; and this feeling was distinctly to be attributed to the ill-advised opinion of some of their friends in this country, who maintained that to mitigate was no other than to abolish slavery. With respect to St. Virieent, here the proprietors had declined to comply with the recommendations which .were sent out, and referred to a 13111 passed two years ago for the amelioration of slavery in that Island, 4nd they 'thought, naturally as to themselves, that they had already done quite enough; but he trusted that from what had been done beforehand 4‘y that Island, which, he must say, considering all the circumstances, was greatly to their credit, as being done without the least compulsion; when a more temperate view of the sub ject was taken, the truth would prevail. But it was proper to State what had passed in Jamaica, as the in temperate manner in which the House of Assembly had met the resolutions of the fkuse of Commons was matter of public notoriety: But he hoped for better things whenever the opponents of amelioration came to a temperate view of the subject. Nor would-it be doing mere justice to the subject, were their Lordships not reminded of the language held in the other House re • specting the comparative ease of slaves resident in Eng land and in America, and when we were twitted with • the 'sapient remark that our treatment of the slaves was nothing in - comparison with that of the United States. • Bat how stond the fact? Why, in point of fact, - their Lordships Woald find that there was no limitation of -lashes on slaves in the municipal rude of America ; arid as to killing a slave, or making away with him, the punishment of the 'mister was nuthing more than a fine and imprisonment. Slaves were /logged 'in America if' they happened to be absent after sunset ; en slave was suffered to carry a cane about him ; and lastly, if any , slave happened to look disrespectfully at his master or even that master thought proper to construe it into disrespect, he was subjected to the punishment of dogging in the United States. Now, he would say, let their Lordships but compare the American code with our. Weal Indian, and he vas confident that they would feel rather proud at the contrast. Con-1 vinced that there had taken place a very great im- provement in the treatment of our colonial slaves, and satisfied that this amelioration had proceeded from prin- ciple, rather than fr.smThiterest in the owners Of them, the result was, that much greater care was taken of the children born of slaves, and the aged or destitute sick .were provided with hospitals. Thus, far Irons restins , for amelioration of. slavety on the process of legisla tion, so far from appealing to the laws lot the protec tion of slaves, he was dually of opinion that in toasty great instances the humanity of individuals had nun nn the proceedings of the Legislature; and indeed it was absurd to legislate where it was imposkible to .ere cute the laws without the risk of overturning the Cou stitutian of a St:rte....What he therefor,: d isliked Hey the contemplation of all extremes, for the extreme of sight verged to the Precipice of wrimg. In saying this, let not Noble Lorchs misunderstand him: he never meant to assert that this 'country had no power over her . islands; we had, on the contrary, the full power to re gulate their commercial relations—to insist t:n the pro portion which should or should not be paid : but ia these : exertions of lawful power, we must look always to that.' practicable forbear :ince which constituted the highest recompense of statesmen in the result Of their efforts. Letters had been dispatched to various settlements, and it was very far from his wish gratuitously to expose out Legislative - Colonial Assemblies to the bitter teproach of asking ho is this Power which adventures tot interpose between us and our. Government ?" I le ti usted that within the space of four mcoriss an Oialer in Coun cil would reach annerara, embodying the whole of the regulatioirs sent out by Government. Such an Order had been approved by his Majesty on Wednesday last, and was to be found in the papers laid upon the table : of the House. lfy this Order of the King in Cs.uncil, full prov.ision.was made for the appointment of an Of ficer, to be called the Guardian Protector of Slaves, to whom, of course, the execution of the resolutions of Go vernment were entrusted. By one regulation Al com pulsory.labour : on the Sabbaths was prohibited. The three next provisions related, in.the first instance, to the abolition of the punishment of whipping, on account of the uses to which it might be applied by the man, him self a slave, to whom the punishment was entrusted, when no white person was likely to be present to watch the in fliction, and therefore it was apprehended that some. barbarous and arbitrary use might be made of rt. The: next prohibition went to interdict the flogging of all female slaves, which he considered as most brutal; and accordingly the • recommendation was received with great satisfaction in this country ; but, and he was sorry to say so, it was different in the West Indian Colonies, the landlords of which, though abhorring the flagella tion of female slaves, all deprecated the doing soon away with that which inspired them with salutary ter ror; for in Demerara, for example, the notion that the punishment was done away as it affected the female. slaies, bad caused great disorders there. Females were,, however, still liable to be put into the stocks, even at, Trinidad, and to imprisonment. The neit provision was for he punishment of the male slave+optilatiouol the %Vest Indies in twenty-four hours, under due regu-, lotions ; the punishment to be limited to twenty-five lashes ; no second sort df punishment to be enforced: while lacerations were perceptible from the first ; and-; even the first infliction to be taken in presence of a white, person. Besides this, the number of lashes so inflicted were to be put down in writing, together.with the na-• ture of the slaie's offence; the whole to be transmitted for the inspection of the Guardian Protector . of Slaves. He had now reached that part of thesubje4 in relation to the comforts of the slaves, particularly wish respect to marriage, when the facility of license was provided ; andif disputed by the master, the latter might be cited before the Commandant, who had power, on hearing the parties, to issue a license to the offici rting. Minister to render an account of such marriage, when required so to do. The next measure went to provide, that in slave-sales the husband should never be separated (rom his wife, nor both from their children if under the age of seven years; but that in such circumstances they should aggregate one lot. In addition to •chese provi ' sions, measures were recommended for the security acrd transfer of negro property, and for bequeathing the same. The next measure was for the manumission of slaves, in which instance the fee was henceforward to be paid by the State, the slave being at all times capa ble of purchasing, if in his power, the freedom of his wife, his children, or his own sister. It was.not, how ever, at present his intention to go through all the pro visions recommended by.his Majesty's Garet nment for the amelioration of the condition of the colonial slaves; but those slaves were, notwithstanding all their difficul ties, to be most satisfactorily dealt with. This brought their Lordships at length to the admissibility of the evi— dence of slaves; and here, the first step towards such admission must necessarily be under the presentment of some certificate from the officiating Minister Ofreligion,: who should certify the slave's competency and creditns to giving his or her testimony. Limitations were, how ever, most necessary. Where, in civil cases,' the inte rest of the master was immediately concerned, there, would be a needless exposure of both parties. Evi dence might be taken from slaves in criminal cases, ex cept where the life of a white person was in jeopardy., He did not mean to say that the oaths of a slave was in, 'any case to be conclusive of the matter at issue between the litigating parties; let the oath be regulated by the maxim Valera quantum valet. The Jury. could decide upon : that oath as upon all others, by the manner of the person giving evidence, and in the case of the slave, there was an opportunity afforded forenthely ;ejecting his oath, namely, if he could not produce the cestifi cite of an authorised person that he understood the obligation imposed on him by an oath, and that he was a pet son of good_moral character. His ,Alejasty's (it)- ] vernment had thought it right to give some ps iviiege in this respect to the slave; but they on the other hand thought, that. without curtailing that privilege in the way -in which he had just had the honour to.state to their Lordships, they would not have done anything to wards furthering the ends of justice. He was afraid he had taken up (ruire of their Lordships' timealran insight tie thought necessary, in going through the detail 01 the provisions of these orders—(l/eqr, bear)—but-feeb, ing the importance _of the question, he thought it his Juty 'tn put their Lnroships in possession of, all the pro - visions. Having made this statement, he would now a.k those who looked with the greatest jealousy at the • , - : . . condition of the slaves in the West India Colenies, and who considered that liis Majesty's Government had, in the robe!. House t f Parliament, pledged themselves to the amelioration of the slaves, whether that pledge had not been now to the'faliest practicable extent redeemed?- -- : -(llear, hear, from both sides of the I louse.)—There was doodler measirre to vs !rich he should log leave to call the xtte.iiiin of , their Lordships-3 ineasine which, in - his oci•i;cm, wa, more necessary, aad !setter calculated fiu the improvement of the slave population, than many of the provisions to which he had had the honour of di recting their Lordships' attention— he meant the measures adopted for the religious instruction of the slaves. It Was hardly necessary for him to state to their Lordshipt, that our whole Ecclesiastical Establishment in the West Indies was most lan?entably deficient, whit reference to the duties which it was now considered necessary that they should per form, namely, religious. instruction of the slave pop:dation—Wear, hear)—and when he acknow ledged this, he must at the same time acknowledge, and it was s ith feelings of shame he made the acknowledg. mint, that when these establishments were made, they were made without reference to the slave population ; indeed, he might say, that the state of the coloured in habitants of these Colonies was not taken into` account. Notwithstanding this state of things, he was happy to say, that the Christian feelings and Christian spirit of the inhabitants of Great Britain had given rise to a va riety of religious societies, who sent out to the West In dies Missionaries, through whose instrumentality great -portion of the slave population was indebted for Chris- - flan instruction. There were at present in the West In dies a Church of England Establishment, Missionaries from a society instituted for the propagation of Chris tian knowledge, and from a society formed for the con version of the negro population. Tire two first of these establishments were -for the general instruction of the inhabitants. of the West Indies, .but the latter society, at the head of Which was the Right Reverend Prelate the Bishop of London, devoted its efforts entirely to the conversion of the negroes.. There were, besides those persons, Missionaries from the Moravian, Wesleyan, and other dissenting societies. To all those societies the 'country was . indebted for their exertions to afford religiars and moral instruction to the slaves ; but when it was 'admitted that the religious instruction of the_ slave population was a matter of great importance to this country, he thought it was not fitting that the exe cution of such an object should be left to depend upon the casual and voluntary exertions of individuals—upon the exertions of irrespcnsible agents—(hear, He therefore wits of, opinion, and he trusted their Lord.- ships would also be of opinion, that our Ecclesiastical Establishrneat in the West Indies ought to be strength ened, more extended, placed upon a stronger hold, and. that'the discipline of the Established 'Church ought to Ibe more extensively introduced. To effect any altera tion in the Morals of the slaves, it was necessary in the . first place to obtain,.hy religious instructions some con trail over their passions and their feelings, and thato controul could not be obtained except by.a resident, Clergy—( Hear, Ilea"). 'lt might he said that this had • already- taken place, and that Clergymen, regularly.ora dained, were residing there; and it was said that the- Right Reverend Prelate had authority to ordain Cler gymen who might wish to take up their residence in. the West Indies.. To that he would answer, that that. Right Reverend Prelate had no such authority; .but even admitting that 'he had, such authority, he (Earl Bathurst), than whom no man thought naore highly of the pious and zealous exertions of that Right Re verend Prelate, would say that it was utterly impos sible for any Prelate residing in this country to, ade quately disclia• a e the duties of a Prelate placed at the head of a Church Establishment in the West Indies. It was therefote necessary to have two Bishops in the West Indies = -one in Jamaica, and the other in the Lee ward Islands, because, froth peculiar circumstances, a Bishop resident in Jamaica would k as unable, to discharge the duties for the Leeward Islands ; as, he , would be if he were resident in this country. It was also proposed to have in Jamaica one Archdeacon, and. in the Leeward Islands two Archtleacont, and it was further proposed to send out at the outset a certain number of clergymen, to be sent to the d:fferent parishes which were now calling upon the Clover nment for resi t dent:clergy meu. Those persons were to make a teport of the slate of d- churches, &c. in the places to vvhielo they might be sent, aod to point.out to theCovernment such alterations as they might think proper. It was.in tended to place ill the hands of the Bishops the presen tation-to the livings which were now iu the hands of the Governors of the various Colonies ; but it was, during the continuance of the present Governors in othce, thought unnecessary to take out of their hands this pre sentation, but merely to subject their nomination to the approbation of the Bishops ; and after the expiration of their respective Governorships, the presentation was to be wholly vested in,the Bishops. As it would be part of the duty of the resident clergymen to take particular notice of the peculiar character of the slave population, it was therefore necessary to establish schools, under the controul of each clergyman, who, as it could oot be 'expected that he could, consistently o ith the discharge of his other duties, attend to the routine duties cf a school— (I./ear)—was to have teachers under his controul. It had been observed, and with truth observed, about three or four years ago, by a Noble Baron opposite (Rolland) tlasit it was very desirable that slaves should be taught the religion professed by their owners, managers, or over seers, because, if they were taught a differect religion, it :might induce the slave to look upon Maisel! as consi .dered in the eye of religion an inferno' 'being. Ile agreed with the Nab!e Baron to the prop; iety such a system, 'because 'it was to be hoped that owners, overseers, or 'managers mould look with less jealousy upon religious instruction, when administered by persons of their own :persuasion. Besides.which, he thought a great advano tage toiglit be derived by the.slave and the master from !,attending at the same place.of worship, because a corn f—mu(lnlitiyar,ot fk . e s a v t eit .i_ sh N i , p ili w a s wo al u n id to b l e ieg eti et tli a tily l c . i t 7 e o ll l e y fi f e e j e a l l it t w o the master and to theslave. -By uniting the high and the low, the rich and the poor, in one emotion form of prayer, men weir- taught at the time to confess that equality cl which all men were, at sane hours of their to entertain too .strong a doubt-ot/Itlr); but • . • , . .. , _ V , ~~