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• 41 • • • • • 11 4 • :4 1, T J 1 r 1 11 1 . • •, p pOCLEKY for the DISCHARGEavi RELIEF of PERSONS As. \ .9)11/4PVONED for SMALL DEBTS, Craven-street, Strand, October 7, 1818. BENEFACTIONS SINCE THE LAST RE PORT, viz. ; ,e. s. p. The Right Hon. the Earl of Radnor, V.P. Annual 5 5 0 The Right Hon. the Countess of Radnor A. 5 5 0 Admiral Sir John Colpoys, K.B. two Years' Benefaction - - - 4 4 0 Lady Charlotte W. Wynne, per Hammersley s o o Sir W. W. Pepys, Bart. - A. 5 5 0 Mrs. Surteis - - - . 1 0 0 Rowland Jones, Esq. - - - A. 20 o Miss Hadaley, per Hammersley - . 50 0 Mrs. Fitzgerald - - - A. 3 3 0 Mrs. P. Wheeler - - - A. 1 0 0 Robert Pigou, Esq. four Years' Benefaction 8 8 o Rev. T. P. White, per Versa and Co. - A. 2 2 0 P. Heatley Esq. - - A. 2 2 0 William Gill Patton, Es+ per Secretary A. 2 2 0 S. Marjorsbanks, Esq. - - A. 2 2 0 Mr. John Mitchell - - - . A 0 0 Miss Saltonstall, per Hoares . - A. 3 3 0 Mr. Brownlow, per ditto - . 5 0 0 General Wm. Cartwright, per ditto - A. 5 5 0 Adam Askew, Esq. per ditto - - A. 2 2 0' Thomas S. Gooch, Esq. per ditto - - A. 3 3 0 James Gurry, Esq. per Dorrien and Co. A. 2 0 0 J. F. Mesturas, Esq. per Chatteris and Co. A. 2 2 0 Jasper Hall, Esq. - - 3 0 0 Rev. James Webster . . . - 2 2 0 llrs. Webster - - - - 1 1 0 Mrs. Langton - - - - A. 2 2 0 John Ward, Esq. - - A. 2 2 0 Mr. Thomas Waring . - - 1 0 0 Rdward Howell, Esq. Cheltenham - A. 2 2 0 John Marsh, Esq. Chichester, two Years 2 2 0 A Lady, occasional Donation • - - 2 0 0 1 Mr. Hart, a Fine from a Hackney Coach, lie • 0 5 0 W. G. - . - 40 0 0 A. R. - - 20 0 0 O. V. two Benefactions, £5. sad £2. per Hoare's 7 0 0 W. T. £2. 25.-11- Y. La. - 4 2 0 C. V. £2.—R. H. X -S. - 4 0 0 J. C. M. £l.—Found in the Letter Box, 11. Is. S 1 0 Balance of Accompts received from the Executors of Thomas Jorgenson, Esq. per Treasurer 196 10 7 4'373 2 7 Discharged and relieved from various Prisons 109 Debtors, for the sum of - £3.11 17 0 Considered the cues of 111 Pvtidoners ; Ap .. proved, at ; Refzrred for further Eriqutry, 4 Petitions; sad Rejected SS. Benefactions are received by John Camden Neild, Esq. the Treasurer, Cheyno-walk, Chelsea ; also by Messrs. lierries, Far quhar, and Cu. St. James's-utreet ; Messrs. Mares, Fleet -street; :Ilessra. Chatted', Whitmore, and Co. Lombard-street; Messrs. Cocks, Cocks, Badge ard Biddulph, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Da rien & Co. Finch-lane, Cornhill;Mcsus. ; Messrs. Verea and Co. 77, Lombard-street ; and by the Seers i•rYs 7, Craven street, Strmd, where the Books may br. ...en by these who are inclined to support this Charity, and where tae Satiety meet on the first Wednesday in November nest. ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. The Public is acquainted with the most striking external sign of the efforts made by the enemies of the Slave-trade fcr the abolition of the detestable traffic, in the appearance of Mr. Clarkson at the seat of Congress, and his access to the Emperor of Russia. l The exertions, however, of the friends of human na ture and of benevolence, are not contked to the oral communication of Mr. Clarkson. "There has been sent from Aix-la-Chapelle, a pamphlet, written with great energy; and which, as it exhibits the existing condition of the Slave-trade, and sets forth the vari ous infractions of those principles which have by all been acknowledged to be just, we determined to lay it entire before the Pdhlic. The work is entitled— " An Addre.;: to their Imperial and Royal .Mllnjesties, and their Representatives at the Congress of ilix-la- Chapelk 5" ILLUSTRIOUS AND orsr.:tous SOVEREIGNS—The Congress of Vienna, where your last assembly took place, will form an epoch in history, of which the memory will be for ever elle; idled by good men.— After having saved Europe from the tyranny under which it had so long groaned, you extended your benevolent regards to the other ic3ions of the uni• verse. Africa in particular excited your sympathy. Sensibly touched with the miseries of which it was the victim, you proclaimed the generous design of uniting for its delivery from that state of oppression' and misery to which the Slave-trade had reduced it;' you resolved to put an end for ever (W I may be per mitted to use the energetic expressions which you yourselves employed) 6 , to that scourge which had for so long a time desolated Africa, degraded Europe, and afflicted humanit y ;" and to elevate that vast Continent into the capacity of sharing with us in the benefits of civilization, and the diffusion of moral and religious truth. Your Majesties being upon the point of avembling at another Congress, one of the objects of your soli citude will naturally be, to inform rnirselves, whe ther your benevolent intentions with respect to Aft ica have' been accomplished as they ought to be ; and should it be proved that this is not the case, you will, without doubt, desire to concert such measures as rnay give effect to those elevated sentiments, those truly Christian principles, which excited your first de clarations is favour of that Continent. It is not ne cessary to trace here in detail the nature of the Afri can Slave-trade, and the modifications which it had undergone before the Congi ess of Vienna, the account having been presented to your Majesties at that epoch. In Iso7, Great Britain and the United States of America, which entirely prohibited the trade in all its branches to their respective subjects and in 1810, Portugal, on its part, consented to circumscribe it within certain limits on the coasts of Africa situated to the north of the Equator. These important mea sures, aided at that time by the right of search which belonged to the belligerent States, produced a'consi derable effect. A partial cessation of the Slave-trade took place on a great extent of the coast of Africa, and there remained but a few traces of that odious traffic upon that which reaches from Senegal to the Gold Coast : for England having added, by the right of conquest, the establishments which the French possessed in that country to those which it already , had, was in a condition to prevent the commerce of its enemies, and to ensure the execution of the pro- 1 Inbitory laws passed against the Slave-trade. Short as the time was during which a part of the Coast of the African Continent was protected from the ravages of that traffic, it served fully to confirm the expectations of the wise. The western shores of the North of Africa began already to present an aspect much more encouraging. The cares of peace ful industry, the arts of civilized life, and the pro pagation of true Religion, .marching with a slow but progresaife course, repaired the evils of a com nrerce as depraving as devastating—when all at once the scene changed. Peace, which followed the destruction of the revo lutionary power in France, and which was the source of so many benefits to Europe, became to Africa the source of new miseries--miseries which were even aggravated by the partial repose which it had enjoy ed for some time, and the overthrow of those well founded hopes which had begun to be entertained. Scarce was the peace proclaimed, when the traf fickers in human blood of all countries arrived in crowds upon the African coast, and gave themselves up afresh to their ancient crime s , with a cupidity so much the more ardent, as it had been for a long time repressed. Among those, the French, who for more than 20 years had been able to take no direct part in the murderous traffic, began it again with ardour; and still openly continue it at this moment, in spite of the solemn renunciation which their Government had made in 1815, and in spite of the prohibitory laws - which had been since that time promulgated in France. The revival of the Slave-trade among the French, and its history to the present time, have been marked by circumstances the most disgraceful, and accom panied by cruelties most horrible, and consequences the most disastrous. During the ten years which preceded the restitu tion made to France of Senegal and Goree, no part of the African coast, with the exception of Sierra Leone, had been so completely freed from the eyjls produced by the Slave-trade, as those establishments, and the countries surroundsng them. The trade was there alnu3st entirely abolished ; and in consequence a remarkable increase of population, the progress of agriculture, suit other ameliorations in the vicinity, displayed the dawn of an opening prosperity most gratifying to benevolent hearts. It was in the month of January, 1817, that these interesting colonies were given back to France, from whence resulted effects truly deplorable. The resti tution was no sooner accomplished, than, notwith standing the declarations by which the King of France had interdicted the commerce in slaves to }:is subjects, that traffic was instantly renewed, and spread over the whole coast. The means ordinarily employed to excite the avarice of the Native Chiefs, have produced, under existing circumstances, horrors more revolting than heretofore. In the short space of a year after the change of the possessors, the neighbouring countries, where peace and abundance flourished before, displayed only a disgusting spec tacle of misery and desolation. In this there is no thing astonishing to those who pay attention to what passed. Bands of plunderers scoured all the mutt try, sacked and burned the towns and villages during the night. The wretched inhabitants, fl) mg to es cape the flames, were either massacred, if they dared to make an useless resistance, or were made prisoners by their cruel enemies, and sold into endless exile and slavery. By day, the peaceful labovrers shared the same fate ; wretches stole upon theni by surprixe; seized, gagged, and chained them, and then con• ducted them to slave ship;. Others were broeght before the barbarous Courts of the country, and ac cused of crimes which they had never committed, in order that they and their families might be cordem• lied, under the pretext of justice, and sold into sla very. Such are the ordinary means which the Slave Trade employs to obtain its victim'. It is here necessary to remember for a moment, that Franco had professed, in the face of the universe, the horror sk 'rich it felt at this guilty traffic. In the Definitive Treaty of the :30th of November, 1815, it had bound itself to the entire and effective aboli tion of " a commerce as odious in itself, as it is im peratively forbidden by the laws of religion and na term" Since the 30th of JulT, 1815, it had informed the Ambassadors of the Allied Powers, that it had issued orders " to put an end to the Trade in Slaves on its part from that day, every where and for ever." It had even 'previously assured the British Govern ment, that the establishments of Senegal and Goree. which had been restored to it by the peace, should never be permitted to contribute to the restoration of the trade in Slaves. Yet, nevertheless, in spite of all these declarations, scarce had these establishments come again under her dominion, than this work of rapine, carnage, and desolation, was seen to re-commence ; all hope of amelioration, which had begun to display itself, va nished in an instant ; thousands of unhappy prisoners of every age, and both sexes, were heaped into the pestilential hold of slave ships, and suffered all the horrors, but too well known, which accompany their transportation from the French Colonies►o the West Indies ; and there, those who'survive arc condemned, to pass their lives in severe .and unremitting labour, under the whip of the bard•heatted driver. It has bcen thought necessary to enter into some dzt.rils in speaking of these Colonies, because they tend to skew the full weakness and inefficacy of the' ordinary methods of prevention, when it is necessary, ) to repress the restless and insatiable rapacity of the traffickers in human blood. No one can doubt the good faith of the Frencl: Government ; and yet what a singular triumph hare these wretches been able to obtain over all its deula4 rations and all its decrees! But let it not be imagined that thisttreaMl scourge is inflicted upon Africa by the hands of the French only ; privateers of other nations, lust:ming any P.ag agreeing best with their criminal views, have covered the shores of Africa, and tilled their vessels with the unhappy victims of those crimes which they had ex cited: not only the Pbrtuguese and Spaniards have borne an extensive part in these enterprizes, but the citizens of the United States, the Dutch, the English themselves, concealing themselves under the flags of other nations, have co-operated in this work of de► struction. It can be proved, that from the origin of this inhuman traffic, Africa has never suffered more from its ravages than during part of the time which has elapsed since the re-establishment of peace in the , civilized world. Worthless men of every other coTI - seem to have basely conspired to nip in the bud the hope of the happiness, and of the civilization of Africa, and to frustrate the benevolent intentions of their Sovereigns in favour of that unhappy portion of the univer se. To elucidate the causes which have aggravated this dreadful evil in so extraordinary a manner, it is only necessary to explain the new circumstances in which the Slave Trade is placed. The restoration of peace deprived Great Britain of the right which a state of war gave her, of examin. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1818. vir. FUNDS. FRICF OF STOCKS TDB DAY AT T%S'ET.VF. 0 - CLO:K Bank Stock shut-3 per Ct. Re 'him! 7514 ex. div. per Cent. Consols 76.1—f0r Ace. 7(4 4 jwr Cent. 91 en. div.-5 per Ct. Navy 1062 i Bink Long Anns. shit—lndia Bonds 8890 pre. Omnitun dis.—• Exchequer Bills 19 20 prerrr. stocks have then nearly one per cent. since yester day. The Market appeared very brisk this morning, and Consols for the Account were done at 766.— : The rise is attributed to the scarcity of Stock, the Bankers having advanced immense sums of late upon Stock securities. We mentioned a few Jays ago, on the arrival of 'Papers from Montreal, that Sir Peitz°Arse MAtr• LAND, the new Governor of Upper Canada, had sum moned the Provincial Legislature to assemble in the course of this month ; and we have been since fa voured with a variety of private communications from the same quarter, all of which are filled with' expressions of the satisfaction which this prudent measure of his Excellency has given to the people of the Province. It is stated, and we doubt not most truly, that it has been altogether owing to the Province ha - ving been deprived of the regular and constitutional me dium of a Parliament through which to represent and obtain the redress of its grievances, that it has for these two years past been a scene of so much popu lar disquietude and party dissension. The Provincial Legislature, when last assembled, had been abruptly dismissed by the late Governor, Lieutenant-General CORE, at a moment when they were engaged in a course of enquiry into several matters of vital im portance to the interests of the Province ; and the manner of that dismission, was such as to indicate ' most clearly, that it was done with the unwise pur pose of putting a stop to that enquiry --of smother ing, if possible, the nearly unanimous cry of the people for redress. The natural consequences of this act of despotic indiscretion have been manifested in "the violent ferment which has spread from one cor r.er of the Province to the other—in their Meetings in every Township—their general conventions—their Addresses and Petitions to the Throne—the trial of their leader M. GOURLAT, and the enthusiastic joy of the sr!..cle Province at his acquittal. It is a fact, at the same time, which deserves not to be concealed, as a useful lesson may be derived from it for the conduct of this and other Provincial Parliaments in future, that the House of Assembly of Upper Canada were in a great measure the instru ments of their own dissolution, in consequence of their making 2r. imprudent transposition in the usual and safe order of legislative proceeding. They (list voted the supplies required by the Gerernor, and left their grievances to be treated of afterwards; whert.as had they held the strings of their purse, as wiser Parliaments have sometimes done, till they received a satisfactory answer to their complaints, the Gover nor, not being able to do without the supplies, must and would have conceded, all or much of what they required. The Governor, as it was, having no far ther occasion for their services, and being fully pos sessed with that old appendage of Divine right, the notion that Parliaments are of no other use than to rue away the money of their constituents, he dis missed them to their homes, with infinitely less cere mony than he would have done a deputation of In dian bear-hunters. That the matters about which the Provincial As sembly of Upper Canada were engaged, when they were so abruptly dismissed by Lieutenant-General GORE, were not of a nature which dverved such con tumelious disregard, the English ptCurc will be at once perfectly satisfied, In pit:e stat(Jaellt of ing and detaining ships on the Ugh sys—a right which gave her the opportunitT of detectmg the illi cit traders, under whatever disguise they may con ceal themselves. Her cruizers could no longer visit, either on the high seas or on the coast of Africa, ves sels carrying the flag of any other powcr ; and at the same time, those Powers adopted no measures for securing the execution of the prohibitive laws, which they themselves had made, respecting. this object, or to superintend the conduct of their subjects in place so very remote. This neglect, perhaps, was nut vo luntary ; but had they resorted to the must active means of suppression, still numerous ft ands and sub terfuges would have arisen. If there be a single flag which Governments think themselves bound to respect, and which the Power to which it belongs either will not, or cannot, prevent from covering a prohibited traffic, that flag will be usurped by all slave-dealers, and will serve to pro tect their crimes. Independently of these causes, the condemnation pronounced by the Great Powers of Europe against' . this commerce having produced a general belief that efficacious measures will be taken for its definitive' the sordid men who prosecute it were con vinced the greatest activity was necessary in the ac quisition of their criminal gains. Hence this tiaffic has become more lucrative, and its profits are so enormous, that these infamous men are induced, in order to secure them, to brave all the dang ers of penalties and con fi scation. The idea of the danger is, besides, diminished in their eyes, when they con sider the vast extent of the coast of Africa, which cannot be guarded on every point, and which thus affords great facilities for their vessels escaping cap ture.---; To be continued.) TI - 1 E EVI4.NING STA R , some of the principal beads of' enqUiry, jects, as brou g h t un d er their considerrirm of Resolutions, by Licutenant-Colonel their number, were 1. An enquiry irto the expediency a t d l eg the mea cures lately adopted by die F.,:cc,itiver;,, ment, for excluding Americans from tit,,. . tiers in Lipper Canada. 2. An enquiry into the existing reul'ie.:7, lag the Crown and Clergy reserves h I,nl. 3. An inquiry whether lands had heT: be granted to the Flalk Compa:des, incorporated ia of the Pr o s :ace. 4. An inquiry into certain aLases in Department; and, -6. .4n inquiry into the amount of . termed Crowa Revenue) paid Ly articles of consumption imported ft nada, and which had been witlihel, vince of Upper Canada. The Assembly had come to a seri on the first of these heads of enc:liry, eve of adopting an Allress upon vet nor, stating, that great ininry ha, by the Province, and a check given and pro , perity by pre - eating erni Unizt4 .(tatcs ftorn taking fr.e oat and praying that any orders which given to that eXect should be rut:it proceeded this length, and were i; going in like manner through the of quirt', when, on the 1 - th of April vernor came down to the House, Itaunting pretext that their longer a! homes would be too great a sacrifi , objects they had under their cons the Session. The first business of thenew A ssemli stand, be to take up mattes abruptly interrupted; and there is hope, from the more enlightened r, der which the affai: sof tit ?:or:nc, they will not agai, - , be stopped le. s, every thing necessary and proper 1' in the way cf rectraciliatica ar.d rc The Paris Parrs of WeJnes,:l-.• hour this forenocr. The u ill tn. Wurtemberg continge viewed, but will march imr:cl bank of the and repair a respective de'crinations. Leae-s 4 that the Hanoverian artillery ani gage will be embarkc,i inst. French 5 per Cents. Tuesd. On Thursday Mr. FISHER, an Off the DOROTHEA (Discovery ship), arrived at the Admiralty with Disp: ing the return of that ship and her c sloop, from the North Pole. It app' est latitude the ships ever attained longitude 12 East. They attempts tbeWestward, but, as in the case of in the RAcznonse, in 1773, they trable butler of ice. The ships p over the same space as Captain PHII with similar impediments as erpt Officer. The DOROTHLA and TRENT way to Deptford. We understand that the return of these ships consequence of orders scut out to them by a fas hag cutter from the Admiralty. The following is an extract of a letter from dated September 27 :—" It now appears quite el:. that the disputes which had arisen between the Ca! nets at Madrid and Rio Janeiro, respecting tl..e eupation of Monte Video by tortnguese trz.cps, upon the point of being amicably terminated. Orlt have been given to some regiments =along:di:lEs:: madura, upon the frontiers of Portoga, I, to tar for Andalusia, in order that these trcrps r part of the grand Expedition prep These steps would not have been takea •::.‘'.ol . a other circumstances, and cur Gott. more than ever disposed to pteser. - e entire t of amity and relationship with Port;gal. A.. to differer.ces with the I7nited States of Americ3, withstanding the protest made aga:n:t of Pensacola and otli, r parts of the 1", withstanding the fulminating Nmes sent to cipal Courts of Europe upon this point, a pittr . . more than ever prevails, th.a Spain s. ill wu • __) field thew Provinces ciA receivicg Ca rniatA pensation, so important under e;.i ces. lliese two great points bc•in mains nothing but the tinestion respecting t cation of our Colonies, which, however. easy matter. the greater Firt tit South ATI, seems resolved upon obtaH::g its b blood of ics inhabitants. Mexico is is A critical: tion, for if Chili and Peru succeed in heron:el dependent, little doubt can be twit that the Mt; will follow the ct:atrple. hussia and f.rf,tar. but little disposed to give us any or if they do inteircre it will only be :a lite rex: useless mediation. From Cape Ottugal to the of Gibraltar, the coasts of (.Alicia, Feetr:zal, sr part of Andalusia, arc infested by In.nr, , ,reit c-ri; who commit all kinds of piracy with impurttv, merely upon Spanish vessels, but upon the r!a:s nearly all nations. Not a day passes bat mercc receives new wounds, and sustaius new ..t One ship, armed with '26 guns, front Hartnn.:h Cadiz, with a cargo of great value, was taken it `n e beginning of this utvutli, near the C ' bloody couthyt it ri t !Tr ji, i n I Nrcr4, rfid l ege: ppe C. iv; rtf them 0 c 4r ad beu tr.:. stoic iigrants jrzi ! Ith cf !a he mo,;-.is ..at. laded—Tr., orperr , . : . 3 stler he,;.l!;,'„ 4 thier.;.ll:3l ice for thar,i, ts ' .deraticz.. cc nwrix, ;nq •-•;i • r al 11, . it is ! I t nerd 2! ti • t: VT, par: ;r Ver. cr. 1h: 79 75 'fficer belong : l,r, C 7; t3ia BCCRA .patches, annev._ cor.sna, e e Ti!. )ears tltat the teas about ted i.rocer:.ng • f Captain Pais: a. iar; prrsceeed s:. arts did, ni - "et lemccd 17 . r.srr vtre I these slur hem by a fir;