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SPORTING INTIILLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MUTING, APRIL :6. The Fir& Clara of the Oatlands StakeSOfjogs.each, -h, ft. D. I. Mr. Ktilarmares b. a. Aerie, by Potwar* oat of Egbass'i ( I s m, 3'yrs old, 6R. EOM. • . Mr. Wardell's Hougbtao Lars, 3 yrs old, ytt. tilla. • • s Mr. W. Fenwick's Mifs Caber. 3 yrs old, Wt. llb. - - 3 Mr. Abbey's Margery, 5 yr. old, M. sb. - *- 4 Mr. Srandtwayt's eh. e. by Guildford, 3 yrs old, gigaggi . 3 Mr. R. boyce's Braiewann. 3 yrs old, 7&3115. • • Sir J. Shelley's Julia, 5 yrs old, Sit tlb. . . . 7 Mr. Haworth'. Enterprise, 3 yrs old. yit. 91b. • !. pd Gca Gower's La Mancha. 3 yrs old, yft. sib. - Mr. Howard's Weroithed 803,4 yrs old, 61t. tom. pd Mr. R. Wathaill's Haughty, 3 in old, 61t. • - Eight tot agfl Alaric—y to 4 agn Houghton Lafs —5 tot agft Margery -5 to z agft Brainworm. Sweepflakes of sots. each. Two year old coin*. ft of St. Alta'r's Merryman, SR. gib. • - - tlanefty, 3R. hits - - . s sir J. Shaky's 1. I; Hastbletoolan,lit. ylb. . pd Two to i agft Merryman. Mr. Jones's ch. c. Junius, by Buzzard, dam by rotBos, out of Editha, by Herod, beat Mr. Harris's j'Armer, brother to Allegranti, by Pegafns, 811 each. Acrols the Flat 3oogs. h. ft.—a to lon Junius. Mr. Mellifles Eagle, 911. 71b. beat Mr. Watfon's Dreadnought, 511. 81b. Ab. M. zoogs.—a to I on Eagle. Duke of St. Alban's Merryman, 811. 71b beat General Grofvenor's b. c. Skirmilher, by Buzzard, ou: of Lady Jane, 711. 41b. Ab. Mile, zsgs.-6 to 4 t,n Merryman. NAUTICAL. INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 16. ADMIRALT? orrice, •PRIL 16. Copy o r a Letter from the Right Hoo. Lord Gardner, Admiral the Blue. Etc. to William Madden. Efq. dated on board the HI-' hernia, off VOl3llt, April to, 18os. Sta —I herewith tranfinit to you, for their Lord Sips iaformation, a Copy of a Letter, dated the zjth ultimo, from Captain Paowss, of the SIRIDS, ad. dreffed to the Han. Admiral Coast waicis. which I received this morning, inclo fi ng a letter of the fame date, which he had received fratn Lieutenant Jan s Ross, cf the Gaaw Ls a gun-brig (copy of which is alto enclofed) giving an account of his having captured two of the enemy's gun brigs, between the Ecc du Raz and the Penmarks. I have the honour, to be, &c. (Signed) GARDNER.. His Majetty's 'hip Sirius. off the Peninarlis, March ts, acts. Sia-i-Enclofed is a Letter from Lieut. Ross,cons. mending hisMajeßy's g un.brig C ROWL I R. of his having captured two French gun boats of the 3d olds, clofe in with the Penmarks; 0ne.N0.443, being fo bad a veffel, I did not think her truft.wosthy to crofs the Channel, and ordered the long brafs nine-pounder, two (mall carronlides, tic. to be taken out, and to defiroy her. I am, tke. (Signed) w. PROWS'. His ?eaten?. ena-tota Growler, off the Penmarks, March ss. Sta—l beg bate to inform you, that this morning, between eleven and twelve, as I was Banding in (bore, between the Paarge do Raz and the Penmarks, I obferved fifteen fail of the enemy's gun-boats Rand iog in (tore; I made fail in chafe of the headmoß, but not finding it praaieable to cut her off, I bore up and made fail for the leewardmoß, and fucceeded in capturing two of them ; they proved to be No. 443, with fifteen men, and No. 450, with twelve men mi board l the remaining thirteen having anchored un der the Penmarks, preventing me from capturing any MOM. I have the honour to be, &c. JAMES 5051. Cell eta Letter from Rear Admiral Ruffell to William Marfden. Ifq. dared on board his Majeftes Alp the Monmouth, in Yar. mouth Roads. the task MA. Ste—Enclofed herewith you will receive the Copy of a Lrtter from Captain CARTIR IT, of the Scot- Nom informing me of his having, in company with the Providence armed (hip, captured the fchooner I'Hour:cur, Capt. Am-rotas Do trout% I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) e. N. RUSSELL. His Makßy's floop Scorpion. Yarmouth Roads, April z 3. Sit—By Capt. RYE'S letter, of his Majesty's hired armed brig the Providence, their Lord(hips are al ready appnfed, I believe. of the capture of a Dutch (charmer, under national colours, on the t ith init. off Schelling ; the bad quitted Delfzyel on the preceding day : was chafed on the enfuing morning for a con fiderable time by the Providence, as well as by his Majefy's Armed Sloop the Thomas. and was finally taken polfetfion of by this floop. The read proved to be the Honnenr, of is guns, having moo Rand of Arms on board, a complete fet of clothing for that number of men, and a confiderable quantity of war like acres ; (he has, befides, two field-pieces, twelve. Pounders, and two mortars, befides tents, Ste. for troops; JRAN ST. FAUST, fo noted for his fuccefsful depredations on the Britilh commerce in thefe teas, is a parenger on board of her. I have the honour to be, Ste. (Signed) PHILIP CARTERS'S'. of another Letter from Rear Admiral Rural to William Efq. dated on board the atoninatut,Yarasoutbßoatis, • the lath Sin—l enclofe a Letter from Capt. &our:us, of the ADAMANT. tranfmitting one from Capt. BAY LEY, of the Levitz tai.s, i refpeting the capture of l'Alert French privateer , nn the tads nft. and the recapture of the brig Mary of Lyan. The latter arrived here this morning. I am, &e. (Signed) T. M. aussai.c. Adamant, as Sea. dor& 53, 1143. In confequenee of information I received of an enemy's lugger privateer being to the & W. of The brruziat.t and ADASIAST, I direited a &nitre to He netted in hopes of meeting with her, and have the honour to inform you we fucceeded in capturing the named l'Alert, (as you will perceive by Capt. Bay LEY'S letter) we alto recaptured the brig .Nary, of Lynn, and it is probable we may be able to ticp th. fchooner. I have the honour to be dec. (Signed) GCOLGR BURLTON. liis Majcity's tbip InEcaibte, at Sea, A14.111:0805. Sir—l have the plealtue to inform you, that the boats of his Majeily's (hip I command this day cap tine after a chafe of between three and four hours, l'Alert French lugger privateer, of four (mall car riage guns. and fmall arms, Eotoa Cot.azar Com ma:l(ler, having tbit ty-two men, ten of whom be had put on board the Nimble fchooner, of Aberdeen, and the brig Nlary, of Lynn, captured dole off the Spurn, on tie. 8 h inftant. The capture of this veffel is very fortnnate, as flit fails remarkably well. and has done much damage to our trade. (Signed) T. DATLIT. N. B. I have the plcafare to inform you, that we tl,ik morning recaptured the brig Mary. Ai.ril as, 180 j. (Signed) T. saztsr, • • rtiMOUTH% AMU lk.;—:Cathe in the STAUNCH gun brig, of 14 guns, frisk a ottlita. with the lofi;Of her fore-top-mak tpe Itanstaa. of 1411961, on a entize. with the Patient*, fmuggling cutter,. of Looc• ander her peeteition. Cone in the Affiftance, Capt.Wysas. from. Stockholm. with timber and tar. . • Porrsmouin, /Leek 6.—Arriveda Spacial prize. The velfels belong ing to tha expedition will drop down to St. Helen 's to-morrow. The 'Jams,' and livrisuox frigates,. with the Newfnundland and Qziebec convoys, are waiting for a fair wind. The RADIGIR floop, Captain Coo+s, was ordered away in a hum . ; but the has brought to again.. Dant., Apart. 16.—SAiled yellerday evening after poll the Triton. Majellic ' Lord Nelfon, Aurora, At las, Dallier, Sir And r ew Mitchell, Paragon, Perfeus, Walker, Anacreon, Kingllon, and the Traveller . baa u r n d d il v at rfre:eral o rts , t t e h r er ta o k u in t g wa o r n d ri t s t , °lll2e d d e i r s; con voy of the Noma° bomb, for }loudmouth. Ar rived the Jamaica frigate. SPIEDY and °REST!!! loops of war, Fuer bomb, and feveril gun brigs, from the French Coal ; Bower-re loop of war, rind Luciree bomb froth the Weilward, with convoy, which are failed for the River.—Wind W. S. W. Ltvsat. 15.—Arrived la& night, the Juno, H. CouPLAND, from Berbice ; the failed the ad of March, but brings no news. The North Star, HARKIN, from hence to Berbice, that was on fhore at Holyhead, is got off and arrived fafe in that har bour. The Mary, Bus “ ILL lad the Horatio, late Lawson, were to fail from bemerara for this port, about the t 7th of March. The Venerable, LIWYAII, from hence at Barbadoes, after a fevere engage ment of two hours with two French p r ii a t eers . Mer cury, Dr cow, left the coall of Africa early in Auguft aft for the Weft Indies, ant has not fineb Wen heitd of. The Northen Liberties, Boats, from Carolina to Greenock, put into Naffau with lots of rudder, but expe&ed to proceed in a few days. The Favourite, HOLIDAY, from hence for Philadelphia on the 27th September lafi, and arrived on the tath February at Tierceira in the Azores, after experiencing moll tern pettuous weather, and lofing her wafts. boats, &c.— her malls being replaced, the has proceeded on her voyage. Capt. WILSON, of the Nancy, from New York, fpoke the fhip Robert, Capt. Jonasom, from this port bound to Halifax, on the 24th ult. in lat. 50. 30. N. long. 26. W. out 35 days, all well, and had a long beating paffage, with gales. The Com merce. (American) Roc awe t. 1., from this port toNew Oilcans, is captured by a French privateer—crew arrived at North Carolina, in the Mary, ARNOLD. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The lite hired armed brig Telegraph, for the capture of the gal- Hot Julfrow dielke, December rBOO, will be paid every Friday,at Plymouth, for three years. The Phaeton and la Muting, for the capture of the following seeds at St. Remn, •!s —Sc. Giovanni, FAlfunta, FAchille, et St. Guireppe, inclUding the proceeds of four (mall nails difpofed of at St. Remo, and St. Apex e St. Antonio, May S, zBco, will be paid Ott Wedmf.lay etc iR of May, at Na 9, New Broad-ftztet, 'alto:allot for three yam._ FROM LLOYD'. LIST. GIAVISIIID, Aram Ire—Paired by the Good for What,— 1 from Winder; Veteran, Vernet and the Vrow Martha, from Embden.eieSailed the Hind:, Dailey, for Barbadoes; Mar: p r a te charl o tte, —, for urine; Lincnhall, Lewington, Sally. Reiff., as the Diana, Purcell, for Dublin; Mute Muffler, Size, for Donnie • Chriftiana Regina, Meyer, George, Phillips, and the Charlotte. Seen/ads, for Elfinore. Aainvan-.Of the Lizard, the (Met% from the Eaft Indies and the Cape of Good Hope, bound to Copenhagen—Of Dover, Vrow Primers, Biondi, from bengal for Copenhagen; Speedwell, Harrington, and the Baden —, from Cork ; Mary, William, ; and the Hibernia, from Belfatk Ca. lypio, Smith, and the Draper, Duke, from Dublin—At beer pool, Warner Hill, from Antigua ; Swinger , Tozor, from Ber -1 bite; Heroin:, Fiedler, and the JRnlus, from Demerara At Osertifey,Reward,.—, front Virginia.—At Cork, Lady Ken snore,Smith, from London—At Vrow Maria, from . _ Lades•-•At Civics Vecchia. Henry, Wardell. 'tom Newfound land—At Grenada. Fame Packet. Otway, from Cork. The Brothers, Patrick, from London for Oporto, is captured off Opotto Bat by a Spanilb tow-boat. The Nimble, Freeman, from London far Aberdeen, was cap tured on the 9th ktR. off the Spum by a luE=7. ~ I The Peale, late Ayre, from Bethke for is put into Pen zance in diffrefs. The Berbice Packet, from New York for Newry, is put into Londonderry in dillrels. By a letter received from an Officer of the 16rh re giment, dated Surinam. December 3, we are inform. eJ, that from the arrival of the regiment at that fet dement to the above date, five of - its Officers died, vii. Lieutenant Colonel SuratlLAND,Captain CARL a. too. Lieutenants COSTILLO and CORNWALL, and Dr- FITZGIIIIOIII. bisLancnosv Evsar.—On Friday evening lan, at Mr. Joon Wet° ar, of Workfop. in Nottingham- Ibire, *as returning home from a 'Alit to a friend, in the neighbourhood of that place, he was, by Come unknown accident, unfortunately thrown from his houfe, and one of his feet remaining entangled in the ftirrup, he was, in thiPpetilous fituation, dragged at full i f d the ddlance of a mile before his ideate co be d : elicited. He was conveyed fpeechlefs to the reit Houle, where. in confequence of the brui fee which he hail received, he expired at 5 o'clock on the following morning. Thus died. in the a 1 It year of his age, a young man. whole amiable manners and ' engaging qualities, mull render his melancholy fate a fource of real forrow to his numerous friends, and a misfortune to his moll distant acquaintance. The neighbourhood of Huntingdon were much alarmed by a ferious tire, which bloke out at Bramp ton on Saturday night lA, about ten o'clock, and burnt with confiderable fury. It was not got under till between five and fix o'clock the en- Cuing moiling; fortustmely there was but little wind at the time, and• the engines kept at Hunting. don, Godmanchefter, and Buckden moll readily gave their attendance, otherwife the gremeft part of the cottages cos:spans the town mull have been deftroy ed ; as it was, about to or IS hooks were confumed, and the inhabitants reduced to the utmolt diftrefs.— It commenced at the houfe of a baker named Emery, and continued in a north welled) , dire Lion till extin gni fhed. •It was a cuftom with the Lacedemonians, and other ancient nations, to allow pot tions from the pub lic trearury for the encouragement of wedlock. That multitudes of Hymen's Votaries are deterred from entering the connubial Rate, fat want of the means to render it comfortable, is not to be doubted. It is fubtnitted, therefore, to numerous fond couples, both in town and country, who are thus circumftanced, whether venturing a trifle in the prefent richelt Scheme of a Lottery ever iffned, may not prove a More fpeedy means of crowning with competence their mauinionial.wilitcs than any poffi vibes they can bly adopt. tz.4PE fRALSE ~• TO THE EDITOR. OF THE STAit. Stk-.:The advocates fur the continuance of the African Slave Trade, in the dearth of found argu ment for the fupport of their caufe, have frequently bad the effrontery to make their appeal to the Holy Scriptints. The Scriptures undoubtedly record the ' exifience of Livery in ancient times; but furely it woulfl he a very unfair inference from this admiffion, that the Seripturei therefore fanelkin that traffic in Men which is carried on by Brittfli fubjeas from the CoaQ of Africa, for the fupply of Labourers in the Weft India Maids. If fuch a principle of interpre-' tation were admitted, to what , abfurd confequences would it not lead ? The Scriptures record the fra tricide of Cain, the drunkennefs of Noah, and the polygamy : of David.; but, would it be jult reafon., ing to infer, that either murder, or fenfuality and profligacy, were fanitioned by the Word of Goo? As juft, at leak as th at deduced by the modern Man Merchant from the fele of Jofeph to the Midi anite', or from the exiftence of bondage in the Pa triarchal ages, in favour of his horrid traffic. But let it be granted, for the fake of argument, that the Slavery meotioned.in Scripture was rant:lion. ed by Davies authority, will this conceffion affetl the queftion at iffue, or effablifh the lawfulnefs of the African Slave Trade ? By no means. But, before I enter upon the dircuffion of this fu.bjeet, it will be proper to premife, that the caulk for which I plead has fuffered materially twin the ambiguity of the term Slavery. This vague and undefined term is ap plied to conditions of fociety cliftcting very widely in alnioft eveiy effential particular. We (peak of our becoming Slaver, if a Minliter do but fufpend the Habeas Corpns Ad. The French are called Slaver, bemire they do not enjoy the fame degree or politi• cal liberty with which PROVIDLNCII has bided this Ifland. The domeftic fervitude of Africa (which probably bean a clofe refemblance to Patriarchal bondage) is termed Skro;Ty, and the fubjeet of it Slaw. Some other name, therefore, ought to be invented to esnrefs Well India bondage ; for, by means of the airuciation a ideas, which is produced by this intercommunity of appellation, efpecially in the minds of perfons who have had no opportuhity of fully inveaigating the fuhjeet, the African Slave Trade, together with that fyitem which it feeds and perpetuates in the Welt Indies, is confounded with Hates of fervitude fo very mitigated as to excite no horror, and is thus relieved from a great part of its (bade. The fyflem of Slavery which prevails in our Weil India Colonies, we believe to Rand alone in the hil -1 tory of the world. It is not only (as Mr. Pitt affirmed, in 1792) the greatelt prettiest evil which has ever affiided the human race, but it is as evil, fad :merit, to radically and elfentially different from every other which happens to have the fame name attached to it, as fcarcely to form a fair ground even of analogical reafoning. - But let us confider this point more attentively. The miferies entailed on Africa by the Slave Trade are already fufficiently known to the Publics I need not, therefore, dwell at prefent on that part of the fubjed. Let us follow the Slaves in the Middle Pal fage ; there, if we may credit the MAN MERCHANT, the utmott exertions of his humanity and beneficence are employed to promote the cafe and comfort of his African pallingers. But even there we (hall be con (trained to confefs, that his tender mercies are cruel. In the year 1791 (three years after the Offing of the Slave-carrying aa, which Is admitted by the Man Merchants themfelves to have very greatly !dined the mortality on board the Slave (hips), of 15.754 Slaves carried from the Coail of A frica, 1378 died (lilting the Middle PalTage, the average length of which was fifty-one days, making emortality of 81 per cent. in that time, fa? of 621 per cent per ann.; a rate of Mortality which would depopulate the earth in a year and (even months. The amount of the mortality in t 792, was, however, Rill more enormous. Of 31.554 Slaves carried from Africa, no fewer than eats died on the paffage, making fomewhat more than feventeen per cent. in fifty-one days. Had the voyage been prolonged, and the (laves continued to die in the fame proportion , the whole number would have been completely (wept away in about ten months. • I would now ale, whether it be fair—whether it be allowable—to dignify a pradice fo pregnant with mifery and murder, with the name of Commerce ) It is not a commerce—it is a crime—it is murder— wanton, foul, atrocious, and aggravated; commit ted, not by the needy adventurer, under the urgent preffure of poverty—not by fome injured individual, thirfling for revenge, but by the wealthy capitalias of Liverpool and London—by the luxurious propri etors of our Weft Indian Colonies; and folely, let it be remembered, for the purpofe of fatisfying, if poflible, their this It of gain, or more fully pamper ing their luxury ! Surely this cannot long be endured by a Britilh Pat liament. If it is to be tolerated, let us, at leaß, have fume fpecious pretext for the in dulgence ; let there be, at lean, one practice pointed out, either in ancient or modern Rory, which will bear to be compared, for one moment, with this abo minable traffic; othcrwife we ought no longer to be impofed upon by the hardy affumption of its *aura and wsiverfallj. But the horrors of the Middle Paffage are at length terminated. The Slaves are landed in the Welt In dies—expofed like cattle in a fair—(tanned and gauged with as little ceremony as is tbferved by a carcafe-butcher in Smithfield. and baring been pur chafed by fome Planter, are led tr. his eßate. What is then the fituation of fuch of them as furvive the feafoning ? They are the abfolute prope'r'ty of their purchafer, vendible by Lim procifely in the fame manner as the bode witich turns his fngar-mill ; and, if dired privation of life and limb be excepted, equal ly fubjeft to his difcretioe, as to the quantity of la bour to be exalted, the proportion of food to be al lowed. and the difcipline or punilbment to be in Aided. During the hours of labour, they are driven, like a team of oxen or horfes, by the cart-whip ; and tbir compsyren tf hiker, 11 the pheietd imps*, or pieta terror 4' the whit, is waverfial with refitted la fuck Slaves as are engaged in caltivatiag Nrrlllandt. —As to civil rights, or any political existence, they Rand on a level with the brute. Immode rate cruelty to a Slave is punithable as a Qui lance, in the fame way as immoderate crotchy to cattle. But then, it is always difficult, and generally • See meows hid on the table of the biotite of Lords la mg. iiiipoffible, to obtain - proof of the fad : for (let it not be forgotten) the evidence of a Slave, or of .. thou fand Slaves, did they all tail . ) , the fame ih;ng. would not be available in the very fmal!eft degree to the conviction of one who is free. Thi- then, is the Rate of bondage to which, not only the imp(ltteti Africans themfelves, but their children, and their chile dren's children, for E•Ra AND EVER, are inevita')iy contigned : and I defy any one to thew, not only that a tingle circumnapce in this picture i , exagger ated. bat that it is not a matter of as univ 1141 noto- riety in the Well India, whatever it may he in Eu rope. as the . exiflence cif glaccry at all. I d,) meal!, indeed, to affirm, that this fyflem Is not as humanely adminiitered by fome Welt. Indian Planters, as its nature will admit : but hill fuck is the fyllem which they have to adminifter. Let it be remarked, however. that there is one cir- cumftance in the lot of Weft Indian Slaves, which renders it even worfe than that of brutes. They not only feel prefent pain, but they can remember the pall : they can anticipate the future ; they can dif courfe : they can contrive : they can execute : they can diftinguifti between right and wrong ; tbey have had the insolence, at times, to curdle this faculty : nay. they have even dared to prefer a claim to the poffclhon of humanity, by expreffing a fenfe of injury and injullice, and by (hewing that they can relent it. Hence it is, that while in this country we fee men take pleafure in railing their honks and dogs to a par ticipation of their own enjoyments, and to a place, as it were, in their friend limp and fociety, the Slave in the Weft Indies it degraded and thruft down to the very earth ; left, looking upwards, fome unto. ward accident fhould difcover to him that he is a Man, poll - died of the lame common nature with his matter, and equally entitled, with him, to feel and to repel inhilt, and injury, and torture. Now I do not hefitate to challenge all the advo cates of the Slave Trade to point out, in ancient times, any (late or condition of life which bears the molt re mote refemblance to the Weft Indian fyftem, view ed in all its parts, from its commencement in Africa, to its completion in the Well Indies. Nay, fo far is it from having any claim to antiquity, that I take it upon myfelf to aver, that this fyllem, as now confti toted, is entirely a modern invention. It took its rife in the Antilles, about zzo years ago ; and from that time it has been gradually augmenting, until, by the accumulating waite of Britifh capital and African blood, it has acquired its prefent hideous form and gigantic dimenfiens. Still, however, it may he pertinacioufly argued, thatfiever, isflayery, and that no doubt can be enter tained of the exiftence of fuch a Rate of fociety among the Ifratlites. The bondage, however, which prevailed among . the Ifraelites, will not be Paid, by the moll hardy vindicator of the modern Man Mer chant, to have been worfe than that to which the Children of Ifrael themfelves had been fubjedled in Egypt. Of that Rate they always fpoke as a Rate of the molt intolerable oppreffion. In comparifon of it, every other fervitude was light. Their deliverance from it, as typical of another and greater deliverance, was called, by way of eminence, their Redemption. So powerful was their imprelllon of the horrors of this Rate, that the iron furnace, the furnace of afflitlion, and fimilar expretlions, feein inadequate to exprefs their conceptions of it ; and Egypt, the land of their captivity, is emphatically termed the Houle of Bonday ; and it it by the recolleCtion of their fufferings in that country, that the ALMIGHTY enforces upon them the injundlion to be kind to the (hangers who dwelt among them. Yet what, after all, was the nature of this Egyp tian bondage ? Was its dreadful feverity fuch as to diminith the number of Slaves, and to require hear importations to fill up the void which was caufed by exceffive labour, harsh treatment, and fcanty food ? By no means—they multiplied fo rapidly,'as to be come an object of terror to their oppreffors, from their very increale. Had their labour no known meafure or limit, or wa. it forced from them at the 'caprice of an orerfeer or driver, by the compelling power of the cart whip ? No Inch thing. It was the fubjeft cf fpecific and uniform regulation :—talks were appointed : the tale of bricks was previously named ; and as to food, the flcfh pots of Egypt had become proverbial among them. Having now, as I conceive, incontrovertibly efta bliffied the radical difference between any Slavery which could have elided among the Mechem:, and that which now exifts in the Weft Indies, I have at leaft demoliffied every thing like argument in favour of the Scriptural fandion of the African Slave Trade ; I would, therefore, entreat thofe well meaning men in this country, who. from unacquaintance with the real Hite of things in the Weft Indies, have too rea dily conceded that the fyftem of Weft Indian Ben dage has fume countenance in Scripture, to tetra& that conceffion ; and to be no longer impofed upon by the mere Similarity of a name, when the things arc in their nature fo elfentially dittindt. And let not the Man Merchants, nor their advocates, any longer infult the common fade, to fay nothing of the re ligion, of their country, by arguments fo abfurd and impious. It V4ll fcarcely be expeeted, that after this confu tatioo of the argument, deduced from Scripture, in favour of the Slave Trade, 1 fhould think it nereffary to prove the contrariety of thofe pradlices to which this trade gives birth, as well as all the principles on which it is founded, to the whole tenor and fcope both of the Old and of the New Tellament. That the fpirit of the Chriflian ReligiLn (lands opposed to the Slave Trade, is too obvious to require proof : I shall, therefore, content myfelt with having rectified the mifeonceptions which have arifen on this fubjca from the ambiguous rife of the term Slavery, and with quoting two or three patfages of Scripture which fcem to have a pretty decifive heating on the queftion: " Therefore all things whatfoorer ye wuald that men fhould do to you. do ye even fo to them ; for this is the law• and the Prop The " law is snide for the larders and ftealera." " And he that S LLLLL ru a man an? SELLeTII him, or if ho be found in Ws hard, be (hall Cutely be put to death." Your's, &c. AN ABOLITIONIST. Alcoa On Wednefday, Wiliam Holmes, a pauper in the Houle Pf Inttuary, at Melton, was fully committed to Ipfwich G. - )al, by the Rev. SAISUEL KILDERBLI, charged with felonioully ravilhitig Matilda Kent, and Sophia Woolnough, two children in the faid houfe ; one under elevr.B years, and the other under twelve years of age.