Star. — London, England, 1826-03-03 00:00:00

\ • • a f~ • %. .1 . ik - - - -.---- coosput to.,aatiefusitu *bike which Houk op cerears4—.lbew us a railetl4 ilk grievant., and then we w with you. , Ile Might be asked what he in, the ease of a Contrnittee.reprting that ruption bad heen.practised in a Borough. w.a*that bip•shouldropose to the Houseto theiarne Ammo* iirit had la• the ease of ' and other . disfessachiictl s befouglis: It would- 0.. limu..e to decide wharlhouj4 be the nature of the pia ci nithmentinflicted, He ha now concluded what he4sa4, to say cra this particular subject. - He meant to ki.ing' forward the general question of reform after Ester, and as he had no* siontedide Hon. Friend ( Mr. Gren fell) as an authority. upoa.the Witmer o 1 (*erupt practices in boroughs, be should then have elle pleasure ef , ginning a new authority upon the question of return% ' thht .r the Mg ht Hen. Gentleman (Mr. Canning), who said, 0 If we shrink back from improvement because it is an fano ...ooa, we may live to rue it, and the time may tome when we may have resisted it a littk too long, and may be obliged to submit to in novation although it may nes be improvement." The Noble Lord concluded by moving for litre to bring in a all for the further prevention of bribery and Corruption in the election of Members to serve is Parliament. '4 - ilr. OREN FELL oett he motion, but should not bold himself bound thereby to his opposition to the amend sweeping oeuvre of Reform. Mr. WYNN said, he did not rise to oppose the mow tion, for he thought nobody could deny the existence of the grievance which the Bill was intended to remedy... hot-there-were some parts of it, as stated by the Noble Leird, 'Which required consideration, and upon which, he entertained some doubts. The Noble Lord proposed that the Committee shotild be composed of fourteen Members, indiscriminately chosen by lot, to examine the Petitions presented to the House. He hoped, as in the case of the existing law, that one Member would be appointed oereach side of the case, and that notice Aversations. have taken it by her husband. Thus the evidence of the boy; could not possibly be true ; and yet upon stub-evidence as this were eight men executed, in conformity with the advice of. Colonel Cox, who addressed a letter upon the subject to the Governor of Jamaica, in which he stated that it was necessary to make art example of these men, in order to put down the insurrection ; and yet, in A subsequent part of the same letter, hez stated that the country had never been in so tranquil a condition. It was nut, therefore, in order to satisfy the ends of justice, but in order to inspire terror, that the execution was precipitate. The Governor, however, if he had read the minutes of the trial, ought to hhve paused before he put such a sentence into execution; he did not, how ever, and the unhappy men were ordered for execution. , The Hon. Member wished to read to the House an, extract from the letter of Colonel Cox to the Governor, announcing the execution. It was in these terms " Dear Sir,—l beg leave to acquaint you, for the in formation of his Grace, that the eight negroeseeho were sentenced to death, ware executed this morning,with all due solemnity and decorum. They were attended to the piece of execution by a troop of the St. Marl's horse; only one of the wretches confessed his guilt; all the others asserted their innocence,and declared they would meet their fate like men. They all laughed,when exhorted by the Rev. Mr. Girard, at the foot of the gallows.",— He (Mr. Denman) would like to hear Mr. Girard's version of this affair. He should like to know front that Gentleman what these poor negroes really did say, and if, as was asserted, they expressed themselves in indignant terms at their fate. Those who had read the evidence upon which they had been condemned; would surely not wonder at it. An ignorant boy, in' order to avoid punishment . for some trifling misde. l meanor, is induced to give evidence against his own father; he trumps up a silly story of a conspiracy, bearing all the marks of improbability upon the face of it. The father with the other prisoners, is brought to trial. They are not allowed to examine witnesses, and in eight days they cease to live. 4 nd what is the os tensible reason for this execution ? That it may prove an example, indiscriminately, to the whites and blacks. Solosequently to-that execution something like a taste for plots seemed to have arisen in Jamaica. How trivial must have been their circumstances might be judged from the fact that in one case the Duke of Man chester thought it right to mitigate the sentence of transportation into three months imprisonment. The prisoner was a poor lame boy, who was in the habit of talking with his fellows of King Wilberforce, and of the liberty which he hoped that negroes would eventually obtain. Such language was truly not seditious, and.it was naturally the sort of conversation which negroes Might be supposed to jidulge. It should-also be re. membered, that the greatest temptations were held out to witnesses, who were sure of a two-fold reward 11 l utoney apd manumission. The third case was that of St. Oeorge's parish, in which the chief witness, Cormo .rans coast/lately resembled Tites Oates in haracter. His first &Shirk, after sottiag forth all the allegations which he bad to make, concluded with these words,— ," further the deponent sayeth not." But afterwards, when he discovered the rewards which he was likely to obtain for his testimony, he hesitated not to swear boldly against the slaves of Unify Estate. His in consistencies throughout were of the most glaring character, and on the last trial three witnesses had proved a variance in his testimony. Yet this man, and others who had joined is his guilt, were only removed from the island, and not punished for per jury. In the course of their evidence, they spoke of Mr. Lesein, and endeavoured to implicate him in some of the seditious charger, but every case which they attempted to establish against him, he was able to meet with the most unquestionable proof of an alibi. 'On one occasion he was out of the island, and on an. other he was in ptison. In neither case was it possible for him to have committed the acts laid to his charge. The trial of the slaves of Hanover parish occurred in July. Here, indeed, it was admitted that there was something like an insurrection. Had it been connected with the treatment which their fellow slaves had before experienced, it was no wonder that they should feel in dignant at the acts of the Government. Bet their rising referred merely to the diminution of their usual holi day enjoyments and recreations. There was no fact proved against them by a single free man ; all ie. witnesses were slaves, no one of whom was awl* of the natpre of an oath, unless the condition of a slave is not inconsistent with such knowledge.— As to the discussion which was held is Jamaica upon the admissibility of slave evidence, the question was in, troiluced by Mr. Steward, the father of the House of Assembly. That Gentleman grounded his motion upon a detail of facts, and not, like Captain Maxwell, wpm general principle . One of the cases which he had sub mitted to the consideration of the House, was that of a wretched woman whose neck was twisted off.; and al though the atrocious deed was oontatitted in the pre once of numbers, yet, as no free person happened to witness it, the murderer actually escaped .pumshmetit: Another fact related by Mr. Steward was, that a whi 'man, named Lee, had conftaed as unfortunate woman its an interior apartment df his !Muse, and employed a' hot iron to brand her all over. It so happened that a free man of colour witnessed this scene of barbarity -through a crevice, and 'to-that 'accident alone it was 'owing that the miscreant was convicted. Mr. !Viable, the custos of St. Andrew's, Stated a female, Whose dog had provoked a fellow with a sun, on remonstratins• with him, in order to prevent ham shooting the cruaa nal, was 'shot by*the ruffian, merely for so`much inter ference. Marty witnessed the murder, 'but they were only skesws, and their evidence was unavailable.(Hear:), iMr. Heat* Mitchel, wit° was well known to many, Members of the House, in stating certain _modifications which might be adv.unageoinly . bitrialbeed.for the ame lioration of the condition of the 1111014, had made some statements to which' he (Mr. Denman) could not agree. After sheering the 'beneficial effects of Christianity, as affe'cting'the testimony of the most ignotant 'dikes in this country, he said that there was 4ousethiug in the texture of a slaves skin, which rendered the via kings of his mind undiscoverable. Mr.iiislop seemed to-let would be given to the Borough and the parties impli cated. fie fliktigfit there would also be a diflieulty In regard t 6 the expense. If it waste fall upon the party petitioning, he thought few would ouleriake it. Iron the wiser baud it was to fall on the Dames% they shopld ran the risk of having what had been celled " fishing petitions,' Id which piffles proceeded upon the chance of finding esidesee to suit their purpose. Lord J. RUSSELL said. he intended to Introduce a clause to provide that the expenses dna be paid by the parties preferring the Petition % * Apunber. pan of the Dill would go to provide that due notice should be given to the boroughs, and that they should be allowed tai aphelia by their counsel or agents.—Leave was then &site titbit in the DUL atom TRIALS. Mr. DENMAN rose in pursuance to a notice which he, gave on the first day of the Session, to call the at tention of the House to the subject of the administration of justice to negro slaves in the island of Jamaica.— The papers upon which his motion would be foultded were laid before .the House in March last, bat they did Apt . cello under his notice till after the cleat Of the . 4thion. the House agreed with him in the vietv be 1 , 94. of tlictrmsattions to which those papers alluded, be **confident they must meet with its decided re-' probation. He was aware of the 'difficulty of fixing the attention of the House to any subject which did not heir upon the unparalleled distresses under which the could at present laboured. He thought the English nation was suffering in a great degree for their own imprudence, and the House woold not be doing its duty if it refined its attention to the case which he wit. about to submit. In his statements and arimments be would. confine himself to admitted facts,. pat •tes•rting to any other evidence than the. papers on the table, which, though they might be inaccurate, were yet sufficient for his purpose, and sheered the- necessity of censuring the .proireedings which had takes place. It was known to the House, that .there Were four sets of trials in Jamaica, during the years 1823 and 1824. .They occurred in months of December, May, June, and July. The first case was that of the parish of St. Mary, and its date was De. camber 16, 182 S. In that instance, the hearsay evi dence of one Roberts, a butcher, who merely stated words spoken to him by a negro slave, not more than tixteen years of age, ptoduced the conviction and death of eight persons, who all protested their innocence up to the moment of their execution. Roberts had found fault with the slave. the boy William, and scolded him for neglecting his mess. The latter, wishing to divert the attention of his master from the subject of reproof, and so to escape punishment, sought out some remote cause, and vaguely replied,' 4 4 Massa, you'll have bad - Christmas." " What," said the master, whose alarm sug gested, matter for the boy's invention, is will the negroes fink?" The boy, whose fear of punishment induced him, in the first instance, to make answer, answered "yes."-- Roberts became More alarmed, and he proceeded to itiftuire.whether the lad had seen their meetings, and vt,ltethet. be had heard any blacks speak of their rising ? the boy, fieldieg that his master was eager to learn more, gave answers which big imagination led him to 'suppose would please his master. To a question whe ther be heard airy one speak of the affairs, the boy mentioned that he had heard it from his father. Yet, upon this testimony were eight wretched slaves seized, after foot days imprisonment tried, and four days after eXecutedi all denying, at their trial and at their death, the charge for which they suffered. They had been seized together, tried together, and together 'executed. Was this :consistent with justice? Would it not have been proper to have separated them, to have examined each urdividual, to have collated his answers, in order to elicit the truth : yet no such thing had been done. It appeared from the report, that the boy. after having raised terror in Roberts's . breait, had been taken before the Magistrates, and that various *military regulations 1;o1 been 'Cartied ink) effect. Of those regulations he did not intend to titter one ward of dispraise: they bad appeared niceisaey; and k was bat lost to have made them. TO the question, Whether he had seen the ne. groesitnady tithes? the boy said, is two times." To the qttratiOn, *bete ?Ills ens**, "near the bridge." When asked if'ffe knew the tames of them ?-te mentioned the guithes Of th, kffirkft wltbm was his own 'father. They wit seetted•bn 'the IGth, tried oh the 19th, and tour d4ts lifter etecutek The Hon. anti Learned 'Member, oftertalltteligg tolthecases of Brown add Watson, who Were tried 'upon 'Very frivolous charges, totally -ninny ported by evidence, adveited to certain discrepancies in the testimony of the boy William, whettrompored with that given by 'the boy Ned. The former said, that whet,' the facts, Stated by him, took place, the boy Ned wa,. with him ; this was contradicted by the 'usher buy, who, said, that no inch flies took place. William, who was brought fakir/Ord eiridence . against his:father . al touSh aditioniihedtO speak the trieth, was not 4worn, and tet ttniiftel tritittiony of his met stm, the'nnhippj man iras'ordeied to be hanged bY:' the 'neck, tititithe Wait .cread. 'A anther 'man, Watson, • 'WU cOtidewitted 'upon the eiidenCe of his- own wife. • ThinVinAlid odd lase, the son was bro Light forward. to • greeldidetideitkiliiit his father, and, in the other the *ire to'tnailie out out the sectet of objettion to alaveevidenice, , when he said that it was inconsistent selective the•testimony of one s who idler gisiiwz his evidence. -might be taken in alt WOI k•buttse and liosaid. This plainly :hewed the ___ a ease of conspiracy against her husband. To sLew huw little credit ought f). of Masters ; he win governed by a law enacted by his masters; and he was executed by the order of his masters. • When -he appealed, it was to the inferior Members of Gofernment ' and his conviction rested vim bad.evidence. His last resource lay in religion. But how could the Christian religion be taught to these blacks by their owners with any degree of consistency, or with any prospect of success? Would not the slave naturally say to his instructor, 41 you tell me that GOD is no respecter of persons ;that he is equally the Creator of us all ; and that we are equally inheritors of eternal life—you teach me that the great injunction of Christ to his followers is, • do unto others as you would be done by ;' I suspect your whole system; for, in spite of all this doctrine, precept, and exhortation, you call me your slave, and tell me you own me as your property." Could Christianity make any progress when taught by such instructors, and under such circumstances? It was utterly false that these unfortunate beings were indifferent to religion ; they died full of repentance for 'their own sins, and imploring the mercy of their GOD. Such men must reject the whole fabric of Christianity, on account of the sources from which it was taught to . them; they must say, " our masters are by their own religion so condemned and denounced, that it is a moral degradation to hold any communication with them:— Con forbid that theixtinction of slavery should be Curled on with any such 'rash or headstrong precipitancy, as to endanger personal safety, or the security of property; but emancipatiOn was the paramount object. With reference to the West India Islands, Government ought to give their inckssant attention to the subject. At the same time, there Ought always to be borne in mind, the circumstances and people by which the whites and their property were surrounded; but, notwithstanding this, emancipatiOn ought to be the goal to which every thing tended, Whatever might be' the remedy to be applied to the slave system, it was of the greatest importance that the people of this country should be informed of the proceedings in their Colo nies; and if acts of injustice and oppression were practised in the name of the law, the House of Commons ought to lift op its voice tor the amendment of that law, and for the protection of the suf ferers. He should )tondude by moving the following Resolution : That this House, having taken into theft consideration the ac. counts laid before them of the judicial proceedings in Jamaica, on the trials of slaves for rebellious conspiracy and other offences la the years 1125 and 1824, deem it their duty to express, in the strongest terms, the sorrow and indignation with which ;key OW template the perversion of law, and violation of justice displapai in the, trials; they deeply lament the precipitation with which arse tenet of death, wholly usaarranted by proof, was in several b e Stances carried into execution; and they cannot refrain from rie. daring their conviction of the necessity of an immediate and elke. teal reform In tbe adminietration of criminal justice affecting slave* in that island." Mid WILMOT-HORTON said, that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman who bad just sat down could not express a sentiment in which be could more warmly join him, than in that of wishing that the West India slaves might be emancipated at the earliest possible period compatible with a due caution for the safety. of the planters. Yet, whilst he allowed the evils insepar. able from slavery—evils which nothing could altogether cure but the abolition of that system—it was his duty to guard the House against the several statements of the Honourable Gentlema4 which, though true in the abstract, admitted of some Question. One of the senti ments contained in the resolution was, that the law had been violated. This he should prove to be incorrect. The Duke of Manchester and the Jamaica Government had been convinced by information - derived from va. various sources, that rebellious intentions existed amongst the slaves on the northern coast of the island. Proofs of this impression were shewn in their demand for troops, and in their military preparations...— With suck a small force as he possessed, the Duke of Manchester must have felt himself placed in a very awful situation. In St. George's and St. Mary's pa rishes a rebellious insurrection hid break out ; that in St. George's was amply proved by the confession of the slave Jack, who, at the period of his confession, could have no motive to utter a falsehood; his evidence, therefore, must convince the House of the fact, apart from the testimony of the other - witnesses; but the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had stated, that the proceed ings in carrying on the trials had been irregular and illegal; perhaps he was not aware of the real nature of the laws in that island, and he ought to be more cau tious in pronouncing such a sweeping censure on those who presided at the trials. The law was passed in 1817, and he would read some of its enactments, re. Minding the House, that however reprehensible might be its severity, they could not blame the Court,whose duty it was to carry the law, as it existed, into execution.— The.46th section of the Act provided, " That if any slaves enter or be concerned in any rebellion or con spiracy, to commit murder, felony, burglary, or to break bee any eut-house, no person being therein, et compass the death of any white person, or attempt the same by any overt act, such slave shall suffer death ; and if any ,slave shall be found is have in hicenstody any fire arms, pikes, swords, gunpowder, duo, or bane, without the leave of his owner, he shall suffer:death.! .. ., Could Mr. Cot states, that “ one or olc artetches eptsfessed to the 'Rev. Mr. Girod, the; jt was their intentimto hive burnt Frontier Work" and gort - Maria, ;ad kill ad the whites." The Hon. and Learned Oentlemanendeeeoured %to hold up Mr. Cox as a person divested of all arose of ihumanity, and disposed to treat the negroes with the utmost severity. He believed there was not in the island a more worthy, more estimable, at. Isueptittlanui than Mr. Cox. It so happened, that this WI Silentle man was the person who bad brought into the **seat Bill the beneficial clauses, which defraud. t 1 dare Court of the power of sentencing any slate teadulth, excepting in cases of treason and i ebellient,_ The... M agistrate who tried these slaves in St,.M.rY's lied the power to sentence them to iusmedtelek fignialmbere which would base been carried into e.xecutio*Wat hi' Mr. Co=ds letter, desiring that they mistbt Is Ott tit: the Governor for his consideration,. With mows to the letter, dated December 25, 1323, he saw nostsiog le it to condemn—nothing exceptionable, except LW use of the word " wretches," which no doubt was iikers. ently used, and was perhaps in some measure excuses/4 considering the circumstances under which ...itewas written. A more benevolent or humane map slid not exist, or one who entertained more kind feelingi towards the shaves than Mr. Cox—Wear s /row Mr. Derintanl. This praise he did not bestow lightly or ioadverteetly. ' He had the very best authority for entertaining that opinion of him, If Mr. Cox had reason to be convinced that the slaves on his estate had entered into a .ton spiracy to burn and destroy his property—to takeaway the life of himself, his wife, and his family, at the. Very moment when they were receiving at his hands the most kind treatment, it was not greatly to be wondered at that he should have felt somewhat ieritatedosod under the influence of such feelings, made use olden , guage, which in his cooler moments, he would not have employed. The good he. had done- .cnutd not be neutralized by the use of a single indiseeetuvird. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had star d thoStAlle whole case of the rebel:ion in Bt. Mary's had &guided upon the evidence of a boy, who.was eot to be reliedson, and that the conspiracy was the result of accidental circumstances. It was impossible that such ao hypo• thesis could be sustained by any man who had read the reports of the trials. The boy had not been aware of the consequences of his evidence, for in the first instance he had implicated his father, and when his father was put upon his trial he denied his former evidence. The inference he drew from this was—the veracity of the boy in the first instance. He did not stand there to justify the law of the island; nothing could be further from his intention; he was only saying that such was the law. If the law did admit of extreme laxity of evidence, the fault ought not to be charged apoa those judicial functionaries, who had no duty to perform but that of obeying the law as it stood. If he was called upon to state the most unfortunate part of the West India system, he would name this,—that the cOlratalits evinced such a stubborn resistance to an *lteration of their slave code, and conceived that the same Issessehich were applicable to negroes brought directly - Iton. Africa, were equally applicable to the present race of slaves. It was desirable that the opinion of the country should be expressed as to the propriety of repealiag those laws, or adapting them to the present state of things. As to the assertion that manumission and money were offered as rewards to the slaves for evidence, the,D.uke of Manchester positively denied the charge. Theprac tice was, to bold out to the negroes, that if by their gocid conduit, or attention to instruction, they could obtain a certificate that they were qualified to give evidencein a Court of Law, their evidence would be admitted. With reference to the morality of -this question—for the Bon. Gentleman had directed his attention to the reforni of the law, as well as to the censure of the parties—there was, at the present mu. meat, a legal commission in Jamaica, appointed by the House, to investigate into the jurisprudence of the island. He begged the Hon. and Learned Member to reflect that it was utterly impossible to put on- paper the.many circumstances which might influence a Jury in receiving evidence—the gesticulation, the action, the tone, the emphasis, would have their influence on the minds of a Jury. The Duke of Manchester had stated that the trials had been most scandalously reported. If the evidence had been lax, it was the fault of the law; if it was so great an outrage upon justice not to have ad mitted Counsel to plead for the accused, still it was the fault of the law, and not of those that administered it. With reference to the parish of St. G orge, the confes sion of Jack, singly, must satisfy the House as to the intention of the negroes. Jack declared—a Bad usage had driven him to this crime." •He states—" James Manherty brought up 36 guns, in three turns, sack turn he had two mules, on each mule six guns. J. B. Cotberand then brought up a keg of powder, sad carried it to H. Oliver's house. ' H. Oliver then tad it would not do to hide the guns and powder in Balcarras ; be would hide the guns, bat J. B. Coberand must carry the powder to Mullett-hall, and there hide it." The e - facts, if believed, proved a rebellious conipiracy.— Corberand told the negroes at Bakeries, Were the guns were hid, " that the reason why the Engli Is mopes never succeeded in their revolt, was becnnse the r ;44 not the heart mat as French negroes. W.14040er .= Negroes fought, they did not mind being killed. were killed plenty, and . they - killed buckets." • Herein was quite sufficient to she* that stich actsl44l-00eCti mitted, as, under the existing state of the lain, liati*- bey - . the Honourable Member then state tha; there was ,no nishable with death. The 'had usage . been stated law in St. Mary's to justify the sentences of death that only against M r . Malcom's estate, anti yet •there bad . had been passed? . The witness Sophee stated that she been a simultaneous movement Cla Golden Grove and saw a black man hold a gun is a particular manner, Alexandria. This was not a sympathy in particular:sof and take a bayonet from a basket. The constable who feting; it was a general and unfortunate impression in the searched the premises found the gunpowder and ball, minds of the negroes that injustice had beenfinether. ; but did not find the bayonet.. The Hon. and Learned, For these evil*, which every .person Veit 1 1 1 .0*i/tAnue Member could not dispute the facts, and such facts being w as n o . care b ut t h e p rogress i ve improvetneat of the • established, could be blame those who Put the law slaves: in proportion as that advanced, in proportion into execution? The last clause of the Act was of as their faculties were improved, and they carte to know • * more sweeping and general nature. It enacted, their true interests, anal the views that erenntertair t ed that " Whereas it is necessary to prevent the un- with respect to their , in the same piopo.,ticin would the lawful meeting of slaves, be it enacted, that all slaves apprehensions of their owners be •deninisktl, - :and the mixing human blood with rum, or meeting to learn slaves themselves placed beyond the taar,44. being the use of arms, such slaves shall suffer- death, or influenced in their conduct by groundless motives. Thos transportation for lite, as the Court shall direct." As consequence of the House agreeing to the to olutiew of a co:nmentary on the remarks of the Hon. Gentle. the Hon. Gentleman would beanost injurious; because Man, and a proof of.the evil inseparable from a state of the law had not bqen violated. As to the atsa.extern• slavery, and of the state of feeling in a slave country, sion of mercy to the persons convicted, she Disko he (Mr. Horton) could inform the House, that this very of Manchester felt that an example was neeeessary . Act of 1817 was an amendment of one passed in 1756; to prevent scenes of bloodshed. A ..1.1 avy rev**. and, severe asks enactments were, had been pronounced sibility vested .on his Grace; and he Mad asinvio ;by an individual in his (Mr. Horton's)-uffice, (Mr. Ste- proofs before him that a conspiracy del oust in ashen, on of the Master in Chancery) to be oue which the island. This House should pause before - it onalsd contained many beneficial clau s es i n formue of the the impression which the result of last night's debate =shwelsopulaticui. The lion. and Learned Gentleman would make owthe people of Jamaica. In the east said, that not one of those who suffered acknowledged before the House, they must think this saintArtia jots the justice of the sentence, or made any catifession of rice bad been done. In this happy country itself, where guilt. NnW s be begged to robe him to page 44, whete justice was so well administered, it was sonseumes . . . ---:- •to be given to the testiann pf the boy Ned, in another necessity of removing the cart-whip. • Eves'lime wlOl i may pail the part of his evailtoee, het . 11 ist iip . toswpirtlir - oti?ri that the slaves istigjieamfOliVile tutbao- oatospecific plats .0, to hastemalum *aeon a=but that, lir . gadttlit ;bat it jps aiy unfair rirralliWW" le, will go alo "vie** of hit strissita 'at guards :- ' . f Justice,* LT stem to bit ang# aliois aki r he meant to do as oicleres - ' wet dilly, the deli . stiaidance of their`f Ow jiaVilly if thitcart' whip bed tat His yillitpetiAltasibe J • Aroman, M , atilionipowerful in : iidiretting , sliek tgatisnony, 'l. His answer a stave 'on the estate of ' liereJith, Esq. (a - respect for anemnrar.obligation.. Plir hir part, sets mace, ' . '•of the.witrieSses),. however; 'stated, that abbut li .- ived that there was-but one simple remedy for if Grampound a week before the time on irhich she boy stated this the 1, and that remedy wai:=Etisencipation—(Hear). 084 d• be fee the .e l onversation to have taken place, _.the was informed of As Matters now stood, the slave came before a Jury of Age of the .pti. ! it by her hUsband. Thus th e elislence of the boy; his Masters ;he was governed by a law enacted by his _ _ 10 . •