Star. — London, England, 1830-06-19 00:00:00

This day was published, price Id. or 81. per hundred, THE SUPPLEMENT TO T HE ANTI-SLAVERY MONTHLY REPORTER, No. 61, for JUNE, 1830, containing, 1. Petition of the Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society to Parliament. li. The case of the West India Planters, or Pauperism on a gte4t scale. 111. The West India Reporter's view of the expenditure of Sierra Leone. IV. Dr. Walsh's view of Slavery in the Brazils, viz —l. The Negro race, enslaved and free. 2. Instance of savage cruelty. s. Slave Market. 4. Cruel and unjust treatment of the Aboriginal Indians, Stu &c. To be had of Me . Hatchard, 187, Piccadilly ; Measta. Arch, 61, Cornhill ; and at the office of the Anti-Slavery Society. No 18, Aldermanbury. PRICE OF S COCKS 13tok Stock 216 is f : 3 per Cent. Red. 91j per Ct. Cons. shut .5i per Ct. 1818. 991 per Ct. Red. 991 4 per Cent. shut 4 per Ct. 1826.1 Long •Ann. 19 1 1.16 Do. 50Years, Apl.Oct. Do. July, Jan. AT TWO O'CLOCK. India Stock, India Bonds Old Annuities £lOOO Ruh. Balls 78 9 £5OO Ditto 78 9 XlOO and £9OO Do. 78 9 Commercial Advertised India for Acct. Cons. for Acc. 92/ 4 4 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brazil &Is, spr Ct. 731 1 Ditto Aect. IN * Do Account '731:1 Sp. 8d5.1823, 5 per Ct. 111 Sp. Eids. 5 pert t. 181 1 Do. Acct. BRITISH AND FoREIGN Sil A HES, Tw►► 0 CLOCK. solaKz. rAID. TM MAIM Brazillanlmp. (iss. £5 pm.) 35 20 75 Globe 159 Guardian Fire Ass. ' 100 20 28 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 25 271 NIAILS ARRIV — 'IS MORNING. ED AND DUE TH A. D. O France . 0 0 Flanders O Holland 0 O Hamburgh 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Dublin ... 0 1 Waterford..... 0 o Cuero. do Jersey 0 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 America........ 0 •. n. O Lisbon I O Jamaica 0 O Sweden 0 O Malta . 0 O Brazils . I THE EVENING STAR. NI v 2 ,6 , 4; • • a ... tp,o - • twerp!, c . er 14 " thrLif.„,top4' LON IN )N. SATURDAY, JUNE 19. ~ WINDSOR CASTLE, Joan 19, 1830. " The KING has not slept well. His MAJESTY has found his respiration more difficult from time to time during the night. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY.' EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received Thursday's Papers. The Constitu tionnel of 17th June, has an article from Warsaiv, of 3d June, stating that neither the affairs of Greece or Por tugal, nor other foreign subjects, will occupy the Diet, as they are exclusively engaged in what regards the country. A report was spread at the Palais and on 'Change, that Government had received advice, of the first division of the expedition having landed on the coast of Africa; but the private letters by this Express do not mention a word of their landing. M. St Atm; V LLE left Paris on Thursday, with despatches for the army of Africa. The French Rentes have again improved—Three per Cents. 78f. 40c. Five per Cents. 104 f. 40c. The express from Paris this afternoon brings us ac counts from Lisbon to the 12th instant. The fol lowing is an extract of a private letter, given in the Constitutionnel :—" We positively learn that the Cabinets of London, Paris, and Vienna, have no tified to the Emperor of BRAZIL the following re solution :—That they will never consent that a consti tutional regime shall be established in Portugal ; and in case DONNA MARIA DA GLORIA is married to DoN MIC.UEL, it should be indifferent to DoN PEDRO, if she has, or has not, the right to the Crown of Portugal. Nevertheless, the children born in marriage will always inherit the Crown. It being inconvenient that in Por tugal a representative Government should be established, Don PEDRO must not insist on maintaining the rights of his daughter, or to excite any disturbances in that country." In the present distressing times, when there is so little, I either present or in prospective, to cheer the heart—when even the sunshine of summer is a little scantily supplied to us--it is certainly pleasing and satisfactory to observe, that the legislative improvements promised to us in his M A JEST Y'S Speech, in opening the Session of Parliament are, to use a verb introduced to us, we believe, from across the Atlantic, progressing. Whatever objections re have seen yet made to Mr. BROUGHAM'S County Court Bill, we have no doubt whatever, but that it will prove of great national utility ; and we must express our sincere belief, that, in the legal improvements which emanate more directly from the Government, real good is honestly intended, and, being honestly intended, will be executed advantageously to the country. The only portion of our Civil Law, which does not appear to have yet ever attracted so much attention as it requires, particularly under the present circumstances of the country, is the constitution of the Bankrupt Court. What is contemplated in this department does not to us appear adequate to remedy the evils at present expe rienced. We have seen a remark made, that until an Alderman had, for the good of the public, been tossed upon the horns of a bull in its way from Smithfield to War rick-lane, the nuisance of driving cattle through the City had no chance of being abated; and, by parity of reasoning, we really fear that, until some of our influential Ministers shall lose his fortune by an un fortunate trader, and become a suppliant in the all talking and no-hearing court or courts in Basinghall street, the nuisance of those courts, for we can give them no other name, will not be properly abated. Indeed we can scarcely believe that our legislators can have ever visited that place, which we would recom mend them to do, if only as a study, or such disgrace to British Legislation could not have so long existed. We hope, for the credit of the country, that Mons. Cottu, or any of the French S9avans, who have visited this country to pick up wisdom in legislation, ever ventured into those scenes of wickedness and confusion, yclept a meeting of creditors. If they should have done so, what would they have seen ? The pencil of an HOG A Rl' 11 might well he employed on the subject; but, unfortunately, we can only paint with the pen, and that too feebly, for the subject. They would perceive, at a long table, certain men called Commissioners, distinguished principally by wearing their hats. They would be told that these men were judges, wielding almost the power of the highest depart ment of our law. They would see them surrounded by a noisy confused mob, differing only from their judges by being uncovered. Foremost in the rank, and loudest in the squabble, they would be shown two or three attorneys at law, and two or three counsellors learned in the law, addressing themselves at the same time to the Judges. They would remark, perhaps, at the corner of this mass of confusion, a poor miserable man called a bankrupt, under examination ; which no one could hear except the few who have been fortunate or strong enough to get within hearing. Having seen all this, would he not turn away with that surprise and satisfaction which a Frenchman always feels, when he can say with Sterne, " they order these things differently in France." Who are the men selected for these Judges ? The ma jority of them barristers of family interest, but no profes sional merit. A few indeed among them are men of distin guished talent, and well acquainted with the laws they have to administer ; and, if paid adequately, to live without occasionally descending from the very bench they are qualified to grace, to become the hired advocate of every pettifogger who pleases to call them first from the stand, might really dispense that justice which must have been the intention of the legislature. But we maintain that, did the commissioners comprise all the legal experience and learning and sagacity of the country, it would be impossible for them to dispense justice under the circumstances in which they act. In the first place, is it not necessary to hear considerately before determining any question, and can they bear so as to understand and correctly adjudicate upon three, four, or five cases, in the course of one short hour— that hour, too, well known to be almost final, as regards the interests in competition ? Every plan, it is equally well known, that sharp practising attornies can adopt, is used, to defer the important decision till the last con fused moment ; when, perhaps, a decision takes place, more the result of obstreperous clamour and assurance , than that of cool, deliberate, and unbiassed judgment. We have a file of the Demerara Royal Gazette to the Ist May. Tbey contain a proclamation of the Lieu tenant-Governor, Sir BEWJA MIN D'URBAN, respecting the capitation tax for the year, by which those possessing one slave are to pay 3g. 10s. and 1 guilder for all chil dren between three and twelve years of ago ; those pos sessing 4 slaves, 10 guilders, those 5, 15 guilders, those 6, 20 guilders, those 7, 25 guilders, those 8, 30, and those 9, and upwards, 40 guilders ; from which increased rate are exempted all planters residing on their estate, the Lieutenant-Governor to the extent of twenty do mestic slaves, and the civil and ecclesiastical func tionaries, and others, in public employ. Tradesmen are to pay for each slave employed in their several trades, 7 guilders. By an account of the receipts and expenditure of the colony for 1829, it appears there was a great de ficiency. The former were 849.248.2.12, while the latter was 896.942.12.8. The number of slaves was 68.519. Another proclamation of the Governor orders that each person do pay a poll tax of 6 guilders for every slave, excepting such as are employed in plantations, trades, &c. and fines a certain tax upon estates in culti vation, the income derived from which exceeds 2000 guilders. Also, a colonial duty of 60 guilders per pipe on wine in wood, of 2 guilders per dozen on wine in bottle, (port excepted, which pays 1 guilder,) and 1 guilder per gallon on all town spirits. A drawback of 50 guilders to be allowed per pipe on wine re-exported. All transient traders to pay au ad valorem tax of 5 per cent. on their wares and merehandize. The beacon and ton- nage duty of 6 slivers per ton, and 22 guilders on every merchant vessel entering the port, to continue in force. A tax of 22 guilders on every horse, except brood mares, is to be levied, and 50 guilders on every two-wheeled carriage, and 100 for every four-wheeled one, and the following tax on produce:-3i stivers on every 100 Dutch lbs. of sugar; from 24 to 33 on every 100 gallons of rum, according to quality ; 12 slivers on every 100 gallons of molasses ; 71 on every 100 Dutch lbs. of coffee ; 931 on every 100 Dutch lb. of cotton; and 4 per cent. on account of all plantains sold, and cattle. We have a series of the Tobago Gazette to the begin.' ing of May. From the heavy rains which had fallen there, the most serious apprehensions respecting the crops were entertained. The Houses of Legislature were sitting, and the following Message had been sent 'to the Legislative Council by the Governor : " I have the honour to request that you will submit, for the consideration of the Legislative Council, the Act which has recently been passed in Parliament for reliev• ing his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects from all civil and military disabilities, with certain specified objections; and, to remove all possibility of doubt, whether this Act, upon so important a subject, extends to the colonies. I have to recommend to the Legislature to pass an Act de claring—that this statute extends to, and is in force in, this Island. (Signed) 4 4 NATH. BLACKWELL, " Governor." The Bill has passed the House of Assembly. A day school, for the education of slaves, had been opened at Grenada. Most of the Islands had had an abundance of rain : at Antigua, so rapid a succession of i rains had not fallen for many years peat; but, as re-1 garded this colony, they had produced a very salutary ef fect. The Houses of Legislature there had adjourned ] for one month. With the exception of two or three' more clauses of the Slave Laws Consolidated Bill, little or no business had been transacted. It was reported, at St. Vincent, that Major-General Sir CHARLES PRATT had been appointed to the government of that colony.— No official intimation of this event had, however, reached the colony, and the information was looked for with con siderable anxiety. . CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off yesterday, 92i to 93 for the Account, with scarce a bargain doing as yet ; the speculators are waiting the arrival of an express from Paris, as by the last arrivals from the above capital, it was expected that a further im provement would take place in the French Rentes. The report of his Majesty being again much indisposed, has damped the Consol Market. In foreign securities little or nothing doing; at present the prices are much the same as yesterday. We have but little to communicate this morning, owing to the non-arrival of mails and ship letters. The last accounts from Buenos Ayres, state that Mr. Miudeville, the French Consul there, has written a long letter to the Government, in which he complains of ill treatment, to which foreigners, and particularly French men, are constantly exposed in that city. He states that the indignities and injuries to which they and their property are subjected, are beyond endurance ; and calls on the Government to adopt prompt and effectual mea sures to prevent their taking place in future. Tho Go vernment have promised to do every thing in their power to detect the authors of said outrages. LivEarooL, JUNE 17.-.--The Cotton market has ex hibited an animated appearance within the last two days, the stock was considerable, and the prices were steady. Sales of yesterday were 5,000 Bags. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. This has been a very idle morning in the operations of the Funds, and Consols have continued, to the present time, 921 i for the Account. We have no information to be depended on in regard to the French expedition to Algiers, nor any other political intelligence. , THE KING'S HEALTH. (From the London Medical Gazette of June 19.) About eight or ten days ago a very important change began to manifest itself in his MAJESTY'S symptoms. The diuretics, which had so long been inert, at length came into full operation, in consequence of which the dropsical effusion rapidly diminished, and the respiration became proportionably improved. This event, which we not uufrequently witness in such cases, after the most active remedies have for weeks seemed altogether ineffi cient,has excited so much astonishment in the public mind, that a variety of absurd and contradictory explana tions have been offered to account for it. One is, that an abscess had burst in the chest, and the matter been expectorated ; another, that his Majesty never had dropsy at all ; and a third, that the relief had been produced by a surgical operation—" an incision in the chest, in the region of the heart," by which the water was removed. None of these rumours are founded in fact, and the cir cumstance which we have above mentioned renders the case sufficiently intelligible without them. The operation of puncturing the chest is one occasionally performed for the evacuation of fluid within the chest, and which has recently been practised at seve ral of the London hospitals. We mention this because it must serve to convince those who have suggested this measure to hi Majesty's attendants that the idea must have been familiar to their minds, and would, no doubt, have been adopted, had the nature of the case rendered it advisable. It is very seldom, however, that in cases of dropsy such an expedient can be admissible. Indeed, it is only where there is a circumscribed collection of fluid, unattended with organic disease, that any encourage ment is held out for its performance. In a case of this kind, which we attended a few weeks ago with Mr. Law rence, a collection of fluid within the chest was evacuated by puncture, and the gentleman speedily recovered ; but some idea of the general result of this operation, if adopted at all indiscriminately, may be formed from the fact, that in the practice of one of the most experienced physicians in London, it has succeeded once only out of 12 times. It is curious that it does not strike those who inundate the palace with proposals for His Majesty's relief, that their suggestions proceed upon the improbable supposi tion that they who do not know the exact condition of the royal patient should be better able to minister to his disease than the experienced and skilful men who are constantly with him. Nay, some have insinuated that the nature of the disease itself had been altogether mis taken ; founding this imputation on the very extraordi nary grounds of His Majesty having obtained so much relief, when all hope seemed to be nearly at an end ; but they forget that, by how much the more unexpected the favourable change, by so much the more does it show the excellence of the treatment ; for a single false step in an individual labouring under the symptoms which His Majesty is acknowledged to have had, could scarcely have failed to prove fatal. But it has very naturally been inquired why the phy sicians have not given a specific name to his Majesty's complaint—why they have not spoken in language more familiar to the public ear ? Let it be remembered, how ever, that they are not the only parties concerned, and that there may exist obstacles to more explicit communi cations, such as they are unable to overcome. The con fidence which, even in private life, professional men are accustomed to hold sacred, may here be strengthened by express declaration of the Royal will. Nor can those who regard the circumstance wo have just hinted at with an impartial eye, find any difficulty in accounting for the absence of more detailed information in the bulletins, without imputing either a disregard of public opinion or any other dereliction of their great and most responsible duty to those talented and honourable men, to whom, and to whom alone, by his own special desire, the care of the Sovereign has on this occasion been confided. With regard to the prospects of the future, held out by the change in the symptoms which we have above de scribed, we lament to say, that the mere disappearance of the effusion does not by any means justify the san guine hopes which some have entertained ; the evacua tion of the fluid can only give temporary relief, while the organic cause which produced it remains behind. We are under the painful necessity, too, of contradicting the statements about his Majesty's returning appetite and improving strength : though they have been current in the highest circles, and given on the authority of those who might be supposed to be well informed, yet are these reports lamentably exaggerated ; and so fur from being able to walk across the room, or to breakfast on " broiled chicken," we know that two days ago his Majesty con tinued in the most urgent state of debility, and that his sustenance almost exclusively consisted of clove -tea, and candle with a little brandy. Till, therefore, there be more decided renovation of the vital powers than has yet been manifested, we greatly fear that the confident anticipa tions of the King's permanent recovery, which are in cir culation, must be looked upon as indicating the ardent wishes of his people, rather than the reasonable hopes of his attendants. PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. There were twenty-three pugilistic encounters at Wail.; ford feast last week ; one man was put into the stocks, and one, who ought to have been, ran away. It is, Ilea ever, requisite to state that the inhabitants of Wansfold were not parties in those fights ; they were between thow who went to the feast, and who were so regaled by then Wansford friends that they were unable to keep the peace 0, rare " Wansford in England !"—Stamford News. A woman of this city, in high repute with our epicures for the peculiar excellence of her mutton pies, lately deemed herself a widow, for her husband had left hei seven seven years since, without her hearing any tiding.. of him. Tired, at length, of her solitary state, she took it for granted that he was no more an inhabitant of this nether world, and took herself to church with her late husband's brother. They had not been married long when, in the evening of Tuesday, the Bth, a atrangei abruptly entered their dwelling, and asked the brothe l if ho had heard any thing of his brother William lately He replied, " No, he had been considered a dead man some time." A discovery was the consequence, and the bridegroom, ere the honeymoon was past, was sent about his business, with a quartern loaf to console him for la, loss.— Cambridge Chronicle. LONG ENTRY.-At an early period, and in anticipa tion of the new Parliament, we purpose giving a list of our 100 blessed Irish members; against which will be a variety of columns, embracing the more important ques tions of the present session, and by referring to the words for, against, and absent, their constituents may at one view observe in which manner each member is en titled to their votes at the coming election.—Dublin Evening Packet. WELLS, JUNE 14.—1 t is now confidently reported that this city is again to become the arena of a contested election; and that Mr. Edwards, of Regent-street, Lon don, who last contested the borough, and Mr. Harming Lee, his present coadjutor, will be opposed by two gen tlemen of rank and considerable opulence.—Shcrborn. Journal. The wheat crops in this and adjoining counties are throwing out the ear, which exhibits a healthy appear ance, and promises a full average. Several stalks fully shot have been left at our office this week. The oat crops have improved considerably within the last fortnight, as has barley. New potatoes have not as yet appeared in our market, but the close of this month will bring a full supply. Several meadows in the vicinity have been cut this week, and are in small cocks.—Droghedu Journal. Folio E Y .—lnformations for forgery were lodged about a twelvemonth since against a man named Robert Dillon Taatl!, who had once been in respectable circum stances. The facts of the case, as disclosed in the in formations were these :—A Mr. James White, who IVF in the month of April, 1829, in the Four-courts, Mar shalsea, met the prisoner there, who induced hint to di:- count for him a bill for 21!. which he said had been passed by Mr. Coleman, an eminent merchant in Dun dalk, to an opulent fanner in the county of Meath. Th.- bill was made payable in Dublin, and when it was pre sented for payment it was found to be a forgery. On thi 6th of July, 1829, Mr. Coleman, whose name had been forged to the bill, attended in the police-office, and upon his informations being taken, a warrant was issued against Taafe. Since that time he was not seen in Dublin until Tuesday last, when he was arrested by peace-officers Harly and Church, in Castle-street. Upon being brought to the office he was fully identified, and committed for trial.--Morning Register. A letter front Helensburgb, dated Friday last, has been published, in which it is stated that Miss Campbell, the charlatan, determined to convince and silence the unbe lievers in her miraculous powers, has appointed a day in which she promises to walk across the Gairloch. It is not very probable she will make the attempt, but it i: matter of very little consequence to the public. Thougl. she should accomplish this feat, she will only rival Mr. Kent, who, it will be recollected, walked out on the se a considerable distance to meet his Majesty before he landed in Leith. We advise her, however, to trust mor, to the firmness of her cork slippers than to the sufficiency of her faith. —Scotsman. Since the memorable summer of 1822, we do not re collect a period of more general distress throughout di, country, and especially in Sligo and its neighbourhood. than at the present season. There is an alarming searcit% of provisions in the county, and the price to which po tatoes have risen in consequence-2s. yid. per peck. of four stone !—renders it impossible for the poor to purchase them ; oatmeal, too, has advanced from 12s. or 14s. to 18s. per cwt ! and this, added to a want of employment. has reduced numbers of families to the depth of misery. We yesterday observed hundreds of poor people crowding about Mr. Baird's bakery and flour-otlice, literally block ing up the passage of a wide street, endeavouring to pro cure brown meal, at Is. a stone ; and we are aware that they esteem themselves fortunate if, even of this coarse food, they can procure a single meal in the day.—Sliy Journal. We are sorry to learn that the loss sustained by Mr. Pike, a tenant of the Earl of Coventry, iu the neigh bourhood of Tewkesbury, is estimated at nearly a thou sand pounds. So completely is the grass spoiled. that some individuals have offered premiums to those 1k Lo will cut it and take it away. — Worcester Journal. Thousands of acres of meadow land are flooded in t.l‘ neighbourhood of Lincoln; some lordships are drowned that pay 2s. 6d. an acre for drainage tax. The wea: lately erected at Bar-gowta drain is stated to be of unfair height, and is the theme of universal discontent, %%1.0. is aggravated by the certainty of relief, if the cloughs were only opened; some considerations connected with the navigation, or with the new banks of the Witham. cause the sufferers to be denied that remedy.--Limob. Mercury. The exertions making by the respectable inhabitants of Ennistymon to relieve the very great distress which prevails in that district at the present season, are highly creditable to their benevolence. From the high price and absolute scarcity of potatoes, they found it necessary to appoint a committee, consisting of some of the wealthy and charitable of the town and neighbourhood, whose labours commenced on Saturday by distributing a quan tity of meal to over three hundred distressed families. thus relieving a population of some thousands ; this is to be continued twice a week until August, when the ap pearance of the coming crop will, it is expected, relieve their present distressed situation.—Clare Sentinel. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE. —OR Tuesday there was an Inquest held on the body of a young lad named Thomas Smith, who was drowned while bathing at the wharf near Clontarf. The body was not more than five hours in the water, and when taken up it presented a most horrible spectacle. The ears, nose, and almost all the flesh was eaten off the face by crabs; the eyes, too, were scraped out. The crabs were all collected round the body, and it was with difficulty they could be beaten off. The Jury returned a verdict that the death was caused by drowning.