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• ,k .4 N, t mo I • • .11' ( S e " - e l k kAIA A rilw N.Y.% 01P .. 114 4 1 fir AalAd-0/ 4 1.ezi •« NUMBER 13,187.] G RAND MASQUERADE, KING'S THEATRE, THURSDAY. Jam 4. Huth. Tatham wil mingle crowds of rank and beauty ; Tablas: %is heed each mu will do his daty ; Tailrear will all that's fazed and fair suite To-Nsessr Mirth's Hall win glitter doubly bright; Tattiest will Vanua hold her grand parade; Taningst's the Canted and Manumit! This day was plashed, Msudetweety printed la Eight Vol.. aro. price i 4 4s. in boards. THE HISTORY OF GREECE. By WILLIAM MITFORD, B.q . A new Edition, with numerous Additions Correedens, and a Impious India. To which is pridlzed a brief Memoir of the Author, by his brother, Lord Badindalo. Printed for T. Cads 1, &rand ; sod W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. The brief Memoir of Mr. Miderd may be bad separately, prier !I. it Of Woo say oho be bad. QUESTIONS attaptod to MITFORD'S HISTORY of GREECE. By for Be.. J. Yeses, A.M. Ova Os. la Monts. 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M. de Berbis declared yesterday in his report, 'bat the produce of the indirect taxes for the first four months of the present year is inferior by above ten mil lions to that of the corresponding months of the year 1828. There is no looser any equilibrium between the expenditure and the receipts, as the Committee of the Budget announced yesterday by one of its reporters; and unless extraordinary circumstances occur, this state of things may lead to great embarrassments in our finances. We can confidently predict, that if the present Mi nistry continues to proceed in a manner not harmoniz ing with Royalist opinions, the uncertainty of its policy leaving our affairs in their present state of stagnation, this situation of our finances will become alarmingly worse. In Prance people are so mncb disposed to attack persons in power, only because the necessity of it is more felt than elsewhere. His Highness Prioce of Huhn)lohe, Marshal and Peer of France, died yesterday morning. TOULON, May U. M. de Romp, Charge d'Affaires of France to the Greek Government, has arrived in onr port on bis , way. to Greece; he will proceed direct to Egina. it Is affirmed that M. de Rigny will soon return to Toulon, and embark on board Le Conqserant, to go and resume the command of the French naval force in the Levant. A report is in circulation of a projected marriage be tween the Doke de Chartres and the Princess of Brazil, called Queen of Portugal. It were much to be desired that this marriage should really take place, for then the little Princess would be excluded by the very positive laws of Portugal from all claim to the throne of that country. No= Fosse—Pmes i 3 us I. .P per Cents. 107 f. ak. 00e. 7Se.—Three pet Cons. SOL 71K wk.—Bank &oat, 1,87 . 0. Kre.—Napbe &ea. ref. 40e.-Iloyel Spanish • Lee, Inn Limo, SlSL—.ltedisist iserlion, one wady 2.5 f. Three rearaftS,SsC Sfic.—Osw, met" • THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1829. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Jima S. To the appeal case Fox e. tbe asp of Chester, a reversal of the Jadmisent of the Court of Kites angels was prommuced. The Scotch sod Irish &eke Ass Antendass BM, the Insol vent Debtors (Ireland) RS, the Offences against the Person (Ire land) BM, the lapr Doke 11., and several Private Bills were read a third time and pint Several other Private Rills were forwarded through their wive Salim Sir A. Gears, and other Members of the House of Commons, brought up the Customs Regulation BM, the Exchequer Mils (13,438,0004) Bill, sad the Charing Cross Improvement Bill, which were read a Snt tima, Lord CARBIIRRY laid on the table the Report of the Coin =Mee on the Better Trade of Ireland. Lord SALCOUN presented a Petition from Inverness, praying for an alteration in the Scotch Law of Ratalls.—Lsid on the table. The Rome then Adjoorood. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. MASTRRTON URIC moved fora new writ for the borough of Weymouth. In the roam of Mr. &Idea, who had ac cepted the edam of Solicitor General. The Liadhen and Casalit's Divorce Bins went through Commit tees, and were ordered to be reported. Mr. LOTT presented a Petition from the county of Devon. praying for a repeal of the taxes on coals. IL Sir VITVYAN presented petitions front difereot parishes In Cornwall, praying for the continuance of the bounty on the piichard fishery. Colonel STRUTT presented a Petition from a resident of Mal don, complaining that a barge had been run down on the river Thames by a foreign vessel, and that the owner could get no re dress In a Court of Law, as the vessel was navigated by a branch OW: - _ _ Mr. LENNA RD supported the petition, sad observed that the state of the law on this subject was worthy of the attend= of Government. Mr. ROBERT GORDON presented a Petition fres an in& vidual named Brown, praying that persons practidng ea Anomies should be put under certain regulations, and complalubqg of the In. cility with width persons were admitted to practice as anoraks. MA ISMS 114111111711.411 11111.4 Sir J. MACINTOSH said, be found it was phydcaUy Imposd. bk to carry the Madras Registrar Bill through the Horse daring the present Session. He should, therefore, move, that the Bill should be read a second dam this day six meths; but if he lived ha should certainly Wog it toward again on the lint day of nut Sodom Mr. HUMS presented thirteen Petitions from parishes Is Ire land, praying foe the repeal of the Vestry Act. After a few words from the Cuescuass of the Exeneweas. Mr. S. Race, and Sir R. bums, the petitions were brought up and ordered to be printed. Sir C. BU KRELL, in presenting three Petitions from certain Hundreds in Swam praying for further protection to the WOW Trade, said the petitioners represented the trade as hi a deplorable condition, in which be concurred. That the wool trade was one well Gadded to the protection of the Legidature be possessed alms dant proofs; the following extract of a letter, which he received from a Noble Lard upon this subject. was one among many— " My opinion is. that the production of . every article suited to our son and climate shoeld be our lint ob ject of encouragement, both as to abundance in quality and perfeedos Is quality. The opposite system is now in force. and I do sot expect to use it altered tin the experience of great National calamity has restored us to common sense." After a few words from Mr. Beaten (of Wilts), Mr. Jame. and Mr. C. PiLNANI, the petitions were brought up, sod ordered to be printed. A Bill for the better regulation of the ollice.of nadir in coun ties in Ireland was brought in by Lord F. L. GOWER, read a Era time, and ordered to be read a second dme that day three months, and to be printed. Mr. FYLER presented a Petition, dined by the Mayor and 4,000 inhabitants of the city of Coventry, paying that some means might be adopted to prevent the bunting of widows In India. After a few words from Lord Annum Mr. Rimes, and Mr. nears, the reticles wan Laid at the table, and ordered to he printed. Mr. W. W. WYNN gave notice that to.morrow he would pre sent a Petition from certain inhabitants of India on the subject of their eligibility to serve ea Grand Juries. Mr. MAXWELL presented a Padden from Paisley, in favour of the opening of the trade to India. Mr. FOWELL BUX fON, having moved for some Returns connected with the Report of the Commis sioners appointed to inquire into the effect of the Ordi nances of Government for the termination of the Slave Trade in the Mauritius, Sir ROBERT FARQUHAR rose to ask the Hon. Member for Weymouth (Mr. Buxton) whether it was his intention to proceed with the charges he had pre. (erred against him on the subject of his conduct at the Mauritius? Those charges had been first brought for ward in the year 1827. They had been postponed, upon one plea or another, until the present period. The Honourable Member for Weymouth must sorely by this time have determined upon the course he meant to put sue, and formed a deliberate opinion on the truth or falsehood of the charges which be had made. If he believed them to be true, then he (Sir R. Farquhar) called upon the Hon. Member to proceed at once to' inquiry. If the Hon. Member had discovered they were false—if he was satisfied that he had slandered the in nocent and made accusations which could not be sup ported. he (Sir R. Farquhar) called upon him now to rise in his place in that House and make an acknow ledgment candidly and honestly that he bad been mis taken in the opinion he formed with respect to his con duct. He proposed to the Hon. Member the alternative of proceeding with his charges, or of recanting his accusations. Mr. F. BUXTON entered into a history of the course be had adopted with regard to these accusations, and observed. that they were first made in the year WV, at which time he bad postponed the motion for inquiry, at the express request of Mr. Canning, communicated through a Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, who could bear testimony to the fact. Since that time the state of his health, to which the certificates of his medical at tendant bore testimony, had prevented him from pro secuting these charges; but he had more than once offered the evidence he possessed to the Colonial Secre tary, and entreated him to appoint a Commission for the investigation of the circumstances of the case. For himself be could only say, that, in the opinion of his medical attendant, any attention to public business, so ardent and so close as be was in the habit of bestowing on it, would endanger his health, and perhaps his life. The Hon. Baronet had pot to him an alternative. In reply to it he must say, it was impossible for him to re tract what be had advanced against the administration of the Hon. Baronet in the Mauritius. It was impossi ble to deny that the slave trade existed to a most enor mous extent under that Administration. He repeated, he bad offered to the Government the evidence he pos sessed. if they were disposed to appoint that Commission which he understood they were about to appoint; bet if they did not, be pledged himself to accept the chal lenge of the Hoo. Baronet. and to bring the whole sub ject under consideration at the very earliest period of the next Session. He begged the Hon. Baronet to ob. serve, however, that there was another person who had an interest in this inquiry. Gen. Hall, who succeeded the Hon. Baronet in the Government, although he re fused, in a manner which called down the warmest com mendation, to give any private information, had offered, if be was called on publicly, to prove, on the faith of a man and the reputation of as officer. that the slave trade was, during the government of the Hon. Baronet, car. tied on to the extent which b a d b een asser ted. While, however, he could not admit he had been misinformed with respect to the character of the Hoo. Baronet's Go. moment, he must do the Hon. Baronet the justice to say. there was no stronger proof of innocence than that which is afforded by a disposition to court inquiry. He admitted, to its full extent. the doctrine that all general accusations must be received with caution until they are proved; but, at the same time, he now warned the Hon. Baronet, that the inquiry which he demanded would demonstrate a profuse waste of the public money, and a profligate encouragement of the slave trade, an exampled in the history of man. Dr. LUSHINGTON contended, that inquiry into the Government of the Honourable Baronet was become indispensable, and asserted that the nine years of his Government would show an uninterrupted encourage- ment of the Slave Trade. It was well known, and he defied those who asserted otherwise to the proof. that the prisons were opened to all charfed with offences against the Slave Laws; and that prisoners accused of these offences invariably took themselves off, so that there was no possibility of a conviction. He admitted that the Honourable Baronet might have used his ezer- 1 tions to repress these practices, but those exertions were unseccesstul, es he believed the inquiry would sutfi. Mr: H. GURNEY deprecated the continuance of dis cussions which had assumed a personal character very far from being agreeable. He confessed he did not know much of the charges brought against the Hoo. Baronet, but he bad occasionally examined with atten tion the statement and papers circulated by the Anti. Slavery Society, and he really thought they bore on the face of them the marks of having been put forth with out that previous inquiry which justice to the Colonists demanded from them. They seemed, indeed, to be a mere collection of isolated occurrences, taken at ran dom from the records of Colonies widely separated from each other, and without a doe consideration of the situation in which the inhabitants of these Colonies may have been placed. Some of these occurrences were stated in terms too strong for ordinary credulity; aid, in his opinion, they ought not to be received and acted upon without strict previous inquiry. The Hon. Bari. (Sir Robin Farquhar) bad a difficult ta.k to perforni. He was the first Governor of a conquered Colony, in which the slave trade bad been tolerated to a great ex tent, and mach was to be allowed for the novelty of his situation. Mr. BROUGHAM concurred with other Hon. Mem bers in hoping that no prejudice would be infused into the discussions on this subject, and that no premature judgment might be formed on the conduct of the Hon. Baronet. He agreed also with the Hon. Member for Weymouth (Mr.Buston) that the readiness to meet these charges bore the appearance of innocence, and he trusted, therefore, that the Hon. Baronet would come clear out of the ordeal. He believed also that no man could suppose any part of the delay which had taken place was to be attributed to his Hon. Friend (Mr. Buxton); but he, at the same time, ventured to express a hope that the Hon. Baronet, when the inquiry did come, would be prepared %kb a better witness to sup port his cause than the Hon. Member behind him (Mr. Gurney). That Hon. Member had taken occasion to draw a conclusion unfavourable to the opinions of his Hon. Friends, the Members for Tregony and Wey. mouth, and against the publications of the Anti-Slavery Swim, which he stigmatised as rash and headstrong, for no other reason than that he was ignorant on the subject, and that he did not understand, f r om an y pre em. u sinquiry, whether his Hon. Friend was right or wrong. He did hope that the Hon. Baronet would be provided with better compurgators than she Honour able Member for Newton (Mr. Gurney). He could understand very well why that Hon. Member considered the publications to which he alluded a mass of exagge ration. The Honourable Member could not believe it possible—he could not bring his mind to the belief that such atrocities could be perpetrated by any human being as those which were detailed in the statements to which he alluded. It was not surprising that such cases, for instance, as the Mosses should be supposed to be mere fictions of the brain, the inventions of fancy, the result of flimsy rumours collected in all quarters, and dressed out in all the fantastic colours • hich a morbid imagination could bestow upon them. People supposed that it was not possible that such stories could be true; that it was oot possible for human nature to be guilty of such atrocities. They did not suppose it possible that a woman could be found capable of taking a helpless and unprotected female, excoriating her body with the lash, rubbing Cayenne pepper into the wounds, and repeating that dreadful punishment again and again, until, with the addition of fever,wbich alone prevented her being tried, and, as he (Mr. B.) trusted, hung for murder, it ended in the premature death of the unhappy being. The circumstance was incredible, but it had happened. What the Honourable Member for Newton—what be (Mr. B.)—what the House could not believe, was nevertheless recorded in the proceedings of Courts of Justice, was nevertheless made the subject of communication from the Colonial Government to his Majesty's Government at home. It was also made the subject of a dispatch from the Right Hon. Gentleman who, at the period of the occurrence, held the situation of Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, and who expressed the feelings of the Eng lish nation upon the subject in a tone ct manly indigos tion,which he(Mr. B.)trusted no English Minister would ever be unwilling to useon such an occasion, or, if ;um& ling.would everdare not to melt was the imperative duty of the House not only not to shut their ears to statements of facts such as those now alluded to, but to listen patiently to them ; and after the fullest investigation, and after coming to a just and safe conclusion, fearlessly to do their duty, whatever that might be. Mr. IRVING observed, that he bad regularly at tended the Committee to which the circumstances now brought under the notice of the House had been referred, and, therefore, that he was not totally unacquainted with the subject; and he was bound to say, as a man of troth and honour, that he had formed from the evi dence which bad been adduced before that Committee a conclusion very different from that at which the Hon. Member for Weymouth had arrived. He did not im pute any improper motives to those by whom that evi• dance bad been collected, bat hehad Dever beard before a Committee of that House evidence which appeared to him to be so little entitled to credit; or which, doubtful as it was, was so decidedly contradicted by evidence on the other side, which it was impossible to impugn. The Paws Ski Hon. Member for Weymouth had spoken of the readi ness of General Hall to support the charges against the Hon. Baronet. What the evidence of General Hall might be he could not say ; but he must give the most decided contradiction to the assertion, that in the evi. deuce which bad been brought before the Committee there was any thing crirninatory of the Hon. Baronet. When it was considered that his Hon. Friend the Hon. Baronet, had been three years labouring under the ac cusation of a great public crime, stigmatised by public feeling, was it surprising that he should come forward and require, nay, and. insist, either that the case should be immediately investigated, or that he shoold stand ac quitted of the imputation cast upon him? His Hon. Friend, the Member for Weymouth, had, undoubtedly, given sufficient reasons for not having himself proceeded with the investigation —reasons the existence of which no man could regret more sincerely than he (Mr. Irving) did. It was unfortunate for his Hon. Friend, the Member for Weymouth, that he had been labouring under such indisposition ; but it was still more unfortu nate for his Honourable Friend the Honourable Baro net, for he (Mr. Irving) was persuaded that if the in vestigation bad been proceeded with, the Honourable Baronet would have been completely cleared in the opi nion of the House and of the public. He had seen enough of the subject in the Committee to entertain not the least apprehension for the character of his Honour able Friend the Honourable Baronet, or sit any other individual under similar circumstances. It was very easy for the Honourable and Learned Member forWin chelsea to get up in his place in tLe House, and by r - lacing occurrences such as no one could listen to with out horror, and connecting them with a matter wish which they bad nothing to do, to make an undue im pression with respect to the subject immediately before the House. What right had the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to advert to the horrors in the West Indies when speaking of what bad occurred in the Mauritius? He (Mr. Irving) might as well, if he wished to il.ustrate the character of the English, allude to the atrocities lately committed by Mrs. Hibner. Mr. BROUGHAM begged to observe, that be did sot connect the two circumstances. He was replying to two statements made by the Hon. Member for New. ton—the one with reference to the slave trade and slavery generally ; the other with re'erence to the par ticular case immediately under the notice of the House. Mr. IRVING resumed, and said that at least there was this benefit resulting from the line of argument which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had pursued, namely, that it would give him (Mr. Irving) an oppor tonity of expressing his opinions of the publications of the Anti-Slavery Society. He did not know whether or not the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was a Member of that Society, or if he was aware of the tone and manner in which the Anti-Slavery Reporter was got op. Its object appeared to be to degrade and stigmatise, and call the public attention to every man who had any property or interest io the West Indies. A more libel lous, and generally untrue publication, never issued from the British press. It was to this publication shot the Hon. Member for Newton had most justly alluded, when he stated that after the public had been satisfied that the charges against the Hun. Baronet were un founded, the accusation had been revived, and the Ho nourable Baronet had again been dragged forward to answer imputations which no attempt had ever been made to establish. So far was his Honourable Friend the Honourable Baronet from having favoured the Slave Trade at the Mauritius, that these was not a dispatch from him to his Majesty's Government in which he did not represent the prevalence of the traffic, and complain that his Majesty's Government had not given him suffi cient power to put it down. At length, in 1821, a squadron and other means were furnished him; and from that time the Slave Trade had ceased to exist in the Island of Mauritius. He apologized to the House , for having trespassed so long upon their attention; but, as a Member of the Committee to which the subject had been referred, be had felt bound to state his imp:es:ions with respect to it. Mr. BROUGHAM, in explanation, said that he be lieved he was a Member, in common a ith many thou sands, of the Anti Slavery Society. With respect to the publications of the Society, he only occasionally read the statements in them; he wished he could say he dis believed them. . Mr. FERGUSON observed, that for three years the Hon. Baronet bad been under the charge in question. and all chat he had now asked the Hon. Member for Weymouth was, whether he was ready to proceed with the investigation of that charge, or whether he was ready to say that it was unfounded? It would have been quite sufficient if the Hon. Member for Weyrnouth had confined himself to en answer to that question ; in stead of that he proceeded to tell his Hon. Friend, the Hon. Baronet, that if the investigation proceeded, facts of great criminality would be estsblisht d against him; facts, not merely referring to the charges already pre ferred against him, but having reference to a waste of the public money—to a mal-adarnistration of his Go vernment—and to other matters totally unconnected with those charges. Now that, he (fir. F.) thought,was unfair. He by no means imputed any unjust or dis honourable motive to the Hon. M e mb er f or Weymnnth, but be lamented that he had taken that course. With respect to the cases of horror alluded to by the Hon. an/ Learned Member fur Winchelsea, be allowed that he did not understand that Hon. and Learned Gent. in stating those cases, to refer. in any way, to the administration of the Hon. Baronet in the Mauritius. From what he knew of the Hon. Baronet, he was quite sure that no man would mote heartily and sincerely concur in de testing such acts as those to which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had adverted. When it was proposed, in the last Session, to postpone the investigation, he (Mr. Ferguson) had told the House that no man could be more anxious for the investigation to proceed than the Honourable Baronet, who was not only no parry to the delay, bat had done every thins in his power to prevent its occurrence. On that occasion. be (Mr. Ferguson) bad stated that, in the opinion of the whole Eastern World, no person in the Hon. Baronet's situation bad ever exerted his authority more strenuously to put an end to the Slave Trade—a traffic which was in a nourish ing condition when the Hon. Baronet assumed the go vernment of the Mauritius, but which, it appeared from the papers on the table of the House, was extinct when the Hon. Baronet relinquished that government. He would venture to say that the Hon. Baronet would hail with the greatest joy the day when the Hon. Member for Weymouth, or any other person, would publicly bring forward the charges against him; and he (Mr. . ~