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Whiles es .en into. and three bales of ',Meta had obtained entrance the office, and by breaking . They had left behind them idgeon. He was taken wit!► ington, as stated some days RET. •BRIDGE TO MORROWi 27 mama aftse 4 46 mimeo attar 4 r Jame lefeywe, the Preprietare ickett-place, Temple Dab xtrr OFFICE, January 3, 1829. .!THE Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's TrWort, having appointed Money for the Payment of Half Pay to Sea Officers, from the Ist of October to the 31st December, 1525, according to his Majesty's Establish- Meat in that behalf. These are to give Notice, that the several Payments will begin to be made at the Pay Office, by the Tres toter of his Majesty's Navy, at Ti, o'Clock in the blornmg on the following day*, via. On the 111th. 110th, and 51st of January, to Admirals, Captains, iad their Attendee. On the 29d, S3d,.li6th, 27th, and 25th of January, to Lieu tenants end Chaplains, and their Attornies. On the 29th and 30th of January, to Masters, Surgeons, and Pursen, and their Attornies. After which the lists will be recalled the first and third Wed 541day in every Month, that all Persons may then and there M. tend to teteive what may become payable to them; and bring with them an Affidavit u required by Order in Council of-the 50th July, 1819, the Forms of which were published in an Ad vertisement from this Office, dated 18th September, 1519. and may be procured at the Office of the Treasurer of the Navy; and in Case my of the said Officers should not be able to attend them . mire% but employ Attornies for that purpose, the said Attornies are to produce similar Affidavits from the Persons they are em ployed by. ' Where Officers are Abroad on leave, their Agents are to produce attested Copies of such Leave, before the Half-pay can be paid. • And as by Aet of Parliament passed ie the 33th year of his late Majesty's Reign, entituled " An Act for establishing a more easy and expeditious method for the Payment of Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy," it is enacted by the 20th Clause of the said Ace, " that if any Commissioned or Warrant Naval Officer, who shall be entitled to receive Half-pay, and shall be desirous to re- 1 ceive and be paid the same, at or near the Place of his Residence, he may apply to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy in London, to have such Half-pay paid at or near the Place of his Residence, Sic. in the manner pointed out by the said Act." And by a fur ther Act passed in the 58th year of his late Majesty's Reign, enti tuled " An Act for enabling the Officers in his Majesty's Navy and their Representatives, to draw for, and receive their Half Pay," it is enacted by the Ist and 3d Clauses of the said Act, " that if any Officer in his Majesty's Navy, who shall be entitled to receive any sum of money fer or on account of his Halfpay, shall be de sirous of drawing a Bill of Exchange for the same, upon the Com missioners of his Majesty's Navy, instead of receiving the same by Remittance Bill, he shall signify such desire, by Letter to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy ; and that if any Officer in his Majesty's Navy who , dull be entitled to receive any sum of Money for or on account of Half-pay, shall be desirous of 'having his Half-pay paid to hint by Extract, at any of his Ma jesty's Duck Yards; where Clerks for the Payment of Wages for l the Navy shall reside, instead of receiving the same by Remittance Bill or Bill of Exchange, he is to apply either to the proper Clerk l at the Nivy Pay Office, in London,% or at the Pay Office at such Dock Yard, signifying such his desire." Notice is hereby further given, that the Half-pay ending the 31st of December, 1828, will commence paying on the 19th et January, 1829; and all Persons desirous of firming for, or of having their Half-pay remitted to them, may apply as above directed. G. SMITH. • Mast. Bills of Exchange drawn under or by virtue of the Act above recited. are not liable to the Stamp Duty. No Persons residing out of his Majesty's Dnoiliiions are ea titled to the privileges of this Act. DR. JAMES'S FEVER POWDER AND ANALEPTIC PILLS. G. G. JAMES thinks it necessary to inform the AA'S Public, that hI Newbery, the late Agents of his Graddfather, Lis Father, and himself, are now vending Articles of their own Composition, under the name of Dr. James; and that he has appointed, in their stead, as sole wholesale Agents, Messrs. Banta, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London ; £4, Sackville-street, Dublin; and 73, Princes - street , Edinburgh; and may be had retail of the principal Druggists. The FEVER POWDER is allowed to be the most valuable discovery ever made' In the Science of Medicine, and Is admi nistered with equal success in Fever, Measles, Bt. Anthony's Fire, Pleurisy, Sore . Throat, Mesmerism, ike. When given freely, up,m the first •attack of Fever, it gives decided relief in a few hours, and generally effects a cure. In Colds or Catarrhs, par taking more or less of Infidnamation, it is found invariably to shorten their Sur:aloft, and to prevent their terminating in Pul in.sn try Affectiims. In Packets at us. !J. and itss. The ANA LEP fIC PILLS, from their influence in excitins the•natural sect4t4ons are an eacellent Al terat i ve R eme d y i n Chronic DibealCll. Itlieuntatism. habitual Febrile. and Gouty Affections, ludigestilin, Biliuns, and other Complaints of the Stomach and Bowels. They are mild in their operation ; do not require the least restraint or confinement to the Patietit, and as a getter,' Family Medicine they bare no superior. In buses at 4s. 6J. and ihs. Observe the Signature at IL CA G. James, on the Stamp and Label. " Minus et placers usur."—Hos. Thy house, and (in the cup of lite, That'itouiy-drop) tby pleasing wife! • LT APPINESS, the gay to-mnrrow of the mind," is ALL " insured by marriage; " the s ricte st t i e o f perpetual Friend ship, is a gift from !leaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by whirls, says Johnson, " we approach in some degree of association with celestial intelligence." Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, It becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the free. dom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the Prefect of such attention are attributable many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the be holder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the prentatute infatuation hf youth too frequentfy compromise the na tural dignity into a state of inanidon, from whence the agonized, mikver mote than doubt+ the Chance of relet. To all such then we address , ourselves, offering hops, energy, muscular strength, felicity; nor will out advance+ appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years successful expcsienee. The easy tares of 'nettled life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath —fur the &Male habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be ettengilened, and deficient energy improved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well win every relaxation of the generative econotuy,We pledge Ger ability to cure Speedily, 1 1 and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfailing innpyriC hem the position so presomptuously taken tip, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members*? the College if Surgeoni we refer the suffering community of eith e r S ex ( e s pe ci a ll y those en• mime into matrimonial life) at once• to our house, where daily attendance is given for persdnal tonstiltation ; and letters from the' eintatry are immediately answered ; these must contain a remit. tinge for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any tart of the world, howeveirdistint.' GOSS and Co. 'M.IILC. 11u . No. It, Bouverie street, Fleet-arreet, London. Just published iSeveeteenth Edition), 1. The Lew of Liras a famillat "Commentary on the above Diseases. 2d, HrearawAs addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be bad at. 16, Princes. street, Solid; 174, Fleet street ; 4, Catherine-street, Strand, Operwood, Gilbert, and Piper;2o, Paternoster-Vow ; and Chapple; .119, Pall-mall, London ; Potter, 72, - Grafton-street Dublin *than, 1155, Tromgate, Glasgow ; 9, Caltometreet," Edinburgh and of all Booksellers. Price 51. rICTMILLING OFFICE, Ikesosskr Si, 1828. THE COMMISSIONERS fo r VICTUALLING his 1114JESTY 8 AVVIr, is. do hereby piss Nodes, That of TIICINDAY, the 15th day of January next, they will be ready to receive Tenders In writing (sealed up), and treat for Twenty Thousand SHIRTS, Two Thousand Ditto, for Hospital use, Five Thousand DUCK FROCKS, Five Thousand DUCK TROWSERS, Ten Thousand FLANNEL WAISTCOATS, Ten Thousand FLANNEL DRAWERS, Ten Thousand BLACK SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, One 'Thousand CAPS for Boats' Crew, Three Thousand FLUSHING JACKETS. To be delivered Into the Victualling Stores at Deptior . d, half thereof by the 31st day of March next ensuing, and the re. mainder by the 30th of April following.—Also for Ten Thousand BLANKETS. To be delivered at a Packer's In London, In the Month of May next. Patterns of the above mentioned Articles, and the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at this Ofite• Each Tender must specify the price to words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. X. WALLER CLIFTON. r, of Cox s•conrt, Little Bri. ay, and isdormed the Mails+ plate had been offered for circumstances which excited iced thr man who brought it, upstart, at present lodging at trees, Nlatichestet..scuare, to s were immediately given to osNinle, whether: the property robbery. It was ascertained &wail, residing ill Andover, ediately sent off to that Gen. n was on the look-out for the dr. Anemic's, and who had had promised. On Tuesday gig the description at a public took him into custody. lie Mr. &wall and Mr. Alkock ?ri4oner he recognised him as man in his service sonic liver and end agitated at the tight deposeJ that the'prisoner swat w hi. house on the Saler. , forks, table, dessert, and wtsghing in all 255 ounce% ing to several persons in the of them for any rice that oulJ n t tell *hose was the as his. Ills home at And reee them on the night of the The articles produced had lie Pitlehuard, which of risme ig his residence in the hpuse. - lay for humelf, the prisoner, in 4 taint voice th.rt iU h,altb, ich he stood, 'rendered hitn in. to di fend himself. After tb ice almost choked by incrersedi worthy Gentleman, who had and indulgent master, and it r atonement fot nit crime, Mr. Al!cock for the very. pro. bleb be had acted. ordered tha prisoner was fully committed • whence he Will be remireetfor nee was committed. ;LLIGENCE. on-street, in this town, about . He had bred started by the on Whin. They had a grand brlf, and lost him at Eiswick r irden, and thence along a short ared then a good deal fatigued. of Mrs. Burt's house, put his I entangled. A lad, observing mby tugging at his tail. Rey on the street again, and popped be was disposed to take lessons :hoed. But here his career was p and caught him at the south- II the dogs came up rid killed ough be had his arm is a sling Nth, along with seven or eight _ _ Ick at night, a female en land, set fire to her house, 'tom it evil spirits. She earned him of his danger. Prayer-book, and atter containing a gold chain ge and went to St. Gall, id tiken back to Herisan. med, and it was not with ous buildings were saved. was compelled to quit the she threatened to set on )1 her crime, she regards leasing to Goo.—French were wandering aboui an old vessel has lo rare surprised to discover an immense sea-terper t, auks, and furiously dasl - Pis the tide bad receded, ed on, but no little dilfi ite to secure his eelship. d got it hauled on shore, t was so tenacious of life It proved to be a conger 4 feet by about two feet ug four stone four and a probably the largest fish so far up the Frith. TNT. FRENCH PAPERS. Ilitom TAR OAZIETTE DI FRANCE, JAN. 7. NAVA al N, Dressing IS. PHIVATZ LITTER. Our hospitals are not so full, and our soldiers now come out cured. The di•tribution of oar little army in the four fortresses of Modon, Coron, Nirfatin, and Patras, kas also contributed to improve the health of the soldiers. We are far farm having found in them all the resources which in Europe the name of town seems to promise. We were obliged first of all to make some ruined houses more habitable, but however bad these habitations may be, we have found them very agreeable abodes, in comparison with the beach, where we were obliged to bivouac too long. This employ merit has given our soldiers an opportunity to disp ay their address; and, to form a just idea of it, you should see how. with a few hours' labour in taking advantage of a ruined wall and some bits of wood, our Frenchmen contrive to convert into a tolerable habitation the abode of a Greek ravaged by an Albanian. Our Ambassadors are at Poros, and the communica tions with them are very frequent. The Viitorieuse corvette, which arrived . in oar road yesterday, will sail again tonight for Poros, with dispatches for Gen. Guilleminot. It is affirmed at head quarters that bases have been laid down for our evacuation of the Morea on the Ist of April, o utinass / Our position here is not tenable; we are of no use. and shall not be for long time. To organise Greece I To civilise the Greeks I Fine chimeras, which (nay be realised in some hundred years; but ought Fr.nce alone to take this care upon itself ? Can she? Will not her finances feel the effects? These questions are decided in the judgment of Al per sons who have come to Greece, and I can assure you that there is a unanimity of thoughts and expressions am. ng the Generals, the Officers, the soldiers, and the civil servants of the army. PARIS, J.s. 6. L'Aviso a la Mediterranse, of the 27th of Dec. says. u The Cigogne brig arrived nn the 24th from Algiers. It brings the news that the Algeria, dm is dismantled. and does not appear disposed to do any thing during the winter." The Breslau was to sail on the 15th of December to convey the Ambassadors to Malta, and alter they have finished their quarantine they will go to Naples onboard the same 'easel, which will afterwards return to Fiance. FARM/ Fintasi—PAan, Jaw. 6 —Plea per Cents. t oaf. 50e. 3k. 30c. 2k. 30c. 25c. lk. 20c. 15r....-Tlitet per Cents. 741. 6k. 70c. 65e. 60c. 5R.... Dank Action+, 1,6001. Neapolitan Reines. 781. 40c. 35c. 30c. 25c: 30c.—Itente d'Espagne, 61. — Royal Spanish Loan, opened at 45, closed at 441.—}laytian Lom, 400 f. 4701. 4651.-13acheoge on Loudon, One month, 251. 20c.— Three months, 2M.—Cmire diatihetairs. AMERICAN PAPERS. New York Papers to the 17th ult. have been received. These Papers hove brought us a document of consi derable importance, which accompanied the President's Message, and was laid by him, with others, for the con sideration of Congress. This document is the Report from the Treasury. Though usually confined to the financial operations of the year, it is extended, in the present instance, to those of the three preceding years, and to their results. We shall give a brief outline and summary of the whole. Mr. Rush, by whom, as head of the Treasury, this Repot t is made, commences by confirming the statement of the President, that the Revenue of 1828 had exceeded the ettimate of Congress, while the expenses had not gone beyond the limits prescribed by law, with the ex ception of those occasioned by a greater redaction of, the public debt 'than had been anticipated, in conse quence of a surplus in the Treasury arising out of vie increased receipts. He very justly observes, " that it is amongst the highest duties of a nation, faithfully to keep to its pecuniary engagements, and that there need be no better demonstration of its pecuniary ability, than when it is seen to pay off with prontp• titude and punctuality its 'funded debt." He then states, that in 182.5, the amount paid on account of the .debt was 12,099,044 dollars, not however wholly out of ,a surplus revenue. In 1826, there were paid 11,039,444 dollars from a similar source; and in 1828. 12,163,566 !dollars, also from surplus revenue, making for the four :years 45,303,642 dollars, 30,373,188 of which had been :applied to the reduction of the principal, and 14,930.445 : to the payment of the interest. He also states the ins 'portant fact, that the whole of the reduction operated :on that part of the principal which bears the high in terest of six per cent. It is not astonishing, therefore, the' as Mr. Rush tells us, " whatever the coosillerations of public policy may be that have m ide the rapid ex tinguishment of the debt a favourite object with the na tioo, the public creditor regards it individually as a hard ship to be paid off." By an Act of Congress passed in 1817, a Sinking Fund of ten millions of dollars, applicable annually to the payment cf the interest and the redemption of the capital of the debt, was established. That Act, ethic,' only began to operate in 1818, had, up to 1825, never received its full execution, from inability on the part of the Tteasuty. But since that period, the deficiency bas been entirely ma& up by the excess of annual par ments, and no arrears remain at present due to the Sinking Fund. The total sum paid since the commencement of 1818 to the clotft of 1828, on account of the Debt, i. 14 6569,773 dollars (36 667,4431. sterling), of which 88,834,108 went to the reduction of the principal, and 57,835,664 tb the payment of interest. " Facti Isle these," Mr. Rush justly tells us, " attest the true dia.; racter and value of a sinking fund, which can only be effectively such, when income exceeds expeodituse, and' a clear surplus from the former is steadily applied to the diminution of the Debt." This is the principle on -which the future operations of our own Sinking Fund are to be conducted, and as the flourishing state of oar Revenue now supplies us with a yearly surplus, otlr progress will, we doubt not. become as regular and as satisfrctor y as that of the Uriited Pates. The next points on wbich the Ileport touches are the state of the funds and the amount of the imports and exprrts. " The Stoeks of the United States," we are told, " keep an elevation above par, indicative of the high credit of the Government." The Three per Centr o is particular, are favourites both at home and abroad. because they are the last to be redeeined. Since 1824 their price has ranged fiom 80 to 8.4.• The importations into the United States, during the last four years, a.i.ount in value to 350,202,469 dollars ; the exportations during the same period, to 337,202,426 dollars; the balance in favour of foreign trade is, there. tore, 13 000,043 dollars. It may even be considered greater, for the exports of domestic produce and ma. nufacture amounted only to 233 690,035 dollars, and the remaining 104,133,391 were ruespoitations of foreign commodities. The imports and exports fur the four years preceding 1824 were much less considerable, but maintained a similar proportion in favour of ti.e foreign trade. The receipts into the Treaury during the last four years amount to 97,957,559 dollars; the disbursements to 95,885,518, of which 14 000,000 were expended on internal works to benefit the country, and unconnected with the civil, military, or naval est rhlishmeots. The receipts and expenses for the four preceding years were also considerably less, but much mo.e nearly balanced. The positive increase of Revenue during the period ending with the year 1828, exceeds 18,000,000 dollars, and is said to be derived wholly from the Customs.— The average increase of income in every year is esti mated at upwards of 24 per cent. while that of the ex. penses is only 10 per cent. The augmented consump- tion of foreign articles dirrii.g the same time averages 18 per cent. each year. The shipping of the United States is believed to have increased during the same period ; but the returns were .not sufficiently correct to speak with precision. The Iwhole mercantile shipping of the Union is estimated at 11,500,000 tons, while in 1818 it was only 1,200,000. The Report then descants on the prosperity ef the country advancing rapidly in all its branches, and dwells with particular satisfaction on the benefit detived iron. the services of the Bahk of the United States, in the col lection of the Revenue, and the payment of all the public charges. It also bestows high praise t.n the judgment with which it confines or enlarges its issue. so as to restrain excessivt speculations tr. to seiese scarcity. After pointing out the undertaking of glee national works, it closes with a statement of the esti mated revenue and expenses for 18'29, similar to that given by the President in his Message-23 140,000, dollars the one, and 21,640,000 the other, leaving a surplus on the year of 1,500,000 dollars. JAMAICA. Pursuant to Proclamation, the House of Assembly at Jamaica met on the 18th November (or the dispatch of business. The Speaker and the whole House went up in the usual form to receive the Lieutenant-Governor's Speech, which was as follows: " Gentkoten of the Council, " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " I have delayed calling you together until the latest moment. In t►e hope that this Session would have been opened by the Earl of Beintore, whom his Majesty has been graciously pleased to ap point to succeed the Duke of Manchester in the Government of this Island. The advanced season of the year admits no further delay, and I shall immediately submit to you the substance of such instructions as I have received (tom Ms Majesty's Governmet.t. I am persuaded you will enter upon the consideration of them with your accustomed good temper. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, 44 I look to you with that confidence which my experience of ynor liberality justifies, fur the usual supplies. " Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " As I am in hourly expectation of the Bari of Belmore's arrival, permit me to avail myself of this, probably the last opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always reflect upon the short period of my administration with pride and gratitude—pride that his Majesty should have deemed me worthy of being iutrusted with the govern. meet of one of the most valuable possessions of the British Crown, and gratitude for having uniformly been treated with a kindness 'and courtesy, the remembrance of which will case oaiy with I my W e .. The following Address was voted, and presented the next day s VIZ HUMBLE ADDRESS OR THE ASSEMBLY OY JAMAICA. " May it please your Honour, " We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assem bly of Jamaica, return your Honour our thanks for your speech at the opening of the Session. " It is with deep regret we learn that this island is about to lose the valuable services of your H as Lieutenant Governor. " Whatever instructions your . Honour msy submit to ws, by desire of his islajesty's Government, will be entered upon with per fect good temper. " Your Honour may be assured that, in granting supplies for the contingencies of the island, we shall act with as much liberality u we can, In justice to the country. " We thank your Honour for your kind espressions of regard to the island. We trust you are convinced that, in quitting the government of the island, you carry with you the esteem and respect of the whole of Its inhabitants." To which the Lieut. Governor returned the following answer— " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " I return you thanks for dais Address, and for the flattering assurance you give me, that on retiring from the government of this island Isbell carry with me the litCellll and respect of its inhabitants." Four messages were sent down from the Lieut.-Go vernor—the first relating to the instructions received by him from his Majesty's Government, relative to the enactment of a new slave law; the second on the sub ject of the double duties; the third with the returns of island pay and lodging money ; and the fourth with the army contingent accounts. The first and second messages were ordered to lie on the table, and the third and fourth referred to a Com • mince of Accounts. In the sitting of the 21st, Mr. Hodgson, after a few remarks, moved the first reading of - the Slave Bill passed' in 1826, and disallowed by his Majesty. This led to a Tay lengthy and angry debate. Several mem bers spoke in favour of the first reading then, in order to save the time of the House, as the principle of the different clauses could afterwards be discussed. Mr. Atkinson was decidedly against receiving the Bill at all, for the reasons he had stated in 1026. that it was a stepping-stone for, requiring further ciince-sions; in proof of which he cited a wailed .n train the instruc• tions to the Governor, sent down by him to it. House. where they actually requited more than that Bill con• tai teal, although at tile same time they gave the Halm credit fur many of the enactments in that Bill. He hoped it would be rejected at once. Mr. Batty, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Hyslop spoke on the same side. The douse, at length divided, *lien there appeared, for re. ceivir2A the. Bill 18, and, 17 against it. atflffr sortie rut tber attempts en the part of the op. posers of. the Bill 0 obtain . its rejection, it wa s Onally ' agreed it . sho u ld b e read ,second time on th a t d a y weelt . (26th), and a Calf of the House. was ordered for that day. Ti,e following, Resolution was al-o agreed to t That it be recommended to the House to direct the Rea ceiver General to remk to the Island Agent, free s!‘ the min of 3,000 guineas, to be paid to th e ord e r o f Ma cam! Bir John Keane, K.C.B. as a testimonial of the high sense this Home entertains of•iiiransioent wakes es Commanding his Majesty's Voices. and Isis able and upright Administration of the Civil Go 'eminent of this island." The call of the House was orde re d to b e a d vert i se d, after which it adjourned. The following ate the Messages sent down to the House of Assembly of Jam.ica by Sir John Keane on the 16th of November last: . . 'I Mr. SPIAILLR—I em commandel by his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to communicate to the House the substance of certain instructions he has r ce wed flora his Majesty's Government. 44 The House will naturally suppose that an object of 0 e hfghest importance in the estimation of his Majesty's Government is a renewal of these salutary provisions in favour of the slave population. which prtade- rne• rally the Slave Act of 18'26, and which encourage. the gratifying expectation that thee general measures for bettering the condition of the slate population, which have - at different times been brought under the erns'. desertion of the Assen.bly, strongly urged by the %ma. nimbus opinion of Parliament, will at last meet with a favourable reception, and that the island of Jamaica (as it is the most valuable colony belonging to his Majesty) wi'l not confine itself to such measures of improvement alone as have been pursued in other colonies, without detriment having residud from them, but will act upon a more enlarge.) and enlightened policy. 4 4 There are two leading objects, for the at'ainment of which effectual provision should be made. The first is the gradual elevation of the moral character of the slaves, and the second it the just rights of property which existing laws have vested in their owners. It must be obvious to every man capable of reflection, that. independently of the sacredness of the obligation, which requi es that no impediment should be placed in the way of slaves acquiring a knowledge of the great truths of religion, there is no more certain mode of ad vancing their civilization, without cetriment or danger tai society at I.rge, than by religious instruCtion.— Amongst the enactments which will suggest themselves upon this subject, there is.uone which appears more (Toper, more becoming in itself, or which it is more in. cumberit spots the Legislature of every Christian country to enforce, than the due obser trance I f Sunday. It is most de.i: able that Sunday should be to the slave popu- Ishii it a day of entire relaxation, and open to be devoted to ieligious dirties and to moral instruction. " His Majesty's Government are aware, however, that whilst provision is made for securing to the slave sufficient time and opportunity fir religious instruction, and every latitude is allowed with respect to the mode of instruction, which the spirit of tole. ation demands, it is very fir, notwithstanding, that certain local sego's. lions should be established, to guard against those abuses and that misapplication to which the best inst.tutions are liable, and to obviate those disorders which might be occasioned, or the apprehension of which might at least be teasonably et tertatned, if an unrest' icted liberty were pr resit ted to assemble considerable Indies of slaves at un..eas. ruble hours, or withqut the previous sanction of the it owner'. • The in at ofject, in point of importance, is the ad mission of the evidence of slaves. It cannot be denied that, by elevating the slave to the rack . of a I et son whose evidence is admitted under the same testiicion only under which that of free men is received, and by teach ing him that the avenues of justice are tint closed against his testimony in any case whatsoever, an improvement will be effected, as well in the character r f the slave himself, as in the geaeral feeling and conduct of the population at large. " The experience his Majesty's Government have had of the disposition of the Lrgsslatur e of Jamaica to bestow a favourable consideration on this subject. by the quali fied admissi• n of slave evidence in the la as of 1826, encourages a reasonable hope that the continued tran quillity of the Island, the peaceable and dutiful de meanour of the slaves, even when they found them selves suddenly deprived of a privilege which had been so recently conferred upon them, and without the knowledge of the causes which occasioned that tern. porary deprivation, all concur in pointing nut the present moment as peculiarly fit for conferring the privilege to the slaves. of their evidence being received is, all Courts without limitation. " This privilege, important as it is to them, may be conferred with perfect security ; whilst it raises the character of tl:e whole class, it will be actually exer cised but by few. That exercise, too. will be occasional and dependent on accident. It is a boon that bestows no power; it merely removes an universal brand of falsehood. • " An objection may seem to arise from the chances cf perjury ; but those are chances which accompany all trial by the te.timony of witnesses ; and interests as near, and prejudices as strong. as any which can be supposed to influence the slave, either on behalf of his master or against him, have always existed in every , ociety, with out being found to endanger the general probabilities of truth. Nor are the peculiarities of %%est Indian scciety to be urged as a ground for exception from ibis genetal argument. On the contrary, they add reasons why the principle may be applied with especial safety. The Courts, the Judges, and the Juries, are of a different class and colour from the propost d witnesses, act:indicted for the most past with the habits and tendencies of the slave ; ac customed to measure his understanding. his moral sense, and the accuracy of his perceptions ; and, protected by all these advantages against the-danger ut any undue influence or impression frdo Ws testimony, the proposed privilege goes only to make that testimony admissible, we, Richard Askew. Esq. late :la, eldest daughter of Rear. It. the Rev. William Bbckie, year of his age. tubed*, aged 16, eldest daughter on Highlanders. Rev. Daniel Tyerman. H. ieo. Bennett, on a deputation, s Missionary Society, and after ie Islands of the South Seas, ing home to communicate the d at Madagascar, of apoplexy, e late Mr. John Tyerman, of id was for many yeah Minister rt, in the Isle of Wight, where !