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a Mga.CIAL AUFNCY. A GENTLEMAN nI ext. experience aid to•ftesion among tht Meat rosin. o• t 7..moirrCiM toil Ship. ping finows iu Loud. o. Is demon to une.crtalw the AGENCY of soy .. putal4c Meocantilo or N.amsfactos Ma" to which such • conmson. In London could b 4; ativam.rgemo. Maw nespeclettrlsirrentes tau ix given. Lusters, post-paid, lade . ' 6 .4 1 W. ft ho 69, M. Mary Aar, will receive 4911 it. trill Mil 1 1 411(1.t. , MEN1 WO PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. JULY 'The Earl of F.Nxlsl:7l.l.Cti (an lush Peer, was introduced in the ACCsi.f. nu-ti form, a, threw GRINISTRAD; mow, and took b o a ka . *et. voter's were the Baron. DiretmVas. end HEW SDAI.E. Far, ot Cte5..u..... (a s Peer) was introduced in like manner and took in. oat as Baron hobs. Hi* I.otelslup Mat sepal asett by the above rentiatotted Bunts*. '11.6 Royal Assent was ?feared Ly Covinni*sion to the Tx ehop.er Bills Loan hill. the Isi,ll I reaoary B.lls, the Crarta Itn• poretlon. the Small Rent* Di.trecs, the County 1:1•4 Publlc Dabs, Irish 111 uiries Transfer, the Naval and tea few other Balls. Lord. Conlin...savers were, tlea• Archbishop o CAN 1 r.a. IVRY, the Loma t'IIANCEI.I.OI, and the Earl ot niatcresairay. Mt. Buttme, front tit klehequer, resented an Account of the Charges of tie Cotrolidated hand within a given petiud, whirls ..vas laid upon the table. p• ott's LAWS. The Earl of HARDWICKE, in presenting the Repot t if the Committee on the Poor Laws, dcclint•d entering into details. The Committee had taken every pr..per means of obtaining information, and persons most competent, from their intelligence and local opportunities, had been examined, with the greatest benefit to the inquiry. The Report, how. ever, was to be considered only as the ground upon which the House would pri.ceed on further investi gation, not as recommending any specific measure for its adoption. The suggestion of any particular course had been studiously Avoided—that would be better left to the decision of Parliament, after ma turely considering this Report and that of the other House. With respect to the best mode of remedying the evil now felt, both as affecting those who paid and those who subsisted by the rate, all he should say was, that it was most desirable that whatever measure was resorted to should pro seed trout thc Executive Government. It would thus be more ex peditions as well as efficient iu its operation. The Earl of LIVERPOOL approved thc discre tion of the Noble Earl in abstaining from any obser vation upon the principle of this most interesting question, and should follow his example. He highly complimented the candour and intelligence of the Committer, and tecornmended to Noble Lords to in form dimwit/es personally of the operation of the Poor Laws it; their respective counties, during the recess, with a view to toe discussion of the subject in the next Session, and the introdiction of such a mea sure as will afford the best relict to the country, with the greatest advantage to the Poor. The Report was then ordered to be printed. 'rite Eal of HARDWICKE then moved for an. nual Accounts of the Po..r Rates in the several coma ties of England, specifying law expenses, &c. from the year 18u1) to 1817.—Agreed to wi TMAI4II-1111.ZANING DILL. Lord SIDMOU l'H nsoved the third reading of the Frame-breaxiiig, Bill. He stated, that it was found nom experience that the last Bill upon this subject had been wholly inefficient. In order to strike terror into the ill disposed. it was kind necessary to render she puni.hment mote severe. 'Phis woulc, act as a preventativ of crime ' • such a measure was ab solutely necessary, not only to protect life and pro. perry, but to prevent emigration from the manufac turing districts. This most alarming evil had already prevailed to a most alarming extent. He had only to add, that it was tie gracious intention of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to issue a Procla elation to all the persons who had committed the °disks:es referred to in this Bill. excepting only those who had oven engaged in the horrible outrage at Loughoorough, last summer, where murder was atteMpted. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE regretted that a Bill of so important a nature, a Bill that made so great a change an our penal law, had not been intro.' duced at an earlier period of the Session. The de cency of proceeding required that such a Bill should be matstely considered, however necessary and. how. ever generally approved. This was his only objec tion. He thought that a change in the law was ab solutely necessary to restrain a disposition to outrage, vrbich violated not only that, but threatened hostility to every other law. It was necessary to repress a spirit of hostility, equally crintinai and absurd, to that which was one of the main sources of our pro. sperity—the use of machinery. But it was nut only sn this point of view that danger was to be appre tended.. This criminal and daring spirit might be directed to any other mischievous purpose. In that point of view it was particularly formidable. Under those circumstances he could not bring himself to vote against the Bill, and repeated the chief objection to it, which was the necessity of passing it into a law without due deliberation. bLAVE TRADE. Lord GRENVILLE said he rose to submit to the consideration of their Lordships a subject of the must interesting nature. The present was a peou- 1 liarly proper time. It was proper to wait the result of what might be done by Government for the object in view, viz. the effectual and total abolition of the Slave Trade. But it appeared, that towards this object nothing had been done, and it appeared to him that House would ill perform its duty, if it did siot express its regret, now the Session was at its close, that no efficient steps bad been taken to repress those who stall violated the obligations of humanity and of law, in carrying on this abominable traffic.— He well remembered how often the abolitionists had been told, before their success, that even the ma sate of abolition by Parliament would be abortive— English capital and English subjects would alone be withdrawn from it, and that the subjects of other mations would continue engaged in it with as much activity as ever. His answer iIICP was, and he would repeat it now, that though only a single slave less wes torn from the shores of Africa—though only a Lingle drop of blood less was shed—still it . was our duty to purify the stational honour in the eyes of GOD Mid •tuan, and leave bloodshed upon the Lands, and curses poured forth upon the heads of those who still persisted tit this Weer of iiihunida guilt and shame, equally destitute ut read %Wont as of /crumbs:. but this eras not the mile atlveta-ge s:e die is ee f r om t h e abolition on our part. With our Leeds bloodless, . and our national characteostainlises—with our repen ' tamer, and our eeperatloe for the past, we might cell upon other nationt to fhllow our example. Our first ; deity was to proscribe this irrlium.,o s y s tem of ro b. bevy, torture, and death, as far as our own subjects 'could be concerned • our next, to persuade, to re monstrate with other nations. He would not detain the House by adverting to various Addresses on this subject by Parliement—to the sentiments on it ex. pressed to the Throne, and neyechoed from the Exe- I entire Government. It was ratifying that the la j bouts of the friends of humanity and of the Legisla ' cure bad not been in vain- J .-much had been done ; but much still remained ; and the success that had been partially obtained Would act as a stimulus to labour still for the ultimltte and complete execution of their iutention. E.iertion, :and that alone, would secure the end el view. Their success would be pro .l _ pott.one to the efforts they made, and the surest course they could pursue, was to declare, that until African sly/cry slia:lito longer exist—tp.til it shall be 'Omen only in the mires of blood and crime which it shall have left behind, whilst it expired itself—the labours of the British n at;en, the British legislature, and the British Government, should never cease.— This was the way to ensure success. It was thus the concurrence of Portugal, and France, with the aboli. thin, had been obtained. But though Governments had concurred, crime had not yet ceased. He should produce judicial proceedings, from which it would appear that the ineuman traffic was still carried on ; that French capital, Ditch capital, and, till lately, American capital had been largely vested in it.— ' It teas carried on under the Portuguese and Spanish flag with increased activity—with aggravated litho. menity, airier the attempt to put it down. All the pledges which our Government had obtained from foreign Powers, obtained by honourable but impor tant sactitices, were in practice eludei. This was A most proper object upon uhich to Add , ess the Throne, and recommend not only negocietion, but meat serious re pretentation, backed by our sacrifices ' for this object, and our power to foreign Courts. Let the house look to the condition and exteet of the Spanish Colonies in America. Was it p esible Ito suppose that the Spene.h Colonial want of slaves could be greater, or raffle' must not be infinitely loner than before the abolition? Yet the Spanish importation of shires had been increased enormously: wtly iras this ? because foreign capfull was embarked tinder the Spanish flag—because it was sump:eel to fial up the void of guilt and misery which we had lett when we withdrew. It would appear as it there was a design to defeat us. There was one pen. of Africa to which we hid given, to a certain extent, the blessings of trade and civilizatien, for which much had already been done; but much greater hopes were still entertained. Would it be supposed that this was the precise pan of the African coast chiefly selected by the Spanish Slave traders, as if to frustrate our hopes, to thwart our efforts, to deprive us of the meetly of repairing in some degree the wrongs of Africa, infl.cted by ourselves. Now as to the manner in which this odious traffic was carried on. Dad the Portuguese and Spaniards conSne them. selves to the cruelty of former times? No, they ex• ceeded, as it studiously, all example of formeratrocity. They reached a pitch of revolting barbarity, which human creatures could hardly be supposed to heat without honer, it it were not proved that Portuguese and Spanish Slave Trade's had been capable of the perpetration without remorse. He was obliged to state to their Lordship* some part of these revolting details, and he would state them from the deposition of a British Officer in a Court of Justice, upon his oath. That on the 15th of Febt uary last, he went on board the San Joseph, as Prise Master, and continued on board her some days after her arrival in Simon's bay, which was on the 19th of the said month ; that be remained on board until the slaves were landed by virtue of a decree from the Court, and was actually superintending and assisting in their disembarkation; that when he first went on board, he was informed that the said vessel had left Mozambique only twen ty.two days, at which time every person on board WAS in good health, and that thirteen of the slaves had died during that period; that between the cap ture and their arrival in Simon's Bay, the survivors were all of them sickly and weak, and nearly one hundred of them afflicted with the Aux; that medical aid was afforded to those who required it ; that the brig appears to have been built for a privateer. and for last sailing, not for stowage; that the slaves were all stowed together, perfectly naked, and nothing but rough unplased planks to crouch down upon, in a hold situated over their water and provisions, the place being little more than two feet in height, and the space allowed to each slave being so small, that it was impossible for them to avoid touching and pressing upon those immediately surrounding. The greatest part of them were fastened, some three toga tiler, by one leg each, in heavy iron shackles, a very large proportion of them having the flux. That they were compelled to perform their natural evacuations under these dreadful circumstances, without being able to move, and to remain amidst their own excre ment, which could not be cleared away until the said slaves were disembarked; that between the 19th and teeth days of their being landed, thirteen more died, notwithstanding good provisions, medical aid, and kind treatment, and thirty more died between the 24th of February and the 16th of March instant, all occasioned, as he in his conscience verily believes and is firmly persuaded, by the cruel and inhuman treat ment of the Portuguese owners; that more than 100 of them were, at the time of their landing, just like skeletons covered with skin, and moving by slow' machinery, hardly maintaining the appearance of ani mated human beings; that the reniainder were all of them enervated, and in a sickly state. He says that the pilot, upon being asked by Captain. Baker, bow l many, he supposed, would have reached the place of their destination alive ? replied, about half the num ber that were embarked. He lastly says, that he 'weer SAW brute beasts treated with such cruelty as the slaves on board the ship Sao Joaquins."—This exceeded all former horrors—even the deep-dyed steers of multiplied atrocity which the consideration of this subject had SO often presented to his imagine tiou before, vanished before the cold calculating her tor Qt the assertion, that halt the cargo Plight be brought to the place of destination alive. lie we. j 5611 1 to be obliged to make a statement so reooltitiv SO tiat House. Who could hear even of such honorsl without recoiling, like the officer who had been a wit nets to them ? Who could resist the impulse of hor ror and indignation at the infliction of such comp Is cated.cruelties, even upon any creature that breatLed and lived and moved—upon the lowest being in the chain of animal uature. Now what was it he asked of their Lordships ? Nothing precipitate, or even de cisive--he would only have Foreign Governments in. ducel to inform themselves (GOD forbid they knew) the cruelties they permitted. We had, in some degree, redeemed Our character ; but we still owed to Africa a large measure of retribution, by humaiiiiy, by kindness, by protection, by giving to her our cosi• lization and our trade, and shielding her with our power. He entreated the House to interfere for this purpose with foreign powers—to employ the iniluence we had gained by the recent events in Europe—the influence of our power and our character—the in fluence of various concurring circumstances cf the present times, and to complete our own atocentent to Africa, by abolishing all over the globe a system! of guilt and horror, the most iniquitous, the most base that ever blackened the annals of mankind. It was posserle that we might be anked what int-rest we had at stake ? Such a question would not be isked in this country—it might be asked by other nations : we might answer, the interests of Humanity. But it was not that alone—we might insist upon the neces sity of protecting our triter. He would tell their Lordships, that this system went to destroy our West India trade—a system of armed defence—marked by acts of hostility and piracy—armed vessels, Ins pur poses of commerce, in time of peace—(irear, hear.) We did not permit it without very particular secure. ties. But here were no letters of marque, no sanc• tion of their Government, yet their vessels were fully armed and equipped for naval battle. Three such ships had gone bolds under the flag of Spain. Were we to tolerate such practices ? They would not stop there : they would not be contented with destroying our West India trade—with coming to acts of hostile vi .fence with our flag in those seas—with rephisiging the coast of Africa, now partially civilized by us, into wretchedness and barbarism ! No.—The result would be a general system of warfare, or rather pi racy, on every sea, We must, therefore, stop this pit atical system of armatnent —disowned by Spain. by Portugal, by America—for the purpose of protect. 'rig peaceful and lawful commerce, even tho' wholly unconnected with the horrors of the Slave Trade. He did not mean to suggest any particular course.— ' He would leave that to the Executive Government, guided by circumstances, and using its good offices, that is to say its power and influence, as lately in the case of Spain and Portugal, to protect Europe and the World from a new war. Something must be done .-vsit to check this system of armed piratical defiance, pen force should ke employed if persuasion should fail. He had but one observation snore to make. He understood Spain had made pecuniary claims for irregular captures of slave ships by our navy, when the sums claimed would conic before the House, he should require evidence not only of irregularity but of the fact that the irregularity was not the result of the practices of the ships of Spain. The Noble Lord then moved an Address to the Prince Regent, recapi tulating several of the leading Roints in his speech, and pointing chiefly to the necessity of inducing foreign Courts wholly to abandon and restrain their subjects from carrying on the Slave Trade. The Earl of LIVERPOOL would not have thought it necessary to trouble their Lordships with a word on the question, did he not tliink that some inference which was not just might be drawn from his silence. At present, therefore, he would only ob serve, toat he gave his hearty assent to the Address moved by the Noble Lord. Whatever feelings alight be entertained on the subject, he could assure their Lordships that he bad never entertained but one opi nion, which war, that the abolition to be made effect tual for the purposes of humanity must be total ; that it must not only be the work of Great Britain, but of every commercial country. From the moment. then, that Great Britain adopted the abolition, it became with us a matter of duty, humanity, and policy, to endeavour to prevail on other countries to concur with us in the same system. If, however, their Lord. ships looked back to the circumstances under which this trade had been carried on, and above all, to die prejudices which had prevailed on the subject—pre judices which it had been endeavoured to mock upon in a way to raise doubts as to the conduct of this country in the abolition—they must be convinced that much had been done at the same time he was ready to acknowledge that much remained to be done, as to rendering the abolition with respect to other nations effectual. This, however, was cer tain, that whatever evasions might have been at any time practised, the Government of this country could be charged with none on the subject of negotiations for the abolition of this traffic. Prudential considera tions, as it might be supposed. would induce him to refrain from entering into explanation as to the exist ing state of the negoiations. Ile would ask in the mean time on the part of Government. only that fair confidence which their conduct with regard to this question deserved. He could not at present with propriety state the progress of negotiations which had taken place, as they had not been brought to that point which would warrant their disclosure. While, however, he wished to avoid detached explanations, he hoped soon to have it in his power to communicate to their Lordships a satisfactory result. If no un foreseen circumstance should arise, he thought he should be able to give a full explanation of all that had passed respecting the negotiations by the coot ' mencement of the next session of Parliament. In the mean time he hoped that this declaration would be satisfactory to - their Lordships. With regard•to the Address which had been moved by the Noble Baron, it had, as be bad already declared, his most perfect concurrence. The motion for the Address was then put, and agreed to unanimously. inall GRAND JURIES. The Earl of LI VERPOOL moved the third re td ing of the Irish Grand Jury Presentments BM, the t bject of which he stated to be the subjecting the Presentments to certain previous tormalities, which would ensure a more beneficial application of the pub lic money. The gall of DONOUGHMORE opposed it, as changing the law, without producing any nll►er issult than mousing the patronage of Government. The Earl of Lfl►dEßll:K supported it, as do. stuffing a systems of abuse mud jobbing squally dts• rtneeft4l to the conntr, nr.,l cryrrF4ve to the criir, nprin whem the bortliett was principally thr•iii.n • persons of superior stud fortune 7"; : i f , L e . t o nab sor t , to SAT; WAS one CAOte of th! feal,r ‘ i it had excited in rite minds of indtidt: tit in ' He would not suppnrt this 8.11. it lie was not , e- t t h jt its open-0100 would he highly feeliefrial tc I.s country, particut.ray to the barer disittsie4 part cif its ichAbitants. Ile teas sl:rt. I.e 11,is , test. them more by supporting this Bill tlnta bf talcki them of tl:eit exclusion front the office uf Ciirr.m.mt r of the Forces, or the Great Seal. .I'br Houtal vi•ra not aware of the extent and mixlsiet of t`i, ehtvcr„ which this Bill went to remove. Atter some further observations from the Of LANSIVIINI:V, L.nds CA/Laws mud ni.L•.S.TS47- and the Earl .0t DuhOlgANlOliE, Iso.vee 3:llenclilletit, that the Bill be read a third litiir VAi day ante months ; it was ;cad a third tin.~ an-. passed, the amendment having been :ejemted A Mavis of LANSDOWNE. pretrr'?! a pr: • from the th.itartans of Kent and Susses, for a alteration AS affecting them in the let a re reit:icy, to noir • riage.—Read and ordered to lie on the Table. Adjourned till to-rn , rrow (th i s day.) HOUSE 1)1' COMMON;. Mr. QUASME, Dedtry Usher of the Rod, s;rr.i...ti-,1 the House to atte“tl in the House of 1 , e,1-5, !o Assent gor.:a to ,event PubLe and Piiiate Bills , to vwhis4 Lords. Lord G. BE R ES FO RD appeared :It t i fe ear, art I stated, that his Hirtness the.. l'fince Regent had been waited on with the Ad press Cie 11 , .411;'!, requesting that bis Royal H•gline.s would order compensation to the Officers of the House, and that his Royal Highness had returned a most gracious answer to the same. LYMF. Er.cin HARBOUR. - - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. then moved the (10..-t:r it:l the day for resuming adjouroed debate on the grant fora sum of itlo,ooo to he appropriated to iil4: Repairs of Lynie Reg: Harbour. Mr. GORDON objected to this order, being brought fin ward at so early an hour. He undertoed the arrangement through the Session had been, that no public business should be brought forwaid at an earlier hour than haif-past four o'c:ock. It was t only five minutes after f'ntr, and be was aware that several of his Friencli: Rochester), who he knew ant tided to deliver their sentiments on this subject, trusting implicitly to this arranrement, had not yet come down. He trusted, therefore, the Eight !for.. Gentleman would oat Ares: forward this motion before the usual hour for comma rising public business atrived. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed that the Honourable Gendem in was penee.dy correct in what lie had state] respecting the corn. mencement of public business, but tins arrangemict had been adopted wily with a view to in te ness, and as at this time them was no bu..ii:eft of rho's description to occupy the attention of the a. 3.1 AS every Honourable Member must be aware Of (Lit, he could not see ally reason ible griiiiiids ct (,bjecii.m to proceed with the Oider of the Loy on the qu,!.. Lion lie had move +. Mr. GORDON said, if the. Right Um. Gentle. man persisted in bringing on the Ort:er before past tour, he would move that the House should be counteJ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU7.R. thought proper V► persist. notwithstanding this iati. cation, and the Ilinoorable Member proceeded ID carry his intimation into effect. 'file gallery was then cleared, and the Braise being counted, only thirty-one Members were found to he present, and an adjournment took place. The official account of the P.armgatelpicr Trust bAs been published, from which it ;,ppe,trs the amount of the Wild, the of e, ISI 5, w;ls £32,(i71. Ic. 4;cl. The expenditure trf:rn that ptri , )ti to 24th June, 1816, amointed to £.'f;,B o. 17s. G!. and the Revenue to £22,477.19:. ;IL Tneamount of the food in 1516 was £29,735. lf;t:. The Committee on the Hop; Catal of Irani have made their Report. They r-c , inalor.d Op! :47• pointment of a new Company ''o niansige the proier y which still remains, and to pre;etve the navigAtion ; they are of opinion that this Company should h.: formed exclusively of the creditors of the late Corr ration, who should also 1w admittTJ as propriemrt, in proportion to the sum; orignially lent by-them ; and that, until the new Company can be formed,'th management should remain where it now is, in.the lands of the Directors General. The followittp: it a copy of the Act to Rogqlate the Administration of Oaths, in certain casts, to Offi cers in his Majesty's Land and Sea Fortis: " Whereas by certain Arra passel in the reigns at his Mjesty'a Royal Predecessors, it was provided, that Office: s in his Majesty s Royal Navy and Ofli , srs in hi* Majesty's Army ..!is,II tale cettart Oatti.t, :mil make aid toiltarrilie certain Declarati.no, brove the; 41tall enter titian the offices or places of trust !owlirit :hey may N. appointed; And win-le:IS doolitt have been earostai. , d wltt..ha: the provisions of the -aid Acts an• snit in tura in that behalf t and whereas the practice of taking the said Oaths, and making ' and subtcribinr the said Declarations, by Officers, prei els t i ' their receiving 'Commissions In Lit Majesty's Army, lath 1:11-i lung disused i and wht reas it is cps-die:it to retiv:ve such tizoi.t., and tit assimilate the practice of the two Staler.: l'e a* there fore enacted by tLe King's Most Excellent bijoey, by 4!)d 7fiqt the advice and cim 'rut of the lauds Spiritual and Ttanyoral and Conunims in this yresent Parliament assferaled, and le; It.e ati• thority of the same, that :rum and after the Fining an this Ac . , ft shall and may be lawrid to and for Ili* Majesty's lirincyal 'w arm-Ws of State, the Lord High Admiral uf the linit•-.1 ll.triza dont of Great llritain aid Ireland, or the Comaniagiutor: for eta- Luting the c!&e of hard High .kalinitai aforesaid, lb.! Csmisma , der iu Chief of his :Vlajusty s Laud .Vorces„ the Haute General of the Ordnance, and the Sec:rtary at \Vat- fur the time betty, respectively, or aLy other persons tiirtemito lawfully audiciti:o4 to deliver Coinmlassons or Warrants to any Offi.er, it: is:a Ma. jesty's Royal Navy, laud l'urce.s, or Royal Marne.., without prcvionsty regal:Luganda °filter or UC,icets to take the said natio, or make and subscribe tint ad I.).;clataliul a; a t.y tbies iu any Act or Acts contained to the plumy thereof in any ways not witb""ling• Pro v ided ahisYlls . I . kat nothing 4.reio .t.t.t.thit.l shall emend, or be cunt:trued tutateml, to any Oath, ra ciusrealt? any Act or Acts new in forte to be takest, or to any Urctleaticrs thereby required to tie made and subsaibed, by asap Office: et Officers as afaresaid, atter he ur they shill have accepted and re craved such Cammieguits or Wailants as afote-aid." - MURDER AT I'IiNDLETOR..-4481 RwhiNtrOlit of Far anions), hear Leyland. (conimorty c414t1 I Jack), was last week committed to Liiic tart' lue: • on a charge a being Conceived with II illun cam and the .4.shereffr iu the fend eton murder aad ''• berg; and these is another person in costody.(4.r. North; under exarninatilu cp the liac chariii:.