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NAJ ; dit INTELLIGENCE. ...`_ FALMOU 111, DECEMBER 22. E. N. E.—Arrived the Duke of Kent pie ict ( I v , ith a M•sil Iron; Lisbon in eight days...-. the Duke of Kent packet (2) with a Mail, Lisbon;nr also the Mary and Eliza, for Naples; iy mph, .or Leghorn; Edisha, for Buenos Ayres ; *noir, for the. Mediterranean; Flora, for Lisbon ; Ni, CCSI Cil f low, Betsey, Atalanta, Enterprise, and Catherine Green, for Jamaica; Britan 5jA, for St. Thomas's; Atalanta, for Rio - Janeiro ; gillington, for the Brazils; Golden Grove, for the rape ;. Forteise store ship, for Rio Janeiro ; .and the American schooner Hunter. fir Antwerp. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 23. Arrived the Isabella, tlicar.q.s. from Archangel; goira, Lowey, from St. Lawrence ; the Regent, from Lisbon for Lind n ; and the Industry, DREW, from 5. Michaet's.—Sailed the following outward-bound l'he Frederica Charlotte, for Rio Janeiro; A k ron , for J traaica ; George, for Gibraltar • Queen, t o r Honduras; Su.annah, for Leghorn; Beaufort. f or . 1,, m llca ; Nautilus, for Grenada ; Favourite. for Cayenne; Hester, for Naples; Curlew, for Charles ton ; Hercules, for Barrel. ; Braganca. for Oporto; Joseglii for Jamaica ; Amphitrite, fir Gibraltar; ra;:tta, for Balboa ; John and William, and Menai, Cadir ; Gleaner, tor Lisbon ; Betsey, for Ma- Oira ; Economy,for Trieste; George, tor Rio JA 040 ; Adhor e lia Havannah ; • for ditto; and r att y Lass,forTvieste. PoRTSPAOUtIi. DECEMBF.R si. Wind N. E.—Sailed the Annabella. Homtow. for Madeira ; Moira. HottriaLow. for Madras 'and Ben gyi ; nci Lively, Hoist:sox, for 'London. DEAL, DECSMBER 24. Wind N. E.—Came down from the River and sailed the Warre. for Honduras ; Albion, for St. Domingo; Lively,, for Havatinah ; and hush, for Rio intim. Passed yesterday at the back of the Godwin Sands the Helen., GttArE, from Stockholm, kr the West Indies ; and Ocean, Mouitti., from Am cerd4m, tot eilezandriA. HARWICH, DECEMBER 24. Attired the Louisa, 'Sonata., from Kiel, with her rumps choked, and cArgo shifted ; the Traveller, Holm. from Embden—she left the Ems on Friday trek. on account of the ice ; Bcaufoy packet, with a nail and passengers, from Heligoland—she sailed on Sunday ; there was then much snow and ABERDEEN, DECEMBER 20. _ _ Yesterday morning, with nearly a calm, and a nice so dreadful as to resemble the rolling of than der, the sea ran mountains high, portending an easterly gale, which commenced violently towards mop, when a brig was observed standing far the haver. But, alas I when within nearly, a cable lisgth of the pier, a heavy sea struck the starboard iiarter, and the fresh in the river and ebb tide acting r. the same time on the vessel, she. broached to, was Ccrieth all oft rwhelmed a b r y d t i h n e t s h u e ccee rag d i t g ig wave, to ve.antdheingeullpphed res at: anguish of thousands, who witnessed the heart rending scene. From part of the wreck, which Was On alter cut ashore, the unfortunate vessel proved. o be the Gleaner, itiON CADENHEAD. of and fur this 'place, front Shields, coal laden. The crew c• n. ri.ted of ilirepirsons r two or three" of whom Uwe' lei families. . HULL, .DECEMBER The IN"SCIV., CoLLINV)N. ut Gainsborough, from Eambtirgh' tai this port, was forced into Baton Deeps, on the. afteentoin of Tuesday se'nnight, by away winds. The Master and two men, one of Ilea' BMW JONATHAN 1110 MASON, a native of Glarbbrooth. having been fia board another Vessel' Boston Deep's tat afternoon, had returned to the Iltitikave at five o'..lock, and all got safe on board, except THoomias, who was about to be hoisted up is the boat. when the tackles unhooked, and the boat, • by the emigrates% of the tea, was driven away, with at either oar or rudder.. The forlorn situation et Talisman, thus exposed to the fury of the elements, edam food. water, or covering, or any means of mitigating himself from imminent danger, in • win ay night, and a strong gale, mat easily be concesved. ..Y-111.1essitig a piece of plank out of use inside oldie beat, and using it a a rudder, lie contrived to keep fhb boat before the sea ; but in the course of the eight she filkdfour times, and his only resource was no bad , sat the water with his hat. About three teelbtk to the Wednesday morning he made the. lend, near Hunstanton-light, and the sort running high, was thrown .senseless on the beach. bleeding from Nonage, month, and ears. On reeovermg a link. he succeeded_ in reaching the above light house. distant about two miles, but in so exhausted a SLOE. that it • was with diSculty he succeeded is making the people hear him. At length he ob. Weed aumittatice, sad the light-keeper, Henry Fox, !Waived to Jugs with the utmost humanity, put him in* a warm bed, and supp lied him with every re freshener.' the place admit. The boat was cast up on tile beach, gad as Thursday, it and The. mason were tisk, n4n sweet to Lynn, *hem Messis. 1 00 Steckdale and Bon. merchants, treated him lividly, and pat blen on board the Telegraph, which . /fuel brought biotin ssiety to this port on Sunday light, where the Moscow had previously arrived on Friday evening. Carlin Cowmen had used every Practicable endeavour' o recover THOMASON °sad the best, but his exertions were rendered ineffectual by the darkness rat the night. CUSTOM HOUSE, DECIIMBIR 24. Sews IST SSC. /11111411 . 1121r111111 Hero, Hodoway ; and Sally, Markham, Irmo Ostend; Nee, Hatebiosse ; Friesmidep, Bar- 'molt: 'mud Courser. Hoek, mune stesteedain; Uoede Hap, liee. from Mikes; .Ut4eon, Coen, from Hew York ; I balls. Nebei,trent Pernaissbeen; Wabash bleillebdi Gdkusts . BlYOli' out Henry, Soros, from Hamborgh; tinned,: Lonsindse, . 16121 **Cane Uwud Hope; Doke of York, WOW, Iron noseesei; and Llbcose, Hem, Jews Ifeeway. to the gale of Sunday sessight, the ling Mary, of Newcastle, HUM'S' LIODLII master, from Gotten• lotgll to Leith, wills wool, was put on shore, aid Iltanded amongst the seeks a tittle to the southward Collation; 111.11Sief and eight 'Len saved, mate and &sr awe drowned. The vessel a complete wreck 1 but N expected great pan of the cargo otAy be sawed. The loss o 1 two centers was announced in the Claxgote Coffee-mein, on nide) —the J-Int and th e slathers, Irons Westford lee Clyde. They were "ftked sney 'Mock, on the Doweshise coast. 11,p • ° "ster abd Mote of the Sobs were ualtrtenatell. ( 4%1)441,0e lest of she ctelle were Ise* r.4x4DA. 74.!TP:ACIIMENT OF JUSTICE FOUCHER F6R PAR TIALITY AND OPPRESSION IN THE ADMINISTRA TION OF JUSTICE. It will be recilected than la the Spring of this year, an Impeach ment was brought in the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada, vainu Louis C. Poireataa, Esq. lwtge of the Court of King'. Bench for the District of Montreal, for several Allied sets etpartial and oppressive conduct in the administration of jas4te e — , 1 the result of that Impeachment was in Address from the Assembly, praying the suspension of Mr. Faeces' from his judicial function, and 4hat his Etcellency the Go vernor in Chef subsequently compiled with•thls desire of the Assembly.. The farther particulars of the.' important *pros endings we were prevented from laying b-fore our Readers, hi consequence of some of the Numbers la our series of ans. dian Papers being miming, but a more complete file having since come into our hands which enables us to supply this &- feet, we now subjoin the Debates which took place on the Impeachment, With tia independent spirit, sound termite. Clonal knowledge,ond singular unanimity displayed In which. our Readers, we are assured, will feel highly gratified: ' Mr. Suzawoon stated, that in pursuance of his notice. he rose to call the a teetion of the House in Committee, to several resolutions which he had for merly read in his place. and which he now offered to be adopted. The dtity which the Committee were now discharging to the country was of the very highest importance: the right of the Ctim•nons to accuse was new past all dodo, and-was to be fount in that tree and excellent Constitution which the mag :nanimity and benevolence of the British Govern mint had bestowed upon as. the impeachment . ot individual Judges, and of . whold Courts, particularly the Court of King's Bench, had been practised in England tor about 400 years.—(Mr. Sherwood rend various authorities tafrOVO this, from the year 1400 down to the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey.)— The English had always *hewn a 'wholesomir jealousy of the power of Judges, and a law actuilly rented for several centuries, declaring that noJudge should sit ..c the Assizes under Commissions ot Oyer and Terminet, and Jail Delivery. in a County or. Shire where he was born or resided. This law had nut been abolished till some time after the 'period when the Judges in England were made independent of the Cowen by having their coniiiiissions asamolie Ices estesetrint. Unhappily the Judges in this colony did not hold such commissions. "Vhe Hoff furable Membe: for the town of Three-Rivers. (Mr. Ogden); as Chairman of the Special Committee, had procured a copy of Mr. Fouchertscommission tram the Secrio tarp's office, and it is durcerue boo plait.: the Judges in this colony, therefore, are entirely dependent 4r' the. Crown, and in the same situation as the JuJges ip England during the reign of Charles I. Charles 11. and James 11. His Majesty in she first year ot his reign, doclired in a message to both Houses of Par liament, that the independence of die Judges was no. i cessary for the safety oh the people and CHs; honour et the Crown ; as the Judges in this colony. therefore. were dependent, it followed of course they were nei• ther honoutable to f he Crown, nor sale to the people. Mr. Sherwood did not mean to speak of than indi vidually, but in their otficial capacity he had ender stood that the Judges at Quebec were justly esteemed by their filJowoubjects, and ibas ,90grie spine at Mont real of this description. Bu. notwithstanding the degraded tenure under which our Judges in this province held their commissions, still it must be al ' lowed that they bad more power than all the Judges ot Great Britain, - Ireland. and the elites colorises collec owely. Toe Judges in Loner C .nada have in their hands all the property of the country fad want of - a Jury trial in :evil cases; and they have the seputa. tion, thelives of his Majesty's subjects here in their bonds by means ot select Juries. le .'Court destined an individual to destruction. all they had to do was An not. and the thing st as done. Under such cuckoo. stances it behoved the Commons in this colony in a peculiar manner so watch the Judges and accuse them as often as testy did wrong. The public were rnech indebted to die patriotic earrtions cri the ft ii. Mem ber tor me county of Huntingdon (Mr. Cuyillier) in this instanc. : he had decreed aril of his olu s .ley, and his example was vtoithy of being tudowed by Miters. Mr. S. then produced the tour Resolutions ~ltd spoke to the testimony of each in success* .a winch ,were carritd neap con. Mr. Taiehansau—ors the first Resolution, was some in finu that stooling could be ingest in fa vour ot Mr. Fouchet in this affair--circumstances of ignorance. ..r misfortune. snaky sometimes be ad vanced in savour 44 v.e accused, but in HO cases can a presaricatiog Judge in this country peculiarly intrusted with our propertais, our iiberties,UHT repuia don, and our lives, be excused tor crimes 01 maniac a nature as those before the Committee. In this coun try, ail that we hold most dear and sacred is at the nicicy of Judges. who, it they are upright, ought to be protected and cherished as inestimable characters; but. on toe other'hand, in case of delinquency, they cannot be too severely punished for the abuse and per. version of power which UM: lam entiusts to thoio , fur the general benefit, and not to be suited to private pur poses of favour or revenge. Can, Mr. Ju s t i ce F 4 Meier for the offences for which he stands impeached urge any thing in his own behalf .f Can be plead his inti mate friendship for an individual as a justification in depriving the antagonist of that friend of his dues, in favour of the latter i What in a word can he say for so fiagraat a breach of his duty ? The more fits sta tion was high , and elevated, die more ought he to have been correct in the execution of its duties. He had betrayed those principles vt..justice oh•ch his So. vereign had unitixmiy cherished. He had in oat word been guilty of practice b which in a person of his rank were unpardonable, and in a person of in interior stollen would be considered • as. crimes . of no small ma_gnitude. . .Mr. VAIIIII2OI. on the reading of the.thirdininlU., tioa rose to say that although he had been Silent. qa the reading of the two preceding resolutions, he sh9ulti feel himself wanting in duty, both as a Member .4 ' the House and of the proration to which be bad the h.nour to belong, did he nut express his tritiments on the resolution now submitted for the. consideration .of the Committee. The object of this third resolution is to cfiargellr. Justice Voucher, one of thirJusticed 'oi the Court of King's - Beach at Montreat Orkfihaving twee guilty et oppression ii. the administratioifbt Justice, and to Have 411 Aimed himself 01 his ou thu:ity to injure and ilotistat in the most flagrant mad i,difieekee amm o a Dattotta ia tb5t444 1 6 1 et his legal lilici Pitre l4o 4 2l doifT .. . *bile seeking justice for ore of his clients. Hiting Sir, been Myself on one occasion unjustly insulted to• • Ni •!.ber of a Court. I f el doubt: situebn'ot td . Porten ts. and ainicipi , e toe if n r that mist result not only, to the prefessi•ai bu' t.. pleaders in general, who Junk to professional men .s their only resource .in judicial proceedings. were 'conduct so iniquitous and pernicioits suffered Is pass unheeded. If a Barrister, whose conduct in a public tribunal is respectful and correct, may be thu. publicly insulted and intimidated by a Judge crud and base enough to utter such insulting language, is it not obvious that lie may be so far overcome ai to be unable to do justice to his cause, and leave his client exposed to Min ? If I say under such circum stances this House could not enquire into the con duct of the Judge, .he would wantonly oppress the Bit and ruin the pleader with impunity. In vain )0?-11 a remedy be found elsewhere than within t:iese wells It the insulted Barrister should presume to answer in Court he is ordered to be silent. should he answer insult by insult he is suspended.— Should he out of the Court consider the Judge as a gentleman. and invite him to repair his error, he is criminally prosecuted. We have had, Sir, various instances of this sort. What, then. is the remedy for suppressing the abuse ? The right of impeachment: there is none else. Happy are we then to be able to exercise a right that will at once maintain the inde pendence of an honourable profession, and vindicate , he rights and security of such as are dr•ven to the ,otten. uppleasant alternative of law. To return to the 'theft towlines' in this resolution, they are established by the most substantial testimony that can possibly be produced. They are, indeed, such as our could scarcely credit.' were they not authenticated by wit. itC6S.s ot the most irreproachable characters, and men ,oh me 6rst rank in society. Mr. Foucher so far fur got himself on this occasion. as to declare that he was accountable for his conduct to nobody—that he was mure than the King, and that•the King resorted to his Tribunal f sr Justice. I however Sir, flatter my• self that the gentleman will in this respect be shortly made sensible of his error, and that he will learn there is a tribunal competent to call him to an account—a tribunal to which the representative of the people ' of this province will shew hint the route, and that in the discharge of that duty there will not be a di:mu ting voice. Mr. A. Sri:aar:—Mr. Chairman, in the preceding resolutions I have been disposed to consider Mr. Jus tice Foucher as influenced by feelings emanating from 044 e friendship, 'though in the instances he tore the Cothmittee. evidently perverted and polluting the pure iountain of justice. All must admit, that such a perversion calls for the most decided and ex emplary punishment, yet I should be the east man on this fluor to exaggerate the remorse of conscience and the poignaney of that Gentleman's feelings on the discussions of a subject in which his future hap piness is involved and which there is just grounds to believe must be followed by a dismissal from the high and important joist which he has hitherto (sects. pied. I feel it due I say, to the (salted feelings of friendship to pay it sonic tribute of respect even when leading to tl.e wildest •it extravagancies, and aberra tions from the. virtuous paths of justice. Bin on the present change, 1 And be ground of excuse or NBA L 4 04 'Pc. , Mr.. tigebbr , 1-1 kowi.zoi. AbaLr.aii...ba Urged on Mt , Gentleman's behalf, nor can I. find laii- 1 gunge capable of expressing the indignation which must be telt by every honest mind at this instance of cruel tyranny and folly, verging upon insanity, ex hibited by a Judge in the solemn execution of one of the most s..ered duties that can be entrusted to a man. Ignorance of the quesiion proposed by Mr. Porteous is the only feeble palliative that can be ima gined in favour of Mr. Panther, but when we reflect that this Gentleman had grown grey is the practice of the profession, that he had long occupied a seat on the Bench. we are at a loss, and indeed it would be no compliment to his professional acquirements to seek his viadication in so feeble a subterfuge. What was the language of Mr. Foucher to Mr. Porteous ea this. occasion I it was such as no Gentleman could bear with impunity, and w:.ich could 'liver have issued from toe mouth of a Gentleman; yet, Sir. this is the language which we 6nd uttered from the judg ment seat where every passion should be silent, where even the ordinary infirmities and weaknesses of hu man nature shohld at least be concealed from human observation, and where the Judges unrested with the sacred powers of dispensing justice bet Ween man and man, ought to seat themselves as in the sanctuary of the living Goa. It is. sir. in such a place that Mr. Foucher has breathed a language not only beneath the dignity of a Judge, but even beneath that of an ordinary Gentleman, and avails himself of the sacred robe of justice to insult with impunity the feelings of a Gentleman—and so whom, S;r, is this insult ol feted I to a young Gentleman of irreproachable cha meter. who had recently entered upon the thresh leu:af at his profession, and who was in the honest din: chicle, of hit' protessioual duties in defending the right. of his client. Instead of indulgence to Mr. POMOUS (if he had required it), Mr. Foucher wan tonljattacks him with the grossest abuse while Mr. Porteous was' engaged in the fair and proper dis charge of his duty. He trampled upon the honour able prUtriMOU to which Mr. Yucteous itelunged, and attempted to destroy as far as in him lay the inde pendence and honour of that profession, and t:4ough such attempts exhibit the most unaccountable folly. and will at all times prove abortive, the guilt of the delinquent' who resorts to such attempts is not thereby diminished. Mr. Foucher himself had once ' the ti.•nour so beling to that profession, and he must have well known that the well being of society is inti• ' merely connected sift its independence and its honour. We may. Sir. enjoy the pageantry of Legisiature and at Courts of Justreea but if the Bar of 4 country be . * l im p ; de ive g d rat - d 4ii iii i the ali ti a m deug atio% of be r so gi c t le o t i y, i t t s h i e scil s ' e " c u u r ?., ; m y of liberty In n aul i r s in opc si t lce w . ill wi b la i i f h n a u s n d be e e x n u t t b n e :el ' et sect ul Mr. Fuechcr's conduct! Mr. I'. abandoned ttic ... prolessiOa. As a geutkman, he'could not again in a Court where I,,bsuagsi of this kind had been d towardi him, and where the person who had [tied this iangiage eat as a Judge. Will it be be 'hewed that hi a British Pr..vince all the prospects of 'in hisurnseasole I .:siag gesitteman. id urepruachable ebeiaetbr, of gaud 141. ins and respectable COstneZhnif, hateiumi e bee wied a : utiviiicet brasesl tby ari as a ne es it o wa i sr br ut a i• j u ed lid g i e s e ie ,u d; Mc. lower s ass it not satiafifl with insuking oe Fidiestors of do lei in t)ie person of kr. Pekin* nobliely tramples open the laiv itself. by denying to the party whom Mr P. represented i.e 'Lon Of eka mining a witness whom he thareiiiii to his defence, and in the giddthess of p .wer, breathe' the langstage hich a Turkiih Badiate am& bltisti to hear. I have, Mr. Chairman, attentsirely 10404 but in Vain, over the evidence tapas this Charge .with an enziotis wish to discover something which Might cast some favourable light upon the conduct of Mr. Foucheri I wished, for the honour of human nattirei to have found -rime palliative tor this extraordinary demeanour in a Judge. I have lotted none. The conduCt of the highw isimm, who seeks in tobtieig relief for a starving tone and'family of helpless in fants, and risks his ii.e to obtain it, is praiie.worthy when compared t • the dAtardly conduct of A Judge who insulti an individual from the Betich, as Ae find depicted in this charge. I can only, Sir, compere it to the cowardly assassin who .assails some helpless stranger. lost and benighted m the m oes of 'it cheer. less solitude. And shall conduct like this pass with. out punishment ? Is there no tribunal belort whom such a culprit can use loodaht ? Have not the Coma mons of Lower Canada, the grand inquest ois ibis country, the right to prevent those high crintof Scarcely three years have passed since the matinee of this right was denied by men whose tank in so ciety entitled their opinions to some cussed-ration. But notwithstanding that the progress of truth is ge nerally slow, the error of these men has in tlitei short years been consigned to the tothb of the Capnless: .Thirosight Commons of this province has Weil distinctly recognized, and a more beneficial exercise of it could hardly be made than that now before the House—mine in which the necessity of the etincllCll of this right is more plainly evinced. Mr. Daviesoe had not intended to have occupied the attention of the House on a subject which he conceived had already been exhausted ; in justice however to his feelings on a subject of loch high ius4 portance to this Coluoy, he could not be teenntiled to a silent 'kite on the occaii in. The very able and satisfactory manner in which the H .nottrable Mem ber, from the County of Effinghem (Mr. Sherwood) had premised the resolutions submitted to Use Com mittee, with the great mass of concurrent testimony, had carried entire conviction to his mind, and be , considered it was impossible fir any Member of tbe House, after such testimony, to avoid ass acknow. ledgment of a similar conviction. With reepeel,tie.. the third resolution, he expressed his surprise a; od regret that Mr. Justice Faucher should 11:ve so tar fergotten the dignity his trust, as to have yietcfeds . for a moment, to the• impulse of resentment against • a Gentleman of the B it who stood before hies in the performance of his duty—,a duty as sacred to hie anent jat that of Mr. Foucher was to the public. He, now. ever, would not expatiate on this subject, which bad been so amply and s • ',oily dis. ussed by the Howie. able Member from the Uppei-Tosin of Quebec ( Mr. Vatoeleon); he (Mr. Davidson) stpccor:d the mint onqualifi:d approbation nt that Gentleman's menus with respect to Mr. Fouches's conduit, arta he conceived no roan could have rendered formu l a*. stantial justice in snpporting the credit and tor:dig nity of the profession of which he was a member hf no ordinary talent and acquirements. Mr. GUM' vegetated that be was placid in a sites. tion wherein lie had no alternative between duty and feeling. He was personally acquainted with Mr. Justice Foucher, and had always entertained the highest respect for that Gentleman, and had reasuu to consider himself, in same degree, under nnligatiosh towards him for acts of friendship and ii , dipthanq to some branches of his family. He had attenoivesyfol• lowed the evidence before the Committees and it was natural to think that disposed as he was, to put the most favourable construction upon the whole on la.; your of Mr. Foucher, he would have been glad of in opportunity of exerting his bumble talents on realest: ing the imputations which he regretted to And were but too well established, against his judicial charac ter. The mass of concurring testimony' which ape ,peared to have been' taken with much precision s and the moderate and deliberate m inner su which the proceedings had been'iOnducted was too strung Odd ciatietsisive to admit Of - an apology on the park of Members who otherwise might have been dtsposed s at least, to attempt to palliate, if not to justify, Mr. Poacher in the eyes of the public. However painfol it was to his feelings not to be able to raise Ins voice in favour of that Gentleman, at a moment when be stood most in need of the exertion of his friends, he could not but yield to conviction and a sense of duty, on an occasion in which he did not think there could be a dissenting voice. MONDA T. ttlll44lT 14. " Res°iveil—That an uunible Address be presented AO his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. with she Resolutions of thy House respecting Mr. Justice Eoucher, and also an humble Adz dress to his gxcellency the Osiverbor-lo.Cidel, paying hint ts he pleased to transmit the said Address to his Royal *ibises!, and praying his Excellency aims to suspend Louis C. Muncher, he 4. front the °face of Judge es the Court of King's Ibinejs. kg. the District of Montreal, moil the pleasure or hls Royal g :sets ba known." Astmnic:s• Mani:Frs.—A letter from New York gives the following butte at the Marketss..-ga The sale of cottons, which Are immensely large, are making at SO and 32 cents. Some holders are asking 50 cents for Leeward Island, hut there has nix been any sales at that price ; prime sorts have brought as high as 45 cents. Hour r, mains much the same in prize s 108, though great purchases have been made. Sua gars are trisk in demand, aid 04 the rise." Si A vr%—The Kinptos (basilica) Gazette, of the" ult. says :•"" (Jur Readers will observe in the proceeciingb of the Assembly, that the Clerktof the several Vestries have beet' ordered to furnish state. (rents of the numbers cif slaves registered in their ;.e. spcitive -- parisLes under the new Slave Return Lau , . In Ws city and palish the returns have been 5478 ill number, .and total amosi of slaves 17,817, making an .excesi ever the, poll -tax-roll of 9660. In Mary'S the number Of returns has been 683, giving 15.555 males, and 13,269 females, and • total dr 26,824, making an excess over the same roll of 149 0 1. In St. Thomas's in the Vale, the numbers are 611 11 7 ma l es , a nd 5054 females—total 12,241, giving an excess of 406. The H' use has very wisely directed that the number of slaves returned by persons, who had not previously been outhe rolls of their r es p ect i v e. parishes, should be distinguished, in order was g satistactuty refutation may be given witty embassies that may be invested in consequence of the great ape riot increase uf•tbe slave population." . I