The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-01-21 00:00:00

t►ia *hi are said to have been loaded with elsoini ini,l as follows : " let. A lony shoot 11 yeirs of age , a luxe iron chain mend his neck, fastened with s potdlock, total weighing " 2d. Two girls of it ytarg, meek marked It, the alerts of the cart-wit:lN favrned together with iron china round their necks, padlocked, weighing 11111/. " 111. A fall pow* saw, after a severe loping with the eirt•whip. looted with sa 400 collar and violas. weieins tilb. " 4th. An *id man. apparently SO years of or, - liner having been isoltrely beaten by his master, vies illserd in the stacks, +Ph en It.. cellar round his week, and chains, -weighing 40Ib. " sth. A limy sheet 14 refs of sr, loaded with an it... cellar, chains, sod leg of wired, weighing 161 b. • end It appearing that tech statement was • fa siiibitted from the Geemnerent•hense of this Island, datsd the 3•1 of September last. " The !Nose be Ivey, to ropiest your Escollency well be pissed to *insists them with ell the isfororia- Moe yen may possess on that subject, with the names at the begrime sta chained, sod these of their owners, sews* mended easy requires to be 'venally known Mbe esolvessally remotes! In this e•snesesity ; end we teed pier Easenosey will comalwalista to Ilotherit the general emedillog of the slaves i‘ this blood, which has been ee mock misrepripentedia the lil .sue of Consmoos. We feel cosidsint that their egediliou is as happy as Moat of asp slave moieties is tbe West ladies, and rely with tronlidenci on the soadosr sod jostles of your Eseellemers diameter t. owntradist stub sateen/ad arcosatems against a weirdo mamindly, when a few individuals close are 4 1 WM. ANDERSON. Speaker. " Meow of 1.1518. - Mis sricschasseir TUC GOTFAINOM TO HIS INONOVIII TUE somata* AND TNT souse OT 66 The Grmessoe, M eshopliasee with the request ef the !loose of Assembly, has sneezed tits names of the oysters rie imagers of the slaves eke ate men- Mooed is the statesekat transmitted from Gottgo shositskoose, dated 3d Sept : lost. Napes et Maus. Bawer. to Own. mad Mae. tar. A bay. Mew Eareie, Mr. Carry. t airM. rol•Y (Me: Wsrwer. Mr. areerVl is amt risse Items. iM. am. worming Metal Kelm, Mr. Com. gm. Au eM —, Vie . Mr. Rob er t,, Mr. Reber% Jr.. tilts Nit. A bey, Lash, Mr.ll)kr, Mr. Myter. " With regard to the surprise which she Haase has been pleased to express ' at these instinices of olives braving been loaded with heavy cholas and collars ' which ,sly vervain to be generally know• to be solversolly esserated is this community,' the Goversor takes leave to refire the Mese t• kw Mos pogo of the 20th October, 1816; Is the Members of GM Noss robe are Magistrates; to the Cicada, lOW by eider of the l'rivy Ca rrell, dated 1911 i Nottombev, 11116, os this subject; sod to the House le general ; to the several prosecutions which have Mist isselteted against iwtividuills for using this on- Issemer sad Mewl mode of punishes', whisk hap pily the late law ler the government of the slaves has obsoletely sbulisheti. TM Governer( regrets that as equal prohibitive has not been made to the see of deageoss on many estates, which are of each • mitiatroctlos that a human being canoed stand up right, or even erect his body whets kateliog ; and into which no light nor sir can find entrance, except Ormigh a small sig-sag aperture in the wall. " The Governor recommends to the Home to pose a supplementary law to abolish these dungeons, mad to enact that all places used for the repose of ennfinesseot may be airy end of proper dimensions. "'she Governor assures the House of Assembly that be will at all times communicate to Lord Batherst the true state of the condition and treatment of the slag* population of this island; and it will he for his Lordship to judge of the comparative merit of their Missiles with the slaves in the other islands. "CHARLES WM. MAXWELL. "By Ile Eitertleery's rniewone. J. M. W I [AAA NH. fleverieweet-beese, Domi n os, Jul, tt, 1818." 111111110NOUlt THE Simms AND DouSIB OF ASSIMDL% TO HIS ZACILLINCY TNT GOFER/40K. "The Hesse, impressed girls the importance of the &cession relative's the treatment of the slaves, end dearest of esposing to public detestation those in.r. sons who, dead to the voice of humsoiey, have aboard the authority instructed to them, b) loading their gates with heavy chains, bee leave to return vier Farelleery their thanks for your Message, convey. pet to them she names of the persons who acted ire such en gujoritlllable manner. They have called be. fore them Mr. James Cl4llll, one of the parties se cowl. gad the negro Liverpool : and Mr. Cross, in his defence, stated to the House that the chain allied to the negro weighed less than four pounds, and pro. dread a chain which he declared to be the counter. part of the same: this statement was confirmed by the 'negro, as to this appearauce and probable weight of the chain. " Under these circumstances the House cannot bet conceive that your Excellency most have been misinformed by the person who weighed it ; sod as this matter is of most serious importance, and as the honour and character of the country end the 1/rais latere depend span a fell and complete explanation of all matters connected with the sent of the slaves, the Ileum request that you I.escellency will miss the chain allied to the negro Liverpool to be laid before them, with the name of the person why weighed it, that it may be esamiued before the Mouse. " WILLIAM ANDERSON. Speaker. 4 . 11.1414 e of A..eobly. Amp li. lalb." [Then folios sows slidsrits, for the purpose of provins; dist the chains used sere talus weight thin stated.] MEWL PARLLIMENT. HOUSE Or LORD 2, Jan. 20. The Lord Chief Berea took the Woolsack about three o'clock. The Lords palest, among whom were the Mar quis Wellesley, Lord Viscount Melville, Lord Vis count Sidoooth, Lord Viscount Exmouth, Lord Vincoont Hood, fond Kenyon, Lord Selsey, &c. men sworn. The °sibs were administered to other Lords eke owe in until foot o'clock, when an adjoeresest leek plate till to-ostro. l (this day). TIIV STATPCMAN rmicit 4W ett)cKs Till Husk 14.101 per Irest. Ned 7Ei i per Cest. alit 3?, per Celli. PR* t oomph fur Arr. iRf I per Irein. 9111 I% 1 1 11 . Ar OMR O'CLOCK 2 prr Creel. \nsy 10ee Isdia Nowt. li; PS p Emig too to sag Itsdielpier lab 12 20 p thisiime TFIE STATFSMA N LONDON: TRURSDAT. JANUARY 21, 1212. t • with good order and propriety ; yet such is the joandiced malignity of the supporters of Ministerial despotism, Cern Bills, and Gagging Enactments, tbit the Assembly in question hasasssmed in their eyes the very essence of republicanism. " Ten thousand Peo ple met, the occss:on came home to every emu's besleesieed bosom, end Him seperiniended their proceedings, supported by sorb (+tante', as MITCOIL, SAXON. KIWIIT, end OGDEN !"-flit " fortunately," says the Courier. " nothing fit • coned to irritate the mob."—The only provoking -occorrente was the orderly behaviour of the Meet. log, and defeated in their hopes of a tumult, the ene mies of the People mild only attempt a anteater, ! Unworthy of the country that gm them birth are the men who would deny to Englishmen the privilege of s Public Meeting, or dwell upon the danger, or misreprevest or usisenderstaud the ebullitions the arise upon sperasious when the People assemble to disease their dearest interests. To complain of such methods of collecting sod expressing pnblic eenti• meet, is to complain that we are freemen. They are the natural and aecesesty consequences of that public liberty which is the right of all, and from one of the results of which, the mostly character of the People, lave probably proceeded the prosperity mod elevation of the very men who bare availed them. selves of their power, and are, ootwithstanding, the gist and most disposed to deprive them of their rights. " The whole town," pretends the Courts, see dietusted and humiliated by these ditgreerfol scenes," distiegoished as the Meeting Is confesved to be for its peaceable chancier, " end being convinced of tbe impossibility of eoderieg that such scenes should be acted with impunity, beet it in contemple. ties (as we understood) le petition the Legislature for some ensetment to protect the cssetry from si- Misr knelt, ID future." A competent somber of the Members of both Flosses hiving oaken the requisite oohs, the bati stess of the New Parliament will this day be opened 1 by a Speech delivered by the Lords Commiesiooms, in the nome of his iteyel flightless the Pounce Rc- GINT. The Speech is eat 'tiptoed to be eery long. Besides the easel Notice of the mellowed indisposi tles;•of the Rico, it will, of course, lament the less sestaisied in the death of the Quarts, end call the Marsden of Parliament to the sew ertangements teedered .'''awry by that event, for the rare of his MAJ ores perms. The other topics are tindersteed oe relate priocipally to the evaciatloe of Finite/by the Allied troop, the Treaty of Air le-Ghspelle, the general state of European polities, and the pro spect of coniiseed peace whit! Obey present. The piddle Remis@ will he repregeoted in the usual maim, as being in a promowneos ceeditiee, and the trade and masefacteses of the reentry ins state el high improvement ; the redeetioes elected le the netiooal F.speediture will then, it is said, be with mach coorplecency referred to ; and the Speech will tweeted. with a pelisse renew" epee the wisdom of Parliameot to rest the usual Supplies for the small purposes of cot/epilog and estrevareee,--Places, Pensions, sad Siemeres,—fresh establOmeets an der pommies of Economy, end for atiotaising violate and undiminished (bat most precise' system, of Sword end Paper Kale, mush hes placed this country in the imposieg sod "might, attitude of having en Espenditere of Poorly's Millioos a-yeer i more then the receipt of the national inmate. Such, according to the Ministerial Papers, are the Inputs upon which the delegated Speech from the Throne is to dilate; bet there are other sohjects, pothaps equally important to the Nadu's, which mg may sentare In sejr, will not be so comploceotly dwelt piton by the oracles of authority. Owe of these subjects is the isimediato umossity adds. fstp the Mutation of Minister', sod the depterstdo sew ditioa to which they hare redeced the country by their paper espediefits, and drafts open futurity, of renewing the Bonk Rlfikirkliell Act—a measure, ohich, in spite of all the promises, and pledges, and protestations which hare been made, ir, Ito ars con. 6deolly assured, to be semi the first propositions to be ',shuffled to Parliament. _ This, then, is the malt of all oar aapient Mi. nisters' financial schemes—the proof and the wimple which is to be exhibited to the New Parliament, of Legislative faith, and increased State prosperity. — The Bank is not to be snowed to reefs to Cash Payments, however salutary stud indispensable that 'Twister* may be. The present system of Gomm. tweed cannot be carried on and perpetuated without the assistance of the Paper Currency—the.' means , r which lend Corruption lighter eine to fly," which fill the Mihisterial Treasury, and keep the vanaLs of the !qv's, together ; therefore, though crime should it,cteatle with the means of temptation and the grow. itig stietuhis of necessity; though bewail is already shi,cired in all its feelings, by the spectacles of mi. air'', guilt, punishment and death, that are impe -1 trill) before Its Iles. Though Juries are protesting from their seats against the sanction they are daily and hourly called upon to glee to the sacrifice of their fellow .creetures on the blood-stained altars of this depopslating and demoralizing system, the same horrid situation of things is to be continued, the same Cassell of public mischief ere to be aggravated, end the same principles of Government are to be in. rulcated and upheld, which base ginn birth to so easy evils r- Those who would on such slender grounds en• math, as ►eretofore, on the liberties of the People, either &dodo themselses, or would delude the nation into the establishment of unmitigated despotism.- I That such attempts may still bo tried, on such shallow pretences as these, we have, for some time past, hose had too much meson to apprehend. Let, thorn, the Friends of Freedom be awake and at their posts ; let thee be as wits as serpents, and ►armless as dotes. Then" serer was a moment when the 6rm union, the sell-cemented reasblnetioa of able writers In the wise of Civil Liberty wee were necessary satin at present. The avowed end the concealed eneake of Freedom beer, on their pert, *stemd more in. tlantely than e'er into a conspiracy to check the progress of reason sod Reform ; to cow:lnset the tendency of those patriotic writirags which esplaiss sod vindicate the Wooed eights .of the People, and which expose the turpitude, the insi. diousness, the plots of spies, the impostures, end the inotpatity of Ministers, and the prostiteted hire. lip of dm Pmts. Every artifice sad cruelty hove peen used to estingoish the public spirit which sac. glee ed in the Societies for discovering sod eemeving mastic abuses ; and various aid endless false and wicked charges hive been brought by Ministers, and the teals of power, against these distinguished chem. pions, who most proved themselves essimeat for their seal sod their courage. Some calor* American Papers bare reached es, bet not of amore meat date then those prerioo►ly re ceived. They notice the arrive! of the T rattly be tweets Great Britain end the United State! ► and suppose that the Senate, then sitting with closed doors ► were deliberating on the prorisiolis of it. Letters frees Panama state, that the affluent inhabit ants were embarking for Cadiz. They take consi derable property slits thorn. Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Coonril was held at the Foreign-office, ahich w•.s attended by the whole of the fifteen Members, int lading the I.ORO CHANCELLOR, for the irst time of his at timilance at any Cabinet or Privy Coenril since his Lordship's loug indispesitlon, a:e.•pt those 1%•Id at his own hoese. TM Doke of Scsvrx is now on a visit with Earl DAast.cr, at Cobham-hell, where • select party were invited to meet his Royal nighties% Yesterday a Coen of Directors was held at the Fast ledis-host►, when Captain A. Il•rtt.ron, of the ship Bombay, took lees• of the Court, pre. vioes to departing for St. lifeless, Bombay, and Chine. _ _ Saforday nest being the first day of Hilary Term, The avowal's of Ministers, incepableof defending the Jedges, as usual, will wait on the Leto C 11.11%. their masters' cause, from the effects of Arhus! blow CILLOR, at his house in Bedford.sqesre, at eleven it received on Saturday by the verdict of the Jury in I o to 'cl v lc es k i . m fr in n s on te w r h i n ia n l c i e th r g e lrii.ollapproce:dtmiai,cPitioocT sii inn i the case of CLENZWT, and squabbling with each other not join the procession, as his Lordship is not selfi sh/sat the line of argument they should pone., have I eiently recovered from his late indisposition (an st en far agreed, ft seems, among themselves as to let the fork of the goal), as to enable him to walk through matter rest, and endeavour, if they can to.day, to Westminster 11611. divert the public mind from the disgraceful tap 'rho last letters from Bombay bring afflicting sc. s of the mortality •rising from the cholera of their lalepretooded plots, bydistracting it with the t e m e a l os, which raged in the Decan doting the months alum of fresh eniam° 6 ". Man ch e ster, far the of Jody and August. and had not been entirely moment, is to be particularly observed, and Netting• overcome, though greatly do sod, in September. ham is to be quite forgotten. The general 111141)101111 are Destro, she web of sophistry — is Min! purging, cramp in the eztreesities, rsteneitnt to the The creature's at its dirty work oohs !" abdomen and muscles of the chest, greet 'how and f burning heat in the bowels; the ere becomes coveted Th e g r eeted f a ir this fresh outcry on the port o with a thick kim, sinks into its sr;cket, becon.i.s the blinisterial alarmists, who are ever ready to find , flied. The most socoossfut remedies have been I. r:e a fob for the whale, when they themselves are sink- i doses of calomel and opium, with warn, batting, fir. ing, is the Meeting, which we berme innovated, at It has been chiefly mortal among the native.; fen Meachester, for petitioning and of which some sc. I Parliament for the re. lieropenns hate su ff ered. Moat '2.(v, or the peel of the odioes.Corn Act, lives died at a religious place ralletl l'underpore.-- Of the Eutopeens who have fallen a rievifir• to coon!, sech as it is, conveyed through a medium not the ma lady, we have to lament the loss of boot.. the most favourable to the Petitioners, 'mill he fee" Colonel _.vakt., who was mirrieri off in Si% hours, in ibis day's Paper. 'vie Meeting, it sill be sons, end of Lieutenant Wont; both ou the poestay MU hum this acceset, was sem:meted dumbest Establishment. 20 raz IMMIX or ruL STATESMA.V. Stn,—As I wish that the oiiioicins my family tray entertain of politic m.a and peblic enraqii,es he farmed upon real fact.. and not opal c , ojectarti an d r a i s phogla, I anal , l learn, II rough your Viper, (the poly plain-speaking anti horkest SNifesewn 1 or any clay relations ever kit*w !! !) eltefl.er the moat 'inlad Tory a riser non gracing the •iresa(.nontionln a name is tometinies °dines), 1164 or was not same few years ego, • violent Jacobin, end rvprinsanded t r y his g ini.tii,er, though a very held and frem-ancak• ing patriot, for the velipmence, and even the tit 'mow of Isis attacks upon the Corenthisn . OSP aerial edifice? it is high titt•e that the most anew. ligt•tooetl sm,,eg my letsti..ns shoolil he its to seder. stand oho they hsve to deal •itb.— Yoer's Jule; BULL Little I! EN' MS. ON DISNINTIOPS KItUI,G "19 SUAC F TIM elltrle. !Silence if sold so Eite cmorul. ie. , er lbe em d Aa. rent. Bei .lep Il.r tosay•e by I.llllAeonomodt. ]'or knee a an to we his Hands. Mill IC A crisis we're wild brought France is bre waste, rla that now pardon art former Winces. 0, may • like trail is Brlta. arise In make as all hams), by (Vain Yes eyes: Noy Ike roes of tier freesias. lie law at oar reef, Thai we saf, 9 why speak and etrindartly eat. x rEm roR Tice wicked trim, In be rank hail appal. Sky, . 4 AU. wa. made for *ova, Nal &.#s fee ALL." W We ere happy to find that Lord Eassina is con. sidereal out of dollar. The Police Officers cannot certainly be at a loss where to carry a dated, delinqgget. Lord Si Digowng has furnished the Public with an officer primly to i.e purpose, chosen from the learned spot, Doctors' We are glad to find that Minister. have consented to a reform in one of the branches of Government— we mean that of the Customs and Luis., for the purpose of consolidating the numerous Acts of Par. 'ismer', in one general Act. As they stand at pig. sent, doubts, difficulties, and rotor , dicts ocher in almost eve r y act done at those o ffi ces. The obscure entanglements e.•rr di, prosented In the young Merchant hue enneinced the world that the toots oust be cot shroud), fur that they rennet be untied. it has been mitt b$ • blinishatial Paint, that Lord Caseates rams retell have clear. , CLosteura had it mew proper that G .yeatintent should hare inter. frrel—this we dent, en ‘•• the utterance that Wane, Counsel 1136 prertred, in such en .tempt, !o give the Noble Lord a Itot.sfao for hie Oliver. NIIIIS TON me HANK fir FNCLANO. - NOTE, 4ND SMICIE.• -We leaf° (seta Washington 6aadte) that the General Post-015c. Departowlet is about to issse a Circelar to all Post-Master., directing them nut to receive, in pa) meat far postage, the notes of any Bank that will not redeem letipaper *kb s em is, on dcmand. This is a strong indicat..to that the ts. moment will persist in demanding specie of all banking lostitutions with which it has and AGM" course ; a refusal to enw will, of course, be con sidered an act of insolvency am the pert of each in. stitation. Many of the usaaseres muted by a Re poblicen Govetnruent ate equally proper under a mined Mstarchr. A certain class of ;.ersoes, as well es lb* Govern sent, are interiorly motions to psi down Mr. Dim: and to do this the) aro inventing various anus, by saying all manner of nut-of-theaway things of him.— Now we wish to inform those whits hnoters-dewa of demagogues, as they denominate bins, that the most effectual e•e of extinguishing that fire which they my may inflame the oht le kingdom, in short of pulling down HUNT anti his party, would be to let dint the price of corn by levitating the obasitioos D •Ils ;lair I ;laird expressly for raising the peke of bread.— . Verbusa Sat _ - Jamaica Papers to the 48th November, ("stain souse distressing accounts of the ranger cammitted by the bettienne. The plantain walks, la many districts, had tress nesrly all destroyed, and great loss sustained with respect to the entree-km. which, in many instances, were neatly stripped uf their fruit and leaves. The Canes, particularly the yams plants, had also solteteri iroy materially, aril soma properties had their bedding,. tiegro.hoeses, &c. en. lively destroyed, or c,insitierably injured. The places whet' the storm appea.s te hare ra i sed with be moat d,, t y uct i gg were Black Rivet, 811•1111114-1111. Mar, kt.tilego lily, end fort The connoction of Government with Ilse Proprie tor of the Obsrrscr, io the publication of the libel u pon which • Jury has so virtuosos', pr ed their verdict, is readereil manifest by the evialesce given on the trial. All applications which have been made to the Commiiiii..orts of Ftentp.„ for lease to distribute grrato•tvusly en additional sheet of a Neils. paper, in order to afro, d, on some pal titular ovation*, I more ample jam motion to the Politic, base been re f fused—the Commissioners ousting, that they bail no power to dispense with the esimiug law of the land. Bat in the ease of the Observer, a second sheet an. i stamped was given away is prolate notesbers. Ades ! pertains power does types, to be eaerrised seine. • here. The fact is sworn to et the trial. Romany W mecca, s letter.csrtiar at Dolby, " swots that on Monday, the 10th of November, he received a great ; gnantny of the (Mora r Nowarotper : ikro tscre de ' UUCP ed to him by Jiro. FArrar, the wife of the jrnirr ni Derby, who dst.iteti him to U. liver ties glutei. Wm.'', mid she gar him a shilling for so doing."— i• 1 now s COOK, • lettri.eartiar at Leicester. ileiwaed Jape's "ash, that " he also rat -ivy.' a quawity of Ob. ser,•rs- i.e rceeir:eu them at Port Office ~'i(k Ais I iettes 1 : theinVil it iptte•wil. 110 ass desiteti t., de. liter them eratuit.,o.ty, sotl arrotr:.•.ely h o 'IA en: he (PeeilPtitizo t r IL • ee of the i'vrt•Odf.es for his trusil.te. Aunt her 1 , 11•t-c.?“•r (he he. .e) st 1)., hy, acted it, !1i.e.141411111.1', and was 111•61. Isyr tem•neteted." It wokid be Itititog with her toed.rs' ontlerttaotlitte, Nitu this esilletite. to astern: t any other prunt . t libel in fact ti nting from , Government; pet, when the i t •tvao.thle au thor i s prosecuted, 11,111• Of be nor G..veroment have oi.e I word to advisee is tarpon cf iis troth. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thi %vete, took 'he Lloir at Am o'clock .; when forty Members wet. sworn. oneogst Whin. rococoitod Mr. flrnogltm.—Adjourned.