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Z; i► pis life; in his ease the more necessary, because he was labouring I under a disease, which in the course of years would have closed his moral career; but with the most indecent haste he was dragged from his house, and shut up fur many months in a pinee where he I' was exposed to the sun. Ile was afterwards changed to another I place, only fitted for the purpose of greater torture. Ile was ap prised by the officer, under colour that its martial law prevailed he , must become a soldier, and for his refusal to become one he was ' ostensibly arrested. His papers were mized ; his private journal, I Intended for no mortal eye save his own—this ton ane seized ; he as. thrown into a prism, and there kept till the revolt had wholly wthelded. Oovernor Murray writes to the Secretary of state on the 2Gth of August, and on the 30th tuatara were all perfectly I quiet. After the 23d every thing was tranquil; and the Colony, barring the apprehension of a relapse, was in a state of complete repose. Martial law, however, was proclaimed on the 9th of Au- mist, and was continued for five months atter, until the month of Fibril/try. Mr. Smith was confined in an unwholesome dungeon_a WWI of Barret, from August till October, when everything was quiet—when every pretence of danger was at an end—when only the most s ,, mote risks of a relapse could be expected—and yet such was the time when a minister of the (impel was tried by a military court-Martial. Before I look to what was done at this court-mar tial, 'let me entreat the attention of the House to the foundation of, the charge, and its varioes sceompanimente. I ask under what law the I. ourt-martied sat to administer justice ? It is answered that martial law prevailed, tend was to exist till after the Court was dissolved. in this country we have no such thing ; though in , bad times I admit had. Formerly the Crown exercised the power of issuing proclamations endowing military tribunals to try civil per sons, and for civil offences. And it is not a little remarkable, that the nearest precedent on this subject is the proclamation of King Philip and Queen Mary, stating that all persone having Protestant books, and not surrendering thou to the authorities, to be tried as lac rebellion. Similar proclamations WeTo oceesionally issued in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth. James the First, and Charles the ,First. - Bin, out of so unbearable an evil arose that celebrated pe tition of right, which is the best legacy be-gee:ether' to ua hy . Lord Coke, and to whose memory we can never pay sufliciert gratitude. That petition declares that all such proceedings should be prohi bited and put down, and that the old common law rights of all his Majesty's subjects should be restored to them. Since th t period no such thing as martial law has been recognised in Englatui, and Carets of Law have decided in the same manner. In the time of Cairene I. a great witiention trek place, inasmuch at none but military offenders and td' :aces were tried by military tribunals. What have we now. la me ask ? NVe have a standing army, which at the time I am speaking of would be called a solecism in linguist. After that mitigation tame en annual Mutiny Act. This Court Martial could only eit under that, and only soldiers tinder that could be tried for military offences. I shall not go into niceties or distinctions on this subject, because this caw does not I require me to do so; and I only make the olwervaean, in order that persons who speak after me may, If they think proper, advert to that topic. If any one tabs me that upon this there is one law for England and another for one colonies, I must deny it. The Crown, in the exercise of the Royal prerogative, has no right of importing the vices of other ronstitutions into its colonies ; for if the Crown had the right, only see to what it must eventually lead. The Crown might go from Atrica to some attic savage Wends in the Pacific, rind r.ding there perhaps that the mon-yards of the great were pared with human heads—that skulls were used for bowls - that tomahawks, were more sacred as they were the instruments of greater cruelty— the Crown might naturalize all these pruners into one of our colo nies ; but would any man say the Crown had any such right ? It would be monstrous to think of it for a moment. Nothing m any to the rights of a British subject could or ought lobe imported into any colony obtained by foreign conquest This Cana, how. ever. sat as a military Court-Martial, and the Covernor and the members composing it were altogether estoppel front pleading that they acted under the Dutch law, whether they knew it or not, for tney frequent'? referred to our Mutiny Act. Mr. Smith, then, was toed by a military Court-Martial, and he was told by Governor Murray, " all the better," as there was less chance of prejudice operating on the members of the Court. Now this I deny; I say it would have been " all the better" for Mr. Smith to have been tried before a Civil Court. and according to the forms regulating such trials. In the first place, Mr. Smith would have had delay, which in a case like his would have been of inestimable advantage ; for I understand, according to the proceedings under the Roman law pre. sailing at Demerara, that they are very complicated. that months must elapse before any decision amid take place, and that at every step the accused has a chance of escape. All this, however, life. Smith was forced to abandon, and be was subjected to trial by a military court martial. Upon the subject of the admissibility of receiving evidence from negroes, quasi negroes, or slaves, I place little reliance, because I understand it to be admissible at Deme rara, though not ordinarily tendered or used. To Mr. Smith it seck peculiarly expedient to tender such evidence, as I am given to understand, that before their public examination in Court the ne gmes or slaves undergo a previous examination, alter which it is decided whether their evidence at the trial shall be received or not. However, I pass over this, as there may be some doubt altont it; I rely for my net on the strongest and most undeniable testimony. By the civil law two witnesses would have been necessary to esta. bath melt 'specific charge; and any man looking at the evidence 'Maw are what the evidence is ore which Mr. Smith was pronounced guilty. But, last of MI, seethe advantage of being teed by the coMmon law, where he would have a learned person to try him—. a Chief Justice, acting in the face of the BM of that enfeny—aye, , sad (edam Bar to which he belonged—to which he might return ; and to whose judgment, if he had the common nature of a man, he must look as deeding upon his conduct. The Judge would act In the fleet of the world—he alone ruling what evidence he would re ceire. and he alone responsible, in his professional character, fur hia judgment. Before such a tribunal the chances were that justice would be done. Now let us look to the tribunal before Which Mr. Smith was tried? I find that the Chief Justice, under the name of a Lieut.-Col.—that he was nettle an officer of militia a day or two before the court-martial, to enables cleft law Judge to sit as a mi.' litany oilieer ; and no doubt he must hive been placedin that litmus tier fly compulsion. Martial-law being established, the Chief Justirelesas bound to hide his civic robes under the military armour of that day, to set as the Ald-de-Camp of the O overnor, in order ' to exercise the mixed jurisdiction of lawyer and soldier, and to allow every breach of law, which lie did not, because I suppose he could not prevent. After this mockery as to the constitution of the Court by which Mr. Smith was tried, I come to notice the conduct of the Judge-Advocate, who was never allowed to forget that he stood between the Court and the prisoner, for, in fact, though nominally the prosecutor, he was in this case rather the aggressor than the prosecutor. I might on this subject appeal to you, Sir, who have for years filled this situation with sa mach credit to yourself end humanity to the army ; but I shall waive that, for I can appeal to the authority of a Revetend Judge, whes wrote about the middle of the last century, and who said, that whenever there was a doubtful point, they should incline to the side of the prisoner. This, however, was not found in the' Judge Advocate at the trial of .Mr. Smith. Two assistants were appointed to him, and urged every topic with a degree of vehemence and mus(sjrneaa, sach as I never yet saw attempted. The Judge Advocate concealed the charge, which was so drawn up SS to give no specific points which Mr. Smith could meet. It was shortly, vrigubly, and obscurely drawn ; but not so much so, no, not by one half, as the opening speech of the prosecutor, tehich occupies about half a page of these minutes, while his reply occupies 18 closely. printed pages, after the mouth of Mr. Smith had been tied up and closed. 'The n was fully let loose all the subtlety and vehemence and unfairness ; then topic alter topic was twisted against the mo. toes of the accused; then new facts were stated, never hinted at oc alluded to during the whole of the al preceding days. Am I then not right in saving that it would have been all the better for ' ' Mr. Smith to be tried by a Civil Law Court ? As to the members who formed the Court Martial, I am inclined to say little, but I am glad that one individual refused to be present, though entitled to 4se so by his rank. I shall my nothing of the offic er s of the West India regiments. (Colonel laevies here suggested to the Hon. Iffenther that they were in the British service. t My Gallant Friend ingests to me tha t the officers of the Nest India regiments are in the British service. No matter; be that as it may, I SWUM help thinking that officers reading in the West led.es must, like ()theca having properties thee •• be under some degree of alarm; and of them I shall sty nothing. But why, I ask, was Mr. Goodman appointed the President of the Court ? Mr. (Madman, besides his military situation, held another office, which gave him a direct interest in the sale of slaves by auction. Ordy three days b:.ore a large sale of nemeses took place, an event elating* great degree of sorrow in the breasts of those unhappy penmen, wl were torn from their families and connections, from the plates of their birth and reside n ce: 08 of those unhappy nee. mow were sold. and every adeerneeemest of such wiles here the name of S. K. Gunanian at tire bottom of it. I hold in my hand a number of 'etch advertisements—where mothers with their children and unmarried women, and old and ymng men are advertised for We in tots (tor I must speak of them in that ways), and in all these' rates Mr. Goodman hae • three; itemise Ido not mean to any that he was warped from the discharge of his duty on the court AUSZLiSi by any emesideration of this nature; lie had however an in terest.: In continuing these abuse'. which tike place in all transfers °idioms, and I think he was the very last nein who should have been the President of the Court. The t Justice was also a member of shit Court, the only ietlis Wee' to whom Mr. Smith' ca Id appeal for redress if wronged sby die court-martial. To whom but to Mr. Wray could Mr. Smith appeal, and yet Air. Wray was prevailed upon or compelled to he a member of a mill. tarp eosin inertial. Now one word more as to the jurisdic tion of the Court. Suppose I admit that in a case of preseure— of tionstened invasion or telieliten—where there is no tune to wait for the slow and cuinlemns operation of the civil law—sup pose i Oath, after prnelaniatien is issued, that a military court woutial may try military torn fur military offences, then the justifi es:lm tor such a tribunal is in the necessity ; and the moment the menseity ceases, the right of the subject demands that such a mis. ehief should be put an end to. It was a "Oleic:it calamity that the operation of the civil law was stopped during an emergency; but beyond that no man would atll not that it should be continued. Martial dew was continual Per live month", though the revolt was quelled in three days, so that the was perpetuated which coutd only be ,jiteutied during the existence of an overbearing tenacity. Mr. Snitch was tried as a soldier, and I put it &hie way, that martial law bring proclaimed, every man was considered a eeddier ; butt the very imitate the necessity for his bring a enklier enamel, le (mimed the rights of a common citizen. The Estes was placed in • dilemma, fur it either sat as a military tribunal daring a pressing necessity, or as nun not in such a sites von. Now here it is clear that no necessity existed. The 'reclamation declaring martial law should hum b. en revoked ekes the exurity of the colony was establisherl ; but the plain Mot is, that martial law was contit ued to the conclusion of the Pia, for no ether purpose than so jellify, or either legalize, their proceedings. Now let us look to the course of the procrea tors, which f can shew to be of each a kind, CS not to be justified ell any principle of law, even if there were no objection to the juease . liaise of the Court. Item I beg leave to observe, that the minutes Wire the House do not pertain a full account of the proceeding.. (Ilea, bear.) I do not say that they misrepresent, but they do not tell all that occurred, and I say that the omissions are vary materiel. Among the questions suppressed, are questions called by the lawyers leading questions, which are considered more in the shape of suggestions thrown out to the witness, than as his answers— they lead him to the answers. The report before the Ileum., and Ithat which I hold in my hand, are different ; for I find in various place, that questions evidently pm to the witnesses. are given, not I m questions, but as if they bad been their answers, The whole proceedings, particularly th to the reception of the evidence, are highly irregular. I allude now more particularly to the receiving hearsay evidence. All such evidence has long been rejected in all one tribunals, civil and military ; but on the trial of Mr. Smith, I the Court heard hearsay evidence, three or four deep. Some of the I questions were, not as to what the witnesses saw or heard them ! selves ; and several of the answers were, I heard such a one tell such • one, that such a one had said or done so and so. In the evidence that was sub.nitted on every point of the charges. hearsay evidence was admitted in support of the prosecution, al. though such evidence was carefully excluded in every part of the ' defenee.• In the minutes constantly were to be found such ques tions as—" lion do you know ?" To which the answer was— " Because I heard so." (Hear, hear.) One person heard it from anodic:, who heard it floe is third and a fourth, but in all the im portant parts of the accusation. such testimony was alone advanced Ito substantiate the charge against him. I would beg leave next to o refer to the evidence that had been given on the trial respecting (euemina, in order to chew that in almost all instances hearsay evi dence was resorted to. and that this person, who stood so heavily charged with the revolt, was in truth active in suppressing it. The evideece I here allude to is that of Mr. Stuart, who, in the course of his examination, was asked by the Court, " Who were the most active of the insurgents on Plantation Success ?—Richard was the most desperate character I have seen there. Befry was very active. Jessamin, and all those who have been tried, except Quamina and Jack, whom I did not see do any harm ; they were keeping the rest back, and preventing them from doing me any injury. —Was not Quamina a reputed leader in the revolt ? I heard he was such, but I did not see it.'' Nor was reputation at first hand alone re. quiehe ; imputation and distant insinuation at a fourth or fifth were admissible, and gladly accepted. And even when this failed, the I witnesses were examined as to their belief. fancy, anything that ' could support the mint remote suspicion. These instances oecurreol frequently on the direct examination, but they were found stet 1 , more frequently resorted to on the cross-examination. The eve ' ' dean so far might perhaps be supposed to derive a tinge from the , opinions of the prisoner, as some of the witnesses might be sup posed to be under the influence of his doctrines, The Rey. Mr. Atrain, however, to whose evidence I shall now refer, could not he I supposed to Sc lender such influence, as he was a clergyman of the Established Church. On being called on for his evidence, he ob. jected to be examined, on the ground that he was • member of a I Board of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the causes a ril circum stances of the revolt, and was consequently unwilling there to de- pose on facts which may have Leen impressed upon his mind by the statement. he may have heard before another tribunal. This ob jection, however, was metalled, and he was told by the Lord Chief Justice the next day that tee Court had decided that he should give evidence before it. and that he should not only give his personal tea. timony, but also supply such information as he taut have arrived at in his capacity an a Member of the Board of Inqutry." On bein;; asked, " Have you conversed with any of the negrnea during tee re volt, with referencie to it, tip to the present time ?" His answer was, " Yes, I have. Did any of these neeroes ever inaidiate that their misfortunes were occasioned by the prat:ma's influence over them, or the doctrines tatieht them ?—I base been sitting for same time as a Member of the Board of Inquiry ; the idea occurs to me, that eircumatances have been detailed there !igaieet the prisoner ' but. *never to myna(' individually, in my ministerial capacity." This again was chaneterktie of the nature of the evidence by which this unfortunate gentleman was "mailed. And here let me remark on the injustice that was done him, by the very composition of the jurisdiction before which he wee arraigned. Not that it can be int. puted as • blame to the prisoner to have objected to that jurische lion, for he had roe the benefit of counsel; he was trepanned to plead before it, and thereby acknowledged it at least tempanrily. But had I been his counsel, or had he had the benefit of advice, would I not have objected to so monstrous a proceeding ? Would I not have challenged the legality and justice of a jurisdiction Com posed of persons before whom twenty.fire or thirty persons had been before tried, on thin very transactions of which the prisoner stood acensed ? Aconlil I not have protestal against proceedings, where the prisoner was called upon to reply to charges, the nature and extent of which, the very moment that he heard than. that moment was he called upon to reply to them and vindicate hie in . nocence ?—(hear, hear) --charges too sustained only by vague hearsay rumour, or by extorted confessions; and in referring to , the fact of these confessions being extorted, I will call the atten. , tion of the House, in the first instance, to the deposition of the negro Paris, and to the after-contradiction of that deposition, when , the object for which it was made proved fruitless and unavailing. ' This negro was himself convicted of crimes punishable by death fort the pert he had acted in the revolt, and thonght he could have re-', course to no better way of saving himself than by impeaching Mr. Smith. It was worthy of remark, that although he had so impeach ed him, yet that the story be told was so improbable—the tales he invented were so ntterly wild and impossible, that the tribunal that tried hint did root even venture to allude to than. A =angst many other very improbable things that this man told, he said. that on the morn. ing of the day precding the revolt, Mr. Smith took them out ; that . he gave them the sacrament. partook of it himself; exhorted them to be of good heart, and not to fear, for that they ought to be free. , (Hear, hear.) He also stated, that Mr. Smith then asked, if they took the country if they would do him any harm ? To which they replied they would not. Yet, in another part he states that 3'r. Smith, in the event of the success of the insurrection, was to be . made Emperor, and Mr. Hamilton, the manager of an estate in , the island, was to be made General. Here then was Mr. Smith at one moment renrescnted as supplicating for safety, and at , another as the ringleader of the revolt, with the promise of being male emperor as his share in the spoils of success: so that if the general character of his testimony was not such as to render it in r credible here, it was destroyed by a species of felo-tfe-re in the 'absurd and contradictory statements it contained. The tales of Sandy the other negro, who had been an acconiplice, were equally incredible, and they were so proved by the acknowledgment that he made previous to the execution of the modem of per , snood safety that prompted him to make them ; and asstill stronger proof of this impossibility of their truth, it would he found in not slating to bring them forward, and in the silence in which it had been sought to cover them, and bury them beneath the earth under which they had laid him and his accomplice% (Hear, hear.) But although in the printed trial these depositions were not adverted to, yet am I furnished with extracts from them. On the 13th of :dim& a letter was written by a person resident in the Island, and although I do not here mention his name, yet he referred with con ' fidence to a gentleman (31r. Austen) who would be ready to super ', add his testimony in support of the accuracy of the statement it , contained. Mr. Austen was not a Methodist, nor a Sectary, and : therefore may be presumed to be free front those prejudices or partialities which such a person might be supposed to have . Imbibed. He was a Minister of the Protestant church, Chaplain to the Government at George's Town, Hemmen, and Curate of a congregation, consisting of 77,000 natives and three or four thousand Englishmen. This. I am desirous of stating, with t a view of removing any prejadice that may remain on the subject of Missionaries, by whom alone, after all, if these persons are to be taught, they must be instructed. This letter, , which was dated the 13th of March, detailed the circumstances which took place at the execution of these men—set forth the motives that prompted them to make the accusation they did against Mr. Smith. and stated they retracted the testimony they had given against him. and were induced to give that testimony in consequence of a promise held out to them, that in consideration of it their lives would be spared to them. And this declaration they made on the New Testament, and at a time when there could be no interest in concealing: it was made, too, before Mr. Austen and many other trustworthy persons, who would be ready to sustain it in evidence. And it would further appear that Mr. Smith was marked out for a victim, for in the instructions given to one of :hese unfortunate men, they were directed to say nothi ng against Jack, for that they might save him too. Oa the trial of .lack, after he had been convicted, he admltsed that he knew nothing of Mr. Smith being engaged in the revolt, but what he had heard from others, and that the revolt arose from a feeling that prevailed, that they (the negroes) were equally en titled to freedom with their masters. At the close of the trial he threw himself on the mercy of the Court, admitted his guilt; and expressed gratitude for the humane treatment he had met with. This was the genuine language of the prisoner, and the proper course pointed out to him, by his Counsel, to pursue. But a gentleman who was particularly active in these proceedings, whose name r will not mention, but whoa inserfermos, I will say, does him very little credit, recommended that there should be added, that the negroes were iostigated to insurrection by many . parts of the Scriptures that were read to them ; and further stated, there would be no revolt if no Methodist had come among them. (Hear, hear). Now, really this was strange language furs savage to make use of. (Hear, hear.) What an insight he must have had irto the causes that created riot and rebellion amongst a people, and how his savage soul must have expanded to qualify him to be a tutor and instructor on such subjects. It was truly an • admirable specimen of the good effects of prison discipline. (('beers and laughter.) From utter ignorance he eudderly is ena bled to embrace the most enlarged philosophical and general views. I bonder he did net add, or wes not mottle to add, that it was very improper to taste of knowledge, unless one drank deeply of its fountain, and that the well-known adage was not introduced, that . a little learning was a dangerous thing." (Applause, and loud laughter). It was to be wondered at how all these new lights of science suddenly opened on the mind of the unenlightened negro. Nevertheless, these Missionaries were taxed with rearing certain pieware of Scripture, and nice distinctions were taken as to the half constructions given to them, and the dangerous objects to which these texts were made applicable. After commenting on the impropriety and unfairness of putting such sentiments into the mind of the prisoner, the lion. Member proceeded to advert to the treatment of the Court towards Mr. Smith on his defence. Although hearsay evidence had been admitted soil courted on the part of the prosecution. yet when the period for the prisoner entering on his defence arrived, he was informed by the Court and the Judge-Ad vocate that there would he a cessation (he meant only a temporary one) of hearsay evidence in future (bear, hear); and nothing nutlet be admitted in evidence that was not warranted by the strict rules of evidence. This was lino shown in the examination of the Rev Mr. Elliot. The question that was put on the part of Mr. Smith was certainly an illegal one, but it was not in any degree ap preaching the illegality of ninny, and almost all the questions and answers that were proposed and admitted on the part of the prose agent. Nor was the roojection of illegal questions alone adopted. Every question was refused by the I 'ourt that could tend even by construction to vindicate the prisoner's innocence; and the House would thus see in the ^conduct of the Court and the Judge-Advocate that every thing that was irregular in law, that was grievous in the infliction of wrong, and that was gross and oppressive in injustice, was resorted to and sought after, et a third and a fourth hand hear liaT ?Mutat/mit to clime down this unfortunate primmer, and Mark him out fora victim. (Cheers) All the decorumsef j ustice were abandoned in his ree v e'. A f t er a ll the irregularities of law were exhausted against him, he was denied the right even of adducing evidence on parts that contained the very marrow and essence of the charges of which he atop! acct l• The principal charge against him WWI that of not communicating to the Government the knowledge he was supp ose d to p osses s of an approaching instirree. lion in the island ; yet upon this point was he not permuted to give fair evidence, with which he was prepared toprove his ignorance of such an intended event. This it was that completed the oppres sions that had been ieflicted neon him. Yet (and the House should hear this well in mind) on tile cromnexamination of the prisoner's witnesses hearsay evidence was re-admitted, and on the very day following that on which the strict rules of evidence were en strongly enforced in regard of the prisoner, the Court itself pet Etch a quoit inn an this, " Were you told that plenty of people were there that day ?" meaning the day preceding the revolt. Con verogiens with the wife in the absence of the huebend were referred to; and no insinuation was too vague or remote to he deemed mad mineable against him ; whilst the questions that hemit, and a% anxious to press, were rejected, although the fact o f the i r haying been pass and Tejected wan not to be found in the report of the trial, garbkd by authority, which was now in the puss es aton of the House. Some of them were rejected. because they were not tip proved of by the prosecutor; some, because it was alleged that they related to dangerous things; sonic twin, because they contained too strong a sentiment, or did not agree with the sentiments of those who tried him ; in short, there was ere pretence left untried tostifte and suppress the fair investigation of the use of this unfortunate man. Amongst other charges, vaguely preferred against him, was that of not adverting, in his lectures to his congregation, sufficiently often to the New Testament, but in selectiag his leatione from the Old Testament. In adverting to this chair. and not thrush fissional pedantry, but with a view of expinining and ellietalattng his conduct in that respect, he was interrupted and prevented from citing passages of Scripture before the Court, and was gravely told by the highest autieiritt , that it was unnecessary for him to cite the Scriptures, as eve-v member of that Court was supposed to be eufficieutly acquainted with them. (Laid laughter.) He would that their conduct in this event proved the supposi tion true. (Bear, hear.) The teat which it had lees said he selected for promoting the poplar attributed to him, was, " And when he was ewe near he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, it' thou hadet known—even thou, at least, in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes." What ran the evidence of Mr. Austen with regard to these texts ? It was thin." Will you have the good + ness to look st the 41st and SM egress of the 19:h chapter of Luke, and say whether you consider that an improper text for a sermon ? I (Onside? it one of the moat beautiful texts in Scrip ture.—!lave you ever taken these two verses, and preached from them as a text? I am sorry to say I have not.—ls not the text very often preached from ? 1 believe so. The passage is very frequently introduced in sermons, and I believe I have introduced them myself."—Thin was the testimeny of Alr. Austen himeelf,l a Minister of the Established Church of this country; and if I he was desirous of promoting the purposes of sedition attributed to him, were these the presages he would hare selected ? It was not a title remarkable that, on the very evening of the day on which Mr. Smith preached on the foregoing text, Mr. Austin read, as he was obliged to read by the Uniformity Act, a lesson for evening 'mica, in which was to be found the following passage from Ezekkl :—" Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the stair of the bread thereof and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and boast from it. Thotigh these three men were in it, ns I live, with the hoed, they shall deliver neither eons nor daughters ; they only shall be delivered, but the land shell be desolate." It Was not a little singular that at this time the number here men tioned in the text corvemponded ter-the number of ministers then there--the Reverend Mr. Austen% Mr. Rae, and the unfortunate Mr. Smith. It remains to speak of the charges preferred against Mr. Smith : they are four in nuankss; their substance is already before the Ileum. Of these, one of the charges is properly divis ible under two heads—the aetret promntion of previous discontent. and instigation of the people to revolt. To this is appended another, which is consequence of it, if the first be sustained, that he did not communicate the existence of that discontent to Govern ment. Three things were necessary to support this charge—the revolt, his knowledge of that revolt, and his conemlment alter he' had arrived at the knowledge of it. Of the two latter propositions no proof was to be found ; and whatever positive evidence appeared I went rather to spew that he endeavoured to dissuade them from, than instigate them to, rebellion. The Honourable and !.earned' Gentleman here again adverted to the proclamation of martial law, and complained of the illegality of trying 31r. Smith under that law, although the acts he stood charged with were said to be corn- I matted, some of them two, and others six days before the procla li - mation. He had been accused of pot seizing Qearnina in his house the day before the revolt. But what was his answer? It was • natural one—" Look at this worn-out frame—look at these whithered hands and feeble person. and say, could I succeed in Pelting a negro in the prime of life and fullness of youthlial vigour ?" Then comes that Court. and, with its headlong proceeding, it de termine to put down this poor missionary, and to chew to Niue missionaries the dangers attendantb,oo the lintrucion of African slaves; and is the absence of pesalee for pmesehing the Word of (lath, did this Court con eign - him to he hanged by the neck uotil his body was dead. (Hear, hear, hear.) At about six o'clock on Monday evening—rumours might have been previously afloat—the missionary discovered the extent of the revolt. There had on that, as on former nights, been a coming backward and forwa.-d of the negross, for the purpose of ascertaining what lead LOAM out for them from England—to investigate the truth of a report, which, as I have already stated, reached them, that the King of Great Britain was their friend, and that the Parliament of this country MO given them freedom. This report lied been circulated from quarters that must have entitled it to the be,lief of the 'tepees. One of the Go vernor's own slaves reported, that he heard it spoken of at his mu ter's table. Another slaveof Bret Capt. 31acturk, one of the greatest enemies of the prisoner, had corroborated tl.is statemeat. They had also received the same information from a kept woman (so she was mosteorrectly described), the lawn]] property of the Governor. They hod anxiously enough been engaged in investigating the truth of them reports, but any thing more than suspicion that that should happen which Mr. Smith held neat to impossible, and almost raculout that it had not happened before, never passed across his mind; and he would have barn greatly to blame had he given way to the . promulgation of vague suggestions, and not contented him pelf with waiting for and then making known the actual existence of this rebellion. (Hear, hear.) But on that evening, half an hour before the commencement of the revolt, he did make that ecotone'. mention, and for that half hour only could he have been guilty of misprision—but it is new to me—l have not yet heard it stated it is true I am illiterate in all the anomalous proceeding of this dispassionate trial,—but I think misprision no capital offence (cheers), and had Mr. Smith been tried here at bar before four of the most reverend Judges in the land, after that trial, which would have been conducted with decency, with calmness, with the impartial watehfulnest of the Judges, and with their attention fixed just as anxiously on the interests of the prisoner, nay, much more atteu tively, I should have said, had bethen been convicted of concealing the levying war against the King and his Parliament, the utmost possible visitation of the law could not amount to a capital offence; and yet these people, anxious to crash this missionary, but vacil lating between their narrow policy and their prudent fears, dared not send him to execution. 'Pun they recollected for the first dine a precept in that Gospel to which Mr. Smith, in his defence, re ferred, and with which they professed so intimate an acquaintance, that they deemed these allusions or the missionary not merely un necessary, but impertinent: then, however, they remembered that he that sheds man's :loud by man shall his blood be shed (cheers); for if that sentence had been carried into execution—if they had dared to lift their hands against his life, those hands would have been stained with murder, and they who perpetrated 'taunter must have died the death of murderers. (Ilen, hear, hear.) I have now alluded to this transaction in nearly all its bearings ; I have referred to, and I hope esteblished, that in hitiyient_ idle ality, in injustice in the manner in which it was accomplished, this trio: is flutelike:e a -I trust inimitable ; but I own that all funnel aggro. rations fade and come to nothing when I consider that most re markable of all peculiarities in this very singular proceed ieg—the recommendation of Mr. Smith to mercy. (Cheers.) If lie WAS a guilty man, as they pretend, why this recomniendation ? What Was the guilt of the half-instructed nesroes compared with his guilt ? t Hear.) He who, as they say, had deliberately, I say, if at all, insanely, excited their ignorant minds to rebellion, and who caused the shedding of so much blood, and yet he was the only person recommended to mercy. ((sheers.) I have said a word as to the other sufferers; though many have paid the for feitura. their crimes remain still in doubt. I would fain hope that all the other sateen obtained it fair and impartial trial. I trust it may be found that greater strictness prevailed in these trials than in that to which I have adverted, which was little more than an arena for the display of political and religious feelings-if mil/ions they can be termed, which would zealously destroy the miosionary, and banish instruction fruits those dark and benighted regions. (Hears. These are nay sincere hopes.l While, however, I own that the pursing necessity of usuig the strong hand, and striking an example at all attempts at issithortli. nation, it is still to be hoped that no more blood was shed titan the absolute necessity of deterring by example required. How many have fallen lt Three 'shim lives were lust. Ido not trientitm this to undervalue the danger ; I only allude to this circumstance furl the lake of contrasting this revolt with former rebellions, and thus : vindicating the teaching of the Missionaries ftoin that which had most unjustly been ascribed to it_-the causing of this revolt. Upon this subject I am not relying upon my own oloir.ion. I I speak on the authority of Mr. Austen, a chaplain of the Este- blialted Church, and his letter states, " I feel no hesitation in de claring, from an intimate knowledge of r.ll the circumstances, that nothing but those religion* itnpressions which, under ?residence, the preaching of Mr. Smith bad effected, stopped the dreadful ef fusion of blood, and staved the live of those persons who are now seeking his." (Cheers.) Mr. Austen further stated, that the wishes of the megrims were confined to what they termed driving (but not in a sense by which personal violence was implied) the planters into the town. Their lives, said the negroes, we will not take, for we cannot give life, and we have been told that it is not right to take away that which we cannot give." (Cheers.) These were their words, and while I admit that this unlawful combination was an set of such impropriety that it was most fitting at once to check it, still there could be no doubt that an cstiision of blood, certainly not justified by apparent circumstances, hutt followed this revolt. When it was considered that two hundred persons hail fallen in the field, that twenty were subsequently shot, it must be ackr.owledged that the example was tolerably striking. Then came the trials, and up to September there were Si trials; a very eonsi. derabie number were hanged, but others were punished, and with unexampled severity. One dam was sentenced to 1.000 lashes and one year's imprisonment 1 a second to receive 909 lashes and eight months' imprisonment; and a third to receive $OO lashes. The first man received the extent of his sentence as fir an the flogging • was concerned ; the second received but 0110, and the third MO lashes. (Hear.) Now, 1 mutt be permitted to Nay, ( h et in then (Mr. W. if would ask, Was it necessary for a mission -e-, t o cases there appears to me to hate been agood deal of ill-judged act ea Mr. Smith had done, to avoid aski ng any nuestions in"s•iter and unnecessary seventy, and that this severity, was colculated dist he might deprive himself of all responsibility ? If so, i es rather to angment than to diminish the g eneral intecurity. But thought the fact would do more injury to th e mi.sionary what war all this intrude! entopared with that likely to grow out cause than any thing else could possibly d o . Ai r . Smi th hail Mtn of the policy of tit ' Governor. who, on the very find interview i stated in the later that " the proceedings were quite crusty L i with Mr. Smith, told him to beware of reading the Bible to the t the religion lie professed, and that he hoped those to whom he mine negrnet, to he rnotinot how he presumed to inttruct them, since the , souls" have reselling to fin with them." But this he conic t t ei moment lee discovered such teaching. he would tend him off the I toped that 31r. Smith must have known somet hi ng eonenija g Ostend. (Chews.) When I find such doctrine as this , which nrigi- , measures of a revolutionary nature; and proves that a t t h e penal noted not in an Innglith but in a French Wald. which prevailed in I he wit ocimainteti with the movements which would eventieb e 'St. Domingo it-mimed, to the unspeakable calls:oleic+ that MO I , lent to insurrection; yet he kept this knowled g e t o himself, alit 'that c 'lone—when I have that doctrine derived from more of the 1 this placed himself in a erinfir,al Aituntion. If the House did sot shiest colonial writers of the French school, who dtoon need with I think, lifter all the proofs which had been adduced, that Mr. Smi t h considerable eloquence upon the propriety of keeping the torte in 1 bud aoy intercourse with the parties concerned in the insurrection, ignorance iii that colony, upon the absolute necessity of preventing i then they moat conceive the prise vt:ings of the courtonarthe were them from singing psalms, anal who proceeds in this way:—o• No I no justified; but it %vele be the cuotrary if it were proem teat longer are such things permitted here : we never allow two slaves to lit had been prepared, by habits and feelings of enthutiasin, t o separate front the gang' (a eireumlocsitioy phrase for ma-riage), : act ..; it was awned he hail done. He (Mr.W. Horton) knew but we permit them to be baptised twice or three time:" joist as I that enthusiasmoften proceed:it from good motives, but it w as on l y they would inoculate them twice or thrice to make sure of contagion, net-o'er, to look to the as. and to ask, was Mr. Smi t h coro net • provided they paid for it (a laugh) ; and so I float one of our own I of the intent of those who planned the insuereetino, and, bein g en Hon. e ('d r,ll', e ;n i t. V (.3111,i.tet ranuon, o wn am aLt i at which t n the owt, minister., imitating with mom suspicious accuracy, the doctrine of did he neglect to give notice of it the proper authorities ? refit i t the Fetich economist, exclaiming against the obvious imleconey of I route' he proved that the irstierection ntight have been motored I calling their naves `• brothers." and asking where but io larthel , Ist• the interference of Mr. S olio, he naturally heroines more el m Chapel could tocii appellation , be heard, addressed to such Mt wa r a. I responsible t .er ,,, , i ltatore4t.it i h ts e , ii I So then our tticklert for the F. tablialted Church can find no such I Pennon re phrase as " dearly beloved brethren," except in a ditooting i that a number of blades were terse'!, although scarcely any pr o . chapel. This one eircuniatanee clearly shows how constant in at- i perry was destroyed, and no live of the white voluntarily sarrinetti, tendency, at his own church. was this redoubtable champion or I ()n the latter topic lie would refer to the erunination °CM o. W o o Plotestentism as it Is found in the Estaislished Church. Well. I deem, p. 22. of No.:. She gate. that on the Ist day ot Omen s . but this writer seems to imagine that a necessity 'should be imposed i her, 1823. time heard the moon of guns, and the noise of per o y o on all missionaries coming there to declare their plans. and they i breaking into the hove. Ile was anxinue tri notice her conduct on should not be permitted to enlighten the slaves until it was clearly I this occasion. because he did not think that history furnished a I shown that by such inntrnction no encroachment would be male:Hl ! more hitt-teeing or heroic anertlote than that of this woman. Sh e their privileges. How little do these people know of " the drier. ! snid that the looked nut of the window and taw the slaves who end 'pertaining to their IMAM." They, no doubt, thought it crough :collected round the home. They r . litteeet to her , and rid, •• L e o to endure the perils of an inauspicious climate. WO it not' at that woman ; let us flee at he , . They did fire, and sounded enough, they exclaimed, to die cut oft from all alliance ' liar twice. She then 'Menem/red to go down, but a gave. her so. with their f riends by the intervening ocean, but most we in ; 'Alf, era: her and booted her not to do so, saying, ' They ki t • addition to ell these trials have white men to contend with. I wounded Mr. Forbes. killed %Ir. Tucktr, and. I believe, m ma- I who, joorneying from the peaceful Ebro to the fierier , tee also. whom I saw dragged along the ground." He (3h. %in Corytantio. wield against us all the relit:ion of the Oid World, I Horton : would ask of those who AO imich pitied Mr. Smith, if as well as all the paganism of the New ? (Hear, hear.) This was I there were not tome pity also to be felt for those unfortunate vie. the feeling they entertained, but in this they were ignorant of ° the 1 time ? The slaves then entered. and presenting mama poach a things pertaining to their peace." I therefore call upon Palls- her, said they difi not mean to kill her, but they wanted to have mint to save them from the coonequences of their own ignorance: I powder. She asked them what they had done with her hatband, mill upon them first for the take of the slaves to whom we owe a I and a person front the crowd said the: 31r. Waldren was not hurt debt of irratitudr—teratittedf• for the ill-treatment we to long 1 They gave low leave to em, anti she taw Mr. Tucker's dead body hare inflicted on then-but 1 ask it too on the part of the I lying on the floor, and it had been rifled of every chips; sh e West indiaes themselves, whose fate is loaded ten thousand I thought she would take advantage of the oppoetunstr, and spot li t fold, and approaches fasts- than tate itself. I deem this 'to their feelings of religion, in hope o that they might operate on question interesting in itself--I deem it more important fmm them. They %aid they hail rot killed Mr. Tticker. but that he had the state of aoelov to which it refers. I meatier it due to cut his throat, wines a man from the crowd showed the Art weirs 1 the eiaracter of this House. and consistent with its former which had caused he death. They Com raid that they bad been pre. I nmeeedings—it is a duty it owes to the subject of this country. vented from receiving '.reir freedom which had been sent out tether. 1 however distant his settientent—to express its decisive, if it wee: Ile (Mr. W. thereat%) would say, that this 'attest eire aresonee possible unanimous, disapproval of the whole of these proceedings. could rot be referred to any general principle, but to tare local (Cheers.) I more you. Sir—(Hear, hear)—" That an humble cause. They then took her to the room where Mr. Forbes lay, Adders be Presented to his Majesty, stating, that this Ileuse hay- who bad been severely wounded, and was in great agony. He said ing examined the papers laid before them relative to the trial of to her. .s I with Wilberforce was here now to look at m o o H e Mr. Smith, the missionary, they deem it their duty to declare, that (Mr. W. Horton) quoted this CXXC44O7I merely to row the effect they have seen in that proceeding, with the deepest sorrow, a vim- that agony had made upon hi, mind. He had already said, that if !anon of law and Justice; and they most earnestly pray that his enthustium were not remota!, it would lead to the most ruinous 3lajesty will be pleased to adopt such meant as shall prevent the ceonsequences. and that there woul.l be a prospect of nothing else; repetition of such injostice." but he would exclaim against the ides that lel gone through the 3lr. W11.310T !HORTON observe!. that the details into country, that toxemic the fate of Mr. Smith hol been seeh as it which the Urn. and learned Gentleman had entered, made it ne was, other niamionaries wereto anticipate similar arcumstancts, cessary for him. in the Seat instance, to solicit a larger portion of He knew that it was impossible to conceive any instructions to be the attention of the House, than, under other circumstance+, he better than those which were given by the Altimeter Society, but should feel himself justified in requirleg. The papers to 'Mich he must protest wrest the feelings which held up Mr. Smith as a the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had referren proceeded from the person not only pure in motive, but temperate anti cautious in ac. Colonial Offiee. The Hon. and loomed Gentleman commenced tion. He would not say that Mr. Smith wis necessarily obliged to his speech by Alluding to the interests inseparably interwoven with go and criminate those whose pastor and whose friend he was, but I the Lase then before the House, and he had attributed a considerable he would contend that he was Wood to go and state to the audio. share of that interest to the Methodists. put the proceeding of cities that the slaves moldered them selves aggrieved, and to state which the Him. Gentleman complained was not levelled against the the none mity for Oaving the police out. sod to be upon their guard Methodists, nor against the Missionary Society generolly ; for had against what might happen. Vet Mr. Smith did nothing of all the. Mr. Smith followed the advice given by the Society, lie would not Other lives were lost dories* the revolt; and to what, he would ask, have fallen into those error of enthusiasm—not to call them by a wan it owing that the victims ores not more numerous, that the in i harsher name—into which he had most certainly been betrayed. eurrection slid not more widely s pread ? To what but the exertion s I The lion. Member stated, that the feeling in this House on the of those very o ffice rs who had been held up . as horrible, cruel, and in. I resent question bore but a small proportion to that excited out of human persons. With respect to the eiminelity Of Mr. Smith, it it. lie well knew what means had been taken to excite that feelir.g; rested between his Creator and himself, and it might remain so to and on a former night, when a petition was tormented by the lieu. the end of the woad, but ahe had all the attributes of guilt there 1 Member for Knarehorough (Sir J. Mackintosh) on the subject, full was no reason against treating him as guilty. No one contended that I nfmisstatements, he said, that when the proper time came le would there was the same Marty required in Como Martial as in common point nut the inaccuracies, and he should do so before he concluded. law. He :Mr. W. Horton) had stated, that before he Mt down he The Honourable and Learned Gentleman hail descanted upon the smut! Mier a few commentt on the petition which had been pre. duties of a Missionary; but were times and circumstances to aented by the Honourable Gentleman, and lie hoped he should make no alteration en the conduct of a preacher ? Let them not trepan to the attention of the Howie he so doing. The peti. consider where nir. Smith wan. He landed on ID island where tine stated, that the rums of the insurrection were io no degree the bartering in slaves was by law established; and how did connected with Mr. Smith, but were the result of the most peer he demean himself ? I wish to think and speak of Mr. Smith as liar And unwarrantable cruelties airtime the slave population. He nothing more at , : less than an enthusiast, en whose conduct, how. would challenge time llonotimhle Gentleman to prove this. The ever, were clearly discernible all theattributes attendant upon cfiff slaves who planned the Insurrection were slaves in the confidence of minality. Let them consider in what this charge on It their masters, who had been well fed and well pankred who had no grew out of an alleged participation in a most alarming revolt, reason for complaint against then,—yet the petitioners state that which very revolt involved a necessaro suspension of the law, they see in this cause sufficient to ameunt o fer the effects. They A court-martial was appointed ; and if et be proved, as the Hon. stated aho that special circumstances conneekd with the island of and Learned Gentleman had argued, that there p roved been a departure Demerara made the duties of a missionary there peculiar) y arduous. 1 from the strict rules of evidence, he was not satis fi ed that justice was Bu he did not see how this bore upon the questitio. lie thought on that account withheld from the prisoner. lie was not satisfied that, under all circumstances, a missionary had to learn very much that a strict adherence to these rules was always re meaty. But to bear and forbear. It was stated in the petition, as a ground of from what source did the lion. and Learned Gentleman derive his . complaint, that 3lr. Smith had been kept cheely in prison, but this • information? (Hear, he.r.) would have applied to him as well under the civil as the mill. Mr. ItitOUGHA 31—In the Report furnished by the Missionary tiny law. It was stated also that he had not been allowed the as. s oc i ety , ce rt a in ontistions-1 will not call them suppressions,—ut agree of an advocate to speak in his behalf, but this would not the report of the proceedings ordered by the Hour, are supolied, I have been the ease under the civil law ; and be had had the ad. 1 and to t h ese I referred ; but the hearsay evidence, and what I ' vice of an advocate when an advocate could be most useful. deemed at much mom objectionable than what in this country we Could any man living reed the evidence if Mrs. Waldron with , are accustomed to stigmatise with time title, is untintunately given any thing like impaniality, and say that the strongest feeling of in the copy of the minute ordered by the House. (Cheers.) irritation was rot excited amongst she negroes ; and W i elds, r it Mr. 110111 1 0 N proceeded. Ile did not believe that the her. had been said, was an insurrection carried on without violence, was say evidence was mooted when offered by the prisnner. %Vas it it necessary that nits. IValthen should bare been shot at ? It had not likely that a much more impor:iil trial would be obtained before been said that on Mr. Smith, an innocer t end unprotected indite & ('ours above the Wand prejudices than if Mr. Smith had been tried slue!, the Government had poured the full force of its wrath ; but before the planters ue inhabitants of the place? The lion. and he asserted that it was not on Mr. Smith, as an innocent individual, Learned Gent had adverted to the continuance of martial law, and that that which hod been described as wrath had been poured out he had charged the continuance on the Governor. Now the fact was, upon him, but it had gone forth against him as a person who that after the insurrection the Governor had addressed a letter to could have put a stop to throe outrages which had been committed, Lord Bathurst, stating that such was the apprehension among the and which, so far front attempting to do, had done every thing its whites, that an active militia and martial law must be continued. hit power to foment them. If that mats, Retooling to his own intern The next fact he had to notice was, as to what extent the impala. pretanon of duty, had thought hillock right in thus acting, it wu don were concerned in the insurrection • the numbers amounted, the duty of the Government to check his misguides! ad fanatic more or less, to 13,000. All these circ umstances considered, he zeal ; and if, as he thought had beat proved, the individual in was atiVilleCti of the reality of the revolt. and of the reality of the question acted from opponte motives, the conduct of the Govern danger. lie had said that Mr. Smith must be pronounred by all sent was clearly isoiatol out to them, and they had acted against Air. who examined his motives by his conduct , an enthusing ; but he S. as in his (Mr. 11.'S) opinion they were bound to do. He hoped did not attach blame to bim for this, he only entitled to it, to shew that he had showed to the satisfaction of the HOUR, that the pai -1 that he was not the man the Missionary Society pointed hint nut Lion was inaceurate. But that was not the only objection to it ; for it jto be; but an enthusiast both by habit and feeling, and one who was the parent of other petitions containing doctrines that it would i could reason himself into certain things, or persuade himself that be most einconve.tient for missionaries to lay down. They ought 'he had better let them pass, and be left to the direction of Heaven ; to have been candid enough to allow that meprisinti of treason was and therefore a dangerous person, who did not treat his flock as be involved in the doctrine he had maintained, and therefore what lig ought to have done. The whole of the eireamstances proved this, lowed was hot to be wondered at. 3lartial law, be could assure and showed hint to be a man who, perhaps without dettriog it, was the Ilouse, was not continued for the base and vile purpose that calculated to raise in the minds of the 'slaves principle% which had been attributed to it ; it was in operation at the time and was might lead to danger. He (Mr. W. Horton) would particularly applied from that circumstance. He did not conceive that the allude to those instances of his quoting from the Bible the passages House, according to the tenor of the lion. and Learned Gentle. which speak of the children of Israel, and his chararseterising man's motion, could contemplate with sorrow the course that had them as slaves. To consider Mr. Smith as an enthusiast, it rear been pursued with regard to Mr. Smith ; for the court martial was necessary to refer to that journal, the reference to which bad been composed of honourable men, as indeed courts matial for the most objected to by the Honourable Gentleman ()Ir. Broughani); and part always were; inr no men, generally speaking. had a nicer 'in which Mr. Smith observe, " I felt my spirit move within me at tense of honour than thole Gentlemen whose duty it was to sit on the sorrows of the slaves, and I hope that God will briag them out them, and if the Judge Advocate mistook his duty on that Cleta. of their trouble." And then adds that" he thouont it his duty to sion, that circumstance did not affect Smith. The question for de state openly his opinions relative to the slaves, but feared lest it consideratitm of the Dore wax, whether substantive justice had might criminate him and not relieve them." And he afterward, been done to Smith, whether it was meant by the Greenman to adds, in allusion to the Governor, that " he seems to do all he cam to I afford him that substantive justice, and whether the decametres keep down the slaves, but he shall not if I can help it." It 1322, jot' the teeny did not require the coorse that had been pursued with ,he gates, that "if the slaves were more enlightened, they would 'meal to Solidi. The close of the resolution, which referred to be better treated." Butt in 1821, he saes, that he " lenpol Mr. I the better administration of the law , no man could object to; and Canning's plan would never be carried into e ff ect." Ile (Mr. IV. , the object of the lion. anti beamed Gentleman only unticipated I Horton) agreed with him on this latter topic, that the condition of . the intentions of Government, tisr measures had been adopted to the slave population ought not to be mitigated, but abolished. To ! improve the administration of the Law , in the colonies, which be this principle he would call the attention of the House: it was one ; hoped and believed would be attended with the tort beneficiali ti ed' speculation, and might be right or wrong, hut he contended that feces. Under all the circumstonees of the case, he could see no it was a dangerous opinion to hold. lie believed, however, that goal grounds fOr the resolution of the lion. and Learned Gentle- Isuch had been the opinion of Mr. Smith, with respect to inni- titan, and should therefore oppose the adoption of it by the House. melon ; and that he was not prepared to agree with the principles The Honourable Gentleman sat down amidst laid cheers. l'of the Society that sent him forth, hut took up ideas of his own on Sir JAMES M OCKINTOSII rose immediately and observed, Ithis subject. lie (Mr. W. Horton) wished to establish this fact, • that if he had not been called mien by the Hoof Gentlennas oppo. i as necessary to prove the enthusiasm of Mr. Smith. He would site, who had is the cowrie of hie mirth so repeatedly adverted to , refer the House to page Mt of No. I, to the evidence of Col o n e l it, to defend the petition that he had had the honour to present— , Reid. not as a proof ot the criminality of Mr. Smith, but to show that if' he had not felt it his duty to vindicate the character and that all he did was in the same spirit. It was admitted, and he conduct of Mr. Smith from the 'aversions that had been thrcern en (Mr. W. Horton) believed it could not be denied, that 3lr. Smith 1 both--he was anxious to bear Sits testimony ageing the most abo. IS I laid it down as a rule that it .tS a culpable net to work oil mind:ere minable perversion of law that probably bad ever oceurod in any (Hear, beer.) He would say that it wet the duty and intention of • carter. The Hon. lientleman had objected that the members of oh i t • Government. the pledge of the House of Commons, soul the we he London Missionary Society were not philosophers. By then . of the people of England, that this Sunday labour should not be en. I he supposed Ira% mennt that theowere not accurate reasoner,. But couraged among the slave population, but in the state of the island from the mariner in which that Hon. 31enthr had, in his opinion. of Demerara at the period alluded to, he contended that it was a failed in answering their reasoning, he should infer thee that Society most inconvenient doctrine, and he thought that the miraieseary had no occasion to plead guilty to the cherge. The next objection I should only have told them that he hotted a time would come when urged by the Hon. Mantic? was. that cruelty could not be the it would not he nettemary to work on the Sunday ; but he had not I cause ot the insurrection, because the ringleader% were not the ob. I , done so, and had thus made evident the state of his mind. Although , jeers of cruelty. Th a t was perfec t ly reameileable, because the ring ! many of the act% might have been Serial, yet they were impoetant leaders were& better sort of p eo pl e gum there who had been Jested las proofs on this latter fact, and also th at hml e was pnvy to the ono with such revoking toothy ; who feeling their wretched condition. recteon at Ilernenua, and that, being privy to it, he did not call to , had taken charge of the insurrection, for the purpose of eiteicstirg of the th it Fli t it the attention of the proper authorities. (lumina, Itristal, and them greatly oppressed people from the thraldom under which that' o pfieo f y l eb i rn f i e :ri t o h: fou t uel ha du rei d erara.f. be er en th r holion , sa iu .id . t jen ...l th bi t others had stated, that they had a conversation with Mr. it S thi m G i t t ot h oti t e h ey e . i laboured. The next charge that the Hon* able tient. had madam Sunday before the insurrection broke out, when they said that they m " an won o ld ir d . ri i v l e r ju th g e ha mza asor gers n t r o , t t en hat no t T ley T i h n e ly lio ni n c ou an rab t m bu waA ' en t upon t would strike for work, but he (Mr. W. Horton) would ask if et wilfully put to dual'. I lie stated nistinetlo that no man had been could be Roffman! that Mr. Smith, who knew the circumstance+ i unnecessarily put to death—that in the derence of the houses and connected with their complaints, could have conceived the phrase posts which were required for the purpres of the ineurrection, ema no the n e tia n tO U t h "CC' h a e d il be i i:: which had been repeated to mean nothing more than that they I Koons had lust their lives, but not at all through the wanton would strike fur work ? Ile did not intend to say that they then I cruelty of the sup,- .rtes of it. General Murray entertained the contemplated acts of bloodshed , Or an endeavour to gain possession same opinion that benSir J. Mackintosh) held; for he stared. that in of the island front its legal authorities', but he did say that they j one inatance where the Whites were on their p ound. end defer then meant to oppose those authorities, and that such expr ess i ons ; m i ne d to defend it, two nut of three were killed. The ought not to have been listened to from slaves. Ile would allude' London 3listionary Society had appealed cab Mr, %omen a cereal • to page .11 of the evidence relative to the letter which had been ta. , man of the Chunch of Englartst,as to the -.*' . of then state accuracy. ken to .. Ir. Smith while in prison ; the letter stated that they wen went. Of that Gentlemen be would say, Heat his redact hid all ready to act on the morrow, and that it was written by the con. dime honour to thit Church rich at it was in talents and in Oe, r sent of several persons, who, it should be recollected, were the for his sense of j ust i ce was' m" of the al- I description, his leaders and supporters of the conspiracy which had been nursed practice bad been a cont . I ' ' . ex fet . every moo course cf the purest virtue , and I and matured, and which might have arisen from a belief that they anion I• 11 'on o f his life C VISA markeil by sympathy for the unfortunate, and were oppressed by those whom power was unlawful, and that they kindocestowartisan mankind, No nam e had ndtvid i eel that he could I huh a ri g ht to wrest it front thou. Mr. Smith returns an answer done store . to this letter, setting that t h e subject of its contents was unknown sphere of action, in order that he might become a model for his. •to him, and that he had not time to consider it , but that he did n o t torten , to eulogi s e. " 'I 'he Ihe Honourable Gentleman knew -, Non wish to know anything relative to the information it creole:ed. He mete I& n scr " I . ..,. t was the univ e r sa l test i niony of all who were