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p ;~ f kit I ; ~ 'f . M 1 t__ •• Did you and Quiunina and Mr. Smith talk about any thing else at that time ?—No. not that I remember. " you talk to Mr. Smith on the Sunday about your little girl ?—l'es. I believe I did before that. before Quainina went in ; hm I spoke to him about the little girl, (&unina was not with 1”e ; I spoke to the lady of Mr. Smith also about taking hcr. 4 ` yrnit were present when you spoke to Mr. Smith about your lit tle itrl ?-3lr. Smith and Mrs. Smith ; I don't remember any tv,ly else. •• Did any body MITI! in when you were talking to Smith about yoor • little girl?—That 1 can't tell; may be somebody might come in." Now, whet will the House say, when they find that the whole of the preceding evidenee is. that Bristol went with Quamina alone, ibto the roseate of Mr. Smith ? Bristol swears that he went , alone with Quilan.; atd now let us hear what Charlotte says in ;loge 61 ? • " Did 31r. Smith talk with any body after he came in front elle- Rel that Sunday ?—I Lis Amite people go into the hone,' ; (2iiantina woe one, and Peter; but 1 was in the kitchen, and 1 den know *bat they had to say. Bristol owe of them ?—Yee. " When they scot away which of them went first?—They al Came out together. " How Line did you remain in or about the prisoner's house after dinner on that day ?—About half-past five u clixk 1 went to the negrothouses." Char:otte, the House will see, was there, and Peter ; and I have now brought two witnesses on Bristol, and I shall bring move. Peter, k is true, was a slave, and an accomplice : but let it be re. cellected, that his evidence is in favour of the prisoner, although in giving it be was vidangering his life, and it meet be seen, because of this u ery circumstance, it was entitled to the greater weight. What nay, Peter, in page 13? • " Were you at that chapel the Sunday before the revolt?—Yes. " Did you see Quamina, of Success, on that day ?-1 es. " Where did ypn see him ?—.lt Mr. Smith's house. " Were thieve any other personsyreeent P—Bristol, Seaton. It boy named Shute, a field negro of Le Resouvenir, and Mr. Smith, Were present, and with myself made viz. " Did Quandas say any thing to the prisoner, if yea, what was! It 3—Yes. He said that they should drive all these managers from the castes to the town, to the courts, to mewhat was the bent thin they amid obtain for the slaves ; then Mr. Smith answered, and sa id that s e:at wasfoothrh. How will you he able to drive the white people to town ? and be said further, the white people were trying to do good for than t and that if the *levee behaved so, they would lose their Hi e *: and he said, Quamina, don't bring yourself in any dia gram s that the white people were now making a law to prevent the emen being thmtl : but that the law had net come oat yet ; and that the man should not get any flogging in the field, but when they - .requited to he flogged they should be brought to the manager, at torney, or proprietor, for that purpose; and he said. Quantum, do "you hear this ? anti then we came out. -• What did ljusanina say In answer, when Mr. Smith said 6 Yon heat?—He said Yes, Sin e that was all. " How long were you and Quamina, and the test, at the pri istmer's house ?—We did not stop a minute. " Was Baton with ycu the whole time at that conversation ? Tee. " %Weil of you all went out of the prisoner's house first?—We 'all fire came net together." Pat Bristors evidence is again contradicted, for not a word is beard aeont the soldiers. I think, after this, the House must be satisfied tleit i: is impossible to affix on Mr. Smith the crime of having istienel the words attributed to him by Quantum . But put it that the ,regrow wanted to take freedom by force, and what is Mr. Smith's answer? Why, that it would be foolish for them to do so. Bristol's evidence is already completely beaten down. Pre twining that the word " drive" is the very word used, must not the whole context be taken together, and must we not see if the whole text could Hoe the ides in Mr. Smith's oiled of any in tended revolt ? "To drive the managers to the Courts"—what was the obvious meaninglis' that? Only to ascertain if the new law had tome Chit, and if the negroes were likely to obtain that redrew which they had expected? All this was a direct negative against the idea of revolt being for a moment entertained by Mr. Smith. The real nature of the transaction was this; they went to Mr. Smith to know if they were to hive a day or two for themselves, and I pray the House to consider fairly whether any honest man can lay his hand on his heart and say, that under these cireuar &tepees Mr. Smith knew of an intended revolt, and concealed it? • Good (hod! to what a situation would we all be reduced, if we were to be tried for our lives, for not duly apprehending a conversa _non uttered by negroes in the absence of white persons, of persons who, if they had 'awe up their minds to revolt, and had declared it, would have enabled 31r. Smith to take out his horse, toile over to town, and called out the military at once. They dared not tell Mr. Smith of such intended revolt, for their success depended on 'their secrecy. Bristol himself says the rank was concealed from Mr. Smith. It was not till the lfith of August that the revolt was ar ea! iced—that every thing was in a state of complete preparation : seri we learn from all the witnesses that there was no plot till the 'shelling of the 17th of August, on Success Walk. Let us now see 'lf there are not some other circumstances illustrating this state /fp:ln, and placing the innocence of Mr. Smith in the dearest pos elele light. What was the conduct of Mr. Smith when it was said he knew of the revolt? (lne would think he would have looked to self-protection, and that be would not have allowed it to break tent without guarding his wife. The revolt ,breaks out on a piordiy evening—Mr. Hamilton seeks for his assistance—Mr. 'Smith expostulates with the negroes—be endecenum to quell the rabellton--and what was the conversation among the negtoes ? 'ne t say, " He's a white man, and though we 'Respect and vene rate him for his good wishe., still he is formed by nature to be our enemy, and we will not trust him." If thenegmescommunicated to him their intended revolt, would they have uttered such sentiments ? would they have placed any reliance on him? (hear, hear.) What did Mrs. Smith do ? Did she receive the intelligence as of its event she knew before? IVas she free (torn truer? Three witnesses, amongst whom was Charlotte, all deposed that she was in a state of the greaten agitation, that she was unable to sletm, and that she expressed the greatest terror and apprehension the the surety of her nusband. Is it then, I ask, conststent with all pro. Lability, that Mr. Sinfth would allow the storm fo burst on his wile's head ? Every probability, every feeling of our nature, give it a flat denial. Before 1 Lave this part of the subject, I must beg the pardon of the House for adverting to the tegument used the other evening by my Honourable and Learned Friend the Member ou for Peterborgh. Though some days have elapsed since his state ' trot, I feel it my duty to advert to theextreme unfairness of his quot. fag the testimony of one witness, whose testimony he should have admitted to be throughout contradicted. I can scarcely refrain from expressing my indignation, I had almost said, at my Learned Friendhe wondering why Mr. Smith had not attempted to prove an but, ou the contrary, bad admitted Ira was present during a certain conversation. What is the veal fact ? Mr. Smith did woe deny the interview. hut tulniitted as an honest man, that he had had a conversation, but at the same time resolutely denying that it could cast any imputation upon him. Then his crime was the ad. mi.eion that he was present! The House may temember that some 20 years ago the present Chief Justice of the Own of Com m on Pleas wee charged with committing a rape upon a lady at his chambers. What, I ask, would my !lor.ottraW and Learned Friend the Member for Peterborough say if the Chief Justice did rut stand upon his character for *denial of the charge, hot had denied that he was at his chambers? (Rear, and a laugh.) Whet wield my Hon. and Learned Friend ray, Ifs similar charge sous 111:11i.: against hims...lf ? What would he say ? Would he deny le tog at his chambers if the fact were that he was there P Would he have the world to believe bimso—.or think himself guilty. 'if he could not bring his clerk to prove that he was at the Court of King's Bench at the time ? (Hear. and a laugh.) I could hardly expect such a thing from even the Depaty Judge-Advocate, much less than from so Otte a lawyer..-an subtle an arguer—so eloquent a speak nip Hoe. and Learned Friend. The House may see what the nature of the case must be, when my Hon. and Learned Friend contleecensiel to such an argument. There are two other ittatt, es which I feel it necessary to notice, and I shall begin with the failere of the notice of Jacky Reed on the evening of .Aug. lib In the communication that tonic place between Mr. Smith and Jacky Reed, the rimer declared he wan ignorant of the altar of yesterdy and of the whole scheme of agitafion. Every . hasty Rowena, he at the same time declared to be inconsistent with the duties of the religion they professed. and every cireametance con tinued the fact, 'that he was Ignorant of the revolt. It had been nail that Mr. Smith remeieel silent after be had been made ac queinted with the revolt. Now, if he was favourable to it, would I.e have dente:mewl it in the mauler in which lie had done before h'e congregation ? The evidence which hail been given by Ha 11irs was. that lir knee; of the revolt is week, before it broke out. A ea:ire:l4on was elleged to have beets nude by . Mr. Smith, of hi ceiretizance of the insunection, arid the two w itnesses who der .ssei to the confession, gay': opposite and contradictory accounts of it. It hail been state I in one account, that he had gone ieto torn to consult a physician This had been contradicted on thy ether slier, and It was altered that he had spent the whole of the din in writing. The lion. Alember proceeded to comment on the il'enee given by throe two perfume, in eves line of which there me some assertion which contradicted or falsified that which went *fore. When such things were to be found in the progress of the investigation, and when I find tar lion. Friend, the 31 ember for Perarbomogh, complain of 31r. amides having been guilty of retneraltnerit, in not having conimunicatal to the Ocerernment all he knew, I smolt say, that he appears to me to Isere only read as much as 'nested him to make an accusation, without having examined inn all the facts raid circumstances necewary to sustain is it. (Hese, hear.) In the et-ideationr to establish the guilt of this unfortunate man, confusion of dates had been introduced, and ernes of time and place resorted to, with a manifest view of inculpating him. The next charge was the commanieatioes of Mr. Smith with Qoamina. This charge arose from Quentin& ' hewing been found in his house subservient to the revolt. It did not spacer that any communication took place on the subject of the revolt, between Quamina and Mr. shunt' ; his emitting there was areettental, and the only thing ascertained to have taken place wits an inquiry made by Mrs. Smith into the Mille of things, knowing • lie weemee to be in • state of rebellion. But in the whole evidence it wee i.ot to be frond that either to Quamina Inc to any other per. .on, a single ward escaped the line of 31r. Smith encouraging rebel. lion. The ReCUT4I6OII was only to be found in the newpapers of of that ill.fated settlement. And now I conic to what, in my opt -7"•111, COnfllitllteS a stronger &wound of complaint In the treatment of this gentleman, than any thing I have yet stated. That is. the in vestignion of his conduct for the whole period of his residence i.t the Wand. Thus was he aerated to the ttiecurdon of the trans. actions of seven years of his life without a specification of thargeo, without a knowledge of the complaints, their number. or their ten. donee, to be preferred sgsinat him. By one sweeping accusation it was weight to crush him. Who is the man that could safely trust hit life to an investigation of such • nature ? What man in this House, or in this country, could calculate on the security of his person, if he were to be suhjeet tom mode of accusation so iniqui tous and unjust? Too strict en observance of the tiabhmth day was also amongst the doctrines which it had been oempledoed I f 11, , 1 i i :f '{+# law. Now he believed that no one would for a moment hesitate to asse rt,that b IS° "chili illw. conceelment of demon was punish. able by death. The authority oe Hubert an this point was la . I questionable. Ilia words were, that " examples exited. by which, if any person excited sedition, he must sutler hiss of life; and the same punishment meet follow if any one homed' of such sedition, or is conscious of it He was not standing there to vindicate that law ; it was sufficient for him to see that death, and death alone, was proteribed by the law of Holland. There was another authority, tram the works of Van £4lll a commentator on the Dutch law, whom works had loos translat ed ill 1888 h by so -1 dimity of the Administration of that dray. Ile states th a t c rime against the supreme Majesty- Crimea Alaysintb—is the greatest crime that can bp committed in this 'sentry. , Of this crime. there are also guilty, who, knowing of' the treestm, have not discovered It. (hear, hear.) This argon of law prevailed over Europe. and it was quite clear that it ass much 'even, in its character than the law by whit% Mr. Smith wra judged. Now, he humbly conceived that before the Hasse rime to the notation they were called upon by the motion to adopt, they must be satisfied of the truth of one of either of these three propositions:—let. That the punishment was teo severe; 2d. That the Overt had not jurisdiction; or, SJ. That the conduct of the Court was partial or unjuot. (Hear.) They must, he repeated it,—and he could rot too strongly enforce it upon the attention nf the House,- they must be quite satisfied of the justice of one of these imputations before they decided that so gross a violation of d uty list been committed by the Court who tried Mr. Smith. The proelarnation for martial law was issued on Tuesday the 19th August, anti on the Hilt the alleged mis prision occurred ; but on the other side it was conter.ded that there was an extreme irjuotice in subjecting to the provisions of martial law those offences which were alleged to have been previously committed. As a general proposiuon he admitteetthe treth of this assertion ; but he was out ready to admit it without limitation. If' it was asked, are you prepared to call before a Court-martial an individual charged with a felony rnnimitted in a preceding year, he should answer, Certainly not. (Hear.) Nothing could be more absurd than to reduce within such a scope 0111.1cce of so long stand-' ing—nothing more unjust, more out of the intendment of mar tial law than that offences committed at a distant and pest time shouel be brought under the controlling of this species of law. But how did the ease stand ? Dlr. Smith was charged with arriving at a guilty knowledge on the 17th of August. The result took piece nu the 19th. It was then that martial low was proclaimed; but was it not a eke distinction to say, that an offence committal on the 171 b, out of which arose a revolt. that revolt on the 19th was to be regarded as a by-gone offence 2 (Hear) The House would Menem that in Demerara there was no regular Court before which Mr. Smith could be brought for trial. Had be been brought before the planters of De merara, they would have been judges both of die law and the fact, with the self-same Presidesta who Mad been so uneeeringly and un foundedly accused—all of them interested in the quen—all of them naturally anxious that the case brought font* for trial should terminate in a conviction. Now he put it with confidence • to the house, whether 31r. Smith's chance of an acquittal could have berm, under such circumstances, equal to the chances he had under the unprejudiced tribunal by which he was tried. The House would recollect that, with the exception of one individual, there had not been a single person on the trial of Smith whose motives were not unstisicious. There was one iedividual to whom his lion, and ',evened i ;lend, the 31eniber fur Winehelsee (31r. Drotaglian) had alluded, who certainly had some slight interest in the sate of slaves, but unquestiornahly not sufficicat to prejudice his judgment. lie was quite sure, from a careful consideration of • the case, that there dill not exist a man who would not 'each more willingly, under such circumstances, submit his case to thedOCiSloll, of a Court-martial than to the deterniination of these who were so deeply interested in obtaining his conviction. Much misrepresen. • tation had, in his mind, prevailed upon the conduct of 31r. Wray I , in this affair. He had long known that Gentleman, anti he had learned to respect him for the amiability of his manners ; lie was known to both him and his Learned Friends opposite, and never I until the accusation of partiality had he heard the slielitest impute- I thin against him, and this charge be believed to be utterly without foundation. Much lied been urged upon die illegality, upon the leading nature of the queetioos asked ; and he must say, from a careful perusal of the evidence, that niany mon leading mica • time were asked for the defence than for the prosecution, and the balance of what was termed hearsay evidence greatly exceeded seethe part of the defendant. Then it was before a Court thus constituted that Mr. Smith well tried ; and here began . the question, whether or net he bad a fair trial (hear); and upon this part of the ease be must be permitted to say, that his Learned and Hon. Friend (Mr. Iniehingteat bad not used his habitual can dour. Ilia (Mr. timith's)mb coneoaloon• bed in it sufficient to con vict him. Ile had heard , a conversation respecting "managers and new laws." The object of that conversation ho must have known, yet be never communicated it to the Governor. There . were other circumstances connected with this transaction of a very suspicious nature. The involution' broke out in August—on the • 18th of August. It was heeded by the principal persons of 31r. Smith's congregation. Alreand M re. Smith thought proper to re main in their own house after that period. Mr. Smith had an op. portunity—this from his own admission was evident--of communi. , sting the revolt, the intended revolt ; aid lie had not made that communication. it was trot memory fur him to say that Mr. 1 Smith was guilty; all he had to contend was, that there DM suffi , cient evidence to justify the ending of the Court; and that this was not a case in which there had beets so violent an abuse of • authority as to justify the vote which the motion of his Hen. and ' Leairued Irked Ctir. Brougham) required.. (Hear.) Mr. J. IV ILLI AdIS said, that his lion. and Learned Friend, for whom he had the greatest respect, and the matinees of whose reasoning formed so striking a cannot to die proceedings which he had undertaken to vidieate, had thought proper, in the coin • meneement of his address, to state that this question was entirely new—aad he Cllr. %Valiant+) must be peymitted to add, that one line of the-denude tarnished by his lion. and Learned Friend was ,at least equally remarkable fur its novelty (hear}_-for neither in the laboured researches of the Colonial Secretary, nor in the inge nious reasoning of his Hon. and Learned Frigid the Menthe. for Peterhorupgh (3lr. Sawlettrwas then any entwine to that Amore law which his lion, and Leanest Friend had brought into therm. • flier tonight. To the stores of tee Dutch cennwentatomleemed in the law, the Deputy J udge- r ielvocete had tilta dreamt of referringt he contented himself with applying to the authority of Mr. Justice Blackstone—he appealed to the provisions of the Mutiny Act—but never until this night had it occurred teeny one to resort to the sub terfuge to which his lion.and Learned Itiend ( Mr. T.)haa marred. It was upon Me. Smith's own admission and upon no other eve. dace that he was at all iactameed at !Jerome& or mali g ned in Englund; for the testimony of Seaton went no further than to • charge him with not making known, en the Sunday evening, at six o'clock, • revolt that was open and notorious at half-past tour on the same lay. The evidence of Bristol and Manuel did not bring home to Air. Smith sly cognizance of treason. He would admit that it was not necessary that treason should have been com pleted in order to implicate a party in the misprision of it ; but still tt was Essential that there aloud have been a disclosure of treason for that purpose. line there was no disclosure. Ile denied that Mr. Smith was acquainted with any complete or specified treason on the part of the negroes, nor could the evidente be so distorted I as to make such upper s/ The lion. Member here entered into a 'strict scrutiny of the. depositions of Bristol, Manuel, and Peter, and • fr om which he inferred that there was no proof of treason having existed. The conduct of the negroes was no more than an inde finite and undigested plan for the amelioration of their unhappy condition. Mr. Smith's behavioer throughout was uniform and consistent; nut an expressim tureen action was attributed to him but such as discouraged lad discountenanced all attempts at vio lence. Ile (31r. Wills: ens) chellenged arty Honourable Member to point out any concerted measures or specific scheme to overturn the religion or the government of the country, in which Mr. Smith had been concerned, anti thereto:* he could not be charged with misprision of mash', and it was therefore a scandal to turn him over to be tried by such a tribunal re a coureniartial, which was I a satire on I mw, slid a condemnation of the country where it ex- isted. These legislators, who had been eulogised by his Honour-, able Friend the 31ember for Peterlsorough, were so happily versed' in the laws that they were caked on to dispense, that, notwith standing one of them had been described as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and might therefore, acceding to his Learned and Honourable Friend's notions, be summed to have some know. ledge of law—yet, notwithstanding all this, these humane judges of Mr. Smith had forced against htni a portion of what he had caul, yet they had refused to hear hint in explanation of it. (Hear, bear.) The whole charge messiest Mr. Smith was, that he had heard of something like a plan which might perhaps have been enforced at some distant period, unless their grirancee were at tended to, yet his judos had unputed to him a desire to revo lutionize the Colony, of which he was to become Emperor, and to haves black administration under him • but from all that be had ever heard of 31r. Smith, if indeed he sl id dream of kingdoms, they were not kingiems of this world. (Ileac) His demeanor was bumble, modest, and retiring. Yet this was the man who wns ac cused of dreaming of empires. " Imperium, fences legioute." These sapient judges also found 31r. Smith guilty of the first charge, but acquitted him of the intent, which was the very essence of the charge. God defend him from ever being put on his trial before such judges—such Fellows of Trinity College—Ruch Daniels, or tattier, be would say, rEacuses and khadamentituees. The Deputy Judge Advocate of D e nseness had also seeded law so eonceesiendy, that in had declared that the fourth charge was satis fied by its having burn proved that Me. Smith was in the pre sence of Quantum on the Ilkh of August. The persecuted individual has been smenioned before 'nether tribunal, and before a more lenient Judge than those who nod him her:. It should be remembered. that it was two months after tran-1 quillity hal been teetered, when no necessity existed, and when matters were daily tOOtilittillg to improve, that he was brought to his trial : after time had allowed the passions to grow cool, and the law! had remelted their accustomed force, was he ceaselessly tried and sentenced, when there was no necessity for such an set ; for necessity is the plea of tyranny. this lion. Friend (Mr.Tilidaii) 1-.2111 forgotten this circumstance in the course of his ariplrDelt. The second charge against Smith was, that he met Qaainitut on the Wednesday before the iueurreciou, with the intent DI give it his, assistance; but this WY not only without proof—it was against all the evidence which had been brought forward on the trial. The conduct of Smith was, on the cautrary, insatiably, and without the shadow of turning, to clhisaade and drive from such a purpose, if such a purpose were communicated to bim. Ile (Mr. J. W.) wonki pause ter a moment to declare his rooted opinion, that it was not Mr. Smith who had been attacked in the present instance, but it was all instruction, all religious instruction, from a belief that the mad principles of Christianity, and the principles at which human nature shitatters, could not long endure together. (Hear, hear.)— lie would ask, how did it happen that Smith should have been per ' secured, and Hamilton spared 1 It was because he was no 31 isai mean, and had no partiality except for additional punishment ; yet he, who tannin nothing, wleete only instruction was torture, had been spared, while the other heel been persecuted to death. If it were indeed true that the Colonies mold not be preserved but by the continuance of ignorance, then he would say, tear down your chapels, Weal your clergy, and burn your bibles; but if it were, on ,he was too sedulous to inculcate. The Sabbath was a day which should certainly be confined to the pintermance of necessary duties. On that clay I would have uo objection to innocent relaxa tion, but would be glad to encourage what contributed to gladden and enliven the hearts of all. In a state of society where slavery existed, this was peculiarly neconary ; for, sifter six Maya hard and oppressive toil, the poor negro might at least be permitted to conse crate the seventh to rest. Yet, in violation of the law which ire. posed a penalty of five hundred guilders on obliging negroes to work on Sunday. their employers and managers frequently obliged them to work on that day. And whet was the doctrine that Mr. Smith preached on this subject? Whilst he inculcated an observance of the Sabbath, he inculcated too an obedience to their masters and superiors. consistent with justice. 'Tie true he did not shrink from declaring and expounding to his congregatioe the pre cepts of our religion on this ground end, did tic shrink from the declaration of that doctrine, he would onlv be a reneged° and apne tate from the doctrines of that God whose ministry be came to preach. One witness, and one only, had indeed deposed that Mr. Smith had told his congregation not to work ; and as a stimulus to induce them to abstain from it, preached to them not to mind a few lashes more. The effect of this evidence was destroyed by what had been deposed to by Vangorater and other witnesses. The Hon. !Member proceeded to read an extract from the evidence of John Heed. page et. of the printed Report, in which referecce was made to Document No. 13, relative to a chapel, on the erection of which a conversation wok place between him and Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith was free from any blame in this transaction. After having gone through the several points of charge, I will now undertake to prove that no honed Judge could come to the verdict at which the Court Martial which tried this gentleman arrived. I will now pm coed to show the numberless sins of that tribunal, and will even go so far as to say that they came to a verdict knowingly and wilfully false. And first it is s cause of just and grievous complaint, that before plea was joined, he was not allowed the advantage of counsel to plead against odic jurisdiction before which he was sunimoned for trial. He hul no opportunity of protesting against its legality; and that it was illegal even his Hon. Friend the Member thr Peter borough admitted. Ile had been graciously pleased to say what indeed no lawyer would venture to deny, that it was illegal to put a person on his trial after the proclamation of elertial Law on the charge of offences which had been alleged to be committed before that law hail been proclaimed. Nor was this the least injustice rendered him by this triburtaL So vaguely and indefinitely were the charges shaped—so studiously ignorant had Mr. Smith been keen kept of the precise accuieuion he had to meet, that no intimation of time, place., nor any circumstance, was made! to him, that might furnish him with a clue to the object and effect of the prosecution instituted against him. No specific charge i was preferred ; the accusation embraced a period from the moment of his arrival in the island to the moment of trial. The next Sc. caution I shall male against the conduct of this tribunal, is the manner in which evidence was admitted on the triaL Oa the part of the defendant such questions were put as this : " Hare you ever told befiwe what you now tell the Court ?" If the witness an. I swered in the affirmative. his evi den :e was rejected on the part of the defence, and every pretext was resorted to to shut out evidence in vindication of his innocence ; whereas, on the part of the prose cution, hearsay evidence, three and four deep, was enmity admts. sible. Moreover. evidence on the part of the prosecution wits pre pared three or four dart beforehand, whilst the defendant was obliged to supply his evidence as the occasion called for it. These are the reasons that make me tnink that the proceedings of this tribunal have not been regulated by fair and correct principles— principles on which no tribunal in this country would act, and which it us impossible for me to reconcile with the notions and feelings of honest men. For myself I can only say, that did I preside over such a Court, and if I could not control proceedings so illegal and un just. I should retire front it with indignation, rather tnanise a party to such proceedings. It is with regret I find that the ChiefJusuce of the island sanctioned these proceelinge. That gent. (Mr. Irray) is a l Fellow of Trinity College. a barrister, and as my lion. and Learned Friend, the Member for Peterborough has told us, a friend of his. For the conduct of others there might be some extenuation ; they I were not, anti could nut be very well acquainted with legal proceed. logs. but for the conduct of the Chief Justice, I own I am at a loss to account. Their Jenne:me: should have been dispelled by his kr.-arledge ; he should have availed himself of his acquaintance with law to fix more deeply in the minds of others the propriety of ointerming to it. \Viten I heard that the Judge Advocate *cud as he did upon the trial, I re;-renal that he did not withdraw from the I Court rather than remain and sully the gown which I wear in I nommen with him, by sanctioning proceedings such 84 I hare adverted to. Then It should be remembered that the hardship was increased by the interval of three months which was per mitted to intervene between the trial and the passing of final sentence. With reference to the manuscript of Mr. Smith, without vouching for Its correetneas, it. at least in my opinion, deserves to be inquired i"to. If it be correct, it certainly lixes the disgrace deeper than it lay before. At all events, the correctness of it was a subject worthy to be inquired into. The nest topic to which I shall advert is the consideration of the causes of revolt in the colony ; and there are two principal causes which in my mind satisfactorily account why a spirit ~ of revolt should be excited in Demerara rather than any other settlement. Fine there is the largest importation of slaves into that Wand; and, secondly, front the register aecoent it appeared, the mortality in that island was quadruple that of arty other colony. Nor was there any of the calories which sefteed so severe ly from the want of medical aid and Advice as Demerara. These circumstances, together with certain restrictions on attendance on ! places of religious worship, greatly contributed to the revolt that broke out on the 13th. Rut a crime, in my opinion, that ope rated mere strongly than any of these I have stated is, the sup pression of the letter of Lord litsthurst. It was to he regretted that that document bad not been laid before them earlier. From the time of its arrivel in the island in August, up to the very period of the revolt, the inhabitants were in ignorance of its contents. A ru mour hail been permitted to creep through the island that some good was intended ; the nature of it they were nut permitted to know - hut they saw no accompanying relaxation of the treatment they haulpreviously experienced. They still saw hope deterred, and the severity of punishment Increased. Hear, bear, hear.) They . had arrived et that period of misery beyond which human stiffereig can no longer be endured i they had reached that point of persecution at which the oppressed turn back, and wreak vengeance on their oppressors. (Hear, hear.) These were the causes of the re volt, and tt was idle to attribute them to any other. There were particular causes, calculated to create a spirt of dissatisfaction iu the two estates, where the rebellion broke nut in the first instance. These estates were Reseuvenir, on which eir. Smith resided ; and Sutras, which adjoined it, scd where Quamina lived. In the first of these estates, when the intimation was made that the cart. whip was in future to be dispensed with in the punishment of women, Mr. Hamilton, the manager of the estate, said, that he would have recourse to solitary confinement, and,. a mode of pu nislunent, the deprivation of food. He (Mr. If.) further said, that the objects of Mr. Canning would never be carried into effect ; but he hoped he would be mistaken, and that the Right lion. Gent. would enforce those meesures for the amelioration of the slave population, which he was known to entertain in opposition to any obstacles that may be opposed to the accomplishment of his designs. (Cheers.) I have spoken of the estate of Itesouvenir. In the ad puling estate of Success, the manager of the estate of Mr. Burrowes had discharged twenty-six persons, who subsequently died front being over.worked. These were the general causes of revolt, as well as the particular causes I have stated of brutality on one estate, and severity on the other. The revolt was for the pre sent supp ressed, but the spirit and disposition to resistance still re mained, and only waited the opportunity to break forth. That spirit could only be controlled and suppressed by the manifestation of a disposition on the part of this House, to place a limitation 1 to their distresses, by the dinemination of religious instruction, and a general improvement of their condition. The conduct of Mr. Austin throughout the whole of this investigation was must ho nourable to him ; and how was he rewarded for such conduct ? I hold in nty hand a newspaper of that Colony, in which he (Mr. Austin) the Curate of the Established Church, is represented, amongst other opprobrious neperions, as a wolf in sheep's clothing .as person whom no languege can be found to paint in terms of sufficient abhorrence—as one in rebellion against them—as a persou who takes their lives, for he hates their money, the means of living, which is the same as life itself. (Laughter.) His character was alleged to be gone—his fame blighted—he was fit only to be an object for the laughter of the people—and there was no epithet of calumny or censure that was not applied to this Reverend Gentleman. Ile was, hi short, pointed out as a being to be shunned, and of whom they should pray morning and evening that they might be rid. This was an outcry raised against hint by donee who were hostile to religiore—who deprecated the blessings and advantages of education, and who were desirous to retard the moral advancement of the slave impute ' tion. But I hope this House will interfere—will restore the fair forms of justice, and raise up her prostrated tribunals. (Hear, hear.) I hope to see the administration of the laws there regulated by the utile principles of British justice as govern their adminise nation in this country. (Bear, hear.) And I appeal particularly to the Right lion. Gentleman, and call upon him to bring the great talents he possesses, the high situation he holds in this House ' and the commanding in fl uence which those great talents and thathigh station give him, in aid and support of the views of amelioration he entertains of the condition of die nr e goes. (eheen.) If he re jects the motion of my lion. and Learned Triend to-night, let him consider what will be the effect of such rejection abroad. (Hear, hear.) How will the persecutors rejoice..-Iww complete will be their triumph--how phirious their victory ! Let him weigh well what mud be the rejoicings of the oppressors of Missionary Smith, and of those woo oppose every measure for the ameli oration of the slave populaihre and who glory in the confine. ante- of the darkness that now surrounds them, if they have their schemes deruped by the approving authority of the Right Hon. Gentleman. As the unfortunate Gentleman who preceded you has ;roue to render his account, so shall you be called upon to Ten der yours, f.ir the decision you shall give this evening. Wue be tide the man alto shall arch!, on this martyr's life and conduct, without having sifted his case, and forming his determination on its merits, and its merits only. Do not reduce the colony to the un happy predicament in which your rejection of the present motion must place it, but give it that effective support which will be in accordance with the wishes of the people abroad, and which will prevent the recurrence of proceedings alike dishonourable to the wlminidrstion of the law, and inconsistent with the principles of justice. tCheer..) el r. TIN Int LLeammeneed his maiden speech, in defence of the Court Martial, so unmeritedly reproached by the Honourable did Learned Gentleman. This was a new question, and it was one in which, he admitted, the public felt no ordinary interest. The offence for which Mr. Smith was tried and convicted was ad. mined small hands to be a very serious and a very grievous offence; aid he was prepared with authorities to show that the punishment of death was the constant and the only punishment with which such n cruise was visited, aceord.ng to the law of Demerara. Hear.) It was eitareely ungainly for Lint to infirm the House that the law of Hollaml was the law of Demerara; and it was as little ne cessary for him to call thesattention of the House to the enemy'. stance that the law of die and was grounded uu the old Roman the cdtbury, proeod that instruction wet the only means to smell- Smith and other missionaries; but unquestionably the spirit e orate the conthtten of the ale . , population , then he would say, meta tmari ad persec iy u nes tedl:n to was the ad s v p er:to of te c e t i l a ri rop mi aga sni ti v on . do net let us, because op the o th er side of the water an idea pre. gether. Christianity itself wan opposed to the at-stem 'veils that slavery and religion cannot exist together, give our sane. wards the slaves, and therefore the supporters of that estilete-e.,,,,,,e -tion to an act of gems injustice. The ATTORNEVOJENERAL said, that he should not do missionaries were seised, and a paper was issued by the 0 the his duty unless he made some observations on what he would se. which was in fact an outrage upon religion, and an insult to "v it emill ' knowieultae to be an important subject . He was ready to admit , verement under which he hell his tut tufty . The real off land free to say, that If he had been sitting In judgment on the cue Christianity, and the real object to present the laws of (7,l,leci4erie,ll - of Smith, anti considering all the circemstances connected with being made known in contrast to the laws which man bed seta ' that ease, he would not have passed the sante senteece that had : in those Islands for the in arnient of Lis unhappy fellow-er e" - been passed upon hint. (Hear, hear.) But it appeared to him that I All the measures of the Colonial logisbuure proved, that "'Wei ' this was not th e question to be omaidered. 'I he persons who sate ; the pretence of distinguishing between the Missionaries might on that trial were perfectly indapendent of the island , were men a sometimes set up, the design was to stop the progress of reigi l" character and education, and patieedy heard the evidence on Iby whonemerer taught. It was true, that ra Boreal' , after - t im e bah sides. He was not; thaefore, Justine' in seeing that they had I meetinghouse had been destroyed, a proclamation was isseed b: acted erroncettaly, and much less from the motives attributeu to the governor for the discovery of the offenders; but wood the them by the lion. Gentlemen opposite . lie would first direct the I house believe that • counter-proclamation denounce -4 peni s !, se — t attention of the House to that point on which there could be hat ' against informers was publicly issued, and that nu official notice m- one opinion. No person could ;Ratify the proclamation of martial was taken of this daring contempt of authority ? This cou law, except in cases of the greatest necessity ; and unties the proclamation was not sent forth by the dregs of the pepulation, b e ; House were convinced of the necessity of such an act in the present whom only it might have been supposed the outrage ceild instance, the proceeding s of the Court-martial certainly could not been committed, but by the most powerful and influential p' e r ve s be justified. flue he would entreat the Howie to look at the situ' . of the Island. It was not to be wondered at, that that ;mad a m " - eon of the colony of 1/emerara, at the period of the insurrection. Mr. Smith, was not forward in giving that information by which In the island there was only • population of 4. 11 00 whites , scattered the unhappy slaves would have been subjected to a sentence of rye over the various parts of the country. a hilt there were 90,000 slaves, . or I ,eOO tuba' by the c e nt-whip . Yet the was the utmost event with feelings of the strongest hostility tower& the whites. The of his alleged criminality. If 31r. Smith had stated trout his military force amounted to no mere than me; sod when an a pple pulpit, that the slaves were to become tree , it proved that he cation was made for a reinforcement, it was answered, that a re- could not have been accemare to the plat. Time truly great inforeement could not be sent. It should be remendwred. that the I and good man, Mr. Austin, had declared that none of the cares question in the ishl34l was not one of ProPerte only ; the whites had who were executes) had stated 31r. Smith was concernefl in iiitucin ei their remilias to protect, and could it be expected thst they would the revolt. Mr. Austin was himself t h e o bj ect of persecution, ur, leave them to the mercy of those who were comparative savages, account of his great virtues; but it had rot prevented hen let exposed scenes similar to those that were witnessed at St . D o , giving to the world a publication which entitled him to the rm, mingo. The House must be aware, that the moment the insurrec . I tuition of every lover of religion and freedom in the world. It tors titan was put down, then martial law would terminate ; but a letter I said that it would be cruel to condemn the court-martial unheard ; from Governor 31urray, written after the insurrection, had stated, ! but what sense of humanity or spirit of fairness had they ntaniested teat although he would restore the usual laws as soomai possible , towards the unfortunate man, wfiow guilt ennsimed in syminitenteg the island had still much to fear; for the negroes„ no with the wretched sieve's, of whoa, sufferings he was the daily eve. they remained quiet, were yet sullen and discontented. Surely the witness, and for whom he naturally had a strong sympathy % jr proclamation of martial law proceeded only from necessity ; and I the court-martial was not condemned, the Heise must in effect say surely those who were on the spot must have been better judges of ; that their judgment was worthy of British justice. Not one Meni. that necessity, than those who examined th e subject here. So late I bee haul ventured to defend the proceedings of the court-martial, as the month of November, a bleat slave was in the weeds at the I and therefore it became the Iletige freely to express their opiniat head of a numerous force. The Hoe. Gentleman opposite ( Dr. of the sentence parsed that worthy man, who had fallen a Lushington) had alludete in very severe terms, to Mr. Presi ent martyr to the • eof his arduous, benevolent, and Maas 'Wray; yet this very person, when requested by Governor 31array to duties. act as Judge-Advocate on the Court-in artial, refuted so to do, al. , 31r. Secretary CANNING said, that whatever differences of opi. trying as his reason that he might be &Mused of acting with par. Mon might have been expressed in the course of the debate—what_ ti ity. He agraod, however, to set as one of the mem b er , o f t h e ever shades of difterence might have been manifested, there was like this, no part mold he mates. Enonsametial bat this consent took place, not with reference to one point in which they shouhl all agree, taamely,.. ° l : t . h ite:l 2 ‘n t r". t t his ili g il u ' es t the trial of Mr. Smith, but to any that might arise. The House tion was one of then:lost painful ever discussed. (Hear.) He scarcely moral be aware, that the situation was neither of honour nor emolu. recollected a question in which, , rent ; but was one from which he would have nerunk , if he had plated with satislartion, whether he considered theproceedings not been conscious that the circumstances of the country required it. with regard to their origin or their vault. lie entirely differed y He knew Mr. President Wray, knew him long before the present suit. from bis Hononrable Friend who had spoken last la to one part of ject was agitated, and he knew him to be • inan as cool and dispels. his speech, though he admitted that he had genesall put the 'imam as any he had ever known. He would now direct the at. tion on a fair issue ; but he (31r. Canning) denied that he was tendon of the House to the circumstances in Mr. Smith would obliged, either on the one hand, to contend &r the perfectness and • on the other, to assign to the unfortunate gentleman who was tried have been placed if no court martial had been instituted . He Propriety of every .Part of the Proeeedings of the Court Martial. of would then have been tried by the President and eight planters, a majority of whom would have been sufficient to convict him ; and before it the title and honours of a martyr. (Hear, hear.) He was his chance would have been infinitely less, if he had been tried by prepared for neither of those extravagant extremes, and he believed ' this ordinary tribune!. Much had been said against hearsay evi. the House would best perform its ditty to the country by theme-. ogi deuce, but every person who wit' at all aware of the nature of the . from pronouncing such an extravagant opininn as was required law at Demerara, must know that before the onlirary tribunal, ! from them on either aide of the question. It was a natural artifice hearsay evileice of every kind was received without limit. An. lof debate to attempt to throw on those who would out support the other question was, an to the misprision of treason ; there was not, motion, the task of protruding step by step through this anomnlous, lee was sure, a single individual who was in any way connected complicated , and difficult proceeding, for the purpose of justifying Iwith Demerara, who did not know that by the law of that island, It in every stage. Ile did rot hold himself bound to such &coarse the knowledge and concealing of treason was punishable with Whatever di erence of opinion might exist as to the expediency of death. He (the Attorney-General) hoped that he had said enough entering on the motion at all, he could dissent from it on grounds to show what the fate of Mr. Smith would have been, if he had perfectly tenable in arguineet, and satisfactory to justice, without been tried by the ordinary tribunal ; when Governor Murray, if Identifying himself with the principles and sentiments of these his feelings were such as had been attributed to him, might have by whom 31r. Smith was tried and condemned. The chariot found it ter eosin to procure a verdict against him. The lion. against the Court 31areial were—first, the impropriety of the tri. Gent. (Dr. Luithington) had alluded to the to of colt • burial ; snootily, the incorrectness of the mode of action ; and, set to Mr. Smith, but lie (the Attorney. General) believed that thirdly, the violence of the lentellfe, all resting on the assume. no application had been made by him for Countul until he had been don that Mr. Smith was perfectly inneceet. ()hear, bear.) found guilty. It would be now necessary to say a few words as to It had been said that no man could dissent from the resolution who the evidence which had been brought forward oat the trial. %Vhe. was not prepared to maintain the guilt of Smite, to the extent to cher 3lr. Smith ought to have been tried by the laws of the lased, which that guilt was assigned by the cone...martial. 'Chia poseion or by those of England. was a question lie would not now argue ; he denied wholly. Without );Wing into ell the particulars of the but he would merely observe, that if a person had been tried for a evidence, of which, in the course cf the debate, the House hail crime which in this countre was high treason, and in Demerara was heard a complete analysis of all its parts and beninge, be had so a misdemeanor, it would not be justifiable to try him there for the difficulty to state the honest pemusamo of his mind, that of that former crime. It wet surely high treason to promote an insurrec. crime, by whatever name it might be mane which consisted in tion ter the purpote of driving the Whites to George Town—and it concealing what, if be had known to exist, he must have !mown to IMR surely high treason to attempt to gain possession of the men. be mischief; and if danger, be most have known to have been try. Then it' a person knew this: any insurrection of the kind minent ; he could not acquit Mr. Smith. (Hear, hear.) He would were meditated, and did not give notice of the apprehended event, not presume to dive into 31r. Smith's motives, but of the fact he rat wit certainly guilty of misprision of treason. Could any ItAP:111. (Mr. Canning) individually, uponhis honour and conscience, was able person, be would ask, have a doubt on his mind that Me. persuaded that Mr. Smith did know that, which if he knew its Smith knew this? ((hear, h ea r.) He had said in the letter which character, he ought to have divulged ; and of which he must have haul been an often alluded to, " I knew that something was In agi. known the character if he had common discretion. (Hear, hear.t tattoo, but I did not like to question then,." Could any one doubt, Whether the Dutch or martial-law assigned the sentence passed after reading this letter s that he knew of an act of treason being in upon Mr. Smi h. he (31r. Canning) was not she of his awn know. contemplatZu ? The object the slaves had in view had been told him ledge to judge ; but when the question was, whether fr shouid Ir by Bristol, who said '• they meant to drive the proprietors to terms." culpute the cuurter.artal of murder (hear ' hear), it seemed to him It would be necessary to mark how this operated on Mr. S m ith. that the question was, whether the Coe :: belie-fed they were acting He said that "he adreed them to do no suck thing, that they legally, and whether they were borne out by the authorities on could not overpower the whites and accomplish their object, and which they had proceeded % (Hear, hear.) lie would have more that, therefore, they had bear remain quiet." Ile had said in his difficulty if he had had to defend the eonfimation of that sentence, deter.ce, that he was to agitated and confused that he did not because then the executive government would have adopted it as know what to do;" but this was palpably ieconsistent with the their own, and consequently been bound to prove it in e y rie p a n assertion in the letter to which he had alluded. He said, also, legal. Legal, he believed it was. on the authority which hod been that he had not time to make any communication; bet he was stated ; but it was known general) eto the elembers, and it was tit asked, did he attempt to do anything to prevent the insurrection . it should be stated in the House, that on a full exavninatiou of the. hits plea would h .ve been reasonable if he had so dodoes—if he had Proceedings of the reurt-minial there was not a dissentient voile In endeavoured to make the most of his infamnation--fert he had re. annulling, or at least commuting the sentence. hear.l ceived precise information at six o'clock, that at seven the insurree. lie stood there, then, only to vindicate his vote as a Member of Parliament, against coneemntag unheard the tribunal by which tion was to take piece. What did he then do ? Ile walked out with his wife, but not towards the house of the overseer. which was Mr. Smith had been tried. In proamoteiog that sentence the tri mly 100 yar ds! diem,. No; his walk was a l toget h er i n t h e op. burial had, in a way, afforded to the prisoner that only benefit ee. pulite direction. It was not necessary to advert to what had longing to the laws or Demerara whice could counterbelarce the taken place on the Tuesday, for although Quamina was seen to many disadvantages of his situation, the rteht of appeal ; for with go into his yard, it was not proved that he wont any farther, tbe sentence they had coupled a recommendation to mercy, which, Hot on the %Vednesdey, 3lr. smith said to Romeo, " Quamina under the circumstances of the alit, was not, as etch recommenda. does not come to see me now ;" and, in consequence of this, tions enmity were, optional or accidental in effect. Sat which ne- Quamina did conic—privately, and at night. It should be re_ cemarily can ict with it its own execution (Hear.) The Court knew collected that Quamina was a slave on the Plantation Success, that it was utterly impossible that a sentence of death. easel under and that all the slaves on this estate had revolted. A woman martial law in the Colonies, and in the cultist of alum and con. named Biddy was in the house of' 31r. Smith, and as it would fusion, to be remitted to the consideration of the King in ('ouree, not have been wise to admit teuambia while she remained there, administering justice in the full enjorreent of light and liberty, she was prevailed mem to go to the hoes: of another person. should not be, as in point of effect it was, completely ',entitled. Quamina was then let in, and the door was shut: he was (Hear, hear.) The House wax not called upon to inentute a ree afterwards: disntiased, and his Hon. Friend (Dr. Lushington) had inquiry, but by a sweeping . censure to condemn the court-martial endeavoured to make lightof the circumstance of his departing with for its sentence upon the prisoner. It was no fault of his (31r. Canning's) if be resorted to emjaeure why the Court had mooed a bottle of porter under he am . But this circumstance was stated only to show that he was received kindly and hospitably , and eremite a severe in preference to a mitigated %entente. lf it were asked, with kindness and hovpitality. His being introduced into the house there why time Court had not passed a sentence which might by night and in disguise showed that the parties must have known have beets executed in the filet 'ileac with:int shocking the teet he was concerned in the revolt. lie (the Attoaney.General) only ings of mankind _why, fur example, they bad not adjudged stated this circumstance to show the nature of the evidence on tibia Mr. Smith to be transported from the Colony. or to some lesser 31r. Smith was convicted. And he would ask whether any person punishment of ary other description--he would answer, bet-sloe who had inquired into the eireumatances connected with the trial any min"e sentence must hare been carried into immediate effiee ; could aeoee to the motion of his lion. and Learned Friend (Mr. but to the capital sentence they could annex the reentrimenui lirotighant), which declared that those who tried him were rot jus. I ation—which, while it appeases the inflamed passiors of tee titled um their pr readings ? Ile (the Attorney-Gamed) did in his Colonists, preserved the vicum trim% the fate to which he sr . - conscier.ce believe that the 'wrestle by whom dir. Smith was tried peered to be condemned. His Hon. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) had discharged their duty to the prisoner on the °ate side, and to knew, Om when the news lieu arrived of the arrest of Mr. their country on the other. I Smith. tot application was made to the Executive Government Dlr. WILBERFORCE was called upon by name from all parts to resume hint from s trial abroad, and te bring hint home. The or the House. The Hon. Gentleman seial, that he felt he should ! immediate eonarepieuee of that applicetion was a letter from tne be only weakening the arguments which had been brought forward Secretary of State, directing that if the procee d ings were not by his Ilan. Frieuda beside him, if he entered at length into the i begun Mr. Smith ',timid be sent haute le r trial, unless to brine particulars of the case before the Hausa, which appeared to hint to 1 dins away would break up the peace of the ('obey. His Noble be altogether the inust unjustifiable he had ever heard of. if he • Friend (Earl Bathurst), in a letter d ited the 23d of Itecertiber, course that had been pursued by the Ito e Gentlemen who had de- directed that 3lr. Stieth should be rent evil. to this country. fended—he would not say defended, bat malieed—the cendte-t of if the notice arrived in time to stay the pre. ceding% When that the court martial which had sate on tae trial of 31r. Smith, was • letter Teethed 1 lone:ars. in pot of tact the proareeding% ha! be. the.: they had been satisfied to take 3 few particulars, and if they gun. %Veneerer was the wish of tinverweeet to metre 3lr. emelt found that in one or two instances impartiality had bore proved, I the benefit as trial in this emintry. th,iy had no right to prejlieee they were ready to acquit thegaeof the court martial of all blame. die tribenal by imputing ill motions to it, tritatcver might hare rkire was one argument of the Hariourable oral Learned Gen- been their deposition previously to rosetts him from its mresdietene tleman (the Attorney-General) to weich he would allude; if The fault, if fault there was. WT. in iheproemoing% of • competent Dlr. Smith bad been triad by tler ordinary tribunal of the tti btmral with respect to shone impa.-iality Govemment had 0 ;seri Colony, he would have been entitlel to the privilege of an no renvon tin suspicion ; anti why neeted tie !louse of lesnimor.s appeal; and while he though; it was impossible to tired any I call in question this Co-art on pinches on which the highest cri. thing more unjust and oppressive than the nature of the evidence'. mina' tribunal would not net toweres the meanest Ma aerate— _the ground brought before the Court-martial, hes:mule have heel to have heard namely , unless malice or corrniiio: wo riseen. RS s the sentiments of a higher Court, respecting the looking into wrong judgment. 'lime liar, ate! 1 aerecti Gentleman (3lr. e. the private 'twine:end& of a man, which were never intended had said much at, to the inea •el state of the colonies; to name • human eye, and to know how they would have but the more he pressed that ar g ument. are the imi-e h^ (Mr. ('ac expressed themselves when they found a Judge Advocate of nine: assented to its truth. the 11,1 , 57 e ought t ee Gon oe tabie a nd R ( . 01011y espro.ssing his disapprobation toetarda a pawn, Learned Gentleman to agree with lit, that the Governor 1-3.1 because use had teed his hick that they were net celestey greatly iTiCrelsell Ole choice of a lair trial, when he sue. to vielaw the Sabbath, and because he would not induce teem to tracted elr. Smith Item tie e hi e h nes t commit this act. All elle arguments which the Han. and Learned have been unfavourable to hen. reel I. toilet him over to 3 tribunal Gentleman had used on the, auteeet, would be done mos; with certainly not treated by coleaial orOtoli;es, and to which re when it wen temembered. that it' Smith had hem tried by the ordi. man hail imputed any personal lot.; a.ioinst the priso-.cr. Ulu nary tribunal, he would Well (melee mail appeal. The ar. • (31r. Conain,in thought with his Hen. friend ( 31r. eVilberterere guitient that lie had been tried by military men, would, lie con- tbat musette by the bourne.. would hair 1...? (trot of lading ml • eetred, have less weight, when it was recollected that finny ned ' colonists to suppose that ciilicr l'arluncrt or Government see*' navy officers acquired, by residing in those countries, the harshest i lukeramt in their wile' eta anielierme the condition of the slave. and least kindly feelings ; and their sympathy was habitually more' or that they were disposed to give Op tee Helga for the reliaieuu with the master* than the slaves. Naval and military offerers, I instruction of the negrom, steecn hrel bon so s.dcaudy declared c! therefore, however unexceptionabletheir characters might be, were, lan rcceistly promulgated; if he thought that it owlet have tie in the islands referred to, the most unfit to be judges. Ile was I effect of encoureeing the persons who in this very co:cry had late in a high degree to tied, that not one individual had de. subscribed time teed., and,— to hardly knew hr what el itie t ••2;' • tended the sentence agatinst Mr. Smith, or really thought hint eiently teeing t.m charseteriza them,—:he rterstr.o:s riontinss wa:.• ;guilty of the crime with which he had been charged; for it I wait jot ever to smut at the light of reason and revelation they ; should be remembered that the court martial had charged him not even then. 111V1111ChO:y as would '• e the phiSike'. would h. with hawing formed a plan the corrupting the minds of the slaves ' agree to purchase an client peon from the eiinsasectice. by sn scut for years previously, for the purpow of training themes to insurrec. l injustice like that scilicet ha was called 111, •,1 !tt do to tOr.dellthin, tion. hir. Smith a p peared ohm to be the man, of all he haul the Court Martial. Ile would almost .o!,er vothtnit 10 the rise a: ewer kr.own, the least calculated to with to promote such an object. I bring ; but the epinian of l'ar!iatucia would be as C 03141 it be believed fors moment, that a non, whose life was in I well known from this el-.11.1:C as by .. formal rs.:lution chi! strict aceirdance with his principles, would be engaged in an object . might record on ea ir joureals. Tee etionia wail know. the which was to •terminate in murder? Could he have been wicked the not cottlemninit the procoscclir4,ins of eie Court 31artial indicated enough, or, being aufficiently wicked, could he hare been tool enough no dismoitien in Parlianent to racciii fr. oi there pleame or tee.... to form or to sanction a plan which we. to promote insurrection aed ale. their pritt pee. II ia II o• able r (I r. Wilberforce ) hag stray the authorities in Me island, where Ise resided as asu issienery ? alluded to the dostractio , of the Methodist chapel and Coe To impute to Mr. Smith any design of obtaining power or autho. petition of the 3liguinnay f. nn llari l idora. He was sure it as rity by means ofstacb an insurrection. wee to impute to hint an act tot from want of cansieue tee; lets Ho:mural:le Friers, had create' of criminal fully inconsistent with all that was known of his tha. to state the the 3lisaionary w h o was eth en tram Itarbatlinit Dal ranee The speech of the Judge Advocate was worthy of a grand found shelter at St. ‘'inematei. lie could not undertake to say whE inquisitor. Every eircumstrince was drawn together to make up local accident had :induced tee insure-mien at Barbeloes, but enc . ' the sum of Mr. Smith's guilt ; even the confidential contents of his the House were considering the state of the %Vest Indies geranell/ , journal, written only for his own eye, the outimeringa of his bone- they ought two to look only to that island where the niiiichirt co' volent wishes for the moral and religious improvement of the ne. seism. but also to the other, where it l:r.d been partly's/ least repair grove The disposition manifested in the mecteelinga molest hint ed. It was his conviction thatall that wingoed would beaccompluda l was hostile to all efforts to amend the cuielition of the slaves, which by the discussion that bed taken place on ibis motion, fleet which it was the declared and recorded sense of Parliament ought to be the Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) was at' promoted. A pretence had been made to distinguhb between Mr. titled to the thanks of his country. Tie mode in which it had been I' V' • (i