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soder t. linestent. The Noble Lord then ellsiling locretote e , tate, re it appeared from the papers be t•re the 11.6 use, aaid it might be attributed to some of Ihe comm.* mentioned by the Noble Marquis, but lie still thought it an almost inevitable consequence of the confusion attending the transition from a state of war to peace. in confirmation of this opi nion, he read some documents to spew, that at the clove of the war in 1783, the increase of crimes was for a few years very considerable. He remarked, that within the last twenty years the severity of punish ment had very much decreased ; the horrors of itsprisooment had bees diminishd, eves by the very philanthropy that sought to amend the inter nal conilitiou of girds ; transportation was hardly looked upon as a punishment; sod even the num ber of persons executed, in comparison with those sentenced to death, was sant+ less than in former years. Taking the period frees 1749 to 1817, iu the fir.t seven years. the neamber of persons sen tenced was on an avevage 61. af Athook 43 suffered death. or something about twei-thieds. From the year 1798 to 1806. eightpitis were Oen teured to death, of wham asty 14 mama ; and in the last seven years 10111111F'nns were sentenced. of whom only twelve andstrwent the execution of the law. This he snesitioaed to falsify the un founded asaertions that bad been urged in a perio dical publication, that in modern times the system of criminal punishment was one of sanguinary windy. He felt that finless a plan of classification, and of instruction were introduced into the prisons, no exertions could be of any avail, nor could the prisons be considered as tending in any way to im prove by correction, the state of society. lie rally Coincided iu the views taken by the Noble Marquis, to whom he returned his sincerest thanks for leaving brought the subject before the House. A Corn. Mission should be instructed, during the rectos, to Wake those inquiries which were specified in the motion, and when their Report should be submitted to the House, he trusted a Committee would be op pointed to take it into their consideration; and he had no doubt that the molt would tend very mate rially improve the condition of the prisons, and through them amend the character of the lower classes of society-•-(1/ea.) The motion was then pat and carried. tome LAWS. Oio the motion f.r the third reading of Ihe Bill for Amend's' the Poor Laws. Th.. Earl of CAILOARTOW, alladieg to the clause (or rating the owners instead of the oeeispiers of boom papist swot bet e'en 61. sod VW • year, proposed as ao awstwdeseut, ilud 41 should be sulestsitifrd for 61. The F.arl of LIVIIIILIPOOL improved of the swiendment, bet feared, in the pre.eut state of the Session, it would be impos sible to have such an titivation elftcled in sufficient tune. He therefore recortiosevided that A should be withdrawn until the nest Sessior. This suggestion was secedcd 10, and An Bill sou read the third lime, and passed. Earl tiaosyrtrow postponed his motion relative to trust ing Siutrure Plares uu rrvcrsion until Miley. The other °Aces of the Day were thee disposed of, soil the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WIDNUDAY, Anis 3. At a "tarter past three o'clock the Stwaiaft took the Chair. Ike House was shortly afterwards suusmosed in the usual form to attend the Howse of Lords. Oii their return, the Speaker int:wooed the Howse that the Royal Assent had ►ee. kis. n by Comnsissien to several public *ad private For whkk see Me I ord.. Riper...) On the ',otitis of Mr. COURTPNAT, the Parochial Benefit !lonely BM, sod the Piiendly Society's Bill, were com mitted, the Reports received, and mitered to be taken into forth. r consideration this day fortnight. The Ono Gentle-' man said, it was unaided to distribute copies of the Bills tbruogluiut the country, fur the purpose of risceiving sug gest tiering the recess, and adopliag early next Session, seek measures as mien be deemed advisable uu these subjects Tim Innkeepers Bill was read the third time, sad passed. greut breeets, Aid the licensing system. As , Wive. tho Cunituittee, after a het tertian'. „ were of opinion, that the prices were neither lief nnreesonable, a the profit more than ie brewer was entitled tie.,_accordoug to the price• of Mee fair ingredients he bad 'to isle. The Cam • gave no co 00000 on on the interest Obtained by to publicists on leases of particular and its effect on the price. They gave to as to the prices of any house which, dealing proprietary houses. compelled them to take nrer article they chose to send. As to the in. 'ure of - deleterious ingredients, they likd en into the fattest exam m a tion ' by a reference e Minutes of the Excise Basard, and other competent initherities. They felt the importance r this branch of the iii airy. and were happy that not a single tustauce was to be of the use of any such ingredients in any eleven great breweries.—(Hew, Atee.)— instance (and this was a solitary exception) Mr. Thomas Mews had been prosecuted for the salt of tartar in one particular case— however alleged et the time. that this Was deleterious ingredient. The inquiry of the 'tire had gone back for six or seven years, . was gratifying to nod. that the eleven great brewers stood etuttereted hoot the use of any other ingredient in the composition of their porter than malt and loops and the mixture* allowed by law. -•-fileer.)-I.When the Committee made this im portent staterhent, they felt it right to state, that though the great brewers already alluded to, stood completelyexinwrated on this important point, yet it had appeared before the Committee, that some deletyrious e itigredients had been used by some of the small brewers, end also that they had been pur chased by some publicans. and mixed up with their porter for the feted trade, though wholly un known to the brewer, whose arson facture was thus deteriorated after it was delivered from his house. Indeed, in some instances it had lieen found, that the yubliceit had been furnished with a book of instructions, to guide him in the intermixture of the ingredients with which he wished to adulterate his porter.—( Hear. )—The Committee had also lobked i n to the nature of the licensing system, as connected with the trade of the victualler. and found in it many abuses, which it was yet difficult to remedy, without trenching upon the validity and security of a system of private property, which had long been suffered to exist, owing perhaps, to the inattention of the Legislature. They had found, that from the system of a large number of houses being in certain places under the control of one mast, some evils existed, not indeed so mud) (if at all) in the metropolis, as in the country puts, where the evil was so much felt, that it became tie ceseary in one place to collect together the priori. pal uoblemess cud gentlemen of the neighbourhood, to vote for the license of a free house, which would sell a different quality of porter from that previously vended in the neighbourhood.—(Heee.) Though the Committee could nut recommend any interferetice with the principle of property which bed grown up under this system, yet they ventured to recommend a prospective measure, and it was, that the Magistrates should have a discretionary power to refuse a license, when hereafter one should he celled for, to such house as might fall into the brewer's bands by any arrangement with the holder. to vend exclusively oily particular article. The Committee were fully of opinion , that so far from the large brewers having, as was supposed, done a public injury, by reason of what was called the monopoly of their trade; they had. on the contrary. done a public bene fi t; ls y the superior article it was ascertained they were enabled to furnish, from the better arrangements which their large and extensive capitals necessarily commanded. ft was right to state, that four of the principal brewers had volun tarily come forward to the Committee, and tendered in the amplest and clearest manner the whole per ticulars relative to the management of the trade, and the ingredients they used io their manufacture. --( Ilear.)—The Committee strongly pointed out the necessity of rigorously enforcing the penalties oesinet persons found adulterating their porter.— (Hear.) On the question that this Report do lie on the table, - _ of Parliament the wl.ole practice a , it noW 'pre vailed, with a view to the enaettneut of a inure salu tary system.—(Hear./ Mr. Was. Sun. said, he had always been tf opinion that the imputations aping the large brewers were *About foundation. lie had also cantle ttttt ed the cry of monopoly that vriis raised against them, because he thought the large capitals in HO, manner eitsbarked operated to the advan tage of the public, and to sending forth the best beer. On the subject of the infliction of penalties, he thought the Excise should invariably exact the large 4 penalty the law allowed where any delete rious ingredient had been used in home.) food.— /Hear)—As front the arbitrary neare of the Excise Law., a Cage disc►etion Must occasionally be exer cised by the .Board, lie thought this subject was one in which no quarter should be given; and fur ther, that the names of all persons so convicted should be posted up and published in their several districts.—(Hear, hecir.) General THORNTON raid, that the lionse and the public were greatly indebted to the labours of the Committee. Their Report contained a mass of useful information. The lion. General thought that Mr. Barber Beaumont had done good in call ing fur this inquiry ; his motives were moat lauda ble, tl gh he had been certainly mistaken in some points of information. The Report was then laid on the table. and or dered to be printed. Su t %fr. Jonts S>ttTH expressed his approbation of the Report, and the pleasure he felt at the full and complete removal which it must effect, of the pre judice that had gone abroad in the public mind on the subject of the large breweries.—( Heur.)a— The Report must completely remove such an im putation from the eleven great breweries of the metropolis.—( Hear.)— it was now, he thought, clearly and satisfactorily made out, that these large establishments manufactured nothing but the ge nuine article. The effect of this most satisfactory explanation would be, he trusted, that the great mass of the people would adhere to the good old English beverage of porter—(Hear)--now that they clearly found where it was properly manufac tured, and relinquish as much as possible the con sallow' of gin, which he believed to be a liquor most injurious to the health of the consumer.— (llear.)—The public prejudice as to great brewers and their practices, was now ascertained to have been utterly void of foundation.—(Hear.) Sir M. VV. RIDLEY having been a Member of the Committee, felt it right to bear this testimony to the total removal of the imputation which pub. tic feeling asiigued to the eleven principal brewers, He repeated the statement, thAt they used no other thau and proper expedients in their porter, though it was iewertained that compositions of a different description had been sold to some small brewers and to publicans, together with books of instructions for the use of the coniposind, but in no instance with the knowledge of the large brewer.— ( Ilear.)—lt was important that where any such discovery was made. the Excise should inexorably levy the puoislinieut assigned by law to such a crime. _ . . Mr. BEnXr expreised his full belief that the idle rumour against the principal brewers was to.. tally destitute of foundation, and that it was not long since, at their request, a colourable liquid, authorised by Is in the matioracture of the article, was forbidden, front tin that it might, in c, !Nato iii,tances, prove winnow. On the subject 1,1 licensing, he fully °greed with the Committee s that it contained gross abuses: indeed tut convinced lie of this, that early next Session he meant to propoee new regulations on this system, for which I , urpose he would bring uuller the consideration • • %, 7 \i\v - \otk • . VL-,• it lie a . ..wally too a pout, so fir es and albelillog, in the execution of the inielit. The jury, however, found him of minulJughter only, thungle hie crime, if evidence he true, was se atrocious murder. The sentence was also • initigialed one for man slaughter; fur it was only a fine of eno!. and three months iniprisoutnent. It is a law of the Islam' of Nevis, that when sue slave died, if he had not been attended by a physician', a Coroner should imme dietrly he ruoned to inquire into the cause of his &nth. The Howie would see the value set on the lives of their unfortunate people, when such a verdict as 'het given before a Coroner, was, after some deist', obtained iii this c.ise. The verdict of the dilry'at law was a no less extraordinary one. If they believed the evidence, they had only one ver dict to find ; if they did not, they had only one duty to perform by acquitting the Prisoner. In finding him guilty of the crime of man slaughter, according to the facts of the case, they either did Mr. Rawlins the grossest injustice, or they compreinised their own solemn awl impera tive obligation. 'Lord Bathurst makes this appro priate remark in his dispatch to Giverilor I'robyn, repairing the minutes of the trial—" II this state ment be true, or in Huy way epproachnig to truth, Mr. Rawlins could not have been guilty of luau slaughter; it must have been murder, or an acquit tal." It was worth attention, that in the first tbs. patch of Governor Probyn to Earl Bathurst, dated St. Kett's, October 17, tali, communicating the occurrence of the death of the sl:►►e, is this pas sage—" I have also thought it proper to give your Lordship the result of the trial, lest any incorrect account might be taken to England."—( Heor.)— Here in the beginning it was apparent that son►e ulterior inquiry might possibly be made into this transaction. Lord Bathurs►, iii acknowledging this communication to the Governor, and calling for further particulars, very justly observed—" As your dispatch teems not to consider the transaction in so very serious a light as it must be considered, if the accounts which have been by private channels given of it are true." In answer to this requisition Erma his Lordshir, Governor l'robyo, in his dis patch of the _lst last March, enters for the first tisue into particulars, but without giving the evi dence before the Coroner. The evidence on the trig, however, detailed a most horrible mass of cruelty. He would now ask the Gentlemen who charged those with issuing injorioui and exagger ated statements on the sal►ject of West India mat. ten, with what face could they repeat such a charge after this scene of cruelty had been exposed to the public eye ?—(llear, hear.)—They had now au thentic facts, and not vague rumours, to inform themselves on such practices ; and lie trusted the House would pursue the inquiry in the manlier justice demanded.—(hear.)---He concluded by moving for the depositions taken before the Coroner in the Island of Nevis, on the body of a slave named Congo lick.—(//ear.) . . • two of these cart whips, the appearance of which would harrow the feeliogro of ally wan who con sidered the uses to which they h.id been ac tually applied. The Him. Mt-uglier opposite (Mr, Marryatt) IllUtito , r in which these Cates were brought forwarol ; but lie (Mr. Smith) could assure him, that were it not for the trams. mission of private coin ttttt nicationa, neither the country tier the Colonial Office would be likely to possess much information ou the treatment ut slave I In some of the Col es.—(Hear.)—He could prove that the utmost atrocities were committed in some of them, and that those who were charged with bringing forward exaggerated rtioteineins writ: rather criminally foilitilvisig iii *Cling upon doubted facts and information.—/Hear, hear.) — There were some of those alto stout high among West India Legislators, that if the Facts reaper:till them were brought before the public rye, would find it hard to get a hole to hide their heads isia Circumstance, might lie made public :is to, the con nectton between the Riseliiis'a and the and the rank of some of then', which would re quire future colon's-union. 11Ir. WILHERFottcc sand, that if any Gentlcrivon was of opiodou that ii.tpitry by the !louse vas in the prisent iuiluult untiecessaly, lie e title:slid him to consider what he wool,' think if :s Irathan us murder had been committed within a few tulles of an I the most material facts of the case hood been suppressed by him, whose duty it was to give a roll Hail impartial accaunt of them. A Kurt inisfortsitie that these loom people laboured ulio!ee was, their distance from the iiiotlier e tttttt Irv. Tile charge was almost just. that lie and his Foiends had beets criminally indifferent. Au Mem ber spoke of a letter he had in his posse:silo,. lie also Was in possession of a letter, fully s u ti s i. o ,l l . sting one fact, namely, that the GUVerllol' es ii he heard of the verdict of the Corutter's with great uneasiness. /low could that be tour, when in his continuo'. ati tttt to this county lie had not said a word about the ingot-tots ? The J ury were also well acquainted with the facts previous to the mat's death—yet they brought iu " Died by the visitation of God." The Governor never took any notice of the inquest in his first letter, and were it tint for the oilier lett, re his Majesty's Government souls' never have braid is word of it. IVithoot the letters also the fact of the previous trial would never have come to light, awl all the (Noel circumstances of the case. He would entreat the House to draw this one conclusion from all they had heard on the subject, that if Ins Ma jesty's Amster* were sincerely desirous that justice should be done in these distant drpendenciea, they ought to listen to every private source of informa tion, by which only all tile circumstances attendant ots t rely case could be entirely developed. What would Ins sense of the House ins the transaction he, if it were Pinned on his first letter? Ile did nut knosv Goe.-rt:or liri,byti, but it was lint unlikely he went Out to the %Vest Indies to repair bus fortune, or advance his virwt its life. The whole trainee tam proved, that the Govertsuient ought to make both Governors 'and Judges independent. He could state on the authority lie hail referred to, that the Guru, nor had endeavoured to suppress (lie facts preceding the sham's death, and ibist Mi. Raw limo was not taken iuto custtldy till long *tier the irsinsactiosi, nod when in prison was alluded to live as he pleased, and to entertain his friends and see company. The House ought 10 iiissituie an in quiry to discover whether the facts mete so o r li nt.-- (Alert the cries (j' .‘ Qmestion ."' became eery loud and freipieni.)—ln reply to Gentleineu a In, vet shed so impatient, he would ray that negroes Were witO acknowledged to lie rant. As the Gnversioor had beets guilty of is most material mnissnon to his re ports on the case, lie deetned it the duty of the House to direct a full investigation. Sir S. (twit 10, reply, 113111, that an Hon. Gentlemen opposite (Mr. Marry sit) 113,1 charged lutist with being premature; but that Charge could not in justice be wade, when lie was its p:osessiou of every infotioation on the subject, except the evidence given before the Coioind's Itupiest. If the Hon. Gentletwais should ray, lie °own loot yet to Cell-ore the Co is Inquest, lie autos' concur with him, but ito farther could he go. He load also accused him of aggravation ; but *lieu the House rousidered the heinous nature of the case they could scarcely be of that opinion. Ile had nut spoken of Mr. Rawlins being restored to his situation, which yet was the fact. As to the large islands, lie !sad &stilted) , stated on this, and a former oc. assort, that his ilbset rations on abuses wipe confilied to the smaller islands, and that the administration of justice might he very different to the others. lint he could not forbear remarking. that no case, of whatever enormity, could be jou duced beline the !louse that dud nut Iliad extriitia tot s. The question on the motion was tlikw,Rpt wild agreed to. i t 4 al et - A Menage from the Lords evil, that ifi l Lord., ships hail agreed to the Portugal Convenii tttt Hi I—lhe Sol diers' Pensions Hill—the Hoek Salt Dons 1.1.11-“,se East tidbit Shipping and Marriages Hill--mud the Niffiltahle s. turitit is Dill, with Our Aivendatvids to which they' desirtd Ilse vouctirtenve of the Hour. EDUCATION OF THE POOR. Mr. BROUGHAM brought up the Report of the Seleet Committee on the Education of the Poor.— Ordered to lie 011 the table awl be printed. : Mr. Bitoecitawi said, lie rose to, make the motto!) of which he had given notice. He wou ld, III)11 e tc r, tluminence by stating, that since he hail List ad dressed the House on the subj cr el the Poor Education Bill, it had undergone trrtaill Mritet 1,1 alteratsuns iu soother place, winch, by rreuhrtu it to its original efficacy, had induced hint to loth.-ar moving, as lie had intended, that the flue=e should not tierce to the timendineins. At the time Le alluded to, the 801 l had been rendered a there nul lity—its essence taken away-a-its energy and virtue . - uric powerless ,wis persons--not log inquiry, but he thought that he made per country, if they rceedingly harpy :tionable clan-its ill had been in pristine vigour—. g the at up, to agree to tiit 11161CLUitlitt o ero o rn t a tupodrstis,e, Mr. MARRY ATT Said, that he weulti be the last man in the House toefesid the 'e;cercise of cruelty ; but he could not help complaining, that the lion. and Learned Gentleman had taken an opportiessity of drawing conclusions as to the general administra tion of justice in the West India 'shouts, merely from the single 'circumstance of a particular fact, and one on which he confeised he lied not all the inforniO!'n which the case required. He (Mr. M.) l front looking over these papers, could see 'so ground whatever fur supposing that Governor I'ro. byn had not conducted himself in the most ho. noontide manner, and sliewit a readiness to trans. mit every infermation which was necessary on the occasion. As to the mode or inflicting punishment for runaway slaves iir the West Indies, It must ne cessarily, for the sake of example, be dorm in a summary manner, and sometimes intrusted to dos errs, who might perhaps exceed proper hounds.— The punishment must be executed as it generally was in the army aed navy. The Hon. will Learn. ed Gentleman had arraigned the correctness of the proceeding ; but he had treated some of the facts is an exaggerated manner, while he had certainly con. fined himself in others to those points which neves. warily required proper attention and consideration. The Hon. Gentleman here referred to parts of the evidence, where it was stated that the punishment of the slave did not last longer than two or three minutea, and that he was neither tied down, 11111' heard to cry. nor observed as if labouring under the heavy pain alluded to. It was also proved, that the marks on the body could not have been inflict ed by a whip, the weapon with which punislimenia were always inflicted. The driver, it appeared, had certainly exceeded his order—and the manager was, by the subsequent trial, held tesponsibk for the act. The Jury could not, he thought, have found a verdict of murder, under the circumstances of the case; that was a crime where malice afore thought must appear, and here there was no such feeling, nor any motive for it. indulgence. When the Hon. and Learned Gentleman talked lightly of three months imprisonment, he should recollect in what climate this punishment was to he inflicted, and he could assure him, that in the %Vest Indies it was one of great severity. He was free to ad. ntit, that there war enough in the rime to entitle it to inquiry, and lie could certainly have no objec tion to the motion, though he saw no reason wuat ever for cawing the reflection• that had been made on the practice of the Colonial Judicature. Mr. GOULBURN, on the part of the Colonial Office, could only say, that the inmost alacrity hail been sheen) to obtain every intormari relative to this case with the least possible delay.—(" Hear, hear !" front Sir S. Remaly.) Mr. ALEXANDER GRANT begged leave to read a letter which he had received from a frit lid of the first respectability at Nevis respecting this transac tion—it was for the purpose of *hewing that the circumstance had excited the most marked disap probation on the spot. The w, • single moment ind been lost into the reuse of the death of the charge could have beet' proper!' to Mr. 'Lewitt's, there was Bp dni would have immediately follgowed lion. Ile further i.tatt-Ci, that e , law of Mr. Rawlins had, since •freak to him, tool that repre•et sent home to the Bishop of London of hiving him deprived of this - Member concluded by making the cart whip used to punishing Mr. Wawa)* SMITH •aid. . . their linrdshipa, and fur the puma* of ascertotit. eleven ill ing the notate of the existing regulations, soil hue t to the pri for it might he prudent to revise and alter then", hr two, wen ehoul.l moire sio humble Address to his Royal I ',utifsies, al 'Highness the Prince Regent, praying thin he may be the brevet $ groeion.ly ',kissed to command that at, or as soots of the foi after,lhe'next meeting of Perliement is ninskt be nutter ga conTruient,:thate be laid before the House au AC. advances comet of the state of all the aaols, Hott.,:s of 'houses, s Correction, sod otbey Isthmus in the Kingiloirt, 'opioion a • I witli llniumether . 4 t'rnioner• confined in them at with pro' i any tinie - dinii 'he yekr 'Um, specifying MOD 'whatever ages and itheir standee. lennixtui •", Urn, SittSioutu said thit a subjeit 'of More im- 'treed ill" portauce had never been brought before their Lord- I to the M ships. His ewes feelings upon it might have been competes . collected frosw hie hoeing at en earlier period tif of this Ii Vie Seskissie moved en Address to the Crown for the to **ate, 1 yrimbicoissii, 4 those papers to winch the Noble fawn, of 1 1 1Lattislia had eluded. Upon these it was tloe in. o r . th. e trotters of his ilejery's M"o"wers, (boring the re- In one ii rem., to institute (Whet inquiries to the extent the I st' embraced by the motion, h‘tlre felt happy at having "II thi this intention anticipated h' the Noble Marquis. it was ho ber.siow it twist be of the uiumust adrautage to have not a deli ruck ass i:squiry prosecuted soder the emptcesof Par. Commit; . t liament. The Noble Lord thee alludiag to the tots it ws I I I a Y , . . niter stated, that not ' destroyed—and itself reodtred a nit It iii making inquiry strument in the hands of ll iskiam the slave, and that if only devoid of Abe means of enforci operly brought home 4 ;absolutOY prohibiting it, and hi doubt ins execution ' 4 14 *atop of Cpstimons would red a capital convit* , ,"t* :i't t n , ,p delasion en the cc even the brothee's-itft.'" had ~ - . to them. lie was exc e the affair, ceased thlto ..: ; bat most of the object .sentations bad beet 4 44 . — . e mitted—that the Bil radon for the purpossino..e" tinware restored to its in it gown. Thellok" 11404) trements made ai ng some allusiote. '. ... 1, t t' •'‘X . it was far from • ,4 . !I . 1g slaves.—(Heoi' Ii it had been sent that he bud onsi nab * 4 rti* • bad understood .. POOR'S LAWS. 3fr. LttTrt.T•tf presented a Petition from the Inhahl tants'of Kidderminster, against the Pour Settlement Bill.— LAd on the table. SILK WEAVERS. Mr. Preen Moose brought up the Report of the Com rnitree nu the Silk Robbers Weavers Bill —Ordered to lie ou the table. REFORM. The lion. Member promoted it Petition from Camilla), praying for Parliamentary fetfurm.—Laid ma the table. SCOTCH BURGHS. Mr. FINLAY prevented a Petition frum tbe Corporation the RoyAI Burgh of Perth, iu ftcottand, eumplaisting ut the 'permitt rrtem of these &Mk; the reform 0t wh" they corneal!, prayed frum the Hume. The Petition was laid uu the table, and ordered to be ;Hauled. ALIEN DILL. .4 11rs•agt from the 1.:1; announced thr•ir Lordships' to the Alien Bill, with amend ments. Os, the motion or ?dr. WALLACE. these amend- Menls erle orilerrd to he primed, and taken into C4)1160.111600 on Finlay 'teat. PRICE AND QUALttY OF TOIITER. Mr. Lotati.taT brought up the Report of the CA tire uu Public Inylog this ite- lint on thr tshl., lie called the attento.n House to the cuMploonts onside by the pethlie tint is', which ttere chi• fly the high tai.e t.: 'arm:or quality, the mixture of &kit tiuus tai the art.ele, the tAt.tti.ost; i.y DUTY ON COALS. Mr. LITTLETON segg.dtOask the Hon. Mem ber for Durham, whether he could convey to the House at this moment any information respecting the particulars of the motion which he intended to make oil the subject of the Duties on Coals? It would be imporiaut to know if the Hon. Member turista to ►ednce the duty ou sea coals, and add to that on coals conveyed on the canals? A number of persons felt anxious to obtain some tuformation on these point!, Mr. Last4Tow replied, that if he were prepared at this molgserit to answer the points put by the Hun. Gentian, he must he ready to enter into the merits of, and discuss the whole question. He would certainly feel it his duty to call the attention of the House generally to the duties on coals—the precise cows.. lie might take must be matter for future reflection ; but in his present view of the subject, hr was certainly nut inclined to propose any extension of the Excise duties on coals con veyed on canals. Sir C. MORDAONT hoped the Hon. Gentleman would give full notice of his motion, and not take those who were interested in the subject by sur prise. Mr. LADIBTOP replied, that it was undoubtedly his intention to give proper notice. TREATMENT OF SLAVES IN THE ISLAND OF NEVIS. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY rose to make his promised :notion for a copy of depositions taken before the Coroner in the Island of Nevis, who sate on the body of a negro named Congo Jack. In briugiag forward this stbject, he felt it necessary to state that lie did not call the attention of the House to it alone on the extraordinary barbarity which the par ticular case developed, for that, glaring as it was, appeared much less important than the light it threw ou the mode of admi n e tering criminal justice iu the West India Islands, where the protection Or slaves was at stake. It was, therefore, to the gross adtuiuistration of justice in these Colonies that he meant particularly to call the atten tion of the House—and for this purpose it he. cause necessary for him to call fur further in formation from the Colonial authorities. The facts of the particular case which had occurred were simply these :—A Rev. Mr. Rawlins had the ma nagement of an estate belonging to a Mr. Hutchin son ; a slave had ran away from it on the Tuesday, was taken and brought back on the IVeduesday, flogged in the severest manner on Thursday. and chained with another slave who had committed some offence, and dragged to work with the rest of the men on Friday morning; lie was still chained to the other slave, and when brought to his work he was incapable of doing any thing, and complained of severe pain. hunger, and sick ness—he tried to lie down in this state, but was severely flogged by the sticks of one or two drivers. The consequence of this brutal treatment was. that the wretched bring died in the course of Friday actually chained to his fellow slave!! He was buried privately on the same day, and no Coroner's in quest was at the moment called. though his body was covered with marks of violence. Some inti mation of this cruelty had been given to the Magis trates, and a Coroner was then ordered to ail on the b ody, which was dug up for examination. The present object of his motion was, for the depositions of the Coroner. which, strange to say, had not been transmitted to this country. But it appeared from the evidence given on the subsequent trial, that, at the Coroner's inquest, Dr. Thos. O'Mealey deposed, that he attended at Hutchinson's estate on the 9th September, between twelve and one o'clock, accompanied by two other doctors; that he had examined the deceased, who was then taken oat of his grave, and found several marks on the body ; one on his right eye, one on his right jaw, one on the right arm, one on the right breast, one on the right side of the belly, soil sonic on his thighs; there might have been others, but those described were the most remarkable. Two of his teeth were recently broken. lie did not dissect the body to examine the stomach ; the contusi mast have been tion, and lie could riot ascertain the precise cause of the deceased's death. %Veil' all this evidence of violence upon the hotly, the House would be shocked and astonished' to hear that the verdict of the Coroner's Jury was—di Died by the vi sitation (1 God !"—(Hear, hear, hear./—One Pf the drii era had been afterwards tried for the murder, and several slaves were examined on the trial, among the rest the man to whom the de ce Aped had been chained, and he on that occasion swore that Mr. Rawlins, the manager, was trot pie sent when the last severe punishment hail been in flicted. In this case, if such were the fact, the inaliager was exonerated ; but if done in his pre. sever, as afterwards appeared, he alone was respond , sable, mild the driver, of course, free, at acting under the orders of his master. 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