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• PICTURE GALLERY. No. Vt. So, (it. The State Coach in a Rut. By Messrs. Pitt and Co. R. A. One of the leaders has fallen down, and is almost overw!idmed with mud. He appears to he a fine old aiamal, and to have done the state some service. The populace, attracted by the accident, instead of assisting him, are belabouring him without mercy, and striving to drag him still deeper into the mire. The coachman, who appears to be a very expert whip, has cut away the traces, and disengaged the other horses of their dead companion ; but they evidently want strength to pull the coach. Four thoosand pounds a year are offered for a sub s!itute, but no dealer will accept the terms !n the mean time, several ontside passengers are camplaining that it was all the coachman's fault, 25 he 1-1 nut keep a tight rein over the leaders. Some of them are even attempting to drag him off tb: box, and to mount in his place ; but he sticks to Ids se it, and lays about him lustily with his w hip. The coazh is old fashioned, bin is strong built and 1 ooniy, and, considering how long it has been run, is in good condition. No.6l..—l'vr,rdil qt' if. Vos Barugatten, a Dutch "lead. liy M. Buckingham, R. A. This Artist was one of the most famous Painters of his time. He executed his Landscapes with a :;re It deal of care after the Dutch gout, sparing no pains in his views, which commonly represent places in the Eachejucr, &c. where he had studied and accustomed himself to take in a large extent of hills and distance. His views of Stowe and of Woo ton, in Bucks, are considered most valuable pieces. His Joke in the country, it is thought, wotid sell for an enormous sum. 'File head ,t the Artist is cha raCcristic of his works. The colouring is rich, soft, and mellow, and the expression in harmony with rural life. The proportions are also luxuriant, and _ in a fine flowing line, like the produEtion of a rich and well cultivated soil. No. 72. —Lord Nielvitle'A Friend: reading the Peti tion of the Lord Mayor and Livery of London, to Parli.nnent, spas Me cute of the 84 of Aped. ----Why, how Pow. leaden:tut ' Whin c you in those pipers, that you lose So anti: complexion!—look ye how they change, Their c•i , !eks are paper. Why what read .0 there. That lath se chwaalcii so 4 chas'd your blosd Out of appearance King Hiner V. Act 11. Sc IL The figures which constitute this groups are thrown into a very arkward situation. Some of the attitudes are indecent; and the piece, upon the whole, is dectitute of grace, truth, and spirit. Some, on the contrary, are of opinion that the- figures hang well together; hut it is difficult to decide who are Tight, as the work is seen in a very bad 410. °PIE'S PORTRAIT of /he YOUNG RI The Young Machu hit. no great reason to regret the dismissal of his tutor , Mr. Hough ; as his father. Mr. Betty, appears to have a tolerably good no tion of stage effea, and aisle to give this astonishing boy some good lettlures 'in the art. He lately at tempted to carry him to Coventry, and to ezhibit him there four nights in Passion week ; but, being disappointed in that, he has now contrived to kick up a rout about the boy's portrait, as painted by Mr. Opic, and sent for public exhibition to Somerset liatse. Alexander proud of being painted by Apellm ; and if Mr. Opie be not greatly fallen off, his pencil is not unworthy of even the Young Ituriul. Conceiving, however, that Mr. limy has availed himself of the circumstance for the sake of notoriety, we give the following account of the trans adion : Mr. Ovoie undertook, at the request of Mr. Par. her, of Lancashire, to paint the resew &Aries in Lae charader of Norval for 100 guineas, fifty of s-hich were paid down. On hearing that it was in v.-i.e. • to be exhibited at :he Royal - Academy, Mr. Levy reioonstrated against it to the painter, on the fecund that it would injure the sale of the print boos it : tint Artist differed from that opinion, and added, that he seas at peeled liberty to exhibit it. and consequently should exercise that right by sealing it to the Exhibition ; which he did. Mr. Betty then wrote to the Hanging Committee of the Academy, requesting their intetference, and de mandiag the Peßure to be returned ; who, in an swer, very properly replied, that they had nothing to de with disputes between Painters and their Em. philters; their ditty was to see all the pi lutes pro perty place) ; that they had done co by this Portrait of Mr. Opie's ; therefore could not suffer its re moval. Ax application was nett made by letter front Mr. Parker to Mr. Opie, insisting upon the anmeriabitiost of the Paiute. The Artist, in an swer to tl is, transmitted Mr. Parker his deprisit of 50 guinea ihferming him, that he was perfarly au thorised of Alt Parker's letters to exhibit the Pic ture, even if it had become his property ; but, deem ing it note exclusively his own, he u usted all diffi t Sullies on this sebjeft would cease. The reisly to this charged the Artist to exhz:sit it at his pent ; in consequence of which, Mrs. Opie, meeting Mr. Ers lone at an assembly, told him the story, and, with equal prudence and address, sal!--" And now, Sir, you must allow me to radii; * ea, inurpport of ear rau.r!" Mr. Erski , te took out his L ocket-hook, and entering this sp:eiai retainer, very gallantly replied, " The cause of a lady has the Itirest claim on my best 'imp°, t." The whsle length Portrait of Nor ye!, and another of the boy in 11.1m.id, are hung centrically in the Academy, with only one palate between them. !I Us. SLAVE TRAIM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Si have frequently heard the following : Aut. nient triumphantly uiged against the Abolition of tee Slave Trade—" Are not the Negroes slaves in their own country, in subjeaion to cruel, barbarous, uncivilised, tyrants, from whom it is a kindness to rescue them, and to transport them to the enjoy ment of comparative securest and happiness in the West Indies ?" Here, however, the poverty of lan- Fuage tends, in no small degree, to mislead our judgment; and because what is called Slavery, ex ists in Africa, our colonial system, in all its parts, it is assumed (extravagantly enough) to be lawful, and even humane. Bat let us compare these two states : and first, as to their effeas. Does the population of Africa de crease? No : it increases so TApidly, that even the murderous Slave Trade is thence annually supplied with its 80,000 viaims ; independent of at least an equal number which must almost necessarily be sacrificed, in order that these may be procured. Then, as to the nature of this servitude. Are slaves in Africa subjeaed to the same compulsory process, for the extraftion of their labour, as in the West Indies? Or, are they subjeaed to the same privation of every civil and political right? Let this question be answered by an appeal to the writ ings of Slave Traders, and avowed Anti-Abolition ists. Mr. Moore, who was iii&Or to the Royal African Company, in the River Gambia, about the year 1730, thus expresses himself : " Some people,' says he, " have a good many House Slaves, which is their greatest glory, and they live so well and easy, that it is sometimes a very hard matter to hnow the Shirt: from their Mastert and Mictreiso; they very often being better clothed, especially the females, who have sometimes coral, amber, and silver, about their wrists, to the value of twenty or thirty pounds sterling. Many of the slaves are born in their families. There is a whole velege neat Boncoe, of 200 people, who are all the wives, slaves, or children, of one man. 1 serer loans of but one that ever sold a _family slave, except for such crimes a. would hare made them le be sold, had the , / been free. If there are many family slaves , and the: of diem commits a crime, the Master cannot sell him without the joint consent of the rest ; for, if he does, t ey will all run away, and be protected by the next kingdom to which they Ay." Mr. Park fully confirms the statement of Mr. Moore; and from him it fully appears, that al though what is called domestic slavery exists in Africa ; yet the evils of the Slave Trade do not fall with less weight upon domestic slaves than upon freemen. Mr. Park not only describes the circurn staeces of the domestic slave to be so easy and com fortable, that, in every laborious occupation, " the master and the save work together without any distinaion of superiority ; but likewise admits that he can only be sold t. foreigners, in cases which would equally authorise the sale of freemen : such as crimes, insolvency, capture in war, and witch craft." And he adds, what is very important to the present argument, viz. " The master cannot sell his domestic slave, without having first brought him to public trial before the chief mess of the rl Ice."—(Park's Trawls. p. 238.) Innumerable testimonies to the same effea • might easily be produced, which would ;ill go to establish incontrovertibly the almost incalculable distance which separates our system of colonial. bondage from the domestic servitude of Africa.— But, in Africa, let it further be it-membered, there is no difference of colour between the master and the slave. In the islands, on the contrary, the dif ference is so plain and obvious, that many West-In duns scruple not to avow their belief, that the Ne groes ate an inferior order of beings to their mas ters; a link in the chain which conneas the limo sa piens with the brute ; a nerves of oranennang, dif fering from their brethren of the woods only in possessing the faculty of speech. Can we then wonder,that, when even their claim to be considered as human is questioned, they should not be treated AS men, and snould be denied the common rights of humanity ? Under such circumstances, they are, naturally enough, excluded from the pale of that sympathy, which a sense of a common nature, and of a common extrattion, inspires—and which, in minds not habitually regulated by religion, is the greatest and surest source of benevolence, and the best guard against the abuse of a despotic Authority. I am unwilling to extend the paper to an immo derate length, but yet I cannot avoid remarking the confirmation which my reasoring derives from what has lateiy passed in St. Domiago. Had West In dian bondage been that mild system which it has been represented to be ; is it supposeable that a whole community should unite as one man, not only in casting off the yoke, but in preferring ex termination, by the most cruel means, to submitting again to wear it? But I forbear to enter on this extensive field. It was my intention to have said a few words in reply to the arguments adduced to establish the im prallicability of abolishing the Slave Trade ; but I must reserve what I have to say to a future oppor tunity ; only remarking, that it it were as true as it is demonstrably false, that, in the event of our abo lishing the Trade, not one African the less will he sold, I should still say, that the Slave Trade ought not, for one moment, to be tolerated by this coun try. /t is founded In lqjslttee : it is fogered by Com mercial Avarice: it is &ossified in Biseit—lt is, iss short, a peat& in which no Christian con have any parlicipaften. " Can't thou, and hoooue4 with a Christian's name, Buy what is womati-born, and feel no shame ! Trade in the blood of innocence, and plead Erpediestre as a warrant for the deed! So clay the wolf, whom fatnine has made bu!d To quit the finest, and invade the fold : So may the ruffian, who with gho►tly glide, Dagger in hat I, steak duce to your bed side ; Not he, but ht. emergence, fined the dour ; He found it ineonseni :tit to he tiour. Has God then gieri its sweetness to the cane, Unless his lies be trampled en—ln tan'' Built a bras. world, which canna yet subsist, Unless his right to rule it be dismial! Impudent blasphemy ! So Folly pleads. And As'i.ce, swing iodic, with ease succeeds." Your',., &c. A N AZOLIT !MUST. • See the examination of Mr. Penny, Mr. Matthew., and Mr. 1341te11, before the Privy Council, aU of whom were slate traders, .. • .1.. 5P01171,7G NEWMARKET CRA' Subscription Plate of 101 b. 3 yr olds Bst. _ olds 9st. 411,. 6 yr olds Duke of Grattisies b. h Pic ' Mr. D. Radcliffe' , b. g R. Mr. Wardell's br. c. Copies, General Gower' , b. G by Go: Mr. Williams's gr. c. Blue Lord F. G. Osborne's b f. k. Sir John Shelley's b. c. Skitiack, _ Mr. Craven's h. c Jockvs, S yrs old Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f Humming Bird, I srs old Mr R. Gondisson's roma f by Busslad, out of Admiral' , dam, 2)n , .111 Mr. Lake's b. e Msmeloke, S yrs old Mr. Abbey's b. g. Little Julio, 4 vrs old The Judge could Saar but three. Five to I against Pic Nic ; 6 to 4 against Rebel, and 7 to 1 against Capias. Sweepstakes of .20gs. each. Across the Flat. 1 Lord Foley's Captain Absolute, syr old, 1 1 .t. 51b. . Sir J. Shelley's Julia , S yrs old, 7st I . 2 Mr. D. Radcliffe's Nitre, 4 yr old, 7st tells. Lord Sackvilles Enchanter, syr n.d, 13.4. l Ylb.. 4 Mr Htswedh's Malta, `eat old, lot. 91b. • . 5 Five to 2 against Captain Absolute; 4 to I against Julia ' • 2 to 1 against Enchanter. D. of St. Alban's Merryman beat Gen. Grosve nor's Two Shoes, Bst. each. Across the Flat, 50gs. 6 to 4 on Merryman. Lord Foley's Dimsdale, Bst. beat Mr. Wilson's ditto, Bst. 91b. B. C. 2006...-2 to 1 against DiMs dale. Mr. Wastell's Lumbago, B'st. beat Mr. Panton'i Dilletanti, Bst. 31b. D. I. 50gs.— 5 to 4 on Lum bago. Mr. Mellish's Eagle, 9st. 71b. rec. ft. fri,m Mr. Howorth's Malta, sst Sib. Ab. M. 200 gs. CANAL NAFIGATIO,V. I . On Wednesday last an experim e nt was made on the Grand Junaion Canal, near to Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, for :ascertaining the loss of time which would be occasioned by reservoir- being used adjnining to the lock of a canal. for saving a por tion of the water which would otherwise be let down out of the higher level, or pound, of a canal into the lower, on the passing of every rare, either upwards or downwards. The result of this experiment was. that one half of the water requisite to fill a lock may be reserved each time with the loss of three minutes and a half only in time ; as the barges, which are usually five and a half minutes in passing, took up only about nine minutes when this saving of water was made. On this occasion, two side pounds, or reservoirs, were construifted, each of the same su perficial area as the lock of the canal, which they are near, and wherewith they conne.E', by means of 1 sluices, which pen the water as tight as possible, either into or out of the lock. The first of these side pounds has its bottom something less than half, and its top somewhat more than three-fourths of the height or depth of the lock, and consequently, on opening its sluice as a barge came down, one quar ter of the water of the lock flowed into it, when its sluice was again shut; the sluice of the second side pound was then opened, and into this (its bottom not being above half the height of the lock) about another fourth part of the water of the lock flowed, and was retained there by the shutting of the sluice ; the remaining half of the water in the lock was dan let down into the lower pound as usual. A barge which was;going up then entered the lock, and, the doors being shut, the sluices of the side pounds were opened, and one half of the Ite;glit of we lock was filled by the water therein reserved from the pa.sage of the former barge ; the remaining half of the lock was tilled in the usual way from the upper pounJ, and thus only one lock-full of water was consumed, or let down, by the pas sage of one barge down and another up the canal, the lock :.iso remaining full for the passage of did next barge downwards. Thew side pounds possess the advantage of being used or not, accord ing as a dry or wet season may make a saving of water necessary or not for the canal ; and seen to offer a better expedient than do: ow hitt:erre+ adopt ed of seeitins for oo ~. that is, that iri a ch y rime, no barge should pass a leek upwards till another barge is arrived and ready to pass down with the sane lock fall of water; for the locks are not allowed to stand lull of water, on account of the extra lea',:age, and of danger to the walls of the lock. Tv:o boats heavily laden with flirts from the chalk-pits, intend ed for the potteries in Staffordshire, were the first which passed upwards, using the side pounds. These side pounds may, it seems, be construaed in the space of a week or two, and will probably cost about sixty pounds at each lock, of the usual dimen sions. From the above, it is probable that sew.ral of these side pounds to the locks, will Le construaed upon the Grand Junaion Canal ; and it is siogular that the patent which Mr. Playfair took out for this contrivance is within a tew weeks of expiring before his invention should have attrafled the notice of a company, whose canal is in some places su much in want of water. - - - John WaUbe, for setting fire to a barn at Armi tage, in Staffordshire, was executed on Saturday last in the front of the county gaol. Waltho lived servant with Mr. Henney of Armitage, In the year 1789, aad, owing to his repeated negligence, a toal was killed in the stable t when his service expired. Mr. lienney stopped 51. out of his wages on that account. Waltho frequently uttered expressions indicative of revenge for this ; and on the night the crime was committed he wa. seen in various places, going and returning from the barn with ta lighted candle in a lanthoin. though a clear, mnin lignt night ; the very moment alttr he had done the ait be fled from that part of the country, and an interval of nearly sixteen years elapsed previous to his retura into it ; his almost first aCt attervrards was to go to hi. tormer master . . and dern.ind the 5!. w:tich had been retained by him. Mr. H. clew ed him to sit down, and sent for the Cs/astable, took him into custody. From the evidence addu ced as hit trial, not a doubt of his guilt could be en tertained ; and the Learned Judge, in pii%i.ing th! sea mote of death, observed, that in great ci inset, though the person committing them might tor a time elude the vigilance of jiistiee, yet an o verruling Providence, in the end, generally led hon. by some indiscreet aft or other. to bet , 2 Y himielf, and meet that punishment he had lun g merited. The pt.sotter. since his condemnation , ha d evinced mush penitence. .. . . Air • 4 • '. I INTRtLtGENCE. .; - ---....---- • I \YEN MEETING, APHIS. 18 . ., . ..malb J SOLD. M. for 2 jr olds, 6.E• 0 . sib. 4 yr °kis Bst: 131 b. 3 ire olds ~.d aged 9st. Sib. 4 . IC . K. 5 y.s old i (.4).4, aged 1 r s AS 2 yrs old IP A 9, 6:5:,tv, out of traher*wrs old . • e 144.1, b• ituzz,, , i, tyri old z r. ELzobetb, 4 yrs 141" ikkiiiek, 2 yrs old hi- LAIV. • WESTMINSTER sEssioNs, Arm' t 9. Btfore WILLIAM NI AINWA RING, &.q. And :I): .1;4 , - ewes of th: Pcacc for the Cit 34 /.:,edit' minst(r. James Bucknaid, a boy about Iti years age. ,sa • indided for obtaining money under false .; Mr. Po etmo tre stated the case on the part oil toe prosecution. He said, that the Defendant fitd been the apprentice of the Prosecutor, James Norman, who was a blacksmith, at Chatham, aad had ab sconded from him on the '23d of March last, when he was joined by two men of the same tra.lc, and came to London to the Duke of Clarence puhlic house, in Charing-cross, where he inlisted in the Royal Marines, at the same time representing him self not to be an apprentice, which offence. by a late ad of Parliament, was made transportable for fourteen years: Here the CHAIRMAN interfered : he thought it was better rhe boy's friends should be consulted, and the master should give up the prosecution ; as, in case of convidion, the boy must be transported, and then, both he and the public would be deprived of his services. He also thought, that the two men who had accompanied the boy to the rendezvous house, should have been prosecuted for a conspiracy to rob the public purse—they knowing the situation of the boy, at the time they offered him for enlisting. After some consultation, the Prosecutor persisted in his determination to prosecute the boy : and the Witnesses being called, and severally examined by Messrs. Plumose, KN A PP, and Guests , ' for the prosecution—it appeared, upon the evidence of two Recruiting Serjeants of the Royal Marines, th, t t:.e two men, already mentioned, cams to the Duke Clarence public-home, in Ch ring-cross, and offered to enlist—they asked him, whether he was an ap prentice ? and he positively denied that he was ; in consequence of which, he was afterwards attested, sent down to Rochester, and received the ti.ual beunty of five guineas ; which, it was understood, he hed shared with the two men who brought to the rendezvous. The Prosecutor afterwards traced him out, had him appreneaded, and brought up to town to take h s trial When called upon for his defence, the boy stated, that he had bee pers taded by Jew two men to join them, and deny his havie:; bet an : t oren:ice. the y gave him too much zsi drink, and were the sole cause of his miscondua. he Jury, after a short consultation, found a ver did of Guilt*. The C t:A tau A N then ordered him to be remanded, observing, at the same time, that as his niaster had thought propitr to carry the prosecution to the ut most, it would be the duty of the Court to consider t.Te case further, and see that the public derived no loss from the services of the boy. lesepli Ne.ille Eiviamod was indided for a :Mis demeanor, in pretending to George Clements, that he could procure for him, knowing hiM to be a ma riner, a protection from the Admiralty against be ing intr.-sued, and thereby obtaining from Hagh 51.Evoy, the father-in-law of the said George Cle ments, the sun , of it. (is. Hugh McEvoy deposed, that oe the 241 of De cember last, the Defendant came to him in St. vlartin's-Line, where he kept a public house, ..nd represented himself to have been a Lieutenant in the Navy, who was dismissed the service, and that he could procure a motedion for his son-in-law from the Admiralty. With this view the witness went w;th the Defendant to the Admiralty Office, and the latter went in, but soon after returned s.tying, it was not the time ; they adjourned to a neighbour ing house for some time, and the Defendant told the Witness, that it was necessary for him to give him 11. Gs. its order to obtain the protedion, which he accordingly gave him without any hesitation. The Defendant iesmetiiately went away on pretence that he was going to the Admiralty, and the Wit ness never saw him after till he was apprehended us the month of February last. Mr. &Jaime's, who presided in the absence of the Chair man, observed, that this was not a case for a criminal prosecution, the party slintild have brought a civil anion ; he most have known that it VMS not possible for the Defendant to procure a pro tedion for him, he might as well have told him he could make him the Chief Secretary of State. The Jury accordingly Acquitted the Defendant. - - _ The communication between this country and Holland, notwithstanding the reports to the con trary, is still open.; hut nothing can exceed the severity with which the French visit all vessels which they sniped of being engagei in trading betneen the two countries. The Calquesharm Dr! Santo', from Cork, for Lisbon, is detained ai..d se:it into Vigo. Last Wednesday night, or i•arly yesterday morn ing, a bat of gold, value 30,0001. was stolen out of one of the Spanish prizes, lying in Mr. nue v's Dock, at Blackwell. The Lists which have been published of the Ma jovity ,and Minority on the question of the Tenth Report, are, in many respects, very erroneous. Sir ions Sruere, Bart. and Jamas Faaots•a, Esq. whose names do not appear in tither list, voted for the Committee of finther Inquiry on Lord MEL• VILLE'S conduct ; and Mr. BRODIE, who is stated to have voted on the same side, we have reason to believe, was not present. Mr. Lestsz did not vote with the Minority. The King of PRESSI A discovers much zeal for the improvement of the Universities in his dominions. M. M assow, one of his Ministers, is employed in forming and executing plans for this purpose, and the Silvereign himself has, with his own hand, trans mitted circular letters to the several Universities, exhorting them to co-operate with him in his views for their improvement. On Monday evening last an affray took place at the Roil public house, Pye-street, Westminster, between a number of men, some of whom were soldiers. The young women, who had been running for shifts in Tothill-liehli, went to that house to con elude the amusements of the day by a dance, when a quarrel ensued, and the soldiers were beaten most dreadfully ; and one of them killed , by some person jumping on his breast. Several of the men have absconded ; nine have been taken up, and two de tained on suspicion. Striet search is making after those who have gone off. 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