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\ . .:" .11 I •••• < • 1 • 13r ef t, . . , C . tW "7 7 , 4.).iti: L . P'' -- - THURSDAY, MA 31, 1804. (PRICE SIXPENCE. PANORAMA, LEICESTER-SQUARE. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE celebrated View of the CITY of PARIS, taken near the Louvre and Punt Nruf, &c. cont,nuet open ; a most interetting View of the CITY of EDINBURG!! and the surrounding Country is to open in the Second Room in a few days. HOUSE OF LORDS-Wr.DIE%DAT, MAT 30. Lord THURLOW took the oaths and hi seat. The second reading of the Aylesbury hleakin Bill was postponed till Friday next. Adjourned to to-morrow. li'. THIRTY-FOURTH TIME. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. TO-MORROW EVENING will tst performed a New Cistedy, in five Acts, called THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. The Characters by DOWTON, Mr BANNISTER, Jun Mr. POWELL, lof POPE, Mr. RUSSELL, Mr CAULFIELD, Mr. COL Ligs. Mr. MAODOCKS, M.s. JORDAN, Mrs. YOUNG, M.v. SPARKS, Mr.. SCOTT. To which wil. be added, a Farce called FORTUNE'S FROL IC. Robin Rough-head, Mr. COLLINS. Snacks, Mr. MADDOCCS. ',attic, Mr COOKE. Rattle, Mr. rALMER. Nancy, Mi , r B. MENAGE. Margery, Mrs. SPARKS. Dolly, Mrs. HABLOWK. The nom , will he opened at Half-past Five, and the Par. fev.a..re hogin at Ilalf-pest Six. 1v..e.. fr. Pit, SA. 6d. Gallery, 2s. Upper Gallery, I-. t's.L.l.4 - the. Boxes to be taken of Mr. Faebrook, ..• ~te Of.k.e. in L. idle R esaell-strect. FIFTH TIME. TIEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. MB EVENING will be produced, a New Comedy, in Fire Aar, called GUILTY ; Or, NOT GUILTY? The Cliaranera Mr. F.LLISTON, Mi. PALMER, Mr. ARCHER, Mr. PALMER, Jun. Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. DE CAMP, Mr. G2dVE, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. MATHEWS, Mrs. T. WOODFALL, Mrs. WARD, Mist GRIMANI, Min WkIODFALL, Mn,. GIBBS. Tire Prologue to be spoken hy Mr. PALMER, Jun. The Epilogue by Mr. ELLISTUN. Ts which (by Permission at the Pmmietors of the Theatre .l, Drury-Lane), well be added, a Comic Opera, in Two Acts, ca:led NO SONG NO SUPPER. Crop, Mr TAYLOR. Frederick, Mr. DE CAMP. Endless Mr. MATHEWS. Relsts, Mr. HATTON. Dorothy: Mrs. MARLOWE. Louisa, Mn HOW ELLS. Margaretta, Miss DANIELS. Melly, Mh. GAUDRY. The New Comedy of Guilty, or Not Guilty ? performed for t,. ►aunts Time yesterday evening, having been honoured by as overflowing Audience, and revived with unqualifirwl sa.) waive:sal approbapw, will be repeated every evening till father noti..e. The PuSlic is respectfully infonned,that, dur ing the Winter Mouths, the Theatre has been excerpted in preparing, with each industry and expellee, y splendid Dramatic Maces Ss. Pit So. Fost Gallery es. Second G.,llery Is. The Doors to he ovenel at Six o'Clock, and the Pett*l.ll4llClS Is Seen M Seven. I , lseet to be taken of Mr. RICT, at the Box Office of the SADLER'S WELLS. AQUATIC THEATRE. till Four: WILLIAM RAMSAY, Sac. THE GENUINE EDITION, PUBLISHED M. AUTHORITY. MAHRATTA WAR. ,; . 1.. ins t ., Agt - Su 4114 *hike tb* patronise a ca . Os* et THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, MAY 31, v. .11 be yreselited an entire New Dance, called, THE TINKER. Afoot which the iitierb Pantomime Spectacle cal'ed M THE OLD AN OF THE MOUNTAINS, In which will be exhibited A GRAND PANORAMA OF MALTA; Abe will Ire performed a new Petite Comic Opera, called, CLICK CLACK ; Or, THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER. leallevietantento to conclude with a Grand Navel Spectacle, . representing the SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR; WITH REAL SHIP:, OF ONE HUNDRED GUNS, SEVENTY FOUR GUNS, SIXTY. GUNS, &c. &At. had, and manoeuvred in the most complete and cm r let Afaesser, as every Nautical Character who has seen them implicitly allows, which work down with the Wind on their Starboard Beane, wear arid haul the Wind on their Lef tward Tacks, to regain their Situations, never attempted in any Theatre in Osier any othert:ountre ; the Ships firing their Imedsides, the Goadtitration of the Town in various places • The Dvienne of the Garrison. and Attack by the Floating Rat. terie., are so kithfull• and natutaly represented, that when the Floating Batteries take Fire ' acne blowing up with a dreadful Explosion and (0hm..., after burning to the Water's Edge, sink to the Botiosa, while the Gallant Sir Roger Curtis appears in 11.$ Rust to ten the diowning Spaniards. the British Ta r a for dial purpose plunging into the Water, the effect is such a , . to produce the most unprecedented Climax of Asconshinent and Applau•e. The Exhibition Is represented on a Roily of REAL WATER, en Feet wide., and nearly 100 Feet in cou , lobaise with the D..l,th $OOO Cubic Feet, which has eau the Proprietors indefatigable Exertion, and an enor mous Expeoce. Dag% open at half-past Five, awl begin at halt•past Six, Places kept till halt•past Seven. P.acei e be taken at the Box-Office, Sadler' Wells, from Nine EAST INDIA HOUSE, Met 30, 1904. T IM COURT y - DIRECTORS Me UNITED COMPANY ej SULICHANTS eJ ENGLAND, TRADING to the EAST-INDIES, de heroes, give Notice, That the Soerter/y Ormond Court appoisstal to be Reid o• Wed. , he ROM of June m.o. at Amu ?Clock im the Formosa, ••'' • Sprei,d, es the demoof Twelve Proprietors, for the per # re-rinino• slog the rebsra f the !ate Alt Poehommt„ 'aed. " Ttie Property AO," eofar es it sway befioesui to 4, Stork . 3 Dlt a ritibil•hed, printed uniformly to bind with Dinsm srd heauoses Ca.npaigin nt lad.a, illustrated by Six &liras ut the iliff•reut Drawings taken on the \t, price One G•iturs la boards, OTES of the several Transattions in the MAIIRATTA EMIPIitk Dat t vd, t , rrt Willa, , vciber 15, 1803 p With an App en d ix o f Official Doeunsents. 43 ed 1. 4 i J. Debri.tt, opposite Ru, iington Misuse, Pic. &d - JIB. r.4 . .' The. Public are moil tespgctiutly intorn.eit dist this a,s l ;' *di e"mPriite, besides an 'titers... nog Apesasti.., a 4 .ing of the B VITI.T of Dtl,lll, •.4 e.e y r* ,,, vu. • . w well as Pnbitc. neatmg one al th • 'wed um. Acvniuttons •to Inntani ; • Campaign {l...{.•. • Akre, • :Th . t. a It ""i Decision, and P.unspilsost, and etidea to b. 4,41,, and PerSettilllnv 4i • 6 , 110 , 111 ArLd • EXHIBITION AND SALE RY PRIVATE CONTRACT. THE TRUCHSESSIAN GALLERY, New Road, opposite Portland.Plsce, continues open every day, and the Pictures sold will not be removed this month, hi order to afford for some time longer to the Public an opportu nity of viewing, in its collective state and classic:d somnolent, au a=rdnblage of upwards of ONE THOUSAND PICTURES, by the most eminent Masters of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, and French schools; forming a series of superior rpc cirnens of the art in various ages and countries, such as has never before been submitted to the Public, sod terry ant pro 'glily occur fors iturel,er of year., as the Exhibition and Side positively doll this season. Open from ten o'clock till desk Admittance One Shilling. A SAVING OF MORE THAN THIRTY Pelt CENT. And Comfort with Strength nnitr.d r in the Purchase of COLLYEA's SU.I. Fa'Jricated with COTTON FEET, removed from the Poultry, TO 146, FLEET-STREET. THE astonishingly rapid, and enereasing demand for the above hasrudncd the Proprietor to manniartiire the largest and most elegant Assortment ever before exhibited for inspection; the distinguished excellence of which he most respectfully 'Omni to the known Taste arid Discernment of the Nobilit', Clergy, Gentry, &c. Ladies' and Gentlemen's stout Chini White Silk 7s. 6d. a Pair, or Three Pair for 11. Is. to those with the most fashionable Clocks, 10s. 6d. Stout and fine Black ditto, from Bs. 6d. to the very Len 11s. 6d N. B. Every other article of Ilo•tery either sold in quan tities of Three Pair and no..v nits, at the IVtiolesale ur T:ade Price. GARTON informs his numerous Customers J • in all Parts of the Mined Kingdom, th..t he continues to have the largest As:ortrneut of the PATENT COTTON TII READ, and the finest in the Wei Id. 11, beautiful MARK ING COTTON is now univer , ally used in thu room of Silk. It would be innch lamented so usyfal an Article should get into bad repute, by selling a spurious Sort ; to prevent which, the Public u Moires:we, all his Cotton Thread 'u wrapped in a fine Straw coloured Paper, with the Words iu the Water-mark, the same as in Bank Notes, " GARTON% PATENT COTTON." Merchants, Shopkeeper:, and others, can be regularly sop• plied to any Amount, having the largest Assortment in the Kingdom, at his Warehouse, No. 97, Cheapvide, Curlier of Lawrence Zane, London. gap The p,reatest variety of elegant Ilexes invented by the Proprietor, and well adapted for the Use of the Thread. imitoitiunl ARTICLES OF DRESS. ROTIINSON's Sarsnet Cambric: being generally RIL adopted by Ladies of Fashion, as the most elegant M.wiiing whir, on account of their not having that dour! ap.. preemie • which other articles pres.afr ; he begs leave to Rate, that he has finished a great variety of new cotours for the sea• sou, and of the quality which bas distinzutsbed his Manufac ture from all others. He also bgs leave to acquaint the Ladies, that he receives roars his Manufactory every morning new Co'ouri, Figures, he. in his Cluoillerys asol luau SanourtN *AAA he mates or superior quality, from 2s. per yard, to any expellee whatever, according to the fancy of figuring in pld, silver, or otherwise. The demand for his Union Poplins continuing toenerease, be has put additional Looms to work to prevent diappointment. His attention to Mourning Articles having procured him the patronage of roost Familia of Distinction, he begs leave re• spectrully to inform them, that he is now fully supplied with his improved B o mb ,:mns, Mack Union Poplins, Italian Mils lina, Royal Lustres, Cambric Must ins, Cambric liccons.ts, doe. - . - N. N. A large Selertlo3 of India Muslim from the lat.!Sales, with a variety of Printrd Muslim, and every other kind of Lien Drapery and Silk Mercer) , we usual. Pie. It, Henrietta4t et, Covent Garden. WET NURSE.—A Healthy Young Woman, with a tine Etreast at Milk, with,' fora SITUATION im WET NURSE, in a Nubleman or • Grilt:ema.o4 Family. A line acklrowel fur A. eNn. &V, Strand, will be afterlife(' to. This Day republished, in Three Volume., mice 10%. 6d. IIkW.XI, HEr - EVE of SAN-PIETRO, A TALE. Print , d for T. Cadell and W. Davie., Strand. This Day is published, elegantly p•inted in Three V.,tome., Octavo, rice 11. 7.. in bodols, a Newlitioa (being the third), w th an additional volume, of lITERARY HOURS; Or SKETCHES, CRI MAL, NAR RATIVF., end rosticm.. BY NATHAN DRAM, M.D. Printed for T. Cadeil aliel.l7. Davies, Strand. ••• The 'Maid Volume mvy be had separate, price 9.. boards. Thin Do, ere pubbehed, price So. By Mows. CADELL and DAVIES, Strand, By Gioiar of the Trustees TWO ESSAYS on the EXECUTTON and COMPOSITION of LANDSCAPE SCENERY. By the late Rey. Mr. GILPIN, Vicar of Bolan. And ce the 6th of June, iron be w.ld, a few of his Maw hses and Books of Drawing. The whole beinv approptimed ~ complete the Endowment of his PArrab School. NEW FRENCI I DICTIONARY. This Des is publis!ird„ price 6s. bound, THE NEW POCKE f DICTIONARY of the FRENCH and ENGI.IsII LANGUAGFA, in Two Parts: First, French and Englidt ; Second, English and French; containing all Words of general use, and authorised by Cie best Writers; as also the several Parts of Speech and Geode.% of the French Nouns; the Accents of the French Words ; the Naval and Military Terms; the New French Ca. leadar ; Tao AlphaJet•cal Lens of the used usual Common ald Proper Name , ; and of the most remarkable Plates in the World. Carerally compiled from the mast approved Diction aries Frebeh aid English, particularly from that of the Ruyal Academy at Paris. lit THOMAS NUGENT, LL D. The Et:result Edition, carefully revised and enlarged. To which are now added, Many Words in both Farts; more than Tw •Ti , US311(1 new Signiicationi, with all the leregulardies ‘.l the English Vertu and Nouns. By LOVISFAU. ?ranted for' Maw matt, J. John on, W J. and J. R;rharl• ant. F. .And C. !Irvington, G. and .1. Rotn4on, J. %Vatk,,, G. Ware, J Nunn, C. I.Bw, Longman and Rev., T. anOfty, LYCkillgt.ll. Alen, anti Co. T. liana, Dartmi and Hance, J. Carpenter, Dulan and Co. and Scateherd and Letterman. Where may be had, The same Book, bealitifully iinnted oat a Pearl Letter. and Wove Pipet, in a entail Pocket Volume, with Sop. o :ersealt of ?roper Names. ice .se. leound. HOUSE OF COMMONS. General Tiiiii:EPoN 1);e ....... Petition from certain Proprietors of Fisheries on the North Western coast of England, against the Solway Fishery Re gulation Bill, and praying to be heard by Counsel against the same. Leave was given that the Peti tioners be heard by their Colima. A Message from the Lards informed the House, that the Lords had considered the reasons given by the Commons for disagreeing to certain amend ments which their Lordships had made in the Vo lunteer Bill, and that the Lords had agreed not to insist upon the same. On the motion of Sir Jou* NEwrour, an order was made for printing certain Irish accounts, that had been laid before the House. Siriolol NEWPORT gave notice that to-morrow he should move for an account of the disbursement of 4,0001. voted last Session, as a compensation to certain officers in Ireland. The Southwark Paving Bill was read a second time, and referred to a Seleft Committee. The Westminster Court House Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. Sruaotss Bouawl, the orders of the day for the third reading of the English, and the second reading of the Irish Army of Reserve Suspension Bills, were postponed till Monday se'nnight. The Irish Annual Accounts Bill went throngli a Committee, and was ordered to be reported tei morrmv. The Offenders' Arrest Bill was reported; and or dered to be read a third time to-morrow. _ The second reading of the Yorkshire Woollen Cloth Regulation Bill was postponed to Wednes,lay. The consideration of the Report of the Committee on the Liskeard Bice/ion Return was put off till Tuesday ; and, on the Motion of Mr. BA NEE the copies of two letters, taken down in the Minute, be fore the Committer, were ordered to be Lid before the House. Sir JOHN Nrwroar moved, that there be laid b4ore the Honse a list of all Pensions now payable on the establishment of Irelmd, up to January, 1804—specifying the dates and the continuance of the same. Ordered. consideration of the King's Message, rel.ttive to the family of the late Lord Kilwarden, was put off till this day se'nnight. The second reading of the Attornerfilbriemitity Bill, and the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means, were put off till Friday. SLAVT: TRADE. Mr. WILBERFORCE rose to bring forward the Motion of which he had given notice. He said it had often been his lot to address the House on the subject of the Slave Trade, and on the necessity of its abolition : but, unfortunately for the cause of justice and humanity, he had not been able to succeed in attaining the ebjen be bad in view. Whatever , conviaion might have former ly rested in his mind on this subjel, he must say, that he never had a greater sense of its importance at any period than at the present moment ; because there was no period when the state of the West In dies was so critical ; and perhaps a single opportu nity was now offered of bringing the question to an issue, which might not be incompatible with the prosperity of our colonies ; and the trade might be put an end to altogether. Although the subjea of the Slave Trade has formerly occupied so much el the time and attention of that House, that one would suppose the arguments for its abo lition were still fresh in Gentlemen's minds; yet, unfortunately for the cause of humanity, these impressions were so old, that he much feared a great deal of information had passed away, and vanished from the minds of Gentlemen. He would therefore trespass on the time of the House, by'stating some, of those points that had been alluded to so often be fore. If, however, other arguments wer; wanting. he might appeal to the ream tied sense of Parliament on this subjea : he might put the House in mind of its own A:I, by which it would appear, that, after the most minnt: discussion and inquiry, it had given a verdiO, and IlronounCed a sentence against the Slave Trade. He therefore appealed to the decision which that House had cease to in 179 e. and which,, on mature examination and consideration, conveyed, its sense of the trade against all the former impress made upon it. (Here the clerk, on the motion of Mr. W. read the Resolutions agreed to by a Com mittee of the whole House, on the Ist of May, 1792. by which the House declared it as its opinion, .4 that the Slave Trade ought to be g radually abolished ; and drat , after a period of our ;gars from that time, it should not be lawful to carry slaves away from the coast of Africa : 6 ) He then observed, that the House appeared wilitlg r at that time, not only to abolish the trade, after the expiration of four years, but to adopt measures in the inter mediate space, to prevent any very great accession of negroes into the West Indies. He would now state the grounds on which that Resolution h.td been taken by the House; and he begged and entreated of Gentlemen to con sider that t7te happiness of hundreds of thousands of their fellow-crtatotes w.i> at issue ' upon this great question. It on a f or m er occ as io n had been clearly proved, that the Slave Trade had been produced and carried on upon the coast of Africa, by the most unjust and cruel praftices that could be con ceived; that slaves were obtained, by inviting one nation of Africans to attack another. in order that the captives taken in war might be sold; that at the instigation of Europeans, who went to the coast, whore villages used to be sett fire, in order that 1 1 the inhabitants might be routed away, that the fu irtives might be caught; every roan was armed. against his neighbour; no African considered him self .?. secure, unless he was armed ; every thing was ' horror and devastation; And yet, by a strange per- versien of language, this was called a trade! Even the administration of justice, on the coast of Africa. was made subservient to the practice of procuring slaves. Individuals were u ied for the vague and un defined crime of witchcraft ; there was hardly any of. fence of Athich they were more likely to be conviekd ; and all the persons trying them had an interest in their condemnation; the con v idell,,, ersons were sold as slaves, and the Judges received , " share of the mo ney paid for them. This was the sort of j'istice. which the natives of a country, who boasted of their 1 excellent administration of jurisprudence, carried to the coast or Africa. So great and aggravated were the evils :rrisiag from this horrible traffic, that , they , reversed the very order of nature, and inverted all those principles on which society had ever been ' known to ad. It WAS w ell known, tha t in every • country tke state of society was much more im. proved near the sea -coast, than in the interior—but in Africa, it was quite die reverse. In every part of that coast, where any intercounre had been car. Tied on with the English, there was nothing to be seen but a desolated country, and a barbarrine and savage people. But in the interior there were large towns, there was industry ; the perrsle were em ployed in the pursuits of agriculture and rouinutac- , tures. These fads might be clearly proved front ' several writers. Even the native and barbarous so- ,i perttition in religion, which, in sonic parrs of titer ' 1 interior, Alahornetanisin tended in some mull daf' s gree to cornea, existed in its fullest and worst degree on the coast ; and that, in the very face of the , ' Christianity, which the traders, who came .to pure • ; chase slaves, affected to profess. This, he cont end. ed, was a disgrace to any civilised nation. The st_ste ments he now made were laid before the Hoses, at i the time of passing the resolution in 1792, and brbat ' 'resolution they were acquiesced in. kiln the de in. • ',Winn and barbarism he alluded to, were nor. con fined to a small distria, they extended in sante places 300 miles into the interior, which was as i. r 'as the wickedness of man could carry them t mkt an extent of coast about 600 miles in length wee wasted and desolated by us. The whole of this trader was one uniform scene of cruelty and wictednest. The evil did not alone consist in the miseries hitlieted • on the coast, in carrying slaves across the Atlantic ; the evils were much greater ; and the abominations pranised were swish as to excite the deepest iodi nation and astonishment. Theo, after they were landed in the W elt Indies, they had the drisadfoll • ' mortification to see themselves doomed, they and . ' t'leir posterity, for ever, to slavery. On former occasions, some plausible obis:Woes bad beesvairged._ against o r abolitioa t a4 this trader bet tier were very far from being satisfAdory. With regard to • the trade on the, coast of Ali ica. it had been se' I. that it was a sort of kindness to the negroes, to take any notice of them at all. It was curious to observe the manner in which one person spoke concerning this subject, in a thing called a history. Me. Lcing s , the historian of Jamaica, daseribed the negro= as being very few degrees removed from homes; as. coming next to the ocrang-outangs ; that their bar barism to their children placed them, in point of feeling, before the condition of brutes; that the African negroes could make no progress in civilian- i tion ; that they had no moral sensation ; that their i country WAS a mere wilderness, without any cultiva tion, arid filled with briars and thorns; that a general uniformity ran through all of them ; and that they were a brutal, crafty, bloodthirsty, • and superstitious people, itc. Sac. Such were the extraordinary statements of a man, who cer t.siniy possessed learning and talents ; and wirer- r did not write them in a hasty manner, but in art ' f grave work, which he called a history. If the wool happy natives of Africa, however, should be Intuit' ' to possess social feelings; that they had antieepratimis - of future evils, and aSed and thought like men of a different colour, he would ask. what credit (nrfeht I this Historian to have for his statements ? Anne t:le ' First Consul of France, tram whom mob a thing ' might least be caper:Led. had done them mom juts- ' lice, for be had publicly admitted that they posseaa-•' ed many amiable qualities. That their country Was a wilderness, could not be imputed ad a.faalt to diem. For, ever :lace the Slave l'rade had beers carriesi on among them, it was their enema, satire and Ca their habitations in the most remote parts of the forests, where they endeavoured to bury them selves from the reach of civilised F.umpeirns. It was no light matter for a man to libel the creation of the Almighty, in the manner this Historian had ' done ; and, so far from wishing to reclaim thorn, to appear desirous of continuing the b:urbarism and darkness in which they were immersed. The eery same things had formerly b een sa id b e t h e S pa- •I 1 •ii:ads of the Americans, inijuswication of the cru elties they pradised ainst them. Ilse Spanish writers of that tizn7 ' the native American s w ere not men but brutes r t t they nothing better m e is... re than large apes, us Lich iniglit be murdered at any time, without :emit se or hesitr loch Some persons, however, interfered, to save the Americans from persecution and degradation. The Pope, being de sirous of founding Bishoprics in the Spanish male. meats of America, made a Bull, bearings4l.ne in the year 1387, in which he expressed it as kis will, that the Americans should be considered as true ors (remys &mien). This circumstance would be stilE cient to shay', that attempts had beam made to re. present the Americans as not entitled to the rights of the human species. Happy, indeed. had it been for them, as well as for the natives of Africa, if, like brutes, they were divested of the power of knowing and feeling their misery, and the evils that had been inffiaed upon them. Those persons, who were in the habit of calumniating the wretched natives of Africa, bad reason to - know and to believe, that they were something like men ; that they were capable of forming plans and of carrying on enter prises with vig o ur I an d that they often were very paw:lW. Accounts of Africa had oee:r j• 4 '.. I ski ...41111