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MIN! - 1.417; • '• • ✓ ; • .• .• FRACAS IN ILIGH LIFE. " On Saturday last an Irish Member of Parlia invnt, Domed was brought up in custody before of Magistrate, charged by • person mimed English Grammar, with sundry slanders against his reputation and character. " The complainant commenced by stating, that i a the time. 'of Mr. Pus, Mr. Pitt, and other*, r had enjoyed great authority in the Senate, cod had been illostrated and ennobled .by the most distinguished employment; but that raring the' prisoner'- Parliamentary career, he had not only beet. entirely neglected, but often grossly insulted by him ; and that he had suffered • so aeverrly from the Prisoner's usage, that his beat friend% were unable to recognise him. That he lied been strlvised to appeal to 'be jurisdiction of the two Universities, but they both (..iiher infatu.ited lay their prejudice. or intioninlictil by Court in fl tenc kid-treated him with great contempt, anal referred him to the Co m et of Aldermen, where he was assailed with such ill language as determined him sieve, to enter tgr place again. Ile added, that C. had often come to Iti..th words with Plaintiff 'a relation, Dr. Prosody, :Isom lie tool inaariably *bust d in a similar nwnner ; and that lie kid ac t Jolly br..ken the head of an rlde.ly Gentleman, tamed Prise:an, en ancestor of Ilse eompiaiii).Me.. " The talibstance of the Pri ref dt fruit was, that lie could lint open his bps on the most indif ferent suhject without interrup • foam the com plainant, and that in rondAteruce hr tool from his ',null) contracted an antipathy towards him, which had brobahly Iteru exasperated non hostility by the ifijUtliCq)ll% endeavour. of eolne over-016 inns friends to promote, their acquaintance. That Grammar, moreover, had presumed on their very sight intimacy in impose restraints on him, which 1.0 mai, who prided hint_ If on his colloquial inde pendence could submit to, sod that 'wiring risen to rink and pie•eosinenee without his (Grammar's) as-istance, 1w was sletertniited 'lever to seknowledge en authority which the lowest and meanest of the people were sufft.red to violate with lint/mail. " We are sorry to add, that eluting she proceed ings the Poisoner conducted himself to the most lase teletticiote manner, and even to detailing Ow fir cuitilitaiice of Ins d. fence, was guilty of several vii. lotions of inoprirty sod respect towanda the roine pleiment ; inde. 41, had it nut been for the opportune loterptoition ',Ellie Magistrate, it is mote Ilona pro habit hr would have proceeded to the c •ssion - of some flagrant unirate." Here the affair reins for the present. I to lain', Sir, your obedient servant, Dee. 18 , 20. 11. L. B. ~.~. s ;.~;_ ,nrs j z rr-;; DEAril OR MOFFAT, alias At'COUL. It has beirom, customary, opus the demi e of persons have di...investor.' themselves through lit Lona the g-m. edify of inankiwl, to give a short biographic sketch of tell peeolisr Whit*, disposi ions, and attainments. 1. n belev. id that Jarmo Wein'', alias Murat, shoe Martin, (dins %Taros, alias Muff t, was a native ..f Flecoilk•Mire, and was herd to the business of a tether, attach he for some time re•resed in this coontry. He enema, weal to be. don, aloe" be composed himself with the most 111/101.1•1111 o , arpirs, sad sulanque. fly lo came lion:411 ai. adapt sad • I nate He vs is, like our f mious 11.0.1. e, eel. bratril as a • COI k.fighlei ; and,iu piigila•mi, was chat would uow, in the ' , kited boluses of tb.t he;ente. Le styled a dessi•profes. awns, d. mimmaseur of the fame!, The cons. sinus of his goig, of whom the ttttt mums //offal. White was a prime sent mentor, were, it is said, se termite., that Le might some propriety he called the rubber of the world ; its rausificationi tate &AM Over great loot of the Continent 4.1 Enrope, himself at limns resitting in 41:ffereut towns in yl,ll mil. He was ii. Hambu.gh wltcs that city fell into 14.. /utdo of lb. French, where be was of considerable service to the r anis tempi, which subsepteitly saved him from an ignominious death. About bfiees years •,y4i, as a math for *his red iotentiosii, he CUM. ailllterd a morocco tensing mid dyeiug concern Its the veighbourhood of Edinburgh, mute, as it is thought, with intent of cloaking his character and steaming a "visible vestal' of subsist. tire," than fur the purpose of fair gain. About that lime be was taken Mtn custody, charged with subbing a gentleman iu the theatre, but lie girt off from west of evidouce. Hu hieory Ginn this 'teem' is less perfect with us than in the records of Bow-street, dawn to the robbery of the Paisley Bauk's biomes et Glasgow. SOWS after the trausactiosi he was taken into custody, and after eemsioing lung in Glasgow gaol, obtained his liberation, by restoring, through the medium of a t lend in London, •itiout 10,000/. of the money of which the Bank was robbed— Lavine, as it was well known, still a large sum of the money 10.1 he the Bank. Ile made riveted visits to Aberdeen and Dundee, to "ides Si) CouVlrt the sautes iutu bills ou 1.,..t10401, ill %bath be surceided. At last, will, a large sum of triury still on his person, be arrived at L. Jb, and suc ceeded in conversing it also—being, as was proved, the identical mesa of which the bank was nibbel—into bills of 1.01•410 U, 1110t11 be was again apprelwadel, and seat op to the Police-Office h. ; when, after her impri. sputum' and touch discussion, thew bill. mere, by desire of a very active Magistrate of this city, lodged Ia the Hank ot Forbos suet fn. Its eider to rreuer this money, Moffat had that audacity to raise various act' hi the Court of ho seam, sail ammo camfolly litigated for • period of right years, ilium' which hr was for the most part to be found about the mule. of lip, or at certain tap mums de. coutorius city Magostrates,Judg..s, and Jories. At the final lictresiostum of this cause assess. him Ws the Jury Vole', in fll•y last, 'hr saucers, it will br recollected, so completely e•tablished his being a principal in the rubbery, that he seas then lithos iota custody, tiled before the Court ofJoeiciary to the month of low., couvicsid. and matencid to be exc. toted, Ohm+ itroltswe was satcrwaie commutel w Imo. *on ;Aiwa ; but has health, Lists the time of his trial, bring ma died lining state, and taring adeuseril HI yew, he was per. d to risseu to our gaol, whirr this veteran in oillumy, colliery to the expectatiou of all who ever heard of hint, earl &Alb WI 1 hurialay itiornitig, instead of end. tug his days in a forego land, ur earialiug big mom •• a gibbet.--(E.iliiitildt Popov./ . "'; J 3. 1 .11K , 5 A, IL A .. ~ t . . w r I COURSE OF F.7LCH A NOI Amsterdam ....C.F It 111 Ditto at sight lt 5 MutteAtsus .... 2 C H V ' Aut weep ..... Itambargh I!. 37 IP A1tuaa.,......” V. 37 11 Faris 3 days sight 25 7S Line Fobaracaua 26 5 I .ankfort up the_ IC sin, Es 11.....15•'.! `l+6 sus divas,: t Id 16 16 Tria ste .... du . lO 16 111.416.1.... 1 a.liz Ililltior 35 liorct Woo Saville 45 Clio/altar .. ....... ' 3 lIl Leghorn a Gawps .. 1 1 y ~Jt~~ • * Al , . e 311.;31011:S OF GRANVILLE SHARP. the traveller), with whom Lewis lived as • servant at the time of his sebum; his cries on the way [From 'r The New Monthly Magastoo.l to the boat reached the ears of some of her do. meatier, who immediately ran out to attempt his (Contiaretlfroat oar Poper of yulera•l4 rescue, hot they did not venture to apprehend him, because the ruffians pretended to have a A few days after this, Mr. Shorts was served warrant from the Lord Mayor for his apprelien. with a writ at the snit of David Lisle, for dete r - siou r They hastened back , ho wever, to ac q uaint tem of his property. Lisle also called on him to their mistress; and Mr. Sharp, now distinguished demand gentleraruily satiffaeliors; but Mr. Sharp as the protector of the African., was addressed for told him "as he had studied the law,so many instructions how to emancipate one of their injured years, he should want can satislactiois which the law race, He accompanied her to Justice Waleli, pro. could give him." Mr. Sharp kept his word, but in cared a warrant backed by the Mayor of Graves a way little expected from a person who, as he end, but the ship bring cleared, the Captain re himself ewes. had 'fr yer once opened a law-honk to fused to obey the warrant-they could not stop consult it till on the present occasion. His Solici. her, and she sailed into the Downs; being fortu. tor brought him an opining, given in 17 2 9, by the rudely di tanned there by contrary winds. a Nehru Attorney and Solicitor-Genera'', York nod Talbot, corpus was obtained and served, and the Captain asserting, that a slave coming from the West Indies delivered up the sieve. to Great Britoil' or Irelatod, den not become free; Mr. Sharp then procured a warrant to take up mid assured him that he should not be able to de- Stapleton and the two accomplices; an indictuseist feed him against the action. as Lord Mansfield also was found agains t th e m at the Middlesex &IMOD% was t tectilo.fly of their juilgment• and removed unto the Kilig's each. It mo u ld be imarosible to detail, within the The cause was brought into Court before lord limits of this memoir, all the obstacles with Mansfield, 2Oth February, 1771. Witco it came which toil. amiable philanthropist had to contend, on, :he two wateriness employed to seise Lewis did obstacles winch would hose produced despair iii not appear; but only Stapleton, the master, who any mind less firm by organixttion, less unproved defended himself oil the plea of the negro belong. by prim. pile, or less supported by the conscious. ing to him as a sieve. Mr. Dunning was one of tiers of a tight ean'e. `• Thus forsaken (hi writes the Counsel employed on behalf of Lewis ; he in u lo ter to Lord It inkeicke ) by my profes. held up Mr. Sharp's Inlet in his hind, declaring tr sioul defenders, I was compelled to snake a hope- that lie was prepared to meisisaits that no sack pro les+ attempt nit self-defence, though unacqoainted perty eon exist is this country. with ill! Itw and the foundations of it." Lord Mansfield. iu summing up to the Jury, left Accordingly he devoted his whole time for two it to them to decide whether he was the Defendant's years In the ouily of those points which regard the property or not. •The Jury found that the negro liberty if person ;is [lnfests subjects, as adjusted by was riot the l)efendaat's property; at the same tone Bratim lass a I" Ibis ildlicolt task he had no Manly , a emend voice arose of "no property." Then. tor, no, assistant-hr consulted several professional said Lord Mansfield, you find him guilty : a toss m9l ( I eminence, but they were all unfavourable to nimous voice from the Jury 'igen) protiosinced the c ansell justice suit liberty. " Even my own Guilty. I trey, re (he :tyn:) were ligation stir ;su much power Lord Mansfield remarked. that lie perceived hail t weet-dent, and the authority of names, to bias more in the qosestion than they did at present ; per tile onnest laminae Cositi•ellors of that time." Ilia pe. haps it was better it should never be finally netnition was evinced by the result ; decided and gelded, and he hoped it would not, as he did not ourentiltitig., he atatell in manuscript such argil. know what might be the consul:peace if the Miss Mills as he d ef used most cogent in favour tete were to lose their property by acchletitally bring. or. tiegrises' rights, rumba Mg every objection with ing their slaves into England. hie o 'shed all mos mooed vigour. as the cause advanced. tent to think them free, and all negroes to thank 1.i.1e. flushing the character of the champion he they were riot, because then both would behave had to recut/mei, contrived colons 'pretexts for de. better-a remarkable instauce of prejudice arid reitrltiig the suit, and a' length offered a cum. timidity ! Judgment was motel for 'realist Staple. sainuise, which Mr. Sharp rej• t. led. Before the ton and Iris accomplices; but Lord Mansfield hitl ess*, term. when lie Was to answer the charge against mating great 'doubt. on the evidence, was unwed. has brother and hinss-lf, he had compiled in ma- ling to proceed : lie even expressed surprise that vuseript a Inset, "On the I sij stetter and dart. Stapleton shossld be brought tip for judgment, said genius teedency of tolerating Slavery, or admitting advised Mr*. Batiks not to brisig I • up, us she else least Claim to inmate Property in the Persons had got the black in her possession-the tempi. et mess its Eneldityll" He suhasitted it to Ilse pr. toners were accordingly ordered to be reapited. easel of De. Iltatlstnne. end then employed his Against this proceeding of the Judge, Granville utmost effort* to circulate it ; the arguments it drew up a strong protest. as against an open con• coot silted were irresistible, and by its success he bid tempt of the laws of England, disclaiming the refusal the sans( octiois of limply fulfilling his psoiatise to of judgment. This protest, he said, he tnettut to re. hie m 10104. 01 The lawyers employed against the serve for himself till there vhatilil be an absul Ate ne neerot• were • eildetedossid the plaintiff was eons. ctossity for disclosing it ; adding, wills nor mild feint tolled to pay treble cants for tint !pronging forward which ever actuated him, my indignation is against the action. This trait, " Ole the lajastice of the practice and opinions, not the mess who have tolerating Slavery he England' (which was prommed them ; for 1 wish the amendment. rather then scut to the press, in 1769), was a plain, , thin the punishment or shame, of those who ilo wrong. wanly, clear defence of the part lie bail C•pottl. Fruits the trials of the several negro cubes, and rd; in it hue combated the conclusions strewn from the Otto given by the Judge, it was evident, front the (opinions of York anal Talbot with that though a few separate verdicts had beers obtain.. complete Slit'irt,Ste Ile argued, that a negro is net. ed in favour of Arrival slaves. their right to free. do e r of a base natere, isor a thing. a. lie had dont in England wits ithl a question of fluctuating been termed by the slave-hooldels, but .loc he opinion :no a curity was afforded from the perdue. pos-eases trout stature the paivilrge of his hilant• clots* *varier and cruel tyranny of the slave-holders nity, arid that he sloes not Call within Any of the and blave-ilesios. By the indefatigable exerlious t'Asi!. In which the Eaglish law doves', a man of Mr. Sharp several sufferers were added to the list oil dist tit ivalege. Dr then snort, that erery news iii of the rescued ; but the successful termination, the England us a hisimden subject of the King, and essential point. still remained undecided. The thereby entitled to his pretectiiin ; and tioatly tie- cause hart not been yet tried which was to end the munstrated the wisdom of our laws in ilie use of long-agitated question ; whets at length die case terms, its which ell subjects. of whatever rank of James Somerset presented itself; a case said to or condition, actual or prospective, are alike be selected by the choice of Lord Mansfield anti included. lie also resediterl is publication writ- Mr. Sharp, to being a tints! jlidgnient on the sub lets in America in 17(11, containing 1111 account of jest of contest. The complaint of Somerset was the slave comet of Africa, mid of the slave similar to that of Lewis, before related. trade, to which he added al a Conclus . ," calm.. This case was opened by Mr. Seljeant Dairy. hated to increase the public interest sit the rause February 7, 1772, whets Somerset was brought up he had lerooken ; and on printing hi s t rac t, on the Habeas Corpus. Mr. Serjeant Glyein fol." On the Injustice of Slavery." he addressed lowed on the same side, stud enforced very power. hiniself to the Archbishop of Canteohury, its a fully the arguments against the importation of laws letter which. while it enticed his stroisg religions of other countries into our own. The hearing was fe e ling, broke the first grouted in Eneluoid on the then adjourned. subject of this iniquitous traffic. During the tiro- Mr. Sharp's exertions in the cause of humanity errs. of these trausactioons, severil circumstances inspired a desire of participation in has labours in hael conspired to stimulate his Christian efforts ; the breast of Dr. Fothercill, a Quaker, well know,,. trout the zeal and ability which he hail menliebted They had entered into a religious controversy br io his controuer-y with Dr. K •ort, m u d the rests- tore (which appears in the Memoir.), and haul slit- Winn with which he had devoted the powers of his feted essentially on topics of relienon, anti each tintlerstending to the interests of the oppressed. it h a d maintained their opinions with deliberate frlllllc- Was 111111i111 to illlagine that as Mind so sinuously um; y e t suc h wa s the equal c a ndour of minds dioccterl. as It .tumid dispose. wou ld eminently alike devoted to the practice of real Christianity, qualify sit possessor for holy orders. that their variance had no trifinerice in restraining Towards the end of she year 1769 he w as w"imlY the most cord's) co.isperation its acts of mercy. 1 •if by his taiscle, the It ' s. Granville Whirler, Dr. Fothergill's letter does him too much credit to in entei the ttt itt 'airy, alto uttered to resign his liv- be omitted. in;; in Northautiounshire in his favour ; (nut Mr. r. nopeeted Friend-1 have wend the sego/wets can Sharp refused at With humility, respecting both Isis So m erset% affair with satisfaction, anal wish tire mid may virtues Nod his qinifilicali tttt s. lit his mower be be favourable 14 pablie libe. Aa many and great ex pertise must hare attrioled t hismetvcr, 1 shall he very ritt.t.i. " Even if 1 could flatter myself that I es reedy to roottibata my mite towards them; and when it is capuhle of serving the cause of religiou, yet I ended, au which way it may, I shall be pleased with an op. should appre:toomd that I might more effectually do porninity of doing every thine in my power to lessee the this as a layman, especially in religious cosntrover- ji lk o i,.., o f t h e b u d, a by deriding at... sive, wherein a solusiteer has many advantages with Out the 'wood he a ring. the case was reso m e rl the public, both with regard to the estisoat ttttt of his by Mr. Mansfield, whir. su at speeeh of eslergetic motives and the expectations formed of lusts." sense and distinguished eloquence, cotitesidetl, The powerful aright of his arguments. printed that if the negro Somerset was as man. lie could in the tract ots Shively. was again felt in our Courts not be a slave in Enkland, unless by the intro -lof Law : lie had the gratiGi to witness their duct of some species or property tillkilo/ 1 11 In F aun a.. D ati ma t a to.- i.•fluence on a trial its defence of soother melon, our Coristitation. " Frain all that can be drawn Venice ..... r; op I whom he had released by writ of Ilabinia Corpus from the state of Africa or America. the negro Malts IS from flu b0 , 14i a ship their uuder sail in the Downs. (sand the or dor) may very well answer, •Ii is true Naples Palerino ....per us 11$ foneserly been a slave in the poissession of Mr. Sir. in chains in a British ship and carried to Americo ; Lisbon Orlon. win, 11.101 resided at Chelsea ; with the aid I there lived under a muter whose lyrists's) , I Oporto .t Iwowattruotts. whom Stapleton hail hired f u r could not escape; had 1 strempted it. I should Rio Janeiro 1 RAM Dublinttt • • 1 k wns of Lea and. after a struggle, dragged In on never have I been ina co ry *lsere I had power Curl .... tt 1 agiu of think on lying in the Thames, where, hewing tied his leg'. now in one where tine laws of liberty are known Haltaird the endeavoured to gag 1 by donating a stick and regarded. Cali you tell me the reasons why I swipe. y Portugal Gold its f a. I . I into his ttttt nth. and then, roivong down to a ship inn not to be protected by those laws , an d to be Cuiu, per 0t....0 0 0 hound for Jainisie I. whose commander was isle. carried away again to be sold r To hear a negro Foreign Gold in vi tttt sly engaged in this vile conspiracy. they put slate this argumeirt s and have it overthrown cots lim's •• • tt ttt .3 17 1 " him nun board, New Dollars .....0 411 its the isthcal. to be sold as • slave au his arrival 'amenity with ear laws,seems to ID! impossible." New Dioulrlimus - 0 0 0 The cause was further adjourued to the 14th of I Silver in Bars ....0 4 Ilk Thais she tiooK trees:berate act OwU... had mot *moped holm at May ; when Mr. Hargrave was bawd. who very interim% of Sankt (mother to ably closed the argoonots for the negro% die. t • - ~ . • quistility the best finalities tif which en fell es good terms es %Verliiesdise the inferior *ninnies were in little or no (le mind. Dole). •upporie WI Anisrlay's prises, tint the tra•ts was eel so finish is in that day. he Bemis, Piraike, sdrJ (Lae there is no alteration. UXBR I DGE. Oyes Inspector's Return, Tosuesnav, Dretrava Is. Wheal, per load lll Ms t• lel les Barley, pet quarler t{• —4 19 27. —4 —d t. Vim —4 181.1 Vis —d 14, 424 —4 P. 1141.. 3t. —4 in 36. WIEwIt VIl V, BE IiKS, Deems's 2$ Whtst ...its lo Ws 1 O a t s l7s to 11, Rye —s In s Beans 3os I.) 44. Bosky. ...... .••rs. Is. !8s I Warm ?Ss to ..;:t Bre6J, per talk..., Is 4 , 1 to Is 6J DEVIZES, DICRIIIII[II .—lubprtioe. Rotors. &al Mrs. 27. OA a 10. 0.11 the. ... 22. 0.1 a 2s. 0I Sark, 23. 04 a 21. 04 Wows 2 21. ed 111 Sack. of M...., .01.1 .st the oir!rap , of 0! I. 26. Whenl 4O. to ?al,. 041 Oats fluky. 21s ha 2, 0.1 I Bons IMITUFIEW MARKET, FatoeT, Dictratta 29. There *as • Mit tt; Nupply of cattle at mot Ite attorttioe, enJ the rife. W. le meth the a.mr MS Olt W.- 41. y. . Throe I. Allefallilll ie 111, to bCo ..r thy, end Clover, The folio• tog 1$ • curio el -..ateuscot of the price* ■nd I.9aeb.re: T.. melt the ofr.l per moue of 8111 MEV (....3. fl Ito 4t at.' Hra,l nt rat 1 thi4 day • , Viuttoo :to 6.1. to 14 S i Beast, 0. 0.1 In 04 0 1 1444-pp 4 VW' 44 61. to 5. IC.I Port .. 5a 11.1 to 6a. 0.1 1 I'ip.... NEATGATK AND LRADENNAI.I. 311 ARK Ell's. 'l4 llr• Carra►a j Beer 34 4.110 4s 13.1 Veal .....4a 0.1 to 54 1111 3.1 41.1 to 4s 4.1 Pork 4. 01 lo 34 SA PRICES OF HAY AND %TR 41V ST. s a tirs ono ri.,••• Apor.. Hay 310 s Od lo 41 4. 01 lllay., 3! 10- 0.1 to 4/ 4. 0 1 /41rJow 1/ S. 0.1 to 11 io 0.1 I St, .1/ R.ill If 14.44 Clulerr 0! 040 d to 01 0* 0.1 thorn , 41 O. 0.1 to &I Os OJ PRICE I/F 1101,4, per Cat. VFW UAW.. KW keen lA. Id 4/ 111 lira/ :I/ O. Is Sr O. Seism% . Ss hi 3/ 5s I Sti4Wx " 2/ lUa IQ 3/ Se Essex .. ..V I6e In 4/ es 1.1.44‘ `ZI lu. ilt 41 as rem alum, fine, 11 lil.id St Os I).tio, serum', 31 IS. tai 11 Rh I'RI(•L•'S 1/F TA1.1.411 1 Town Tallow SO. 6 —. 01 Yellow 111.44.4 53. 0 I —. 0.1 While ditt0...494 1.,l rd Soap ditto.... 484 0I —a 0.1 514.1ti0t slot 42. WI Dello rough ..•.184 0.1 --• 0.1 ', SOAP, &e. per I Yellow *rap 31.31i1eil (*I'M . las Grayer Guskl Dregs Os Os Mime Of CAM:ILEX. Fromm Tellew Clamlkea Hatt. Price of C . :mulles, per drat, lie likl—Nloolds, Its &I. fid lore dozen allowed file ready towurty. COAL 31ALtliEf, DICUISLIL I. Ship al Morkci. Sim.. suld Peke. 67! Newcastle 10 Sunderland...... 41 L Cohn [From the " Lout/me Sete Pr in Current."] FRIDAY. D 4 ICI-140FR 29. COTTOV.—The Outgun mark. t cantintan ii'flout Pinta /ins : 1h•- demoted liiigui.l, but SW WlOlllOll w the prier•. Thy pllrrhaPV. 111.1ce out list cons , sl of '0 1,311 pare.l4 kr e t . rut, air. 100 re...auta, 121 d. a 11 . 21,1. ifs ii I; 1111 D.,ered•, 0,1 ; 1110 Surat., 61.1. a 7,1.; 130 thlictli., St J. a Scomit.—Tly-se has been an bariat•s Josue iu Illsteu wades thus we. k : •s shual, during the uu Supra have bees net sheer. The Refesied 31arkti has beta atrady till yester.hy, whet) the r e a pp e . r ed a table inipro‘t anent is the particularly for loottot ; the pricer au euisin velure adeatictit ' 3a. per cwt. These is also a gem cal opium', esaleitaiaid, that there will h.• au irwpro►c a .cut u$ trade as the spring advances. Expoored tort occk Demble. Sioyte. To H.mburich. Mr.lottrtmo 11.04usd 651 Got rory sod irrstry 2,00 i) Tot•l„, f 211,956 ft ,380 In Foreign or Est India Sopaw there is no business dome. CO/WM—There have been no piehlie sales of Coffee this week till this anrr....ou. The request by private cuistract has be. n cum-Jingly languid, and the only contracts re ported are privets of St Draping., at I lbs. a Mts. The public sale to-day constwitil elsO fly of Demerara dieseriptious, 41 casks 108 bor4; the whole went oil situ) spirit, at prier's • shade high. r. The CutT.c was the missal fleabites for home. consumption, and for whirl, basely tune be. hero • general and rather emensive (brunt& Osks.—The purchases of Greenland Oil are still limited, 'et the holders arc uhtkiering paces a shale higher; Crape Oil is lower, on •ccoulit of a fin lin f arrival. SprfalJCell Is held firmly for higher pre. s. Ilion Porovultwits.-I . lsere is little variation in Beef or Pork. The weattwr, which has sit s• severely, het arcs• atoned an itnproverneut both 111 lilt:demand and is the prices of Bootee. It VII, BRANDY. and iIoLLANOII.—The Rom swarket emotion-a heavy ; the purchases lately made are at price* a shade lower. Their is SO little business doing in Brandy, that the goodslings most iii a great measure be con starred oicomiiis I ; porches.. of Cognac could however/ be matte at prices 1.1. b. low the reduced goutrtions. lu Geneva there is no alteration. TALLOW The demand end the prir. •of Tallow have I considerably improved ; the prices have recertify bees we very low, that it has induced the boyete to tome f e r wm i 11111 advance of fully lc may he stated slice nor ISM, iswis the prospect of a further improvemeat. The Tows Tallow is to-day quoted 39x. 64. •181e18 is Is. 6.1. higher Outs last week. PRICE or ROCKS TESTERDAY. 3 per Ct. Red. 7o tigk 70 I bidia 110.4...48 47 pr. 3 per Cent 7Bl I Ex Bills. 4.. pr. 1 dic. 4 per 87fit I Lsollriy 1 ii ken' YU 36. Hook I Cone. her 71ii - - - On Thossday !set, the 2lst iusistst, a St. Story's, Moo immesh, by the Rev. J. Lewis, It A., Jmneo R. Auhret, Efi. tor Rooter-sttet I, Rroosertek-mosee, to Frowns, out, thteibter of the lute-lobo Lewis, of the nurser phme. I)F.AI HS. At I ewes, Susses, tut the 264 h *0.11111 ! Mr. Joie Crippe, Gest. rgrit MS years. Ow t he 1416 Malmo*, of o few clays illness si his Best Relellle, Gaudy of Cita*, Mater Flemish& Rip. Platted sad Prod •t THE Barroom Plums sad Tao Gums U. N. $7, Seal, by C. COPIIWILL of lid OW& -,,.._ ' , ',.. 1 $* • ' (...., ~ ,t ' ' 0 4 Ai-. -,•:, ` I oil Mr. Demist appeare,l . NA NE ETS. be master. Tirte(elsoice of -.41■•• WWII' Si tigillor to Move who CORN EXCHANGE, Fersay. Mumma ff. with which. ow * irwnner We have had on fresh orrivala share Monday. hot ii e ege.; 6..„..tr ~.,,A. 4. ,„,„‘„m i il,_ , 'towable tiainisly fenlainegi ism' AW slow worniages wear/ 41 charge. Mr. Wallace on the aide of Stewart. this latter gentleman appeared remembered the enerty with wine,, on a irawiner cause, he had professed himself ready it, in any Court of England, " tlint no properly could exist its w slave. " Mr. Sharks 00111011 thiS conduct will probably have little weight with Inset. yers; hut it should not be withheld from tlw public. • After noticing the phossige in the trio' wr in which 000000 hsd made this remarkable tower bon, he says, " And yet, alter so solemn a decla ration, he appeared on the side of the slavesholder the very next year ! This is an ab 00000 inable prac tice of lawyers, to ontlertike causes opposite to their own avaaaal optninns or law and contains justice !" Dr. Johosoo, however, has defended this practice i with much plausibility. The expectation of all toirties war WOW railed 1 0 I the ultimo !olds, soil (pi the 2C , 1 of June, 1772, Lord Mansfield pro 11111 l tures!, t hat " tracing the Isuhj-ct to natural principles, the rlaim of slowly never CIWII be supported. The power claimed never was in use here, ur acknowlerigoil by the law. Upon the whole, we e t say the csn•e re. turned • is sufficient by the law, and theref•tte the man moil he dochargerl." The judgment 111114 proooteticerl by his Lordship has •stshlishrd the ttttt ,as declared by Mr. Serjeai►t Da►'c, that as soon as any stare sets feet on isegfide greeted, he 6ee•stees free. Thu• ended the memorable cause of Somerset ; tu►d•had it not I►reu for the perseverance -of Mr. Sharp. nue lea (-44 yr the Editor. us fur's, it could be hal deuced by the opinino of one of the best *U teri, ou N, Blacksiotie) would have left in doubt whether our Cosioitut did or did not secure the liberty of all her subjects. The respectable hotly of Quakers, in North America, had for many years atirtul•trtl to alleviate the condition of •laves in itirlir pravisices ; red %h ell the verdicts obtailied in favour of negroes In England reached them, they sought to co-operate wills Sharp in his laborious etriirta. Oil the me. motable da• which termi►iated the cause, he re. ceived the first offer of a ernrespondenee fur the sole purpose of forwarding the etn.ineinwion of other slaves. but lending. in its progress. to enrol the mime 4.f Granville Sharp in the politivol strife between Gttiii Britain and her Colonies. 'Fit einrropondent wee Anthony Benrzet, a Quaker North America. *14 , 4 had r.tabliaha7l a freer school I ns the e st o ration of blacks, hail written treatises in their favour. and embraced every opportunity of pleading in their behalf t. lit this letter, the wordier Queaker informs him. that theserious Dissenters, and particularly the Presbytetians, wished to see an end of the slave trade, and many to slavery itself. That the people of New England bud enacted a kW Dearly etas u• 11114 to i s prohibition. proposing that all negroes burn in the country should be free at a certain age ; that ten thousand persona iii Maryland and Virginia would Juin in petition to Par liament against any further importation ; and he eariitst ly eiii rests him by the mercies qf Lad, that an application may be sande to the K lug Will Par liament ; by share mercies to rehich each of us ere long—and we karat not hew soon —nri:;ht rev or, who a we shall remember with the greatest jay or grief, that mercy is promised to the merciful." In Mr. Sharp's reply lie tells " that the British Parliament. lie apprehended, ha.l no right to interfere with the toleration of slavery in the Colonies, and that our hiethren there could wit he too much upon Coeir guard in this point respecting the dignity awl independence of their own assein. blies ; the petition, therefor, should be addressed only to the or the lint.; in Comicil." This doctrine was Slot new to the Arwricatis : it was precisely the same in fact which they had for two years openly maintained during the contests occasioned by our Ministry to iinpose 'menial taxes on the Colonies. ]lit it had hitherto been acted on only us far as it reputed the impositioor of duties, for raising a oevoine. tit this instance, its winch Granville Sharp b eeeee gill it to their view, though it 110041 MI the a. me basin. it appeauril in a sirs; and more enlarged light. The strength anal clearness with which his oicittoo was expressed, was highly agreeable to the temper of the Colotatts, and they accepted WIIII the WNW of thus prllielpltS they sturdily maintain ed. Copies of his Inters were rankly circalatrd, and the method hr proposed adopted us the true constitutiotial rule tel ptoeeedusg is all OAKUM. stances of the Slase Trade. To a mail disposed by nature to contemplate boldly the most abornae sower' of truth, and rmiliently endowed with faculties for thin 'purpose, sitfficirat option hoot Ikea given to lead him fin ward in the track of holism' liberty with the same ardour with which he had sought in Englopli at a. tote-books fur the dricore ul individual free dom, he now turopil to i nsea ti g ate ihr ...weal and political rights of 'taboos iu general ; the itninr diate motive was still the love of the English cha racter. The duty of au Englishman (say les notes) In monition the just limits of law according to this Constitution, c pellet: sue iu the year 1774 to publish a Declaration of the people's right to a slime io the Legislaiuse, which is the fundamental principle of the Punish Constitution. Of this De elarati eeee he writes in a eeeee her memorandum. July 27, 1774, that he had given to Dr. Frasskliu 250 copies, winch were sent to Anisettea the same day, and were reprinted in many provinces within the year. Daring the whole course of these tramactions, Mr. Sharp laad cootinned in the I ble esuploy. ment of a clerk in ordinary in the Ordnance-office, where the duties of his department appear to have been piiiictitariy performed. as no the death of the isecond clerk he succeeded to the place, and acted es assistant to the Secretory Mi. Boilpliespion. Oa his promotion lie received an adilitiosial allowance. • Tiw itilll7l to the wcit of /sakes corpus, dating that Somerset was kept by osier of his shyster, with Midst tourist kiss to Jamaica, there to he f He was dereemied from a Freed' fatally, possessed of coraiderable tortoise to Eraser, which they left ON armrest of their relapse, forteitirg their tolertitasect, sod *aisles their ishotaintre by ordstatry. Artits, Pars zd, at his death, left hoe whole failure to the etitool, to which he bad denoted ►w time aril minds. He wee oeivereally respected, sot tray by his owe sect, but by oil who !maw hiss. (To is costisna..) .__~ I ifik _~ Pedro., Mr. 114 Sni4l 4o Capti 'Dowd ; wards Clown, bine), The the Peri BOX." Price, ! Gallery Mr. Ro Th gage wi Os On '1 nf Shlllf A nr duce(' i T !sue f 11111 COTI Mr Py lea ; ft Emery Mrs P Muss L Afirof I Fria! kw)), Yorsse lEltar ; Pier Buz-(1, A Ni Mr. lir hey. 1 ' I)uu beEiu The ewe. y On : of line lln ' Ye. ow the called TI To Aft 0 Al Brum l'Ar t At to by ilb ily Shoe Di largi Ne C Bill 1 Sr■ 1116 I • sr lb MI h L!