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Meesnre to facilitate the transfer of mortgagee. by allowing the - endorsearest of deeds from one party over ro ttiotlicr, on paying the simple duty on. the sited stamp, ihstesd of payiog the ad valorem duty "tow required by the Act. Sir T. LETHSRIDOIt expected great relief to tigncialture Isom the lowering of interest. He did Ant blame the Bunk fur keeping up the interest. 'No eon wry owed the Bank great obligstiosis. and itre Mink oat mutually obliged to the country. The Bank ought to come forward to assist in ren aming the country from the prosesit severe and try nig doom's. He was cossrioced that interest must • .:l generully if the Bank would set the example. tit the benefit to agriculture would not be equal -err the present state of difficulty: The Seslion could pot pots over without something More ett'ectivil be. g dune for it. The Report of the Agricultural turamittee would be shortly before the House. S.lme sunlit measure of relief might probably be funtsisied in it. hut not enough to meet the dilates,- iii‘ nature of the caw. The country had a right to expect more from the P4rliarnerit. The COUiNry ruts, have ainiarthing more dime for it before the clote of the Session. Mr. J. Bitterer said, that nn relief could pees to the tenant except through the bands of the land. Oehler, whose security upon the tenunt was alone gond Noel available. He approved of the plan of kiidisig four millions to agriculture at four per cent. which would be enough to effect the lowering at inter Ii OD all the mortgages in the country. Mr. Wes - rano expected relief from the reduce. 1 1°0 of Interco, but not adequate to the distress of sericulture. Ile was convinced that if the farmers of Essex were called on to make up their accounts, Awn-thirds of them would find themselves insolvent. I I would repeat hi. words there or eliewhere, and rest on the decision of • county meeting which was ablaut to be called. He called on the House and the Noble Lord seriously to consider what most lw the condition of a ceuistry where one whole clam. and thee the cultivators of the soil, were situ• toed in a condition of utter distress and inevitable ruin. Had each • case ever been heard of in the bittory of say civilized ettontry ? So fee from having renam to look for the approach of such a ea!amity, they bad, on the contrary, • just right to flew expected prosperity. The means of the .srountry were left unimpeirett by the war— , tie property was, generally speaking, as grist in automat now us before—the industry and in genuity of the people were the same—sad the country ought to be, and would lie prosperous were apiculture not so depressed. The cenvulsion of society generally most follow the present state of , she eountry, if not relieved by the wisdom of Par. , 'lament. Persist in the present course, sad the tenantry must drag down the nobiloyand geallayiat the country After them. It was impassible fowl to fall and the ether to retain their state number s& 1 lie landlords would have fell it befoee, but that they had been paid for the last few years out of the capital of their tenants. The eel grew every hour, nod approached them with an itimessell ratio of speed and danger. Had it not been for the hasty and violent operation effected on the current yr, agriculture might have prospered fur it considerably °temper time. He directed the attentiou of the /louse to one fact. Though he had for the lest four or five years been in the habit of presenting Petit' from his comity to the House iu consi derable number., he had not received • single request or communication of the kind this year. .He did not know exactly, but be believed his Hon. .Colleague would have the same thing to say. The oohs way he could account for it was, that his con stituents were in utter despair of the House ryilig that degree of attention to the case which was dee to it ; they absolutely gage it no as boneless to Peti tion the House any more. lie considered that the distress was touinly attributable to the resumption of cash payments so suddenly. The Act of 1797 tease violation of all contracts in regard to creditors: that of 1819 was equally a violation o f faith with all debtors. He implored the House to reconsider that subject. H e professed to be full of apprehen sions of claimer to the peace and welfare of the country if something were not dime by Parliament to i.revent a coeividsiou, which he believed to he other...i.e. inevitable. Sir E ila aa air corroborated the statement of hit Ham CulleNgue, that the farmers oh Essex had etas. ed to pciitiou Parliament, cnnceiviog, as he sup posed, that the House could do uo wore fur them than whs. was slresdy done. Mr. fluszissott ruse to condemn the distatsion, which ball been gradually extended to • very large number of topics which did nut belong to it. It ass perfectly impossible to follow the arguments 1171011 so many subjects I he merely rose to depre cate their introduction, which he conceived to he contrary to the intention of the Hon. Member for Vi,, k. That Hon. Gent, had confined his remarks to the effects of she plan of discounting at the Bank of England. Upon tins subject he hoped soon to have an opportunity expressing his opinion to the Hower. which opportuotty would in all probability be afford ell by the discussion on the Report of the Agricola re a l Committer, whenever it should come before the House. In the mean time he would say, that were the Bank to lower their duo:owls. they would considerably relax the pressure tau agriculture. Ile (lid out blame the course taken by the Bank ; they had a right to manage their affairs as might seem best to them. When, however, they boatte.l of hauling lent the country eight millions at 3 per trot. let it be remembered that they had, on the transactions, advantages and privileges of an ex clusive nature, which must make up the profit con siderably. Now, it he widenitosid rightly the na ture and uses of such an institution, it was not so touch that it should become the Bank . .if the Sate, N. cat it ought to afford facilities for the operations ml trade and commerce. If the murket price 4 , 1 interest were really bellow lire per cent. the Batik not do right in holding their interest up to live. l le could not see why they should wish to demand wheu they were prepared to lend Guterionent their money at three. Mr. Monett said that the Bank had • right to make the most of their capital. They must hate opportunities for making five per cent. or they would he compelled to reduce their interest. He expected that interest would be reduced. and that iii 4 ricult are would be relieved by it, but only in the slightest degree imaginable. It would not ram the puce of corn ; it would not relieve the farmer at all, whateter it might do fur his landlord. To re here the former they moot du one of two &Or . : either by lowering the standard, again ride the price ofr corn to eight shillings, or retlin'e the taxes to the reducrd proportion of value of coMmodities. If neither of these were adoptek, they most shortly go altogether without rents. The T. e .,, er y might flourish ; way, it would flourish for a while, brcsuse that money which ought to go in rent would be paid into the Exchequer for Lutes; but that could not last tong. capitol would be roost drained, and they must at lust come to a rely mi. serial reduction of the tales which pressed on the country. All tuba measures would prove tot* futile. Mr. HUSICISION explained. Mr. PIARCII said • few words •0 the essnast+ sent of &uvulas at the Bank. where the raw of interest depended mainly on that of the public funds. The Petition woe ordered to be printed. Mr. S. WORTLEY pre,tured a Petition fro* Henry Burgers, the projector of the hate extra post scheme, praying remuneration for the los, of time and monr) lost by bun in molting good the exile• !latent. The Cunscit‘ou of the Erato:tun expremed his opinion that Mr. Burgess wmi entitled to seine compensation for the loos of time and expense which he had incurred, soil if the House did not oppose it. he would have the claim put into course of con sideration. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved, that the Petition should be printed, and gave notice that he would move tmmormw to have it referred ton Select Cotta• mutee of the House.—Ordered. Mr. WASTER* presented a Poitiou from owners and occupiers of land near Waltham, eomplaining of agricultural distress.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD gave notice of a motion for Wednesday, April 44, for the appointment of • Committee to take ioto oissuisloratiou the state of lichester gaol. Mr. F. Borrow put a queistisso to the Chan. cellar of the Exchequer cm behalf of an officer who had been dangerously wounded, but without in curring the loss of • limb, to know what compels motion he was likely to receive ? The CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUIIR did not question the right of persons in that melancholy situation to redress for their sufferings in the ser vice of the country. There were many cases of the same kind, and Government had only been pre vented from granting them relief by their anxiety to deliver every brooch of the public service from any expense which could be saved. In cases like the one just named, the intentions was to allow offs cers of the array the same compensation for such misfortunes as if they had lost a limb. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Mr. Gooca brought up the Report of the Agri cultural Committee. The Clerk was proceeding to read it. The Marquis of Lompotrusaav thought that it would not be desirable to have it read now ; it would occupy a considerable portion of tithe to go into the discussion oh it, and if it should not be rightly comprehended by the House, an imperfect description would go forth to the moistly, and lead to great misconception: It was a short document, sod it might be printed with the least possible delay. It might be in the hands of every Member in forty.eight hours. There would then be time to examine it in a sufficient manner; whereas, if it were read now, the sense of it might be imperfectly taken up, th e error would pass into the country, and they might have great difficulty aferwards in removing the false impression which would he given. Mr. Ewes said, that if the Report were out before they separated fur the &atter holidays he would be content. He thought that it ought to go forth to the country during the recess. Mr. CALCRAFT irked the Chairman if he lied been instructed by the Committee to propose say measure to the House ? - - - - Mr. GoocH said, that he had received no such inotrui 'ions. When the Report come regularly before ilie House for discussion, he would feel it to he his duty to state his views to the House. The Report would be printed to-morrow, and might be to the hoods of every Member by Wednesday morning. The Marquis of LOXDONIMIT said, that it would he his duty to call the 'newton of the House to the Report, for which purpose he would then give notice that it was his intetition to move on Monday, nd April, for the House to resolve itself two u Committee, to take the Report into considera tion ; his intention being to propooe some measure in respect to the interests of agriculture to that Committee. Mr. C•Lcusirr said the 4211 was already apprn vitiated to the discussion of a very important sub ject by the Hight Hon. Member fur Waterford. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that he would in the mean time come ti rouse arrangemesit with the Hon. Baronet. lie submitted if it would not be better to postpone the reading of the Report, which might give rise to partial and discoloured view" of the subject out of doors, mud lead to Lois token inferences as to the intentions of Parliiiinent. He trusted that when they came to the discussion of the subject there would be only one feeling displayed by all purties—a serious anxiety to exa mine one of the moat important subjects which ever engaged the public mind, with a view to dig cover the best mode of relief. He hoped that all ordinary differences of o. ) i )) ion would disappear, aud that the only desire of every mind would be to find out the best means for relieving the country from its present difficishes. Mr. G. BENNETT commended the advice of the Noble Lord to go into the subject with calmness, tratFrr, arid judgment, but he thought the course taken, that of reserving every thing that was to be said for a sort of field-day display, vas not the best to answer the purpose. Mote way would be made by short and frequent discu.sionr, not by one lung speech to be made by the Noble Lord, to be an swered by another long speech from his side of the House. Parliament ought not to separate fur fourteen days without letting the country know what hopes might be reasonably entertained of lea lid being giveu by them. The Mongols of LONDONORRRY explained, mild said, that be had nut used the words " field-day display." Mr. G. BENNETT did not intend ti charge them uposi the Noble Lord. They were a common figure of entre:B4a, and the practice was ton well liteit►n to need cottiment. Ite Noble Lord linit% self frequently exemplified it. Mr. CALCRAFT we, coition' to know if the titer: %tires to be proposed by the Noble Lord aru•e übt UT the Report, or if they were suggested by his non. Friend, the Chairmen of the Committee, Old v ? The Margins of LONDONNIRRT said, that his proposition would he one arising out of the, report. Mr. Ttzaszy said, that it would be very earful fur the House and the country to know something some about it before hood; they ought to have ►ome description of the Report, and of the mutton too, that they might judge of the probability of To rend the Report forth to the country without any opinion given upon it by Parliament; was not likely to conduce to atlas the minds of the reputed sufferers. The Marquis of Lorne/wistaria' void, that this measure he had to propose was imitable to the na:. tore of the case; but he did not think it siivisable to go into it now. Lord A. lisutt•ron thought the silence of the Chairman in bringing up the Report i mod the pro mise of the Noble Lord to introduce a utiliser, upon ir, equally. .strange. That the Noble Lord should be slow to come to this question was 'sot very seeprising, after the extraordinary neglect which Government had shewn to P. Hut the Chairman of the Committee ought to have had something to say. Ilesider, he had Lid a Report •n the write last year„io which lie did not after wards call the attention of the House. Were the two Reports in collision or contradiction to each other ? Did he abandon one when he adopted the other ? His conduct looked more like that of it partisan of the Noble Lord than the independent Chairman of a Committee of country gentlemen. It was singular that he should have declined to say ■ word oit the Report, or whether Ira agreed or dis agreed with it; or. in short, if there were any use (elites, at all i• the labours of the Committee. He was astonished at the modified language of those who professed to represent the agriculturel people, and at the difference of tune within doors and withe•t, on the distresses. He believed that these distresses were growing worse rather than better, and that the interests of the fundholdrrs were more immediately connected with the subject than could for the present be discerned by him. Mr. Gooca said, that the Report would he shortly in the hands of the Member.. He resented the ides of his being considered as a partisan of his Noble Friend. He had seen the Noble Lord and massy of the Gentlemen opposite on that side of the House—[Mr. Gooch was sitting next to the Mar quis of Londouderryl—withost ever making that imputation. He felt as anxious es he ever had dune for the agricultural interests. He believed that their distresses were increased, and he was as earnest as he ever had been fur their relief. Lord A. HAMILTON explained. Mr. TIERNET said, all he asked of the Hon. Chairman was to know if he opposed the Report or not. He had presented the House with a Report last year which he did nut approve. How could the country judge if the Report were entitled to their consideration o► not ? The motion was fixed for Monday, April 22. Mr. Eet.teit express►d his surprise that the Chairman of the Committee should present a Re port. and be content to say nothing about ir. He canttidered•thst the House were limited to two plans for relieving agriculture—by lowering the value of the currency through issues of paper, which would raise prices, or by removing the load of taxation which weighed the country down. lie hoped that they would adhere to the latter, or there was little hope of their satisfying the country gentlemen. The Report was ordered to he printed. The Marquis of LONDONDiRRY brought up pit era containing correspondences between his Office and Foreign Powers..-Ordered to be printed. COLONIAL TRADE. The Order of the Day was read, and the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Colonial Trade. Mr. F. Itoetwsow, in submitting a short state ment of the views taken with respect to this subject, did nut wish to propo.e any thing which should pledge the Members to the adoption of it at • fu ture stage ; the forms of a Committee were befit adapted for the bringing forward of a measure grounded on their opinion of the propriety of it fur en alteration of the law. His motion would be that the Chairmen be directed to ask leave to bring in a Bill for the regulation of the trade of Great Brim II with the Colonies and other parts of the world. He apologised for the time ■nd attention which he had to cabalist. which be promised to limit as it srrowly as possible. His purpose was to eaplaisi what had been. and was then. the state of the law, and what alts rations it was intended to intro duce. He was aware of the difficulty of approaching soy subject which coacrr•ed the intere►ts of B.,tish navigation ; they were commonly deemed ton sacred to be meddled with. He was likely to be represetord as doing something highly prejudicial to the shipping interest•. He could thew, that, look ing at the state of the law as it at 'orient existed, • very minor principle was isivolved in the *therm bons he was about to tooptoie. He would sliew that the narrow and rigid principle of the old na vigation law lied been virtually abandoned. even iu regard to those Colonies fur the iniercoupe with *hills it was peculiarly framed. and that iis the eastern hemisphere the colonial principle had no reference, no application whatever. It had always been felt that ti would be moat impolitic to ap ply to our commerce with the easteru empire that system of restrictions which at the time of frannsig the old Navigation Act might hive been most judiciously applicable to our pos•easions in the West Indies. The whole territory of !mho, Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope. and all those colonies where a commerce of vast extent was carried on, had never been subjected to the Navigation Act. In other parts of the scold the Navigation Act lied been frequently rutitentled in operation. and was to modified, that the principle could hardly be said to have uny existence whatever. Parliament had been induced to relax it ; not a single colony but had enjoyed liberty, under certain restrictions, to intro duce foreign commodities in foreign ships. By the last Colonial Art. it was competent for any foreign O 4 to bring in • great quantity of articles into the free ports of the %Vest Indion colonies, either for the consumption of the colony, or for the purpose ibr 644sti spy fur The Righ't Hon. Gentleman then detailed the state of the intercourse allowed befuk and since the passing of the Naviga tion Act between America mid the West boliiin Colonies -. the alterations which had been formally tacitly allowed, for the purpose of securing sup. phee for the Mends from It* Anseriesn coon. tient ; the arrangements by which, under cover of Parliamentary indemnities frequently granted, that imeterturse was upheld during the war a t the entrea pray, Bermuda, and St. John's, New Bruns wick. and all kinds of produce were exchanged. I 4 eking shewn a number of instance' in which the stlict principle of the Navigation Act was either relaxed or almost entirely slow away is the Intercourse of the wester* colonies, he next described the state of the law to be equally lease with regard to she settlement, south of Europe. He considered that the principle lied failed, by lapse of time and change of circuristances, arid however valuable it might once have been, had hr come quite obsolete and unfit for practice now. He proposed to repeal all the several restrainiiig Acts. and to consolidate the law bolder two new Acts—one (or regulating the intercourse of the continent and islands of the American hemis phere; the other, the porta of Europe. He pro. posed to open the trade of the islands in certain free ports generally, for corn sod every species of grain and timber. reserving only some smell and 'seminary advantage to our North Anse:. rim, Colonies, not enough to give them a mo nopoly, but merely to give them what might he considered a fair equivalent to enable them to meet the market. Here he begged leave to remark 'id the state of the Spanish amid Portuguese Colonies. The Colonial Free Potts Act gave un open market for certain commodities to the Colonies belonging tii European States oe Sovereigns. Those Colonies were likely to throw off t heir dependance, which would shot them out from their', ports as the law now stood. The question was, whether they would admit the ships of foreign indepeodent States to a participa tion in the trade with these Colonies. The inter course with Cub*, with Mexico, with Brazil, and the River Plate, was already open, but not with the United States; but he was persuaded that the hest policy that could be pursued with regard to the intercourse of Foreign States with the Colonies. was to place them all on an equal footing, .as it must otherwise ultimately lead us into embarrass ments in our political as well as our commercial connexions with those countries which remain ex cluded. When the present restrictions on the n,. tercourse or our Colonies with oilier countries were first adopted, it was with a view of .preventing allot States from obtaining • superiority over this coun try in the markets for colonial produce. But by the present policy of Spoil' and Port bgal—whether voluntary on their parts or other Wise, was of little or no importance to the present question--the trade of their Colonies was thrown open to all the world, and if we dtd not place the trade of our own pos stallions on a similar footing. we should leave to them the vantage ground, and the result would be productive of the most lasting prejudicial erects to our colonial interests. We had erected an ins perishable monument of the humanity of our na tional character. by theabolitiem of the Slave Trade; we had sacrificed the supposed advantages derived from that traffic, which it had long been the policy of this country to preserve with the utmost care, to OK cause of freedom and humanity ; we had en deavoured by every species of urgocietion, by sacri fices which proved our 'Merrily, by every means in our power to obtain the cordial co-operation of other Powers in that great measure of the abolition, and we had obtained their minimsl support in that 141e11,48re ; but up to the present morneist it was well known that practically that (dhotis truffic was still carried on to a great extent by Spain and Portugal to their colonies in Cuba and the Brazils, where by they were enabled to bring to market the pro duce of those colonies on terms so edvantageous as to put it out of our power to compete with them. That formed an argument of the strongest kind, why we should give to our own Colonies she advan tage of an open mid free competition with them in the markets. Looking, then, at the relaxation which had taken place in the colonial system of other nations—seeing the advantages winch their Colonies had derived from it—looking at the great question of the slave trade. he thought he had de duced from these circumstances what appeared to him to he an unanswerable argument in favour of the extension of a similar policy to our own Colonies. It might be asked, why this measure should be pressed forward at the present moment—why he did not wait till an opportunity had been even of going more fully into the discussion of the subject? In answer to that 'location, lie would refer to the present state of the Colonies. The pressure under which they Laboured was notorious—the diminution in the value of their produce was notorious—and •lihougli their situation in that respect was some what similar to that of the agriculture of this coup try. yet it was 110 l sccompanird wish any of the corresponding adruntages that were here der ved to some parts of the eomintinity. Their dis tress arose in a great measure from the over sup ply of produce in the musket. of this coinery from other places which had more recently come under our donsinimi. Unless they could Ore to the Col o nies some relief from this I.ressure, those who were connected with them, those whose properties were there situated, whose capitals were there invested, must be all iiivolved in one comment ruin. And what, in such a case, was to become of the numerous popula ion of,olaves that were wholly dependent on them ? That view of the eptestioii rendered it incumbent on Parhoment to cornider whether it had not a legitimate mode within its reach, by which timely teller wig hi lie given. end the occurrence of such deep and wide-spituditig car. !amity be prrvruted. Ni, mode appeared to Inn available, by which such relief could be afforded, but that of opening the trade with other countries. Ile knew that by calculations of a were arithmetical us ture it might be easy toP.ICW that 1 lie opening of any particular market would not at she moment •tforil that degree of relief which sanguine minds. in their anxiety to grasp at every means within their reach, might be led to expect ; but it did appear to lilac disponible in say, if the restrictions were owe re moved, to what extent •the beastrticial effects of such • proceeding might be carried, or in what particular way they might be ptoduced; it was impossible to describe the limits or to detect the progress of the operation of such a measure through the utnosagits- Arisar :are .7ir= • able variety of ways in islnch its eitects would! mainly reach their objet. The coissidenitiOn this subject forcibly readied to hi. dioronry the., tines of one Of our poets, in speaking of the wo o . drous powers of the mind What season. tau control, What beefed one eau elyconmeeibe tae awl. , Who, rueseitios of the source front which she 4;114, It, Reasuu'l light is resoled** thong. Spite of her frail onwormicos, goes, tEee Libya's damns aad through Legible's snows.° That language, beautiful us it was, whet) appbeti to the soul of man, became mere prose, if compa e t! to its spirit when uppleed to commerce. lie ws; convinced they never could do wrong, by en deavouring, nut prematurely, not all at mice, hut gradually to remove from commerce dime re. attain!' under which it had been too long confiued. It was on the conviction of its beneficial effects upon the commerce. wealth, and strength of the country, that he had felt himself emboldened to recommend to the Committee the adoption of the resolution. which he was about to move. He thought it would be proper to extend the measure to all parts of the world. Whim they , yaw the Spanish ship toiling 'tout Cobs to the Baltic, and thence back spins to the Nest Indies. he could not see why the Briti s h ship should be bound to b r i ng t h e prodtire of sir Colonies to the mother country, to be here lauded and deposited, sod thence transhipped to the fs. reign market at an increased expense; nod e eortse qiiently an additional disadvantage to Meet the 'mo diste of other colonies. Ile proposed, therelore. that the mime principle which wos now applied to Malta and Gibraltar, should be extended to the other parts of Europe. He concluded by moviog the two following Iterelistions i— " 1. That it la the opinios of this Commit's., that the Chairman du move the House fur leave to befog is a Bat is regulate the trade between his Majesty's Colonies is Arm. ties sad the West ladies, and other places in America. "2. That it is the opiaio• of Ibis Committee that the Chairman do move fur leave to bring us a Bill to repine the trade between his Majesey's Posorssioas is America and the Mat Indite, Mad other plaesettelasive of Amines." Mr. Wt tsenvoncn in a kw tone of voice, whir h rendered the greater part of his speech inaudible iu the gallery, wished to press on the atteotion of the Coinasittee one most important conodei. ration *hich arose out of the Resolution, before them. His Right Honourable Friend had al. ways been the friend and supporter of the great roam* of the abolition of the Slave Trade, mid le was convinced that he would not knowingly advise the adoption of any course by which that measure might in any way be defeated ; but upon reflec tion, be thought he must ackitow ledge that in pro portion to the degree in which the intercourse of our own islands, with the ships of other nation., be. came greater mid more frequent, in that proportion it would undoubtedly favour the illicit iotroducion of slaves into these Wanda. This uoly effectual measure by which that could be prevented, the Slave Registsy Rill, was complete in Tnuislad, hut in most of the other islands it wits a mere nul lity. He contended, therefore, that in the omit of the triode of those islands bring thrown open, it would be necessary that such a measure should be accompanied by a general Slave Registry Bill, Is the only effectual mesas of preventing so lauseat able a consequence. Mr. Elaanam entreated his Honou►able Friend to inform himself of the real state of the Island. before he allowed ■ measure of this kind to go forth charged by him as calculated to encourage as illicit trade in slaves. In the present distressed condition of the Island,, none hut a mailman would think of importing slaves into them. It was hardly possible to maintain those that were already on hand. His Honourable Friend had often complimented him unduly, at the ea• pease of others, on his endeavours to ame liorate the condition of the slaves ou his pro perty ; but he could assure him that such was now the situation of the Islands, that it was lames silde to continue to allow them many of those comforts which they had heretofore enjoyed; and what their condition must become, unkss some measure like that now io contemplatio t were adopted for the relief of the colonists, it was quite impassible to imagine. Mr. WILBESIPORCS said, that it was beeline the planters were in such distress as that which was re presented by his Hon. Friend, that the measure in question was proposed for their relief. That mea sure, if it liaJ its desired effect, would amend their circumstances; and lie was sure his Hon. Friend would see that the increased facility given by the enlargement of the intercourse between the islands and other countries for the illicit introduc tion of slaves, would require some accompanying measure of prevention. Mr. 1114111(AT? said the slaves at present in the Colonies hail a strong interest iu the success of ti e present measure s fur the only way I. render It possible to improve their condition was to Moire tie r matters from ruin, by enabling them edvantsgeonsly to meet iu the markets for their produce those who had 'toll a trade in slaves. lie suggested the pro priety of a clause in the Bill to citable goods im ported intr. one island to be transhipped to soy other s which was not it prewtit the case with re spect to goods imported into any of tar isl.od. fr ni Greet Britain. Mr. BUXTON did not rise to oppose the Re•ro• lotions of the Right Honourable Genii' snail, hat to ask. as it was now intended to remove from the West India merchants the restrictions on their track which was made in the last Session the ground of ilvfeinlitig the protection given to their sugars in the English market. by heavy duties on all oilier sugars, what objection would now be made to the admission of East India sugar on the same terms and same duties as dist of the West Win! Ile wished also to suggest that this as, the proper nine for adopting some better regultitions for improving the condition of the slaves in the West Indies. The first thing which lie would recommend fur that purpose was, the adoption of the principle of the Ascriptio Kiebo. At present, • slave born and brought lip on an estate, where he afierwirds built humidf a house, married. and had a family. witlimit soy crime. and against his cow bent, lie removed from that to any otlier of the old louses at least; which was, he cow tended, as bad as any slave trade that could rate , . Now that the liberty of trade was about lo commence was the proper time to establish th principle of ascription to she soil. It was also a 6: opportunity fur ameliorating the judicial spiral, tM tIIIFItItIIIIIp_ - ---.- ----- . , ...••• •••••• •••••••••••1 vv.... 11/C •lIIIVI VI VI.IIC, imatuer, VW. ne try in the markets for colonial produce. But by came greater raid more frequent, in that proportion Ira the present policy of Spain end Port bgal—whether it would undoubtedly favour the illicit iotroducton !tit voluntary on their parts or otherwise, was of little or of slaves into these islands. The only dermal no importance to the presentquestiolo—the trade; of measure by which that could be prevented, the their Colonies was thrown open to ell the world, Slave &gushy Bill, was complete in Tnuidad, n. and if we did not place the trade of our Olin poll- hut in most of the other naiads it was a mere owl- or stallions on a similar footing. we should leave to boy. He contended, therefore, that in the event in them the vantage ground, rod the result would be of the trade of those islands bring thrown open, it Id productive of the molt lasting prejudiciel effects would be necessary that such a measure should be to to our colonial interests. We bad erected an ini- accompanied by a general Slave Registry Bill, so perishable monument of the humanity of our no- the only effectual means of preventing so tomcat- nonal character. by theabolitiou of the Slave Trade; able • consequence. he we had sacrificed the supposed advantages derived Mr. BARRAN entreated his Honourable Friend e- from that traffic, which it had long been the policy of to inform himself of the real state of the !Med. lt• this country to preserve with the utmost care, to before he allowed • measure of this kind to go CO the, cause of freedom and humanity ; ire had en- forth charged by him as calc u lated to encour a ge he desvoured by every species of negociation, by sacei_ an illicit trade in slaves. In the present distressed .r, lices which proved our sincerity, by every means in condition of the Island,. none hut a madman Ad our power to obtain the cordial co-operation of would think of importing slaves into them. It ie other Powers in that great measure of the abolition, was hardly possible to maintain those that were .re and we had obtained their tiotnintil support in that already on hand. Hie Honourable Friend had , rf measure; but up to the present moment it was writ oftea complimented him unduly, at the rot• i known that practically that odious truffic was still pease of others, on his endesyrairs to saw- carried on to a great extent by Spain and Portugal horste the condition of the slaves ou his pro- ; 1 1 3 to their colonies in Cuba and the Basile, where- perry; but he could assure him that such was ' ill by they were enabled to bring to market the pro- ow/ the situation of the Islands, that it was imp os- 1 d• duce of those colonies on terms so nrlvantagrous as sihle to continue to allow them many of those 1 to put it out of our power to compete with them. comforts which they had heretofore enjoyed; end se That formed an argument of the strongest kind, what their condition must become, %mhos some ial why we should give to our own Colonies the Wean- measure like that now io contemplatio i were rage of an open and free competition with them in adopted for the relief of the colonist., it was quite • e- the markets. Looking, then, at the relaxation impossible to imagine. :I, which had taken place in the colonial system of Id other nations—wring the advantages which their . Mr. WILBEIWORCS said, that it was %senate the U. C o l on ie s h a d d er i ve d f rom it—l oo k ing a t th e great planters were in such distress . as that which was re- m- ques ti on o f t h e s l ave t ra d e . h e th oug ht h e h a d dr- pruesetntedu was proposed for their relief That by his Hon. I' riend, that the measure in r . re (tweed from these circomstatices what appeared to sure, ges if it had its desired effect, would amend him to be en unanswerable argument in favour of the be extension of a similar policy to our own Colonies, their circumstances; and lie was sure his Hon. Friend would that the increased facility given 3 R It might be asked, why this measure should be L e by the enlargement of the intercourse between the at pressed forward at the present moment—why n islands and other countries for the illicit introdur - he did not wait till an opportunity had been given of Pt going more fully into the discussion of the subject? nos, of slaves, would require some accompanying 1 to .n answer to that 'peanut), lie would refer to tne measure of prevention. to present state of the Colonies. The pressure under Mr. MARIYATT said . the slaves at present in the he w hi c h t h ey l a b oure d was no t or i ou s— t h e d im i nu ti on Colonies had a strong merest in the success of tie 0- in the value of their produce was notorious—and I fur the old way I. render it 'resent measure, Ire 1.. e r le •lihougli their situation in that respect was tome- possible to improve their condition was to sa ve l ov , iii what similar to that of the agriculture of this coup - masters from ruin, by enabling them •dvan t t h age e re w i tt . t. i Do try, yet it wits not scrawny:wird with any of the to meet iu the markets for their he corresponding advuntages that were here der ved to to some parts of the eomintinity. Their dies priety bad still a trade in slaves. He suege pr odu ceed goods r al e- . of a clause . in the Bill to ena bl e . i v k- tress, arose in a great measure from the over um at present the case with re- d, ply of produce in the muskets of this couirry other , which was not into I. iii ~. ported intr. one island to be transhipped to on . s. from other places which had more recently Mlle s tinder our dourinioti. Utiles. they could sire Great Britain. spect to goods imported any of tar island, r , " to the Colonies some reli e f f r om this I.reisitre, Mr. BUXTON did not rise to oppose the Re•n• lit those who were connected with them, those wie l ner lotions of the Right Honourable Gentleman, it:t th propeities were th er e snouted, whose capitals were to ask. es it was now intended to remove from the he there invested, must be all irivolved in one minium] West India merchants the restrictions on II • W l ao , ; 11 ° ruin. Arid what, in such a case, was so become of which was made in the last Session the groun d e Y• the numerous popula ion of,olaves that were wholly f defending the protection given to their sogsrs ., :ll P - dependent on them ? That view of the questa.] the English market. by heavy duties on all o il 're tendered it incumbent on Parliament to croesider sugars, what objection would now be made to t he e nit whether it had not a legitimate tootle within its I admission of East baths sugar ors the emmeterpis se reach, by which timely teller might lee given, end 111111 same duties as dial of the West Indira. ' Il e no the occurrence °fetich deep sod wide-pirodii , g es. wieherl also to suggest that this ass the le. !amity b, illeVelited. N. mode appeared to lens for toloptiog eunie better regulations for improving her 'be available, by which such relief could be afforded, hut the condition of the slaves in the Weld Indirs t. ed that of opening the trade with other countries. Ile first thing which lie would recommesd fur. a. thebgt , "e knew that by calculations of a lucre siithrnetiettl us. purpose was, the adoption of the princip l e 1 51. l ad tore it might be easy to chew that the opening of any Aecriptio this. At present, • slave born w,tve, l proper time 50 particular market would not so the moment •flor.l brought up un au estate, where he afte r ? , il. to that degree of relief which sanguine minds. in their built honied! • a house, married. and had a m eo;j. el sosirty to grasp at every means within their remelt, might. without any come, and against hi e of ail might be led to expect ; but it did appear to bliss sem, lie leinused froni that to any outer °' imporsable to say, if the restrictions were wine re- the 014 Colonies at least; which we., he anti' lie moved, to what extent • the beneficial effects of such tended, as bad as any slave trade th a t could Ku a proceeding might be carried, or iei what particular eater. Now that the liberty of trade was shout lo lie way they might be ptoduced; it was impossible to commence was the proper time to establish Ith . for describe the limits or to detect the proems of the principle of *script/0* to the Doll. It was SRO a'. Me operation of such a ineusure tlistrugh the uniusegin- opportunity fur ameliorating the judicial sy system, e i g - -- - - - ----- ... . • . .• .. . . . .... 1