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f ruts England to Incknow, in Marelt, ASS. ma before he was well infortned of the transactions. The motion was agreed to. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY then observed, that in the return to a former order, there was an omission of Some letters from Sir George Ballow to the Marquis Cornwallis, which it would be r.e. cessary to have before the House, relative to tile condor& of the Nabob of Oude, and, therefore, moved, '• that the return of the papers be made forthwith." Mr. PAUL said, he had no olojedien to the Mo de& hut gave notice, that he should move for some seer papers on the same subjed to-morrow. %lap Thread Laos Bill was, on the lidution of toed TEMPLE. committed, and the Report or &a t to be received to-morrow. ASSESSED TAXES. The Haase having, on the Motion of Lord H. PETTY, resolved itself into a Committee on the As- Volood Duties. his Lordship proposed a Clause for allaying -an exemption of 4 per Cent. en the Duties to all parson who did not pay more than 401. to the Ameseed Taxes, for every child above two, which they may have /Olga fide living at their expense. Mt. HUSI.LBBCIN wished to !mow whether this was swam at a permanent exemption, or only tams alleviation of the hardships of the Property Tom In either Cue, however, he thought it liable to mmeiderable objeftions. If the dedultion was allowed in this case. the principle should go a great deal farther, and be in fairness allowed in other tuns. The Stamp Ditties were very cons'. derable en persons. for instance, engaged in Chan cery proseetings, where the expense of the suit was greatly encreased by the psi .e and the number of sumps *it would ba necessary. Na did not see how oweaaeoptims could be brought to operate with eqaolity as any ease: and if extended generally. must be rr great drawback on the amount of the mow Sosi.les, a man who had a large family of chills 's,. utast be compelled by that very circum stances to have a larger house. and pay more to the Aseopesi Taxes ; and to equalize the brstem, would require a particular. law for every particular family. A man also, on account of having the number of workingleams, windows. or other thiegs amessary to listradpapssi ' a large family , might be obliged to pay More ea to ttio.As awseed Taxes, and therefore tlts edditidsal 101. pee tent. into the bargain ; hut if thee ellhae cirevar his Assessed Taxes should he may 391. pay nothing to this dog; though he wenld. ;addled with the whole, if his taxes amanstad to' *Meg !hove 401. Lord WoNRY PETTY replied, that as to the amoral tattaamitietice of taxes, if it was applied to individnal eases, it would be impossible to agree about any one of them. The object of the measure , was not to afford a general, but a partial relief. an& yipt inconvenience complained of would be much. renter, if the principle had been introduced into the property tax. As to whether it should be mode pespotumret vas. it mast be matter for future con. shimmies. and dependent aa the circumstances of tee annes, and was a subject on which he would not I 'piedjge bramelf, end could not tie up the discrdtion .of Parliament. The principle and °hied of the stesasuse was, that when a man kept a large house, I ent liar henry, but from the necessities of his fa i SRN be should be exempted. HUSIUSSONT did not think that there was nip &toothy applicable to the tame principle in rolliperty Tax. which would me apply to this. Lied biENRY PETTY observed. that if there wee to be any litailatioa at all, it most begin some vier*. Mr. WILBERFORCE thought it no more than file and just e that Tersest, who were obliged to pay SWIM to the assessed taxes on account of the lug.- MSS of their families. should have an allowance =ado to them upon that account. HITSICISSON wished to know how much these exemptions would take from the produce of thecae ? Ler* HENRY PETTY replied, that ha sup pmell might take about 200,0001. The was then agreed to. and the Re port te be received tomorrow. ASOLITION ON THE SLAVE TRADE. Mt. Secretary LOX—" Before- I proceed. Sir. to open what !have to offer on this subj.& I must take the liberty of saying a few words by way of apology for being the person to come forward upon the present occasion. For the last sixteen or seven teen years of my life, 1 have been la the habit of uniformly and strenuously supporting the several motions =delay the very respetlable Gentleman (Mr. Wilberforce) who has so often, by his merit°. sinus exertions on this subject, attrafted the applause of this House, and claimed the admiration of the public. During the long period that I found it in such excellent hands, it was impossible for me to feel the slightest disposition to take it out of them. l am still of the same opinion t and cannot but think it would have been much better, if the same Ho nonrahle Member and his friends had retained it in their own hands, and they might certainly depend upon me, and those with whom I have the honour to act. for the same ardent support which we al ways before uniformly gave them. But, Sir, the Hon. Member, and many of his friends, seem so strongly to entertain different sentiments in that respect, from me, that I submitted my own opinion to theirs, and now assume the task, reluctantly, on that account. but on every other, most gladly. So fully am I impressed with th e vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this day, that if, during the forty years that I have now had the honour of a seat in Parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and conscious satisfadion, that Thad done my duty. Having made these pre liminary oaserva,ions, I now come to the main auestion, but c!n not think it necessary to stop at present, for the sake of referring in detail to all the envies on your Journals, made at different periods jr.-er the year 1 .792. the different motions made L litott Gentleman, the resolutions of he Hans:, aod the Haas brought in to a bolish 'be trade, particular:, that which receirsd the sane .iou of th:Lt House, though it was uefortunately segativca in another place. I have not lately bad iftift. ft UM ileaer occupations, to prepare myself to e ' er mintstelc to the date. and details; and must, itatces would I 13 ° - therntiwt, Ip33ltoct. Area( •tierial I.genetal reference, I in which, shernil 'Ufa ;kis any mistake, am sore there are Gewlemen who will be' certain to set rile light. to the execution of this duty, lam happy • to refl.& that whatever difference of 'wittier) might have prevailed upon some points of this siihjeet, be ns een a few /members, and, at one time, (lollop pile, so as to defeat the measure, the opinion of thfl. House upon this siihjett was, l will not say uniform, for in that I may be contradierd but as nearly unanimous as any thine of the kind could be, " That the Slave Trade is con. trary to theAwinciples of justice, policy, and hu manity." These, I believe, were the words of your own resAUtier, ad.upted attcr hog art.l set lOUS de liberation s and they are these which I mean to snhmit for the rosolutiou I shall propose this day. Sorely, Sir, it doss not rewain yet to he argued, that to c irry men by valence swat- to slaves y, in distant countries, to use the etr.resvert of an illus trious man, now no mote (Mr, But h'-) a man dis tinguished in every way, mid is not•i ig more, that for his great humanity, •• is not a traffic in the labour of men, but in the men themselves." 1 with not nose enter, for it would be unnecessary, into that explod argument, that we di d rat mike the Negroes slaves, hut found them already in that state, and condemned to it for crimes. The nature of the crimes themselves (witchcraft, in general) is a manifest pretext. dna a mockery of all human reason. But supposing them even to be real crimes, and such as men should be condemned for, can there be any thing more de. grading to sense, or disgusting to humanity, than to think it honourable or justifiable in Great Bri tain to send out ships annually to assist in the purposes of African police ? It has, I am told, Wren asserted by an authority in the other House of Parliament, that the trade is in itself so good a one, that if it was not found already subsisting, it would be right to create it. I certainly will not compare the authority just alluded to with that of my Honourable Friend (Nit-. Wilberforce), who, in the efforts he has used in order to abolish this disho nottreble traffic, as well as in all his other put scits, has always done Itirmeli so mush honour. I will not compare that authority with that of a Right Hon. Gentleman, now no mare (Mr. Pitt), whose talents have always so justly been entitled to ad miration, and whom eloquence was never more powerfully - displayed on any occasion, than in opposition to this trode. not compare is with that *Ea Noble Lord (Sidreiketli), one of your predecessors, but not your immediate one, in the chairs who, though be opposed the maimer in which we wished to obtain an abolition, yet as to the no man ewer enforced more strongly. or with inure feeling, his utter detestation .1 it An )(her Noble Lord also (Melville), who took a lead to cue. stantly opposing our attempts at a total and inure diate abolition ; yet, in regal d to the principle, when he prevailed in his measure of gradual abolition, re corded his opinion nn the Journals, by moving, that the House considered the slave trade to be adverse to policy, humanity, and jueice. Ido not, there• fore, suppose, that there emi be above one, or per haps two Members in the House, who can objet a condemnation of the nature of the node ; and shalt next proceed to recall the House to what has been its uniform, consistent, and unchangeable opinion-I for the last eighteen years, during which we ihould blush to have it seated, that not one step Ila; yet been taken towards the Abolition of the Trade. if, thee, we have never ceased to ex press our reprobation, surely the House must think itself bound by its char aeler, and the consistency of its proceedings, to condemn it nose. The first time this measure was proposed, on the motion of my Hoe. Friend, which was' in the year 1791, it was, after a long and warm discussion. rejeCted. In the following year. 179?, after the question had been, during the interval, better considered, there appeared to be a very strong disposition, generally, to adopt it to the fulls but in the Committee, the amnion for a gradual Abolition WaS carried. On that occasion, when the most strenuous efforts were made to specify the time when the .total abolition should take place, there were several divisions in the House about the number of years, and Lord Melville, who was the leader and pro poser of the gradual abolition, could not venture to push the period longer than eight years, or 11100, when it was to be totally abolished. We are now in the year 1306, and while surrounding nations are reproaching us with negleet, not a single step has yet been taken in it. Whets the question for a gra dual abolition was carried, there was no one could suppose that the trade would last so long ; and in the mean time we have suffered other nations to take the led of us. Denmark, much to its ho nour, has abolished the trade ; or, if it could not abolish it altogether, it has at least done all it could, .for it has prohibited its boing carried on in Danish ships, or by Danish sailors. I own, that when I began to consider the subject, early in the present Session, my opinion was, that the total abolition of the whole might be carried this year; but subsequent business intervened, in the discussion of the military plant besides which there was an abolition going forward in the foreign trade, from our colonies, and it was thought right to carry that measure first through, before we proceeded to the other. That Bill has now passed into a Law, and so far we have already succeeded ; but it was then too late to carry it through the other house. In this house, from a regard to the consistency of its own proceeding, we could indeed expel no great resistance; but the impediments that may be opposed to it in another, would not leave sufficient time to accomplish it. No alternative is therefore now left, but to let it pass over for the present session ; and it is to afford no ground for a sus picion that we have abandoned it altogether. that we have recourse to the measure that I am now about to propose. The motion will not mention any limi tation, either as to the time or manner of abolish ing the trade. There have been some hints indeed entertained, and thrown out in some quarters, that it would be a better measure to adopt something that must inevitably lead to an abolition ; but after twenty years of close attention which I have •paid to tie subject, I cannot think any thing so effeenal as a dire& law fur that purpose. The neat point is, as to the time when the abolition shoald rake piece ; for the same reasons or objetlionserbith led to the gradual measure of 170, stay here occur agan. That also I leave non ; but I have no hesi taiiaa to state, that with respect to that, my op.uioo is the same as it is 'With regard to the that 1 think it oughten bo.abelfeked immeithitely. The motion, therefore, which I have to Make, leaving to the Honse the rime and manner of abo lition, I ceunot but confidently express my hopes and confident expect st , on, will be unanimously car ried ; and' I implore Gentleraen not to listen to that sort of flattery which they hare sometimes heard (and parricularlv from one of the Members for Liverpool), that they have abolished it already.— When the regulations were adopted, for *e space to he allowed for each Negro in a slave !NO, the same Gentlemen opposed it as being destrudive, and et laimrJ, 1. Oh ! it you do that, you may as well abolish it at once, for it cannot be dore." Yet, when we propose an abolition altogether, they use, AS arguments against us, the great good already done, by regulating the slave staps, and bettering the condition of Negroes in the colonies. In the same way, when we first proposed the abolition of the foreign trade, they told us it would have the eff'e of a general and total abolition; and I beg or: them not to forget that declaration now; and hav ing made it once, I must use to them a phrase in common life, " Sir, if that be the case, 1 must pray you to put your !,and In it." As to the stale ar gument of the ruin it would bring upon the West India I slands, I would refer gentlemen to perhaps the most brilliant and convincing speech that ever was, I believe, delivered in this or any other place, by a consummate master of eloquence (Mr. Burke), and of which, I believe, there remains in some pub lications some account that would convey an inadequate idea of the substunce, though it would he impossible to represent the Manner; the voice, the gesture, the manner, were not to be de scribed— ., 0! st ilium ♦idisses, si ilium audivilliss!" If all the members of this house could but see and hear the grea: orator in the delivery of that speech. on that day, there would not he one then who could for one moment longer suppose that the Abolition :,f the Slave Trade could injuriously affect the inte rests of the West India Colonies. lam :ovate that a calculation was once made, and pretty generally circulated, by which it would appear, that were the importation of Negroes into the islands put an end to, the stock of slaves could not be kept up; and if I recol tta right, the calculation was made with reference to the island of Jamaica. Fortunately, however, for our argument, the experiment has been already tried in Nook America, where the trade was abolished and the effetit of it shewed, that the population of , the Negroes was nearly equal to that of the Whitie: As that is the part of the world where population pro ceeds more rapidly than in any other,and as we know that within the last twenty years, the population of Whites has doubled, and that of Negroes very nearly so, without importation; it affords, I will not say a damning, hut a blessing proof, that our adopting a similor coerse would ultimately produce the hearty elle& of a gradual emancipation, of iucreasir.' pors.ation, of enabling Negroes to ac quire property g.. the reward servitude ; and - ciao; praoit*e!.., islands as state of .safety heyond any thiot that be dons by any fleets or armies. Nothing now rr... ,i,re for me, Sir, but to address a rev, words to those aierobers opposite me, who are so iond of quoting the opinions of a Right Hon. Gentleman, deceased, and profess to en tertain so profound a respeft fir his memory. They all knowthat therewas no subject on which that Right lion. Gernleman displayed his ertraordinaty els. (pence with more ardoer then is support of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. His speeches on that subject will not easily be forgotten ; and, thereo fore, in supporting the present motion, they would not only have art oppiwtunity of manifesting their private friendship for him, their admiration of his splendid talents, andthe sincerity of their zeal and re. sped for his chat-after and memory ; but also the opportunity of quoting him with great advantage. —Added to which, they may now display all this for the public good, and on a subjeact upon which they cannot be suspefled or accused of making diet respett and admiration, only a vehicle for party purposes." He then moved the following resolution—" That conceiving the African Slave Trade to be coottary to the princie:: of justice, Au rnanity, and sound policy, the tiate will, with all convenient speed, in the nes t s ession of Parli ament, take steps to abolish it in such manner and at such time as shall be thought most advantageous and advisable." The Clerk then read over the entries on the Jour nals is the years 179 t and 1792. Sir R. MILBANKE rose to second the Motion. He should always, he said, endeavour to suppress a trade so unjust and so degrading to humanity ; and he wished it to be remembered, that he had on every occasion given hi; vote for the abolition of it. The sentiments of his Constituants, he WAS happy to say, were similar to hi., and he biped the House would concur in the opinion. l'he Hon. Gentle man then declared, that it was not his inteition to enter on the subjea, after it had been to ably !lad led by the Right Hon. Mover, but, on the broad principle of humanity, to second the Motior.. Gen. TAR LE FUN said, he must advert to the whole course of proceedings before the Hou.e, for a period of no less that. eighteen years, w:lett the measure for the Abolition of this trade was first brought forward by the Hon. Gentleman ('.4r. Wilberforce) who sat on the Same bench him. At that time, the country was in profound peace, but still the measure was rejettled ; and now that we were involved in a war, he did not think it should be brought forward. Certainly, the Hon. Gentle. man was feelingly alive to every remark which had been made en the subjeft, since that tittle ; aud whenever it had been introduced in debate, he had started up, as if be had seen a ghost ; but with all his arguments, and all his perfeverance, he never was able to induce the Legislature to adopt so ruinous a measure. He could not, indeed, con ceive how the supporters of this measure could be se enthusiastically blind ; if the evidence, with te speft to the policy of the trade, was looked to, it would be found that some was in favour of it, and some against it. With respea to the argument coed by the Right Hon. Secretary, relative to the proceeding of the Court of Denmark, he did not conceive that any Gentleman should take that ir.to his consideration, as no data had been mentic,neA, nor indeed was it mei relied or.. The Right Hen. Gentleman, he s ti t, then adverted, with a de gree of pleesantry, to the idea, that the Gentlemen who represented Liverpool. had to 44 igaie s t the abolition, with a peculiar degree of Jour. lane he could assure the Right Honourablic ti:e.'* - .1.4. on his part, that be had been sole!! site by. thorough - convidiott which he entettai . that is would be of dis-service to the kointry. w is a'. 'tiirevs his opiniisio tint the prosperity of ttipor 1 was co-eval with the Slate Trade; and, t tvfitre, from his connection with that tilace, he co .1 not hint oppose, nor had he ever, Os had hooka 'net!, given an implied assent to, the abolition ' • the `trade. He begged lease to Inake i short sea t o of the effea 'Of this trede; Liverpool fortne h a d . been an insignifitato fishing hamlet, and by this trade had cow' become in wealth ana.cotim the second town in England. This Wag one,good xi! ran against the abolition of the tattle. As by sooty% ing it away, the source of that wealth w,osld, be de stroyed. Another cirennutanst, which he solid pout our to the Noble Lord opposite . hint (Lewd H,„ Itet t o ) , , and which he thOutbt Shobld he taken , intolis most serious consideration, Willi that 1-119 3 f. pool hsd, an the accession-of the pretse.atlikektg , contributed no less a sum than three isilkink eel • totally to defray the expenees of the country, by dirk' duties alone which originated (tom her imme trade.. In return •for this contributiOn, what 14 4 4 , i been the condat of the Right Honourable Co& ' 1 : denim towards that, place/ they hod introduced h the Restriaion kill, which every person knew • was of the greatest dis-service to their trade, and they were now about to bring forward a mea sure which was the forerunner of a total abolition. He would suppose that this war continued; in that ease the taxes must be encreased ; and was it Wise, the Wore, on this suppoition, that we should cut ttnei the enercandlosourose.oi.our wealth ; the coup-- try would be reduced. to the dilemma o! entering into .an ignominious peace, or of having a total de falcation of all revenue arising from commerce ; and for this reason, he thought it was necessary for the r landed interest to examine this subjedstninutely, a.. _ if theinercantile property' did not Afford the quota of taxes, the landed property mast be resorted to. The Hon. Gentleman then said, that he had been direeted by his constituents, if this vote men farher, to inform the Ministers, that compensation would be demanded by those cdneetned in the trade; this he thought could riot be refused; as, for a consider- , able time back, the trade had been carried on enh the countenance of the House ; in consequence of which, ships as& warehouses had been built, which would be now entirely lost. This arouroecn ha conceived, cut two 'oiys, the revenue would be lost by the adoption of the measure, and the parties would have to apply to the public puree for com pensation. He then declared, that though he was decidedly adverse to the resolution, he would not now take the sense oldie Nonce on it ; and con cluded by saying, that if it' was adc red, it would be the occasion of many rnisforoanes and Bank ruptcies in Liverpool, aroi would also induce many of the artificers to emigrate to America. Mr. FRANCIS said, it was certainly in the power of the Hon. Gentleman's constituents to pe tition the House for cortapensatiers 'for the losses ty would sustain from the aback* of this trades he, for his part, would not wish irogive any pot ci Li' property for that purpo.e, •noe would he con sent that it should be token out of theomblic purse s as it was well known to the merchants, that they carried on the trade against the with of. the country at large. Another reason against allowing them compensation, was. that it could not be ascertained whether it. would be beneficial to Liverpool or not ; as, in all the hills which had been. brought in for the regulation •of the trade, they'had uniformly stated, that each would an as an entire abolition. and had afterwards acknowledged that it had a contrary tendency. With respect to the principle rot the measure, the person who proposedthe aboli tion, let him stand at what side of the House he would, nos always his friend. He thought, how ever, that the Resolution in 1792 was decisive; and he thought, for the dignity of the House, it should have been thed on long before th;s. He was ex tremely sorry, int2ed, that another resolution should now be proposed. the same, neatly, es the former, - but not so strong, whhoui the House having any security that it would be followed up with any 'other motion. lie was the more surprised at this mode of proceeding, as his Right Honour shim Friend had declared himself still an advo cate for ahe immediate abolition, and he, for his part, heartily wished that the litter mode had been proposed. The argument used by his Right Hon. Friend, against bringing in a Bill. was, that the Session was now far advanced, and that though it might he passed through one House. ye. it was pro bable that there would not be a sulEciency of time to allow it to be discussed in the other; but, he would ask whether there would not bo the samo portion of time consumed in discussing a Bill, as there was in discussing a resolution ? the B .! might be short. and conceiving that it was prat-tit:Able to pass it in the present Session, he, for his part, weight advise that it shouid be brought in. Lord CAS I'LLKLAGH agreed with the Hon. Gentleman just sat down, that it was bower, and be conceived it would be more consistent with the prin • ciple the Right Hon. Gentleman had always ema ciated, to bung in a Bill, even at this 14,e period of the Session. than to proceed on this indefinite reso lotion. F..r h.% part, be was at a loss so know what constooltiou to put un it. He could not con ceive, if Parlioment had formerly come to a resolu tion so mud] more digital, why the Right Hon. Gentleman should now come forward with one it r very oeneial.inats nature ; so much so, that though he differed with the Right Honourable Gen tleman faadamotally on the labial, still he thought, with a very little alteration in the reolution, he would be brought to agree to it. He would put it to the good sense of the House, whether it could be considered much more then trifling with so important a sobjeft, to send to the other House, where the grand opposition was gc serally made to the abolition of the trade, a resolu tion which could not be understood, and which of course would he rejetled ? or. th'o ground. lot considered that there could be nothinf worse Unit- Fined that. the bringing forward this proposition. The Noble Lord then adverted to the length of time that this okra had been discussed in the House. He had not, be said, been present when it was first introduced, if he had, he thought it probable that on the first blush of the business be would have vc oi i~ ~~ i I ! t L I .~ a