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soot had troild against liar degree of * dour hitt t Honourable , '; 1 b-en tat: by ich he ente;ra' . that :t o the!country I.v is re 1e prosperity of *pot i re Trade; and, "•esfore, that 'place, h e el no , ever, as had beta 'acct;. tn., the abolition 4 to Make a short scat Li Liverpool forinerl had hiag hamlet, and by this wealth and eornmerc the This wag one good rc son lie trade, is by now tot la g hat wealth would be de mur**, which he awaht ..ord °omit... hist (Lewd theilibt ShoUld be taw sideratiest, was; that Liver. a-of the present hilluisto; n than *rep Million . ' sot- , netts of cooaer', by the nited frqm her immense ,is contributien, what had Right Honourable Gen. • \ or/ they hod introduces' hich every person knelt , ' is-service to their trade d ; to bring forward a mea unner of a total abolition. us war continued; in that creased ; and was it *wise, ition, that we should cut .of-eur wealth ; the cone.. the dilemma a! entering :e. or of having a total de icing from commerce ; and it was accessary for the r e this subjeAminutely, as. r did not afford the quota erty mast be resorted to. that he had bee* s. if this vote sot Farber, that compensation would keened in the trade; this efttwd; as, for a consider- , had been carried no with loos! ; iu consequence of uses had been built, which lost. This argument, ha , the revenue would be low measrre, and the parties be public purse for com lared, that though he was resolution, he would not Nonce oet it ; and con it was :tdtpted, it would ;y misfortunes and Bank i would also induce many ale to America. , it was certainly in the leman's constituents to pe ielpensatien "for the losses the abortioa cf this trade.; d not o ish to give any part urpo.e, no would he con ken out of the public purse, the merchants, that they nst th. wills of-the country o:1 apinst allowing them it could not be ascertained ificiAl to Liverpool or not ; had been. brought in for rave, thechad uniformly an as an entire abolition. inuwledged that it bad a h re,pea to the principle on who proposedthe aboli hat side of the 1-louse he riend. He thought, how in 1792 was decisive; and ity of the House, it should before th;s. He was ea t another resolution should ime, nearly, as the former. ut the Honse having any be followed up with any ,S the more surprised at ig, as his Right Honour ed himself still en advo e abolition, and he, for that the latter mode had igument used by his Right aging in a Bill, was, that the vanced, and that though it I sae House, ye: it was pro sot be a sufficiency of dm , sed in the other; but, he ie would not be the same sed in discussing a Bill, as resolution ? the B .! might that it was pradicable ,ion, he, for his part, wee:d brought in. .Gtl Agreed with the Hon. a, that it was better, and he ore consistent with the prin rntleman had always eitter il, even at this late period ioceed on this indefinite reso , he was at a less to know tun it. He could not con. formerly come to a recolit :in& wig; the Right Hon. come forward with one is. e ; so much so, that though Right Honourable Gen on the eabjetit, still he little alteration in the be brought to agree to it. se good sense of the Houi.c. onsidered much more thurs tnt a subjeft, to send to the e grand oppesitien Was se dition of the trade, a resole be understood, and which jefied ? or. thii ground. Duld be nothint worse inns tg forward this proposition. adverted to the length of had been discussed in the aid, been present when it way ,d, he thought it probable that business be would have ye-ea $ for the airo:ition ; bifl hoeing all•° the arguments be. fore him which had been adduced, he was com pelled to vote against it. Toe Noble Lord then adverted to a notice which had be given for this night by an 1-Inn. Gentleman ( dr. IVilberforcv), to petition His Majesty to enter into negociarions with Foreign Powers, for the purpose of having a general Abolition of the Slave Trade. If the to reign Powers would declare themselves ready to cescur io the abolition of the trade, he would say that it stood on the most fallacious grounds; and that if all governments in the world would .agree to abolish it. the commerce would go on in defiance of the States. But it was absurd to attempt such an experiment; did the Hon. Gentleman think, that Spain, Portugal, or the Person who was at the head of the French Government, would agree to such a ptvositiorti Ile could out suppose he alai Indeed, he wA himself convinced, that they would laugh at the i tea. With respeft to the idea of namlug a time when this trade should be abolished, he thottgbt it, • et: an immediate aboli tion. most improper .at could he adopted, as it vole ed impo•ence of Parliament to pro tit tra' once Th. plan *hid' ought to t was to place an encreasing .uch as would at the same time ,cieut encouragement to smug ! .'ianters find, that it was more their dans, if he might be allowed the • Africa. He k import them from —a. eeten, that the Hoe. Gentleman oi .7 good in communicating with e- unless it would be of service to • tterests ; and, therefore, if the Hon. .shed to make progress in his measure :o • ,he should endeavour to find out some s w. ich would make it agreeable to the Plant es. • :he Noble Lord then concluded by saying, Ow tee present motion was estvise, and that if the lbeht Hon. Centlernan meant to abolish the Slave Trade, his Resolution should have been more de- Smite. TIC SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose to give his *swat to the present motion, not became he thought it the best that could have been proposed, because he would much rather have beard a motion for aeSeeto br;og is a Bill ; but because he thought it 'Wt. very east, when this motion should be agreed to, thee te bring in the Bill. tho reason the Noble Lord had given for opposing the present motion, wis, that it was vague and indefinite ;. he, for his pars, did not deal ts could be considered so, as it stated that the house wou4 pith all convenient weed, toecrod In omit manner as was most advisable Ile would not, he said, go into the prin ciple ot ir Bill at preseat, but he conceived diet?. was neelone could be urged against the abolition, bus arguments which had been already refuted. His sole to or • for speae:ng, was on account f fhb Itihitmani•y and injustice 4 the trade, which was *scandal to the tummy, and which could not he defended by any weed arguments. It had been said, dist tb- to , mer resolution had not been followed 1.1.1 hot in oesiver to assertion, he would remind the House, t: at abcetg years sirce a Bill was pas.ed through the Commas, but ate rwerds lost in the Leeds, and that last year this Bill had been brenght ingot V 0,1% thrown out at a time when the House was enteelingly thin. There were circumstances ohm orettrringoinder which both nations and indivi duals would do wrong, because they had not courage enough to inquire into them!. but, in this case, the iaquiry had been made; the enormities which bad been committed, were ascertained by the Committee, who found that the trade could not be carried on, but by murder, and a long catalogue of the most torrid crimes; bat, instead of at once remedying tine evil, nothing had been done s and 360,000 inde eh:ldols more were torn from their native country, end from the bosom of their families, and carried to our p;lntations in the West Indies, where the most horridiniquities andpueltite were practised on them. An Honourable General had talked much of the demand which ire merchants of Liverpool intended totentate for coinpensetion ; he certainly could not sec how such a demand could be foaniied ; but, e:ote if it were, he would ask, ahether the d-his oC S ,-laid wet eto be paid with the blood of Africa? With 'espy& to what the Noble Lo-d had said relative to /Laving such a measure irotiutted. kith the coreurrenec of the Gentlemen concerned in the Weir Indies, he need only, he thought, refer the Nolile Lord to the Pepe,' on the Table, on this :IN -co and then ask him, whether he thought it was probable, that they would ever concur in any measure which was likely to produce an abolition? The Right Honourable Gentleman then apologized to the House. for takiag up so much time, and con chided by giving his assent to the motion. General GASCOYNE said, that with respell to the abolition of the Slave Trade, 'unless :he House Ji t something effe."..ual, they would do a great deal of it, schief ; for the subject would now be stirred afresh ; it wouldgo abroad, and be talked of in other places ; it would be agitated with warmth in the Coeinies, where it would rouse feelings that had in a great measure subsided. raise expectations that would bedisappointed, and, in feet, prove pregnant with mere injutions consequences than many gen tlemen sunk well conceive. He was well assured it wouli prove highly injurious to our commercial interest , in the Colonies; and he wished to be informed, if there ever was a period, in our His tory. in which our Colonial Trade had been in greater d 'tiger than it is at the present moment ? /tut the Meese had been told, it must give some opinion on the subject; and the resolution said, the Slave Trade was contrary to every principle of just lice. h Insanity, and soaad pnlucy. As to the questioo of justice, he could by no means acquiesce in it ; but while we were so strenuous in favour of justice to the Africans, we should not lose sight of it towards one another; and it was not at all clear, is his mind. that it wasjust in the Mother Country to treat the Colonies in the way she had done, by first giving legislative encouragement to the traffic in caesuon, and afterwards, when large properies had teen embarked in it. endeavouring thus t.' put a prop to it. and thereby involve in beggary end ruin, • - hose who had riak•O their :woperte, and thereby added greatly to the wealth, prosperity, and ag grandisement of the whole empire. He could not I.elp expressing his great sum ise at what bad been said by a Rt. Hon and Learned Gentleman (the boi -1 cimi.General) Who had introduced degre- oiw.at mth Mk *ad violence of Untrue*. that nielit.which had not been hesad in t h e Reuse for many yeais ; had re• 'welted to the expressions originally used on the stab ject, of rapine, robbery, and murder ; and he won dered, as he had taken up the matter so warmly, that he had not also mentioned the•craelties of the middle passage, the murder by Capt. Kivaber, which had been all proved since to be fabrications and fictions, but which had been used with con- sidcrable effect in the outset of the business. As :o the trade itself, he could prove, it had been sancti oned by the authority of the wisest and most pious legislators. If he was mistaken, his pious friend near him could set him right. He then quoted the 28th Chapter of Leviticus, out of which he read the 44th, 46th, and 46th ve:ses, as follows : Both thy bondmen and thy bond-maids which thou shalt have, shalt be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bond-men, and bond-maids. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that ere with you, which they begat in your land, and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your ehildren after you, to inherit them for a pos session ; they shall be your bondmen for ever. The above clearly proved, that slavery has, from the earliest times, been countenanced and authorised by religion itself. It was equally certain, it had been encouraged at various periods, during and since the reign of Elizabeth. As to the doctrine of the'Rt. Hon. and Learned Gent. respecting indemnity, he did not know where be had learnad it ; but, in that House, whenever, in the various discussions which had taken place, the subject of indemnity had been mentioned, it had never been denied, that the Merchants of Liverpool, and the Planters in the Co lonies also, were all entitled to it. Would the House say, that the justice they would extend to the Africans, they would refuse us their own, Countrymen. He would repeat what he had said on a former occasion, with the same qualification. If we bad new Colonies to cultivate, and he was asked his opinion, in respect to encouraging the Slave Trade, he would certainly advise it; and why because our commerce has derived such immense sources of wealth and pros perity from it, as nod proved a great mean of rats ' ing the country to its present state of aggrandise ment and magnificence. and enabled us to contend with our enemies.—Would any man say Europeans could cultivate the colonies t Look at the melan choly tavages made in our armies when sent over to the eoletnievited stithout having any hard labour to per; - orm, the effiets of a burning sun, and a continued sultry climate, were such, as to sweep away more than one half in the course of the first yea.- they arrived there. Ha thought pledging the louse now to renew • measure which had so lon4 dormant, could do no good, and might effeel much mischief, and be should there fore vote against the Motion. Mr. WILBERFtACE in some measure rebuked the Honourable Merither who spoke last, for having spoken with levity if religion, which. however it might in some l placee appear, under particular cornsiances, to countenance bondrnlth it WIN well known, that the purity at its nr inciples threnghout, warmly recommeneed, and atienely enibree - ..1 that divine and moral mains of "Do as you would be done by." and which, if duly attended to, would most effeltually overturn every substance and • every shadow of argument in favour of the African Slave Trade. With regard to the general question, he congratulated the House and himself, that his Noble Friend had so fully and unequivocally avow ed, that he abhorred the principle of the trade as much as himself, or any one in that House ; he was, however, afraid, that many Gentlemen in that House were not of the same opinion as his Noble Friend on that point ; for those who had been loudest in cheering him, had been the uniform opposers of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ; and by cheer ing his Noble Friend, they had shown that they thought they knew hint better than he did himself : they said, "Aye, aye, we hear you say you abhor the principle, and are an enemy to the thing itself ; but we see, by your argument, that you are, in fall, a friend to it." Ills Noble Friend had asserted, that • much mischief had been done by the wrong method that had been adopted. If, however, he had erred, it had been in common with those who st iod as high authority in the country. He had aged along with the present First Lord of His Majesty's Trea sury—with the late much-to-be-lamented Chan cellor of the Exchequer—with his Right Hon. Friend, who brought forward the present motion, and with many others of the first respeaability and talents. If. however, his Noble Friend hid not said he had particularly attended to the subject, he should have thought this was an exception to his general knowledge, for he had passed over all the principal points which had at any time been held of consequence, and on those he had touched, he could not but very widely di ff er with him in opin i on. He did so, particularly, in the argniesent - tirditties, by way of effeztaing an Abolition ; for it could nut be denied, he thought. that it must be much more diffi cult to smuggle slaves, than other commodities. All other articles of trade, were passive instruments, which we bar: only to collect together, and it we could pass the officers of customs with them, they would, of themselves, give us no annoyance, or ob struction; but those unfortunate slaves, however debased and degraded they might be in the eyes of many persons. still bore so much of the stamp of human nature about them, that you could not pass the officers with them, nor you could not elude the Customhouse regulations in any way, without being liable to their personal opposition to your intention. As to the concurrence of the Colonies, that had been proved to be utterly unattainable. His Noble Friend had said, that as the House had ant, 'ince 1792, proceeded on the resolutions it then came to nn the subject, it was a kind of argument, that they thought there was something impracticable in itt he thought, therefore, the House ought to be obliged to his Right Honourable Friend, for bringing forward the present resolution, and thereby enabling them to do away e.ttly in the next session, that clisgraoe, which now attached to them, from so long a delay. As to the plan, he could have wished a 131 i: to have been im mediately brought in fur the Abolition ; but his Right H nourable Friend had most forcibly shewn, that iritild not be done, at so late a period of the Session ; as there would notibe time for the Lords to consider the Bill with that mature deliberation w hi c h th e obit:3 required. His Noble Friad was. -- • • e. however, Miseallreii,• when lie said the Bill of Tan year was negatived by the. Lords—it was only laid aside, because there was nontime toi a full conside.t a tien of it. He hoped, therefore, the present reso lution would pass, to chew diet :ho House ate Sc-. termined to take up the el:legion early is the next Session, and evince to the world that they will, as speedily as possible, abolish a tragic which ,they have so repeatedly declared to be abominable in its principle, its nature, and conseguerwes. Sir W. YOUNG thought this resolution might tend to raise hopes and expeSlatians which might have a very mischievous tendency. Ile would rasher wish the subjea had been taken up by a Bill ; in which case, all the merits of the question might have been discussed in that House, and then sent to the Lords for their consideration. If, however, this resolution had been propose.), at the beginning of a Session, he would not have objeeted to it, be cause it-might have been followed by a Bill before the close of it ; but now so near toe close, and when they might not, on separating, meet again before January, a resolution of this kind would be • agitated in the colonies, and might produrf much mischief among the Negroes. He should, there fore, oppose the motion. Lord H. PETTY said, he would certainly have given the preference to a Bill for the immediate abolition of this abominable traffic ; but it had been most eloquently and forcibly shewn by his Right Honourable Friend; that the lateness of the *es sicn would not allow the practicability of: such a measure. What, then, had his Right Hon. Friend done %—After the longest deliberation that, he be lieved, had ever been given to a resolution of that, or any other Legislature in the world— after a resolution of that House passed in 1792, that this abominable traffic should be abolished in 1800, his Right Hun. Friend, in 1806, a period of fourteen years, calls en the House to agree with him in a resolution, the object of which is to re nines from the House that degree of shame and irsgrace, which they have so long laboured under, from as: apparent dereliaion of a resolution so so lemnly passed, and a pledge sr seriously given, oa a subjea of such vast imOurtence, after the most Mature deliberation, and most ample discussions. The Noble Lord, by his argument, seemed fo think this resolution must be sent, to the other House, and that there would be. imitating indecorous in so doing; he could not, however, see it at al. in that light. What right had the Noble Lord. WO what reason had the House to suppose or believe that the other House would differ with them on the general principle of this measure ? He denied the House bad any fair and reasonable ground to sup pose so-nall they had done to shew their opinion, was, they had thrown out a Bill which was sent to them on the sullied, not from any consideratioh or discussion of its principle or merits, but because it was too late in the Session to give it due attention and deliberation.—For this rea,son the present reso lution is now laid before the House, and will be communicated to the other House ; and it will be open to them, when this matter comes before them ih a general shape, to give their opinion fully and fairly otethe subject. Asto the general subjea, his own private opinion certattill at - Corded strictly with the words of the resolution, and lie thought the trade contrary to every principle of justice, humanity, and sound policy, so far as sound policy could be connedled with a matter of this nature. The trade commenced in Africa, and after spreading a variety of vices there, in order to effed the rob bery of persons who are the objeas of its pursuit, it proceeds with cruelty, to the misery and destruc tion of the pieces where it is carried on, and fre quently to the desolation of those who procure those Negroes. Besides these horrible effeas. it is attend ed with the mischief to the British sailors of a waste of lite, exceeding double and treble the number of those who die in any other employment in which they ate engaged, which not untrequently amounts 1 to one-sixth of the whole ship's company in a voy age; and it also produced the worst of all moral effeas among the planters, and those who were un der the necessity of using slaves in the West Indies. These, he said, were the considerations he felt on the subjea ; and he believed they were the same which operated on die House, in 1791. ten come to the resolution they then did. Whet had since happened to change that opinion ? Every instance had shewn that encourartemeet and mitiga ted labour, had made the Negroes productive and useful f—shey had encreased in population ; —we had made of them soldiers, and non-commissioned officers ; and having done so for our own interests— having made them defenders of the country, against the common enemy, for our interests, why should we not do something for their's? It had been proved that population might be kept up without further importations, nothing could prevent it, hut the extre mity of vice and merry which prevail in the West Indies, which keep down the charity of life, and which the House are silently continuing during the present session. The present resolution would lay, the foundation! for proceeding in the business early in the next session, which he thought not only desirable, but absolutely necessary for the honour and charaaer of that House, and as such it had his most cordial support. Mr. ROSE said, as far as regarded the question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, his opinion was still Consistent with that which he had on all occasions expressed ; and it was not altered with re. speak to the season and manner in which the question was brought before the House, as he considered this not less cbjeaionaele than any hitherto proposed. He had long ago stared his opinion of the manner in which the great and humane ohjea could alone be attained : it was, that a progressive duty should he imposed upon the importation of slaves into the West Indies, until at law it should amount to such an impost as would prays an absolute prohibition of the traffic, and that the bounty should not be a source of emolument to the State, bet be paid to the minhers of slaves born in the islands, until they had borne a certain number, when they should s he considered free. He did not think the West India Planters bad had fair play; they had been goaded by the Hon. Gentleman who had for years astir sted the question in that House, with the requi ezion of a total and immediate abolitints, or nothing at all. To the charge of a Right Han. Gentleman, that the trade was aaystern of rapine, bloodshed, and mu-ter, he would unit tat. that be had read h 4 ere t tittle et the treidenne ealli4ed on the inkjet% Ind iv.. at elms tr. form 'tor: is . •1i • re measure ; that evidence wsaciogire4 wit.• son e founded rela•inn4. particeliarle sae 'tor of a s'ip int.;ei the command of himiral Nu ,• nt hay ng lost SO ont of a cargo of stains, tram Lair being made t•i walk tire troaril,"eite which there was not a sylia • 1 •• of truth: • He was n •t becoming the de fender of what was p'ractieed towards the slaves; • uedoun•rdie.• math war indefens".!.. Ili; Objec • tion to the present -proposition , was, unit it was in- 4 definite an d vague, ind he thought it would be putting the House of Lords in a situation in which they ought not to be placed io ask of them ta comic mit themselves to a measure so 1-ie.-retie :14 to its ul timate objea. He had argued at oust tisen•ealisisitt of the trade, because it won't! be depriving the country of a great source of revenue, amoteting to two or three millions, at an inconvenient time. and because the American trade in slaves would in crease exactly in the proportion that nur's decreased. He had been misrepresented out of doors, waste stated to have said, that by carrying a few slaves, our merchantmen cow - Grimed to - the laws of Spain, and got articles into the Spanish colonies, which they otherwise could not What be had said was, that the .Spanish Go- vernors of provinces, covered themselves under dm: is . circumstance of a few slaves being na board net ships. and permitted the sale of our nrinnfacrafee. The average of one handied and eighteen *argot" was only seven from Great Bi ; and he thotatten by abolishing that limited tr. r - 't of staves, we shodtat I do more injury to our commerce, than could be cease. •• pensated by the advantages calculated upon- ,4 . alarm was not so much as to tae abolition of the •' trade, as that tie object of Gentlemen win to the emancipation of slaves. What had fallen from a Noble Lord (Petty) to-night, induced this appre hension, as a ell at what a Right Honourable Secre tary (Mr. Windham) had lately implied, in speaking • on the subject of limited service, when he said, that there Wa i no fear of finding recruits for the c olonies, , if the Slave Trade was abolished. He thought with the Right Honourable Gentleman, that theeoloaies might be well defended with the natii* troops, • enlisted for life, as the island of Dominic:a had ex- • emplified in three instances in which it had bens at tacked • bet not so if the met were to be tensed adriftekter a.certttin period. It was his misfottone • to•dieastee _with his lamented Friend (Mr. Pitt) on .) , the subyea of this trade ; as I hi, opinion oath tea - .- spea to it was so firmly rooted, that he believed it would die with him. Its sudden and entire about.. ti xt he was satisfied would be attended with d* worst_ consequences, and even be the occailse of -moth bloodshed in our islands. He thowillt •, the West India Planters had a claim apoo Par. liament, that their property should be proteeed. instead of being subje%ed to the inroads of 90 consequential .a measure as, the sudden alma lition of the Slave Trade 'would prove.----Je The mortality which a Noble Lord (Petty) ha& spoken of. he was sure he would, en due examina tion, find incoriea. The treatment which the slaves experienced was always exaggerated in a 'umber of pamphlets which were circulated on the 410 e-of ► Perhaseseataty disevolsaa. Unless the House abed in concert with the colonies, the mat ' we, he was convinced. would never prove afFecs 4 datil ; mai although the resolution would not have any opposition from him, he could not but wish, that the colonial interest had been associated, as is the end they must be, in so important an ender ••taking. Lord H. PET CY, in explanation, said, that he • had not so wild an objea in view, as the issuing of a Proclamation immediately after the panting of this resolution,for granting Leedom to all Negroes in cur West India Islands, as the Right Hon. sea. tieman (Mr. Rose) seemed to apprehend • but if by gradual progress the slaves could be led on to a fit state for freedom, he was certainly an *deo.. cate for that object. Mr. WILBERFORCE and Mr. ROSE mu tually explained. Mr: BARHAM said, he corsidered it to he the fault of those by whom this question had been be fore introduced, that the Slave Trade was not ere this entirely abolished. Han 4 hi hand with the proposition for the measure, should be the assur ance to those who would be affected by it. that every claim of compensation would be attended to, and - , that it was in s object intended to be erected at the exp nee of the country, and not of individnals. It would be in vain to look to the accomplishment of the object, unless this course was adopted, as not all the navy of England could prevent the land ing of contraband cargoes by the planters of the islands, in case the traffic should be prohibited by the English Parliament. He was ea advocate for the aboiition of the trade, by rendering slaves caps. ble of the enjoyment of freedom; but he entertained faint hopes of else accomplishment of that end, as na means could be at present deviled to induce fret ' labour ; no reward seat a sufficient stimulus to the voluntary exertion of the Negro, as he bad no wants in a country, when the labour of a week would sup ply the wants of a rear. For forty or fifty years, nothing had been omitted in the colonies to count.- rug the decrease of slaves , b e i u d d evh, but, in some, there was no instance of a laving. been born, for a very considerable iserind, li the ameliltation of their condition could be such as to prevent this decrease. it would be a most desirable objea, and would go far t..) obviate the necessity of the continu ance of the trade. Sir J. NEWPORT said, he wchild restore to assert, that woatever difference of opinion Wight exist in this country, the general accordar.t testi. ment of the people of lrehad was sacesgly in taartenif of the ' -of the slave trade. &f great was etestation of that abominable traffic, that when set of commercial gentlemen lately pn..pnted, in a ttsaritime district, a participation in the wealth de duced from our West India trade, the reply was, that sooner than he parties to the rapine, rebhery, and bloodshed, lien stained our intercourse with that quartet of the glebe, they would forego the pecerniary advantage, however great. One remedy proposed in lieu of this proposition before the House, wis an in creasing duty on the iresthrtation of slaves it.to the colonies; but, lts it was said they would be imp...tired in defiance of our navy, the increasing duty would only become an frereasirg premium on cont r a band trafsc. The Hon. Baronet, on account of the 1eer ....,. nr the hour_ concluded be esorttamE big "dill ~■