The Sun. — London, England, 1829-07-14 00:00:00

,BOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY. (THIS DAY.) At the Freemasons' Tavern a Meeting of Ladies id Gentlemen took place, for the purpose of tak g into consideration the propriety of petitioning srlisment to declare that all children, horn within 3 Majesty's dominions, after a given day, shall teive the protection of the British Constitution. Upon the motion of Mr. Pownall, OTwAY !AvE, Esq., M. P. was called to the chair. 1 . 11 taking it, he expressed himself thus,— adies and Gentlemen, I cannot help, in the 7st place expressing my heartfelt pride and plea- Ire in being called upon to preside over such a teeting, convened for the object this meeting has view. I shall merely, in a few words, take the betty of stating for what purpose this society wets. It hss appeared to the advocates for the holition of slavery throughout the country, that the Ruse has been too long overlaid, if I may so ex t•ess myself, by a complication of endless details, that therefore it is better to bring back the mind to one particular definite point and irinciple, by which, at some period, however !mete, the existence of .slavery within our own prisdietion ought clearl to be put an end to. is for the purpose ortaking into consideration letitions to be presented to Parliament for the abo ition of the slavery of negro children born within nit own colonies that this meeting has assembled, ind I have to request, that any Gentlemen who may please to address the meeting will confine them 'elves to that one point, namely, the liberaCon of tecro children front Slivery born within our own :olonies after a giventiene. Mr. POWNALL said, Gentlemen, in rising to sub mit to you these resolutions., I beg to apologise for intruding myself on the meeting so soon; but, having been requested to do so in consequence of the unavoidable. absence of some friends, I do it Most willingly, f ee li ng, us I most certainly do, that ''every hour's delay continues the infliction of a grievous wrong on our fellow-subjects. I feel that the principles.of justice and equity require no apo logy from him who advocates them ; neither is it Lnecessary to go into detail, to show that life and iberty are the natural rights of every human being. ,(Applause.) —However well confirmed this is, by the : opinion of the most eminent lawyers that ever in this or any country, still it is equally no torious that while we admit the principles, we act towards our fellows, merely on account of the co lour of their skin as holding them in bondage, as the ox that ploughed) the ground—as the jackalls— tor the white man's use. It is just 46 years this f°~very month s i nce M r. Cl ar k son, t h e great a d vocate t h e fri aboliti on o f s l avery , assem bl e d w i t h a f ew this metropolis, to take into consideration th ends in e very subject of our present deliberations. The object was to consider what should be done f or l' rputting an end to that accursed traffic of slavery. e have therefore no reason to be discouraged, from the scanty number assembled on the present occasion. Though that individual has lived to see . toe slave- trade abolished, yet he has not lived to See,,, the s l aves emanc ip a t e d in o ur 'West India C olonies, and those who remember what has been g ° lng on from the year 1783, when Granville Bharpe, Mr. Clarkson, and others, laboured from th at ptriOd with M r . Wilberforce and a few o thers, to the year 1806, before the slave trade was abolished, will not be surprised to !ad themselves in 1829-23 years after the abo "on of the accursed trade, r sell sanctioning, by th e Practice in our colonies, that system of slavery Winch was then so much deprecated. The object of our present meeting is to take the point on one single p ract i cal view, namely, to endeavour to ga i n the suffr ages of the people throughout the coun try to petition Parliament, to declare that all children b orn within his Majesty ' s dominions after a • !ion of day, shall receive the prow lb: the simple, g t i h v e " British Constitution. Nothing can ore just. nothing more equitable, nothing they are f • They are either British subjects, or oreigners; if British subjects, they are en titled to the protection of our King and his Go- Y.ernment; if foreigners, then by what law of na tionsh is it that we hold unoffending foreigners in L' el :Petual bondage and sl a v e ry, s o l e ly b eca u se th e y - 4, a ,l'Pen to be a darker colour than ousselies ? This is not a new principle, as our worthy C hairman stated, when he had • the moral ee urttge to bring forward these resolutions, al most unsupported in the House of Commons, and to vindicate, not a new principle, but what is Sa nctioned by the law of God, and acknowledged ° Y . almost every individual, though denied in the collective capacity of our West India traders. I O r, one thank him for evincing this courage, and for a tling the atte n ti on o f th e p u bli c to the subject; ' at i 1 trust, Sir, you will find throughout the coun t) v t 4 .' such a co-operat i on on t h e part o f t h e pu bli c s . . lt h you now, that will give you reason to I have well said that which I have t s l l , ea ," It will be recollected that in 1792, when ' au ßiect occupied the attention of the Legislature j e . t Y consid era bly, that Mr. Dundas, afterwards (l a rd Mel v ill e b roug h t f orwar d t hi s propos i t i on , and f!e la red that if th e subject were only left to the ssila s • Assemblage themselves, the children born t h e e a , years a f ter t h at p er i o d s hould be fr ee . It was I , n not accre di te d ; f or t h e w i se men w h o ad s eat ed the ri g ht s o f Africans knew well that it was fallaci ous hope to expect he who held his fellow creat urec in chains, would set him at liberty unless c r u Pelled t o d o so . Though, however, that was not el e a ne s in• Siloam after that time, they were de tlred free. Si r H u d s on Lowe, too, in 1829, de ared where he was, that children born after that tae sho u ld b e free as we ll as ot h ers i n one or two tither parts. But not only in those partial districts as the principle obtained, but 3 5 years ago the ht-tiPle also was acknowledged in New York, and pere slaiery is almost abolished. In New England, s_ hll adelphia, an d some o ther parts it has likewise tho se ack now l e dg ed, an d we may h ope t h a t i n a ll he ar places, i n a s h or t ti me , we shall never ear of slavery. This was a point of such ils p ort ance, that, under the Spanish law, the Gv ernment o f S pa i n o ff ere d grea ter protection to . the children unborn than to any other slaves ; so.that it was enacted that any one paying 425. should emancipate a child at birth. I am sure I need not go into details to show the practical utility tlf this • but think I in calling the attention of 0 tostnent to it, on one grand public principle, we u am not t dictate the mode of carrying it into effect. . h sure every one must recollect that duri n g the oi at 30 y ears a ll w h o b roug h t f orwar d t h e su bj ect I, Cath o li c emanc i pat i on , accompan i ed i t w i t h a PlaniPlanof how it should b e accom pli s h e d. Wh at was 2e result ? N ot one o f t h ose were a d opte d , 'Odor) the plan itself, and not on the principle, have 4 11 ,great num b er cons i dered they were frustrated. I i l i erefor e entreat t h ose w h o take an i nterest i n anti -4 .very, not to look so much at the complicated ma ' .i n m erY., as to the grand principle which establishes e very one th e r i g ht o f lif e an d lib er ty. It i s j ust ! II Proportion to the extent to which that principle entertained that we can expect our object to suc heed. God has caused the system of slavery, and is impossible for stripes to make it pure. I believe 6, ,_ that this object, which we have now met to sup srilill never be carried into effect, unless the Saints, eyttre called—l mean th ose w ho profess Christ to t b e th e M of the matter, they make a conscience Il le he m atter, and take up the subject. Unless cattY do eso, I really despa ir o f its ever being . a l ed forward ;—but let them boldly make ou s tand, and I h ave li tt l e d ou b t we shal l soon see w ishes accompli s h e d. L e t us see w h a t has then the effect of amelioration. What are to be • ills effects of all your plans of education ? Do you ,eo lak it Possible that slavery and knowledge can sihr ist ? I believe it to be utterly impos that a state of intellectual advancement and bodily 'degradation can go h a nd in h an d.— . zoo], then wh at you are a bo ut i n th e West Indies. ou,bav e sent out your bishops, mi sionaries, school 7'ssters, and soon, for thepurpose of communicating formation; and who, I should wish to know, eat) tt/ through the serviee of the Church of England and say he believes the principles which are . . there laid down to he compatible with slavery. I cannot forget that the service of the Church of England has embodied a prayer for all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children, and all prisoners and captives; and how can I unite in that prayer, knowing at the same time that I Nvithold from my fellow creatures the bles sings of that Constitution under which they live, and lam in the enjoyment of. How can you teach a child to reverence its parent, when probably the very obedience it yields may be the means of in ducing a severe flogging? How can you teach the Seventh Commandment, and yet find in all the orders of society, that every part of it tends to a breach of morality ? How can you call upon them to reverence the Sabbath when they are called upon to attend agri cultural pursuits and Sunday morning markets? From the beginning of Genesis to the close of the Reve lations, it will assert that slavery is incompatible with the Christian religion, and he who would en lighten mankind must become the powerful advo cate for liberty. The Resolutions which I have to submit to yon are founded on broad public princi ples, which without further comment I shall proceed to read. The speaker then read over the Resolutions, which were in effect what has been already stated. These are the Resolutions which I beg to sub mit to the attention of this Meeting, and in doing so, I trust they will meet with your unanimous support. In doing so, ycu will recollect, you arc exercising the right of Englishmen and British sub jects, aHd doing justice to your Colonial brethren. Look at Hayti, with a free black population. increasing in numbers beyond all calculation—look at the States of North and South America, and who can suppose the pre sent state of bondage can go on in the East. It is quite absurd to suppose the British agriculturists would comp-ere with Africans. Why give liberty to the West India colonies, and deny it to the colonial possessions in the East? B 2 just and fear not. While you are just to the negro you are just to yourself. God will go with you; your country will not be perplexed with the question ; we shall not be degraded in the eyes of foreigners, as we are at the present moment, but will be lifted up and looked upon as the destroyers of universal bondage. Mr. POCTER seconded the Resolution, which, upon being put by the Chairman, The Rev. Mr. ISAACSON, Rector of St. Paul's, Deme rara, rose—l feel I should not be doing my duty to the present company or to the West Indies, if I did not rise to state what I well know will be the result of the carry ing into effect the Resolution which has been read. I speak on this occasion with a great deal of diffidence, and fearing I might not be enabled to address you on all the points I ought, I have taken notes. No one would be more anxious than myself for the emancipation of the Negroes, if it was to be attended with the benefits which it is thought it would confer ; if time pro position was made to the Duke of Devonshire to purchase the Island of Montserrat and Tortola, to see if anything could he done that would be attended with success to the free labourer, and thus the plans and objects of the Society might be extended to others. The planters themselves would be the first to second the resolutions you are inclined to carry into effect. One of the most happy writers on the West India question had proved the idea to be mistaken that free labour would be productive of welfare to the colonies. The value of produce would be increased by the emanci pation of slaves. That was the ground upon which the British Government proceeded in refusing to grant Emancipation. The slaves themselves would embark in services necessary to raise the productions of the country. They would perform much more labour than they now pa- Itrin,and in consequence of which the return would be double. The master would become richer than he was before,because the value of his land would be increased, from the vast re turns produced by free labour. The natural indolence of persons residing under the tropics is such, that the re turn of free-born labour would be the means of encouraging idleness. No one could wish more for the abolition of slavery than I do ; but before I can give it my support, the means of carrying it into effect must be less objectionable. How .do you propos , e that the children of slaves are to be main tained by the proprietors, after this act is carried into effect? In no one instance throughout the Colonies would it be undertaken unlets a remuneration were given to the Planter. A very great misrepresentation has gone abroad with reference to the cruelty of the proprietors. I have toyself been the Rector of the largest parish in the East tin• five years, and I take my God to witness that I do not know of a single inst•nce of cruelty on their part during the whole of that period. I wish others was instrumental in establishing a school in Georgetown, where the chit. ren were instructed in all the usual details of education which they received in this country, and I wool challenge any school in Great Britain to rival them. The Negroes at e most anxious to receive religious instruction, and upon one occasion no less than 500 persons surrounded the walls of the church in which I was preaching, to receive that in struction at the conclusion of the service. Marriages are frequent. I have baptized upwards of 8000 Negroes, and I have always found them as well informed as any po pulation similarly situated. No consideration appears to he given to the state of the African originally. Look at the establishments at Sierra Leone, and no man do- ing so will hesitate to say, "No benefit has been derived to the Negros from that establishment. There has been an attempt made to draw a distinction between the resident and non-resident proprietors There certainly is a distinction, but it is in favour of the resident : he has the whole of his slaves under his eye. Not a Negro goes to labour if he has the slightest complaint.— A surgeon attends him, and he is treated as kindly as any person possibly can be. The reports generally circulated of cruelty are exaggerated ; it is a rare occurrence, and may almost be considered as a matter only of history. The constitution of, the very labourers is such, that they are unwilling to work under any consideration for more than would support their actual existence. During the last three years 750 slaves have been liberated under the new regulation in the colony of Demerara. I believe lam under the mark, when I state that number. The colonies are as anxious as they well can be of carrying into effect every thing that would be of interest to the slave himself. If the people of England are as urgent in the cause of emancipation as they appear to be— if their real object is the furtherance of justicd, they must recognize and take in view the case of the planters. The object of 1 Lr. Cave himself, will be answered by the resolution which I shall beg leave now to propose, and will be at tended with incalculable advantages, while the com plaints against Negro Slavery will be abated. Sir, I beg leave to prop se the following resolution : The CHAIRMAN—As an amendment, I suppose? The Rev. Mr. Jacxsost—Yes. The resolution is this,—that the Meeting views, with the deepest in terest, the situation of the West Indies; and are most anxious to lay before his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament, under the form of a petition, auch a plan of amelioration as may finally tend to the abolition of slavery. That for these purposes the practicability of intro ducing a free labour system be tried by purchasing in the first instance one of the smaller islands, and if this experiment succeed, that other resolutions, having the same object in view, be founded upon it. That subscriptions be immediately entered into for this purpose and that the funds hitherto available for other purposes connected with the cause be in future applicable to this object alone, as the only certain means of carrying the in tentions of the Committee into effect. Mr. ALEXANDER, of the Morning Journal, seconded this resolution and amendment. Dr. EDWARDS was addressing the meeting when we left. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. Viscount and Viscountess Downe, for their seat, Cowick Hall, Yorkshire; the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, from Stan hope-street, fot Newmarket; the Duke of Rutland and the Ladies Manners, for Belvoir Castle; the Earl and Countess of Belfast, from Arlington-street, for the Isle of Wight ; the Coun tess of Mansfield, from Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, for Rich mond ; the Earl of Thanet, in St. James's-street, from his seat in Kent ; Colonel and Mrs. Brown and family, from King-street, Portman-square, to their seat, Amwell Bury, Herts ; Major and Mrs. Macdonald, in Brook-street, from Dublin; Capt. Robert King, in Pall-mall, from Devizes; Mr. and Mrs. Mordaunt, in Gloucester-place, from Florence ; Major Parnell, from Chatham, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Littledale, for Tunbridge Wells ; Mr. and Mrs. Jervis, on a tour; Major Leigh, for Cheshire; Capt. Frederick Clayton, for Malta; Mr. and Mrs. Miles, for Rams gate; Lieut.-Colonel Holt, for Penzance, in Cornwall; Major Ludlow, for Dublin ; Mr. Biddulph, for Herefordshire ; Lieut.- Colonel Griffiths, for Manchester; Col. Hammond, for Cork ; Sir Rotert Bolton, Bark, from his seat, in Oxfordshire ; Mark SteizA.Eaq. at the Burlington Hotel, from the North ; J. Har rison, Esq. and son, at ditto, from Liverpool , Barry Beresford, Esq. at , ditto, from Cheltenham ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Templer, at Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, from the Continent ; Mrs. Herbert Cornwall and family, at the St- George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Quebec; Lord Forbes and Ladies at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford-street; Lord Viscount Glentworth and Lady Glentworth, at ditto; the Ilev. J. C. Ord, at ditto; Colonel Warneford, the Hon. Mrs. Warneford and Miss Warneford, from ditto; the Hon. Mrs. Bassett, from ditto; the Hon. Mr. Irby, from ditto; Count and Countess Baracene, from ditto ; Earl Cowper, from ditto. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. This being the first day of the sittings of this Court after the usual short recess following the ter mination of the Term, the Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-Inn. Hall. LORD WINCIIILSEA WALKUP. Mr. HORNE was instructed to apply to the Court ror judgment. Upon the application that was made for a new trial in this case some considerable time ago, The LORD CHANCELLOR believed the entire titles- tion to be, whether he should or should not grant a new trial,and which he shoulddispose of on Saturday, [N THE MATTER OF SIR GREGORY PAGE TURNER, A LUNATIC. Mr. PHILLIMORE asked upon a petition for the purpose, an order to confirm the Master's report, approving of the granting of a lease upon given terms, of a house belonging to the lunatic in Mark-lane.— Granted. N THE MATTER OF POTTINGER, A BANKRUPT. Mr. BORNE stated, that in this Brighton matter, thirty or forty new affidavits had been filed, which made it impossible for the briefs to be gat ready by to-morrow, the day appointed for the hearing, there fore he hoped it might be permitted to stand for Thursday. . Mr. MosTAGuE did not oppose the application ; on the contlary, he was of opinion that it would be better to have it fixed for Saturday. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was probable that on Thursday there would he a Recorder's Re port, and that in such case he should not Should he be in Court on Thursday, it might be brought on then; if otherwise, on Saturday. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE-CONST V. HARRIS. Mr. LOWSDES stated, that a short time ago, on the motion of Mr. Biekersteth, the Court had ordered an application to be made to-day in this case, having for its object to disallow from the Receiver's ac counts the salary which had been kept back by him as Treasurer, and as allowed by the Master. The Solicitor who then instructed Mr. Biekersteth, had since written a note, saying he did not now wish the application to be forwarded out of the general paper; but the order of advancement having been once made, he (Mr. Lowndes) submitted that the applicant ought . to be held to it, especially as the other side were ready, because the effect of suspending the application would be to prevent his Lordship de livering his judgment on-the case that had already been argued. The LORD CHANCELLOR was not of this opinion. He saw no objection to the application being allowed to fall back into the general paper, as he should take care that should not delay him in disposing as early as possible of the case now before him, except, in deed, it might be with respect to the one item—the Treasurer's salary. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. BROOKIHAN V. ROTIISCIIILD. Mr. KNIGHT understood that it was the intention of his Honour to give judgment in this case to morrow. It would be a great convenience to Mr. Rothschild's solicitor, whose professional duties would require his attendance elsewhere on that day, if the Court would postpone giving its judgment till Thursday, if not inconvenient to his Honour. The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, if it would tender Mr. Knight any service he should be most happy to comply with his request. It would be a matter of no inconvenience to him to postpone his judgment for a day. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, on the part. of Mr. Brookman, could see no objection to this. The VICE-CHANCELLOR then ordered the case to stand peremptorily for judgment on Thursday, and trusted Mr. Knight would take care the parties on the other side knew of the intention of the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. LIBEL.-lIUMPIIRIES V. MILLAR. Mr. BROUGHAM (with whom were Mr. Pollock and Mr. Kelly) stated to the Jury that the plaintiff was a most respectable wine -merchant, living at No.• 9, Water-lane, in the City, and the de fendant Secretary of a Society who published an annual list, purporting to be a list of the " Society for the Protection of Trade," but sometimes called a " List for the Suppression of Swindling." The libel which he had to complain of was that of the plaintiff's name being inserted in that list. The cause annexed to his name in that list was " no account," which, he believed, was intended to convey the imputation of having drawn upon a banker without having an account with him. The libel, which was in the 12th List, 182 S, was then put in, and several witnesses were called to prove the injury the plaintiff suffered. They were principally persons who had been Members of the Society, and many had withdrawn their names in consequence of the plaintiff's and other persons' names being inserted in the list. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, said that he should prove a full justification, inasmuch as the plaintiff had accepted bills drawn by a notorious swindler named Crawford, and payable at a banker's where he had only a balance of a few shillings remaining. He then called a member of the So ciety named Webber Eaton, who went on to prove a justification, and was followed by several other wit nesses.—The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, found a verdict for the defendant. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS-(THIS DAY, The General Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of the Admiralty of England was held this day at Justice Hall, Old Bailey, before Sir CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, Mr. Justice BAYLEY, and several Civilians. The Grand Jury having been sworn, Sir C. RO BINSON addressed them at considerable length, arid took a review of the different cases in the calendar. The first that would be brought under their notice was that of a person charged with gross piracy, as long since as the year 1822. He was tried in the year 1823 on other charges of piracy, but the evidence then was not sufficiently strong, and he was acquitted, since which time he had been at large. On the present occasion the master of a Dutch ship would give evidence before them, and if the facts as stated in the depo sitions were proved, there could be no doubt of the offence being piracy. The next charge was against a person named Brown, for feloniously killing a lad under his command. This case did not call for any particular observations, the Jury would judge from the evidence of the propriety of return ing a true bill. The third: case in the calendar was one of a much deeper dye, it was that of murder. Captain Bragge and his first Mate were accused of the wilful murder of a seaman. This charge was one which required their most serious attention, as experience had proved that charges of this kind were sometimes made from bad and malicious motives, before they returned a bill they would satisfy themselves the, evidence was sufficient to prove malice prepense, for which purpose he hoped they would examine it with the greatest care. The next case was one of a more doubtful nature, it was a charge against an individual of being found on board a vessel engaged in the slave trade. Ac cording to the present state of the law, any British subject being found on board a ship engaged in that illegsl traffic was guilty or a felony. The difficulty in the present case was, that the person charged was a fore►gner, arid before the late alteration in the law it was not considered an offence to be found under such circumstances. The last case for their consideration was a charge against the master of a vessel for enticing a lad from his Majesty's service. If this was proved, it was a misdemeanour at com mon law. The Grand Jury then retired, and after a short absence returned into Court with a true bill against Aaron Smith for piracy. Aaron Smith (a most respectably dressed man), who had been admitted to bail, then surrendered to take his trial. The KING'S ADVOCATE applied to the Court to postpone the trial, on account of the absence of a material witness. Mr. BRODERICK who appeared for the prisoner, asked him whether he wished the application opposed ? Prisoner—Most undoubtedly. The Learned Counsel then stated, that the charge against the gentleman at the bar was alleged to have been committed seven years since, arid now that the Grand Jury had returned a true bill, it ought not any longer to hang over his head. The COURT, after a short consultation, ordered the trial to proceed. The indictment was then read. It charged the prisoner with piratically and feloniously boarding and entering, on the 14th July, 1822, near the island of Cuba, a Dutch vessel, called the " Bri vonate," plundering her of certain stores, and assault ing the master and crew. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The King's ADVOCATE stated the case for the prosecution. Jacob Langtree, a native of Antwerp, stated that he was Master of the ship Brivonatc. He sailed from Antwerp in 1822, the ship was laden with butter, sugar, Lc., and bound for the Havannah. When they arrived at Cape Antonio, three leagues from the Island of Cuba, on the 14th July, about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, they saw two schooners coming towards them, English colours were flying on the maintop. lie hoisted Dutch colours, and waited for the Vessels to come up. The Captain of one of the schooners then ordered him to come on board, which he did with four of his crew. When he got on board he saw a man sitting with a large hat on, that man was the prisoner ; after he had looked at the papers, a black man took possession of witness's boat with eight of his crew, and went to the ship ; during their absence he was ill-used, and robbed of his watch. Witness could see from the schooner that the black man, and those that were with him, were ill-using his crew. The pirates after wards took possession of his vessel. The pri• sorer went with those who thus took possession The black man asked where the money was ? Witness told him he had none. They then put a rope round his neck, and the black mart repeated the question, and the same answer was re turned. They then fastened one end of the rope to an anchor, and threw it overboard into the sea. He would have been drowned, had not his second mate caught him by the leg, and drawn him into the vessel. This violence killed him.— (Laughter.)—What he meant by being killed was, rendered insensible. He was so very weak that he fell into the forecastle ; the next morning he found his son had been wounded in the lees The prisoner gave orders during all this time. On the next day the black man ordered them to weigh anchor; as they were about to sail, Smith struck witness with a rope's end. The pirate vessels came alongside his ship, and by orders of the black man and the prisoner, her cargo was discharged into them. The pirates plundered him of liner), butter, cheese, and other stores On the morning of the 17th, he steered his course eastward. The next day another schooner came along side and plundered him of more stores; they left him again on the 20th. The prisoner did not give any orders on the 17th, 19th, or 20th. When the cargo was being discharged, from the 20th to the 25th, the witness did not see them, but on the latter day they again came along side and discharged the re mainder of his cargo. On the 27th a sloop ap peared in sight, when the prisoner went aloft, and cried out—" Here's a good prize for us." The schooner made sail and captured the sloop in the night. Two or three days after this, Smith told witness there had been two English ships taken, and that the black man was killed. The prisoner did not ill treat them during this time; the pirates remained until the 30th, when witness and his companions were taken to another ship, called the Victoria, and his own vessel was burnt by the pirates, who gave him his ship's register and docu ments; they also gave him a paper, which they called an indemnity, to prevent him from loss. Cross-examined by Mr. BRODERICK—The crew of the pirate ship was more numerous and stronger than the crew of witness's ship. The prisoner ap peared to have the management of navigating the pirate vessel. He told him (witness) some days after they had been captured, that he (Smith) was the mate of an English vessel, and that he was compelled to all that he saw him do. Witness said, " If it had not been for you, my vessel would not have been captured." Smith asked wiry ? Witness said, "My glasses are so good, 1 should have escaped your ship." Smith after wards advised him (at the time they put on board another vessel) not to go to the Havanna)), or they would probably be murdered by the pirates.— The prisoner did not tell him his name was Aaron Smith. This was the whole of the evidence in support of the prosecution. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, began to read a narrative of his life and misfortunes, from a book publisheeta few years since by himself, entitled " Smith's Narrative," &c. lie complained bitterly of the manner in which he was prosecuted, this being the fourth time lie had been tried for the same offence. He described, in a very impassioned manner, his sailing for England, in 1822, as Com mander of the Harsington, and being captured by a pirate vessel, and the cruelties the pirates ex ercised to make him work in the navigation of their vessel. On one occasion he was bound to the mast and twelve men ordered to discharge muskets at him, the balls of some of which cut the hair off his head ; this was done for the purpose of intimidation. At another time he was placed on a quantity of gunpowder, and a part of his flesh actually blown off his bones. Whilst labouring under the most excruciating. torture, and seeing some of the crew brought before him, who for their disobe dience of orders, had had their hands and legs cut off; under, as ire before said, the most excruciating tor ture, and threat of being skinned alive, he gave his consent to assist in the navigation. The prisoner then went on to detail various Other acts of the most barbarous cruelty, which appeared to make a strong impression on the sympathies of a crowded Court, and concluded by declaring that the part he took in the transaction was the most re pulsive to his feelings, and being compelled to it by the pirates. After several witnesses had deposed to the cruelty used towards the prisoner, and the horror he ex pressed in being compelled to work for the pirates, Tire Jury intimated they were quite satisfied of his innocence. Chief Justice TINDAL—I suppose, gentlemen, you consider the prisoner was not a free agent, but that he was under continual compulsion. Foreman of the Jury—Exactly so, my Lord. A verdict of Not Guilty was returned, and the prisoner was discharged. The Grand Jury have found a True Bill against Captain Brugge, charged with the murder of a sea man named Sinclair. STEAM-BOAT.—This morning an ingenious model of a steam-boat, made by a mechanic of the name of WoonwAnn, of Duke-street, Westminster, was tried on the Thames, and went a quarter of a mile in eleven minutes. It measures only twenty-two inches long and eleven wide. It appears from a Quebec Paper of the 13th ult., which has been received to-day, that the mine of quicksilver which had been supposed to exist near Three Rivers tas not answered the expectations which its late discovery had raised. One of the scientific gentlemen who went up to examine the mine reports, that although on the spot where the Indian found the quicksilver a few drops more of the mineral were found, there was nothing to indicate that it had rolled down the side of the hill, and no cinnabar or other mineral substance was to be found. The conclusion is therefore, that the quicksilver must have dropped on the spot from the instrument of some surveyor, while crossing the portage, at the end of which the metal was found.. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JULYI3.--Wind W. S. W .—Arri ved the Lively, Allen, from Riga. Arrived from Lon don, the Janet, Thompson, for Dpnerara. Ar rived the Magnet, from the Coast of Africa. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 13.-WiA V.S.W.-Ar rived the Indemnity, Lodge, from Miramichi. PLYMOUTH, JULY 12.—Arrived the Bolivar, Henzell, from Tatamagouche. FALMOUTH, JULY 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Paul Pry, Cooper, from Constantinople. Sailed the Jean, Currie, for Hamburg. GREENOCK, JULY 11.-Arrived the Belmont, Paul, from Trinidad. CoRK, JULY U.—Arrived the Albion, Isaac, from Quebec. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 21.—1 t is stated in the Milledgeville Journals that the tops of the mountains in Rubein County, in that State, were covered with snow on the 10th of May. The Bonne Mere, from Demerara, is supposed to be arrived off the Start. THE MARKETS.-(TIHS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load cf 30 Trusses.) - ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0 'ew Meadow Hay Useful Meadow Hay :1 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and lye-grass Hay 4 5 5 0 Clover Hay 3 15 5 20 Oat 5traw......£2 oto .£2 2I Wheat Straw 2 2 2 5 The best Old Clover Hay ss. per load higher than last quoted ; in prices of of Hay. with those of Straw, no alteration. A moderate supply, and a somewhat brisk trade. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 4 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 2 13 2 18 Useful McAmy Hay 3 3 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay .... 310 415 Clover Hay (extra fine)....-05 5... Generally ... 3 0 410 Oat Straw XI hi to £1 IS I Wheat Straw 1 IS 2 2 Supply good, trade dull, and prices as last quoted. CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK.) SUGAR.-The deliveries of Plantation Sugars last week was above 3000 casks, and the stock yesterday was 28,573 hogsheads and 1293 tierces. The market is rather more firm, hut prices are not improving. The INDIGO SALE began this morning at the East India House ; prices are if any thing a shade lower. SALTPETRE.-The demand was pretty brisk, at from 245. to 255. per cwt. The delivery is large. Rum.—The delivery last week was about 640 pun cheons, of which 412 were for exportation. The stock is 1 8,35 1 puncheons and 1600 hogsheads. The market continues heavy ; prices unaltered. . , . Hops.—The accounts from the Plantations state no improvement, and prices have advanced 20 per cent. since this day se'nnight, speculation being very active. Dut from 30,0001. to 35,000/. QUARTER-PAS? TWO o'cLocir. The Government Contracts have just been concluded 00 Tons of Sugar, at 511. Ss. per Ton ; and 100,000 Gallons of Burn, at ls. qd. and Is. 9 jd. per Gallon ; being lower than last contract. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING. NEWMAWEET, MONDAY EVENING. There have been several arrivals since yesterday, and most of the regular visitors are here. The Jockey Club dinner last night was attended by Earl Vernlam, Lord Anson, Lord Lowther, Lord IL Ben tinck, Hon. W. Anson, Sir Murk Wood, Colonel Russell, Christopher Wilson, Esq., Delme Radcliffe, Esq., Scott Stonehewever, Esq., -- Roberts, Esq., and four other members. A case comes before the Jockey Club this week which forcibly illustrates the old adage, that " there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." A horse of Lord Mount charles's (Rassclas), named by Mr. Fitzgerald, won the Great Somersetshire Stakes at Bath, last week, and which was worth near 9001. After the race, and not till then, Mr. Day, the owner of Liston (the 2d horse), found out that Mr. Fitzgerald was dead, and that Rasselas waa not entitled to start, and that the stakes must he given up to him. The Stewards, as a matter of course, referred the case to the Jockey Club. According to the laws of racing, no horse can start if the party naming him be dead ; but it is a question whether Rasselas is disqualified, Mr. Day not having started the objection till after the race. All bets wait the result, and some anxiety is evinced to know, in case the decision is in favour of Day, whether Rasselas must be considered a beaten horse, or as not having statted. The trainer had backed him to win nearly 5001. We are happy to state that Conolly is quite recovered from his accident : he rode trials last week. The entry for the 501. to he run for to-morrow, closed this afternoon with the Duke of Grafton's Turquoise and Lord Exeter's Redgauntlet. The following were the results of this day's race : Match for 200 sovs. h. ft. T.Y.C. Lord Exeter's Redgauntlet Mr. L. Stephens's Kildare paid Sweepstakes ,of 10 sovs. each, for 3-yr-olds. New T.Y.C. I)uke of Graflon's Caradori, by Centaur 1 Mr. Vansittart's Magawiska 2 Eight others started, but were not placed. The July Stakes of 50 boys. each, 30 ft. for 2-yr-olds. New T. Y. C. Sir M. Wood's The Mummer 1 Lord Anson's c. by Morisco—Miniature Lord Jersey's E by Counts—Cobweb Five others started, but were not placed. NEWMARKET, 310NDAY NIGHT. The following is a statement of the betting this evening DERBY. 8 to 1 agst The Mummer (taken) No others backed. ST. LEGER. 11 to 2 agst Voltaire 6 to 1 agst Forth's two (taken: S to 1 agst Rowton 1:3 to 1 agst Lady Sarah 9 to 1 agst Sir Hercules (taken) 20 to 1 agst any other. The following Stakes for to-morrow have just closed :- Duke of Grafton names Lancastrian Mr. Rogers names Chiron, by Smolensko Mr. Forth names f. by Tramp—Prue Mr. Wilson names c. by Abjer—Pledge Lord Verulam names Barnardo Lord Exeter's Goldpin One subscriber did not name. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. cult. Mr. Greville's Xarifa, Sst. Duke of Grafton's Ronald, Bst. 71b. Lord Orford's Taucreda, Bst. 41b. Mr. Stephens's f. by Nicol% Bst. Lord Exeter's Goldpin, Bst. 51b. General Grosvenor's Shepherdess, Bst. Mr. Batson's Seraph, Bst. 91b. BRIDGENORTII RACES. THURSDAY, JULY 9.—A Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, with 10 added, for all ages. Two miles. Mr. T. Pickernell's Susan, aged Sir T. J. T. Jones's Maid of Mansfield, aged The Members' Purse of 50 sovs. for 3 and 4-yr-olda. Heats, two miles. Mr. Beardsworth's Independence, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. Applewhithe's ch. c. by The Grand Duke, 3 yrs 5 2 Mr. Hazleton's Niagara, 4 yrs 3 3 Mr. Hope's Emily, by Sassenagh, 4 yrs Mr. Fuller's Pantechnetheca, 3 yrs FRIDAY, JUI.Y 10.-The Hunters' Stakes of five sovs. each, with 20 added, by the Town. Heats, two miles. Mr. W. Moseley's Tom Moody, 5 yrs Mr. E. L. Gatacie's Flirt, aged 2 2 The Members' Purse of 50 sows. for all ages. Heats, the hest of three miles. Mr. Thorne's Maid of Mansfield, aged 1 1 Mr. Hazleton's Niagara, by Blacklock, 4 yrs 3 2 Mr. Hope's Emily, by Sassenagh, 4 yrs The Duke of CLARENCE left town about nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to his MAJESTY at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. The Duchess of CLARENCE and the Duchess Of SAKE-WEIMAR visited the Princess AUGUSTA yester day morning, to take leave of her Royal Highness pre. vious to her leaving town for her seat at Frogmore. The Princess left her residence in the King's Palace, St James's, about eleven o'clock for Frogmore Lodge. The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER gave a grand dinner yesterday at Gloucester-house, Park lane, to a numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry. The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to town about three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from a visit to the KING at the Royal Lodge. The Duchess of CLARENCE, the Duchess of SAXE WEIMAR, and the Prince and Princess of WEIMAR, honoured the concert given yesterday afternoon, at the Argyll-rooms, by Mademoiselle SONTAG, and other eminent musical professors, for the aid of the sufferers by the late floods in Silesia, with their presence. Prince LEOPOLD honoured the Earl and Countess GOWER with his company to dinner yesterday, at their residence in Hamilton-place. The Duke of GLOUCESTER attended divine service on Sunday morning at St. George's church, Hanover-square. Mr. Secretary PEEL returned to town on Sunday night, from a visit to the Earl of CAssitis, at his residence at Isl./worth. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. If certain orators of the French Chamber con sulted either their personal dignity or that or the great country to which they belong, and in the name of which they sometimes assume to speak, they would hardly betray so much gratuitous— and in its apparent, though unavowed causes, so much of what we may term obsolete—soreness :owards Great Britain and her Government.— General Sebastia»i taunts the Duke of Wel lington with his anxiety for the preservation of "Turkey, as if that very object was not at all times a favourite one with every French States man who deserved the name, though it is now to be depreciated or maligned, because, from some superiority of skill, consistency, or energy in the Duke of Wellington's Government, England is somehow or other regarded as the chief barrier against undue or dangerous encroachments upon Turkey. — With respect to Greece, neither she nor General Sebastiani can blame the protocol of London for not attempting or proposing more than was intimated as desirable by the treaty of iuly .6. If that treaty had promised to wrest continental Grevic from the hands of Turkey by force of arms, and in apite of the natural anti justifiable repugnance of the Porte to surrender a dominion so long peaceably ponscssed, there would have been two parties wanting out of three to the treaty, for indisputably neither France nor this country would have thought of signing The protocol is but a diplomatic incinorantrtini, putting on paper certain objects which are to be suggested and recommended to the Porte ; and we think them already of a character so alarming at once to her pride and solid interests, as to make us doubt whether she will at any time be brought to consider them with more favour than she does at present. We repeat it, there is little justice, and as little dignity, in these schoolboy declamations against the Duke of Wellington and Great Britain. —Times. The city of Cork election has terminated, pre , maturely according to some people, but, in oiv opinion, not unnaturally, nor, considered as ari example, altogether uselessly, in the defeat of Sir Augustus Warren. Mr. Callaghan, the successful candidate, appears to have had a good deal of obloquy to contend against, and from various circumstances. The Catholics liaw(A" him as an apostate from their church. This, certainly, would be no just cause of enmity to wards Mr. Callaghan, or of alienation from him on the part of Protestant electors. But the Honourable Gentleman is likewise rw.. cased of having, with tactics well known t,t inavy religious renegades, taking every means of proving the sincerity of his conversion by a furious antipathy to the professors of his ancient creed, in whatever regarded their political inte rests as a body. In fact, he had the reputation of trying to redeem the original sin of Popery in the eyes of his new-found associates, by plunging into the darkest depths of Orangeism, and becoming a persecutor of Catholics from the moment when he ceased to be their brother. 'I lie liberal Protestants were as much disgusted with the bigotry of Mr. Callaghan in what re lated to temporal affairs, as the Catholics were exasperated by his supposed indifference to reli gion. With neither of these parties, therefore, had the honourable gentleman any great hope of favour ; and if a candidate of fair pretensions could be found to stand against him for Cork, whose person was not odious to one of them, nor his politics disliked by the other, there was every prospect of the election terminating in the choice of an independent member of Parliament, who might help to restore the sinking cause of constitutional principles in Munster. But in this, as in a thousand former examples, the public interest fell into bad hands, or was botched by unfortunate casualties. There being an impres sion that Mr. Callaghan was not popular with the leading persons even of that party for whose sake he had incurred the hostility of all the rest, it might undoubtedly have shown a lack of judg ment to neutralize the benefit of so lucky a chance, by proposing a candidate the violence of whose politics on the opposite side of the ques tion to Mr. Callaghan, would have made it a point of honour and consistency with the mo derate anti-Catholic and Tory gentlemen to up hold against the new competitor, even the man of their own opinions, whom they were said to have but lightly respected. A far worse piece of discretion, however, was, to name for a rival candidate to Mr. Callaghan one whose only strong bias was in favour of the party whose countenance Mr. Callaghan had, by an early canvass, to a great extent, forestalled,—who must necessarily, at the same time, as a reputed Brunswicker, meet but cool and languid as sistance from the liberal Protestant, and suspici ous Catholic, community, Sir Augustus War ren—a man personally respectable (so at least he is reported)—was in the above predicament. The Brunswick faction at Cork was largely pre engaged by his adversary ; the Catholics talked, but did little more; and the liberal Protestants felt that they would gain but a doubtful prize by returning him. All this absurdity, therefore, ended in enhancing Mr. Callaghan's triumph. He has been elected,—not without a struggle, which might have been set down to a mere com bination of accidents not likely to recur, but after loud threatenings of defeat, and after an actual, though, on the part of the menaces, a feeble and miserable resistance. It would be good for Irish patriots to learn the superiority of biting over barking. We are rejoiced to see that Mr. O'Connell, -in a speech at the county of Waterford meeting the other day, warned the Catholics of the north of Ireland against permit ting themselves to be provoked into violence by the meditated outrages of the Orangemen on the 12th of July. Great anxiety exists in every political quarter here, to learn the history of that day, the anticipations of which by the Orange authorities themselves have been of so fearful a character ; but unless all the Magistrates of the north have been leagued with the liege subjects of the Duke of Cumberland, and unless most of the Catholics have become insensible to the vantage-ground on which law and loyalty have placed them, there is hope that the Lord Lieu tenant's circular orders to the Magistracy, and the warnings of the Catholic leaders to the pea santry, will have had their due effect.—Aid. We observe that the propositions. of universal suffrage and voting by ballot have, some how or other, thrust themselves into a short-lived notice at this time. We are surprised at it, as these absurdities are in general only brought for ward at seasons of public distress or r r Ls sure ; and though the present is no era of great affluence, yet neither is it one of signal suffer ing. In the homely phrase, we are " rubbing on" pretty well, and there is no great chance that radical theories of reform will catch many paz tisans : but it must be observed, and WC state the circumstance with satisfaction, that the advo cates of a rational reform—of a measured and