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SLAVE TRADE: MAURITIUS GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. " Under existing circumstances, his•Excellenty the Govern-or deems it proper to give publicity to the folliming correspondence, addressed to him by his Excellency Rear-Adruiral Z - itonford, ac' companied 'by an extract of an - Set or .7! • !lament recently passed in the Imperial Parliament, en 'acting' 'fresh penalties against any futther traffic in Slaves. - By order of his Excellency the.,Goyernor, . • -(Signed) _ A. BARRY, " Chief Sec. to Gov " Pcrt Lon:.s, Isle ci Mauritius; May 15,-1812. " His Majesty's Ship Lion, Table Bay, Feb,-13, 1812. " StR 7 -111 order to remove any misapprehen sion in the minds of the ininthitants of the Isle of France, relative to , the effect likely to' be pro duced by the decision of the Court of Vice-Adirii ralty, on the subject of La Prudente, detained as prize when clandestinely endeavouring to intro duce slaves into the Isle of France, but which vess2l has been restored by the decision of this. Court ; and in order to give full notice that the Slave Tinde shall not be allowed to be carried on contrary to law, notwithstanding the encourage ment given'to it by this decision, I have to rt:- quest that your Excellency Avill be pleased to an nounce, in any public and Cffectual manner you may think proper, my firm determination to resist any encroachment of the law upon this subject andio direct all such vessels clandestindy endea vouring 'to introduce slaves into the Isles of France and Bourbon to he detained, ,and to await the decision of the High CoUrt of. Admiralty in, England. " I have the honour to he, &c: " Ron Era !" . iTOPPORD, " Rear-Admiral. " Ilis Excellency Governor Farquhar, &e." " His Majesty's ship Libre, Table Bay, Feb. 17. " just received from England an Act of Rirliament, enacting fresh penalties against any further traffic in Slaves, Aild as L,coyccivellie earliest information of such an Act to be essen tial at the Jslands under Your Excellency's :Go vernment, I send copies of the clauses 'note par ticularly relating thereto, and regret 'nat I can not send you .the Act itself, being only supplied ith one copy .of it. "Your Excellency will, therefore, see the ut ter impossibility of my granting,-.any permission or authority to the Commanders of his Majesty's ships under my orders to grant any passport, or in any way sutler the admission of slaves into the Islands under your Excellency's Government, - without submitting myself to the penalty of this very strong-and positive Act of Rali.anient. ‘-‘ I have therefore sent orders to the Senior "Officer at Port Louis to seize all vessels' and slaves that he may meet. 4 " I have the honour to be, &c. " ROBERT STOPFORD, • _ '' hear-Admiral. " 1-li3 Excellency Gos'einor Farquhar, &e." [Here follows the Extract of the Act of l'arlia= /neut.] GENERAL TRADE "'His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Capt. George Raitt, of his Majesty's 7.2d re ~.i~Y~o^~~it_Yerv•-. ;rola the Ist instant. • His Excellency the Governor ,having re ceired intelligence, through - a private channel, that regulations have been made for thetrade between England and these colonies,_ and consi dering that the information may be relied upon, though not yet officially 'communicated to the Government, hastens to notify, for the satisfac tion of the merchants, planters, and other inhabi tants of these islands whom it may concern, that the same commerce willTbe tree to every indivi dual, making application to be allowed to carry it on, and subject only to the same regulations as the commerce of private merchants between other parts of India . to and from England ; sav e, how ever, that the merchandise is to be freighted in ships, supplied either by the India Comp a ny, or by individuals who may desire to furnish and send The same as their own private property, under li censes to be obtained for that purQose, from or through the special orders of the East India Corn 'puny ; the commerce between the colonies and India remaining as beretefore. " Tiy order of his Excellency' the Governor, " A. BARRY, "Chief Sec. to GovernMent. *-‘ l'o'rt Louis, Isle of Maluitius, Muy 15, 1812:!, " Maurithig, May '24, • " The public is beeeby'inforined, that in con sequence of the large supply of treasure daily-ex pected from India. by his Majesty's ship Astrea, and' ;n conformity with the arrangement of the Bengal Government, notified in their d:spatch by the Galatea, bills on the Presidencies of i3cngal a:id . Madras will .only be granted i n future to a Cco.6 i extent monthly (abont 30,000 dollars) ; but in order that every individual should have the . same facility to that mode of remittance, bills to the above amount will in future be sold on the iirst Monday of every month, by public auction, at the General Treasury.' A melancholy occurrence took place on -Satur day morning at Wynn's Hotei, Falmouth : a Mr. Robert Michell, of the house of Messrs.' Powell and Co. of Bristol, who bad recently arrived there en his way to Lisbon, put a- period to his exist ence by cutting the main artery in the left arm, by means of which be bled to death ; the body was found weltering in blood in his bed - room, about ten o'clock in the forenoon.—A Coroner's.inquest has. set on the body, and brought in a lierdict of lunacy.-L-Exekr Flying Post. On. Monday - se'nnight, during a violent gale,,a fishing boat, belonging to Easter Ross, with seven win on board, was driven against the Malving, A. Aberdeen, while crossing the Firth, opposite Lc Burghead, and stove in pieces. We regret to that six of them were unfortunately drOisrn although every exertion was made to save .I,cir lives by the crew'of the vessel,. LONDONlPrintqd. by THOMAS WOOD; of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden ; -tPublisbed by WILLIAM NRMIOER SCRIPPS, SouthMolton-street, gro svenor ,,, uare _ At the vas 01',VICE, No. 112, Strami, where Actvertirements, Orders for the Paper, Letters for the Editor, ite. (post pascV, natlst be 44dieiseer: ,7.~ MADit 1 b. (Byrkinuedli•orii ou of Yestrii:ty: AGRICULTURE.-Unohaporte appears tm have conunitteila Woeftil oversight regarding : the 17:f.:111S of supporting tit - tint:rolls bodies of troops in Spain. lie seems to have judged from the general grounds of excellence of soil and climate, without taking into' the account other essential Points ;• \;'C mean, the slender appetite of the Spaniards, and their• uniform rifle to make no provision beyond 'their present wants. To sleep during the afternoon, and Co loiter away the rest Of the day are the chief objects of a Spaniard's ambition.. Ise discovers a resolute antipathy to innovation : and has no . idea that it is possible to do any thing better than he' does it already,' ills improvidence in looking to nothing beyond his present wants;, would. lead to the most afflicting result, were it not for the pUblie . granaries, orposito3, laid - up against a time of scarcity. These depositories are,. or rather' were ,(for the French, - we believe, have exhaust ed them) Very numerous, having "been above 5000 in all ; without counting-'the maritime pro hiCeS in the north, which place their reliance on their own industry and their foreign communica tions. Inconsequence of this general indolence, provisions for sale are very dear in. Spain ; the quantity being small, and the difficulty of con , veyance being often enhanced by local taxes. It happens, accordingly, that the price,of corn is 'fre quently twice as high in one province as in an 7 °Ulu at no great distance. - The Count de Camponmnes, one of the few Spaniards who understand political econonly, haS taken pains to calculate the national injury Caus ed by the extravagant number of holidays, and has reckoned the Wss of productive labour sustain, eel in this way' by Spain at nearly two hundred thousand pounds a day. Within the last half century, several steps have been taken for the dissemination of-improve ment in Spain ; but, unluckily:there as in Ire land, they hare received a brilliant rather than an useful direction. A few fine roads have been filmed, without considering that the same mobey might have been better empined in making a number of a more middling character. Perhaps . the 'object at ,first should have been to aim no . 'farther than to render the roa(is I;assalde for wheel7eariiages, and to get rid of the miserable waste of labour attendant on the conveyance of commodities on the backs of animals. Goyei a:tient might also have effected much good by didusing information respecting the mode of letting lands. At present, the tenant has not only too short a term, but is generally' Without security for. the few years' that are specified in his lease. Accord ingly, he plants neither trees nor vines, and gives himself no trouble ,about irrigation, th‘ want of ' which is •the great cause of the barienness of Spain. The provinces of Catalonia and Valencia form remarkable exceptions i but their example is not imitated, but the rest of the country pin-- su-,^s the beaten track of fOrmer days. _ _ _ _ _ ARMY AND NAVY.--Al. RellflCeS is fond of &veiling on the improveinent of the forces of Spain during the last' age. Weak and corrupted as its ,Court was, it wa§ still actuated by a sense of the importance of iticre;.-tsing the number and atnei'ding the character of its military establish ments. Mud; less of absurd mystery has prevail ed in the Spanish policy during the last thirty years than before and .hence have resulted a mi tisnti.o of the colonial monopoly; and an open publication of instructions to young officers in various departments of service. Still, however, Spain has followed at a wide distanee the improv ing career of her northern neighbours. At the time of I.ludnaparte's usurpation, the Slianish army was computed, (we .suspect, by an exag gerated estimate), at Guards and Household troops . Spanish Itegulari • 50, 0 -20 Foreign Itegulais; viz. Swiss, Irish, & Neapolit an 17,000 tightlnfantry, Spanish Artillery Engineer Corp, Cavalry Were the seas' surrounding Spain less easy 'of navigation, its extent of coast would have the effect of forming a number of able seamen ; and the value assigned by, its Government - to its Trans atlantic possessions -has caused considerable at tention to be paid to , its navy. The culture of hemp has been 'established' along the eastern pro vinces ; and inducement has been - given to build ships of the durable cedar of the Havannah. The solidity of - Spanish vessels is admitted ; and the great objection to them, as to the other pub lic work of this nation, is their heaviness. "Much pains, likewise, have been taken with respect to the education of naval officers ; anal their ulti- Mate appointments 'are such as - to afford consi derable encouragement to the service, several coin manderships in military orders being expreSsly re served for seafaring Men. The Spanish navigators nsuallydivided, in almost,equal nui.nbers, between Cadiz, Ferrol, and Cartbagena.- Their ships of,thc line, fit for service, amounted in 1808 (three,years atter the action , ;off Trafalgar) to , twenty-five ; their frigates to thirteen ; and their smaller ves sels, of all kinds, to one hundred and fifty. , - FINANCES AND 'NATIONAL Itrousa - ay,--The na tional debt of. Spain at the time o! - * Buonapate's usurpation, was heady 70,000;000/. sterling ; a sum created not, "as with us, by loans, hut by suc cessive issues of paper-money during the last reign. The taxes before 1805, produced about eight .or nine millions, and were much less burdensome in ,their amount than in the absurd and impolitic way of levying them. The nobility and clergy, who form the bulk of land proprietors, were but' '...slightly affected ; while the .pi ensure fell on the poorer orders, being directed to articles of indis pensable necessity; and sometimes even to the price of labour. Can we wonder that, in such a country, the habits of industry should he at a low ebb ? especi, ally.ivhen we consider that the wants of the Spa niards are simple, and that labour ill'accords,with their national pride. The smallest office under Government, or a total exemption from employ ment, are in their eyes more honourable than a lucrative branch of trade. (To be continued.) LAW ittrotf. COURT OE' - CHANCERY, Nov. 13. .tX-FARTD Ttit ROYAL OIL SCOTLAND, IN ZIATTEIt p 1 . ,. STEIN, starril ANIS CUB 'Sir A. PiGOTT be , i , red to be allowed to With= draw the Petition which had been presented on the part of the Royal Bank of Scotland; for stay ing the certificates of the bankrupts in this case., Sir S. RomiLLY submitted that the Petition could he alloived to be withdrawn only oh pay= merit of costs: Sir.:. PIGOTT argued against ttbjecting the Royal Bank in the payment of costs. It might seem to stamp their conduct as haying,been im- proper. • CtrLr.EN followed on the satne side. Sir S. ROntiA,Y again contended,. that costs fol lowed in this case almost as-a matter of course. .This was not merely A Petition to stay the certif.- 'dates Of the - bankrupts, but it also prayed: that the commission should- be superseded. The debt in questiOn was on bills having the names not only of Messrs. Stein, Smith, and Co: but of Messrs. Kensington and Co. These bills had been al ready proved' under the commission against the hitter and although they were also proved under the, commission against Stein, Smith, and Co. could not have the effect of turning their certifi cate. The presenting of this Petition, however, had had- the effect of staying the certificate for souse days., a thing which his Lordship wouid nothave suffered had he been aware of this latter fact. After some further conversation' bet Ween Pigott and Mr. Cullen, on the one side, and Sir S. Rotnilly, Mr. hart, and Mr. Montague, -on tlie other side, The LORD CHAZWELLoR said, if he was asked for costs on the withdrawing of such a Tetition as the present, he was bound to determine whe:- ther costs might to be given or not. Now, he. had no difficulty whatever- in saying, that where ever a party presented a Petition for staying a cer tificate, and failed in -his application, he Must pay costs, unless he alleged iniseonduct on the part of the Bankrupt. Here there was no charged Luis cotiduc'., and, therefore, the Bankrupts must have thcir costs. The rule, !however, did not go to the extent of allowing costs to the Assig nees "alsO. ills . Lordship ace,Ordiagly allowed the Petiticm to be withdrawn, on payment to the Bankrupts of their'costs. IMPORTAT APPEAL CASE, fir SAMHEL ROMILL begged to mention to his Lordship, as somewhat bearing on the case which had just been disposed of,, that there was at pre sent a inost.impoktant point nosy depending by 'appeal before the House of Lords—s - o important, he presumed to think, that if there was any one appeal,, which, on account of its general import ance, was more than another entitled to take the precedence of every other appeal before th€ Hopse st Lords—that was the very case. The question there to be decided was, whether, When a Commission of Bankrupt has once been sued out, against a person, or a Company, in England, a sequestration. can afterwards be taken out, against the same party in Scotland. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he could dot be prepared to say 'what might be the mode of pro ceeding as to the hearing of appeals which would be adopted by the ,Iliitise of Lords in the ensuing Session of Parliament. He should, however, keep in mind the information hehad now received from Sir Samuel Romilly. His Lordship then expressed a wish to know what had been the decision come 'to on that point by the Court of Session • Sir S. ROMILLY said , tbd Court of Sessioh had held that . a sequestration might be taken out against a party in Scotland, after a commission of bankrupt had'been sued out against the same party in England. CAPT. DONNELLY AND OTIIERS V. SIR H. POPIIAICI, AND THE GOVERNORS OF GREENWICH 'HOSPiTAL V. THE ABOVE PLAINTIFFS Al\''D DEFENDANT. Thi! was a sill filed by the first-named plain tiffs on behalf of themselves and others, for an ac count and distribution of prize -money lodged in the Hospital, to abide. the rights of the several claimants, of which Sir Home PojTham, as flag officer, had claimed a fourth part. Each party claimed from the Governors, and they in self-se curity filed their Bill of interpleader: praying-the protection of the Court in the appropriation . of the fund. Captain Donnelly, lung since, brought an action ,at law against Sir_ Home Popham, whose absence abroad has delayed the . trial. A motion was now made for an order on the Solicitors ai d Agents of Sir Rohe Popham, .to consent to the trial in the Sittings after this term, pursuant to a notice of trial served upon them in August last.— A doubt was expressed whether Sr, Home Popham had not-at one time abandoned it The LORD Cun.scELL.oft, after hearing Counsel on both sales, observed that the subject matter in issue. was well known, namely, whether a Flag Officer was lawfUllv entitled to a fourth part of such prize-money, lint although the officer in ques tion was absent on active and. useful service, his Lordship thought that was no excuse for not try ing the action, and granted the merits of the mo tion=—ordering it, however, to stand over till the last day of the term, to afford tim,. on behalf of the defendant in the action, to arrange the time mode of trial.in the Sittings. coura OF COMMON PLEAS.—Nov. 12. Mr.Cuawoon moved for a. Habeas Corpus to be directed to the Gaoler of Worcester to bring up a person of the, name of Harrison, who was committed for stealing two bundles of laths. By the affidavits, and amongst. others, one of the pro 'secutors, It appeared that Harrison was a man of property, whu having bought of the prosecutor sixteen bundles of laths, took eighteen. The taking was admitted by the prisimer, but he de nied having done it with an intent to steal them, but to pay for them. He took them without pay ing, because be conceived the prosecutor was not at home.—Rule granted. tiltitiSf6t4 b. R 44. iiibtriT. this was ari - dttidn htdught to reebVer the Shin tf 3;5001. under the following ciretnnsianeS i a ' Writoffierifreica *as pa into the Sheriff's hands; to re6civer that sum of money' from. a person in debted hi that amount to the plaintiff, Mrs: Thar , He issued his Warrant Upon the said Writ, and delivered it to his officer, who levied thereon. Between the levy and befOre the sale Of the goods, another writ was put into the defendant's hands, viz. a writ of extent at the suit of the CroWn. He soki the goods ; but 'instead of paying the thoitey to Mrs.. Thurston, he paid the money to the Crown, upon the writ of extent ; and she; therefore, as her writ was first in his hands; brought her action against the Sheriff for the 3500 i. This case had been upwards Of three years before this Court, and, after hearing Counsel ort both sides, finally, this day, the Judges delivered their opinions seriatim, and were unanimously of opinion that this action could not be maintained by Mrs. Thurston against the Sheriff, and that Le was right iii first satisfying the writ of extent at the suit of the Crottrn. POLICE. MARtneißovcit,sTßEET .H-Stephen Fane and J. Raymond, eonlynon informers, Were charged at the suit of Mr. Wadniore, pawnbroker, under the Act. of the sth of Elizabeth, chap. 5. entitled, '' An Act to _redress Disorders in Common Informers." It appeared by the testimony of Mr. W. that the defendants calf( at his house, and stated that -an information kid been laid against hint for taking, more than legal interest, and they produced an information, •igned John-L ees ,. gentleman, Hert ford -street, St. Clement's Danes j and also a sum mons, purporting to have been issued at flow street, upon the pretended inforMation, but it had no-nigistratc's name affixed to it.. Upon the pro duction of these pretended documents, the deters dant, suggested conciliatory measures ; to quash proceedings by compensation, and after two meet ings had taken place, to ascertain their full scheme, Mr. W. paid them 31. to stop proceedings, and caused them to be secured. On being appre-; bended; and searched, other pretended iulortna-; tions were found on - them, purporting to have • been laid also by Lees against a Mr. Baylis, whd had paid, the defendant 2/. • Mr. Williams, of Gray's Im.-square, Soiicito to the .pawnbrokers, produced the Act, Which makes the offence of compounding subject to the pillory,. &c. It enacts, that informers shall nO,t by colour or-pretence of process, or without process, upon colour or pretence, of any matter against any penal law, make any composition, or take any money' or reward, or promise of reward, for him sell or any other, without the consent of the Court, under pain of imprisonment, pillory, Z:c. The defendants were committed for trial. By such acts'as these justice is defeated, mill the revenue suffers'. The fire in Newgate-street, to Which :re cd in our last; broke out in a largemlodern built house, the lower part ,of which was divided into two shoF; one of them was• occupied in the fall ' cy-tricaming line by Mr. Wright, and the other by Mr. Smith, a tailor: The tire broke out in the rear of the ground floor, but in the part occupied by which of the two could not be ascertained.— Providentially, there was acopious supply of ter, which was applied with so much actiVity the firemen, as to confina the devastation within comparatively 'sinall' bounds. The premises in which it commenced, however, were totali•V - dz -stroyed. The house of Mr. Woolf, the sign of the Magpie, was also gfeatly damaged in the rear.— As is' WO frequently the case on such melanclitly occasions,' there were not wanting thoge • who turned the scene of 'calamity to their own emolu ment, by plundering the objects of distress. A lodger of Mr. Wooll, Who was carrying a boN coal thitiing 30/. worth of halfpence, craved the wisi;it ance of a by-stander, who contrived to let it fad on the stones, 'by which it was shivered in piece. and the greater part of the money became a prey to the marauders. One man was stopped by the watchman in Little Britain, with a keg - of gin, when he immediately staved the cask, and the liquor was of course wasted; he was, however, conveyed to the Compter. Mr. Wooll's watch was likewise stolen by some unknown plunderer. A few nights since, the house of Mr. BARROW, in Ocean -street, Stepney, was broke open and robbed of property to a considerable amount. The robbery is supposed to have been committed before nine O'clock, and by the daring manner of placing a ladder to the window of the first-floor. . BIRTHS. On Wednesday ,last, at .his house in Guildford-street, the., Ladyof Henry Frederick .Alston, Esq. of a Sou. ksterday, the Lady of Broome P. Witts, E.sq.. of Brava wiCk-square, of a Daughter. . MARRIED, On Tuesday last, at Dareshury, Cheshire, the Rev. Pete: - Leigh, Rector of a Mediety of 'Lynan, to Mary, Youngest daughter of the Rev. - Dr. Biackburzw, Warden of the Colle giate Church. of Manchester. • Last week, it Chathaw, Mr. Robert. Dadd,Cktemist, to Miss \ 7slartin, of Fromptou, Kent. , • , DIED. At Java, early in the Spring, CaptairyThoreas Eaglestone, it., .N.C.onituaudcr of His Majesty's ship Proci is. 'Latels-, Dipton, near ,Corbridge, Mr. Robert Jewett, ag - ed-El6 '11(i was the father of it children, and grandfather to 745. 'du Itanchester, Mr. kite, well known as Manager of a Company of EgueArian's. COAL MARKET, Nov. 13. Ali s said. •Price. 10 . . . L. Dd. to 535. O. • 4 . . A 0 Od. to +6s. al. 0 . . . to --s. Od. Ships at Mar.Ket: '304 Neweastle 174; . 3 Scotch Coal . . . • PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. .. , Bank Stock, 216+ 216 • I,lndia Bonds, par, ls. dis. Navy 5 pyr Cent. 91 iii Synth .S.!a Stuck, .(33 : e 521 Irish 5 per Cent. . Excliequerl..lills,3d. per, d,ty, 4 per Cent. 74A1 74k n. 4s. pr.' • 3 per Ct. Red. SSA 571584, pS Ditto, aid. perday, ss. 7s. pr. 3 per Cent, Con. 594 5941 Oinniuni c 5/ pr. Bank L. :Inn. 15 1-16th Imperial Ann. 4 9-16 tbs India Stock; Cons. for Yfith Nov. 59E4 , HltiH W:.kTEII AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mornittf, 42 minutes after 10. [Evening, 7 mitnites after 11.