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• -IS 7 /..,Z, / • 061-Ittic jr,c -• "...b , ::•\,.:_:, ...• - 4 4-- --- ' 4 -, :A-, . ..... r , rri 4 ? fir,• - • k 0 7- - 4=42. ~.-. A -- ,4, 4 , • _ ~, ..--- f. ,-- ,-.i ' 5 ..;.. -. ~,- o ..,. . .. Yk. ,47- 1: A A I - e..,,,,„.0 i•r . c., pe ; wed ern .ten as the 'l n and SOT. in hey the of r ~' h g 1 ~ ~~~ 2 ~' 2' : F y r a.- ede4-/ - 4-1,,v N NISER 9587. FR I DAY, MAY IG, 1823. PRICE SEVENPENCE. • ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET PLACE. THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA DEMY is NOW OPEN. ". • Admission ;from Eight o'Clock till Seven), Is. Catalogue, is. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. CONTRACTS FOR COALS AND CANDLES.- ' Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, 9th May, 1823. UCH PERSONS as are desirous of con tracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish fur Twelve Months, from the 2.lth of June next, :such Quantities of COALS and CANDLES as may from time 'o time be required, for Sundry Barracks and Stations in the under-mentioned Counties, Occ. may receive Particulars of the Contracts on applying at ibis Office betwee❑ the hours of Ten and Four; and to the respective Barrack Masters in .the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney.) and deliver their Tenders at this Office, as follows, viz.:— Tenders for supplying Coals, sealed up, and marked "'fender fur Coals," until Twelve o'clJeli on Tuesday, the 3d June. Tenders for supplying Candles, sealed up, and marked " Tender for Candles,7 until Twelve o'Clock on Thursday, the Atli June ; but no proposal, either for Coals or Candles, will be noticed, unless made on, or annexed to, a printed Particu lar, and the Prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such proposal fru►u two Persons of known property, engaging to become bound with the party tendering in the Sum expressed in the Particulars, fur the due performance of. the Contriict. Tenders to he made for the several Counties, and sepa rate Barracks and Stations, as specified in the Particulars %of the Contracts. If Tenders are sent by Post, the Postagt must he Vaitl. COUNTIES, &c. Berks, Brecknock, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hants, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex, Norfolk, North umberland, Northampton, Nottingham, Pembroke, Snffolk, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, York, North Britain, Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney. EAST INDIA HOUSE, May t 3, 1823. THE COUIIT of DL E C ORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, Flo hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House io Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the est h Instant, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of A DIREC- ToR of this Company, in the room of Joseph Cotton, Esq. who bath disqualified. JOSEPH Secretary. MR. BACKLER's GREAT WINDOW of the LAST SUPPER for the ALTAR of HERE FORD CATHEDRAL, from the Grand Picture by West, the property of his Majesty, is NOW EXHIBITED at his Gallery, No. 18, Newman-street. —Open from teu till dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. This Day was published, In Two Volumes, price 12s. in boards, WILLOUGHBY ; or, Reformation. The Influence of Religious Principles. By the Author of " Decision," Caroline Ormsby, &C. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall; and St. Paul's Church Yard. FOR WORMS, FI'T'S, PAINS IN rnE STOMACH, &c. WORMS are the Cause of many Internal Afflictions, which vary so much in their effects that they way be mistaken by the most eminent Physicians, and prove wally fatal to the Constitutions of Adults and Chil dren ; though the latter inure extensively sutler from their destructive ravages. Their more usual symptoms are Fits, Pains in the Stomach, Side, and Head, Loss of Appetite, and Pale, Languid, and Emaciated Appearance in the Patient. — The extraordinary efficacy of CHING'S PATENT WORM LOZENGES in all such Complaints, as well as (9listructions in the Bowels, and every Disorder where opening or cleansing Physic is required, is so universally known, and has been pub licly acknowiedged by so many_persons of distinction and rank in' society, that it is unnecessary here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues. Sold in Boxes, at Is. lid. and 2s, 9d, by Butlers, Chemists, No. d, Cheapside, St. Paul's, 220, Regent-street (near the Argyle Rooms), London; Waterloo-place, Edinburgh.; Sack ville-street, Dublin; and by the principal Medicine-venders throughout the United Kingdom. EXTRAORDINARY ADVANTAGE FOR CASH. AWARMOLL and COMPANY, patronized • by the Nobility and Gentry, allow greater Advantages upon TEAS than any Establishment in the Metropolis : The East India Company's Tares upon all Chests, One Ounce in the single Pound, And Half-a-pound allowed in every Six Pounds, And every order with a remittance, or a draft payable in Lon don for 12Ibs. and upwards, is sent, free - of expence, to any part of the kingdom. No unpaid Letters received. At the NORFOLK and SUFFOLK TEA . WAREHOUSE, No. 23, LITTLE BELL A.LLEY, Up Tokenhouse-yard, at the Back of the Bank of England, • London. All Teas sold at this Establishment arc of the ehoicestkinds, warranted Genuine, selected and tasted by the most eminent Tea Brokers. The same advantage allowed upon Turkey, Java, and West India Coffees. Sugars kept for the Public. No unpaid Letters received, unless containing an Order with a remittance for £1 and upwards. If any respectable Per Son wishes to Sell for this Establish ment, in Town or Country, a Written Order for any quantity, specifying the price, with a r emittance, will be sent imme diately, well secured-in Leaden Packages. By appointment, Finch and Co.'s Superfine Durham Mus tard, preferred - by the Nobility for the combined superiority of its strength, flavour, and beautiful colour, at only 2s. per pound, made up in Lead for the Country. Congou, 65.; fine strong Sauchong Tea, 6s. Bd.; superior fine Breakfast Soucliong, 7s. ; best ditto, Bs. to 10s. ; remarkably fine Green Tea, Hyson kind, Bs. to 9s. ; real Hyson, very fine, 10s. ; best Dyson, 12s. ' • Gunpowder Tea, 13s. ; fine Coffee, ; very fine 3s. 4d. ; best Turkey Coffee, :10. 61 to as. No common ordinary Teas or Coffees kept. .-!--..„.....-gticps. ' :e -,--- .--,,,---24-,lgt, ML:e4ll.:,:r: -% k 74,, i • , „ .J.,,,,,-.4 i 4 r ~ „ y. 12.4- i • ('-* ~, fi - ' i !,- „... ,-,-- •\ \ I . * 1, '*4 Ar4.,7 ',:i_k4f-7,::- ,i k 4, • • \ AO : ,-f, - -- , ' ' ' 4, ,t .;- .01'..: :'' \ .1-' # '. - I tI N I " .: , :, , - -`, •*- i s ,. , ' -,,,, ' •;•14','#:',' :,,:t.i. • "t V, - '• 4, ''.. - *: I='4,:ii":;4° . :-',,-. .'.. i .. V , I t 4 ''' I:' , ' '13f:,.., 4 -.,...,.. ... , 44Ncke.-...- -,,:y. ..: •.:„ , :i , ! !:,, 3,. , - ~,..it: ' --':,:-., .1-i;,,,..•,,?1,1,,,,...:.-....- ,::,:,), , :i. , ?.., ,, iirt i 1,..„.!. r 1 1 . 14. ' 4 44 .4l.VP''• 4 „ ', ll _ . , )).,;,"Q '---..:,,,,,,-. -._ _ 1.,x-E____, __ , 1 111 tc.„. , , 7 .. ......„..... ~,,,L......, PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS MAY 15. NEW BILLS. Mr. BROGDEN ' Sir T..tiGKL - LiD, Mr. CURWEN, and otheis brought up from the commons the Ireland Excise Du ties Bill, the Witnesses Abroad Bill, and several Private Bills, which were read a first time. IRELAND.. - Earl 12ARNLEY wished to know from the Noble Earl op posite, what day it was likely that the Bill for renewing the Insurrection Act in Ireland,shouldcome before the House. • •. The Earl of LIVERPOoI. Would be' happy to have it in his power to satisfy the Noble Earl :—All he could say, however, was, that the thing was begun in the other House; but as there were other proceedings going on there, which of necessity oc cupied much time, it was impossible tta kno* exactly when the Bill, in question should be ready to come before their - Lordships. Earl FOETESCUE presented a Petition frOm Higham Fez'- rers praying for . the Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies.— Laid on the table. Lord CALTHORPE presented a Petition to the same ef fect from the town and neighbourhOod of Birmingham anti also one from the Magistrates,Clergy, and Inhabitants of Sher borne, in the County of Dorset—Lid on the table. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWN, the amendments made by the Committee on the Irish Charitable Societies Loan Bill were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Lord.SUFFIELD presented a Petition from the Corporation of Norwich against Slavery. in the Colonies, and one from the same place against the Insolvent Debtors' Act.—Read,.and laid on the table. The Quorum Magistrates Bill, the Union. Duties Bill, and the Belfast and Liverpool Gas Lighting Bills, were read a third -time and passed.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SLAVERY PETITION. _ Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented a petition from a numerous portion of the inhabitants of Durham, praying for the gladual abolition of Slavery—Ordered.to be printed. Mr. DICKENSON presented a similar petition from Frome Selwood, in Somersctshire.—Laid on the table. Similar petitions were presented from Witham, Bridport, Belfast, Chimney, Bronton, Gloumster (City), Louhborough, Dudley, Worcester, Norwich, Walthamstow, Mansfield, Up borough, Maryport, Workingliani Dover, Buxton, Great Yar mouth, Swansea, Bristol, Bye (Suffolk), Caine, Bath, Chester, Griggleswick, Maltley, Pontefract, Giggleham, Coggleshall, Exeter, Thetford,. Huntingdon (County) Knaresborough, and Laidlaw.—Wad, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. - . INSOINENT DEBTORS' ACT. Mr. SCOTT presented a petition from Bridport against the Insolvent Debtors' Act, an Act which the Hon. Member thought sinned as much against justice as slavery did against morality.—Laid on the table. Mr. W. SMITH presented a similar Petition from Norwich; also a Petition from the tame place praying for le remission of the Duty on Sea-borne Coals.—Lid on the table. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a Petition from the Mer chants, Bankers, and others of Bristol, praying the Hottse not to regard the Petition from the same place for the abolition of Slavery, as conveying the sentiments of the majority of that City. Lard on the table. Sir. HUSKISSON. presented a petition from the most re spectable inhabitants of Liverpool, stating that the religious and civil amelioration of the Slaves in the West Indies, since the abolition of the Slave Trade, had not bgen'such as to satisfy the expectations of the British Public; and praying that that gradual instruction and imProvement might be administered to them, as would effectually prepare them for the gradual recep tion of those civil rights which were enjoyed by every other class of Society. In both these sentiments the Right Hon. Gentleman expressed his concurrence. Ordered to be printed. SCOTCH LINEN TRADE. • Mr. LINDSAY presented nine petititions from Perth and other places in Scotland, praying that those laws regulating the Linen Trade of Scotland, under which that trade had solong flourished, may, not be repealed. They p ar ti cu l ar ly d es i re d that the stamp, hitherto used in the manufactures of this article, may not be prohibited. Mr. RICARDO observed that a clause might be introduced into the Bill, allowing those who desired it to have the benefit of this stamp. They had no right, however, to oblige others in the same trade to the same restriction. Sir It. FERGUSON thought it right to state to the House, that these petitions were got up in a very disreputable man ner. The Board of Trustees and Stamp Masters were impli cated in them, and he assured the House that he knew they were signed not only by weavers, but tailors, cobblers, and coal-heavers. _ _ Mr. MABERLY said he had warned the House that 'these petitions were getting up, and he hoped when the Bill was Rased, the Board of Trustees and Stamp Masters would not come to that. House for retired salaries, but go to the peti tioners. Mr. BIARft YATT contended that the stamp on Scotch linen was a useful mark, and tended to chew its quality. He supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. lIUME observed, that the sentiments the Hon. Mem ber had just professed were contrary to his usual principles on the subject of trade. Mr. HUSKISSON hoped these petitioners would receive that share of indulgence which was due to all petitioners, and that the Hon. Member who had presented the petitions would be allowed to give for answer, that the manufacturers might stamp as much as they pleased. Mr: BARING could not admit that those stamps, which se cured the public from fraud, were any infringement on the free dom of trade. He thought the system of stamping complained of had rather been absurd, for which the parties ought to be prosecuted. Mr. LINDSAY said he did not pretend to know how the petitions had been got up, but he knew that they were signed by the most respectable individuals. The petitions were read, and ordered to lie on the table. WEST INDIES. Mr. BARING presented a petition from the respective Agents of the West Indian. Colonists, praying the House to act with general deliberation in the discussion respecting slavery, about to occupy their attention that evening. The Hon. Mem ber observed that he did not wish to be understood in present ing this Petition, as giving any opinion on the subject, fur ther than to point out to the House that a question of this momentous nature, involving the property and lives of the Colonists, could not he treated with too much caution. He begged also to remind the House, that the property thus ques tioned was property which it had been admitted might be held consistently with honour and morality, and that they were not turned Christians for the first time that night. He might com plain in behalf of the Petitioners, that a motion of this kind should be brought forward without any notice of the nature of the propositions to be submitted being given to them. He had always been a most resolute abolitionist, and he anxiously de sired to see the slaves of the West Indies ameliorated, and eventually emancipated ; but in doing so lie hoped- the Pro prietors would be duly considered.—The 'petition was then read add ordered to be printed. BRITISH MUSEUM. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that on the 30th of May, he should move in Committee of Supply, a vote for the New Building, in addition to the Bri. tish Museum. Mr. HUSKISSON gave notice that, on Friday next he should move a Resolution tending to equalize the duties on Goods imported in English and Foreign ships. Mr. W. SMITH averted to a motion made for Returns re lative to the West Indian Colonies in 1821, all of which had been complied with, excepting those for Jamaica. He wished to know whether the Returns were in the possession of the Co lonial Office, and why they had been delayed. Mr. WILIUOT said, that the Returns were in fact on the table, and he last night moved they should be printed. He was not in a cdndition to state the cause of the delay, but the Returns were sent with ample apologies and explanations. LAW OF PRINCIPAL .AND FACTOR. 111r.,.1. SMITH rose to move, " that a Committee be ap pointed to inquire into the state of the law relating to goods, wares, and merchandise, intrusted to 'Merchants, Agents, or Factors, and its influence on property, and to report their ob. servations thereon to the House." As a very important motion was about to be submitted to the House, it was his intention to confine himself to the simple proposition for a Committee. Mx. Serjeant ONSI4OW could not let this motion come to a decision without expressing his entire concurrence in it. Nr. MARRYATT doubted the expediency of altering the law on this kubject. A great deal was said about the situation of merchants and factors in discussing this subject; but the truth was, neither merchants nor factors were materially inte rested in the question. Those who stirred in this matter were the brokers, who were in the habit of advancing large sums'of money on goods, without inquiring of those from whom they obtained them whether they were their own property or not. By such practices they sometimes made great gains, but being exposed to occasional losses, they cam e to Parliament to ask that they might be screened from the effects of their own im prudence by an alteration in the law of the land. Mr. SYKES thought some alteration in the present law Was - absolutely necessary, as he had known instanees in which the grossest frauds had been committal with impunity. . Mr. ROBERTSON objected to the precipitate adoption of a plan like that suggeSted, and he thcerfore hoped time would be Worded to give the subject due consideration. Mr. J. SMITH replied, and set forth the importance - of at once appointing the Committee to commence the proposed in quiry. The mon& was then - agreed to,‘ and the following Com mittee appointed:— Mr. John Smith, Mr. HuskiSson; - "*:..,Chat. Grant, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Bernal, Mr. arcing, ;Chaff. Courtenav, Mr. Hart Davis, Dr. Philliniore, Mr. Parrand, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. John Martin, Mr. Brougham, Sir John Newport, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Searlett, Mr. Marryat, Mr. Sykes, Mr. Willace, Mr. Thos. Wilson, and NVells. CRIMINAL LAW. Sir J. MACKINTOSH begged to state,- as the inquiry into the conetuet of the Sheriff of Dublin was axed for next Wed nesday, after that day he should claim pr4edence for his mo tions on - the subject of the Criminal Law,' having eonsAited to postpone it so repeatedly, from time to.'time, he ‘rishad it to be understood, that he could not consent to pia it of again. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. F. BUXTON, in presenting himself to the House on this occasion, thought every Gentleman in it would be dis persed to ask him one question, to which question he would at once proceed to give an answer. The question which he ex pected they would ask was this, " 'Why do you interfere in this great cause ? What right have you to meddle with it ? Is there not a man in the House to whom, when any thing con nected with slavery is to be agitated, the House is universally disposed to look up as the individual who should take the lead as the fdtbfal, tlie indefatigable,' the eloquent, and on the greatest of all occasions, the successful, advocate for the Africans ?'"I'o this question he would reply by expressing . a hope that no man would think so meanly, and he would say it, so unfairly of him, as to believe that he would encroach on his Hon. Friend. It was at the request, and in obedience to the injunctions, and only at the bidding of that Hon. Gentleman, that he now came forward. Before he went into the important, and as it had this night been called, perilous subject of his mo. tion, he thought it right to take some notice of the advice he had received, and of those warninefi which had been thrown out as to the evils likely to arise in the West Indies from the agita tion of this question. He was told that it was not a slight matter to agitate the question of slavery at all. He admitted that it was not a slight matter to cause those apprehensions, most groundless as he thought he should prove them to be, which were felt by persons so estimable as were those fain) whom those warnings had proceeded, and as he knew many of those persons to be who were connected with the West Indies. He most solcentfly declared, that he felt not the slightest hos tility towards any of the parties connected with the West In dian interest. He deemed the proprietors of slaves unfortu nate, and pre.eminently unfortunate those whose property was hereditary}, who inherited a property once considered to be that in which an honourable investment might be made, but which the progress of time and events had brought men cor rectly to view as utterly irreconcileable with higher Den ciples. It was no slight matter for him to introduce a subject, which was painful to the feelings of individuals thus circum stanced, and no slight matter to bring forward a question so deeply affecting the honour and character of this nation.— With respect to the responsibility which he e ineweeLe et aeeeng this part he thought be understotefft *ell; No man ought to venture on such a step unless he were sure tilat his cause were good, as be felt he was. Nor ought any one to agitate this question unless he could spew that he was free from all personal interest or prejudice as he was; but feeling that such was the situation in which he stood, he ventured to reject the warnings which -he had received, and was content to incur all the re sponsibility which was thought to attach to the performance of the task he had undertaken. Why did he incur this respon. sibilitv ? Because he was convi nce d t h at t h e d angers o f which they had heard, if not absolutely -groundless, were greatly over-rated, while the blessings which success would confer on more than millions of reeds were such as never could be overrated. He was confident that Slavery could not stand before investigation—that it must fall if the public eye were fixed steadfastly on it, and this assured him that the good which might be accomplished was incalculably great, while the evils to be apprehended were fewer than his Majesty's Ministers, and amen who opposed him on this occasion, had imagined. He had heard much said on the danger of exciting an insurrection in the %%Tort Indies. As this was the only con sideration which ought to deterehim from the prosecution of his purpose, to this he would fi rst a dd re S s himself. If he were the rash man who had ever brought into discussion " the delicate subject of the Slav e T ra d e ," and the " still more delicate subject of slavery," in that House, he might with reason be alarmed for the course he had taken. But it did so happen that the delicate subjectfof the Slave Trade, and the still more delicate subject of slavery, had been discussed over and over again within these walls. A" Committee had sat on the subject thirty years ago, when Committees were not so common as they were now, and when it was not usual to publish the evidence taken before them ; but a Committee of that House bad sat at the period he mentioned, and pub. fished the evidence given before th e m t o the world. 'A Com mittee of the Lords had sat at the same time and upon the snore subject, and published their proceeding to the world; and a Committee of the Privy Council had also sat, and very bulky evidenCe had also been published by them. Another conside. ration had great weight with him in answer to the objections which had been raised to the agitation of this question. It was this, that for the last thirty years no man who had occu pied much of public attention at that House, had abstained, from making known his sentiments respecting slavery. He did not speak of those who were the known advocates for li berty, such as Mr. - Fox, Mre Wyndham, Sir S. Romilly, and Mr. Sheridan, but also of those who were their opponents in every thing, with the-exception of talent. There was Mr. Dundas,e'who was no enthusiast; there was Mr. Burke, who was not remarkably fond of change; anti there was Mr. Pitt and Lord Grenville, who had all freely delivered their send. meats upon the subject, and thus proved that there was no dan. ger in the avowal of them. One of these had brought in a Bill for the abolition of slavery, which, if it had been carried, would have come into operation twenty-th ree years ago, an d have liberated by this time half the slaves in our Colonies. When men like these had thus spoken, thought, and acted, and that to in the face of warnings like those which were row bestowed on him, lie felt that he should have been betraying a good cause had he been intimidated into an abudonment of the task which he had imposed on himself', on account of predictions, which facts had hitherto .con. stantly falsified. It was .singular, and it deserved the atten tion of the House, that motion had ever been made on the subject of slaves, which had not been with the same predic. lions almost verbatim, as those which were now hazarded against the present motion, in 1787 a very feeble effort was made in behalf of the Negroes, by proposing to abate the horrors of the Middle paesago, and allow the unhappy be . Imes a little more air on their voyage. The cry of, ' You will ruin the West Indies," was immediately raised, and the Duke of Chandos declared in the house of Lords, that his pockets were then filled with letters from persons in the West Indies, all of which concurred in stating the English newspapers to be read in the plantations as regularly as they arrived by the slaves, and added that the moment they crone to the paragraph respecting the intended motion, they broke out into open insurrection. But notwithstanding this no incur rection took place. It Wilberforce, about the same pe r i o d, 1787, that his Iron. Friend, M r . Wilberforce, commenc e d hi s career, a career which it would be as improper us it was unnecessary for him to applaud. That career was continued through twenty years, and he would ask, what insurrection bad been produced among the negroes ? Yet, in the course of the twenty years not one year could be selected in which predic tions like those he had described had not been put forth. It would be curious to bring before the House the train of pro phecy, and to put by its side the train of history, to anew how compictely the former had been falsified and confuted by the latter. The facts had been precisely the reverse of these which ought to have occurred to make good the prophecies. According to them those years ought to have been marked , by insurrection and bloodshed, instead of which they were distinguished by a degree of peace and tranquillity which was perfectly unexampled at any preceding period in the history of our colonies. At that time this country was so greedy of the advantages arising from the Slave Tiade, that we became the carriers of other nations. His Hon. Friend disapproving of this, had brought in a Bill to repress the practice; and, on that occasion it was said, if the measure were carried, an in surrection among the Blacks would be the consequence. The measure passed, and the prediction was falsified. In 1803, Lord Seaforth, being then Governor of Barbadoes, discovered a series of the most horrid murders to have been committed that had ever been perpetrated. He would not distress the House by describing these murders, but those who remem bered them, and especially the case of the boy murdered in the Chilies, would own that more shocking atrocities had never been known. Sonie of the murderers were tried and convicted, and the Judge inflicted the whole punishment allowed bylaw, which was a fine amounting to something less than that levied in this country for killing a partridge—the sutrhof 111. 4s. The Governor upon this applied to the Colo nial Assembly for the repeal of thelaw, and recommended it., to that body to make the killin g . o f a slave murder. fie was answered in the same way us the present motion . was answer, ed. "DO this," was the cry, " and you produce an insurrec tion among the Blacks, and excite them to cut the throats of all the Whites." They subsequently punished the Governor by a remonstrance, in which they told bun that they knew how to protect their own interests and their own honours, and wanted no hint from him. The lion. Gentleman proceeded to show, that the opposition otrered, in 1801, to the motions then madein favour of slaves, was couched in almost the very same terms as that against which he had now to contend. In 1817, only five years ago, Mr. 3laxivell, .Gortrnor of Dominica, wrote home that many undue and unlawful acts of severity towards slaves had occurred, particularly in making them wear iron collars and chains, after having been severely whipped. He in particular mentioned the case of two girls of 12 years of age, much marked by the effects of the cartwhip, fastened to gether with iron chains round their necks, patilocked, weighing lillbs.; that of an old man, apparently 60 years of age l after having been severely beaten by his master, was placed in the stocks, with an iron collar round his neck, and chains, weighing 201bs. ; and that of a boy, about 12 years of age, loaded with an iron collar, chains, and log of wood, weighing .Ribs. All these acts, it was to be observed, were directly contrary to law. What was the effect of this ? Why, in consequence of its being mentioned in the Island, the Grand Jury, who sat shortly afterwards; presented the Governor as a nuisance.— (A laugh !)—The lion. Gentleman here read the present. ment, which was dated the 26th of August, 1817, and was as follows : The Grand Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the King do present,—That at the particular request of the Bench, they visited and inspected the Gaol, which they regret to find in the • same state as in February. last, notwithstanding the repeated presentments of former Grand Juries on the subject.—The Grand Jury lament that they are under the necessity of no. ticing an imprOper interference, on the part of the Executive, between master and slave, which has caused considerable agita. don and discontent among the negroes, and if p , ersevered in, is likely to lead to the most ruinous consequences. ' - If the Grand Jury had declared that these " iron tortures," as the Governor had called them, had made the negroes discon. • tented, and that the masters were dissatisfied with the interfer ence, the statement would have been fair, but when they went • th."%pgth of representing the negroes to be discontented at the idea or interference with their right and title to be whipped and chained, and disconsolate for having these precious privileges of their condition endangered, it was too much for conunon sense to endure. But precisely similar was the argument now used against this motion. It was said that an insurrection would be excited. Now What was it that was proposed to be done which could produce this efl'ect ? In the first instance it was desired to secure Sunday for the negro as a day ie which he should be allowed to rest and to seek education. It was pro posed that he should hate another day in the week a ll owe d to him for the,eultivatien of his nro.Y.i§itin lifrowlik..Titeatext and mast important object In view was tb provide that his children should no longer be sold, and that in fact they should be tree. It was thought by those who were well acquainted with the Co lonies, that nothing would so powerfully operate on the minds of the slaves as a measure of this description. It was then proposed to get rid of the cart whip ; and now wh a t wea there in all this which was not calculated rather to serve than to en danger the Colonies ? While on this part of the subject, he was anxious not to pass over the changes which had taken place in the 'West Indies during the last thirty years. The Negroes now saw another Island near them, in which every man, woman, and child, was free. They saw an Island in which their fellows had conquered their liberty ; anti a com munity of 80t1,000 Blacks, who had obtained the rights and Acuities of freemen, and who were in the enjoyment of their liberty, to which he would say they were entitled.—(Hear 'They had, at all events, obtained it. Such being th e ease , might it not be expected that some' Emperor or President would take an opportunity of encroaching on our West Indian Islands ; or might not America, in a future war, send an army tit Jamaica, and declare the Blacks free, imitating our conduct in the original American war, and also in that of 1813. Ought we not then with such prospects before us, to be careful not to leave the slaves in our Colonies in such a situation that any change which took place in their condition must be for the better ; ought we not rather so to alter their condition, that almost any change in it must be for the worse ? He hoped it would not be thought imprudent in him, if, throwing off all reserve, he frankly stated the object at which he and his friends aimed.— That object was nothing less than the total extinction of slit- Very throughout the whole of the British Empire.—(Hear !) But it was not wished to effect this suddenly, but by such gra. dual means, and accompanied with such precautions, as would fit the Negro for a state of freedom. Tie wished it to be re mendiered that those who said they wished for the extinc tion of slavery, said also that they wished to accomplish this but by slow and gradual measures. He desired no more if he could succeed to the extent of his most ardent wishes. Ile proposed to name no time, nor year when slavery should be abolished. In fap, if his plan were adopted, slavery would never be abolished. It was not proposed to out it down in its full maturity and vigour, but to leave it to perish by a natural, and, if possible, an imperceptible deeaye— What they meant to say was, that no more children should be made slaves. This carried, as no increase could be made to the existing number of slaves, that number would be next year somewhat abated. In ten years it would be considerably dimi. nished, and in twenty or thirty years all the young and vigo rous negroes would be free, and those only who were getting on to old age anti decrepitude would remain slaves. Then slavery would rapidly diminish in each succeeding year, till at length it would go out" altogether, and ke forgotten.-- Ile would shew that this was no speculative plan, that it was no visionary scheme, resulting from those new lights" to which an non. Gentleman had alluded. It might not beknown to some persons that slavery had actually " gone out" in one part of that country, which was well known to the Hon. Gentleman. This - was in New York, where, thirty years ago, the very principle which he now recommended had been adopted i slavery had in consequence burnt down in the wicket, anti had in the end gone, completely out. The same thing had been witnessed in New Jersey e in Philadelphia, and in se veral other parts of the United States. Gentlemen would please to observe that the change had been gradually and inmercein. tibly made, till slavery had been forgotten in those parts.— This change was not more advantageous for the blacks than it had proved for the whites. It was felt as a great benefit to all, and it was considered that one of the greatest curses had been removed from that part of the world. In other parts the principle Was now in operation, and slavery was w or ki ng i tse lf oitt. lie would just put it to the lion. Gentleman if he knew in what part of the British dominions this was going on ? The difference between him and the Honourable Gentleman seas this he (Mr. Buxton) said the principle would work quietly and without danger. The Hon. Gentleman said it would work in convul sions attended with violence and rebellion. If then he could move that this work was now going on, and so quietly going on that the fazt w as , not' generally known, he established his • case. - It was in die Island of Ceylon that this principle had been adopted, through the active exertions of Sir A. Johnston, in 1816. The same principle was at work in Bencoelen, and it had been introd u c e d into other parts of our Empire; but he would more particularly dirmt the attention of the House to the introduction of it into the Island of St. Helena, Much public interest had been excited of late years by whet was passing at St. Helena. Almost books enough to fill a li israry had been published respecting it. Every fact, hew-. ever slight, was thought worthy of recording. Even the opi- Mons and predictions of Buonaparte had been given to the World. Only one fact had been left unnoticed, and that a as this, that Sir Hudson Lowe had dealt the death-blow to sla very in that island while lie was there. In South Amerita, the principle for which he contended was in operation. By a fundamental law of Colombia, all the children born aftir the day in which the Constitution was framed are declared free. But more than this, a legacy duty of ten per cent. had been imposed on all disposable property, to form a fund to purchase up slaves, there being selected first who were considered the most peaceable and industrions. Never before had such an opportunity offered for proving how safe the experiment which he recommended. It was while the country was hverriih by an hostile army, when masters were frequently obliged to Oar.. don. their possessions, it was under such circumstances that this principle had been put into action, and that too in a coun try where there were MAO slaves. The Honourable Gentle man had doubted that such was the fact. He (Mr. Buxton) held in his hand a letter from Mr. Revenge, which atated the Blacks or their descendants in Colon - 114a to amount to be, tween eight and nine hundred thousand, in a population of three millions. The mighty change which had taken place had produced a degree of docility among the Blacks, rind of security among the Whites, which had never been known before, and this he believed was ascribed solely to the adoption of the very principle tbr which he now contended. What heamibily desired was that noanore Children should be born s lavea. He begged ikask what right had any one, what right even had the Go vernment to declare that a child born to day should eat the bitter bread of slavery, and endure' the hateful toil of slavery through the whole of its days ? Tie knew what the answer would be. The proprietor would say tip the negro, " your father is mine, your mother is mine, and therefore you are mine." The crime committed against the parent was thus made an apology for clomping the child to s'avery. By the law of the land it was a crime to go to Africa to make a slave. Why, he would ask, was it not also considered a crime to make a child just born a slave ? In his opinion the latter was a greater crime than the former. He . and those who concur red with him did not now call on the country to retrace its steps, but they called on it to stop where it was. He thought Gentlemen were not fully aware of the criminality of maintaining slavery. lie felt convinced that when the great day arrived, which must divulge all secrets, the black.. est, the foulest, and the wickedest crimes, would be those connected with the'slave trade and with slavery. No. country NO been so deeply involved in the guilt as this, in taking a slave first, and in keeping him afterwards. They did not re quire that reparation should be made for the crime which had been committed. ‘Vhat they said was this—" Enjoy the finie tion of it, but do not commit a new crime." ThiS was the object which he and his. friends had in view, and for this they would continue...to appeal to public feeling, till -the great point. was conceded. With respect to the present state of slaves, if he thought they could abruptly .be raised from their. de. gradation to enjoy the blessings of freedom he would have no hesitation in saying that they had a right to that reparation, for the wrong they had sustained, and the sooner the coun try departed from crime the bet:er. But slavery , unfortu nately lowered the man, it sunk his character and reduced him to that bestial state that the very objection .to SlaYery became its best protection. By slavery a • man was made so bad, that he was unworthy of freedom, and thus they found themselves arguing in a most vicious circle. Slavery brutalized the nip, and then his brutality was urged , is a reason why he ought to continue in elavery. But for this consideration, he would have said this night " let die chains of the slave be at once stricken off." There were men who were apt to think that the Planter had an honest and sub &tenth] tide to the body of a slave. He wished for a moment to fathom this tide. There was a certain valuable commo dity, for which there were two competitors—a black and a white. The valuable commodity was the body of the black. The black said " It is mine ;" the white s. i 1 " It is mine." —What was the claim of the black ? It was surely the best that could. be imagined—a claim derived directly front nature. —This furnished a pretty good priina facie case for the black, and be who contended with him was hound to .hew a better. Let the planter then be asked, by what right he claimed that which he considered to be his property ? He might answer that he inherited it from his father. That would be a very_ good claim, but how did his father-b eco m e p ossesse d of it? The answer might be, that he bought it of a Captain, Very good again, but bow did he become possessed of it?-- Ile bought it of a merchant. But low did be get it ? Oh, be bought it of a Slave-trader in Africa. And where did the Slave-trader get it ? Why, he stole it. Thus, then, it would be found the best title which could be set up bad its origin in robbery. He would say, frankly, that the title of the Planter to his slave was nothing at all. Ile might have a claim on that House.—(llear, hear, hear !)- . --that be was fully prepared to admit, but he denied that be had an right to use force or cruelty on the person of a s l ave ; The Iron. ..Gen. tleman then re-stated from a letter which he bed written to Earl Bathurst, an explanation of his sentiments. It ran thus :-.. He maintained that the House owed .it to themselves to take up this question on every principle ;which. ought to. be dear -to the Representatives of an honest country. They owed it to humanity, to justice, to Christianity, which tiumght that " they should do to others as they wished others should do to them." They owed it to their reputation in Europe --to the unanimous voice of the EngliSli people, and, above all, they owed it to that African race, which they had so ,log and so cruelly oppressed. We owed to those unhappy beings a long and deep atonement for wars excited by our means.._ for civil wars which we had made interminable—for the villages burned when the poor wretches • were roused from their aletp but to behold the cAiel man-stealers app (itch_ they owed it for civilization, for peace, for the arts—and still more important, for Cheistianity excluded during two centuries from Africa.—They owed it for the tears of thou. sands murdered in war; for the tens of thousandasuffocated in the holds of our slave ships; for the tens of thousands cruelly cast ashore, and brutally described in the invoice as " refuse risen ;" and for the tens of thousands kept in slavery through many succeeding years, and doomed to know every species of misery and degradation. For these things, they owed to injured Africa a huge and liberal atonement, and glue they ought to be that it was in their power to do something like an act of justice. We had a. power to step betweee the slave the barbarity of his master's servant; to prevent bin from being torn front the soil where he had built his cottage, and to make his children free. Above all, we had the powei of affording them full mid complete religious instruction. . k'ion the children of the slave every thing like a Vestige of slavery could be removed, and by means of education they might fat reared into a free, enlightened, and happy people. With and means in their power, be would only repeat the exclamation with which he had concluded his letter to Laird Bethur st , and say, " God grant that his Majesty's Ministers may nccorn plash this, or suffer it to be done by others I" He concluded, by reading and moving the following Resolutions:—" Thai the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the Bridal Constitution, and of the Christian Religion, and that it °Ugh. to be abolished gradually throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned." The subject divides itself into two—the condition of the cx. isting slave, and the condition of their children. With regard to the former, I wish the following improve tents 1. That the slave should be attached to the Island, and un der modifications to the $ 2. That they cease to be chattels in the eye of the law. 3. That their testimony be received quantum vs:iat. 4. That when any one lays in his claim to the services or Negro, the onus sliould rest on the claimant. 5. That obstructions to manu►nissions ►should be removed. 6. That the provisions of the Spanish law (being by mnipe tent authority the value of the slave, and allowing him to pur chase a day at a time); should be introduced. 7. That no Governor, Judge, or Attorney-Oeneral, shoub be a slave owner. O. That an effectual provision shall be made for the religiou instruction of the slave. O. That marriage s, uld be enforced and sanctioned. 10. That Sunday would be devoted by the slave to oval and religious instruction ; and that other mile should be allot, ted for the cultivation of his provision grounds. 11. That sonic (but what I cannot say ), measures should be taken to restrain the authority of the nnoter in punishing untried slave, and that some substitute should be ibund for the driving system. These are the proposed qualifications of the'existing Slavery. But I am far more anxiously . bent upon the extinction or :sea very altogether. By rendering all the negro 'children, born after a certain day, free. For themit Trill be.necesesary w pro ; vide education. -- Ciotijrorliihat his .:Ihjesty's MinisterN nt) , be tth.pn,c() to Accomplish these objects, or to peril& others to uccompli.,ll them. Believe me, my dear Sir your's very truly, Spring-garden Hotel, April 15, 1/1•11. T. F. B. Air. Secretary CANNING aaid, the appeal with which the Centitra m hull couch ded his speech to his Illsjesty.'s the till ese icy by ce e, er r -11 n ly