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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAiteH 5. The House met this day at five o'clock, and ad journed until to-morrow, without transacting any public business. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARcif 5. The SPEAKER. took the Chair, this day, at the usual hear. Mr. Crafer from the Treasury, brought up the annual account of the charge of the Public Debt. - Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the licensed victuallers of Royston, complaining of the improper practice of retailing beer without license. Mr. BASTARD presented a petition from Chiselwicl:, Devon, for the repeal of the Malt Laws. Sir JOHN PAULETT presented a similar petition Irom the miltsters of Worcester. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a petition from Newport, praying for some alteration in the Poor Laws. Lord F. OSBORNE presented a petition front Cam- , bridge, for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Hie Lordship also presented a petition from the Maltsters of Cambridge, against the Malt Act. Mr. LAMB brought up a Bill for the Consolidation of the Laws relating to Juries and Jurors in Ireland. lie hoped that the Bill would be allowed to go into a Committee, as it was a measure of great necessity. After a few words from Mr. GRATTAN, Mr. HUME said that the abuses of the Jury system in Ireland were e normous. He considered that the severity of the sentence passed on Mr. Eneas 3PDonnel, was dis creditable to the administration of Justice in Ireland. Mr. LAMB said the character of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland was a sufficieut secu rity for the due administration of Justice. The Bill was then read a first and second time, and committed. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to he taken into consideration this day se'nnight. Mr. TOMLINE presented a petition from the growers of Wool in and near Spilsbury against the importation of foreign Wool.—Ordered to lie on the table. 31r. FERGUSSON presented a petition from the Malt sters of Kirkcudbright, for the repeal of the Malt Act. Mr. R. PALMER moved for a return of the amount of Land Tax Redeemed in 1825.—Ordered. Mr. JOHN WOOD presented a petition from Preston, &r the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Mr. H. GRATTAN presented a pe , tion from a pa riah in the enunty of Wicklow, for the r peal of the laws that disqualhy on account of religious o iniuns. Mr. C. PALLMER moved for an nanunt of the quan tity of Sugar and Rum imported into Great Britain and Ireland during the year 1827, distinguishing the Colonies from whence they were imported. Also, an Account of the quantity of Rum and Sugar exported from Great Bri tain and Ireland within the same period.—Ordered. Mr. C. PALLMER also moved for returns of the quan tity of Coffee imported and exported within the year 1827. Ordered. Mr. MONCK moved for a return of Corporations im Ireland ; and also of the quantity of Coals imported into Ireland from England and Scotland during the last year. COLONIA!. SLAVERY. Mr. DENISON presented a petition from the Surrey Anti-Slavery Society, which was most numerously signed. It was four years since Mr. Ginning had brought forward his resolutions relative to the state of slavery in the Colonies, and nothing had since been done to carry them into effect. He was anxious, if any of his Majesty's Ministers had been present, to have asked them whether it was their intention to have left the settlement of this great question altogether to the Colonial Secretary, or whether they intended raking it into their own hands. If the Colonies were still deter mined to oppose the wishes of the country relative to the mreelnal abolition ofslavery, they had a remedy in their hands and a short one, namely, byimposing a duty upon ell sugars imported from the Colonies. Such a temporary measure would, be thought, compel the Colonists to agree to the manumission of the slaves. Lord F. GOWER stated, that in the absence of Lie Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Huskisson) he was unable to give any satisfaction to the Honourable Gentleman, - upon the subject ; but to-morrow night a ques tion would come before the House, which would secure the attendance of his Right Hon. Friend, whose absence he regretted, though he still more regretted that the lion. Gentleman had not postponed his question until be was present. Mr. VERNAL said that he was as anxious as the Hon. Member cemeld be, and, indeed, he only expressed the willies of other, who were, like himself, proprietors, when he. states!, that they would be most happy to ascertain what w e re the views and intentiens of his Majesty's Government as to the Colonies. Whether they were to be treated as if they formed a part of the Empire, like Ireland, or whether they were to he considered as isolated from the protection of this country. It was high time that this Important question should be set at rest, and that it should be decided whether the link and tie between those Colonies and the Mother Country was to be broken. He hoped they were no longer to be exposed to those covert at. tacks which bad en often been made upon then, ; but that the same protection as heretofore, would he ex tended towards them. The Hon. Member had said, that the remedy was with this country, and that they ought to bring the Colonial Legislature to their senate. Now, if svetem were adopted at that propoesid, it would de !llat its own object. If greater duties were laid co, would ;t not cause inaportadon from the Brazils and front time French Colonies? He would take leave to say, that the Hon. Member was ignorant of the subject, for he (Mr. B.) eves credibly informed that the trade was actively carried on upon the coast of Africa at the present moment ; and he was further informed that it was covered by the Frenth flag. He would take the liberty of stating, that such societies as that of the Surrey Anti-Slavery So eety, from which the present petition emanated, did no `god in the eauee in which they were embarked. They eaused great irritation, and be could not help stating that the language and the tooe which was systematically e'ed was the most unfortunate that eoem/d have been adopted. Sir ALEXANDER GRANT said he could assure the Hon. Member that no greater favour could he done to the West j India Prop: letore at large than the annihiiation of the Slave Trade, and the *House and the public at large could not too decidedly draw the distinction between the slave trade arse! slavery. He could tenure the House that many of the mlisadvantagee under whielm the West India proprietors laboured, were owing to the continuance .c,f the .9fave trade. With regard to other question, the anleiloration of the condition of the slave, he might venture to Gay, without fear of contraifletion, that tho tmenimous iee4ing, which pervades all the resident and anti-resident West Jodia proprietors, was to aid by all the means in their power tine exertions of that House and of the Government to ameiiorata the condition of the slave. But he must be allowed at the was time to observe, that the means pursued by some persona who professed their object to be the improvement of the conditiOn of the slave, were calculated to pf,lduce irritation in the minds of the Colonists, and to prevant Oast cordial concurrence whiei t they would otherwise be ciieposed to yield to mea sures of that kind. Sir P. WILSON said, if the Hon. Aiember Meant to say tit those who called upon his Majesty's Government to carry jot* effect the resolutions of that House, to put u stop to fl og giNt at the ezprive of the owner, or the driver, and t o encouret ie „ pi t a , ' of compulsory manumis sion, were persona ;:'hose efforts likely to pro. duce irritation and tachief, he confesit , ,.l to he one of those persons, one who was ready to do all in his power to support the Government in bringing the system of compulsory manumission :o a successful anti in preventing the resiiipmt proprietors foal con• tinum_g practices which were a disgrace not only to this country hut to mankind. Upon the question that the petitu na be brought up, being put, Mr. HI-ME took that opportunity pressing . upon the Government the equalization of the upon Last India and West India Sugars. not to anytltink m, goof could be done by holding out thr ea t s India Proprietors, and be therefore suggested tl the West the equaliza tion of those duties in the firm conviction that lization would not be injurious to West India Proprietor-,cu,el 4r-- for the consequences of that measure would 211 be that the 'West India Proprietors would have their c i • fairly considered in that House without having the claims n (iiffer slice in the duty on Sugars brought in opposition to thos e claims. When he said this he did not wish it to be un _ dcrstotol that he wished an equalisation of duties to taL e place without, at the same time, takiug into consideration the disadvantages under which the West India body la. toured, by being restricted for their supplies to impurta- bons from England Mr. WARBURTON said it appeared to him that there was one remedy for abolishing the Slave Trad.e which had been overlooked by the Government, and which he thought ought to be tried ; namely, that some facilities in the shape of diligence of duty ought to he given to the Colonists or foreign powers who did not sanction the Slave Trade. Mr. DENISO7,; ,. thought, that if the Colonial AsArn blies set themselves in opposition to the wishes of that House and the country upon the subject of slavery, they might be brought to reason by that House passing a tempo racy Bill, imposing a small duty upon those refractory colonists. He wished for conciliation and not to threaten, but if the assemblies continued refractory he thought the heat means of inducing them to acknowledge the propriety of the view taken by that Home on the subject, would be those which he had suggested. Mr. Secretary HUSKISSON said it was not my inten tion to come down to the House to-day; but having re ceived a letter from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the Member for Winchelsea, that he intended to put certain_ questions to me on the state of slavery with respect to the Colonies, I have attended, although at some inconvenience. • I have no objection whatever to answering the question put to me by the Hon Member for Surrey, who has just sat down ; but as the Hon. and Learned Member (Mr. Brougham) will be in the House, in all probability, in a short time, I think it better to postpone what I have to say until he appears. After some observations from Mr. W. SMITH, Mr. BARING, and Dr. Lt'SHINCTON, Mr. BROUGHAM (who had just entered the House) said that it was well known that the resolutions upon the subject had been fully entered into by both Houses of Parliament respecting the question of Colonial Slavery, and that repeated communications had been made to the Colo nial Government, that certain measures would he proposed if they should not he rendered unnecessary by measures adopted by the Colonial Legislature. He did not wish to go into the particulars of the measure meant to be adopted, and he now merely wished to ask the Right Hon. Se cretary whether what has been done, or what has taken place, in the Colonial Assemblies has appeared to his Majesty's Government so satisfactory as to preclude the necessity of acting in this country upon the pledges contained in the resolutions of both Houses of Parliament. Mr. HUSKISSON said the only answer he could give was, that ample information on the subject bad been laid on the table of the House. Since the passing of the resolutions of 1823, stating the measures recom mended, and what has been done by the Colonial As semblies pursuant to those regulations, it could not be doubted, that in the resolutions which passed through both Houses of Parliament in 1823, it was contemplated ultimately to raise the slave in the Colonies to the posses sion of the civil rights enjoyed by the other citizens of the Colony but to take care that this transition from slavery to freedom should be effectetl in such a manner as not to interfere with the rights of private property. It was to be regretted that the resolutions of the Legisla ture could not be carried into effect as soon as was desir able; but by hastily attempting to carry those resolutions into effect, the colonies would be thrown into irretrievable confusion, without doing any service tothe slaves, or in any way promoting the wishes of the Legislature. Whilst he had the honour to hold a place in his Majesty's Councils, he would feel it his duty, as it was the duty of every one pre siding over the Colonial department, to give their earnest and constant labour, gradually and steadily to advance the objects contemplated by the resolutions of the Legislature, always bearing in view that they were bound not to inter fere with the interests of private property, and not un necessarily to injure the fortunes of those whose pro. perty was unfortunately invested in human beings. —The Honourable Member for Callington talked of the expence of keeping up a police to put down the slave traffic in all parts of the world. Whether we were right or wrong the expence was a very proper subject for the consideration of the Committee of Finance. He coasidered it very important that the country should be put in posses sion of the sums which were appropriated to this, in his mind, necessary work. The expence was very great, and the loss of life considerable, in putting down this traffic, and carrying into effect the provisions of treaties to which other powers were parties, and which perhaps they ought to have assisted in carrying into effect. He grieved to say, that great as were the exertions which had been made, the success had not been commensurate with our wishes, or with those exertions. That west kind of smuggling trade—he meant the slave traffic, was still cane vied on, he regretted to say, to a great extent. It was a mere question of profit with those who pursued this traffic— they hail no consideration for the duties they owed the State, or the duties they owed humanity.—(Hear, hear.) The temptation, therefore, was very great, and as long as it continued, so this traffic would be carried en with more misery to the slaves than was ever inflicted on them when the traffic was carried on under the protection of the laws. Ile would lay the information alluded to before the House as soon ne possible, and it would then be for them to consider whether any thing further ought to he done. At all events it was the bounden duty of the Government to carry into effect the resolutions of the Legislature. Mr. BROUGHAM was not perfectly satisfied with the answer of the Right Honourable Secretary. , The question was, whether what had been done was satisfactory to Government. He was not satisfied with what had been done. If any progress had been done it was impercep tible. He thought the Colonies were moving- so slow that it was a "stand still," and if the Government did not con cur with him in this opinice, he would bring the subject before the House, immediately after the Easter recess. He admitted that there was no necessity rashly and needlessly to interfere with the local legislatures, or to precipitate proceedings. He would, however, observe, that from the time when Mr. Pitt and even Mr. Dundas, who was op posed to abolition, proclaimed in the House that there was no doubt, and could be no doubt, that sooner or later the slaves in the colonies must be free, no man could doubt that sooner or later Parliament must be pledged to make them free. There were two modes of proceeding with the abolition—the perfectly slow, and the reasonably quick. Hitherto, he was sorry to ray, but be would say it what ever risk he might run of giving offence to the colonies, hitherto they seemed to have adopted rather the former than the latter course. All the objects of amelioration were ellssed under twenty different heads, of which nine were extremely important, bat in those nine important se parate heads or chapters, not a single coleny had taken a single step. Taking the two principal colonies, Barbadoes and Jamaica, which,contained a population of 400,00 C or 500,000 persons, they would find, that out of the 20 heads of amelioration to all of which the House was equally pledged, neither of those colonies had affected to take a single step in 16 out of the 20.—(Hear.)—The case then, as it :appeared to him, stood thus, with respect to exertion. Some of the Colonies had taken partial steps, but there were nine heads not touched by any of the Colonies, and 16 not touched by either of the two great Colonies of Bar. badoes and Jamaica. It was, he thought, quite impossible, in any view of the ease, that the House would allow an other (he believed the sixth) year to elapse without some at tempt to advance the progress of its even enactments. That all amelioration should be conducted with regard to the claims of private property he was ready to allow, though he could not say with en Hon. Friend of his, that he would do nothing in the business of amelioration till a scale of compensation was arranged. The House was aware that a great quantity of shipping then concerned in that ne. fariens traffic, and which was likely to be thrown out of employment by the abolition, were supposed to have strong claims upon the Government for compensation. But did Parliament, therefore, abstain from putting an end to that system of robbery and murder which was mildly called the slave trade? No; they proceeded to vindicate the character of the country in the first instance • by casting off the odious stain, and then, and not till then, to consider such eases of compensation as might arise. And what was the consequence? After all the prophesies of ruin to the shipping interests, there was only a single. house which attempted to make out a case for compensa tion, and that case was not ern:med.- 7 ( Hear, hear.)—ln fact, it was found that the slave-ships were very capable of making good privateer; ; they were employed in that service, and there was not a single instance of en application for compensation from them.—(Hear, hear.).--One .s'oFd pop-, 9 0 that subject of compensations. They had heard nothing of compensations in the silk trade, into which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Iluskisaen) bad introduced so great and beneficial a change. Were our Color,ists the only class tyho should veceive cam pensntion for &minified . property'!' B a t what became of our manufacturers in such Cases? Every one remem b ere d the Bill, corf.monlycalled Sir Robert Peel's Bill, which inter- fered between Master and Servant, regulating the hours of labour, and protecting apprentices froM being over-worked in the manufactories. That Bill had, no doubt, the effect of lessening the manufacturer't; profit, yet no one had ever talked of compensation to them. In the same spirit he wodd now sav to Parliament—" Don't abstain from doing your and as for compensation, leave that to be settled afterwards, as ;:ircurnstanres may direct." With respect to the heads of amelioration, there was One in favour of which he had the opinion of the Lord Chancellor and of other high authorities,—he alluded to the policy of permitting slaves to give evidence in Courts of Justice. That was one point at least, by insisting upon whitii they could do much good to the colonies. Supposing he (Mr. Brougham) were to bring in a Bill upon that subject, would any one think of stating that it was a subject for compensa tion also? T o th a t, as we ll as t o many other b e at s , thu principl e of compensation did not apply : in fact, it ap peared to him to be almost exclusively confined to corn pillory manumission. Mi. W. SMITH expressed a hope that the Right Hen. Gentleman would lay before the House a copy of his own despatch to the Colonial Governments in the course of last autumn. It was deserving, in all respects, of the serious consideration of the House. Mr. W. HORTON suggested, that as he had a motion to bring forward on the subject in the course of to-morrow, it Would be more convenient to postpone all further conver sation until the question came regularly before the House. He would assure the Hon. and Learned Gentleman that it' would then be his endeavour to meet the question fairly. Mr. BROUGHAM said it had never entered his head to charge the Right lion. Gentleman with any unfair use of his office in order to advance the opinion he maintained. Mr. HUSKISSON said, that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman must see the difficulty of answering the ques tion whether Government was satisfied with the progress made by the Colonies. He was happy to inform him, how ever, that upon one great head of improvement, to which he had himself alluded, considerable progress had been made. Mr. BROUGHAM was anxious that the intended mo tion of the Right lion. Gentleman might not he brought on before seven o'clock to morrow night, as he could not he present before that hour. He did not intend to take any part in the debate, but was anxious to hear the state ment of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Mt. W. HORTON expressed himself ready to accom modate the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The petition was then ordered to be laid on the table. GREEK SLAVES. Sir R. WILSON wished to call the attention of the Secretary for the Colonies to a question which related to the slave trade in Greece and Turkey. He did not wish to extend his question to any thing which bad taken place before the battle of Navarin, but a report had gone abroad, that after the battle, 2,000 or 3,000 slaves had been re moved from Navarin to Alexandria by the Pacha of Egypt. When he considered the state in which the Turkish vessels had been left after the battle of Navarin, it appeared reason able to conclude, that the removal of these slaves could not have taken place without permission of the Al lied Fleets. He was far from entertaining that opi nion himself, but as it htd already gone abroad, and had received some countenance from the state of the Turkish vessels, be felt it his duty to afford the Government an op portunity of contradicting it publicly, if possible. Mr. HUSKISSON said, it would give Lim great plea sure to be able to contradict the statement, which he would confess had reached him from the Levant, and which he believed, from many circumstances, was but too well founded. But though he believed that the unfortunate Greek slaves had been removed from parts of the Morea to Alexandria in the Turkish ships which had escaped destruc tion, he was happy to be able to state, that it was not done with the concurrence of the allied fleets. The fact was, that after the action the combined fleet had repaired to Malta and other places, for the purpose of refitting, after the damage they had sustained. The blockade was conse quently interrupted for a time, and the Pacha, availing him self of that interruption, had despatched his vessels with the slaves. He could assure the Hon. Gentleman, that it was the most anxious wish of his Majesty's Government to prevent the traffic in slaves at all times and in all places, and that orders had been sent to the Mediterranean for the detention of all vessels that might be found engaged in that traffic. Sir R. WILSON was of opinion that instructions might he sent to the Commanders in the Mediterranean, to make the recovery of these unfortunate slaves a matter of negotiation, without at all entharrasing the question- of peace or war. SUSPENSION OF A JUDGE IN INDIA, Mr. BROUGHAM had heard a rumour, and seen a statement in several of the public journals, which affirmed that one of the Judges in India (Mr. Courtenay Smith) had been suspended from the discharge of his functions, in con sequence of having expressed an opinion as to the renewal of the East India Company's charter. He knew not to what credit the report was entitled, but be was sure it ought to be contradicted from authority, if false. Mr. HUSKISSON said it was impossible for him to afford any information to the Hon. and Learned Gentle man, as he had as yet received no official information on the subject. Sir W. W. WYNN presented a petition from the malt sters of Wrexham against the Malt Act.—Ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. DAWSON moved for an account of the sums pay able by the East India Company in 1828, and for an ac count of the half-pay of his Majesty's forces in India. Mr. HUME took that opportunity of objecting to the duties upon legacies of wearing apparel, which were ex ceedingly obnoxious in Scotland; and also to the stamps on protests. As the law now stood, it required a stamp of 4s. 6d. to prote•t a bill of only 21. Mr. DAWSON admitted the importance of the subjects referred to by the Hon. Gentleman, and could assure him that they were all at present under the consideration of his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. DAWSON gave notice that it was the intention of his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) to move the Annnal Sugar Duties, in the Committee of Ways and Means, on Friday. Sir T. ACLAND gave notice, that he would move, in the Committee on the Bill for repealing the Test and Cor poratiDn Acts, for the insertion of a clause, imposing an oath or declaration upon those who were now obliged by law to take the sacrament. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as Monday week was St. Patrick's day, when many Gentlemen were in the habit of absenting themselves from the House in order to attend a dinner connected with a charitable purpose, he would postpone his motion for the Committee on the Test and Corporation Acts until the next day. CONINIITAIENTS AND CONVICTIONS, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved for a Select Committee to enquire into the causes of the encrease of commitments and convictions in criminal cases. This was the same motion lie had made last year, and as there was no opposi tion to it, he would now merely move its appointment. Colonel SIBTHORP felt much obliged to the Noble Lord for bringing forward this subject, as it was highly ne cessary in the present state of am country. The motion was agreed to, and the Committee appointed. Amongst the Members were Lord Joint RUSSELL, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Lord EBRINCTON, Sir T. ACLAND, &c. On the question that Five form a Quorum, Mr. HUME expected but little from the Committee while the poor were unemployed, or when employed, are paid so little wages. The tax-eaters were too many, and the people should not 130 longer called upon unnecessarily to feed them. After a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the motion was agreed to. Mr. GRATTAN moved for Returns connected with the Expenditure of the Foundling Hospital, and the House of Industry in Dublin.—Ordered. Mr. D. W. HARVEY, in moving for a Return of the Bills filed in Courts of Equity, with a view of ascertaining what abuses existed in Charitable Institutions, observed, the expence of the Board appointed to investigate cost the country nearly 30,0001. per annum ; and the worst of it was, that there was no knowing when the labours of the Commissioners were likely to end. Unless some course was taken to bring back the property bequeathed for edu cation to its proper uses, all their labours would be in vain. The Hon. Member cited some cases from the eleventh Re port of the Commissioners with a view to show how much money left for good uses, had been improperly and iniqui tously misapplied. After some further observations from the lion. Member the Returns were ordered.--The House Adjourned at a Quarter after Seven o'clock. THE THAMES TUNNEI..—The course taken by Mr. Dm: Nfi r. to remedy the second inllux of the Thames into the works have, as far as they have proceeded, been successful, and he is as confident as heretofore of his ability to carry the work on to its completion. At present it has been deemed most advisable not to clear the shaft wholly of water, although by putting on the whole force of the steam engine, this could be done in about a day. The subscrip tions on the part of the public in aid of the funds of the Company, do not flow in so fast as might have been ex pected, and cannot be stated to exceed 2,0001. As at least 75,000/. is wanted to carry on the excavation for the re mainlng 575 feet, and as the Directors cannot depend on more than 21,0001., after having called the whole amount of their subscribed capital, it will be seen there are great obstacles, in a pecuniary point of view, to overcome yet. As far as regards the operation of carrying the Tunnel through to the southern shore, little doubt exists. MALICIOUS SHOOTINC.—On Tuesday a dis pute arose between JOHN STEPHENSON, of Appleton Hoe-- buck, and Tato4as I:Nat:Also the younger, a carpenter, of Tadcaster, relative to a post which STEPHENSON had placed between his premises, and tho=se of ENat,axn's father. ENoLama told him he should cut the post down ; when STEPHENSON replied, " Well, if you do, you shall never cut another up." He immediately turn e d round, and went into his house, and came back directly with a pistol, which Le presented to ENGLAND, and threatened to blow his brains out, He cocked the pistol, and levelled it at ENGLA Np'g body, who rushed forwards, and seized hold of the barrel, and attempted to wrest it from him. In the struggle it went off, and a shot was lodged in ENGLaNn's ancle; and others passed through his trowsers and apron. He succeeded in getti ng possess i on o f the pistol, w hi c h h e gave to a man named ENOCH BILBHOUGH. These facts hiving been sworn to, the Lord Mayor and Magistrates deemed it their duty to commit the old man to the city qaol for trial at the next ass i zes , un d er Lord &Lamm :, ROUGII'M Act, for shooting with intent to murder or do soma grievous bodily harm, and the witnesses were bound over to appear and give evidence, York Courant, Elegant Cabinet and Grand Piano Fortes, Double and Single-action Harps Five large Chimney Glasses. 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We direct the attention of our readers to the im portant trial in the King's Bench, to-day, at the in stance of the East India Directors, against one of their number, awl seven other persons, for corruption in the disposal of patronage. The House of Commons cannot be said t• confine their utility to the mere business of Legislation, but seem desirous of establishing a high standard of good breeding and elegant phraseology, by acting up to which we shall inevitably acquire the character of being the most polished and refined nation in the world. Of all the rechercUs phrases of modern intro duction, " vomiting," as applied to language, is de cidedly the favourite. In two successive debates, it has been employed in the happiest and most striking manner—on Tuesday, by his MAJESTY'S Attorney- General ; and last night it was ascertained that, with the rapidity of infection, it has been already added to the vocabulary of the Honourable Member for Rochester. It was courteously applied by that Gentleman to " the Press, under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society." Without pretending to know what influ ence that Society has over any portion of the public Press (farther than that which originates in the sympathy of all disinterested persons in the great cause of humanity), we would beg the Honourable Gentleman to consider, that the attacks of the Press are never formidable, except when they are directed against determined and inveterate abuses. Its shafts glance harmless from the panoply of virtue, or recoil on her base calumniator. It seldom happens that men are placed in situa tions from which they cannot be extricated by straight forward dealing. To this rule even the very hard cas of the West India Proprietors does not appear to form any exception. Their property was acquired, or descended to them from ancestors who acquired it, under the sanction of innumerable Acts of Par- iament, which fostered and encouraged " that Sys. tern," as Mr. BROUGHAM justly termed it, " of rob bery and murder, mildly called the Slave Trade." If the nation is now to change its policy, and to redeem itself from the foul stain attaching to such conduct, it is very clear that it should be at the expence of the whole, and not of a very limited por tion of the community. The course for the West India Proprietors to pursue is clear and palpable. Their answer to all attacks should be—we hate slavery as much as the rest of the world—give us an equivalent for our property, or share with us in bearing the depreciation of it, which may be the consequence of your legislative enactments, and on those terms we will give them a fair experiment. That a guarantee to this effect should be given by the nation, and that it might be given, without any hazard, we are perfectly satisfied. But should it put a hundred million pounds to peril--it should cause no hesitation in acting on the plain dictates of eternal justice. But we repeat it, that there would be no danger in foil•wing up the recorded views of Parliament for a gradual but " reasonably quick" Emancipation of our West India slaves —were the hearty co-ope ration of their owners secured by giving them gua rantees that they shall not be, in any case, the only sufferers. As long, however, as the West India Proprietors purchase newspapers to advocate the horrors of slavery and of the Slave Trade—as long as they in sult the sense and feelings of the people of England, by declaring that slavery is a blessing, and slaves the happiest of mortals—so long will they set in array against them the virtue, the intelligence, and the humanity of a nation, which feels Freedom to be the first—the most invaluable blessing of a bounte ous Providence. A letter has been received in New York, from Boston, of the 28th of Jan., stating as follows We bear that a battle took place this forenoon at South Boston, between large bodies of Irish labourers (Orangemen and White Boys), in which several are reported to be killed and wounded. The City bells were rung to alarm the Authorities." By the death of Vice Admiral Sir ThouAs ThompsoN, the Treasurership of Greenwich Hospi tal becomes vacant, which is to be filled by Vice Ad miral Sir WILLIAM JOHNSTONE HOPE, now one of his Royal Highness's Council. It is expected that Sir WILLIAM will be succeeded at the Council Board by Rear Admiral Sir EDWARD OwEN, now at the Ordnance Office. THE ARMY. Large Detachments of the 39th (or Dorsetshire), and 57th (or West Middlesex) Regiments, under the command of Captain Gray of the latter Regiment, are ordered to be in readiness to embark as guards over convicts., on board the Bussorah convict ship, which will sail in a few days for New South Wales. The 4th (or Royallrish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards, now occupying Dorchester Barracks, will remove to Wey mouth and Bridport, during the Assizes about to be held at Dorchester. Large Detachments of the 54th, or West ~N;orfolk, the 41st, and the 89th Regiments of Infantry, e inbarked at Gravesend on the 4th instant, for Madras, orr. board the Macqueen East India Company's ship. The Detachment of Marines stationed at norebester on the recruiting service, will march to Weymon ,th to remain during the Assizes. SHIPPINGINTRLLIOIENCE.-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. s.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived from Lon don the William Fairlie, Blair, and Victory, Farquharson, from India; and William and Alfred, Drysdale, from Antigua. The Lady Ccote, Smith, from Demerara, arrived in the Clyde, sailed the 10th Jan. ; on the 6th ult., in lat. 37., long. 49., experienced a very severe gale, which lasted only a few hours. On the 15th, in lat. 30., long. 35., another gale arose, when she shipped a sea, which carried away a great part of the bulwarks and stanchions. A List from New Orleans has been received this morn ing, marked "Per Sarah, Morrice," and the post-mark " New Port, Mayo." The Finchett, from Savannah, was on shore on the North Bank, Liverpool, on Tuesday evening. THE FUNDS----(THIS -DAY). CITY, Twzarß o'Ciocr. We are still without any communication from France, or any part of the Continent, in consequence of which the English Funds wear a firm and improving appearance ; Consols opened at 83i and have gradually advanced to 844 i; this rise may be accounted for by the circumstances of the abundance of money, a scarcity of stock, and the operations of the Hebrew party, who appear to be going decidedly for a rise, and have frightened the Bears by bid ding for parcels of stock the moment they come into the market. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds continue at yesterday's rate, the former being 58 9, the latter 87 9 pm. In the Foreign Funds nothing doing, except in Mexi can Bonds, in consequence of some large sales the price of the 6 per Cent. has dropped from 35 to 344. Shares have not the least alteration to-day in prices or business. In the City the only report in circulation has been the renewal of negociations at Corfu, at which the re presentatives of Austria and Prussia are to be invited to attend, and for which purpose it is said Mr. S. Canning will return as the representative of England. Three per Cont. Consols, 84i ; Ditto, 'fur the Account, 84k 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, shut; Three and a half per Cent. Reduced, shut; Four per Cent., 100 f ; Four per Cent, 1826, shut ; India Bonds, 87 9 ; Exchequer Bills, 58 9 pm. FOREIGN.-Brazilian, 62} 3; Buenos Apes, 35 7; Chilian, 25 7 ; Colombian, 251 6 ; Danish, 614 4 ; Greek, 16 17 ; Mexican, 6 per Cent. 35 4 ; Peruvian, 24 5 ; Portuguese, 74 5 ; Russian, 90 ; Spanish, 10 Mixes.—Anglo Mexican, 62k 60 dis. ; Brazilian, 42 44 pm ; Colombian, 17i 18i per share; Real del Monte, 50 30 dis. ; Tlalpuxahua, 150 130 dis. ; United Mexican, 21i 20k dig. ; General Mining Association, 101 11 pm. per share. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been buyers at 83k, but are since £33i with little doing. Brazilian Bonds are 63k, being nearly an advance of one-half per Cent. Mexican have recovered to 35 again. THREE 0' CL CK. Consols 841 No French Mail, or any intelligence from the Continent, has arrived up to the above hour. LENT ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-WINCHESTER, MARCEL 5. DOE ON THE DEMISE OF CALVERLY V. ALEXANDER AND OTHERS. Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS stated it was an action of eject ment brought by the heir-at-law of a person of the same name, to recover possession of premises at Hurstbourne Tarrant, in this county. After the Learned Counsel had thus far proceeded, Mr. Sergeant E. LAwF.s admitted that the present plaintiff was the heir-at-law, and that he therefore was en titled to address the Jury, and go into his case, on the be half of the defendants, when, after a desultory conversa• tion between the Learned Counsel on courtesy, the Learned Sergeant stated that the only question in the case was, not who was the heir-at-law, but who was entitled to the premises in question ; the defendants claimed under a will made by the former owner of the estate, on the 17th August, 1819, wherein be gave 4001. to his family, and tile property in question to the present defendant, which will, it was contended, was executed by the testator at a time when be was of unsound mind, and incapable of transacting his affairs ; one thing was quite certain, that the testator during his life was addicted to drinking, but so soon as the effects produced by the liquor had gone off, he was as sane as any other man ; drinking brought on a fit of apoplexy, which distorted hie features and affected his speech and sight, but no other consequences were pro duced further. The Learned Sergeant then gave an out ' line of his case, as given in detail by the witnesses. The will having been produced and read, Mr. George Carter, one of the attesting witnesses, proved that he took the instructions for making the will on the day before the execution ; there had been another will, which he bad made. The reason the new will was made was, because one of the legatees were changed. He (witness) never took instructions from a man who gave them cleare r. He (the testator) was called Win. Calverley. The second will was destroyed ; it was burned in the presence of wit ness, before the fresh will was executed. It was read to the testator ; he (the testator) took it in his hand and perused it for some time, then sent fur the witnesses himself; and at the time of the execution appeared to be in his perfect senses; he said it was quite satisfactory, and repeated the usual words on signing ; he (witness) never heard there was anything the matter with his mind except when he drank ; at the time of the execution he had had no drink, and was perfectly sensible and sober ; very seldom a day passed after the execution but that witness saw him ; he resolved questions in a Very proper manner ; witness did business for him in many other ways, wrote his bills and accounts; the testator was but a very plain accountant, he used a ready reckoner to make out the sums—he was ge nerally right in his calculation ; witness had several of these calculations, after the making of the will is well as before ; remembers his having an apopletic tit on the morning of the 26th May, before the execution of the will in the same year ; be was ill no great time, he got up again in u few days; a Mr. Medhuret attended him as his doctor. Cross-examined by Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS.-Hie general business was a shoe-maker, land surveyor, and will maker.—(Laughter.)—H a s heard it said that a shoemaker was a wise man when he never went beyond his last.— (Laughter.)—The testator was the last man in the parish who he (witness) should call as unsound, except when he drank. He (the testator) read the will slow and accurati... He took the will in his hand and went over it, but not audibly. Except when he was drunk, he was as other people.—(Laughter.)—After the fit he gave up the busi ness to another person. At the time of the fit he was up wards of 50 years of age. Before that illness he was a strong active man. Witness saw the testator a few weeks before his death ; his senses were as perfect then as at any time, but he was weaker in body, and his faculties somewhat weaker. Several other witnesses proved, that his intellects were just rs good after the fit, and •t the time of executing the will, as they were before. Mr. C. k. WILLIams then addressed the Juryat consider able length, and contended, that he should be able to prove, by indisputable testimony, that the testator's reason was at the time of the execution of the will, so impaired by the fit, that he was not competent to execute it.—After the Learned Counsel had examined some of his witnesses (one of whom was the publican where the testator used, who said that he (the testator) on more occasions than one would put down money to pay for his liquor, two or three times over, admitted that he always found him capable of drink ing gin and paying for it); finding that he could not make out his case he gave up, and the Jury gave a verdict for the defendant, thereby confirming the will. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-NEWCASTLE-UPON- T Y NE. -MA RCH 4. Mr. Justice BATLEY was detained in an action of tres pass at Durham, of no public interest, till a late hour yes terday afternoon, and his arrival here was in consequence delayed till near eight o'clock. He then proceeded to the Town-Hall, where the commission of assize for the town and county was opened in the usual form, after which the Court was adjourned till nine o'clock this morning, when the proclamation against vice and immorality was read. — The Grand Jury was sworn, and briefly addressed by his Lordship, in the course of which be congratulated them upon the very light state of the calendar, to what it had hitherto presented, and passed a well merited encomium the police of the town. There are only six priso ners for trial (two of which stood over from the previous assizes), and the crimes of which they stand charged, are not of an aggravated description, except a charge against a butcher named Miles Railion, for killing and slaying John Entwistle in a fight, and for which the Grand Jury have found a true bill for murder. There are seven causes entered for trial, which is rather an unusual number. This forenoon his Lordship proceeded to the Court House in the Castle-yard, and opened the commission for the Northumberland Assizes. There are fifteen prisoners in the calendar, all for minor offences. The Court ad journed till nine o'clock to-morrow morning. LAW INTELLMENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF KING'S BENCH. SALE OF PLACES IN THE EAST INDIA COM' PANY'S SERVICE. REX V. suTTow. The above important case having been peremptorili fixed for this morning, the Court was crowded at a veil early hour, chiefly with gentlemen connected with the DO India Company. The Right Hon. C. C. C. Wynn (the late President of the Board of Control) occupied a seat'on the bench appro . ' priated to the King's Counsel, next to Mr. Brougham. Lord TENTERDEN took his seat before 10 o'clock.. Six Special Jurymen only having answered to their names, the SOLIC ITOR-GENERAI., for the prosecution, prayed I tales, and six Jurymen from the Common Jury Panel were sworn. -- The Solicitor-General, with Mr. Sergeant Bosanquett and Messrs. Gurney and Carter, conducted the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Brougham, Mr. F. Pollock, Mr. Campbells Mr. Platt, and Mr. Andrews appeared on behalf of the defendants. Mr. CARTER opened the pleadings and stated, that this was an indictment against Samuel Sutton, W. -Andrew's George E. Despard, James P. Anstes, C. Gibbons, Wright, Joseph Tindall, and Charles Prescott. The first seven of those defendants were charged with unlawfully and corruptly negotiating for a certain appointment under the East India Company, for a person named P. Back ; and the last defendant, Prescott, who is an East India Di rector, was charged with aiding and abetting the other de fendants; in the said negotiation. Six of the defendants pleaded " Guilty," to the indictment. Mr. Qune, as the Solicitor-General rose, said he was instructed on the part of the defendant Mr. Anstes, to withdraw his plea of " Not Guilty," and to substitute " Guilty." Lord TENTERDEN said it was impossible for him to permit that to be done now; an application to that effect should have been made earlier. But if that defendant chose he might have a verdict of guilty recorded against him before the cause proceeded. Mr. Qum, in answer to his Lordship, said that he had that moment received his instructions to make the application he had done; and as it could not succeed, ht would avail himself of the Learned Judge's suggestion. A verdict of " Guilty" was then recorded against James Paton Anstes. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then addressed the Jury as follows :—May it please your Lordship, Gentlemen of the Jury, I appear on this occasion on the part of the prose cutors against the defendants, who have been named to you by the Learned Counsel. It is a prosecution at the suit . of the East India Company, instituted for the purpose of de tecting and bringing to punishment persons who have been guilty of a very gross act, that of selling the patronage o the East India Company. I should here state to youf that the parties stand in very different relations--the first seven being those charged with the actual guilt itself—Mr. Prescott being charged only as aiding and abetting, hut not himself being a personal participator in the criminal act itself. It appears by the statement of my Learned Friend that several of the defendants have thought proper to withdraw their plea of Not Guilty, and to submit to a judgment against them ; and that one of them, even siace you have been sworn, Gentlemen, has allowed a verdict to be taken against him. I have only this observation to make upon that, that the prosecutors are no parties to any agree ment or understanding, or hold out any hope to any one, of using means to intercept the punishment due to the guilty. It is a matter purely for their own consideration, and they have, I suppose, thought that the evidence we have to lay before you is so strong and unanswerable, that rather than give the trouble an investigation would occa sion, and perhaps a more minute disclosure, they have withdrawn their plea of not guilty, and substituted the reverse. Then the only persons with whom you will have any thing to do in the way of investigating their case, will be Mr. Despard, who has pleaded not guilty, and Mr. Pres cott, who, as I hare stated, stands charged with the inferior degree of guilt, of not being an actual personal participator in the original crime, but as having either aided or assisted or connived at this act, which was performed by a person named Sutton, the principal agent. It will be my duty, Gentlemen, to lay before you, es shortly as I can, the evi dence which will be brought to your attention, and I think after you have had a view of that evidence, you will be able to say, a case has been made out quite irresistible against the first seven defendants. But that, at all events, upon the observations I shall make to you, if those observations shall he justified by the evidence, you will not be able to entertain a doubt that the Director* of the East India Company would have deserted the duty reposed in them, and betrayed the trust they held of the property and conduct of this large concern entrusted to lieir care, if they had not investigated this question to the very bottom, and brought it before a Jury to be decided on. Gentlemen, this observation is the more necessary, because one of these defendants, Mr. Prescott, stands in the situation of a brother Director, with those who have instituted the prosecution. It became, therefore, doubly their duty —an imperious duty—from which it was impossible they could withdraw themselves, that they should bring his case in common with the rest before the Judge, as it would otherwise have been said, and I know not what answer could have been made to it, that though they were willing to prosecute those immediately guilty, yet with the case before them, with their suspicions justly excited, they were desirour of throwing a shield over those who were their brothers in the Directorship, and equally guilty. It has, therefore, been determined, and you will on the evidence to be brought before you, say whether properly or not, that this prosecution should proceed, and that Mr. Prescott, charged as he is with a knowledge of the guilt, should receive at yoar hands—as the evidence shall warrant, a verdict either of guilty or not gnilty. Gentlemen, it will appear to you in evidence, that the first intimation given to the gut Indio Company of any transaction, which at all affested the sale of the patronage in question, was as early as February, 1827. But before I come to that I shall beg leave to mention a few transactions which, though they have no immediate refer ence to the parties on record, will clear the way to the mere full understanding of, and accurate decision upon, the question, and introduce to your notice one of the par ties that will appear before you, a prominent actor in the transaction throughout. It will appear that a clergy man—the Rev. Mr. Back—residing at Littite iflsmi#79o, having read in the Morning Herald, in August, 1820, an advertisement, such as you will observe frequently to be inserted in the papers, signed by some ficti tious name, or as this was, by N.N, denoting, that if inquiry were made at a particular place, an op portunity offered for parent's of a respectable youth, on. der the age of 20, of a situation of the highest respectabi lity to go abroad, and that his outfit would require means without which no application need b e made; and t h e R ey. Mr. Back having a son desirous of rugh n situation ? he wrote a letter to the fictitious address of N.. to which he received an answer. I shall not trouble you with the correspondence on that occasion, further than that it introduces to your acquaintance the name of Mr. Wright, one of the parties to this record. It seems, Low. ever, that Mr. Back. being dissatisfied with the negocia tion, which went on to a certain extent on that occasion by a friend, whom he employed in town for the ptirporie, having called on the parties to whom it referred, e i ntire4 , abandoned it. Afterward, in the month of October, in the year 1826, he has a letter addressed to him at Little Hampt on, requesting him to call on Mr. Wright where he resided, at Alsop's-buildings, near the Regent's Park. Mr. Rack accordingly came to town, called at the place to which he bad been referred, and applied not under the name of the Rev, sir. Pack, Or on t h ese occasions there is a delicacy resorted to, and he havini; wtijten a letter under the name of Edwards, called under that name. He had a conversation with Mr. Wright,whick turned entirely on the eature of the employment which Mr. Wright could furnish, and the price that would be required. Mr. Wright stated the nature of it was that of a cadetship tp Inda4 that if it was a Cavalry Cadetship, the price would be ' i‘9loro. g i r a and however, ck, ; Infantry having one froth b een informed, six ormed, to i 7 n o t o he gu c i o n u ea rs u e of the former negotiation, that noprieewould be required, felt again extremely abandoned outfit negotiation, and w en t b ac k t o d hearing consequently that so large at h a t s a u tn m tiner time woul u requisite, f a u n r t t on r a t the country. He remained t h ere till the latter end of Jan., 1827, and then, from some new c i rcumstance in hit own family arising ; and still b e i ng d es i rous that hie eorf should obt a i n such a situ a ti on, cons i dered that be would recommence the negotiatio n , b ut a t h oug h t com i n g across him that there was something irregular and mysterious ill this mode of proceeding, he thought it right at once to direct ' a letter to the Chairman of the East India Company, telling him all that had taken place, and asking him distinctly sod openly whether this was a proper mode by which the patron age of the East India Company could be obtained. The natural consequence of such a letter was that an officer of the Company was sent down to Mr. Back ; the Chairman, and the Deputy Chairman, they being the persons to whom this letter had been communicated, thinking it right that the strictest scrutiny should be instituted, tent this Officer down to the Rev. Gentleman. 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