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-' Rig 1 IA ; t. 04 uer' 30 ( 100 tie, 4e. -- r 'the c' Das` 16t bs 021 • - P , sos P ,pr: 761 i r Lot'• e r tre(t. tia so! mice' tO ter O °le , a thit r vl ' : f oil' if Ivr4 564 5 t he 1 10- LO hi° re ior of bole cha i : ow, 01 ` Ala eaU ef 40 5 ! 0' ; ~,eP c :011 Val °I V die' lei' be' a dec CO ( o leSI hi the her ; . fro til ef' itioP SO % I Id rs ct 4 at theif sit , ' t b' b3iP* el l 10,0 W i p •eg d co' il f ,, LY ' " the Governor takes leave to refer the House to his 1 - 1,,, 41' ' e tine 20th O c t o b er 1816, t o the M em b ers o f t h e of ti : e " l ° are Magistrates, to the Circular Letter by order Contell, dated 19th November, 1816, on this ' l 4• '" ' a nd to tine H ouse in general —to the several prose bsi::4,whicil have been instituted against individuals for itippiitais unseemly and illegal mode of punishing, •which 4,1 1 t he lat e l aw for tine government of the slaves has ab bi4:l!TY a bolish e d . The Governor regrets that an equal pro hisik/ h as not been made to the Ilse of dungeons on many which are of such a construction that a human br illlii; 4" Stand upright, or even erect his body when kneel- Nt I N in to which no li g h t nor air can fi nd entrance, ex hrangh a small zig-zag aperture in the wall. tirernor recommends to the House to pass a supple ; pt<ar law to aboli s h t h ese d ungeons, and to enact that a l Prop tl e s : d . fo r the purpose of confinement may be airy and th mensions. ' 4 4ll''''' 'ern or assure s th e H ouse o f A ssem bly th a t h e w ill .1 4 I'4'4 co mmunicate to L o rd B a thurst the true state of i ' l 447 4diti 'in and t reatment of the s l ave popu l at i on of this t4 iit e '4ll4 it Will b e for his Lordship to judge of the compa -441% tki: lerit of their situation with the slaves in the other CHAP,LES ‘WM. MAXWELL. y his Excellency's command, tov e J. M. WILLIAMS. Ilishtnent-liouse,Dominica, July 2S, 1818. 4°t ir the Speaker and House of Assembly to his R Excellency the Governor. 11141 0 4 °llse, impre sse d w i t h the importance of the dis t( No, r ai elat iVe to the treatment of the slaves, and desirous : 41. 01 e ns t O Pul;lic detestation those persons, who, dead to th be._)f hu manity, bare abused the authority entrusted ,ive 14:1;'°Y loading their slaves with heavy chains, beg 4:',4bur Excellency their thanks for your message,. j l , O 113 " n the names of the persons who acted in such 444tt-elti6ahle manner. They have called before them . Mr. h °l• 0 0e of the parties accused, and the negro Livienr-~echaiat IVI r• Cross, in his defence, stated to the House t Ate alli xed to the negro weighed less than four pounds, ''t he fit ' a chain which he declared to he the counterpart ' 't he : Int l this statement was confirmed by the negro as m t 4 :Pl'earance and probable weight of the chain. " 4 4 thOse ci rcumstances the House cannot but conceive 144:4441; .xcellency must have been misinformed by the ti4 r lt : cl 'jgbed it • and as this matter is of most s tlnikk"ttauce, and as the honour and character of the 11 , 11P141.Y444 t he Legislature depend upon a full and complete 111114tiN°I all matters connected with the treatment . of . 14 ' ct: t ' the House request that your Excellency will mice 14 0 441) 1, 41 :W to the ne•yro Liverpool, to be laid before I. 4t "l , il " t le name of the person who weighed it, that it '4attlitted before the House. 1 1 0 . 1se WILLIAM ANDERSON, Speaker. [11: Asseliaity, Aug. 12, 1818. 44%4 th e ca off, iome affidavits, for the purpose of proving s '``° s used were of less weight than stated.] [To be continued.]. I‘, r at th e iVetv York Evening Post of the ThDec.) 1. *) %t,1 oate- o f t h e U n i te d States sitting with .14 ' 1 1). °°", and the Treaty with Great Britain 1441, 4tri vetl, it is presumed the Senate hadit 4Rh ttr e°49i deration. It is understood that the 41 th is restored to what it was settled sre : , -'re , at Y of 1753. Our Western boundaries "(I )11-`4 (l to'the Pacific, and include the mouth h t lll. , t of the Columbi a riv er ; our b ou nd a ry attPpi,l'ireetion has heretofore been the Missis )retelit.lll4 West India trade to remain as at A AA this ° P A LETTER FROM BOENOS AYRES, ar DAT ED OCTOBER 10, 1818. be d da Ys past arrived here a valuable Spa patl PI Prize to the privateer Union, taken on i a ge from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, laden with IT 4r el ° , l very late letter from a Spanish : e ° Lima says, the Negroes there are "Itt, -"R very unruly. All the wealthy families tititlte°ll}lll w ere leaving Panama, and several in lilter 4.4 b3tl shipped themselves, with gold and 1°414)1,1111e Ittnoutit of 21 millions of dollars on -(41 " to Cadiz." It e 4'll4aY' nave t been atta The British Press of cked in e er more violence and asperity than we ; 4 11 051 . e : b efor e o b served in that Paper, even in gtsii letl ' it Y to G overnment ; for though it is what a , I NTe a -.1 OPPosiTt otv Paper, we have always 444,11414tked distinction between that and othe r ant ' Ore licenti ous i n t h e i r po li t i ca l princi i,rWttin I ' fo re mischi evous i n their views, con- N v g. I t as friendly to THE CONSTITUTION, Cn 4l ' t4 , 10 a dvers e i t might be to Ministers.—An 4 tit, t , N ‘ve hope will ever b e f ou nd i n t hi s the q i " a 3 it may i n d ee d b e cons id ere d as 4t 411 14tdi an of THE C ONSTITUTION, that will ti Il es render Ministers cautious in the t 4 ethof thei r i mportant duty to the State 11411 th p lo y People. Ithe subject which h as so oked the bitter censure of The British i t At tsis 'il day r e l ates to the R OMAN CATHOLIC : ti lt eo - ' We shall not attempt to retort its vim tilhia subj ect, simplyobserving, that though GNi t she s abu se u wisely pon us with no unspa r i ng h and, ttiitalvery sely passes over the main point, which IYeonnected with t h e question. We stated t°4(l lord occasi on OUT aston i s h ment at the 14 e . N ct of blind to the danger of POPERY, or 4 been intimid ate d i nto amischievo us ter, It of its audacious pretensions. We ve d rr ipett at the PAPISTS registered all the 1 4 1, Y that belonged to their Progeni tt) never will be satisfied till it is restored kleittlit,44l"s• Is this a fact or is it not ? It is air th t to pour forth abuse Without giv- ing a distinct answer to this important question. But this is not all—the PAPISTS will not purchase , nor take mortgages on lands to which they. con ceive that they have a legitimate right, which right they must be expected to enforce, if ever they should be invested with Political Power. Nor can it be imagined, that, if it were possible to bestow on them all the lands wiiich belonged to their fathers t hat they would he satisfied, unless they obtained -a full restitution of all arrears which they conceived to be due from Protestant Possessors. What then but eternal feuds, rebellions, massacres, and all the horrors which Popish vengeance could inflict, might be expected ? We are accused by The British Press of attempting lc. to awaken 'once more the cry of No Popery,' " and as far as re lates to the pretensions of Roman Catholics to a participation in Legislative Authority, we admit .and glory in the charge. So far and no farther do we wish to raise the cry of No Popery,' in order to keep the Constitution inviolate, and to preserve the purity of the National Faith. Let the PAPISTS freely enjoy their RELIGION, but let them not attempt to ensnare Protestants, nor to regain that Political Power from which it was essentially necessary to exclude them, in ordgr to preserve and to secure that admirable Establish ment in Church and State, which forms the only basis of our freedom ' , 4l7piness as a People. THL ROMAN CATHOLICS. As the time draws near for the new attack that is threatened upon oor Establishment, the weapons of its defence ought to be made ready ; that we may not have to sharpen our sword, while the enemy bath drawn his out of the scabbard. For this purpose, the columns of Tug SUN are al ways open ; and the aid of every man, who pos sesses t once ability and honesty enough w serve THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND, IS soli cited and encouraged to render that good service. We think it right to open the Arena with ex posing their primary falsehood. They call them selves " Catholics." It shall in the first instance be shewn that they have no right to the appella tion. " Catholic" is, quoad Christianity, the term appropriate to the Chris!ian Religion ; all whose professors belong to the universal Church of Christ ; or, to the flock of the faithful, made up of her several congregations. Not any particular Church is privileged to assume this common title : it is the nomen generis, which belongs generally to all, and therefore cannot be the peculiar pro perty of any one. If the Church of Rome be the Catholic Church, then the Church of Greece, the Church of Geneva, and the Church of Eng land, either are not parts of Christ's Church, or, being parts, are subservient to the Church of Rome ; and her assumption of " Catholicity" is the assumption of exclusiveness or of supremacy. But this, though strongly contended for, has never yet been conceded (and we trust never will be) to the Church of Rome by any other Church. Her Church is Roman Catholic; as ours is English Catholic—a name which we cannot help thinking more distinctive, as well as more dignified, than the name " Protestant," which is too sectarian in its sound, and not sufficiently original. Each Church, with reference to her particular doctrine or discipline, should assume her particularizing distinction. One, is the English part of the " Ca tholic," or Universal Church ; another is the Ge nevan part of the same Church ; another the Greek part ; and another the Roman part ; not any one the Catholic Church, but all constituting that Church altogether. Therefore, we should beware of the cunning and fraudulent assumption which the Romanist, arrogate of their Church's Catholicity, in the exclusive and paramount sense wherein they af fect it. When speaking of their profession of our common Founder's Religion, we should call them Roman Catholics; when combating their mainte nance of the Pontifical supremacy, we should style them, (a ml they may quarrel with the term, or disprove it,) Papists. In some succeeding Numbers, we shall endea vour to expose their FRAUD, in terming the Laws whereof they complain, " Penal Laws," and the remedy which they seek " Emancipation." DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF WIRTEMBERG.—A Mail from Flanders has arrived.—One of the Brussels Papers states that the Court of the Ne- , therlands had just received intelligence of the death of the Queen of WIRTIIMBERG; but no particulars are mentioned. Her Majesty was sister to tie Emperor of RUSSIA, and the same Lady who resided at the Pulteney Hotel in London, at the time her brother and the other Allied Sove reigns visited England, and who, as Grand Du chess of OLDENBURGH, received so much deserved attention from all classes of Britons. She mar ried the present King of WIRTEMBERG in Ja nuary 1816. She was of remarkably delicate con stitution. Monday evening, at five o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT held a Privy Council at the Pavilion at Brighton, at "which Mr. BULLER attended, as Clerk. POETRY. "GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS," BY B. SWIFT, FS6O.. There hangs neon the Temple wall A Dial painted fair; Wise thoughts and true ones to recal, 'Twas kindness placed it there. . The motto on that dial is, " Go about your business." Old Father Time bath wings to fly, Whose speed bath ne'er abated; Yet move they on as silently, As if our will they waited : Old Time than Man much wiser is, In " going about his business." And yet, those pinions have a speech, While from imr vision turning ; A serious I sso n well they teach, How richly worth env learning The utterance of their silence "Go about your business." • They never sleep, they never stay, To pleasure or to rest them ; Nor for one idle holiday Hath folly e'er reps est them. Unlike to man is Time in this ; Still "going about his business." Time hath three tenses; and but one Of these to man pertaineth ; The past beyond his reach is gone; The present still remaineth— Who knows the future will be his? Them go about your business." Aye-=go about it while you can, Ere youth and strength are ended Fcr life is but a narrow span, Even when to age extended. The longest (lay too little is, For " going about its business." But what that. business? Can it be The things of lower earth ? Or questions of eternity, Whose lasting shews their wort h ? To seek an empty shadow, is Not "going about your business." Time speeds before :—once fairly sped, Not lightnine can tiertake him ; Keep then alone with even tread, And your companion make him—, T o move with Time, most truly is To " go about your business." About it then—thru' night and day, Yuur duty still pursuing ; When Man is called from death, to say In life what he was doir,g,' Your safest answer will be this— " I went about my business." Then stand you not with vain pretence, To gaze upon this 'dial ; But bear its lessen with you hence, And give it honest trial : For human wisdom ends in this— " Go about your business." SHIP NEWS. PORT GLASGOW, JAN. 17.—Arrived in the Clyde the 15th inst. the American ship Fanny, FOREMAN, 20 days from New York ; on the Bth inst. fell in with the brig Lavinia, Rostm, of Poole, from Newfoundland to Cadiz, a complete wreck, and took the Master, Mate, and two sea men off, being all that remained of the crew.— The weather still continues very tempestuous, anti we understand several vessels are on shore in the River and on the Coast ; but it appears the greater part of them are coasting vessels, and that very few lives are lost. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Sai1ed his Majesty's ship Pheasant on a cruise. BRIXHAM, JAN. IS.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Spartan, and Vigilant Revenue cutter. FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—1 t blew last night and all this day a tremendous gale from W. by S. to W. by N., but fortunately it has continued clear, and vessels homeward-hound might with safety haul in and make the land. The packets and merchantmen in the Roads appear to ride out the gale well. Eleven o'Clock, p. m.—A poatchaise has just arrived from Fowey with the mail of the IVA!sing ham packet, where she anchored this morning, 48 days from Jamaica. She experienced very bad weather : sp9ke the Queensberry packet, for Ja, maica, 'the day after she sailed.—Still blows hard from the Westward. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.—The vessel mentioned yesterday as being in I3ootle Bay, with a signal of distress flying, is the Thetis, from Cephalonia. CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 20.—We still continue without arrivals from our own coast. Although, we had but little English Corn at market, yet the sales were heavy for all grain, at last Monday's prices, and only Wheat and Barley of fine quality could be disposed of. BUONAPARTE.-The Journal de Gard (a Ger man Paper) mentions the receipt of news from St. Helena, announcing, " That NAPOLEON ap pears ready to sink under the - weight of a malady which leaves but little hope." Calcutta Papers to the 27th of July have been received at New York, brought by the ship Stephen, Capt. SMITH, which state that a large expedition was fitting out at Calcutta, to proceed to the Island of Ceylon. The first division of transports, with 3000 troops on hoard, • sail ed on the 25th of July, and Captain SMITH passed them at Senor. Two ships of war, with troops on board, were to sail in a few days after Captain SMITH. Letters from Curacoa, of the 22d of October, state, that a Spanish squadron had been defeated by Admiral BRION, but the particulars are not mentioned. The Duke of &max changed horses yesterday afternoon at Maidstone, on his way from Tun bridge ‘Veils, to visit Earl DARNLEY, at Cobham Hall, where a select party is expected. Yesterday Marquis 'WELLESLEY arrived in town to attend Parliament. Yesterday, at one o'clock, Viscount CASTLE..• REAGH arrived in town from his seat at North Cray, and went to the Foreign Office, for the first time since his indisposition. Lord STEWART, our Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, accompanied by Colonel WARD, Mr. E. STEWART, and a numerous suite, arrived on Wednesday last at Brussels, and set out next morning for London. MANCHESTER, JAN. 19. The anonymous advertisement by which the Public Meeting of yesterday was called, stated, that the Chair would be taken precisely at 11 o'clock, but Mister HUNT was too well practised not to be fully aware that expectation generates consequence, and was too great a man to be punc tual. In the postscript to his Letter, in answer to the invitation which was sent to him from this town, he gave notice that he should sleep at Stockport on Sunday evening, and proceed from thence on Monday morning—the hint was taken— and a party with flags and music met the Orator and took the horses from his carriage. A little before twelve o'clock the Republican Procession came down Market-street ; it consisted of three men hearing flags with inscriptions. The first, we understand, was the property of the " man from Bristol," it was red, with gold letters, on one side the words " Hunt and Liberty," and on the other side, " Universal Suffrage." It was mounted on a red staff, which was stir mounted with the red cap of Liberty !--The other flags were white ; on'e of them was inscribed " No Corn Laws," and on the other " Rights of Man." These were followed by a Band of Music, and immediately after came the silly People who drew the Barouche, in which stood, waving his hat, the so often-rejected Candidate for a seat in the House he has so much libelled.—Three other persons (whose 'names we could not learn) were in the carriage with him, but it was impossible to mistake the Hero of the Day. When the Pro cession arrived at the Exchange the carriage stopped at the front door, and the Orator wished to have given " a spice of his qua lity," by making an harangue to the Sub scribers to the News-Room, who were look ing at the " most impudent Man living," from the windows and doors. But the moment he opened his mouth he was saluted with every mark of indignant contempt, and he was obliged to give up his intention, for the hisses and groans of the Gentlemen whom he wished to become his auditors drowned even his Stentorian Powers, and his Myrmidons moved onward with, their precious load through St. Mary's Gate, and Dean's Gate (for exhibition was the way to gather the Idle at least, to swell the num bers of the Meeting) to the Hustings (if so the scaffolding may be called), which was erected on the ground near St. Peter's Church, now rented for exercise by the Manchester and Salford Yeo manry Cavalry. [We are obliged to defer the particulars of the Meeting till to-morrow.] Before we conclude this article, it is a justice owing'to the lower classes of the town of Manchester to say, that except ing during the dinner hour, between twelve and one o'clock, and excepting a few women and children allured by the no velty of the scene, the greatest proportion of persons of that description who attended were evidently from a distance and from the country, led to the town by the influence of the ad vertisement,which had been industriously circulated. At noon there were present at least ten thousand persons, but a very considerable proportion were drawn to the place entirely by curiosity; and that the general feeling was not with the leaders of the spectacle, full proof was given, by at least two-thirds of the persons present setting up a shout of satisfac.. tion, on the fall of the hustings.*=(The Exchange Hera(d, la ItChester.) * The Hustings fell in the course of the proceedings, and the Orators and their Friends were lodged us the mud, but no serious injury occurred. JACOBINICAL MEETING. There was yesterday a dinner Festival at the Crown and Anchor, held by the friends of Radi4 cal Reform, in order to 'celebrate the recent issue of an action brought by FRANCIS WARD, against the Proprietor of TFIR OBSERVER, Weekly Paper, in which the latter was cast in damages to the amount of 6001. A person named LB MAITRB was called to the Chair. The proceedings of this Meeting were so like all the factious assemblies of the same kind, that it is only necessary to notice the first of the toasts, in order to give the public a correct notio❑ of the complexion of the company. "The Sovereigntyof tl►e people—the King emanate ing from that Sovereignty; and may its power be se .cured by a Radical Reform." It is evident that if the object of this democratical toast could be carried into effect, there would be an end to all Sove reignty but that of an overwhelming MOB, to the destruction of every thing sacred in Society. It is not improper to notice that one of the Speakers, GROSVBNOR HANSON, denied the merit of WARD, and declared that be only deserved the honour which had been unjustly given to the former. Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet' Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was at tended by the Earl of Harrowby, Earl of West morland, Earl of Liverpool, the Chancellor of. the Exchequer, Viscount Sidmouth, Viscount Castlereagh, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Melville, Mr. Canning, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. C. B. Bathurst, Mr.W.W. Pole, Mr. Robinson, and Earl Mu!grave. The Cabinet Ministers continued is deliberation till five o'clock.