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\ and k, o*Nitifigdif t U N. i ~~ • PCia. ren, A 1,9 N C,Y ? - 7kAgy i -? / 7 1 Gr d ~t. ~ j!(~ '~ . THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1824. PRICE SEVENPtNtti NUMBER 9838 FOR THE SUN. ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE BRITISH INSTITUnoN, PALL-MALL. • EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 27, 1824. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Noti ce, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be liti ds by adjournment, at their House in Leadenhall-street, NI FRIDAY, the sth March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the ptirpose of continuing the consideration of the following Proposition, viz. : " That application he made to Parliament in the present 'S "sion for the Repeal of the 46th Clause of the Act of the 53d 'Geo. 111. cap. 155, by which the Court of Directors is pro hibited from sending to India, in the capacity of a Writer, any Person who shall nut have resided during Four Terms at the 114 ileybury College." JOSEPH DART. Secteta. THE GALLERY for tVEUBITION and SALE o f th e WORKS r ERN Awns Ts IS OPEN DAILY, f rom T en i n tl ng until Five in the Evening. By Order, JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. Admission Is.—Catalogue Is. The Remaining S u b scr ib ers t o th e Engraving from Mr. West's Pictuic of " Our Saviour Healing the Sick in the Temple," who hare uot teeeived their Impressions, may re ceive them upon application at the British Institution. NAVAL DRY ROT. ALGIERS. The abolition of the Slave Trade is an object affecting the national prosperity and the national feeling. (COPY.) TO THE RIGHT lION. GEORGE CANNING. Nelson-square, Jan. 29, 1824. SIR,--4 have had the honour to receive your last note, dated 29th ult., again referring me to the Admiralty. Permit me to acquaint you, it was my intention to have sub mitted certain observations and discoveries to their Lordships, had I not received the following letter from their Lordships respecting the dry rot, viz. :—. WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE LAST DAY ! ! ! T. respectfully reminds those Adven turers• who had Blanks the First Day, that WED NESDAY, the 10th Instant, is the Last Day they can convert them into Prizes, by receiving the 101. per Ticket offered them ; after that day they have no claim to the 101., but must take their future chance ; and T. BISH hopes tose of his Friends who do not take the Money will, in the Second Drawing, obtain by their Blanks some, if not all, the Five 20,000/. Prizes that remain to be drawn, and Two of which must be dravrn Next Drawing, St. Patrick's Day, the 17th of This Month. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross, March 4, 1824. "Admiralty-Office, Nov. 3, 1824. I p. MI ? Ig *7- C. ry ,Lll EAST INDIA HOUSE, March 3, 1824. WHEREAS, in pursuance of the 6th Sec tion of the 7th Chapter of „the By Laws of the LNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND trad ing to the EAST INDIES, it is ordained, •" That a List shall he published thirty days before the Annual Election of Directors, containing the Names of such Proprietors Equallued agreeable to law, as shall .signify in nting to the Secretary their desire of becoming Candidates for the Direction, 32 days before such annual Election." The Court of Directors of the said Company do hereby give notice, in order that the Proprietors may conform to the aci d By Laws, that the ensuing ELECTION of SIX Dl f ECT°II, S of the said Company for Four Y ears is a pp ointed or the 14th A pr il nex t ; an d that such List will he pith usil d thir ty days before the said Election, as the above mentioned By Law directs. JOSEPH DART, Sec. To THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IN consequence of the lamented Death of your late highly respectable and esteemed Director, Sir 7110111 AS REID, I beg leave again to introduce myself to Your notice as a CANDIDATE for supplying the Vacancy Occasioned by that regretted event. In my Circular of the 13th November, 1823, I took the liberty of submitting to you the public grounds upon which I lly hopes of obtaining your support and suffrages are founded; and I now beg to renew the expression of my resolution to pro ceed to the Ballot at the ensuing Election. As I understand that some doubts have been entertained re specting my capability of being chosen a Director, and that an objection has been started to my being chosen, founded on the supposition of my being a Pensioner of the Crown, I think it right to declare that I am not a Pensioner of the Crown, and that I am in possession of the opinion of the highest Law Au thorities in this country, that I am not within the disqualifying Clause of the 13th Geo. 111. cap. 63, sec. 2. Allow me to return my most sincere acknowledgments for th e kind reception I have already experienced from you, and to add, that I shall use my best exertions to pay my respects to all the Proprietors. Should any omission take place, I trust you will have the goodness to ascribe it to accident, and the short ness of the period that may intervene before the Election. I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, ROBT. T. FARQUHAR. Bruton -street, March 1, 182.1. Silt R. T. FARQUHAR'S CONIMITTEE will SIT DAILY at the London Tavern, Bish9psgate atreet here thank a re ceill Communications relative to his Election will b e_ vi full y ved. Conarnittee- iloom, London Tavern, March 1, 1824. GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY'S OFFICE. Noßudge -street, Blackfriars, February 2R, 1824. TicE is hereby given, That the COURT COMPA N Y" °I. DI RECTORS of " The GAS LIGHT and COKE coned in tiled .hereby d ec l are th a t a VACANCY has oc of Sir WILLIAM Kiwi; of DIRECTORS, by the DECEASE pAxTON, Notice is hereby also given, Knight. the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will That a SPECIAL COURT of be held at the CROWN and ANCHO R TAVERN, in the STRAND, in te County of Middlesex, on TUESDAY, the 23d day o f March next, at Eleven o'cl oc k i n t h e Forenoon, for th e Di r XLECTION of a DIRECTOR to su pply the Vacancy in the ection, occasioned by the Death of Sic William Paxton, Knight, By Order of the Court of Directors, RICHARD GUDE, Secretary. , . B. —Th e Ch a i r w ill h e taken at Twelve o ' Clock pre tin Half-pastNOn and th Four e Baiolo'Clocll r Ivi continue open fro that time k. m r° the PROPRIETORS of the CHARTERED GAS LIGHT and COKE COMPANY. EMy Losos, LADIE S , AND G ENTLEMEN, NCOURAGED by the solicitation and Pro mise of support from a considerable nmber of re. 't.Peetable Proprietors, I am induced to offer u myself as a °g Si N DIDATE for the Office of a DIRECTOR, in the room r WILLIAM PAXTON, deceased. I b eg leave to state, that I have for several years been elected one of your Auditors (an Office I have now the ho. ii Ntr to fill), which leads rue to hope that my past conduct s , a ,_, given satisfaction ; and, should I be favoured with your 4?prton the present occasion, I will endeavour to evince rjs,grahtude by my best exertions at all times for the Hite ' tif the Company. I have the honour to be, My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient servant, R. W. SILVESTER. "27, g., -......____2222cd bruary 98th, 1824. p e un Saturd ay, the 27th of March, will he published. ; c 4ted uniformly w ith t h e f ormer V o l ume , w i t h 1 3 M a p s , i n c ; and 26 finished Engravings, by Finden, after Draw -4to6s o f the most i nterest i ng Su bj ects, b y Captain L yon, p r ice 4l 1 4 s. Gd. A EtNAL of a SECOND VOYAGE for fr om s '," e DI SCOVERY o f a NORTH-WEST PASSAGE 441 'ue Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the Years the orders ol 22 ' 23 His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, under Captain Nrtnting WILLI kM EDWARD PARRY, R.N. for .10EIN MURRAY, Albemarle-street. a y AN APOLOGY This W sf o published, s r k e s INDIANS, and T4/N,StEFLEcTioNs on the I'OLICY of GREAT , (4 th e VNTER FER INDIA COL ENCE in the INTERNAL CONCERNS Si ONIES. By F. G.. 5111111, Esq. Published for Riiigways, Piccadilly. CoN, Also, 3L4v,,' II) ERATIONS on the ABOLITION of NF,G8 , ..._ 0 'NO Y. and the MEANS of PRACTICALLY EFFEu'.. By J. F. Barham, Esq. Third Edition, price 23. 6 ACADENIICAL EDUCATION TVO MARRIED CLERGYMEN, Gra duatea of an English University, residing in a spacious Dwelling-house, surrounded by ample grounds, a short dis tance from London, where every convenience will be allowed, are desirous of preparing a select number of PUPILS for either of the Universities. Address (post paid) to .11. T., at Mr. Porter's, Bookseller, 75, Pall-mall. LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI TURE FEATHER BED and MATTRESS MANU FACTORY, No. 71, Corner of LEADENHAI.L- STREET, London, opposite Aldgate Pump.-Ready Money Only. rip HE Society of Cabinet-Makers respectfully /L. inform the Public that they still continue the above Establishment, for the Benefit of Industrious Mechanics who have large Familes, by offering them Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheaper than any House can do in L on d on by t we nty-fi ve p e r ce nt., there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house expences ; at the same time will be sufficiently satisfied with having constant Employment for themselves and families. This Society was Established in June, 1821, consisting of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their Wives and Fami lies, amounted to 66 ; in June, 1819, five more were added to the Society; in June, 1820, 10; and in - June 1821, 8 . The total Number now receiving Support through the Means of this Establishment is 191. The Society and their Families beg leave to return their sincere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommenda tions, and shall always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction ; at the same time solicit a Continuance of their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase the Number of the Society. The following Articles are' inserted as a Specimen of e very bow Prices, all warranted.-Ready Money only. Full size Mahogany four-post Bedstead, lath bottom 31. 15s. -Full size tent L'edstead 11. 65.-Bordered hair Mattress to tit 11. ls.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends 31. 35.-Feather Bed 21. 10s.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size 31. 10s.- Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do. Wash-hand-stand 165.-Ditto, Dressing Table 165.-Hearth Rugs 145.-3 ft. 6 inches Chest of Drawers 41. 45.-Three-foot mahogany Pembroke Table 11. M.-Three-foot ditto on pil lars and claws 31. 155.-Mahogany Dressing Table 11.-Ditto Bidett, best 11. 45.-Ditto Bedsteps 11. Bs.-Ditto ditto 11. 12s. -Ditto ditto 21. 25.-Ditto Box Glass, 2 drawers, best British Plate 155.-Ditto ditto Is. 65.-Ditto ditto 11. 18s.-Ditto Swing Glass, large size, ditto 8&-Ditto ditt o 12: ~..o ns eam tiol d s e e d3 sa zi. D-S e ( .5 ;e 5..- -D D i it t t w o ditto 65.-Ditto ditto 75....,--Tray 'Stand - Mahogany Tray 145.-Japanned B oo k Sh e lf 7 5 .-T ea Caddy 10s -P-Orta ble Dcsk 215.-Desk covers in number 145.-Music *Chairs any pattern Bs. 6d.-Eight tllahogany Chairs, covered with horse hair,"brass nailed 61. 65.-8 ditto ditto 61. 155.-8 ditto ditto 71. 75.-8 Trafalgar ditto 91. 95.-Mahogany Sofa to Match 7L 10s.-Ditto Couch 71. 10s.-Ditto ditto 81. 10s.-Ditto, with Bedstead 71. 10s.-Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on turned legs, banded in rose-wood 81. 155.-Set of Mahogany Tables, two Card and Sofa, on pillars and claws 121. 125.- Ditto, the best that can be made-to order or pattern 161. 10s. -Handsome 7 foot 6 pedestal, Sideboard, with carved back, 171.-Ditto 7 foot 161.-Ditto 6 foot six 151.-Set of Dining Tables, of the last pattern, 4 foot by 10 foot 61 11.- Ditto.-4 foot 2by 11 foot 6, 151.-Ditto, 4 foot 6by 12 foot 6, 16L 165.-If Spanish, an advance of 31. 10s.-Straw Palliasse 11. Is.-Tent Bedstead and furniture 31. 15.-Bamboo Bed stead and French elyptic top, with drapery and fringe, 81. 10s. -Five-foot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, complete, 151. 10s.- Five-foot ditto, ditto 16s. 10s.-Ditto ditto, with cornice, of a superior make, 181. 10s.-Ditto ditto, with gold cornice, ele gant drapery 201.-Drawing-room - Curtains, of the bcst Mo nne and Chintz, fitted for window, 61. fid.-Ditto ditto 71. 7s -Ditto, of a superior and elegant style of work, 101. 10s.- Drawing-room rose-wood=Drawing-room Trafalgar Chairs Ditto, inlaid with buhl. 201.-Table, 2 Covers, and Sofa, 181. 18s.-Ditto 11. Is.-Drawing-room Sofa 61. 65.-Ditto, 71. 7s. -Ditto 81. Bs.-Horse-hair Cushions, each ss. fid.-Covered ditto 41. W. THURNELL, Agent. COUNTRY DEALERS SUPPLIED. Goods packed free of expence, except the materials, and sent to all parts of Great Britain, and to the East and West In dies.—Captains fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca binet Goods for Exportation. *.* Apartments Furnished at a few hours' notice, and Rouses two or four days. NEWSPAPER ROBBER Y.-A fraud of a most flagrant kind, and one, the extent of which can not possibly be ascertained, has, in the course of last week, been discovered in the Post-office. It appears that a Clerk or Clerks in the Inland Office have been in the regular practice of pur loining Newspapers, and disposing of them to the News-boys. We believe that few have suf. fered more in this respect than the Antidote has done, and it is only by this important discovery that we can at length account for the al most innumerable complaints of irregularity in its delivery. We have often assured our readers, that such were the arrangements in our office, a mistake was almost impos sible; still, weekly, many were disappointed.— We hope, now that the source of all has been exposed, that no errors shall in future take place. —Too much praise cannot be given to the Secre tary, Sir Edward Lees, for his unremitting and kind attention to the frequent complaints which we were obliged to lay before him ; to his exer tions and scrutiny the public are indebted for the investigation which has terminated so favour ably for them.—(Dublin Antidote.) In the manufacturing town of Wigan, in Lan cashire, there are twenty retail breweries now in full trade. It is not only in the reduced price and improved quality of the beer sold at these breweries that the public are benefitted, but since their establishment a visible improvement is manifest in the condition of the families of the workmen. " SIR, --I have received and laid before my Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty your letter of the Ist instant, and am commanded to acquaint you that their Lordships will not give you any trouble on the subject of the substitute you have discovered for oak bark to prevent the Dry Rot. " I am, Sir, your very humble servant, (Signed) " JOHN BARROW. " To Mr. John Burridge, 55. Nelson-square." Conceiving, as I am informed, you expressed yourself at the Ship Owner's Dinner, that the Commercial Navy is the root of British Revenue, political power, and commercial prosperity, I am again induced to hope my pamphlet may, under these circumstances, meet a share of your attention, as the prim e guardian of our foreign relations, when the reasons will be very obvious that impose silence according to their Lordship's letter. Nevertheless, I still feel it my imperative duty to trouble you once more, before Parliament meets, under the conviction that it is every Englishman's duty, to his King and Country, to use his humble endeavours for the preservation of our Ships, Colonies and Commerce, especially when he con ceives they are placed in great danger, without timely counter actives, which I presume to hope are worthy of some considera tion and public inquiry. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, (Signed) JOHN BURRIDGE. Foreign-Office, JAN. 31, 1824. Mr. Canning has received Mr. Burridge's Letter of the 28th (meaning the 29th inst.) Mr. Canning must beg leave altogether to decline a corres pondence upon a business, in which he has neither personal or official concern, having enough of his own upon his hands. (COPY.)-ANSWER. Mr. Burridge has the honour to acknowledge the note from the Right Hon. Geo. Canning, of this date, altogether declining to continue a correspondence upon a business in which Mr. Canning acquaints Mr. Burridge that he has neither personal or official concern. Mr. Burridge most respectfully ventures to hope he may be excused for stating that he was led to transmit his pamphlet to Mr. Canning from understanding that he was a Member of the Board of Trade, but under existing circumstances, Mr. Bur ridge concludes with his humble request, that the book may be delivered as soon as convenient to the Board of Trade. Nelson -square, 31st .Tan• 11324. CIRCULAR . I4Ond on MY Loans Awn GENTLE 3,,_____ , 7th February 1824. -', Permit me to acquaint you that after devoting several years at considerable expenee, I have -discovered remedies to prevent u se of native substitutes for o a k b ark, but have in vain applied L, the Naval Dry Rot," by th e to his Majesty's Ministers, the Admiralty, Navy Board, full sizes a s Chancellor of Exchequer, the Righ t H onourable Willi am 11us kisson, & . Y c. to grant such inquir„ as the magnitude and solem nity of this national misfortun e may appear to require, on a review of the actual dry rotten and dry rotting state of our Navy, since it is naturally evident that native oaks which are centuries and perfection, and which for n"Old E ng l an d' s W oo d en W alls, " are, under the present naval system of building with timber h e wn in Summer instead of jp- inr . o . , found to consume in ier ly . about eight or ten years only, an edu g r r e o d w proverbially ing to and frequently with almost in , credible rapidity ; according to Sir Robert Seppings evidence, the ship Benson, the Queen Charlotte, Howe, Genoa, Rip ' pon Lord Nelson, Boyne, Dr eadnought, 4.e. (5-c., are reported to b l e dry rotten. The former was nearly five years in progress of building, was launched in 1 810, but in 11311, or only 14 months afterwards proved dry rotten, and underwent repairs that cost nearly 30,0001., but beini. f c now found unfit for har hour service, as guard ship, I fe ar se must be condemned, as so many others have been (at a loss of many millions) and must be whenever a general and impartial survey of the whole i navy takes place. Under these most unfortunate circumstances and many others (which it is impossible to describe in a circtlar) I feel it my imperative • duty to publish a Treatise on " tle origin, danger, effects and remedies of naval dry rot," withsut injury to tan ' ners or Land-owners, and hereby embrace tht only alternative that appears left in my power, viz.: " Tte Liberty of the Press," by a solemn appeal to the united visdom of Parlia ment and popular sense, particularly ship-owners and mari ners, under the fullest assurance, that if I tr any man point out eifectual and practicable remedies against the dry rot, to insure the prosperity of British ships, crews, cdonies and com merce, or contribute his mite towards thesevital objects, he will not at all events, lose his reward. I am perfectly convinced there are no, ingrelients or compo sitions to be found or made applicable to kill a cure Dry Rot at less expence than sacrificing the bark, withmt any danger or doubt whatever. Coal 'far from Gas-works has been gcnerallyused with very prejudicial effects to many ships crews, &c. I suspect, that if an actual survey of the while Navy be or dered, it will prove that we have very few first ar second rates, seaworthy, except such as have been filled by neans of forcing pumps with coal tar, which are thereby rendered wholly u nfit for service in tropical climates, if the current reports be true that Admiral Rowley ascribed the mortality prevalent in the West Indies, to the deleterious effects of that mineral extract. In short, if the welfare of British ships and crevs be really the root of British revenue, Britannia's political fretdoni, power and commercial prosperity, (as I understand Mr. Coming lately convivially expressed himself) certainly no subject can be more worthy of Parliamentary and public deliberation b 3 every Bri ton, and every Christian of all classes rich and poor I have the honour to be, _ My Lords and Gentlemen, • Your most obedient humble Servalt, JOHN BURtIDGE. The Dry Rot creates the vast expence and necesity for im porting and building with foreign timber, which, vithout this novel decay, would not now have required, in peace such con tinually heavy "naval estimate:" (as Great Britain possessed during one period of war above one thousand sail n commis sion) in order to endeavour to maintain Britannia's pw•er. • The country is nearly, or quite, exhausted of :aval oaks which depresses commercial_ ship-builders to an incredible degree. Public inquiry will doubtless prove the necessity fr reforma tion in our naval policy, and the best measure appeas to be to prevent the sacrifice of any more oaks for the next bak harvest, which prompts me to state my humble opinion, in ime to en able strict investigation to be made, before the reptition of a fatal practice, which threatens equal destruction to th Majestic oak and the empire, which I believe must both fal. together, except the axe be laid to the root of the tree in WITTER ac cording to ancient practice and law, when populatiorwas less, and bark of very little value, respecting which my memorial was presented to the House of Commons last session. MR. EDITOR — When the Spanish Army (all Infantry), under General O'llEmLy, landed on the east side of the Bay of Algiers, on a sandy plain, extending at least 12 miles, the Infantry were first broken by ten thousand camels, and then exposed to the charge of the Moorish cavalry, as the Bashaw of Constantine had brought eighty thousand horse to the assistance of the Dey of Algiers. The consequence was disgrace and defeat to the Span 7 ards. But had the Spaniards landed to the westward in Marabout Bay, on a sandy beach, skirted by a wood, and distant six or seven miles from Algiers, by keeping near the shore to the distance of a mile, the Moorish Cavalry could not have attacked them, as the country is enclosed, and there is a Kiosk, or country-house, situated in the north-west part of a square garden, con taining ten acres walled round with a red brick wall 14 feet high, like an English kitchen garden, about a mile to the westward of the burial ground appropriated to the I)eys of Algiers, through which the Spaniards would have passed until they got near the town, which is not fortified on the land side, and therefore easily got possession of after some street fighting. It is not a small land force that ought to be sent against Algiers, and it is not worth while to send a large army of cavalry and infantry to take it, unless that army is allowed to keep possession of the country. This can only be done by the different powers of Europe, who may give the settlers what government they chuse. If a free one with a military militia, numbers of Europeans will settle there, and the horses must be all taken from the Arabs (or Moors as they are called) to prevent their incursions.—As the Algerines are now at war with Spain as well as Great Britain, the Spaniards are as much interested in the de. struction of Algiers as we are. The King of Spain, to save * time, will not refuse, therefore, to man and send twenty-four of his mortar-boats to our assistance, and the mortar boats will not only throw shells, but carcasses filled with com bustible matter, into the town, which will set fire to it. An attack on the Mole alone can be made at the same time to take or destroy all the ship ping there ; though some, perhaps, may take shelter at Oran, which afterwards may be visited for the same purpose. A CORRESPONDENT. • Our bomb ketches are four months fitting, and will not stand six hours firing without being shook to pieces, and the Spanish mortar-boats will bear firing day after day without injury. LICENSING OF PLAYS. In the year 1737 the Bill was brought into Parliament, agreeably to the provisions of which no new dramatic piece can be exhibited without the license of the Lord Chamberlain. It passed almost silently, except on the part of Lord Ches terfield, who strongly opposed it. His Lordship's speech was eloquent and forcible. He regarded it as a measure of very extraordinary and dan gerous nature—as a restraint not on the licen tiousness merely, but on the liberty of the stage, and as tending to a still more dangerous re strai►►t o❑ the liberty of the Press, which was intimately and inseparably connected with the general liberty of the subject. The laws, as they then stood, were sufficient for the sup pression of immoral or seditious performances. The best, indeed the only mode of avoiding pub lic ridicule and censure, was to avoid ridiculous and vicious actions ; for the people will ►►either ridicule those they love and esteem, nor suffer them to be ridiculed. " I admit, my Lords, the stage ought not to intermeddle with politics ; but for this very reason, among others, I object to the Bill before us; for I fear it will be the oc casion of its meddling with nothing else. It will be made subservient to the politics of the Court only. We know that Dryden, the Poet Laureat of Charles the Second, made his wit and genius subservient to the designs of the Court. When the second Dutch war was in contemplation he wrote his Auboyna, in which he represents the people of Holland as avaricious, cruel, and un grateful. When the Exclusion Bill was moved for, he wrote his Duke of Guise, in which the zealous and persevering friends of the liberties and reli gion of their country were treated as a faction, leagued for the base purpose of excluding from his lawful rights a Prince of a heroic character,because adopted a creed different from theirs. The peculiar province of the stage, my Lords, is to ex pose those vices and follies which the law can't lay hold of ; but, under the restraint of an ar bitrery license, it will be entirely perverted from its proper use. To a man bred in the habits of a Court, that may appear to be a libel against the Court which is only just and salutary satire upon its vices and follies. Courtiers are too polite to reprove one another: the only place where they can meet with any just rebuke is a free, though not a licentious stage. But by this Bill, instead of leaving it what it was, and always ought to be, a " scourge for fashionable vices, it will be converted into a channel for propagat ing them throughout the kingdom." Such were the opinions of a very eminent man up on this Bill. Amongst the dramas rejected under this Act were Gustavus Vasa, written by Brooke (the author of The Fool of Quality), Mustapha, by Mallet, and the Edwin and Eleo nova of Thompson, all tragedies. It is curious to observe that the Chamberlain did not seem so much to dread the satires on the Court vices or follies, as the effects of these declamatory ex hortations in favour of general freedom. The exercise of the restraint in those three instances caused a great sensation in the literary world. The continuance of this Trade in.the hands of Foreigners gives to the Powers engaged in it tii•e monopoly of the markets of Europe,in thesupp.l7 of raw, clayed, and refined sugar, : The continuance of this Trade may, frOni the perpetual interference on our party Occasion SOonar or later a war between this Country Powers engaged in it. The continuance of this Trade exposei-thts Country to an expence annually of several .hutt= drerl thousand pound , , viz.— In the Bounties on captured Slaves to Officers of the Navy, Governors and others. In the support of a Navy on the coast of Africa and in : the West Indies for this exclusive object. In the subsisting the captured Slava. In the subsequently dispo s in g o f th em , as apprentic ed, .and when that term is expired, and of Commissioners for inquiring into their condition. In the support of the Establishment at Sierra Leone, (30,000 annually) and on the African coast. In the expence of Commissions at Sierra Leone Hayannah, Rio Janeiro, and Surinam. Independently of 400,000/. paid to Spain and Portugal for illegal captures, an expence which is likely annually to be in. curred to an extent which must depend on circumstances. The Slave Trade is now More flourishing than in other times, and the hold of a slave ship is, compared with the same place in British ships,. a disgusting scene of filth, disease, and death. If the party called " Anti Colonists" are really and truly in earnest—if his Majesty's Govern ment care about being believed to be in earnest —they have a clear, simple course by which they will, in 18 months, abolish the Slave Trade— Save the expence of a navy for this object—of bounties—of burthensome Colonies—(l meati Colonies such as Sierra Leone, that export no produce, to employ and pay for British industry at home)—of commissions of arbitration—of en• quiry—of indemnities to Government for spolia tions on their subjects, and a train of other charges. We are tired of and have long laughed at the expensive humbug (to use a modern expression) of foreign negociations on this subject, which have been carried on for the last ten years, and have, prod uced—friendly assurances—but an increase of the Slave Trade, admitted by the naval au- ` thorities to excee d, v i z., 50,000 annually ; in our , time it never exceeded 30,000. The remedy is a simple commercial regula tion, following the example of France and Hol land—fas est ab Haste doceri—by a bounty simi lar, and on tl►e same principle, as that given by,. those countries in order to undersell our sugar, - • to do so likewise. By a bounty not so great at the expence annually incurred in preventing the Slave Trade—by a bounty of 300,000/. per an -num out of a revenue of four millions received on sugar, you would make the Slave Trade to . Foreigners not worth carrying on. You would turn the commercial weapons against the rivals • of this country. The Government would by a master-stroke of commercial policy, enable the British Merchants to undersell the Foreign Slave- Traders, and prove that the interest of the coun try had a stronger influence than the love of pa tronage, a feeling which the anti Colonists cherish and benefit by, and not the Ministers. You would promote industry among the refiners, and increase trade and commerce. We may be told, " the days of bounty are gone by :" the Ministers may say, we advocate '- free and liberal principles,—we have advocated the abolition of bounties,—and we know that if' we give a bounty, the Governments of the con sumers will lay a countervailing duty, and thus throw the bounty on the British subject; and the • sum of 2 or 300,0001. will operate as a useless sacrifice of revenue." This is fallacious—it is not true in practice. The Governments of the • consuming countries have not laid any such duties in contravention of the bounties given by France and Holland on refined sugar. But what has our own Government done in respect to the United States of American—they laid re strictions on our shipping—we laid an additional duty of 10 per cent. applicable to American trade with the West Indies. What is this policy ? That of retaliation, and why not retaliate on France and Holland, by giving a bounty on re fined sugar exported ? When the anti-Colonists, when his Majesty's Ministers, shall have done this, the people will believe them to be in earnest as to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, because, by so doing, they will effect the object and benefit the industry or our country. MR. OW EN AND THE PHRENOLOGISTS. TO THE EDITOR or THE GLASGOW CHRONICLE. SIR-I have just received the second number of the Phrenological Journal, in which is given what is called " A Phrenological Analysis of Mr. OWEN'S New Views of Society." Where the learned writer of that article found this new view, I know not ; certainly not in any of my writings, for in its most essential principle& and practical details it bears no resemblance whatever to the plan which I recommend. And I solemnly protest against such a com pound of folly, absurdity and immorality being given to the public for a system, the sole object of which is to improve the moral and intellectual powers, and to increase the happiness of man, not by these wild imaginary flights of fancy, but by well-devised, judicious, practical measures, found ed on a correct knowledge of the nature of man s and upon the experience of his past history. ROBERT OWEN, New Lanark, 26th Feb., 1824.