The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-23 00:00:00

•-, ;'~ :~ S NUMVER 77431 • BANK'br' ENGLAND, SulY 17, 1817. Wi - iF.:REAh the GOVERNOR and COM PANY of the BANK - of ENCiLAND, by and with Approbation of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy "unvil, and under the authority of au Act of Parliament 'Used on the 26th day of June, 1811, have issued 'and cireti iated, for the convenience of the Public, a qnantitv of Silver 131 eces, called TOKENS, at the respective rates of Ss. and tid.. each: And 'whereas. in consequence of the recent Issue of the new Current SILVER OIN , it becoming unne cessary any longer to continue the said Tokens in .circula ti°ll, an Act of Parliament was passed oulhe 11th day of July ihstant, t o prohibit the further circulation thereof after the 2 6th day of March, 181 8 . Now the said GOVVIINOR and ODNIPANY do hereby give Notice, that from and after the Ist day of August next, they will exchange all the before mentioned Silver Coin issued by them, called TOKENS, either'for the Gold or Silver current Coin of the Realm, or for the Notes of the said Governor and Company, at the op tion of the Holder-. ROBERT BEST, Secretary•. FOR QUEBEC—To sail 20th July. *7 -1‘ TEI tine Mast- sailing coppered Ship Np ', NTT, JOHN HAMILTON , Master. 41 II`N _, Apply to Messrs. John Davison find Co. v.7,:1,'"' "-;";-" Glasgow , or here, to '.' .s 4r.. - ' . ,SAN KER and CO. Greenock - , 6th June, FOR HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. r7r l --, , c ,.. THE Brig THETIS, JOHN MOR a, "Master, BISON, '2oo Tons Register, will be 014 ready to, take in . Goods by the Ist , and clear _,N*4 4 :: to sail by the 15tIt'Atigust. --`' For Freight or Passage, apply to Archd. Newall, Glasgow, the Master on board ; or here, to ROBERTSON, HUNTER,: and CO. Greenock, 11th July, 1817. : - - .. . . . ~ FOR 'NEW YORK. •-•-•---- -- .1 . """%- THE fine sa . st s.ailine, Ainericat) Ship SARAH, Captain JOSEPH HOPKINS, , . burthen 280 tons, two years. old, stands in , ;tom.*; -' Lloyd's Al, will be ready to take Goodson .04, board by the 4th, and S:-iil by the'2oth .July. For freight or passage, having mccellent accommodation, apply to Messrs. Janws Hamilton, ten. and Co.'Glasgow; the Captain on board, here, or - • •• Greenock, 30th June, 1817. ROBERT EWING and CO. FOR ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. -- , ,""" nu', Br►t. HUNTE,R, JAMES ..._ A , - . 4 \ SALMON, Master, now loading. - V-1' , ./.. its For Freight, apply to , . ,i.rA - LV THOMAS BOAG. os-4.= - - , - Greenock, 17th July, ISI7. Hui.L.-;:ovzs.st4-.t.s bvia.rw, 5...-- - ron NAP' ES, PAI.F II # IO, 2 " (1 NI , SsINA , lilit.l3 liberty to toih,o•tl GoodsAo - Pateroo, at Ship's Expnce, ,hot .at. thu Shipper's ais,lt. , ..,, . , - y.. 4(.„ ~ 'l'll I' . . I entarl.al , ly fast-sailing Brie . i . t' : BRILLIAN I (of Hull), JAMES NAZEBY I•'-'5 . : \•frt ,luster ; v ill be reld • to take it Goods for . ..,.. ~ \„...... . 7 ~ • ;,,,,,...,..: tlie aaore Ports in a few days, and ititetid's ..3.- "7 -- 7 ° ' sailin ;., , about the middle of July. For Freight. aoply to EDWARD LEVETT, High-street, 1-11141 , , Jtute .13111, : 1817.'. . , . , . TOR EL`“NORE and TIMA TOWN. • 1— „ Th.. . .. - l'ilL'Ship DiX(...N•CaproitiJC)llN -- -e ., i t , , , , N all l l ll ,, i i_ ini m i i n t a b ny Goods engaged, -- ..r• , .. ...F,':! Apply , ti , tlie Master,on.bnard, or to P. W. WATSON. 111114 July ipth, 1817. • FOll SEVILLE and cApy. 1" ...., 'l°H GOOD INTENT , THOMAS. KNIPHT, that leave aster, w Leeds` tith the Goads urda.,v, thel, 6th inst. 4 For Freight, & c. apple to .July 21st, I.OIIINSON and,CALEY. ,IIUPTURES .AT THE MEDICAL BOARD. practice of ceriv.ecill ince e:xtensive I the Medical. Board, at Charlotte ilotile, road, Drs. CODPER, NIUNnOE, and CO. have, for the li c commatlation'id 'patients:residhog at the West end of the Tinen, established another Medical Board in Woodstock street, Oxford - -street, a few doors from'Bonil-street, where a Physician. and Surgeon, Members of the Royal collegv .01 London, of thirty years expel fence, constantly reside: That thousands have been restored to.' perfect-he.alth by their - united talents is indisputable, after Hospitals had failed, ntaiirof whom had peen great sufferers from :being impro perly treated by persons ignorant of the profession. Erup tion-s 00 the head, face, and - body-, ulcerated tin oat, swel lings in the neck,. nodes on. the shin hones, ,cancers, stric tures, fistulas, pains in the head and limbs, and net rous afibilty, are. the conse.quence of an ill-cured coati ion, and which symptoms frequently appear years after, and destroy domestic happiness. Messrs. Cooper, Monroe,. aad Co. are consulted daily ct - both houses, or by letters from the country, stating partico.' L e s, when medicine and the best advice will he sent to all parts of the ki,gdoto. There are side doors at. each house, and private rooms for - females. Advice gratis on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Utornings, initiitwelve o'clock. 'LOCK AND SURGICAL DISPENSARY. Hisitoyal Highness the DUKE of YORK, President, SuitutoN—Mr. Kiernan, Meniher of the Royal College, - Londun , . COVLRNORS—EarI of Egreinout, East of Leitrim, Hon. Col. • • • •. J. Barry, M.P. John Latollare, M.P. • THE Royal and Noble PairPOs. 64 the above INSTITUTION, for the exclusive Treatment -of VE NEREAL COMPLAINTS', and the' rdangerous consequences, in order to insure the benefits that have resulted from it, se lected Mr. KIERNAN as its Surgeon, (slanding high• on the list of the Royal College) from having directed his chief 'at tention to those diseases. It is the misfortune of Patients birder stich complaints, to• be too often .the dupes of Witt rate P re tenders, who practise on the credulity by imposing. titles and specious promises.' Against this class (of, late so ,numerous and d.rring), Mr. Kiernan conceives it a part of his (411eial duty to caution the Public,:by pointing to. the List of the Royal College, published in February I 81f;, as the only sure . gkiiiie, and that no assertion of Persons assuMing such titles, and publicly adverti si ng them, without being sanc tioned by this List,. are to be credited. the annual reports " I _,f the -Loci; Dispensary will prove, that sonic of the most 'ttangertins. cases of Strictures, Debility, -and other supposed incurahle affections of the GeiterativeOrg,n , ; have been here ladically and .Successfully treated ; facts I;icit _require no Icklit.sed testimony of affidavits to prove, but the west re 41)vetable Medical uvideuce. Mr. KIERNAN n;ay be consulted as usual, by botlrSexes, ' 0 his house, '2l, Lower Charlotte-street; Bedford-square, N' , ltere L e tt e rs from TiNwn. and Country are to be addressed, ne cesStiry AdVice and Medicine • will be given, 'or sent, t o ally part of the Kingdom. • Just publishid, piece Etlitijm;Tizictical - Ob 'ervatioos on the abw - e I)l7:ea3cs, by F. Kiernan, and may be I a at No. 1;4, Fleet-street, Nu. 20, Patertntet-row ) and iO, Clown-court, bJUo. -, . - - , _ -,„-. Er -, --74 ;t 1 gta v , t ,--,--,.., --: i .., ....., '', ,f , 4 '''' 1,..... •:- WEDNESDAY. JULY '23, 1817. ARCH-DEACONRY OF YORE. . . WEST-RIDING CHARITABLE SOCI:;TY, for the Rg- LIEF of.thc INDIGENT CLERGY, their n WIDOWS, OR PHANS, and FAMILIES.. • . _ is particularly request. (1 that the Forms of- Certificates, as contained, in the Annual Reports of this,. S,eietv, be Strictly adhered to, and that ill Applications in ti-oiled to he made at the Annual Meeting, be notified to the proper Secretary, at least Fourteen Days before the holding of such Meeting; as, otherwise, no Certificate cau, by the standing Rules, be admitted. The ANNUAL MEETING, for the present Year, will be holden at. Mrs. Brammall's, the White Hart Inn, Wakefield, on THURSDAY, the 7th day of August next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. • JOSEPH SWAIN, Beeston, near Leeds, • Treasurer and Secretary for the City of York, the Ainsties, and Craven. SAMUEL SHARP, Wakefield, Treasurer and. Secretaryfor the Deaneries of Doncaster and l'onteft The Vice-Presidents and Stewarq are requested to trans- Wit, 50111 C time prerieus to the Meeting, to the proper Trca sqr: r, the Subscriptions and Benefactions received ih aid of the Funds of the Charity, or, at least, Statements of them, in ()ring- 'that the several Sums maybe regularly entered in the Treasurers' Rooks, and Receipts prepared fur the Day of the Meeting.--A compliance with this Request will prevent much trouble, confusion. and error. Leeds, June 301 h, 1817. , This Day was published, price 2s. A CATALOGUE or a' MISCELLANEOUS ..011. COLLECTION of BOOKS, New and Second-hand, 0' Sale at the Prices affixed, Dy JOHN and ARTHUR ARCH, 61, Cornhill, London,. 1817. Containing . a considerable number of scarce a n d valuable Works, and Specimens of Early Printing, both British. and Foreign, and the most valuable ReCent Publications. This Day were published, 8%•0. 9s. 6d. DDITIONS to the Foortl► anti' former Bal. 111._ tions of an ESSAY on the PRINCIPLE of POPULA TION, &c. &c. By T. R. MALTHUS, Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of History and Political EConomy , in the East India College, Hertfordshire. Printed for .lolm Murray, Albe►narle-street. Of who'm may be had, A Fifth Edition of Mr. Malthp's..Essay on Population, 3 :Vols. Bvo, 365. boards. From the LONDON ciAZ6TTE, July 22, 1817. Foreign-Office, July 22, 1817. His Royal Highness the rrince Regent has been graciously Pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his :Majesty, to ap oint the Right Honourable Edward Thornton to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoh-ntiary at the Court of his Mosaarthful Majtsty. His Royal Highness has also been graciously pleas , d, in the home and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint the lion. Francis Km ginald Forbes to be Secretory to his Majesty's Le gation at that Court. BANKRUPTCIE.S . SVPEILSEDED. Warburton Bower, Wilmslow Cheshire, cotton-spinner. John Rehbeek, Devizes, IViltlire. snuff-manufacturer. Samuel Boss, Walltcrii Park, flertforitsture, farmer., David. Smith, Linfitt Mill, KirltbUrton, Yorkshire, scribbling miller. BANKRUPTS. Samueljt.oherts, Sheffield. spirit-merchant, to surrender Au gust 1, , 2,,:aeyternirer 2, at tweke, at the Tontine lnu, Sheffield. lllMrnies, Messrs. Darke, Church and Darke, • ChanLerr-lane, or Mr. BurbeAry, Sheffield. William Birmingham, brass-founder, August 11, at five, 12, and September 2, at eleven, at the W . o,lpack Inn, Birmingham. Attornies, Messrs. Egerton .and Dieltins, Gray's Inn-square . , or Messrs. Spurrier 'Ad Bir .. ..- iningliam. . . . . Robert Huntley, HowdOn Pans, Northumberland, ,surgeon, July. 36- Attgust•iS, and September 2, at eleven, at• the• George Inn, Neweast:e-upon-Tyne.' Attornies, Messrs. . Bell and Briotrick. Cheanide, or Mr: Stoker, Newcastle- . upon.:Tylle‘ William Raven, Hartshorne; Derbyshire, dealer,. August 1, 2 , and Septcmher 2, at eleven, at the King's. Arms Tavern, Derby. Attornies, Messrs. Few, Ashmore and Hamilton, Henrietta-street, Covent• garden, or Messrs. Mousley and 1110.?:; ; . Dert7, • A cc - Benjaniiii - kutcy-trimmlng-tnanufacturer, August 4,5, and September qi at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Leicester. . Attmnies,-Mr. Lawton, Leicester, or Mr. Taylor, John•street, 13cdford:row. l'hotnas Vale, Solihull, ,Warwielishire;• i:orn-dealer, August 13, 14, and September 2, at one, at the Castle Inn, Bir mingham. Attornies, Mr. Harding, Solihull, ur Messrs. . . Meirick and Co. Red Lion-square. George Coupland, Bristol, dealer, duly 23, August 8, and September 2, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Bristel.— Altornies; Mr. King, Se6eant's Inn, Fleet-street, or Mr. Frankis, John-street, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. Aug. 22, W. and T..Lanib, Leeds, cahinet-makers—Aug. 27,,4. Innes and Watkins, Bristol ; chemists--fur. 12, J. Lane, T. Fraser, mad T. Boylston, Nicht,la's-lane, merchants -IG, T. Carlett and W. ,Wi,lisolt, Langbonrit Chambers, F,lehurch-street,, coal-facteas—Aug. 11, J. Bell, Podding ton,• J. F. Bell, Scultottles, and T. Bell, Scitlcoates, York shire, nierchants-,-Sept. 9, .1. ,Storr. Owstwick, Yorkshire, and IL C. Young, 'l:ingston-ovuo-Hull;merchants-.-Aug• 12, U. N. S. .f:I apni.lll, Broughton .Malherb, rUn., r— ttg. 15. J. - Whitlie, Liverpool, tailor and araper—Atig. 13, W. Bragg, Whitaavert, grocer—Aug. 13, J. ,Noble, Caton, Latrea,Mre, .silk-ntanufacturer—Aug. 16, I. Beak, Bath, ruiner—Aug. 19, T. Hinde, Liverpool, merchant—Aug. N, E. Isaac, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, wine -merchant —Aug. IS, .1. Harrison, Manchester, plumber and glazier—Au,;. 19, J. W. Rose, Bishppsgate-street, silk-mercer. CERTIFICATES, AUG 12. M. Walton, Liverpool—D. phillips,T. Wray, and H.Balict Fork, int:ft:hams—J. Smith, Bath, broker—H. Mackenzie, Part holloniew-lane,banher—W.Adam;Narrow- wall,Lambeth, tintherouercLitnt—H. Luff, Benhall, Suffolk, farmer--\l'. Holding, Mark-lane, flanr-factor—W. Robinson, CarliNle, mercer—D. Mitchell, cullum-street, l'epchurch-street, tai lor—J. Brown and A.' Paterson, limners-hall, Old Broad street, merchants. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. . . . , S. Hornloook, Tavistock; and J. l'earse, Horrahridge, Wolfentletr. ana J. Foster, Manchester, cot ton-spinners—C. Robinson, J. Homes, and AV. Kendra, Wat ling.,street, mercers—E. Harris, Moore's-town, State of New Jersey, North America, and 'l'. Leach, Leicester, hosiers 7-- It. Tontkinson and J. Tonkinson, Northwich, Chester, salt -o:9prictors—J. Molinentc and It. Webster,. Manchester, let ter-press-printers-J. Moorhouse and G. Nltirlionse, Kirk aolton, York, woollen-tuatiutacturers—R.Jdrdan and S.llown, ing, .Falmonth, spirit-merchants--M. Allen and \V. Ellis, Great Tower-street, ..SpirizArolvrs , ---T. Holmes, S. Edetibu-' Tough, W. Holmes, fl..Edenhorongh, and .1. Stenson, Friday- street, lace-manufaettirer—J. Sheppard and J. Harris, Bir toinghant, grocers—.. \Valker, .W. Stokes, A. Keiglitiey, E 1 illins, A. Keightlev, janiOr, W. Horne, J. Beard, J. Dunn, tW..:llyrqra, J. SAl'llll, l l. Wylde, J. St4tabouse, Y. Mawdsley, 'lt. Holden, N. Beaman, S'eacombe . , smalt-company—;',. Shaw and W. Shaw, Andover, grocers—A. Woodttead add C. Wood- In•ad, Raw-lane, v,..11 - cliouscnitn—J. lle2cLe and G. 13urit, Ctifydont i;occrs, `, 1 ..,Pi , 7 4\ 4111111*' ,\ ' '--t----'' 1, ...`Vy).:,"\_--,'-t.,.1-\ ..,,- -.:2-‘,-;Zit'.:se'''-: ~,,,..- , - .1 I, .1:4-7--.--_-__, : . „ . i :tt,, 4i ...,-,:e„;,,-..7.:_, ----.•:‘f).V;%—t(A7*-4YZ,;- ---;----'-\r,kti,--rk< * ..„...... ;:0 „:,.!......,, 411 ,,....A.,,, \W ~ _ , ) • 'GB F .' .4,"14. r •Ir , , ~,,,,, ~,.., • , r j ) ' c , ktitit.ei ,-.----. ti Is• 41 \._, -f:f--A,-;"-* ‘... 1 „f: 1, ... 7 ........./ ... v 1 "; , ..i? ..;,.. 0 : 4, ..... , a [PRICE SEVENPEICC:II. at .once about 200 ; 000,/, in fi;ies to ti ft and notinuenless than 100001:more i tees to GoverWor and others, who pr;;bably r,,,eoilect edthe ttxr ? " ,1 lino shalt not mniile the ox that treadeth out tile. : corn, and p e ,laps thought:; that ,while they were devising' lines and irtit rents for the Crown, they might r',asonairly .reserve a portion of 'emolument for themselves. .. This general attack oh the landed property of the inhabitants of Trinidad awakened their long dormant spirit of resistance.` :They appointed a Committee, consisting of twelve Gentlemen, se- Ven of them residing in the Island, who under.; took the : task of framing a petition, tor the pur pose of ;spewing the alleged injustice and illega lity* thiS Prbelamation, and five of them resid ing in London,., who were requested to support. the petition . la ,representations to his Majesty's Ministers, and, Incase of need,. by an appeal reR the Privy Council against the decrees of the.Gqv . vernor giving it effett. The Governor, be it ob served, is also 'Judge of the High Court of diencia r thus uniting the judicial with the execu tive powers, in violation'of every established role Of sound jutispnidence, amtdeeitling upon the le gality of his.own Proclamations. The London CoMmittee couskted of ,JOSEPti MARRY AT, Esq. M. P. WILLIAM MANNING, M. P. Jokbi biol.'s, Esq. D. IL RUCKEk, ESCCatia . WILLIAM LUSHINGTON, jun. Esq., all Of theni se lecterl,a►t having Considerable interests t Island of Trinidad. These Gentlemen represented to the Secretary of State for the Colonial : Department, their opinions as to the arbitrary and unjust nature of this Prodernation; and after their statements had been taken into consideration, were informed. by order of his Lordship, that both the fines and quit rents 'claimed for the Crown had been aban doned : a fact wholly inconsistent with the .itatem men: of your Old Correspondent, that tlie Gd.;. vernor's Administration in Trinidad had been ap proVed of in every particular. Not only was this most important act of his AdniinistratiOn annulled, but it also came out, that the docket of fees which he had originally framed, and bent home for the approbation of his Majesty's Mi: nisters, was disapproved of, and curtailed in a manner very much to his disappointment and mortification. While these negociatioriS were going bn, the London Committee were strongly urged by many of their flientb, connected with the Colony, to call a General Meting, for the purpose of tli-cress- ing the, other grievances of which they, and the inhabitants of Trinidad, had so much reason to complain.. The, Committee, however, hives(' of promotiog that " idle and senseless clamour for the introduction of iii itisa Laws," which is int puted to their supporters by your old Cut respon dent, thought it advioable to tuf,tte the:n the sot,- jeet of private representation rather than of public diseusssion ; and accordingly-framed a 'statement to Lord BATHURzT, containing the stihstance of various communications which they had received respecting the present administration Of Govern ment in Trinidad. This, I tiresome, is the me morial which 'your Old Correspondent designates as the production of " ... a cabal against the Gover nor of Trinidad ;" which he states '' has under gone the most serious investigation of the Prince Regent's Government ; and has great satisfaction in being able to announce, that such inquiry has ended in a manner most highly honourable to the Governor." I was present, Mr. Editor, at a General Meet ing of the Planters and Merchants interested in Trinidad, held at the City of London Tavern on the 6th of last. month ; and heard the Report of • the. Proceedings of the Committee made by the Chairman, tOlo 16d the Memorial itself, and the Correspondence respecting it between his Majesty's Ministers and' the Comthittee. From these doen ments,l leartied, that Lord BATHUIIST sent a copy of. tire Memorial in question to Sir RALPH WOOD.. FoRD, considering hint its the HiiiSt proper pasitti to enquire into andfeport upon his own conduct ; that when this exparte evidence arrived, his Lord ship laid both the Memorial and the Answer be fore his Royal Highness the PatNca REGENT, ‘OlO commanded him to conitimnicate the senti ments which he had been pleased to express of Sir RALPH WOODFORD'S ehntlttct in the Go' em ment of Trinidad to Sir RALPH Vlrtibi'oßD him self: The Committee submitted to his Lordship (and probably your readers will think with great reason) that, as their Memorial sug,;ested, th.d investigation ought. to have been referred tO im partial men, not to the very. man against whom. the complaints were made, who was thus appoint. , ed Judge in,his.own cause, and that, at least .bees fore any decidon was taken, they ought, nt fairness, to have - had the satire opporttirrity of examining and commenting upon Sir RALPH WooDFoßD's answer, is had been giVen him of examining and eettSt wenting upon their Memorial. These rep., 'sautes. , tions, however, had no effect ; and flot lug the large interests they have at stake iii Tri nidad. might be thought to give them sOrtife claim to expect an answer &oar his Lordshiti, respecting tlre g,.ievances of which they complamed, none Was vouchsafed ; but they still remain in totril ignorance as to the 'Sentiments expressed by his Rbyal Highness the PRINCE REGENi• or, the ecrit duct of Sir RALPH WoooFonv, with which, he- vent heless, your Old-Correspondent professes litotes self to be Se perfectly acqua int ed. I see much reason to doubt whether hi§ - 1 - tr.tyal 1-ligl►tress has expressed th.., tinqoalified tipproira (ion of theS , i'RALPH •Vt r OoDVOED which your Old Correspondent assert§ ;: for I know ibe Memorial of ther-Conimitted Contains alkg; , - tions of oppression andexactitin ; and 1 also know, that the leading facts stated in it stand,. in toy opinion, uponfori mint ions which Qannot br. shaken ; I have already given some instances in which his tads have been superseded and reprehended ; and TRINIDAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. . . Sitt,--- , Tbe acit.nowledgement in yone Paper of Saturday last , that the Author of the article_ .re- , specting TnlNtnAn, inserted in it the. day before, ‘• had been tots informed in many particulars, and - nose especially in iris allusion to several mint re spectable persons in this great Commercial City," rather confirms than corrects the- misrepresenta tion that article was calculated to excite : for the inference it leads to is, that these most respect! able persons were not. patties to a certain memo rial-transmitted to his.Majesty'S Government, and MOO) is stated in yout Paper to be the work of a cabal:against the Governor of Trinidad. • As one of the parties ennnected with that Colony, I feel it my duty, therefore, to giv,e you the trite history of the Memorial in question ; which you will in sert, unless you mein to make, your Paper the vehicle of acknowledged Misinforniation and un- ' contradicted fii I Stllood, .. . From the first cession of Trinidad to the Crown of Great Britain, the continuance of Spanish Laws has been the subject of repeated complaint, both from the Inhabitants of that Colony, and the British Merchants connected with it ; and in proportion as toe nature and 'effect of those Laws Have been better ascertained and understood, the complaints against them have increased, - and thej petitions to be relieved from them have become ' more.numerous and urgent. Soon after the arrival of •the Commissioners, in 1802, an application was made to them by the Inhabitants, praying them to recommend to his :Majesty the establishment of British Laws. •When the three years hart expired, which were allowed the Lihah.tants by the Treaty of Peace to settle their affairs, in order to their departure if they did not choose to become subjects of Great Bri tain., and when it was hoped that British Laws would be introduced, another petition from the Planters and .Merchants, dated January 18, 1805, was presented to his Majesty, praying for British Laws as established in the other Islands. In 1806, a petition 'from the Merchants of London trading to Ttioithol was presented to his Majesty, praying for British 14--ms for the recovery of debts. In 1808, a pil it u," from the Inhabitants was 'pre sent cd to' the Crown, praying for the Bri ish Constitution r as established in. the oilier lir fish West India. Colonies. In the same • • ye,r, similar petitions were presented front the Merchants of London, Liverpool, Lan . easter, ' BtistOl, and Glasgow. In March, 1810, an Address from the Inhabitants of rn,ithui, praying for British Laws, was presented to tioverttor 11 IsLoP, so numerously and respecta bly signed, that on the 18th. of May fond wing, the COUneil of the Island, with the concurrence of the Governor, addressed his Majesty, expressing their hope that the general wish of. the proprie , tors and inhabitants would be complied %vith.-= In 1811, petitions were presented to the House of Commons, from the merchants of London, Li verpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Dvblin, and Cork, praying for the establishment of British Laws in Trinidad. in that year, a motion founded on these peti• Botts was Made in'thellOiise of Conn - nous ; but bewg opposed by his 'Majesty's Monsters, who had previOusly announced their deterinination tsl continue tile present system, and the House being persuaded to credit the preposterous assertion, that the Petitioners only wished for LAws . to enable them to tyrannize over the Free People of Colour and the Slaves, and to vi , late the Abolition Laws, negatived the :notion. This decision put an end to all further petitions oo the subject; and the effects of this divine system, as it was talsdy ;',eetned (being in fact a pure `and perfect despotism), have been progressively Shew lug themselves groin that time,to the present : not, as your ad Correspondent- states, " in, the rapid advance of the Island to con,ideration and pros: verity, an advance unexampled in the history ,of British Colonization," but in increasing eliscou, tent, in murmurs not loud but deep, open cont• plaints being stifled by the perilous consequences of offending a .Goverobr armed with powers of so unexampled a magnitude. Every tree is known by, its fruit .; and the fruits of this systeru, Which your Ohl Correspondent characterites " as one of the fittest systems . 'it juriva prudence tor a colony that. human ingenui ty bah possibly devise, the Spanish Code ad ministered by British justice. and .humanity," have been, that • the.. taxes of the colony have been treble; that fees of office have been. in. creased and multiplied, to a degree commensurate. with the avarice of those by whom they are ex.- acted ; that the value of property is dreadfully depreciated, and credit absolutely annihilated. All these evils, being considered as irremedia ble, were long submitted. to in silence; till among other instances of power, a Proclamation was is sued, dated the 5111 December, 1815, which struck at the-root of the titles of almost all the landed property in the bland, declaring the.greater part of them to he defective or absolutely void,. and calling on the proprietors to redeem than from confiscation, by paying to the CroWn a finv of I oei. for each grant, an apoual quit, rent of five shillings per (parte for ever, and acknowledging. new rights in the Crown, not_reserved in the original grants by the King of Spain, which would have left the property of every man at the mercy of the Governor ; .and not forgetting a obble docket of fees to hilts and others in office, for the renewal of the respective grants. The number-of grantS Made by the S:lanish Government is estimated at between 2100 and 2200, only 137 of n hibli were exemptud trout the grasp of this Proclamation ; so that the proprietors were 31* opon .to pay