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and paid over the the prize and Tee , ?.en Fletcher and by arbitration, ;haw to abide bl he subscribed foi The award of th; ped, was that the e and Fletcher, (Concluded from page 283.) arreplied that, although the Chancellor of the Ex and his friends might go to shoot in Au g ust and S e p- Yet that other persons did flock to London at that pe- tution was then agreed to, and the house resumed.--" on Monday. Jtion of Mr. KENNEDY the Public Revenue (Scot- Was read a second time, and appointed to be commit ltlsY• The Small Debts' Court (Scotland) Bill was second time, and ordered t o b e comm itt e d on Mon 1r Duties'l Bill was read a third time and passed. STAFFORD ELECTION. • Melt moved the order of the day for the house going _..itte e on the Stafford Briberyßill. 4 ING begged to call the attention of the house to the Irastances under whicl, this bill was brought for was no ground for going out of the ordinary course gin this case. All that the house knew was that there lary election petition against the sitting member for Petition contained inter alia—the usual allega ',l:Y• If a c omm i ttee above stairs had decided that ',Peen so extensiv e ly prac ti se d th a t it was necessary (1 2? to take notice of it, and to open the borough, or ;Ititer proceedin g which that committee might recom would have been the regular and proper mode of C ould his h on . f r i en d c i te any precedent for such l ee with the ordinary course of law, on the mere as th ind ividual, howev er res p ec t a ble he m i g ht b e , a n d at no man's assertion could be more deserving of .h t 4 h ith a e n ov t o h itt a i t of his hon. f r i e nd. Th e re were precedents, tn r a e d f or &lying indemnity to witnesses, subsequent to tehnattt. L hat there was no means of obtaining a 'eEe said, h e h a d exp l a i ned that two persons h a d de vlotY were ready to give evidence that 500 and . odd, ets, had received bribes, if they were indemni fi ed, uerefore that he proposed the indemnity. IN( ' S aid, then let the hon. gentleman confine his those two. Why should it be extended to others ? tic el:inflection whatever with any of the parties. He e subject forward merely upon public grounds. If the house went with him, he should move that the witted this day six months, unless the hon. gentle repose some course which would violate less the ouse, and the common decency of the case. r`den said that hi s h on. fr i en d objected to this proceed ° g r ounds—fi rs t , b ecause th ere w ere groun d s for an , -c ulunittee, and that such committee ought to re , were unable to arrive at a result without such a as the present to indemnify the witnesses. The was that he (Mr. Sec tio n . o to except all neandidates at the late election. Now he obcted to f g for punishment persons who had been guilty of °Mier elections. That appeared to him a piece of /l e r nu the pa r t o f th e h ouse , w h en i t was k nown sAxoribery h a d b een so prevalent. th e -° 3 thought the candidates ought not to be in e bil1 hought it was only fair that all should be in- TLt 'would vote for going into committee, because t ka , th e might be defeated. It u .u u eught there were no grounds for proceeding with to th e ht be much better to let the Election COMMA \V„ e usual wag. 41 11. Esii-tv said it would be much better to wait till t i t •Pril, and, if the sitting member did not then op it the house could act for itself. He was against e ase. The law ought to apply to a ll. ttti u then w i t h drew his amendment. to ° , 1430 N thought the house would disgrace itself if it Ihir as s the bill. , 8 VREMANTLE objected to the proceeding altoge- A li te anomalous to take any steps till the Election toti r , reported. thof Sir J. Wrottesley, the amendment was then l s e resolv e it se lf in to Committee on the bill on •Li t , . 41, woai d s , lll If the hon. baronet persisted in the amend- N, leave 4 the future management of the bill in his few ‘ B e tl4ojds from an hon. member against the motion, For the a men d ment. l6 ip ok or the original motion .•. 84 Ik,h.allt ad Majority t i; ea ission into th e ga ll ery we found the house in giae ' B eussin g the bill, and Lord Duncannon in the ti Is ak e 4 4 VIN tidtn eDIS were proposed and agreed to, and the ad et 0 4°11e through committee-the house resumed. Itatra, d ers of the day were then disposed of, and the at Two o'clock. not even return arty to the agreer le by the award. nt of the plaintiff ated by the Leal it to refer was a tamped, Mr. Wil td not be receive( same view of the other means of agreement to ref ionsuited. est interest,' occu DAY. ATSON AND ANO' respectable per& a wholesale gri hinson, jun., a an Watson and ad the latter undi )n. The action , r a greyhound, va, het for the plaintiffs, CHER V. BALGUY. the sum of £6OO, u] fendant to the plait had been given by horley, of Goole, for , een given up, and on promissory note for Le note in question, I by Mr. Balm, I been jointly Chorley. Every of the defendant; eddall, that gentleins 9 a"reement, p u rpor , n ot £6OO should no t death of Mrs. Chor) isked to sign.lies ft the hands of the I r, and that the met tly added by another remained unsigned. r. Chorley ; nor woul o he had signed it, e, but subsequently and separate agree subject to a separate ag up the case, e* Ldorsed on the back 01 he parties, and the p; and, under his laintiffs. he following letter, ; Atherton, on the ich we here insert ►ring a more sum__ ram small tenements, ne measure for that of the existing elk nore especially when! ke smaller tenements 0 emitted, by my colleee e j ri last year, but he feljtjilbl measure that he refui e impossible to intro P of other business ; btit , i o l l Il be most happy to p•! t in s in my power. It f 3. 9) 1/ the house to the su b j e- 00 ;f chester, where the sa ll3e l e o I be of much s ervic e futservant, os' .5 :OP lits p ° Nl3l , v , 'LT ---, ICE BETWEEN MR. GEORGE HlB ,ll.iter THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. .sN 116, 4 Rro ti s Societof Friends having thought it right on ot t , La s y Pa tti . Ile it. '9 issue the enclosed paper, George Stacey, r e e a l to r , IIII Y f:. e ting from which it proceeds, takes the liberty a h ,reor —w arding on behalf of the said meeting, a copy heeds teat,. ll !bbeii and trusts that it will be kindly re tecod "Itti that ' attention which the importance of t es. 21 eeti l , 4st o r house, , lounB33dsditch, St month 1. EFORM. 110 11). 11 ,IVERPOOL STA..- , 0 r late upon church re 0 t ro ° ,nce anything new 11 00 I ' . , addressing you is, al o y . -eer t j it these violent and 0/ late •ei` property contemP- - 010 0 le ich will divert this r gee' e' I , l l. i ttli t astical. But it is 11 0 5 1 kl. ''r t Bat t PA, 51 1,,,, ° NS 0, , ,, ages. Granted . --, bt ? of ~51 „ , ,, t ,,1 11 r.r un- 0 - , THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY, RESPECT d rig .ot I ( 1 4 ' 1 (11., T o N BEHALF OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY with justice an I t ow Le b $ Tn. ~.. the O L, L q , La ot . • - CHRISTIAN PUBLIC IN THE BRITISH Lnds, as sincere I.' jo g 1 ! Lo ad ' . ety or , dews, and as desert „ 010 1 ciy k kt t % t a Nt e Friends having long believed it to be their :he advocates for 1 34 51 l e ti,.% lib thei r tae inalienable right of the injured sons of XOl,l 4h, en v des cend might easily say 3 . , 0 1 ,1 'e t , , tp o 4 , feel ~, mats to the enjoyment of ciyil . and re ly ow 1 , ed, h ant h '!iemselves constrained, .in Christian love, ly met with some st ,Aw 3 h bt e f ti• e P' i t -tir -to ri rl 'ad, not only to maintain the cause of the fought deserving 3.- .„ % e! 4 , et qt r 'sh e ,,P plead with those who are upholding the sys ,to insert the folloolP4ll' oketiter ortonial slavery. ,-019 f a ~thi, t ab2',Century has now elapsed since the Britis 1-I `'' OF/ i 4,thi s v ety 1 1 1 0 "qed the slave-trade on the coast of Africa; ;_ d ig A, ils,, ca lpir , ar, within our colonial territories, the sub- Church of Englaii ~c(1 „PIA ep.stnea e are legally sanctioned in buying and selling or all who are eng a ir ° Sfr i lo Yt t i; th e 43 the beasts that perish. Year after year has nnot close with th - 0 if',./ t 4 es, ety of • t ho 6" ks Op, JUstice and mercy has been raised ; the as, and equalisinl , 5 0. 4 f 0,./ li t Up s eee t t • e ssed and de,graded children of our Heavenly the glory and t 1- 10 4,,,kr k 1,1 ,, 14ed t_ ,aevocated ; the practice of slavery has 'been l Reformers will 0 ,0 ;„ , t r}4,Ni vain uDe utterly unchristian, so that, thou . & sophis d I have good rek o r , r,!• l ,‘P ',''‘ l . l Ployed in attempts at refutation, it,has been rsecuted for an 01 3 cf 4; 0 1 h Nit th ; and reason and religion have gained greater it4 fti e i e4 4 j contest; it is nevertheless still suffered to dis ;ive credit to the sii i eie irts popularity, ai l l . ` l tv ii,, 41,y de `r.Y. , and stands the b t i ,, i lle tlt,, , i* of slavery has within the last ten years been be the truth." 1 ,d. ell V, , Led by means of official documents laid before N" ai et k o je,t,yell as by the testimony of men of unquestioned 31h Y ed 'klk ti‘ esses of the enormities of the system. It has LII I .ERPOOL SV Id • Ael l Y 18 t 0 0 5 1) '; co ir dit, i t i t tle O es lo ,t ik t,.the invariable lendency of this condition of _ . and co 4b kor ro ' e;',,,en moral principle, and to benumb and de olonial affairs, of every assertion ss ' r 4 13 ' at - ':e4 B i o t s, a,;ghathies of the human heart. Its atrocities red itself upon tile r yos car ly qtid eet t l ial r4oNv exposed to public view, are not beheld )ugh the channel ~° sl o e a 1 4 01 1 , 1 e tt , but K i ts, but as its natural and uniform results. met of prFpari4i t„ o e 'l3 , l fa h ,' al3j o l) ,!ssioiZ unrestrained and licentious indulgence at, to be signet, eery t on e " 4,;(11y , `" ser v ii,an be expected from the prevalence of •fectly alive, as e`aii A fe/P 4 .e1 t q1 0 4114 eri,qtY on the part of one portion of the hu sidered abstraet e 34 13 ' c ital I IsLetei s a's hh as e titrolled power on the part of another ? a. with due cauti° ° 6o 6l. st orf i tr 4? shied u pon elf to examine more in detail the barbarity pon a subject 0 ' slosh d et tro k w l2 l3 of ?et they she victims of slavery-, and the degrada nd all others ili ol t . . 4 .NOll th eV / . .3, re i .plunged, a degrad.ation marked boardthe vehicle o f the n ase `Vial ed e sltu a j e ung that ennobles man, must reg as minded calumni es ' 'o os ' et itlit e 'in d• l an of those who, from mistaken policy, in progress in Varj goy C ,py t ? eo B tl kut alteveetly upholding this system. tie alit h w", the°lace v e r y upholding acquaintance with the laws of . 1., ct 0 I'l h 8 • • 118 t ;ing the sut a „ L ey . At e • ts t kt s „ Pilat a hat nothing is more repugnant than lows better t . 3 t hat 11 . e ct v NO% eV er y e ad Precepts of his holy religion. "All of the c- -- eb.l 'l` 'in " w eou do .e and was It tl ho g wa s th aid that men should do to y . , y nists, and that to, uer shal t 1 e command of our blessed Saviour• and l eve a e ve th • which 3 , A new o „ re c o , y neighbour as thyself," under Ja, t.? 0 „"' and ecd Prnended our fellow creatures of every ii,:te -;,. Our {,„ e 'lr• These divine laws are of perpe 'eaehf's'e cola t ;a further declares " If thou wilt enter ,i t ' 4' i : If, i a ' a timents;" "If ye love my he not in ci a ,:a, we wilfully violate his comman d- Ih t ist ? -"°:' givin " el ' of losing an inheritance in eternal 111114' a nd t hel F e tragical proof that we do not love fo r mien t al ' sell ourep• greater violation of his righteous Y ( ih o , a" their ff fellow men, to claim a right of pro letkllYing'tr Leilas i,P r ing, to hold in perpetual bondage Lt d t s tie as to te3l ord ~,,h : lis, Christ died? Is not this prat:- ;44 - tha t d ng with th uought us? And ought not tiTse • e Wei • a ) wnen w „ e al solemn reflections on looking ha, irist - stl - must all appear before the judg , , tli , y beseech eJect,"verY denoin9liatti„i'llaw n rYmenour Christian pths' e uf the same in --11, to laythings to heart.— . I .ed \I Pure an . . ogovernraent fll a I th 'l Pen t ci hly reh • ,as _e_ow- e levers n e oth_ 0 cherish f g l ° ll of our blessed Redeemer, we. ,:r. w eeh n e therefore rof kindness and love one to auectionatelv desire that we may ha le ro k, ho., as you I °Y e ct it e might almost susite., it c it. Be this as it lit 6'f til e reserved, the i l g t t he e1‘..4 a goes ono hint a varlio3 to of the country', iose. taxes for such a Pitri tb, is not likely, indeef edged though sonic ° avi to anything o f this avi it which, to every ;3111.01,14 ree hazardous, 0" ea 1.0 Ile benefit to be deo% urs, &C., virEsT IND o!,1 term i na ted on fritia of lo Irton-hall, the Conser ato Major AGLIONBY, S ' accordingly easily &lea l; i r li d e e c end 1 the 4 :„11. ' Yet tha ly the rti l lv , the t,„—aointio hesrbl",i t r i ert on ' n # )) 3 m ot i but 0, was ° , r n the °''. 11_,,Uuds !Inept t ° 1 1 1 ' 1 a. se Y% e . 2 2.4 c o o .4,g• S 4, f fi 444- 0 'rued v s do writtesor t, Mini:o6l.j cami'lett din el l , t • e snlAec" 4.)11141, r shOWil9 iliteurn efer the .eedere ip g it cur of Ir4lnar rvh ' had Y• °T ug's . f , ! 'kth bee sons,Katy °ll 2, e t rocer, °de th 'Lae] wo sugar- ,re .e,.littat Jac ler-keePe#4o, 4,rence was b,9 kitt e a PY valued a o ce " ; , 4, miffs, c a; than tr a l re, f p, I f ti e , ade , uP °ll 4 , li t tt. wi th >lan-164,4i tbattleE by theZ f ir, 152 6 th e , for the If lootei s cid 051 t he e , •B a s then for ip! ' l : l lit ilt , l Nci ,an pe , t( ) th Who bA,I, t ° eon air e wino' " e au :ry pr t , °1 „ : °f th, b114,d ut • , lernao,h d r t ut' ro th arporti, .d n ot of :horieY,o(6l: b: He, 11°,1; Wa CO the de'c'dfir O ng 3r inew oro. r ,o tbj ec as [ other sf o * N ege n sect ielectieand would ' t c llr 1 1 a t n g inaglajd i.eyD.r°rni !ntly or Ite e ris Teoneetvi Z to hr !parate 1,1 • the 1 e expe,i„ LL ick 01' Lu, ebi ther e ,'ef," ise .. t ttT his cliP.alt 1,. /v tb „.1 i t 'l wm A A r,l, kJ, he ter, au" ,r e ct 4 4 1 aor. the Pil" , ° , f A D ert for '1 e dtio i 1 1 ` o qt 0 11 , 1 aniarY Ili .: ri t 4l ] pr s',, p a merw, lc eh, 6 ' hat il d j ttlit te as , tu 510 1 a t e h the !had vise", bY to of s ents i 5 1 ,1 1 4.1 .11. ;be THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. all be wholly clear of any longer supporting this unrighteous system, and contributing to frustrate the gracious and bene ficent designs of our Almighty Parent respecting his rational creation. We believe that amongst the proprietors of slaves there are those who are amiable in the various relations of pri- Tate life, and who are seeking to live as becometh the Gospel.- 7 -- To . these -we would especially appeal. Permit us, iu sincere good will, to ask you—can you, as believers in Christ, and de sirous to be numbered with his disciples both here and hereafter, continue to be connected with a system - so entirely opposed as slavery is to the scope and design of his Gospel? When you contemplate the moral state of the countries where it prevails, when you consider their blighted prospects, notwithstanding all the unhallowed gains which it has yielded, can you doubt but that this system is signally marked by the righteous displeasure of the Supreme Governor of the world ? The present circumstances of the slaves and of the free people of colour in the British colonies, the troubles in the Mauritius, the insurrections of Jamaica, and the religious per secutions which have followed, are momentous signs of the times •as regards the continuance of slavery. Contemplating these events, and the increased interest for the oppressed, which so manifestly pervades every class of society in this land, the time is surely arrived when all should co-operate in Christian endeavours wholly and speedily to remove this na tional sin. When a people have become enlightened on the enormity of a crime, the guilt of continuing that crime is ag gravated. Ignorance of the real character and tendency of slavery can no longer be pleaded. Warning has, of later times. succeeded warning with portentious rapidity. Divine revelation teaches us, and the history of mankind exemplifies the truth, that the retributive justice of the Most High does fall on individuals and on nations when they wilfully conti nue in their guilt, and take not heed to the solemn warnings conveyed in the exercise of his over-ruling providence. Now is our time : protraction accumulates the guilt. It -is fearful to look at the present state of society in the colonies ; it is still more fearful to look forward. As we believe that the continuance of slavery is an offence in the sight of God, so we also believe, that if, from a conviction of its sinfulness, we in repentance towards God put away this evil from before him, he will graciously turn unto us and bless us; and if laws for its immediate and entire extinction, accompanied by judicious and equitable provisions, are forthwith made, that our . Hea venly Father will prosper this work of mercy. And we further believe, that by the substitution of the paternal care of the Government in the place of the arbitrary power and authority of the master, the peace of society will be secured, and the comfort, the happiness, and the prosperity of all be greatly pro moted. We offer these reflections with no feelings of hostility to any class ; we sincerely pity those who are involved in a system from which the conduct of our predecessors in religious pro fession has warned and guarded us. We cannot doubt but that many of the colonial proprietors would gladly disencumber themselves from the burden of any longer upholding slavery, and that they would unite in such measures for its abolition as they might deem safe and equitable. We feel for them as possessors of estates which may have descended to them by inheritance with the clog of slavery attached to them. At the same time, being fully persuaded that men are most likely to prosper in the world when, iu the conducting of their temporal affairs, they act according to the eternal principles of justice, we are strongly impressed with the belief that the immediate provision for the termination of slavery at the, earliest possible period will, in this respect, greatly benefit the colonial pro• praetor. May our legislators, and all in authority both at home and abroad,—may every one in his individual allotment, who can sympathize with the sufferings of the oppressed, and to whom it is given to feel for the present and future well-being of his fellow-men, 7 -be so influenced by the power of Christian love and of Christian truth, as that we may all cordially co-operate in endeavouring to effect this righteous object, and not relax in our efforts until its final accomplishment. In conclasion, it is our earnest prayer, that it may please Almighty God to continue to regard this kingdom for good ; and to direct its councils in this and other acts of justice and mercy so as to promote his glory in the harmony of his rational creation. Signed in and on behalf of a meeting representing the re ligious Society of Friends in the intervals of its yearl meeting, by - GEORGE STACEY, Clerk. London, the 4th of the Ist Month. Billiter-court, March 13. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, through you, of an address on the subject of slavery from "The Religi ous Society of Friends." The perusal of that address has sug gested some few remarks, which I think fairly grow out of its topics, and to which I take the liberty of calling the attention of the society. I am not about to canvass the merits or demerits of slavery, nor shall I inquire whether the documents laid before Parlia ment exhibit, as the society asserts, " atrocity and horror, not as its.occasional fruit, but as its natural and uniform result." I ought, perhaps, to ascribe it to prejudice and personal interest that I have come to a different conclusion; that I think those documents exhibit cruelty as of rate occurrence, and the gene ral treatment of the negroes as humane ; but I shall rest nothing upon that question. I shall take it that we are all desirous of getting rid of the system of slavery " wholly and speedily : " I presume, that to advance the negro in the career of civiliza tion, and to preserve the colonies as productive possessions to the British empire, are the great objects which the Religious Society of Friends have in view; and I must put it to their in telligent apprehension of the condition in which a forced and unwilling emancipation on the part of the white inhabitants would place the negrocs, whether those objects would be attain ed or not. You do not make the negro a happy or a civilized being by . merely printing a law that he shall be free—your law, when it is passed, must be executed, and if you are met by sul lenness and distrust on the part of every man to whose agency you must look for giving effect to your law, it is very plain that you have gained but little by legislation. You may overthrow the system, because you can break the chain, and send abroad the elements in mischief; but your object is not mischief, nor do you seek to subsitute one kind of tyranny for another. 1 hope and believe that I express your feelings, and that your so ciety are not indifferent to the horrors of insurrection. Then, if it be necessary that you should so frame your pro ceedings as to carry the proprietors of West India estates and their brethren in the colonies along with you, as co-operators in the measures, is your address exactly calculated to effect that object? Ido assure you most solemnly that I believe the great body of persons interested in colonial property are at present 1 desirous of entering into any comproinise which, while it gives freedom to the negro, shall offer a reasonable conipensation for the loss of that which the lawi have 'recognized as property, ' and a guarantee against that wholesale ruin which the change of system may . possibly occasion. Now, there is in your address no substantive pledge of reason able compensation for what you propose immediately to take from us, or of indemnity against what we apprehend may be the result of vour interference. It threatens us with "laws to be forthwith . made for the immediate and entire extinction of sla very." This is explicit enough, and we understand it. It says, those laws are to be accompanied by "judicious and equitable provisions." Here we complain that your words are less ex plicit; that if reasonable compensation be intended, it is feebly and timorously expressed, and we cannot but fear, therefore, that what you may consider as equity we may feel to be confis cation. You are aware that the colonists have already paid the British people for the labour of the negro and his progeny. This contract, you will say, can be of no avail against the negro.— Very true; but inasmuch as the British people now interfere •to rrescind the contract, we apprehend that they should refund the consideration on which it was made, and, moreover, guarantee the consequences of rescinding it. Such are the provisions which, in our view, can alone, in effecting emancipation; be de servedly called equitable : and I must earnestly invite you, upon this important point, to unfold more at large your meaning.— At present I must complain that your address is obscure only where your payments, and lucid only where our losses, are con cerned. 1 regret this the more, because upon the value and ef ficacy of such provisions must depend the co-operation of those whose experience, from their situation, is indispensable to the successful working of the scheme. It may be wrong, it may be unchristian, that the co-opera tion of the colonial proprietors should depend upon the terms which are held out to them; but you must take man as he is, with all the self-interested motives which, for the most part, acs tuate his conduct, It may be that our blessed Saviour's words are to be literally taken, and that we ought to offer our scrip to him who robs us of our purse ; but men never have acted on such principles, and, it is to be feared, never will. In estimat ing property they look to the laws of the society under which they live, and to those alone; and if those laws have counten anced, have encouraged, have enjoined, the cultivation of West India estates by negro slaVes, and have upheld the right of pro perty in those slaves, you cannot decree those laws to be wrong, and those rights to be nought, without exciting a sense of ill treatment and a determinate on to resist. ..--.---. To what extent the British laws have gone in sanctioning an interest in slavery, and what has been the relative share of the nation and or the colonists in enacting those laws, you may learn by reading the paper which I enclose, on "The Origin and Progress of West India Slavery." You will learn from that paper that the slave trade originated before the West India slands existed as colonies of Great Britain; and for 200 years it was greedily pursued by the merchants and manufacturers of this kingdom; that it was fostered' by every species of Parli.a mentaryprotection : and that repeated attempts on the part of the colonial assemblies to restrain it were disallowed by the Bri tish government, because of the urgent complaints of the Britsh Merchants and manufacturers, and because the traffic was con sidered beneficial to the nation. The society are pleased to say, that " they sincerely pity those who are involved in the system, and feel for than 'l as possess ors of estates which may have descended to them from their ancestors." May I beg for some little extension in the sphere of their comparison ? 1 am not one of those who inherit an interest in slavery ; but I am one of a numerous class, who finding, on my first establishment in life, the cultivation of the West India Islands by. negro slaves a favourite object of the domestic policy of Great Britain, have largely advanced my money in aid of their cultivation. I have for many years paid the expenses of estates and furnished supplies for negroes, where the proprietors were unable to do so themselves. For the debts thus incurred I have taken security on the estates and negroes, whose condition I am willing to hope has been bettered by my advances. These securities are, in most cases, the only fund to which I can look for re-payment: they form the bulk the means to which my creditors must look for the satisfaction of their demands upon me : upon the value of these securities depends the maintenance ,or the beggary of myself and of my family. Then what is expected from me? We have here, as you say, a "national sin." We have a had, and, if you please, an un christian system fastened upon individuals by the British people. You tell me that men are most likely to prosper in the world when, in conducting their temporal affairs, they act according to the "eternal principles of justice," and that therefore the termination of slavery at the earliest possible period will, in this respect, greatly benefit the colonial proprietors. Is it just, is it reasonable, is it in conformity with " the eternal principles of justice," to demand that I should sign away the security I have legally acquired, the onty security I have for all that I possess, in expectation that Providence will make it up to me in some other way ? And if. all this be my duty, in what other way can I hope that Divine Providence will act, than bymak ing your justice equal to your compassion, by awakening in you a sense of the sin and shame of being mercitul at other men's expense, and of offering to your Creator a sacrifice which costs me every thing, and you nothing at all ? Allow me to bring the case nearer home, You say that the " con duct of your predecessors in religious profession has warned and guarded you against being involved ' in the system. I am glad of it for your sakes. You are then spared the anxieties of losing in your old age MY fruits of the industry of Your youth. You have therefore nothing to lose by the failure of any hazardous experiments which may he,foreed upon the Government. But though not, as you say, " in. volved" in the system, have not some of your body approximated to the guilt which belongs to persons in my situation 1 Surely you are not ignorant that London and the outports afford many instances of persons who belong to the Society of Friends,but who, nevertheless, as agents, as shipowners, as tradesmen, knowingly and profitably con tribute to the maintenance of a trade which is based on slavery. I have told you in what way I am connected with the slave system. that the demands of myself and my brother merchants arise, in a great measure, from paying the cost of various supplies for the maintenance Of estates. Now, some of these supplies my brother merchants and myself have occasionally purchased from members of your religious society. ,There has been no disguise about the matter ; the goods have bees ordered for a West India estate; ,they have been made up and forwarded with a full knowledge of, and view to, their destina tion. We have paid for those goods, and the sums so paid form, in some instances, a part of our demand at this very momentagainst the proprietor. We never met with the least objection on the part of any such member of your society, who was the conscious shipper of these goods, to receive the stipulated price. We heard nothing about " un hallowedvains ;" nor up to this moment has any intimation reached us that they would have been content to leave the payment to Provi dence, or that they meditate the reduction of our demands by bring ing back the sums they have received. I call upon any such member of your society to put himself for a moment in my situation. We have both administered to the demands of the slave system. He has been paid for what he contributed, and by me. I remain unpaid. Do " the eternal principles of justice" stamp my claims as unhallowed, and quit his receipts scot free ? And whence comes it, may I ask, that the " eternal principles of justice," which have decided upon my loss, do not stimulate a little more than they seem to do that remuneration which I have a right to expect at your hands ? Again, then, I ask, what do you mean by " equitable provisions ?" What are persons in my situation to expect for the annihilation of those legal securities in reliance upon which their advances were made ? I have now before me a statute, drawn, as lam told, by Dr. Lushington, and passed only 14 years ago,' and which the late Mr. Stephen called an act " to record, to render clear and notorious, the rights of the owner;" which declares the validity of a security on ne groes and their issue, if certain provisions have been, complied with. If that statute has sinned against " the eternal principles of justice," shall we mend the matter by fixing the penalty on the individuals whom it has misled? Do not suppose I am pleadir ' i with you fora continuance of slavery I have never been blind, to the difficulties which might at any time beset the social condition in the West Indies, nor to the dangers which agitation might produce upon multitudes in a low state of civilization. I thought, and still think, that the only safe mode of breaking down the system of slavery is, to use the language of the late Mr. Stephen,+ "by an emancipation of which the masters should be the willing instruments ; and that nothing could be more dangerous than to im press the slaves with the notion of a general enfranchisement being intended for themliy the promoters of an impending act of Parlia ment, of the benefit of which their masters, full of alarm and conster nation, were striving hard to deprive them." But Ino longer feel assured that the choicer of the means is in my power. Agitation has done its work in the West Indies as elsewhere, and I therefore agree with you that " now is the time,"—" protraction" not only " aggra vates the guilt," it accumulates the danger. The colonists are desirous of adjusting the question upon terms which shall not impose on them more than their share of responsibility for a " national sin ;" and if the Religious Society of Friends will come forward with some distinct proposal of compensation and indemnity, they will find no want of cordial co-operation on the part of the colonial proprietors. YOu abound in scriptural quotation. Pardon me, then, for remind ing you that in the parable of the Good Samaritan there are two precedents, and that you follow neither the one nor the other. You abhor the selfishness of the Levite, who saw it was a troublesome business, and would have nothing to do with it at all ; hut as yet you have not imitated the generosity of the Samaritan. You seem quite as much aware of the expense off' the wine and oil as of their efficacy, and you pity the groans of the wounded man, without coming down :with the 2d., or signing the bond for his further relief. In conclusion, permit me to assure the religious Society of Friends, that I fully estimate the extent of their charity in hazarding' their " belief ' that " among the proprietors of slaves there are those who are amiable in the various relations of private life, and who are seek ing to live as becometh the gospel;' and to add, that I should not have troubled them with these observations, if I did not hope that there were persons in their body, not only not destitute of candour, but seeking to promote the great interests of the world with gentleness and intelligence. I am, respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE HIBBERT. Mr. George Stacey, Friends' Meeting-house, • iloundsditch. • Defonee of the Registry Bill. Letter I. p. 14. 12. + Speech at the annual-meeting of the African institution, 1817; P. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Half-part Seven o'clock. We find by the latest advices from Naples that the Government was employed in completing a treaty of commerce with the United States upon terms of reciprocity. Our Consol Market has been rather flat for the last day or two, and the quotations, at the close of business, was 871 Exchequer Bills are at 47 to 48 premium. We believe a meeting of the East India proprietors will take place on Monday, to consider the state of their atlairs, and the measures likely to be adopted by the Government, B:.c. Spanish stock has been an object of very considerable speculation within the last few days, and has risen to 201 after having experienced a slight reaction from the improved price, we have b e f o r e no ti ce d. The Northern Bonds continue pretty firm ; Russian Bonds are 1038 ; Dutch,. 478 ; Danish, 738 74 ; and Belgian, 881 89. Brazilian Bonds are very heavy at 628, although we have a notification that the dividends will be.paid on the Ist of April, as was expected. Altogether, our communication of this day is more than usually un interesting; nothing having transpired from any quarter of the world of much interest We have just seen Canton papers to the 4th Nov, They state that the rebellion was considered as nearly terminated. Great drought hae prevailed at Pekin until the end of July, and caused much anxiety. Rain had, however, fallen then and removed it. Various reports were current respecting Ls, the deposed Governor of Canton. Ac cording to some he had been condemned to death. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister Extraordinary, had this morning (Tuesday) an interview (probably his last) with Lord Palmerston and Prince Talleyrand. It is notorious in all the political circles that the demands of the French Ambassador are such as Mr. Dedel is not authorised to listen to, much less to yield; and therefore whether meetings like that of this morn ing are continued or not a little longer, there is not the most remote probability of an arangemcnt at present —Standard. A short time since a respectable farmer's daughter, whilst on a visit to a friend's house, near Houghton-le-Spring, became enamoured of a schoolmaster, and as the feeling was reciprocal, the joyous pair, after a six days' courtship, were made on e -t wa i n in the - holy bonds of matrimony. The father of the bride, ou learning what had taken place, provided a wedding feast for his household, but the revels were most inopportunely interrupted by a declaration from the farmer's man-servant, that he had been privately married to the bride a short time before! ,It would require the pencil of a Hogarth to describe the eclair cissement ; the rich prize was left in possession of the astonished dominie for several days, and was only given up to her original lover and husband after a treaty to which several functionaries of the village were parties.—Newcastle . Journal. It is reported that Capain Barrington, R.N., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, had resigned on account of ill-health; and rumours states that P. M. Stewart, Esq. M.P. for Lan 7 caster will be his successor.—Guardian. Yesterday, shortly . after eleven o'clock, the Mayor, attended by the Bailiffs, Magistrates, and Cougeilmen, anda large body of the Clergy and Laity, left the Town-hall to lay the first stone of the new Church to be built in the street leading, out of' Great-Howard-street, beyond the Boreirgh Gaol. The church is t.) be called All Saints, and is to c'ontaiti 1,000 sittings, of which, 200 are to be wholly free, 500 to be let to the labouring classes at two shillings a sitting per annum, and the remainder to be let at a moderate rent for respectable tradesmen. There . are also to be two schools in connection with it to hold 250 boys and 250 girls. The Corporation gave the ground, the Par liamentary Commissioners £l,OOO, the Church Building Com mittee £4OO, the School Building Committee in London £l5O, and the Moorfieldt School Committee £6OO, and there have been several munificent private donations;_ we understand, however that £3OO at least, are still wanted to complete the iequisitefunds. The Rev. A. Campbell, attended by Messrs. Stewart and Picton, the architects, presented the trowel, &c. to the Mayor, who laid the stone with the usual ceremonies, expressing his high gratification at having had the opportunity of assisting in so religious a work, and the ceremony was concluded with 'the following prayer: — Blessed be thy name, 0 Lord, that it hath pleased thee to put it into the hearts of thy servants to erect in this place a, House to thy honour and worship. Bl ess , 0 L or d, th ose w h o have con tributed their bounty towards it, and accept this their charitable work. Forget not tliis kindness that they have shewedfor the House of their God and the offices thereof; let their eyes be hold the success of their designs for the service of thy true reli gion established amongst us; and grant that all they who shall enjoy the benefit of this pious work, may shew forth their thank : fulness, by holy obedience to thy Divine Majesty, and. dutiful obedience to the earthly powers that are ordained by thee, so that seriously laying to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions, we may henceforth be all of one heart, and one soul, united in one hOly bond of truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee, our common 'Father, through Jesus Christ our Lord. It has too often been the fate of improvements in mechanical science and the arts, to have invidious statements circulated re specting them emanating from .a spirit of jealous hostility.— 'I here has not been-a more meritorious and useful invention than Chubb's Improved Patent Detector Locks, yet a malig nant report was industriously circulated, that at the late rob bery of the Wells' Bank, in Somersetshire, the detector lock. was picked, an assertion, the falsehood of which nas been proved, by the declaration of the proprietors of that highly respectable establishment, a fact that has more than ever tended to establish the safety and infallible security of that invalu able invention. A most ridiculous rumour of the capture of French vessels itt the East Indies is going the round of the daily ))apers. Tho , story originates in the reported captures of vessels by pirates from the Island of St. Eustatia, in the West Indies, to which we have lately given the most pointed contradiction.—Guardian. The letters'from Ostend state that his Majesty of Belgium intends to put a high duty on English vessels trading with that country, particularly if they shall presume to enter the canals of that new Government. The merchant ship Oak had re mained ten days at Ostend, without receiving the necessary documents wherewith to pais up the canal to Ghent, and great doubts were entertained as to the success of the application foi. an English ship. A French vessel, they state, would have no difficulty.—Guardian. It was reported on Saturday that Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm was about to return to port to strike his flag. This would argue, either that Sir P. Malcolm is to be superseded in his command, or, on the other hand, a positive assurance that hostile demonstration is no longer called for; and yet we know, that at the present moment so much activity prevails at some of our dock-yards, and particularly at Woolwich. that it has been found necessary to demand the assistance of additional clerks. The Admiral, we find, sailed on Thursday from the Downs for Sheerness.—Naval and Military Gazette. We were in hope that we shoull this week have had it in our power to communicate some favourable intelligence respecting the Calypso packet brig, to which we alluded last week as not having been heard of for a considerable period; but we regret to say that no account has since been received. The Emulous, another packet brig, which sailed from Falmouth for America s about a month after the Calypso (the middle of Dec. last), has not been heard of since.—Naval and Military Gazette. A Cabinet Council was held as usual last Sunday. Lordlki thorp said in the house that these Sunday meetings were not Cabinet Councils, but only little consultations , ; and since they. were for the good of the country, there could be no sin in them. If that is all his lordship's security, his shield is but small.— John Bull. Hymen has been very busy among the Benediets at Long's. Hotel last week. On Monday, Viscount Torrington, who had been staying at the hotel for five weeks, was married at Lang ham church, to Miss Astley, daughter of Sir John Dugdale Astley, of Langham-place, and Eveleigh, Wilts, Yesterday; John Burgess, Esq. was married to Lady Caroline Clement*, daughter to the Earl of Leitrim; ,and about the same hour the. Count de Bo sere was married to Miss Saunderson, of Port man-sguare. . The latter "happy pair" will pass a few days in the neighbourhood of Windsor. ,THE CHASE. THE CIIRSIIIRE Hourins will meet on Wednesday, 27th, at Sandl-. way Head—Thursday, 28th, at Tarvifi Village—Saturday, 30th, at Arley.—Each morning at half-pastten o'clock. SIR THOMAS STANLEY'S HOVERS will meet this day, the 26th, at the Two Mills, at ten o'clock. MR. WICKSTED'S Fox HOUNDS will meet on Thursday, 28th, at Hales—Saturday, 30th, at Heleigh Castle.—Each morning at half past ten o'clock. SIR RICHARD PrIASTON'S HOUNDS Will meet on Friday, 29th, at Oteley Park, at eleven o'clock. THE SIIROPSIIIRE Fox llourios will meet on Wednesday, 27th, at Acton Burnell—Friday, 29th, at Boreatton.—Each morning at half past ten o'clock. 3Lonbon Gagtte. FRIDAY, MARCH 22nd, 1833. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. S. Parkes, R. Ashton, and J. Walmsley, LiverpooL—W. Gorsuch and J. Goudie, Liverpool, general-agents.—W. B. Jones and J. An. derton, Kingston-upon-Thames, chemists and druggists.—A Lowe, J. Williams, and P. Lowe, Brazil, commission-agents.—ll. Chadley and E. A. Atkinson, Clapham, Surrey, schoolmistresses.—J. Stewart and J. Newey, Birmingham, brass-founders.—J. Collins and G. Bees, Compton Bishop, Somersetshire, brewers.—C. Aubrey and M. A. Aubrey, Lambeth-marsh, wire-drawers.—Jas. Shires and J. Shires, Manchester, millwrights.—T. Aston and J. Aston , button-makers.— A. Henry, S. Henry and J. C. M'Failine, Manchester, general coin-, mission-agents.—WAlelliday and E. Pridham.—B. F. Hopkins and B. Hopkins, Exchange-buildings, Sweeting's-alley, Royal Exchange, Russia-brokers.—S, - Bradbury and W. Rhodes, Alderra., te-street, grocers.—W. Harvey, C. Tysoe, and J. Broornhead, Salford and Man chester, cotton-spinners.—P. Trehern, J. D. Trehern, and H. Tre hern, Ledbury, Herefordshire, grocers.—C. Hodgson, J. Hodgson, and C. Hodgson, jun., Sheffield, manufacturers and merchants.—S. Jones, S. Jones, jun., and George Jones, Gloucester, brush-manu. facturers.—M. Scales and W. W. Scales, Aldg,ate, High-street, car cass butchers and salesmen.—J. H. Wardle and John Brown, Not. tingham, lace-manufacturers. INSOLVENTS. March 18—Richard Barttelot, Petworth, Sussex, saddler. March 21—James Towers, Bishopsgate-street-within, insurance.. broker. March 21—John Attree, 'Brighton, grocer. March 22—George limiter, Bury-street, Westminster, wine-men, chant. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Joseph Hodgson, Oxford-street, tobacconist, BANKRUPTS. William nankin, Kirkdale, Lancashire, stone-mason, April 6, May 3, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitor, Mr. Chester, Sta., ple Inn. William Thomas Mitchell, Woolwich, builder. John Wollett, Newbury, Berkshire, tea-dealer. William Threlkeld, Winchester-street, Broad-street, grocer. William Barrington, Sandbach Heath, Cheshire, silk-throwater, Ann Booth, late of Bury, Lancashire, shopkeeper. Thomas Houghton, Ormskirk, Lancashire, scrivener. George May, Clay-cross, Derbyshire, shoe-maker. DIVIDENDS. April 12, R. Hardman, New Bond-street, hatter.—Aprill2, J.. Moss. man, Maulden, Bedfordshire, sheep-dealer.—April 12, F. Giles and J. Giles, Steward-street. Spitalfields, silk-manufacturers—April 18, S. Baxter, • Carmarthen-street, Tottenham-court-road, builder.—April 12, J. Lyon, Savage-gardens, City, merchant.—April 12, R. Parry, . Birmingham, hop;merchant.—Aprills, T. Salmon, Stoke Ferry, Nor. folk, rnerchant.—April 15, T. Ford, Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, innkeeper.—April 13, R. Harding, Bristol, timber-merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shewn to the eon.+ trary on or before the 12th day of April. T. Courtney and G. Courtney, Old Jewry, clothiers.—W. Careless, New-road, Chaltou, Kent.--J. Diamond, St. Paul's Chureh-yaru. tobacconist —J. Hollingworth, Southsen, Southampton, prints ,—lt, Wilkinson, City of London, merchant.—S. Tarrant, Quadrant Hotel, Regent-street, wine-merchant. —J. Berkley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant. —T. Cobb, Calthorpe House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, paper. maker.—G. Scott and J. Tomkinson, Birmingham, stationers.