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Tae BRITIPII PRriti cnovocnceil ftubliAhinz yesterday morning
at 'quarter past lire o'clock.

LONDON, IVEDNEADAY, Al GUST 4, 1821.

The good weak of ref • g our West India Colonies
seems to prosper. By letters from Demerara we learn,
that there has been a regular strike among the slaves, and
that they are coming in to inquire of the Governor, whe- ,
thee or not they arc obliged to work for their masters any
longer ; and the inhabitants of Trinidad, after remonstrat- i
iag in vain against the order which is to make them the
subject of a philanthropic experiment, and finding that the
Governor of the island had no option or discret' ry
power ou the subject, have set themselves down cal to
wait till the ruin, which they ace is inevitable, shall cr-
ude them. Ns 1p has told a story of certain boys, who
tried bow frogs would bear a pelting on the head with
!tones, and who were very much astonished at the
audacity of one of the unfortunate amphibii in te-
rn itnling them, that though to boys this might be
s.'ry good fun, yet it was death to the unlucky
frogs. The inhabitants of Trinidad have stated the
cline thing to the Legislature of this country, but
whether it will meet with the same sympathy as the
remonstrance of their prototypes time alone can show. In
the man time we would remind these experimentors of
what Burke said of sonic others of their class thirty years
a..0--', Such men feel nu more for the happiness of a
whole gen,ration of the human race, than they would fur
t!,e fat: of a frog under an air-pump." We have deter-
mined that, so far at least as our poor influence may go,
we shall not allow sneh palpable spoliation to go on, with-
out the public of Crt at Britain being made aware of it.
la the mean time it may be as well to remind the zealous
in the cause, that legislating fur colonies who had no repre-
sentatives in Parliament, lost us the l'ulted States of Ame-
rica ; and though the West lollies have not the same
paver of resistance within themselves as duse had, yet, if
we drive them to extremith s, as they themselves have al-
ready hinted, they may find friends able and willing to
help them to shake us off. In another part of our paper
will he found the continuation of the evidence of the
Wesleyan Missionaries, with regard to their reception by
the 11 est India planters.

/he improved condition of Ireland, its returning tran-
quillity, growing out of a reviving confidence in the pea.-
ssutry, that all is done for their alleviation which emu be
done— the failure of all efforts to stir up sedition, owing to
the visibly-declining influence of the Orimosfiretion, which
had so long tried the patience and long-suffering of eight
millions of their fellow-subjects, have so discomfited that
faction, and dispiritril its leaders, that all hopes of estab-
lishing their triumphant dynasty seems for ever at an end.
The following ertruurdinarg fuel will furnish evidence the
most decisive of the returning repose of Ireland:—Some
time since, the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin,
addressed a representation to the Loan Lir rt. I. NA NT,
stating that a large quantity if timber belonging to 6;d:reru-
n:rot was stored so near the cathedral awl library, as to
I irdanger the safety of these edifices. The Board of Works
reported that this timber had been purelurscil and ear:rafts:sr
for the purpose of lairrirmlning the street, ?fOust.ix, at
the close of the administration of the EA PI. TA L 110 T, a
abort time IN:fore the arrival of the Ai A out; IS E LLtSLIY!!

The Board of Works having. "Pried this lila.r to be
useless, and recosmnended that it should be put up for
public sale, the materiel of these projected fortifications
were accordingly sold by auction! This speaks volumes
as to what was the desperate condition of Ireland
previously to the present change of system. In fact,
nothing but this change of system would, it is mani-
fest, have saved her from the horrors of civil war, for
what was it bit the oppaite system that begot that dread-
ful spirit of insurrection against which these prepar-
ations were made? Had hostilities commenced, the regi-
mented idolaters of " the Glorious Memory" would, no
doubt, have shewn themselves the faithful organs of the
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY of IRF.I.AND. The ORANGE
Leaders too would have shewn themselves not insensible
to the value, and to the safety of their places; they would
have made choice of the beat rids, from which to send
their detachments; with the well-appointed staff which
they would have had, they would have reaped sheaves of
laurel in the glorious maintenance of monopoly, and in
defence of their exclusive right to all employments of
trust anti profit, civil, military, and ecclesiastical. Fortu-
nately, the recall of Lord TALUOT at that critical joie-
tore enables us to estimate the value of that system of policy
adopted by the M A Roe is WELLESLEY, which, grounding
itself on all the higher qualities of the mind, has overcome
all the deep-rooted causes of sedition which it had to en-
counter, and saved Ireland from experiencing those scenes
of misery which were opening upon her. The present
state of that country is a proof of the willing obedience
always paid by the people to power, exercised in the
spirit of eqnity. This instance proves the influence
of individuals st the head of a certain station, to
turn back, as it were, the title of events, and to coun-
teract, by their foresight and ability, the operation of
general and, apparently, inevitable causes. Much, un-
doubtedly, retrains to be done ; but regarding the present
as an earnest of the future, the Catholic has everything to
hope. The exclusive political influence of the Protestant
party, and the desire to retain it, has laid them, hitherto,
under the necessity of being unjust. But it is to be hoped
they will grow wise (Dough, in time, to sacrifice their
selJLde to their Arvid interests, and to abandon cheerfully,
anti from a sense of justice, that persecuting and proscrib-
ing spirit, against the effects of which it bad been found
tieceAsary to barricade the metropolis, and from the calami-
tous consequences of which Ireland was so fortunately
rescued by that change of system which is at present pre-
paring the way to its future greatness, and to its " union
in the bonds of peace."

The ..If,rninz Chronicle, a paper with whose opinions we
are habitually at variance, has the credit oI laying before
the public a statement of barefaced injustice and fraud,
which it becomes every one, who has the real honour of his
count: y at heart, to bold up to the public at large, for the
purpose of calling forth their unmeasured abhorrence on the
haad of the oppressor. The story is simply this :
A poor man, a yeoman of Surrey, possessed a field
aituattil in the midst of the estate of a rich landholder, who
was de'ermined, per
.fits et nrfas, to get possession of this
Naboth's vineyard. After all kinds of vexations annoy-
ance, bribes, and every other means had failed, the rich
man resorti il to an expedient which must convince every
one who hears it that, whatever his rank in society may
have been, he hail not the most distant idea of what the
word gentleman mesnt.

A piece of wood under the value of a shilling is found on
the poor 1111111. ti property; how It came there does not ap-
pear, but from the evidence adduced, and the whole cotn-
',lotion of the ailltir, a man can hardly be supposed to be
extremely uncharitable who believed that it was smuggled
there for the nonce. Upon this proof he is dragged before
a Magistrate, who reluctantly sends him to gaol, where lie
is kept for weeks on prison fare, and among all the outcasts
of the felons' side. Ile is brought to trial, honour-
ably acquitted, and escapes with merely the emaciation
which the squalcr rart-criN must necessarily cause, and the
burning feelings which a unse o 7 injustice and undeserved
contumely cannot fail to produce on an honest, ingenuous,
and innocent man.

Dunng his confinement he is tampered with to make him
jzonfess himself a felon ; his wife is acted upon to see if,
fear and starvation would compel her to induce her hus-
band to abandon his just rights, and a ditty ruse is at-,
tempted to throw him off' his guard, and make him stand
his trial, without Counsel to defend him, that he might be
the more easily entrapped by the legal force brought against
him . We give our cotemporary every praise for the inde-
pendent and manly way in which he has dragged to light
this odious, nn-English, ungentlemanly, and disgraceful
proct eding ; and we rust that the Gentlemen of Surrey will
mark their detestation of the act by their treatment of the
wretch who has been guilty of it. It is such outrages as
these against honour and good principle, such abuse of
power and of law, that produce radicalism and discontent
among a high-minded peasantry, who, if treated with
kindness, er even with justice, would be warmly attached
to their superiors, their King, and the Constitution under
which they live.

The Canadian Company, which we fortncrly mentioned,
has now lr...en fairly orpnised, and we understand that all
the shares are already bespoke. Whether we consider
this as a mercantile speculation, or as a grand piece of
colonial policy, or as a means of benefiting the indus-
trious and redundant population of this country, we must
admire it. At a future period we may cuter more at
length into its plans and details; in the mean time we give
the annexed as the proposed prospectus

The two Canada.% are among the most important depentler.sies
of the British Crown, and the Upper Province, in particular, en.
joys great advantages of soil and climate, In which respects it is
equal to the States oft fhb) and New York. liut the progress of
cultivation has not been carried to the saute prosperous extent, and
the population is still thinly spread over the country.
The want of capital sufficient to form establishments upon a scale
calculi:iv:l to raise a surplus of produce fin exportation, has been a
great cause of the languid progress of improvement in Upper
Canada. The original settlers were, fin the most part, emigrant
families and refugees, sith but little or no property, and those
who have resorted thither since, arc persons chiefly of the same de-
scription ; insomuch, that it may be justly said, that the prospe-
rity of the Cutony has hitherto been almost entirely tlependat.t on
13111M111 labour and indisidual exertion.

rheKe circumstances baring been represented to Government,
his Majesty's Stxretary of :44.1e fur the Colonial I►rpartment, desi-
rous to encourage the introduction of ipitul into thu Colony, has
agreed to dispose of the lands reserved for the (*malt. and the half
of those reserved fin the soprirt of the clergy, in such a nusnncr as
to facilitate that great object. t !roan and Clergy reserves con-
sist of tro-sevcisths tin lots of 'NU Arles each) m all the lands
granted by llovemnn•ut since 1791 ; they intersect all the scliled
districts, and are, in many plate., alrrstly surrounded by cul-
tivation.

It is, therefore, prnposed to form a Compriy, to be incorpo-
rated antler the 151111131011 of bis Akio4ty's Gocerament, the obp.tts
of which will be :

I. To purchase those portions of the Crown and Clergy re-
serves as shove dearrib,d.

2. To give immediate employment to emigrants on their arrival
in Canals.

3. 'fa prepare, by clearing the lands and building bowies, &e.
for the octtlettunt 01 persons and fsimlics to whotu the lands may
be sold or let, as may be agreed on.
4. To make acivuuces of capital, in small sums (under superin.
tendence, at the legal rate of interest in the ninny, which is six
per cent.). to such seuleni, on the lands of tin 'imminny, as may re.
quire it, withholding the titles till the titivancia air repaid, as well
as the price of th: lends.
L To give in this country, to persons intending to emigrate, in..
formation regarding the lands of the l'ontrany, and to facilitate the

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transmission of their tunas, butt not to interfere with the conreputeel
lot emigrants
ti To promote the general Improvement of the Colony, whether
it be in making island corrommications, connected with the lands
and interests of this Company, or in extending the cultivation of,
articles of export, such as Aar. hemp, tobacco, ke•
The population of Upper Canada, from emigration and natural
increase, has more than doubled within the last fifteen years ; and,
Oil an average. about 10,000 persons have fur several yams annually
arrived at Qaebec. Regard to these circumstances has been had in
the arrangement with Blvernment ; and, accordingly, the proposed
Company is to be allowed fifteen years to fulfil the contract, not
being bound to take possession in any one year of more land than
upon a reasonable calculation may be required ; but no limit is
put to the quantity which may he taken, so that the operations
of the Company will proceed according to the progressive settle-
ment and population of the Colony.
Thus the Canadian Company presents what no other public
establishment in this country, formed purposely for profit, ever
has done, the attainment or an object esteemed of great national
importance, founded on the basis of security on lands, that, by
the necessary effect of the application of capital, will be increased
in value every year.
The price to be paid is according to what shall appear to have
been the price of uncleared lands in the Colony on or before the
Ist of 31areli hat, when the de%ign of the proposed Company could
not have bten known in the Province.
The capital of the Company is to be 1,000,000!. to be raised in
10,900 shares of 100!. each. It is proposed to call for a deposit of
f,!. per share, and due notice of all further payments will be
given. Not more than the first instalment will be required in
the present year.
The Committee who have undertaken to form this Company are
authorised to state, that a Charter will be granted, and that Lim
rernoient will sanction an application to Parliament for an Act of
Incorporation.
The affairs of the Company to managed in London by a Board
of Directors, Ac. and, in Canada, by a Hoard of Commissioners
appointed by the Directors.

On Wednesday last the Duke of Gloucester (lined with
the Corporation of Gloucester, of which body his Royal'
highness is the Lord High Steward. Among the company
were—his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Esrl Somers, Lind
Sherborne, General Lord E. Somerset, the High Sheriff of
the County' Sir B. W. Guise, Bart. M.P. General Guise,
Colonel Itebb, M.P. Colonel Higgins. Major Higgins,
Captain Foster, Captain Stevnison, Captain Hawkins,
&c. _ •

Canning transacted business at the Foreign-office
yesterday. In the evening the Right lion. Secretary left
town ft.r Coombe Wood, on a visit to the Earl of Liver-
pool, where there was a select rty to dinner.
Yesterday morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer
eame to town from Charlton, Kent, and, after transacting
business at the Treasury, returned in the evening.
Yesterday Mr. Finersey, an extra Messenger, was sent
off with despatches from the Colonial-office, in Downing-
street, for Alcona.
The I slit ult., the Duke of Buckingham and his party,
leaving their yacht at Inverary, came actors the country
to APLellan's Inn, at Tarbet, where they slept, and
next day, in Otte of the boats belonging to the house,
they visited the most prominent point► in that delightful
scenery.
Friday Lord and Lady Macdonald, the lion. Misses
Macdonald, the Hon. Gulfray and James Macdonald, left
Edinburgh, on thir way to Arniadale Castle, their seat, in
the island of Skye.
The lion. Colonel Fitzgibbon came over In the steam
packet from Calais which conveyed Mrs. Wellesley Pole,
and family, to this country. Our readers, who recollect a
late bit of scandal that was bruited in one of the Courts or
Dublin, and 4 corresponding bit of scandal that has been
mere recently bruited in the fashionable circles of Paris,
will consider this accidental association somewhat strange
anti singular.
Died, on the 211 h of July, her Grace the Duchess
of Gorden, after a most severe illness of above twelve
months, which she bore with the greatest fortitude and re-
signation.
Ills GRACE TUE ARCHDISHOP or DERLIN.—H
Grace the Archbishop is as wt• 11 as possible, considering
the-nature of the accident. Ile is not confined to his
room. The most anxious solicitude has been evinced in
the numerous inquiries at the See house since his Grace's
confinement, a manifestat:m of the high estimation in
width this distinguished and amiable Prelate is held.—
htfria. _ _ _ _

THE RICIIIT RI:V. Ds. Eoax.—Monday the Catholics
of 'realm gave a splendid d4nner on his consecration as
Coadjutor Bishop. The Ilikslp of Cashel, and their Lord-
Allis, the Bishop of Cork, Limerick, Killaloe and Water-
fo'cl, the very Rev. the Dean Of this Diocese, and several
clergymen were invited as giests. John O'Connell, Esq.
of Orena, NMI President. The Company consisted of 70
persons. 'l'ho assembly separated at three 'o'clock in the
morning, delighted with the manner in which the enter-
tainment passed. Several songs were sung in the course of
the night, and the Kerry band accompanied the toasts with
appropriate airs.—lrish Observer.
The sa'e of time late Bishop of Chichester's library by
Mr. %Vahan's, commenced yesterday. The books went off
at good prit es. The sale was most respectably and nume-
rously attended. Mr. Baynes was a considerable purchaser.
The mart valuable portion of this library will be included
in the second and third days' sale.

On Thursday the very Rev. Principal M`Farlane, and
the Rev. Mr. MsFarlan of Polmont, were inducted into the
respective parishes of the High Church and St. John's
Church in this City. The .Rev. Mt. Lapslie of Campsie
eloquently preached. and presided upon the olcasion. The
Presbyters, the two Sessions, the new incumbents with
their friends, and other gentlemen, afterwards dined with
the magistrates.—Wasgow Chronide.
At the meeting of the Catholic Association at Dublin, on
Saturday, Mr. O'Connell read over the several topics he
meant to propose at the Aggregate Nteeting, to he held the
first week in November—viz. the Puor Laws, Tithes, Con-
stabulary, Paving Board, &c. The Association adjourned
to October.

Ailviccs have been received from a rzsp.,ctable Nieman-
tile House in Paris, stating, that the duties on French
merchandize in Ilavannab bad In"en placed on the same
footing as national goods, that is, they are to be admitted
on the payment only of six per cent. This is considered as
a douceur on the part of King Ferdinand in return for the
great services he has received from his Bourbon relatives.
Mr. Zea Bermudtz, the new Spanish Minister, was I
formerly a merchant in Malaga, where he became a
bankrupt. He then tried his fortune at Cadiz, and. by dint
of intrigue, obtained, through the influence of Davila, an
appointment under the Regency, by whom he was sent to
Russia, where his great talents enabled him to conclude
the celebrated treaty with the Emperor Alexander. Ugarte,
the notorious confidante and favourite of Faclinand, was
introduced to the King by Bermudez, who is now indebted
to Uorte fur his appointment. Bermudez has declared to
a great capitalist that he desires to sir Ferdinand adopt the
conduct of other Sovereigusclay Walling the financial en-
gagements of their Ministers; but that on account of the
great power of the Clergy he emnot interfere. Mr. Ber-
mud. z, notwithstanding this declaration, is as great an
Ultra as the worst of them.—.Se,,tansan.