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*it Kings, there were se won than 75, who waft
in. class of freedom ; and that the slaves were I
obliged to work in the mincas,,rith irons About their
necks. Principles, he said, of jnitiee and human- '
ity, should mit be taken in a partial way; for, what
Might be thought 311411UWA AI to the Negroes, would
be sura:ma i !ham to the Planets and Proprietors.—
He could, if permitted, call evidesee to the bar,
in proof that the Negroes always connected this
measure with total emancipation. He conjured the
H -use not to let declamations upon justice and hu-
manity lead them into measures which must be pro-
ductive of the greatest calamities, for they may as
well take from the Planters life itself, as deprive them
of the means by which alone they could support it.
Ile concluder with representing the great resources
which the public revenue derived from a trade, the
imports of which were no less than 17,000,4001
from the beginning of the year 11303, to that of the
year I 80.1--by which, in Ireland, 13,300 tons were
annually exported, and the imports were nu more
than 51.0001.
Mr. BA R lIAM said, that though he had, on a
former occasion, voted against this measure, yet,
upon further refleftion, he was now reminded both
of its expediency and of the present time being the
most propitious for carrying it into execution.• At
the present period, when we had the trade of the
world in our hands, he could not consent to have
principles sacrificed to a single branch of it. There
was, he thought, good reason to infer that, by set•
tiog them the example, foreign stations might then be
induced to co-operate in the abolition. It had al-
ready been consented to by some of the states of
America, and the House could not be blind to the
danger arising from the growing disproportion be-
tween the black and white inhabitants. It there
should be danger in abolishing the trade, we should
aft like careful physicians, woo would not abstain
from administering medicines in very dangerous
cases, because there might be some danger in them.
He approved of the plan for a black armed force. be-
cause it could easily be fora 11- , from the abundant
population of the neg..ics, and he paid the less at-
tention to the fe irs of the merchants, or agents, as
they seldom looked further than immediate gain;
for the agents were desirous of making rapid for-
tunes, and it was well known that the merchants
would rathei have the trade doubled for the next
ten years to come, than have the certainty of one
half of it only continuing even for the term of fifty
years. Those were quite distinct from the proprie-
tors, who had a permanent interest iu the prosperity
of the colonies.
General T A RLETON considered the West India
trade as one of the great bulwarks of the navy, and
exemplified the g rod effefts of it, from the ameliora-
tion of the state of Liverpool for the last century.
A hundred years ago, Liverpool possessed only a
population of 2..500 people, 100 sailing harks, and
a capital of 200. ; wheieas, now it bad a popula-
tion of from 80 to 90,000 people ; .5,000 shins, and
the capital-of 2,0001. was doubled by so many mil-
iitins. This measure, he insisted, aro-e out of the
" Rights of Man," which, pushed to extremes, had
done so much mischief in the world. • He would
assert, that the n Riboata of Man" was at the bottom
of this measure. He did not wish to say, that
the Hon. Gentleman who proposed it was nitnseif
a Jacobin, though there was a circumstance which
convinced him that he was looked upon as such.
He had not been in France since the late usurp-
ation, nor did he ever pay court to its present
Ruler ; but, being in Paris in the year 1:91, he was
naturally curious to ,ee some of the transactions of
theJacobinClub, and, on mentioning his curiosity in
that respefl to die Marquis de la Fry ette, the latter
said to him, " No, no, my dear friend, you must by
no !nuns go there, fn• your life would he in danger,
As you voted against the Slave Trade ; but, if you
could get alr.-iNilberforee to go with you, there
could be no doubt of your being in petted safety."
He repeated, however, that he did not think the
Hon. Member entertained jacobinical principles in
their full extent ; hut he knew that his reputation for
it was so high in Para-, that the Jacobin Society
aatially sent him his ,/-p?ortsa to this country as a
member of it. For these, and other reasons he al-
leged, he expressed his determination to vote against
the Bill.
Mr. FULLER said, that many arguments had
been advanced against the Slave Trade, and in fa-
vor!. of this Bill, which he, for one, could not allow.
The Hon. Gentleman who brought it forward had
fixed on this as the very best time in which to abolish
the Slave Trade. He, on the contrary, thought it
was the very worst, and, in this opinion he was sup-
ported by the report of the arambly of Jamaica,
which, he thought, was very ably drawn up, and
founded on the knowledge and experience of the
ablest men in the Island, who must be supposed to
know the true state and nature of the question much
better than the Honorable Gentleman could be sup-
posed to do. He thought the Hon. Gentleman
• held the language of despondency, which he seas
sorry to see. \%e had for some years been as-
sailed by the whole mighty power of Frace, and,
if we had given way to despondency, this coun-
try would before now hay* been at doe foot of
Bonaparte. He saw much mischief to the West
India Colonies if this Bill should be adopted, for it
would ruin the smaller settlers; and it you lost
them, sou would not be able to manage the best
plantations. He then adverted to the injustice of
the measure, as going direcily to dispose of and
destroy the property of such a large body of peo-
ple, without, nay, against their consent—an injus-
tice which the lion. Gentleman dared not to at•
tempt in this country, in the case of a petty
tonal, or a turnpike road. In either of these
cases, he would say to those whose land he
wanted, even for public uses—a We will call a
jury, who shall AMU you damages by way of com-
pensation for your land which we take from you.'
Such would be the language used to persons here,
whose property was to be injured or taken from
them ; but very different is the treatment of •the
people who will be injured by this Bill—they are to
lose their property without compensation, because
they inhabit an island, at three thousand miles dis-
tance, which you dare oppress. He denied the
force of the argument of inhumanity to the slaves,
and said, it was fraught with fallacy and deceit ;
there was equal inhumanity in dragging the sailor
from the merchant service, forcing him abroad,
and, on his return, after years of absence, seiz-
ing and sending him abroad again ; but it was ar-
gued this wrs necessary; he did not deny it; these