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London, England, 1824-03-31 00:00:00

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" now, in order to obtain even the trifling interest of the
" Dutch money-market, and to prevent their debtors from
" breaking, thousands after thousands of pounds must be
" sent over to prop the credit of the Dutch planters, while
" our own colonists cannot raise a shilling on good seen-
" rity. The enemy knows this golden rule, and allows us
" to take his starved concern off his hands ;—he is sure
" that we shall restore it in the best possible condition.
" But we, whose fate it always is to pay the reckoning,
" must continue war after war in the same train of
" dupery ; and, not content with paying all our allies in
" Europe for defending themselves, we must needs bestow
" donations upon our enemies in the form most acceptable
" to his wishes and wants. We are happy to think that
" there is some chance of such fatal impolicy being at last
" abandoned : and we rejoice in the wholesome substitute
" which the Cape furnishes for it." This has been
proved, by sad experience, to be the language of un-
faithful augury. Precarious fravests, affording at best
Ibut a scanty supply, are often destroyed by rust and
drought--cattle and sheep are -xposed perpetually to
the depredations of wolves, tigers, leopards, the wild
dogs, and the jackalls, which, impelled by hunger, make
excursions from remote forests in quest of prey. The Re-
port of the Committee of the Society for the relief of the
distressed Settlers is before the public; its statements are
painful and melancholy in the extreme. It is consoling,
however, to observe the interposition of British humanity
on the subject, and to remark the warm feelings of sym-
pathy which their sad fate excites. We touch upon the
subject for the sake of giving effect by publicity to the
subscription which has generously been set on foot in their
behalf, as in this country the distress of our distant fel-
I low-creatures only requires to be known to be relieved.

On the Slave Trade Piracy Bill coming before the I
Upper House last night, the Lords dispensed with the
wonted formalities of going into a Committee on the Bill,
so as to save time, and let it pass at once; the object
being, that it may reach the United States before the Con-
gress is up, that the Treaty between both countries may be
ratified immediately, otherwise the Bill should stand over
until November next, when the Congress meets again.
The Marquis of Lansdown shortly expressed his warm
approval of the measure, and hoped that some stipulations
in the Treaty would be inserted, by which the two nations
would bind themselves to extend its provisions so as to
make other Powers adopt the principles of this Treaty,
and that they, in return, should bind themselves to extend
the great principle also, and make it imperative on those
Pow..rs within their influence to adopt its humane
provision.. This Bill at length puts the abominable
traffic, so long an outrage on humanity, on its proper
footing ; it makes the man-stealer a pirate and felon.
The two great maritime powers of the civilized world,
by uniting their voice and leaguing their strength in
this sacred compact, will give a great example to the
nations of the earth ; and it is impossible that France,
or Spain, or Portugal, can longer persist in the in-
fernal traffic, with so memorable a lesson before
them. This Bill, like the Abolition Act of the
great Fox, is every way worthy of the present li-
beral Administration of this country, and most ho-
nourable to Mr. Canning in particular; it strikes at
the root of the evil, it annihilates this detestable barter at
once: no power can license it for the future ; shame and
fear both will prevent the continuance. We have had
occasion, from time to time, to give the humble meed of
our unqualified approbation to many of the measures of
the present Ministry—measures most creditable to them-
selves, and equally beneficial to the country at large. But
this Bill is a great concession to humanity in general; it
is the redemption of Africa; it proscribes the accursed
slave trade in the only way that can annihilate it alto-
gether ; and we may now really hope to see a close to this
abominable traffic throughout the civilized world.

Mr. Batticr's statement has at length been met by a
counter one on the part of Lord Londonderry, the Colonel
of the loth Hussars ; and a statement of considerable
length, on the same subject, from Sir Herbert Taylor, has
been put forward, avowedly on the part of his Royal High-
ness the Commander-in-Chief. Both parties, the humble
and the powerful, have thus appealed to the great tribunal
of public opinion,—that judgment-seat before which the
prowlest are obliged to bow the head in deference, and
from which neither wealth nor rank can give an exemp-
tion. We unfeignedly believe that the Commander-in-
Chief is most sincerely disposed to exercise. his high office
through the army with the strictest and most honourable
impartiality; but we yet, in reading both statements atten-
tiveiy, cannot conceive Sir Herbert Taylor's letter, on the
part of His Royal Highness, at all satisfactory or conclu-
sive as regards Mr. Battier, and the uncourtly treatment he
experienced from the officer of the Tenth Hussars. Sir