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;ion among our slave population, than the cireutnstanees contained
in the following raragniph, which we copy front the /lingoes
Chromicle. By this it appears that the due observation of Sunday
will easily be ettforced, as they themselves, influenced by the reli-
giousesemnples already MO prevalent among them, have almost
'effect the purpose. and the Sunday markets continue to decline.
This, ut itself, speaks volumes in reply to Wilberforecan calum-
nies :
Tue. S tr st n A v 11l All li E T A.—Some very able papers have recently
been Written and published in the Jqrnairts Journal and other new.. i
papers, on the above subject, recommending it to the deliberate con.
PWICInIiOn of the legislature; hut we think the reform or change may
be (at least an far as regards this city), effected, without having re- u
course to a law, and that by a very simple process, for the Slave !
population are evidently prepared for the change. Those who have I
been in the habit of observing the Sunday markets in Kingston, of I
late, could not fail to see a very considerable alteration in them. I
The West-street market, particularly, has most materially dinti-
niched fir sonic months teat; end the influx of from the 1
country, by the Spanish-Town and Slipe-Pen Rude, on the Sun. ,
days, is wonderfully decreased. Not many months ago, Harbour-
street, for hours on the Sunday, was crowded with town.people
proceeding to the markets, and now Lut comparatively few parsons
are seen going thither. On the other hand, Sofas :nuke:, on the
:thoorday, is to a Id niter ratio increased, it having extended to the 1,
l'anule, occupying the grotto] in front of the theatre. Now, if
advantage be taken of thin disposition in the slave population to I
attend on Saturdays instead of Sundays, the change of the 'markets 1
from Sunday may lie most cattily and aliniut insensibly effected
without the intervention of law. Let the corporate body allow the
groins' front Kint...-street to Church-mreet, in front of the theatre,
i and to extend an far south an may be found neconsfy, to be used
ST. I;ITTM, SECT. gip. I
~ for market places ; and let the sellers of cloth and wearing apparel
(okirh, for wow • be invited to repair thither on the Saturday mornings, erecting
was' booths as in il'est.street ; and we have lick doubt but the Sotto'.
.1 petition front the free enlist-ed. inhabitants
~,,,,,mility, haul been rejected at thin aiming um; the Atha
_. 1 , day market will soon be an well utendeid, uad better, than the
laid befits's! the Hattie, ropeettolly submitting to its con _ mot 1 Sunday trans.
mtirmaregersyht.lu'd also be Allotted fur the sellers of earth-
certain political disabilities which attach to that clans of the coni-
A.e. When the negroes become aequalated
munity. anti praying that the House would, in its wistiogl(!e"T.Lit . with the change, which their owners and overseen should take ere
to apprise theta of, they will Sock to the town each alreecillog
expohent to amend or abroAlate the "mural Acts, by which
;timer
disabilities are created. 'I'M: petition was read. ,_ll!4_ mu
nut lcts'. week, earlier than the preceding, and we shall weekly see thesklun-
ww4 a t.i,,magyiee inintuglald .• take the mutter into ,_,,_ a... day market decrease, and !n a ohott time disappear altogether; and
thin and to Mau what measure of relief may Ire grand'' "' ""' w. have no low nation in raying, that this desirable change will be
1
parties. effected by this mode much mitre speedily and satisfactorily than
IMAM} OF ASSEMBLY, Tut:it:my, N0v..11., 11123...._ by a posuivi enactment of the legislature. The Pamde is also a
Mr. Ilauartyr. site* a prefatory address, ummeg wf- Z.: :,Ini: much more ;mind ,:nation for the market than wltcre it is now
pointment of a Cuimittee to repast on the e. ey se
situated. We believe many are of opinion thee Monday would be
Logi means few the yeligious imunerson of the slave
_., ' a better day fur the nuaket thou Saturday, because they would bps
reef:rill rhe.E.unat wtTiriwtivi :Spmuntitlioney t'otcpre,ixane:oo,thelril.naltoscionblentuiittisowynuanite esthiedsaenttatrdhantrithe divis;
Mr. tie to trwoous
iiielbseni:iveriee4otortabjetany
chlaon
melee that he
(butch, by the inueductim to Sectarians. shall be glad of the opinions of our correspondents on th:s very
Mr. 11 AAA r ..T, in a very eloquent replv, stated, that the ion: interesting sobjcrt.
eit,oleamn nod not have been under the slightest alarm of his ti -.. The clergymen of Antigua, Dmerara, and the Italianiu., Wile
troducing any measure calculated to throw a slur oleo the sai::
. in a similar strain. Nay, one of thou, the kr.. Mr. flagman die.
dished I leg!. Ile was hitiou.lf or the Church of England' and ,_`_ ; tined). affirms that there is no such thing as a marriage of slaves
would be twist solicitous in upholding im institutions; butt myna ! ',corded is Antigua; such marriages " having been invariably con.
titan were requited and ought to be adopted. I ,idend ~,, mega.. p. do
The maim was then wool to, and a Committee appointed '
1 'We understand that the committee appointed to prepare and
semedingly, i bring in the alive law, have dosed their report, and than they have
A motion WWI made for the appointment of a l'ommittee to take , promised crtly a few alterations. The subject of admitting slave
iota ormstieration, and repor on the eificiency of, the means
ipro- , . i
tioned. Mr. Cox, indeed, did Ail, a pmposi-
tided by law their religious numuetiou of the Slavca—Cutint owe m:mni'
cwileethles
subject,uieu
but a it did not meet with the views of the
appointed. ether members of the committee, he withdrew h.—Coward.
RnW4ll'loll, sent. con. That the thanks of this HOtlie be pre- ,
seated to (',immixture Sir Edward Owen, K.1'.11., for the Immo 1
and efficient nemner in which he has put down the swami id
pirates which infested these seas, and his prominent and scabies
emotions to anticipate the wishes of the pLuting and commercial
interests of this island in convoying the trade, which hare been
inabitested on all occasions, by anticipating the soots, and always
eo.uplying wi.h the gem& wishes of the community, whilst he
has been uniformly owideseending to individual Applications, re-
quiring either the interference of his authority ur protection.
Resolution, that Mr. Speaker be tolueated to transmit to Cusp.
madam Sir Edward'Owen, K.C.H. a copy of the above Reaolutioa
in the most toceptable manner.
A baits repeal an Act, passed in the 57th of tiro. 111. chap. IS,
sanded " An tel for a more particular Return of Slaves in this
island, and the Enrolment thereof, presented, read the tint time,
and entered a second reading to-murmur."
Mr. SteAlgel laid before the House a letter from l'ommodore
sier,d ward Owen, K. 4.11., which was received, and read as follows:
" His Majesty's ship tiloucester, in Tort-lioyal
Harbour. Nov. 12, Ite23.
" Stu,-1 am highly sensible of the honour which has been
conferred upon us. by due unanimous lb:solution in which the
Honourable house of Assembly has been phased to notice my
humble services during the short period I have been emmisted to
command the naval forces in these seas; sod 1 her, Sir, you will
do me the favour to return to that Hon. Assembly coy wamiest and
sincrut thanks.
In the dlitribotion of these forces, it is the most important of
my dutko to under them stimive for the protection of our com-
merce and the interests or our colonies. The gratifying lit-solution
of the lion. llouse of Assembly will bear a Kettering testimony shut
in this particular. the orders of the Right Hon. the hoed. Commis-
Momers of the Admiralty have bten attended to. Piracy, within
them seas. if not destroyed entirely, is ut the lowest ebb ; and I beg
to offer to the Hon. House of Assembly toy cotigratolations vet that
subjoii.
"" In thanking the Hon. House. however. for the favourable view
which it is pleased to take of the small share which I have had
therein, it is my dnty to remind vuu that sunny circumstances have
contributed to that duorable result. (If these me rinetpal have
bon thetharthres emit Mtheicrassine soothe the. pow
Ideeethr, Resr-AdMind Sir Charles Bowie!. h•C•11.1 be
gave np the aneimad, together with the just retribution which the
individnah concerned in that nefarious practice met with front the
nilmnals of this island.

THE WEST INDIES.

We have received Jamaica journals to the 16th of No-
remise, from which we copy the following articles:—
NAVIN', NEW PRIIVIDENC):,SFI.T.
10.
By a titer from Xipara, we learn that an American sloop from
New fork to that port, had been plundered off Ilencagua by a
piratic,/ vessel. manned principally by blacks End mulattoes of St.
liymmoo; the weather being boisterous prevented their taking
much ,St he cargo, but PIM if they bad a st-hooner of theirs, which
they bad parted from the day brtore, they would hare taken the
whole cog.. This pirate wax a pilot.Soat built schooner, of about
lie tons bur Jen, and apprsretl to hare about one hundred MCP oa

64.
Extract of a letter from Black River, (laud the I Rh instant:—
« Thr want of constables in this town Incomes more and nines
alarming. Parties of free boys and slaves parade the steals nightly,
Ed by their noise and impertinence annoy the peaceable in-
habitants. To such a pitch have these nightly meetings been ear.
eief, that gentlemen have felt their persona unsafe in crossing the
bridge. Representations have been made to the liegistracy of the
above eircutioitancni, but the town is mill u:.;wovided with even a
single constable."
ST. JollleS (A NTIOUA) SEPT. 9.
At a meeting of the Legislature on Thursday last, two petitions
wen presented-from a late number of the free coloured inbalitants
__one to the Council, and the other to the Assenthly, praying for
relict from certain dlsabilth.-s under •liich that class of his
Majesty's subjects at pr•rsent labour, by virtue of several old Acts
of the island. 'fbe petitions are couched in the mist respectful and
temperate terms, and were ordiraid to st pail .ivet foe consideration
a: the next meeting.

JOHN THIRTELL.

'From the Norwich Piercer:o
Throughout those proceeding* which have so long and so deeply
interested the kinriloni at large, we have t ^:e reluctantly instru-
mental to the gratification of the public curiosity, and except when
it allowed us the opposturity of saying a few worths to mitigate, so
far as we might, the argoish we could hardly hope to soothe, the
subject has all ulong been most ungrateful to our feelings. We
have now, however, to lay before our readers some document'',
which carry with them Doha grounds of consolation, and we have a
melancholy satisfaction in giving them to the public. How deeply
is it to he lamented that a wan capable of such propriety in trying
circumstance', should have left records of a right as wells' &power-
ful mind only in the last moments of such a life !
H ER T F ORD, JAM. 8, 1824.

_ .
':".tit—Thy the earnest solicitation of your unfortunate son, Mr.
John Thurtell, I forward the enclosed letter from him, which I
hope may he the means of communicating to you some degree of
consolation; be assured that as • father I feel for you moat es.
quisitely, and am desirous of administering, if I could, comfort to
your wounded spirit. I have the satisfaction to ►ssure you that in
toy tact interview with him this day I found him in a happy frame
of mind, quite fitted to his untbrtunate situation • he expressed
himself as feeling much fur all his family., and hoped that evstry.
thing would be done to alleviate their sufferings on his behalf—
he declared that he• forgave l'robert and all the world, and de.
sired that I would permit Ilunt to have an interview with him,
elicit I immediately ordered, and naun after seeing them shako
herds together, I left them in the company 4.f the Chaplain,
who has been particularly attentive to him, anti feels much in.
'crested in his unhapity situation. Ile has informed me that your
um aid Hunt have tiled to receive the sacrament to.nwwrow
morning. I now, Sir, beg to commend you to the protection of
that Almighty !Icing who will, I trust, support you through this.
weight of affliction helm, and receive you hereafter Into
marsions of bliss anti happiness where sorrow and sighing,
no place. Believe nt., Sir, although • stranger,
lota atAicialasssfat.
RI/MAT

SUTTON,
High Sheriff of the County hi Berthed.
To Mr Alderman Thurtell.
Laarxnam, JAY. 11, 1824.
Silt—l am at a loss for words to express my gratitude far your
humane and uldiging letter, and also for your kind attention and
advice to my unfortunate son, ...heft under your care. !Hay I beg
of )ou, when an op
.portunity (*bra, to request Mr. Lloyd, the Ma-
gistrates of Hertford, the I haphein, soil Mr. Wilson, to accept my
warmest arknowledgments for their very kind attention to him,
and 1 trust Heaven will reward you all for the generous sympathy
you have evince,' on this melancholy and awful occasion.
1 tesnAin, Sir (in the deepest affliction),
Your obliged servant,
THUS. THURTELL.
To Robert Sutton, Esq., High Sheriff of
the county of Hertford.

f• Further, the employment of a xeitadrou of entail vessels belong.
ing to the United :States of North -ler/mint "p.m that service, and
the judicious manures adopted by his Excellency Don Francisco
llioaieio fives. the Captain-general of Cuba, have given useful
end ria,erial aid therein.
" The merit of the measures it was my duty to adopt most rest
wiet the captains, adheres. seamen, and marines, employed to ewe.
cote my ostlers, who have displayed, in every cam:, a persevering
ardour rid indefatigable real, which has eneured to them a panic.
teal tulfilment and complete success.
" Allow me, Sir, to thank you personally fur the attentive eon.
sidereenn with which you have had the goudnese to convey to mute
this }tittering itsedution, and to assure you of the respect with
which I have the honour to ranain
" Your very obedient and twat humble servant,
(Signed) " E. %l'. C. It. 111 V EN, Commodore,
•• l'onuuardee.in.l'htef.
" Ta the lion. itavid Finlifyson, the Speaker of
the Host. House of Assembly.
Report ruede from the Committee appointed to prepare an Amwer
.es Ms Orem the fitivernor's fifth 31emage of the 3tl test. Metaled
se Committee on the Slate of the island.
TOVISD•T' Notr.l3.
Mr. Harm-fox Hewlett, in orating the Bill to repeal the
Registry Act, moaned it a dory be owed ui every individual in
the island; for, when it passed in the year 181$, the whole island,
with me mice, exclaimed against it. It was a meet expensive,
obnoxious, and oppressive nveasure, without being of the slightest
utility. The diem. Member who at the time opposed it prophesied
what would he the result, and which was now come to pass- The
House had been seduced into the measure by the hypoeritival pro-
mise% froqi home, that no further interiteenee was contemplated by
government in nue local condition ; and he would show that flu.
vertm3ent did give such a pkeige, be stating that a register.
lion, not emancipation, of sl.r:(11 was their orly object ; and the.
island therefore pasted the era peace-offering. Rut that pledge
had not been kept, and thetetiote the Assembly would be fully
,jus-
titied in repealing this Bill. The lion. 3lember then read Irons
the Memsee of his Grace the governor to the House, in IRIS, the
following passage
" His 4 ir:ire has been further instructed to declare it is not the
easneiration, but simply the registration, of rho slaves which is
new sugpmed ; and so disclaim any intention on the pan nf his
kleinty a government thereby to propose their cm:mein:lnm.
That explanation has become the more necessary, as great industry
her hem exerted. and which could only have proceeded from isms.
nave nr titheiliesous misrepresentations, to blend these nhjects
together ; and it is tit Ott the pleasure of the Prince Regent, act.
mg in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, should not be
mistinderstood on so searetisd a point."
Now. 3lr. sneaker, that was the itoleein pledge that IMO given,
that tin othdr measures regarding our slave population should be
agitated in the Imperial Parliament. By the discussions which
have recently taken place in Parliament, they have forfeited that,
pledge; and we are ainehred from eery longer emitieuing this ob.
POVAI. mod useless Rill. The Hon. &limber then adverted to the.
hyearritiral means resorted to by Mr.ll'ilberforee to get the mea-
sure' cement in the colonies, by .nosing the slave trade the cloak to rover his real intentions • but he had now shown his cloven foot,
m er
e it thettire behnOed die House to defeat, if pissible, his int.
quietus designe. And the first step should be to get rid of this ,
treublesame Rill, which cost the country ten thousand pounds
every third year. and was unerly useleas, for them never had been I agle negro imparted into tie Wend since the abolition. Ile
th''Q the Ilmute would remonstrate egsimt the procenlinge nt luta. with spint aidtinnnem. lie hoped, Milne!. that though
the Weed was a small body, it wonld show, Lei this occasion.
that it
possessed a Mega OWL (('rise of " lieu him ! hear
)
lit tyro made Mlle comments en the Hill which was sent
hie yeelend • and said that the Registry Hill was the treat ob.
et that had ever psalm! that Boise, and he &yr' it
Meld be repealed.
„Mr. Wnierteen hoped the purposed Bill would page the
pate asenimoudy. They had had now
_years' experience of
I,t• tad had found it a most oppressive Act. It would never have
tern carried in that !louse but foe the pledge given by his :Heim-
'', Meihitees, that they would not in future interfere It env inter-
„l'lLm,oror. That pledee they had broken, and the !louse was
'Net bianal to continue the Registry ROL The Honourable
'her said it would bit mines...leery fur bins to take up the tinie
the Ilnuse on a 'piastre the peltry of which was so very ob.
nati,
It could no no longer be questioned. from the conduct pile.
S°
44 , ll'e.smatiail Party at home,
that they meditated . meditat the
„. ell et these islet'''. Shall we then assist in such destrue.
• of adopting measures attempted to be forced upon VS
th• their instrumentality !le hoped not ; and should rote
311- Riflery followed on the "sone side, ard observed, that the
'l4" hill was furred an the ialvntl, touter the idea that the slave
,7.,;tatill carried en. .ItAer urging other taffies in support of
dye concluded by giving it him cordial support.
I' a winim the
en
/114 Presented, :tad a first time, and twiered mitre
ticood t immorrow.

The following letter was addressed to a gentleman in this city,
a frfertl of .Iklennan

it-l'1'lL:-;:Mhit;iyiohn'1'hhrtell made me pmMise him that I
would a rite to you, for the information of his father, an account
'his conduct from his conviction to hi+ last moments.

. .
In discharging this melancholy duty there is one great Orris.
Lion—that everything in this last stage of his existence was highly
prais:worilly. Ills thoughts were divided between his love and
rnmect fur Iris parents and surviving relatives, and the care of hie
own soul. I never witnessed any human creature more devoid of
all selfish feelir.gs f and I believe be was sincerely penitent. He
read and prayed aloud tome, while the lean flowed most copiously
down his cheeks, and almost choked his utterance. He received
the sacrament very devoutly, and entreated me to preach to the psi.
miners on Sunday a sermon which he had read, and which Ise
thought would be beneficial to them. In all pouts of (7hristian
ditty nfter his cimviction he was tumult exemplary, particularly In
frankly migiving all his enemies, and praying for the favour o(
(bud on his parents and family. The Newspapers detail all the
very minutely, hut I can tell you his feelings from my
own olactration, as I was with him constantly front Ins conviction
to his death.

lle desiftd his respects to you, and hoped you would commae&
care to his father io private my iutitnnatiun.
I halm the honour to be, Sir,
lour tlry obedient servant,
F. W. Fli.t NKLIN, Chaplaiu of the Gaol.
Hertford, Monday, Jan. 12.

In expressing last west our sympathy for the family of the us.
happy culprit, we regarded icily the natural impulses of the Wad
under the first effects of adfliction. Hut now that the bitumen is
somewhat allayed by dote, we may hope our good and leopattod
fillow.e.tizen Intl feel the full force of the maxim of the orient
philosophy, that dignity in bearing calamity affords the Oho sees.
situ) fur conciliating the respect of mankind. It la held if ewes
that nothing nffilids so true and so fine an object for syMpallity and
admiration, as a good man enduring with composure, sielestlons
which he could neither stv nor avoid. Thus it is that out of suffer.
ing itself may be drawn the means of honour, and thus
Idle worthy Aldernish will nit yield to fruitless
by his own tirmr.mis will teach the lesson of mail/nada: sad
tude (the nobles. that ran be taittht) to all, and especially to these
who look up to Mentor support in • crisis which, as it tries, will,
we trust, be found ►iso to exalt his chancier.

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