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you had better wait; .4 I beiid
_end die 't.d to have • ,secree nee gth red. - a d .nli
people, and C' ' . jr;;lng ido it .. ; ;have chime my own or tpue; at all cv ts
Seaton says.... e tp.nur Nellie from 'Midi .ld have tent Al tie SettinAjoggy,
dye Walk. It is ' . .be might done so, but T neither *ay lairdly—lt is necessary Witten aymmtpondence or continities-
nor beard of his awning to my house a %rennet time. when Q ~} . tiOn should at least have a tender.: y to direct or embolden the ene-
rohlasailbevebers left, we immediately sat down to dinner, after ~ my in his attack, or to weaken she elfurte-of the resistance re
which we took a longer walk than usual. and returned in cont. !pared against him. See Samuel on Gourt. Martial, Md. It Is.
pant with Mr. Hamilton and .Jr. Van Ness, who remained with sorely necessary then to prate, in sonic manlier or °thee, that my
us till between eight and nine o'clock. I communicatiol was of this tendenct ;
but the proses-line had Iv en
Many aa-- of Bristol and Seaton an: eery il/COITeCt, aid in I wholly silent ; and surety the mere act of having seen as isdilri-
a great measure false. 'They say thet Qum:sine came to ask if there ' dual can never be countess d into an aiding and assisting in rebellion,
was any paper of freedom come out. ft was very unlikely that I according to tl:e 'carotid charge. It has not been proved that Qua-
Quamina should come to ask such a question, when he had been , mina was a rebel ;if he was, I did not know of it. I did not send
told by me, in answer to his own inquiry on the 45th of July, that I for him, nor did I know anything of his arrival I gave Jim no I
the report of freedom having Conic out was false, and must not be communication touching and Concernieg the revolt, fie had I
heilmed,flgethe King could not make them tree. nothing to communicate, and if I bad, still I woold notihare i'orie
Many questions were put to the witnesses relative to the sermon anything an improper; it was not until I asked him where ho had •,
I peat:4W. on the Sunday prteeding the revolt. There is no awe front that even hia manner became clier;•A and with out an. '
length to which perversion will not lead men. Neither the text sweeing me. he turned suddenly round and went away. Mrs.
nor the sermon could hare, nor had, in my 'Med, ant reference to Smith was the only person present, and if the Court could lithnit
anewau of which I was as totally igtewant as any Alenther of the her teedrtiony, she could exp!ain the while. One of the beets
Court. It is a text which is frequently selected by ministers. which app.= to militate against inc. I think I can prove is incite-
T-he sermon was to a huge congregation, and (though not larger rent, via. that Mrs. Smith shut the dnor. I can do thie;-beenbse I ;
I than usual), notwithstanding Doctor 31`Turk sweats that nisny have a witness. With regard to the other two points, I could ex.!
more people than usual came to le lteneuvenir that day, there were ' plain them also, had I any other witness than Mrs. mith'to sup-1
I many white gentlemen prnsent, and surely, if anything had been I port my statement. I
advanced indicative of what -....is oh at to take place, some of them I
would have come forwanl and testified to the Court. But strong antil From f i
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as is the current of prejudice ageing me, no one has intimated any point except are, and it will he apparent, that even that one could
thing on that subject. Had I been aware of the intended rebellion, be cleared up also, did not the policy of the law, and the roles of
surely I most have been an idiot in have chosen a text which it evidence, prohibit my wife from bearing testimmly. I
woo possible for the ingenuity of my enemies to turn against ime. With respect to my not attempting to secyre the :ran. I did not .
Jelly. That after the revolt broke out, I confessed or admitted a know that he was epees replied rebel. arid if I 11.ul knreem this,
previous knowledge. gentlemen, lank at me, and ask younelves how it was possible foe j
To prove this two witnesses were caged, John Baillie and John me, unarmed, to secure the man. The attempt, therefore, would
Aces.—From the evidence of the neirrom the revolt was not plan- have been vain and ridicule :s.
ned until Sunday the 17th, and yet I could on the 18th declare, It will be asked why I did not give information ? lily answer
according to John Baillie's evidence, that I had known of it for is, again. that I knew not that the man wait even a miscued re-
six weeks. bel ; and suppose that I had known this, of what utild'y could
Gentlemen, such an event was net imrpridsig to wit, although I such information have been, when the man had gone ['kin I 'not
Hal no information or participation in tie matter. whither ?
The tie,,-rocs had on various occasions manifested a spirit of die- Before I conclude, I feel it my duty, to este:erre upon the nature •
satisfaction. Instances of this I will prove. These instances were of the evidence brought against me. It is either the evidence of
known to the different managers and attorneys, for some of them slaves, or of persons, with a very few exceptions. grossly prejudiced
conimunicated them to me. against me; prejudiced from niotiee+ of itteteet, thet in, Iron
neerocs knew that some instructions had come rut far them; imagining that the diffusion of knowledge among the negeoes
their being held bark gave rise to an opinion that it was uneoodi- will render them less valuable as property.
tPmal freedom. I was asked about it by Quaminia. I told the The first class of witnesses consists of persons extremely igno.
truth concerning the instructions regarding the whip ; informed -rent, and decidedly under the ieliiience of their owners. It can-
him that there was no freedom ; and gave him such advice on the not be expected that the love of truth and justice will render d4mn
tveasinti a. hue been stated by several of them-to wait in patience superior to the fear which must Clint in their minds, .if nen by
for it. This was on the 23th July, and communicated to Mr. whom their fellow-labourers have been punished, even for attend.-
Stewart. ing divine worship. Some of them ate eetremily ignorant and
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301 y. That I was on the 13. h informal of the revolt.
I have already stated, that all the evidence produced on this
point is extraneous and inadmissible. The period of time in the
charges is conSned to the 17th day of August, and a certain period
of time thereto preceding; and the evidence must be also limited
to the 17th of August; it cannot be extended to acts of the 11:th.
for I am not charged with having committed any act on the 13th:
allowing, however, for argument sake, that such evidence might
have been admitted—might have been taken into conaideration by
the Court,that it was .o clear and conclusive as to satisfy the minds
of any court that I an wilfully and illegally kept to myself what
knowleoge I possessed as to have incurred the penalty assigned by
law for (Allies of the most heinous nature.
What are the facts, attempted to be proved ?—that about +tie
o'clock a letter was sent to me; that at half-pest six the revoh
occurred, and I had not given notice of it to Doctor 31• Turk
The first intimation I had that the mgroes had any improper in-
tention was given me by .lackey's note. I have already stated that
the contents of that note made me attach to what 1 had heard on
the Sunday a meaning which I did not attach to it before. When
Giuildford arrived with the note, 1 and 111 rs. Smith were going out
for a short walk ; she had her bonnet on, and was waiting for ale"
it was just six o'clock. Having read the notes, I inquired Vise
knew their contents, and who carried the inclosed note to Jacket' I
he prevaricated so much that 1 could loam nothing. 1 delivered to
hint a verbal message; I told hint to return. making all pariah],
.h.. haste, and tell Jackey that I was surprised, and vexed. and get
to find that the people were meditating mischief. and that I
he would have nothing to do with the project whateta it mils
and endeavour to keep the people quiet. Just as he was gat*.
away. it occurred to me that GuildiCal might prevent the 7,
if he was so inclined :to prevent which I told him to wait, 4
wzild write an answer ;it was too dark to examine the nib 14101
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. ; I therefore wrote it in rreat haste with a pencil.
Ave the note to Guildford it was about a quarter past six. I put
.he notes in my pocket, and 'vent a little way up the roidilltpah,
with Mrs. Smith, consulting together as to the bat step to be aims.
We had not proceeded mere than Nor Verona', when we heard a
tumultuous come at the manager's house.
We immediately turned beck and went to Mr. !familiar door 4,
seeing the negroes behave roughly to me for endeavouring to Oda
them, Mrs. Smith en away to get somebody to fetch me away;. she'
returned, and when the regrets- had retired, we went home tee.
I,•edier.
This is a simple and faithful statement of the facts of the amik
upon which I will not trouble the l'ourt with evidence.
I knew of the revolt a owner of an hpur only, and because I had
not presence of wird, or even time to catch my horse, which I w
prove, if required, tot he was loose, and ride about the country,
am to be tried. •
I have at length arrived to the fourth and last chaelpei %beg*
properly speaking. it is only the third offence alleged soma iss.
It consists of two parts:—
I Fent, That on Tuesday morning Qnsmina wits sem by the boy
klitebellecaning to my house.
Secondly, That 1 held correspondence with Mei on the night of
the 20th, well knowing him to be an ins:argent and engaged in the',
revolt, withaut using my utmost endeavour to detain and secure
him, and without informing the eon-ridded authorities of his
having been at my house. And the second part of the second
charge is to the same effect, and I shall take them together.
The boy Mitchell is of notorious bed character, and what does
his evidence amount to? that he sawl)uaraina come into may yard
on Tuesday morning in open daylight, when the sun was high;
and I most solemnly declare I neva saw Quamina on the Tuesday
morning. lie may have gone into the yard, or he may not; I
never aaw,him, now had I ever any direct or indirect knowledge of
his being there until I beard the evidence of Al Rebell in court.
On the second point, viz.—That I held correspondence wish
Quamina on the eeth of August, well knowing him to be In lc-
-*urgent, . and engaged in the revolt, without using my molest en.
dextrous to detain and seam him, and without informing the con-
stituted authorities of his. having een at my house, &c.
let us examine the evidence.
And, says, that on Tuesday, between twelve and two o'clock,
Mrs. Smith sent for her; that she went, sad on her arrival Illus.
Smith entered into conversation with her, and inquired of bee whet
was the matter that the people were doing au? Antje said, " I de
.not know, Alielun, the people wish to get their liberty." Mn.
Smith said, the people did not behave well,
t for black people could
not fight against whites ; the said, she had been afraid the whole
night, and °odd not sleep. That she (Antje) was so afraid too,
that she did know where to go, either into the great house or the
negro house. bin. Smith said, don't be afraid, they won't hurt
you. Then she went to lie down, and told me she wished to see
Quamina or Bristol very much : I did not know anything about
it, bat I then got a boy to send back to bring Quamina to the
I lady. Mrs. Smith said nothing in that conversation about which
would conquer; she said nothing about the mode in which the
negroes were to carry on the war. By her evidence it appears
i that the nest evening Quinlan@ tame to her, and she coodutz-id
him to my house, informing Mrs. Smith early, and that without my
knowledge and out of my hearing, that Quentin& was come ; that
she then conducted Quamina to my house • that Mrs. Smith re.
ceived him and shut the door. The girl Elirlbeth says she was in
my Mouse on Tuesday and Wednesday; knows (lumina, of bar,
ems, and saw him on Wednesday night inside the ball • that owed(
and Mrs. Smith were there ; that I was sitting down in the ball
close to the table on a chair; and Quamina stood a little near me:
; that no one else was in the room besides Quentin:. and Mr. and
Airs. Smith ; that Mrs. Smith remained in the hall all the time
that Quentin& wax there; I did rot see hergo to the front door
du that lime; I heard Quamina and Air. Smith talk together;
thatre~asaabha staid there a little longer than she had been before
the Court: that she saw him when he were out ; that allter Qua-
mina went away she saw Mrs. Smith, who said she must not tell
any body that she saw Quinine in the house, and if ahetold any
body slit (Mrs. Smith) would lick her ; did not see the Omer or
Mrs. Smith give Quamina any thing; when he went he had a
stick, upon which there was a bundle.
Even though the whole of this evidence were tens. there is
nothing in d to Shaw that I sin guilty of the °disco foe which I
am charged.
First, It is not proved that Quamina was a rebel.
Second, Ttat I bad any knowledge at the titres of his being an
inaurgeet.
Tetrilly, Nor does it appear that I gave him any intelligence, or
held arty such correspoodence with hint as can subject me to
punithasent.
In the first place it is not shewn that Quamina was a rebel.
Secondly it is nut shown that I bed say knowlege of Q 11141404
being an insurgent at the time helms at iny house on Wednesday
the eeth.
Criminality in this mac entirely depends upon the kortederlp I
had of Quail:inn twine an insurgent. The prosecutor lma beat
*lwo of this, and has accordingly averred it. This *warmest was
; not only important, but nememary, for is a ace of this kind the
moo essence of the crime consists in the guilty krawlalge of the
defendant. Stark, Criminal Plendisgs, 11413. no the waver of a
MOW hie-Antic makes the receiver a minor. Vale's rims of the
Crown, W 47. It mos, be sold that this knowledge may be implied.
Implirations and presumptions, however, ore sot to supply the
ipiat of positive evidence, where there salts a posaibility of their
Mrs 1.41301.:.
There are three circumstances which deserve petite.
First, Aire. Smith requesting Kitty Stewart to accompany Antje:
Second, Ales. Smith shutting the door (as stated by Any.) :
Mrs. Smith's7'lnird, thrum to Elizabeth Om mated by Eitsabodo.
I believe that a busliaad is responsible in civil courts for the isetp,
of his wife. but that he is nut responsible fa any crime committed
by her. I do not mean that it ohould home be Mintred that Mrs.
Smith is giddy ; but even were the evidence all true, it dips
/slate to me.
Aire. Smith is my wife; but I solemnly declare I newt knee
any • .„„..1 the three circumstances just enumerated ailed they *tab
de:lleica in evidence. They relate not to woe; and whgterree 40.1
Orion they may. carry with dam, if believed, .till thus oggiaa!
ought netts justice to operateagainse me.
Arnie knew nothing about the revolt; and Jane atems
swears that she did not know that Quastrina hod iwydrgivit
with it. If then so many persons about *ewer* igesesegsf
fact, it surely could not have been notorious In gay ismodisso'

savage, u the by Mitchell, . o did not even piete;l' M tender_
stand the nature of an oath, until he was asked " if he believed
God Almighty a-top ?" Of courenhe answered " Yes," and be was
legally sworn. lam aware, that however necessary the p.ilicy of
colonial governments in this hemisphere may hays thought is to
exchule negro evidence, still in a Court Blame' it is strictly legal
to admit it. In admitting it, however, the Court ought to be well
aware of the negm character, and to be very cautious as to the ag-
ree of credibility to be attached to tbpir evidence. No:hi:fig can
be more evident, even front the evilence before the Court, than
that nei,mres have but little idea of the obligation of lin oath ; hence
the prevarications, and falsehoods, and contradictions, so appa-
rent in their evidence. They have no notion of time or cinder-
stance, and it is but too dear that their evidence has been italic up
of shreds and patches, obtained from conversation, from hearsay.
and From their own fuisinterpretatinasof what had been propounded
to them. They are generally incapable of narrating a transaction.
neither can they relate, with any tolerable eccuraty, even the
shortest conversation ; so well known Is this, that they are seldom
intrusted to deliver a verhal message. Notwithstandir.g all this,
what has the prosecutor been able to produce against me ? Divest
the evidence of all that I shall prove to be exaggerated, ntivrepre-
tented. awl false, and nothing will remain to prove me criminal,
either in a moral, religious. of legal view.
With suspect to the other class of witnesses, I will abstain from
saying more. than requesting a perusal of their evidence, and if its
tlPse,t(s well tiailie questions put by the Judge Ativuente, do not
btarme out in asserting, that a spirit of prejudice does exist against
Me, then I ant incapable of forming an estimate of meu't opinions
gram their words.
y journal mow rot be omitted. Its origin and nature I have
oltsplained. Whether it be evidence or not against me is not now a
art to be dettumined ; in not ashamed 'r it, but Ido fee/
aggrieved'
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of 1,,
_ at its tiontinits liaving been won't politic. for they were
never intended for that purilme. Not only those parts of its con-
gptr read. in Court have been known, Wit other pans, the pub-
analog of which (however true the facts contained in my sure-
arena) may wound the feelings of ninny persons. Whether this
Starlit have a tendency to prejedice men's minds against me I knee
to the considoration of the Court.
In kenclusion.—rpon a fair and candid review of the whole evi-
dence, it is not apparent that I am guilty of any one of the charges,
and it might almost seem that my opinions, and not myself, have
Wow mini Those opinions are founded upon the Gospel that
bath witbilood for ago. all frzn.ectition : its promulgation has in-
creased km opposition, and its troths been made manifest by
investigation.
It has prospered, and will prosper, and in its pmspcnity will im.
pan happiness to all those who seek knowledge from it.
It has already produced a material alteration for the better in the
minds of rkwftrews.
The love of raglan is already so strongly implanted in them that
the power of man will norbe aide to eradicate it.
I have been informed, and can prove, that even in the midst
of the revolt, whilst the negroes were all assembled_-all in arms,
some of them-mere heard to any, " We will take no man's
for we cannot give We will shed no blood, for it is con.
bury to the religion we have Wen tonight." Which of the ne-
groes said this? Not the lowest class of Afrieani—net the hen.
then, but the Christisn negroes.
This mink has been unlike every other I have heard or .read
of. In tonna revolts in this colony, in Jamaica, in Grenada,
and in Ilarhadoes, Wend And massacre were the prominent fea-
tures. In this a mildness and forbearance, worthy of the faith
they professed (however wrong their conduct may have been)
were the characteristics; even the attempts at bloodshed in
this have been confined to the Africans who were not yet
Coursed. This is apparent from the evidence already berm the
JOHN SMITH.

(Sihmed)

P4RLIAMIWP4RY LArrELLicsivilk

1101:31, Or ILORD9,.IICISDAY, Arai!. ft

ROYAL COM3IISSION.
At a quarter before fddr &cinch the Speakerof the House cf
Comnions, attended by several Members, appeared at their Lord-
ship!' bar, to hear the Royal Assent-given, by Commission, to the
Burials in behold 11111, the llirrach liepartment Property Bill,
the Dublin 'Oil Gas Company Bill, vd several private Bills.
The Lords Commissioners were. the LuM Chancellor, the Earl of
Shaftesbury, and Viscount Melville.
MESSAGE FROM •TME COMMONS.
Mr. Lambton, and other Membeis of the Commons, brought up
the Away Masten bill, and several private Bits, which were raim
a tirst time.

ARCillitSlif )1' OF DUBLIN.
The Bishop el I.IAI begged to cell their Lordship's at-
tention to • letter lie kid received emu his (truce toe Archbishop
of Dublin, in consequence of a petition signed by two persons.
named James Edward Devereux, and Encas bl•DocoW, which
stated, that no inconvenience had resulted nom the practice of free
burials, until the present Archbishop of Dublin, Dac.or 3ingee,
bad been appointed to that diocese; which statement his tirace
considered could have no other meaning than the obvious one, of
Malting a charge agnioat him, of having changed the system since
ids appointment to the :lee of publin. so king as these calumnies
were confined to the vulgar ahu4 Of newspaper.; and other perio-
dical publications, his Drace had forborne to tu:kjec. them ; but
when petitions on the subject were presented to bMh Hewes of
Parliament, it must be supposed that they expressed the sentiments
of a portion at least of the community; and therefore his Once
had desired him to communicate to the flow the fait, that to far
from any departure from the usual practice having, eaken place
thtough his niemis, be had taken no step in the business--that tha
funauil of D....trey, in bt.lfclen's eburch-yardywas the Hest instance
of aitornen llailselte Priesteittaih to avast hi the %Ambles-
non of interment ; and it had been per.iiited in since at ht. Marv's.
gibs Grace, however, had Issued to order on the sittgect, twd bed
bad no communication, either public or private, with any one rela-
tive to that circumstance, although for forty ram that he hod re-
sided in Dub,in, he had never heard during that peri.odof al/Amon
Catholic Priest rca.ling the lanced service. 1/is three's !dice for.
thee stated, that -rhea asked by the Parochial Clergy of Dublin
bow they were to act in we uf similar occurrences takingplaee,
his advice to them was, to be at their pow. but to olltv too violence
to any one.
On the motion of die Earl of Rll '-
ships adioure•-, •- ***

Otithentotion of the Fart of 811.1FTESBURV, theirlard.
-a adjourned to IVedoesday. the Irdth at Aprkl.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tin/SWAY, APRIL 11

The Srraxtß took the Chair at four O'clock.

ST. CATHERINE'S DOCKS BILL.
Mr. P. CIRENYELL, in thing to move that certain parsesr
should be added to the Committee on the St. Catherine's 1/oeks
Dill, begged to be allowed to correct some mistepresentatiors and
exaggerated statements that had been put forth to the world Ly the
=mta of that manure. The fist miebetatement which be
imtic. was, that upwards of ten thousand persons tvoitld be
thrown out of their henna. Ile then held • paper In his hetnd,'
them whitly It w,wld appear, that instead of Itl,ooo the number
weal be aoly 4,300. The next eaaggeration was as to the num.,
rc kosf, bamws that must be pulled down, to make way for these
sod they 'e set down at 1,200, wheiess they did not
atn tears to e ; when the London Dolts were'
aanatructed, p of 1,4011 houses were destroyed to give room
far them. It had been farber stated that there was no want of
these *WI pot the Bowe idmld recollect who the patties were I
that said
.this-rtbey were the proprietors of the London Lake.'
But what mak the public 1-1,310 dr the principal nisrchante of '
Loudon stated the reverse, and °burred, that the rrgulauuos'of
ilwoodon Docks (:ampapi were moss vexatious.
The names whit* the Haw,,Hember then proposed were added
to the Committee.

Mr. HUME prorate/ s petition from *trend persons of Lon.