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IWP&RI 41: P.ittLI.43IENT.

HOUSE Of I.ORUIS-4441.mr, Fig. 9,

The Bishop of Gloucester took 6e ciths and
bis seat. _ .

The Irish Grain Intercourse 831 was read a third
thrie and passed.
On the motion of lewd WALSINGHAM, the
Irish Gun-powder, the Army and Navy Setinftion,
C.* Irish Tiessury Bills, eLd Canada Yarn Bilk,
were severally read a second time, and ordered to
b! committed for to-mirrow.
Mr. Haw, front the Bank of England, prese.ned
the annual Accounts of the Commissioners for the
reduaion of tho National Debt.
The Earl of L AUDE RDA LK called the attention
of their Lordships to the resonitions of tke House,
date the 9,11 of July, ISOS, to which the Clerk of
the Tiendro i i ScotlanA, was ordered to make a cer-
tain report. His answer has not since been for-
wardei. and the object of the pre.ent Motion WAS,
04.11'bat be be forthwith ordered 'to return the neces-
sary ahca'etS."—Ordered.
His Lordship next nrwed, "That the Clerk of the
Tiends, in Scotland, be ordered to lay before the
;louse. an account of the number of processes com-
menced, and the summonses issued thereon, for the
augmentation of tythes, since the Ist of January,
1606, and the dates of the rupediva augmenta-
tions." .

Lord Walsineham brought op the report of the
Slave Trade Abolition Bill, with amendments.
• LordGREN V ILLE said, that since he last had
the honour of addressing their Lordships on this
mew ore, he Mt some arrow reaseers to change his
lo.sner id!as relative to the period at which the ge-
etra! p-ol•ibition should commence. It was his
intention to I;mit the continuance of the trade, in toe
cnailnz clauses of the Bill, to the Ist of May, 1807,
at tha same time that a provisional clause si.ould
eruhrace the cases of such ships At aaually
• cd from a Btitish port previous to the let of May.,
• bast whi h were unable to trek • good their voyage
*tattle West Indies before the Ist of January. 11103.
In considering the suggertio. of a Noble and Learn-
ed Lord (Redesdaie), that the words of the Bill at
resent were, with tespell so the purchase of slaves,
If sot ambigucus. at least too general ; and to pre-
vent any such conttrnSion as may by possibility at-
jach to toe purchasing et slaves, either in the East
.3tidies or on the Clans of Asia Minor, be
should amend the clause by distinaiy restria-
lee the operation of the Bill to Attica, the
West Indies, fad any other part of America.- s.
The Neale Lord then moved the several conscquelt
amendments. On the suggestion of Lord Resler
dale. tee Clause for limiting the landing i 1 Slaves
• In the West Indies, to the Ist of Jan. 1809, out of
• • ships, which bad item fide sailed from a British port
p, evious to the Ist of May, 1806, was sill farther
(atomics; to cases of capons. loss. or any *envoi&
a:de necessity, the necessity of proof being imposed
on the party which had so suffered. The several
amendments being pot and autted to,
• The Bishop of LONDON spoke to the fol-
lowing elle& My Lords. I cannot suffer this
opportunity to escape, without declaring my sincere
and ardent satisfadion at the decision of your Lord-
•ships. My Lords, yea have performed a great
and signal sa of humanity. you have remittal a
great legislative measure of relief to an oppressed
and d-graded population. The reasons and argu-
ments which many Noble Lords have thought proper,
• vrish such eloquence and perspicuity, to introduce.
h4te been felt by zoo with their fullest force; but
there is one of such an important nature and
•in which such serious interests are involved, that I
vim to be excused far submitting it to your Lord-
ships' more particularly as it has not been
advent,' to in any previous discussion. the
ravel and religious consequences which may be
expefted to accrue from this salutary and hu-
mane aa of legislative justice. are many and ex-
tremely desirael.• ; for hitherto they have been in-
t7-ely negleited--negledied, not by the Clergymen,
.in the respeaiveislends. but it is a neglea naturally
arising out of the mitts' and unchristian system,
wl,eh has been aged upon in the Colonies.—
Worked all day upon the estates of their owners,
the Negroes have been foiced to consign every
aather areaserit of their unhappy existence to the
.cultivation of their own little spots of land, and
even nu the Sabi) ith. shame to say ! a market was
held for th, .p vitie purpose of enabling the Sieve
'to porcliase his Sundry dinner. The number of
C. ? grim s was also too few, compared with the
g cat population id the Blacks. In the Wand of
Jamaica, whsre there were from 2 to 300,000 Ne-
genes, there' were only twenty Clergymen, whose
time was in a great degree taken up in the per-
formance of their numerous duties to the Whites.—
There was another beneficial consequence which
w arid f,.lluw from the accomplishnsent of the pe-
eve Bill, the great increase of population, which
the good treatment of the Negroes would produce,
independent of the cessation of those evil effects
which the present indulgence in promiscuous inter-
e-nrse between the sexes must of n-tcessity occasion.
only tree method of obviating the mischief, is
to impress upon the moral and religious considera-
tions of the Negroes, the danger of a continuance
in each irregularities, to their health and constitu-
tions. and, therefore, the immediate and absolute
nec.isity of submitting to this kind of sell-denial.—
It was said by Mr. Pitt. that the Slave Trade with
Africa was the greatest praaical evil ; I can safely
say, that the Abolition of that execrable traffic is
the greatest praSicel good that can be effetted.—
A good which will immortalise the British Senate,
and which will display, to an admiring world, the
striking contrast between this country, the great
stay and hope of the civilised world, and the con-
stn .% of that arch enemy of human happiness, who.
whilst we are relaxing the oppressive bondage of
the unfortunate African. and communicating free-
dom to a fourth of the world, is pursuing am race
of terror and desolation, and subjugating the Con-
tinent et Europe. in violation of every principle of
justice, aid in contempt of every maxim of a ge-
noreau policy."
Earl ST. VINCENT could not enter the present
opportunity to pass, without repeating his decided
oepesitien to the present measu e. Noble Lords
may suffer their miiids to he too much hexed by
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