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Acme leid 'oriole the Filer Council, and also be-
t. re the House, which were very contradietnry
ye eon end corn/lion sense, co much so indeed,
tttt he was. astonished any man could put them
en paper. He could not believe them, nor eh i
0,4,k any rational beipp could believe them ; and
calf oh the House to do away
he would, therefore,
the evil which titer Were intended to support. It
bed, among other things, been stated for what
caeses these unfortunate beings were made slaves
is Africa. Some were made slaves, it had been
urged. for gaming ; some were made slaves for
edultery, and many other causes ; and many, it Lad
been said, were bred slaves. He denied this to be
the Case ; hut if it irelly were so, would it, he asked,
be consistent with us, enlightened as we are in so
very superior a degrye, to countenance and enccu-
me the breeding or slaves in Africa, in order to
sors:.,y the abominable traffic which it was the oh-
jiet f his Hon. Friend's Motion to abolish ? He
.ire there could be but one answer, and that
urns' he a dire& negative. It had been also stated,
tit a if these poor 'Negroes, when taken in Africa,
were not sold, they would be murdered. This he
ridiculed, as fraught with the greatest absurdity,
and called on the House to consider seriously whe-
ther any system of policy could justify them in con-
tinuing an encouragement to such enormous crimes
and injustice ? Mr. Smith then adverted to the
system of kidnapping pramiised in Africa, in order
to supply our traders in human flesh, which he
eondemned in very severe terms, and said, that as
"erg as it was crountiseanced by that House, it
would remain a stain upon the country. It had
been argued, that they were equally under the pro-
tenion of the law as we were ; but he insisted that
could not he the case ; there was no proteetion for
the •hive against the master= where the evidence
if the slave went for nothing, and that of the mas-
ter for ail and every thing. He insisted that the traffic
way roost atrocious ; that it was founded in blood,
and injustice, and generated innumerable crimes ;
that it. was a disgrace to a great and enlightened
eetion, calling themselves Christians, and whose
greatest bent was, that they were themselves a free
,ple. For all these reasons the Motion had his
hearty support.
Mr. Fee- ea explained.
General TARLETON said, he esteemed it a
duty incumbent on him to offer a few observations
on the ar,guniente used by the Hon. Gentleman who
supported the presented motion. He, perhaps,
:night be deemed one of those proscribed persons
who had been so emphatically described by the
lion. Gentleman who brought forward the motion.
That Hon. Gentleman had said, that on his side
were ranged all the talents—all the worthy—the
honest and the good, which the House con-
tained. A proscription, he thought, equal to
any that had ever fallen from the lips of Sylla, or
any other despotic dietator. He begged leave to re-
mind :he House, that, in looking round the world,
they saw a great maey evils, which, though acknow.
hedged as such, and very great ones too, were still
obliged to be endared for a certain rime. No one
could deny that war was an evil of the greatest mag-
nitude; and yet we wee compelled frequently to
enter into war; and could any one say we will theme
fore abolish war ? The national debt was also a great
evil mind yet would any man say, that we shall have,
therefeve, no more leans? He thought the same
was applicable to the Slave Trade. It might, in
the opinions of some Hon. Members, appear to be a
great evil ; but, even if it should he thought so by
the House, he, for one, must objeet to an immediate
abolition. He adverted to that part of the Hon.
Gentleman's speech, in which he censured all the
West India merchants, and others who vested their
capitals in West India property, the drift of which
he condenmed, as adding to an alarm which the
circumstances of the islands, and the present state of
Europe, had made great enough before. He would
not take up the time of the House at present, there
would be many opportunities of delivering his senti-
ments more at large on the subjeet. It was not his
intention to divide the House upon it ; but he
thought, that in his motion, as it now stood, the
lion. Gentleman had gone too far.
Mr. MANNING said, he had hoped, that when
eo very considerable a part of the Session had
passed, so truly important a question as the pre-
sent would not have been brought forward. He
expressed his full conviCtion of the honourable mo-
tives which had aduated the Gentleman who
brought it forward ; and allowed that the Hon.
Gentleman had rendered essential service to his
Country, and to the cause of humanity, in effraing
the regulations relative to the middle passage. He
assured the House that he had no objection to the
eibnlition of the Slave Trade on such fair, just, and
reasonable grounds as the House might in its wis-
-doen hereafter adopt. He thought, however, that
'persons in the West Indies were entitled to the
proteetion of the House, on a case made out, in
which they could, as inheritors of lands, as mon-
Pagers, widows, &c. chew they had suffered in
their property. The present motion, he thought,
tattie hive been accompanied with a motion for
mlehnileeht of Commis ioners to inquire into
the losses of proprietors. He considered this, he
said, as an English, and not a West India trade ;
and •as such, after the encouragement given to it,
if we have changed our opinions, let us meet the
question manfully, and say why we have done so.
lie had no inarmaions whatever as colonial agent ;
but what he had delivered were the genuine senti-
ments of his own individual mind. He thought
the moon, made by the Hon. Gentleman, went
too far,:in aiming at an immediate abolition, and
he would therefore move that the other orders of
the dabe read.
Mr.WILBERFORCE, in explanation, said, that,
3,cording.to the motion, all who thought the Slave
ade ought to be abolished, even gradually, might
%..te for the Bill; and, as to the time, if the Bill
"as allowed to be brought in, that would be fixed
al•ci filled up in the Committee.
rt7LLER said a few words in explanation.
M. DEVAYNES said, he had resided in Africa
Isles years, and the laws were as well administered,
a; si they weroas w 01 governed there, as we are here-
W. SMITH, in answer to this, cited some
: of the evidence, which had been given by the
"'n Gentleman, in which be said, that the King
ad sent to inform him, if he did not take away cer-
"is prisoners, eerie:mined to transportation, lie
"*.eild put than tc death." He then asked, if the.
'4" a Pool of the leesses being as well administeted

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MAY Si.

At a late hour last night we received the Mont-
Veers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th instant. They con-
tain various addresses, all concluding with a wish
that

46 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

may be proclaimed Emperor of the French, and
that the Imperial dignity may be rendered heredi-
tary in his family."
The following articles are from the Journal des
Debate of the 18th and 19th of May:—

PARIS, KAY 17.

The Conservative Senate will assemble, to-mor-
row, to receive the Report of its Committee, on the
plan of a Senetus Conn Pun!, presented yesterday in
the name of the Government. This Smelt's Con-
sultuns will fix the de3ti.ny of the empire.

MAY 18.

The Conservative Senate assembled to-day under
the Presidency of the Consul Cam ',scants. All the
Ministers were present at the Sitting, as also the
Counsellors of State, PORTMAN DITIRMONT, and
Tacu.HA ID, the Orators of Government appointed
on the Itith of May to carry to the Senate the plan
of an organic Senates Censehum. The Senate, after
having heard the Report of its Committee, made
by the Senator LACLPEOZ, adopted the Senates Coo-
:Owe, and, after the Sitting, repaired in a body
to St. Cloud, to present it to the Haag Cossus..
We shall give the text of this fundamental Aft,
which constitutes the French empire, as soon as it
shall be officially published. In the mean time, to
gratify the just impatience of our readers, we think
we may lay before them some of the principal re-
gulations, as they are circulated by public report.
The Senates Consults*. contains, it is said, 14S ar-
ticles, divided into sixteen titles. The first title de-
clares NAIPOLZON 80.4 APART& Emperor of the
French, and the Imperial dignity hereditary in the
direfl, natural, and legitimate descent, from male
to male, in the order of primogeniture, to the ex-
clusion of females and their descent. The Flair
Cosset. may adopt the children or grand-children
of his brothers, provided they have attained the age
of eighteen years complete, and he himself have no
children. Adoption is prohibited to his successors.
In default of a natural and legitimate heir of the
First. Comset, or of an adopted heir, the Empire

will be transferred to insists Boma Parrs and his
deseen.lasts; and in default of Josiah and his de-
scendants. to Louts BOW All•Pl C and his descend-
ents; in case of failute of the heirs of Jotyris and

Louts 110VA10ARTL, ISMMilit Cesershuse, proposed to
take the Senate by the titularies of the great digni-
taries of the Empire, and submitted to the accept-
ance of the people, shall appoint an Emperor.
The members of the Imperial Family, in the or-
der of inheritance, shall bear the title of French
Princes. The eldest son of the Est esaoft shall bear
the title of Imperial Prince. A French Prince, alto
shall marry without permission from the EMPEROR,
shall be deprived of right to the inheritance, unless
be shall have no children by this marriage, and the
marriage shall be afterwards dissolved.

The civil list shall remain regulated as it is by
the Ist and 4th Articles of the Decree of the
26th of May 1791. l'he French Princes JOSEPH
and Louis BONAPARTE, and the younger sons of
the E m Eton, shall be treated conformably to the
articles 1,10,11, le, and 13, of the decree of the
21st of December 1790. The EMPEROR may fix
the dower of the EMPRESS, and assign it on the
civil list. His successors shall not be permitted to
make any change in his dispositions in this resped.
The EMPEROR will visit the departments. In con-
sequence, imperial palaces shall be established at the
four principal points of the empire.
In case of a minority, the Essestos is a minor
till the age of eighteen years complete. Females
are excluded from the regency. The reigning
EMPZROR may previously appoint a regent from
among the French Princes. In default of such ap-
pointment, the regency shall be given to the Prince
nearest in degree of consanguinity. No organic
Senates Camila= can be issued during the regency,
nor before the end of the third year, which shall fol-
low the majority.
There shall be a Council of Regency, composed of
the Titularies of the Great Dignitaries of the empire.
The Regent shall not be empowered to declare war
nor to make peace till after a deliberation in the
Council of Regency, of which the members in that
case only shall have deliberative voices. The guar-
dianship of the Ex►taot in his minority shall be
confided to his mother, or,. in default of her, to the
Prince appointed by the predecessor of the Esse uton
who is a minor.

The "titularies of the Great Dignitaries of the Em-
pire, are the Great Eleflor, the Arch-Chancellor of
the Empire, the Arch-Chancellor of State, the Arch-
Treasurer, the Constable, and the High Admiral.
They shall be nominated by the Est Pesos ; they
shall enjoy the same honours as the French Princes.
and rank immediately after them ; they shall be
Senators and Counseil.,:s of State ; they shall form
the Great Council of the Est:triton ; they shall be
Members of the Privy Council, they shall compose
the Great Council of the Legion of Honour; they
shall be irremovcable. Senatories shall be at-
tached to each of :he Great Dignitaries of the Em-
pire; they shall be established in the Departments
of the Dyle, the Gironde, the Rhone, the Po, the
Lower Loire, and the Mouths of the Rhone.
There shall be Great Officers of the Empire, and
Marshals of the Empire, chosen from among the
most distinguished Generals; eight lnspedors and
Colonels-General of Artillery, Cavalry, and the
Marine ; three Great Civil Officers of the Crown,
such as shall be constituted by the Statutes of the
EKPILItOII. The Great Officers are rernoveable.
The Essex atm, within the first two years after his
accession to the throne, or attainment of majority. shall
take an oath to the French People on the Gospel, and
in presence of the Titularies of the Grand Dignitaries
of the Empire, of the Minister, of the Great Of-
ficers of the Empire, of the Senate, of the Council
of State, of the Legislative Body, of the Tribunal,
of the Court of Cassation, of the Archbishops and
13:shops, of the GreattOfficers of the Legion of
Honour, of the Presidents of the Cantons, of the
Consistories, and Mayors of the Principal Cities of
the Empire: he shall swear to maintain the inte-
grity of the territory of the French Repubiic, to
respea, and cause to be respelled, liberty of con-
science, and the laws of the concordat, the equality
of rights, political and civil liberty, the irrevocabi-
lity of the sales of national pro,,:rty, not to levy
any tax but by virtue of a law, &c.
The Senate shall be composed, Ist. of French
Princes. 2d. Of the Titularies of the great Digni-
taries of the Empire. Sd. Of Eighty Members no-
minated on the presentation of Candidates chosen
by the EMPittoa from lists formed by the EleEtoral
Colleges of the department. 4th. Of Citizens whom
the EMPIROR shall judge proper to eicvate to the
dignity of Senator. There shall be f.. ruled in the
Senate, and from its body, a committee of indivi-
dual liberty, consisting of seven members, who. if
any person is arrested, and not brought to trial after
ten days from his arrest, may, on application from
such person, call on the minister who ordered his
arrest, either to set him at liberty, or bring him be-
fore the tribunals, which if he refuses to do, the
committee may demand an assembly of the Senate,
to which the matter shall be referred.
There shall likewise be in the senate a commit-
tee for the liberty of the press. which shall proceed