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however it was neeloeary that Ave pounds should be deposited for Mr. HERRIE6 said there were two kinds of waste silk, one
Every child placed them. Before this enactment a greater num- that was imported is that state, and another that was the product
bee were sent out to nurse from the Foundling Hospital than could of the manufacture. On the former a drawback was allowed on
afterwards be taken in for the purpose of being educated there. It importation. On that, therefore, no second drawback would of
was therefore found necessary to transfer the surplus number of course be allowed ; DO! on the second kind was it intended to make
children who could not be accommodate:l on the establishment of any allowance, on account of the difficulty (as we understood the
the Foundling Hospital to the charter schools. This caused an in. Honourable Gentleman) of determining in what cases it would
creased demand of money for the support of these aerosols for the be clue.
present yew. This demand would not continue, but diminish uAfter sone observations from Sir H. PARNELL, the Bill was
the ehiklren were educated ; for the obligation of paying five read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
pounds on the entrance of a child into the Foundling Hospital, and I LEGACY DUTY.
the other regulations introduced by Government, would in future i Mr. HUME gave notice of his intention this day to move for a
prevent the number on the catahlitilsolcut from exceeding its proper copy of the Treasury Minute respecting the arrears of the Legacy
proscribed limitation. ' Duty.
Mr. HUME said, that instead of granting an additional sum, I The other Orders of the day were then dispreed of, and to.
he should propene to reduce it 3,0101. because there had been a House adjourned at Mir. PAST TWELVE.
direct prollike given that a reduction should
he made, instead of i
which, the (louse was called upon fur a larger grant. lie should,
therefore, move as an amendment, that the sum of 11,0OOL be the
grant for the present you.
Sir J. NEIVPDET wished to have the subject laid before a
Commitote, in order to ascertain in what state things existed ; and
that the /louse might not be led astray by assertions on one side,
and replies on the other. The Committee would be able to decide
how the bounty granted by Parliament ought to be laid out. Ile
would contend, that until the 'louse was nettle aware how the facts
actually were, they could not be justified in giving the public
bounty without knowing for what. He had a great objection to the
charter schools, and it was that a considerable portion of the money
granted was not applied to the purposes of instruction. If the
plan wore perfect limey more children could be educated than now
were; but a great sum was expended on officers, which ought to
be laid out on the objects for n hick it was voted. Ile thought the
Home was not called on to allow the grant until the House knew
the purpose for which it was demanded. Ile should therciiire
move to postpone the first four grants.
Mr. (10ULBURN observed, that the Right Hon. Baronet
opposite had stated, that because it was necessary to bring the
subject before a committee,he should move to postpone the gear t.
It was applied fr, for a most useful purpose, and it would rot be
advisable that the House should now withdraw the vote; nor, he
thought, could the Right Honourable Baronet propose it at the
present mononit, when it would be the means of sending so many
without resources upon the world, because there could be no
arrangement to make provision for those who were now in the
Charter School The question was simply this u would or would
not the Home continue the grant to the Charter School, and extend
it to the Foundling Marta/ ? With respect to the former, he
would observe, that it was to be considered Its a charity rather that
as a place tor education. An Honourable Member had alluded to
a period when peculation', had been diacoverol in the Charter
School; but these times were past, and he (31r.Goitlburn) thought
it unfair to allude to diem The reports now on she table of the
House were of the most satisfactory nature. The charity was to
Ireland of the utmost importance. It instructed the poor, enabled
them to become trade-amen or servants; and rendered them tit
patterns to others, aced useful members of society.
Sir 31. RIDLEY contended for tile postponement of the motion,
until the one before the House, reletive to the education of the
Irish, came under their consideration. He argued that no ill etfocts
could arise from such postonenient.
Mr. C. GRANT dissented front the opinion of his Right Hon.
Friend who oppopod the motion. Each of the institutions alluded
to were of great service to Ireland. With respect to the Charter
School, lie erred with hi Right Hotsourable Friend (Sir. lioul-
burn ) in believing it to be a noble exception to the rule. and that it
wait a well etwiducted eatablishnient ; but he hoped that some ex-
ertions would be used, because they were necessary. to prevent the
Foundling Hospital from becoming what the Charter School had
been.
Lord A LTHORP thought the argument of his Right lion.
Friend Mr. Goulburn) had weight, as far as related to the pod-
'tenement of the motion, which might produce ill effects ; but he
wished it to go before a Commliter, in order that next year the
House might know what they were doing.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH monde a few observations, which were
inaudible in the gallery.
Sir J. NEWPORT said that his only object was to hare stair
inquiry insole into the state of the charities, in order that the pub-
lic might know how their money was applied. If this were not
done, the House might be aware on a future day that they had acted
with p. ecipitaney.
Mr. GOULIICHN again explained the grounds on which be
should oppose the postponement.
Mr. S. RICE observed that a promise had been given that a
variety of papers should be ready on the subject, which papers
should be laid on the table now. It was a singular circumstance,
that Or the first time these ten years, an Irish Minister had come
forward and defended the principles on which the Charter School
was established. He (Mr. Rice) had heard innumerable objections
age! against then? and yet the Minister applied for an augmenta-
tion of the grant. (In this account alone it was necessary to in-
quire into the subject ; and how could it be done so properly as
before a Committer ? There was nothing unusual in the proceed-
ing; it was done in and a full report bad been laid before the
House. He (Mr. Ric.) objected to the connection of the (loner
School wit:i the Foundling linepitel; became, if it was deemed
necessary to procure from the one tenants for the other, instead of
lessening the numbers of its Modems, a eoseddemble addition must
be made to them. He objected to the Cbarter6chool, as strongly as
the lt'ght lion. Gent (Mr. Goulburn i supportel it. He would
have nu school which should be exclusively Protestant : if schools
must be formed on exclusive principles, they ought to be of thole
who are of the greater number, and of the poorer classes. Ile was
quite sure that the Foundling Hospital only added to the wicked-
-114W5 and misery of Ireland. To other countries the observation
equally applied; in France, since the foundation of a Foundling
Hospital, the number of exposed children, which ware formerly one
out of ten, had become one out of three.
Sir J. NEWPORT observed, that the papers on the subject,
rhoved for again anti again, had not been brought fee-
ward, and had not been issued from the Secretary's office until
February last.
hlr. ISOULBUR N explained, but in so low a tone that he was
inaudible in the gallery.
Mr. HUME said, that Government had been pledged to reduce
this grant, and had committed a positive breach of good faith ; he
therefine called upon the House to support him in his mo:ion.
Sir G. HILL supported the grant.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee
divided.

For the Amendment 35 I Against it 7-11 Majority 3tl.
The original resolution was then agreed to.
'F!tc mat vote was for 4,4201.. for defraying the expenses of the
Society fur I)iscountenancing Vice in Ireland.
After a few words from Sir J. NEWPORT, Mr. GourettaXi
and Colonel Day IES

lit73lE objected to the grant as an unnecessary waste of
public money. The funds of the Society were adopted to the dia.
tributien of Prayer-books and Bibles. The Catholics would rot
receive theta, and the Protestants who stood in need of such assist-
ance were too few in number to require them. What then became
of the books said to be distributed ? Until the necessity of this
glint W::% more clearly shown he would object Wit.
Mr. lit/I'I.IIU N said the llon. Gentleman was mistaken as to
the mode of alum Muting these religious books. They were given
only to those who partly subscribed for them.
Mr. S. !MI: said this vote hail been augmelted since the
Union, 1.11313091. to its present amount. As all the votes would not
be gone through this night, be suggested that time should be al-
lowed tiff an investigation of its necessity.
Mr. G:/l'ldll'HN explained. The vote had been reduced one
halt since last sear.
The resoluttmi was then postponed.
The next vote proposed was for the Society for the Education of
the Poor in !rebind.
Sir J SEWN HIT said the necessity of this vote originated in
the negligent... of the clergy of Ireland. If they attended to the
performauce of their duty, this vote midget be spared.
Sir GEORGE II I 1.1. maintained that the grant was necessary.
The Right Honourable Baronet's assertion was calculated to injure
the established church.

NOTICES OF AII►TIIINS DAV).
Dr. Lushington—Conaideration of the Cri 11l Mal Law, with a
view of amending certain parts thereof.
Mr. seeeetary Canning—Papers and Statement relating to the
West Indies: 11114 i Hill to declare Slave Trading to be Piracy.
31r. Plunket_Mill respecting Burials in Ireland.
Mr. Atiorney-Oencral--Compensation to certain Officers of
Courts of Justice, fur their losses in consequence of the County
Courts' MIL

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
Recovery of Penalties Bill—Further Considertion of Report.
time Laws Amendment Bill—Committee.
Insolvent Debtor.' Bill—Committe.
County Courts' Bill—Further

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LONDON. TUESDAY, Shawn 16, Mt.

The papers and letters from Paris of Saturday's date
came to hand last night. Some time since it was reported
that the Allied Powers meditated the holding of a Congress
to deliberate on the South American question. The Eloik
of Sunday, however, plainly denies that any such Con-
gress will be held. This Journal observes, that the report
of such meeting of the Allied Powers had been spread in
London, and affects to treat the subject as if the European
Powers had never contemplated a Congress to settle the
affairs of South America. But the contrary is well known
to be the fact; and therefore we must attribute the aban-
donment of their resolution to the decided tone which the
British Government has manifested on the South American
question. The funds rose yesterday when it was learnt in
the City that the Eloile had contradicted the rumour of
thy European Congress. The Moniker contains a letter
from Italy, stating that the House of Bourbon has suffered
another loss by the death of her Majesty Maria Louisa
Josephine, Duchess of Lucca (formeey Queen of Etruria).
She was born on the Gth of July, 1752. From Madrid we
learn that Ferdinand has granted the titre of Infant of
Spain to the Infant Don Sebastian of Portugal.

.•
[From the Mentiteur of Saturday, March 13.1
The official part contains four Royal Ordinances. The first
authorises an anonymous society, funned at Dauarat, between the
pmprietors of the glass manufactory at that place. The second
authorities a society formed at .bras, for mutual insurance against
injury by hail storms. The third authorities M. Sarteris and Co.
to make some additions to the articles of the society for the emis-
sion of shares for the canals of the Ardennes, &c. The fourth
authorises the Southern Society of mutual insurance against tire,
for the departments of Cintal, &c.

[NON-OFFICIAL PANT.]
PARIS, 31ancit 12.
The obsequies of the Princess Louisa of Conde will take place in
the chapel of the Temple, on Saturday next, at half-put nine in
the morning. The Archbishop of Paris will officiate. The niortal
remains of her Serene Highness will be deposited in the church of
the chapel of die reniple.
A convention has just been concluded between the French and
Spanish Post-offices. The King has conferred the Cross of the
Legion of Honour on M. 31argst, Director-General of the Spanish
Posts, as a proof of his Majesty's satisfaction at the pains he has
taken in concluding the arringements, which will be useful to both
countries.

Sir -BOHN NI:WP(IRT denied that he had made any assertion
with a view to injure the established church ; he was as incapable
of doing so vs the Right Hon. Baronet himself. Let the Right
lionourable Baronet refer to the documents furnished by the
clergy themselves. It was clear they hail forgotten the obligations
they had entered into. Ile knew not what right any Member of
that 1101114' hod to impute motives to another, void of all principle
at.d discordant with his ditty.
Sir G. 1111,1. explained.
11r. 111' HIE vindicated his Right Honourable Friend (Sir J.
Newport) from the attack made upon him. His Right Hon.
Friend spoke generally of the Clergy of Ireland, who, on their in.
duction, took its oath to keep a school, which they afterwards neg-
I, sr-d. Ile 131 r. II.) would not hesitate to assert, that one-half of
the Irish clergy were forsworn. Uttar, hear.) Ile spoke facts:
whether they were to the benefit or prejudice of the Irish church,
he left the House to
'bulge. (A laugh.) In his opinion the clergy
were themselves too greatest enemies to the church.
I Mr. -I"I'ERW4 MTII spoke highly of the Society, which,
from his knowledge of it, was an excellent and useful institution.
The vote los, then yostponed.
The following sinus were then agree:! to
Ills9(1111. for the !louse of Industry and Asylum for Orphan Chil-
dren.
4.91t11. for the Richmond Lunatic Aavium.
7..;!at1. for the II ihernian Society for Soldiers Children.
Liaarl for the Ilibernian Marive Sot,ety.
1,11781. for the Female Orphan (louse.
for the Westmorland Lock Hospital.
2,9101. Site the Lying-In Ilcapit..l.
1.11.111. tbr Dr. Steevena's Hospital.
for the lever doss total and !louse of Recovery.
heats!!. for the I I ospital of Incurables.
lin the vote of it !ern. fur the Roman Catholic Seminary,
Lord A 1.1111 Sit I' observed, that in order to place the Maynonth
College on a respectable footing, it would be necessary to MSC the
fees of entrance and annual payments of the students.
Mr. CHOK ER concurred with the noble lord in his opinion.
Sir. J. N H:11•PI1 RT made a few observations on the same side.
31r. (MI '1.111•11N said he should shortly submit a proposition The Jamaica Courant of the 21st January contains the
to Parliament on the subject.
After a few words front 3lr. hitlTCtttSsON and Mr. Alosren, lengthened details of the trial of nine wretched negroes, at
the resolution was agreed to.
Bull Bay, in that island, on the 19th of last January, for
mr. 'ME said, that, looking at the hour (twelve o'clock), he
should move that the chairman report progress. a deliberate conspiracy to revolt and murder the white in-
The motion was agreed to. habitants. Their trial appears to have been a calm and an
The !louse resumed.
31r. BROGDEN reported :progress', and obtained leave to alt impartial one. Eight of the sable conspirators were con-
again on Wednesday next. victed, on what seems to us indisputable evidence, and
SILK TRADE.
On the order of the day being read for the second reading of the three of the eight were sentenced to be executed, and five
Silk Trade Bill,
Ito be transported. It appeared from the evidence that these
Mr. lir TT E It WORTH asked, whether it was intended to allow
any drawback fur waste silk. infatuated and guilty beings were in conituunication with

.11. Fuegeot who was entrusted by the 31inister of Finance, and
the Due de ILudesisville, with the requisite powm to negoxiate
this affair and complete the organization of the military posts in the
Peninsula, has executed his mission with the greatest real and re.
gaol to the King's service. lle has returned to Paris.

[From the Eloile of Sunday.]
PARIS, MARCH 13.
A report has been spread at London that a European Con.
ves, was to assemble, which would discuss the affairs of South
~nuvica: and this news, which seems to have caused sonic sen.
salon, is however quite without foundation, as well as that of the
illness of the Emperor Alexander. which was spread at the same
time, and to which a Paris journal attempted, even yesterday
evening, to give credit.
The King of Spain has conferred the cross of Charles 111. on 31.
Furgeot, who negociattsl the convention relative to the Ports in
Spam.
The King of Prussia, and his family, arc expected at Aix-la.
Chapelle at the beginning of the season,
FUNDS.—PARIS, 31ARC/I 13.--5 per Cents. (Joni,
du 22 Mari.) opened at 99 f.'s° c. ; closed at 99 1.83 e.; Bank
Stock, 1.777 1. 7311 c. ; Neapolitan 5 per Cents., in ducats IN, in
francs 94 1. 63 e. ; Humes eV Espagne opened at 23 ; highest 24i ;
closed at 24. Exchange on London :—One Month, 25 f. 33c.;
Three Months, 23 f. 44) c.

a brigand from St. bomingo of the name of Baptiste, and
that the mulatto Lecesne, who had been a short time bets
sent off the island through the decision of the Ge, emy.
had secretly supplied them with arms. Of the three
miserable victims doomed to death, one only, Henry Oliver,
it appears, was to be executed ; Kerr and Montignac,
through the clemency of the Government, had their
awful sentence exchanged for transportation. The
grossest superstition was mingled with the wildest
infatuation in the plans and conduct of these wretched
negroes. The Obeali man, the curse of the African
race in the West Indies, was busy at their meet-
ings : under his directions their skins were rubbed with
bush, which he picked to render them in-capable of being
held by their white toasters or pursuers. They also mixed
their blood with runt and powder, and drank the horrid
miktur.i. They were to ri,e the night after Christmas to,
rush iu and murder the overseer and book-keeper on Bal.
earras plantation, and then commence a general massacre
up as far as Cedar valley, Their dreadful signal for ins
discriminate murder was to be four candles on a board, or
torch, and shewn from the tops of the barbique walls,
as a general signal to the surrounding negroes to commence
the work of massacre. They mustered frequently, and,
until cutlasses were ground for them, they drilled with
wooden swords. They met in military array every t!htturday,
and had fifes, drums, and martial music. They were leagued
by oaths swallowed with the horrible potion mixed up with
their blood. They drank round my of the common basin the
bloody beverage, and swore " to stand to the battle." On the
night when the appalling work of murder and conflagration
was to commence, the watchman of the plantation was to give
them notice when their victims had retirod to rest, and the
overseer and book-keeper were to have been the first mura
dered. They had mock muskets of plaintain stocks, until
they could be provide d by Lecesne and M'Farlane with
guns and cutlasses; and they went through the regular
exercise as the preparation for general massacre. But the
observation of the negro witness, Charles Mack, disclosed
the dreadful conspiracy before it broke out, and averted the
shocking results. The villain Lecesne appears to have been
deep in the conspiracy, and to have supplied them largely'
with arms. Fount:. n guns were brought them at one
time from Kingston, through this mulatto's agency ; and it
was then arranged that the night after Christmas they w.-re
to kill Mr. Lerman, overseer of the plantations, then murder
and burn all up and down the river. Lecesne's advice to these
unhappy men, was like that of the hoary Renault, " to
spill blood enough, and spare neither age nor sex." The
brigand Baptiste, from St. Domingo, was also busy
instigating them to revolt and murder. lie had come as
a fell emissary lately among them, anti said Jamaica was a
bed country, because the negroes could not do as they lik d.
This ruffian unfortunately escaped, and returned to 3t,
Domingo. Misrepresentation, it is clear, was busy with
its agents among the negroes generally : they imbibed the
belief, that great concessions had been trade them in this
country, and that three days in the week were given them
as free from labour. It is clear that the proceedings in Par-
liament, last session, from the studious misrepresentations
that followed on them, produced most alarming consequences
in the 'West Indies, and in any measures now adopted for the
gradual amelioration of the African race, too much caution
cannot be observed: it is due equally to the European
proprietors and residents in these tine colonies, and to the
negroes themselves, to whom sudden emancipation would
Ibe the greatest curse that could be inflicted on them. Mr,
Canning makes his promised statement to-night on this most
important question, and will bring in a Bill to make the
foreign traffic in slaves piracy. We are sure that any
measures proposed by the leading Minister in the Lower
House, will be marked by the same wisdom and modera-
tion that have lately distinguished his foreign policy on the
subject of South America. Millions of property are com-
mitted in the result, and the question involves the very
existence of our West India Colonies, with the safety of
thousands who are now resident there. No subject, in
fact, of deeper interest has occupied the attention of the
Legislature for many years. It will be discussed, we
trust, with calmness and impartiality, and the final de.
cision be one beneficial to the Colonies, and equally just
to the white inhabitants and the negro population through-
out these islands.

The liberal policy displayed by his Majesty's preset..
Ministers, and the anxiety they have manifested to remove
all interruption to the freedom of commerce, deserves to be
hailed as a new era in our political system. But there is,
at the same time, room fer great deliberation as Va.the
portentous results that may attend the engrafting on a
sudden the spirit of this liberal policy upon a veteran sys-
tem, which has been nursed in selfishness, and grown out
of the worst principles of monopoly. It requires that a
Minister should proceed with great caution in following up
the suggestions even of wisdom, because, though sound
and salutary in the abstract, they may, under all the Cir-
cumstance!, and with a view to their practical operation
over the whole range of trade and commerce, be pregnant
with perplexity and ruin to thousands. Ererything con-
nected with the very name of. freedom sounds well. Free-
dom of trade we all feel to be desirable; and we are there-
fore inclined, without inquiry, to give praise ►o every
measure which has this fur its object. But in doing this we
proceed a little too fast : the whole trade and commerce
of the country have been for centuries carried on under
course of regulations and restrictions, which have at length
accumulated into an inesense body of statute law; and
all, or the far greater part, of this mass of statutory provi-
sions has been introduaxl, not to further the generat
interests of commerce, but to promote the exclusive
profit of merchants and manufacturers in the concerns
to which they respectively relate,. In this state of
things, to give a partial operation to the principle of
free trade, is merely disturbing the equilibrium of injus-
tice, without removing the general pressure arising out
of the evil policy which you affect to remedy ; it is only
shifting the weight from ono part of the body, while you
leave the rest still more galled by the burthen. By bad
laws, and under an oppressive and erroneous system of
commercial finance, manufacturers have been so long
permitted to enrich themselves at the expense of their
workmen, and the Treasury coffers been filled by taxes
imposed without any regard to those enlightened prin-
ciples of trade from which we ought never to have de-
parted, that to return in part to those principles, and to
introduce them into particular branches, whether of
foreign trade, or of domestic industry, may be productive
of much well-grounded complaint. The high rate a
which most articles of manufacture are taxed, present very
formidable obstacles to the establishment of that freedom
of foreign commerce, which can only be effected by the
repealing, or greatly reducing, the duties on commodities
imported. If, for example, the duties were taken or
French brandies, it would no doubt be one step taken its
the new road of freedom, and would unquestionably non -
tribute towards increasing our trade with France, inas-
much as many of our merchants would be able to dispose
of the products of our national industry in exchange for
French brandy, with much greater facility, and mac-