The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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sure, iii every stage, as being pregnant with the
greatest evd.
Lord 110 WICK defended the Bill in a very able
and spirited manner, both upon the principles of
hum inity and sound 1,..1;cy ; and in doing si. he
seemed to carry 4ith him the almost unanimous
sense of the House. He thought it was of the ut
most importance that it should not be delayed one
moment unnecessarily ; and, that those who had oh.
jeflions to .rare a'4.onst it,from their being intetested
in its cons q iences, had already had sufficient time
to prep ite their arguments. After the Bill should
he r-ad first time, he should propose its second
reading to take place on Tuesday nett.
General GAeiCOYNE exclaimed against the
principles of the Btll, with great farce and vehe-
mence. He said, that there was no mode of ad.
dressing the public feelings which had not been re-
sorted to, in order to impress the minds.of the peo-
ple in its favour. The Church. the Dream.. and
the British Press, 1444 all equally contributed *lhc
dignified Clergy had even gone the length of say-
ing, that Britain entild never get vianties till suds
time as this trade was abolished This he denied,
as we had got more viat'ries during this Reign, and
particularly during this war, than ever we Ad oh.
tained before. Restriftiolts had been even laid upon
Candidates for Cities and Boroughs, that they
should vote for the Abolition. This was a speries
of undue ir.llu nee, of which the N.,ble Lord
seemed enihtsly ignorant. Detestation had been
ex sited, and abuse had been lavished, in all towns..
and in all manor-Vl:Aries. against cid" trade; and
even against the rtAnters themselves, who have been
described AS a worse description of men than even
th- Slaves. He should. however, deem any further
eisservations unnecessary and ill-timed. upon this
stage of th- liesiness ; bot he wished to caution the
House to divest itself of all prejudice. The Hon.
Merriber then concluded by making some alloasions
as 'nits being a Cabinet measure.
Mr. PLIVEit, of H,ertlordshire, begged leave
to set right -the Hon Gent. who kite last spoken ;
and to inform him, that no one man. in the whole
county he rein esented, ever asked him (Mr. Plu-
mer) to pledge himself upon the jrcl of this
Bill. He c ,uld assure him, that it any man had
asked him to pledge himself up in that, of any
other subjea, he would have refused to accept
of Lis vote. • He should, therefore. vote quite
free and ancontrouled for the Abolition of the
Trade. He did not knot" what the I lon.Ion. Gent.
might have met with in boroughs ; but as to t7abinet
measures, and Cabinet Ministers, he cared not
OK any measure-, which were so denominated.
The time was. when a Menther would have tieeo
called to orste., for having hinted at such things As
Cabinet measures.
General GASCOYNF., in explanation, said, be
did not mean to express himself sty generally as
what the Hen. Gentleman had ssipprised he had
done. He rather meant to say, that there was
scarcely a city or burgh, that had not imposed re-
striaions upon the R .p7esenratives returned.
qr.T.W. PLUMMER thought it necessary, that
a Bill of such general int rest should not be rain fly
carried through its cliff• rent veg.:3. bur that ',A-
dept time should be goren for toe consideration of
the measare. On which account, he conchs led,
that the proper time to debate the question. would
be on the second reading of the Rill, which he
hoped would be fin td for a day stifficiently distant
tq admit of Members being in. nistied with every
information no this important übjea.
Lord HO'XICK was almost persuaded, that
from the nuother of years which had elapsed since
the int discussion of this Bill; and from the fit:-
gunk debates which had since taken place on this
subject. as well as the decision of the last Perlis-
ment, there wnnl4 be no necessity an postpone its
consideration to a more remote period then Tues-
day next.
Mr. G. HIBBEPsT was of opinion this, period
would not be sufficient to admit a meeting of those
merchants, who were, ahovte all others, concerned
in the present measure; and therefore requested
the Noble Lord would put off the second reading
until this day fortnight
Lord HENRY PETTY hoped the humane
movers of this saltitary and merciful measure;Mould
persevere in bringing it, as soon as convenient,'
again before the I►louse. It had already been sub-
mitted, for above a month or six weeks, to the
public, daring its discussion in the Upper Horse,
from which it had come with every recommenda-
tion. As that House undoubtedly contained many
of the most enlightened and virtuous Statesmen, this
was a consideration, which. he hoped. would have
its due weight with Gentlemen., He concluded with
x:sressing a wish, that the second reading of the
Lid should not meet with any unnecessary delay.
Colonel HCABF.Ia thought with the Hen.
Gentleman near him (Mr. Hiblsert) that time
should Le Oxen to consider the consequences aris-
ing from the passing of the Bill just now read.
This Rill, he was of opinion, would not of e.ft the
Abolition of the Slave Trade, hut rather would be-
come the ruin of the British Colonies in the We.t
Indies, and consequently of our finances in that
part of the world. As to the argument resorted
to by the Noble Lord who proposed the suction, he
conceived it to be very deft/live, inasmuch as he
was not, nor could he devise how he should be,
hound to conform to the decision of the last Pat.
liament.
Mr. H. ADDINGTON thought it necessary to
defer the second reading to a more remote day. In
which opinion he was supported by Mr. LETH-

BRIDGE.
Mr. H kWKINS BROWNE said, that though
the uniform enemy of the Slave Trade, and that
from a conviaion of its injustice, inhumanity, as
well as impulicy, yet, when an innovation was
About to be made on the private properties of a
cor.siderahle portion of this CUITIMCI Oat country, he
could not think the suggested delay of a fortnight
mire 'sortable. ,„ He should, if the FloiLe divided
on this point, certainly vote for the pis ponemena,
an.l therefore creild net be content without express-
ing him'elf as he had don-, le‘t he might he sup-
, pose.l an enemy to the abolition of this detestable
traffic. •
Earl TEMPLE ohjeSed to the day intended for
the second reading of the Rill, and was at a loss t
conjedure the reason of his No sae Friend's wishing
thin to harry the Bill through its stages. he col-
csaved it would be prudent, in a case of this it:l+pm