The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-09 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA.

The friends of African •freeions in this country Will
peruse with pleasure the following Resolutions,
were passed by the Congress of the United States of
America, on the 11th Feb. lust : •
" Resolved by the senate and Howe of Represcntatlllea of
the States of America in Congress assembled, that Ole
President he, and he is hereby authot;sed, to consult and ne-
gotiate ith all the Governments where Ministers oldie United
States arc, or shall be, accredited, on the means of effeeding
an entire arid immediate Abolition of Rae Traffic is Slaves;
and also to enter into a Convention with the Government of
Great lit itain for receiving into the colony of Sierra Leone,
such of the free people of colour of the naked Stetea,as, nitts
their own consent, shall be carried thither, stipoutirit aura
terms as shall be most beneficial to the rolooists„ while It
promotes the peaceful interests of Great Britain and the CfsiteJ
States : and should this proposition not be accepted, they
obtain fume Orr at Britain and the other Mat items Powers„,n
stipttlat Mu, or a formal declaration to the game elfeet. guavas
teeing a permanent uo utrallity for any colony of free people
of colour, 'Skil, at the exproce anti mistier the auspices of
the IlTuite:l States, shad he established on the African coast.
" Resolved, That adequate provisiou shall hereafter he
made to defray any neesssary espences winch may be itteut-
red in carrying the pirePaing Itestolllllolll into edict."
It is hardly possible to conceive more liberal and j 00:
dicious mamas of avoiding the inconveniencieg of the -
approaching emancipation of the Negroes of the United
States.

The departure of the Archduchess Leo's°Wine, bride
of the Prince- Royal of Portugal, will be hastened, it
is mid, that she may reach Brazil, before the setting
in of the Equinox_ In the meantime, the Portuguese
. Minister is preparing a fete, at which there arc to be
140,000 lights.
Mrs..Fitzherbert's rout at her house in Tilney-street,
on Monday evening, was attended by 700 fashionables,
The Dukes of York and Clarence,. and twelve Mar.
chioness' were present. The Marchioness of Hertford
was nut of the number.
' The Marquis of Hastings Gate Earl of Moira) has
established at Calcutta, a Horticultural Association for
Bengal, an establishment long much desired and want-
ed, and well suited to furnish many new and curious
evidences of the processes of nature ip her vegetable
Frowths, .and-otthe powers of cultivation, to vary and
improve their productions.
Lord Castlereagh was on Montle), unanimously
elected an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, in the
room of the Duke of Marlborough, deceased. The,
Earl of Liverpool was unanimously ro.ekosen Mantes
fur the year ensuing.
Tuesday the Duke de Chartres was introrlucel to
the Prince Regent, at Carlton Hoge, upon his arrival
in England, and had a long audience with his: Royal.
Highness.
The Pitt Club in town consists of one thousand three.
hundred and forty members, besides having several
candidates on the list for tulmission. The Pitt Club of
Scotland, held at Edinburgh, consists, we understand..
,;.of upwards of seven hundred members.
His Grace the Duke of Nortiak, for the gratifica-
tion of the curious, has kindly given his permission for.
Arundel castle, and all appertaining thereto, to be
'seen, on every Monday, until the end of October. We.
hope the privilege will not be abused, as in the late.
Dukes time.
Lord Amherst was expected to leave China in Janu-
ary last.
We are informed. that the National Monuments for,
• Waterloo and Trafalgar will he carried into immediate
execution ; although it is not intended to apply to Par-
liament for more than a small portion of the estimated'
expence this Session. The design of Messrs. Wilkins
and Gandy, ibr the Waterloo Monument, will /911ing•
a longer time in building than that of Mr. Single,.
which has little sculpture ; the shortest period calm-,
• lated for the completion of the termer, consistently with.
the precautions which experience prescribes, is test.
years.
M. Dubourg, Bislop of Lena/tura, left Paris.-on
the 17th ult. fin- Bourdeaux, whence he will embark
for America. Sonic days before his departure several.
.ecclesiastics set out who I:Ve devoted themselves to.
the American mission. They are all. to co-operate in-
ditlbsing the faith over the immense countries on the'
west of the United States and Lelow the Mississip,i tux,.
the Ohio. •
The last dispatches from Captain Maxwell, of the
Aleeste frigate, at Canton, ,:aninunieste. very itarr-.
taut ga”vraphical intin-imuitat. It apts.:in+ that after
the ships under his direction quitted the (;u11:11 of Pc-
tche-tee, they stood across the Gulph of Luttong ; &Pr
the Great WOll winding uh one side of. steep =sal-
t:tins, and descending the other, down into the Gulp!, ;
and instead of meeting \y id; tic eastern mist of Corte
in the situation assi!.4ned it m the severacluitts, ther
fell in with an :Archipelago, ithim lug of at leyst ICCO
islands, amongst which woe tl..c most comincdinns and.
magnificent harLenrs ; and the r:,al mast of the (7oret.a.
Peninsula they found sittiat,2.l at least 120 ruiks far-
ther to the eastward. Captain Maxwell from hence pro.
ended, with the other ships, to the Leion-Kieon islands,
where they met with a harinuv equally as capacious us
that of Port Mellon, in Mirmrea, experiencing from
the poor but kind-hearted inhabitants of tt-c:.c places
the !iien•lly reception,

TRIAL

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tN 4.14 COURT OT itxo's fl NCH, OUILDIIALL, ON
THURSDAY LAST.

Th;s wa4 an information Wed ara;nst the Dlfentiant by his
Attornoy General, f..r iihei int'd.sited ia a w,tik
enovd.4 Iliaeb Dwin•f," of Inch tilt' Deirtidinit was the
gihor., Che inforingtion, r,lrirlr coosinel of two roon',.
eharge•l, first. that the Defrodont, iiieoidnig to write ills
coatent and disinfection iu 14c minis ;,r the ialliketS 4,r ~tir
li.orJ the Koiz. 11.. d poi/ fished .1 curl:tin out
ticlolls iiuci,'t Oil Kin;;'s A Ifniur.tratina
%ern:nein; and ad, that, i..ienileug to ese,lo drs oa...nt and
dis.diertion in the minds of the 'abject. of our lArrd the Kir 2,
•gaiust this present Administrati nu or onolle nil :its. the f)e-
fendent had published auntie-r sCentrhilmis .11:11 uiAIICh u.
reflecting nn the cliscieter of I,,nd ViNconut Cis&
reigh, an-I the Right lint,. tionge Cloning. The libels
lIVCIV Act forth al in the ttdotittillion. . .

Thu Attorney General, in siar.ug the ease, observed, that
soneemst other blessing* which the free Coit-titutinii ut Laug-
h-and waseinteeel to the peapse, ue. the liberty of the press.
lint thi, like sinew blessitizs, might use might
degenerate he° licentiousness—m.4.l, therefine, it mind be
confined with:st certain !mitosis and limits. What were the
,troper bound. of the !delay of the tires., bee:sine a nientiosi
—and wheilier those home's hid been exceeded, was a sub•
jecteniatter of inquiry for 11w Jury, tiuder the direction of the
,:truo 'To &seines fiirly. freely, sriunalv„ 4:111
belliy, the 1111.0•111'1.5 that bast hoen taken by the Ailasiirs-
tration of li-e c inntry,or widen e Coat Administration ter r
pursumg, w 14 an exercise of Ito. liaerty of the prem.uLteh
.tio won's! be our of the last men to neh neon. ile b.•2:1.,1
to slate, that if.any error hemazial 111 the pi ..;.t.fti 110.01 111.1
tion, it ought to be visi ed on his head, for it was entirety
his act, perfected without any intimation being given to
Majesty's Ministers. lie foetid hirtself spoil to art a.
he had done in the fair exereise of his dory—and felt that lie
should have negiected that e.iity it' lie had not filed the present
infurniivatuu. 'lire A homey G. rimed here piaeeeded to read
the pnblica ion. It was entitled, "'The Past, the Present,
and the Future." It &largest Ministers vri!ls iiti-
city and treachery, and with the Most scand 41011 A rorruptissii.
Mtnisiters (it .set 'forth) had told the people that they were
. fighting the battles of the country, white they were only
'fighting their own. 'they hail been induced to fight the that.
ties of legitimate Governments abroad, while Ministers were
destroying, at home that Constitution which they *Agin to
have defended. That Constitution which France could not
, assail, and never wished to injure. peii4iied ant
without a strneggle,, amidst the reprez.entati yes of the peolik
and the guardians oldie pubic purse. Were Ministers cosi-
tented with this—ne must the people tilted, to appease their
hatred of the eatu4e ef freedasii and ref mu? if we Nest
bleed, we have oily to sciiiest of them, in the words of
Ajax, " let us perish its the lace of Heaven,," brs athiag our
Si eat to the Gsd of freedom, against the agents cif tyranny
and degradation. We embarked in the last %c.r to conquer
France, and we liaise concocted ourselves. Al' er attempt-
ing to overthrow freedom abroad, Ministers had turned the-.r
attention to the di ailments's of fres dons at home.--The
sty General t onnuen;eil on these passages with smells sese.
rny. He denied that any attempt bad heen made ireainst
freedom abroad. This Government had been forced into A
war to cluck the aeg; calms of the rerteutienary G.lll nr
await of Fe.aser.— The stennd count of this
charged the Didendatit with a libel on Lnrd ('a.tlereagh a.id
. the Right Hon. George Canning. The public:oMo shosild lie
now read—au-I unless the I)efeutiant could estimiss It away,
he was coils ineed that it initst be prunotureed.a inost libellous
production.
The libel was then read—mud a prison, of the name of
Benjamin Steed, proved that he hail received 1,000 stmdaers
et is, from the Deiesidain, fur poinlientiun,

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.The ease for the prusecoliwi closed I.itie.
Tile 1)4 fend.int then addre”eil tho Coort at great length.
lie stated, that if he were e..1146011$ nY having des. reed the
(insert atoms which the Attorne)•-tien. ral il.ul applied lii
he %tonsil not stand before the Omit dit the inditlertiiiee
which lie then did. He only exercised the fair privile4e of
a public Witter, in using the arwitiectit. which he had laid
before the public, and he was by no means ashanatai sit them.
'rho present mode of proceeding difti..i.cd much from that
of the good °id times to which the Attorney-Cri.neral had
-referred. At the periods to which be alluded, he would
base been obliged to come forwaid and make his (lea ei,c
before a Gram' Jury, to whom he would have been Coln-
pelted to shew t.utficient reason for dragging a Defendant
from his eonnectiong, and shutting him up in prison, irior to
.any other proceeding—instead of having recinti•e to the
',twat 111.1441 and mitionstitutional mode of ptoseuction.
Mr Justice Abbot interrupted the Deleiidnut. He could
lot allow him to call the proceeding by information illegal
loud unconstitutional ; it o as, in 1.14:1,.avi legal as any other
part ofilie law.
Thu Defendant continued.—The proceeding was 4111)1.0.
.:ire and uojimi - Wroda cut Le I,llr.lied by any
who nos anxious only for the fair atiniiiii•tr,oluis
Any Act, contrary to Magna, Cliarta ur the !till of 114.iglir•,
was not law, and could not be made law, by lllly Legisiatore
a ider H, aver. Feellng this he coo, llviil Illat be was no
periccii deil :mem e.ing to tow. H. did not brand
dime to answer it his principh sa„ not to avow them. What
ever they were, they were his own awl ncil.bqz itlnch 1w
bail heard from We Attoriley-Ges,ei al woui.i ei.casierei him In
alter bevel. '1 he lie t.pon.efl, 3ei Ltr trolll tieing
t.ticeneccil to ere ate d.soider awl rebellion, would, he con.
e^lii i, pnvcut them. it %Ili out bet:AWL' the Itoriley•
al came and said, that this count'' had be en iingai.;• d
it, 0 War fir the hew tit of nt.inkind, Ih,t.br wilt to lake it
ir A:1;1mill. Ili, opinion dill. red on this p lit from Vint of
the Leaf:led (h..ao man, and until he had •todt.-il putivo.,
he (11.0 1)- I 11.1.1:11) had thine, lie V.l/11111 1101 take the i pa,
4..,•il c; ;,i• Gentleman, whose en/ieties weer Net ely
of a legal 'mint ft, I/11 thill —lt Was said St lie hail
gi ell MU:, I e bane been ',opt entire 111411 an hour
41; bi• wt. hot wheal lee felt 1'01144 pleßst d
its a r w eland 133 W to his Okidiewlurb; it Was breat:,e oleo
AI i,t ht,eit Weak em l Rb to do so, that tiore,es had Plot hero
fudy examinittl, and proptriv r•owdlill. He lkol for five
specks be co impei•oixi on a ,)‘l.lite's warrant, lie hail
611 d that leipribuirinviet, because he %Wird to expose the
injustice ofa i :t ought to lie tnet with the execration of
the pi °pie. Ilch id bee it refused copies of the infOrinaliong
"sire; aaa.iest he etas thercritre obliged to gather ili•
out what 114 J from thee Attorney-Gent
leo :wielded) ho had re,civcd a little good advice on ;his
oil,tswil.e, perhaps, hr would not leave had any
io say ja It s &luxe, littppose Itis.oise bad been just