The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

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The Bill in the -House of Commons, broeFbt in by Mr.
Brougham, renders the carrying•on the Slave 1 rude, after the
first of May next, felony, rendering the parties liable to be
transported for a term, not exceeding fourteen years, or impri-
soned, and kept to hard labour, for a term not exceeding five
years, nor less than three. Persons employed• in any vessel eu-
aged in the trade, or underwriting any policy of assurance net
any, such vessel, to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and to be
punished by imps lsonmcnt, for .a term not exceeding two years.
Act not to extend to prevent the removing from one British
Settlement to another, or transferring •Slaves,uor to things done
in Africa, west of the Cape of Good Hope, or in the West lii-
dies, or America, east of Cape Horn, before (lie lst of Auguit
next, or in the East Indies, Madagascar, Abioa,. east. of tke
Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius and Bourbon, apil. Islaippls in
the East Indian Seas, before the Ist of January next, or in NiNir
Holland, Islands in the South. Seas•Of coast of .47ierica, west
of Cape Horn, before the ,Ist May, 181(2, nclr for 'any thing
done at sea on • board any *este) waling from (kik( Briihin 4ar
Ireland, before the Ist of May next, from an lothee
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Europe, before the Ist of July, or from .an of 'the places
above-mentioned before the periods' above r eceiveltspeei-
fied. Act not to, repeal i for pr Aets reafecting forfeitures.
Persons employed on board ,gels -isragdct in 'the Slave l'ilide,
and giving information wltitinitteee rnoetki.igler .the;arrival.ot
the vessel in any port of 141 Majesty not tote liable to punish-
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CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
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COPY ^F A LETTER FROM KING WILLIAM THE THIRD,
• C HORSEBACK, IN COLLEGE-GREEN, DUBLIN, TO
XING CHARLES THE FIRST, ON HORSEBACK, AT CHAII
ING•C ROSS, LONDON.

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It is now, brother CHARLES, just sixteen years since I had the
sigh satisfaction,to receive from you, by our invisible courier, a
letter of the most important nature*, and containing the most sa-
lutary advice to those who now are, or should be, the united
subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Thanks to " the Pilot that weathered the Storni" which then
threatened our political Constitution with subversion and our
common country with bloodshed and ruin, you have not, Royal
Erother, as you apprehended at that time, been " dismounted
tout your horse, and again levelled in idea, as you once was in
reality."

From the situation which I am still permitted to ocalpy in the
famous city from which I write to you, I feel it ittipossib'e not
to nice some interest in what they here call Catholic Emancipa-
tion ; since I am apprehensive that it may be productive of con-
sequences as fatal as those which you formerly expected from the
views and proceedings of the jacohinical levellers of the age.—
You will rot, brother CHARLES, be surprised at the lively in-
terest which I take in this Catholic question, as they strangely
call it, when you recollect that I was specially invited over to
England, from my native shores, for the purpose of protecting
the Proteteant Religion in this kingdom, as established az the
Sappy era of the reformation ; and when you likewise call to
enind the many special acts, passed by Pat liament, for securing
and perpetuating a Protestant SuccessiOn to the Crown of these
Realms. Alas! brother CHAR LES, times are strangely changed.—
Nothing, believe me, as you remarked in your letter to me, re-
specting ja6binisrn and republican levellers, " nothi 41,1: ran save"
ea.feein she faischie-Cous hue-and-cry raised about Catholic EnAnn-
cipation, " but the steadiness of our brother G 7.0 RtiE, and the firm- ,
isess of his Ministers. O.IE the one gives up, in a single instance, to
these factious men, or the others yield, even in c murvin leisiness,
one article of their purpose," then, as you wrote to me, " all is
over with the empire." And I assure you, brother CHAR LES,
respeeting your own expressions, (what perhaps our weak tnis-
gtzided Catholics are not aware of !) that" the rep tblie.an blood-
hounds are still ready" to join in the first fray that may h"pj'en to
turnup; and that they "would tear out the bowels of the Con-
stitution, if they had but once penetrated the skin !". These
things grieve me to the heart. You formerly supposed that I
should " think it very strange that the people were still as igno-
rant as ever." Indeed, my brother, we have sten still stranger
things since your letter reached me ; and I am therefore not sur-
prised, although I must be grieved, to find that the purple eon- •
filmed to be " led by a fanatic speech, delivered in the apparent'
warmth of enthusiastic patriotistn, at the very nye:tent that the
orator is as impure a man, and as deep-scheetnieg a deceiver as•
any upon earth."
Since you, brother CHAR Les, cannot have forgot the difileule
ties its which you were involved front your being suspected- .0y
leaning to Popery and favourimg the professors of it, you must
think, with me, that the resolute opposition made to it by our
brother G F.ORGE, and his confidential servants, is highly praise-
worthy ; particularly When You reflect on the nearieer in which
he was attempted to be cal 'led as to what they termed the wt.,
which the Catholics first tendered and then withdrew, aod the
d%nial of which met., ly deprived our aquAt hie): her of' an t fee-
-111.11 ..eanrol on the nomination of their Bishop:, thosugh the want
of stiO) control trieht endanger both the Coustitutioa and the
estaVliblin,ent which Us coronation engagements bound-am. to