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abolition, this lam would form but a 'real' portion
of *Sat, no doubt, the House would have gladly
voted to equip an armament to support the cause
of the abolition of illavery. I sin not Without a
conviction too, that in a coinmerciiil point of view,
ear interference in favour of Allies will redeem! to
the advantage of our trade to that country.. But
is it nothing that our abject is to raise the unhappy
iiegrn toe more exalter) and dignified station in the
'ode of human nature Is it nothing that therd
y
England sees rising under its favouring il,sioces, •
little association of 10 or MOW free and ciYilised
negro., at Sierra Leone, iltssemisiating widely the
advantages received by ;heir interenurse with Euro.
'teens, redeeming the European ilianicter„ awl (yen.
ing a commercial and friendly outercoarse with the
interior of a country hitherto unknown to us. bat
through its heart-rendiag sufferiags? Much ladle
certainly. to the interest take, in the cause of its abo.
lition by the Noble Lord at the Culogressof Vienna;
but more has been done by the eacrilice so promptly
made by this country, so remarkably distinguished
as a commercial nation, and hy.the-bye rather sus-
pected of being extremely attached to the profits of
this Indic.. in burreudering at once the hateful
trade, as too contemptibhi and sanguinary for Ilk
exertion of its capital or industry. This resew's-
lion predated a corresponding feeling on the pert of
theme high-spirited nation, and the cooseqiiroces
have been mast happy and enteritis! for the cause
of humanity. That Spiiin, however, should have
• been fora time averse to this concession is not sur-
prising; the House and the nation should recollect
how long we. notwithstanding our moral conviction
of its in/Mice and barbarity. resisted its abolition,
through an apprehension that it might he prejn.
dick% to our colonial interest..—//tear, hear.)—
The great object now remaining to ensure its aboli-
tion is tato is to secure the means lid* offered of
carrying it into effect ; and I shortly hope to see the
day when this trade shall be designated here and
elsewhere bt the only term applicable to it—piracy
—/Her)--and )--and subjected to the same mtneshasent
as are consequent upon that crinse.—/ Hear. j
If this be a sort of smart money which thrum.
stances render necanary. I know Englishmen. what.
ever may be their distresses, will willingly part
with the trifle now called for. to effectuate the pro.
visions of the Act long since past—/Hew)—and
which. I feel assured. will quickly be repaid them
in point of commercial consideration. I admire as
• much the management of this intricate business by
••• the Noble Lord as any pan of his late meritorious
conduct to his country, although here we most see
that he had to proceed to leis object by a new
diplomatic path ontrahlen by any official prede-
eesror ; and though this may be considered by some
no one stone or one arch of the edifice, I do not
despair of seeing others added in succession, until
Cie noble fabric of our sanguine hopes shall arise
,all perfect at once. the glory of our age and the '
delight of our eyes.—//fear.)--With this view of
the subject I shall feel it my duty to assent to t!ie
Resolution, and most heartily to recommend it to
the adoption of the llouse."—l Hew.)
Sir OSWALD MOSLaT wisher' thq Hon. Gen-
tleman would take into his serious consideration
how many millions this House had lavished of the
pulite, money. for which it had serer received any
equivaleut, and reflect might not the results be
equally widertunate in the present case. If 'list
Hon. i:esitletnissi held that the objection of expense
was of no validity, except it went to the whole of
the proposed vote, be was willing So meet hint,
and say sooner than vote fur the 400,0001. lw would
rather object to the whole tnessiire. The fuel was,
Spain had • political object isi now making the
sacrifice. for if severed from her Colonies, as it was
most likely she would, her interest in the trade
would cease. If so, Own this couture would soon
be called on for a vote of 400,0001. to be advanced
to the Indepeudeut Provinces to purchase the aboli-
tion from them. As for the establioliments at the
coast of Africa, they had cost an infinite runs of
money and several valuable live, without producing
any very eticouraging multi. The question was
not now whether we were to abolish the trade or
not. The question strictly was, whether England
would assist is arming Spain against those pro.
vines, it was our interest to keep independent of
o power mast unfriendly to this country on all oc-
tailors's. —( Hew. I—lei other words, should she
prevent Spain transporting ;wilier for a few year',
lwrilsOs only a few dept. a trifling number of
.Inter from Africa, or prevent her enslaving mil-
bons of Americans, whose interests and Great
Britain's were the same.—/Hear, hear.)—Fos these
truisms lie should, when the Resolutions was put,
divide the klouse upon it.
Lord CASTLIMEAGII observed, that Spain had
made, before this Treaty, no engagement us to its
abolition. It had been stated, that, utter u lapse
of eight year.. an arrangement ittiltt be ammo-
jilislied ; whilst this Treaty sit once abrogated the
iirselier two yeses sooner, ;weeny itlied with the as-
surname that this illicit trade shout,) be put ass end
to altogether.
Sir James NIACKINTOSII coinplimented both the
Hoii. Member end the Noble Lord, to whose se-
parate exertions in the cante of iminsuity so much
praise was justly due. Ile considered time question
the greatest that could be entertained by a Legisla-
tive Assembly; fur now for the first time was poiot-
ed out, by express stipulation, the means of et..
tat JJ iJ ig this most desirable end; it no longer rest-
ed on the preservation of good laid, by a forrigmi
Government. This had been attained by the
Noble Lord's praisewOrthy exertion, ; and al-
though the curling mission of this county—its at.
lac:lowa bi the I o of its flag-. 4111 attachment
%Inch had supported its inviolability against the
strimgestlonfederacy by sea and laud, and wound
around t emblem of our nation's glory every
na-
tioual feeling and 'tidbit-414a attachment to a fi sip.
which had never been lowered to any foe, was NOW
sacrificed to feelisigs of humanity. and the right of
seauching I;iittAi vessels recoil/nisei in the cause of
helpless brine, who were incapable of appreciating
the service or sacrifice made 41 their beltelf.—(Ap-
p/ructe.)—Notwithstanding the promptness of time
"OW4I of the French Minister. 1;14 the French
Government had abolished the Slave Tiede. which
ens t 1.411-11 on the 13th of Jule, 1813. lie was sorry
that in a case decided by • Right Ho-
sioniable used Learned Judge (air William Scott).
lost then in his place, no notification of the in-
tension of the French Government to its subjects
hail been 11141.- is;. to the month of January last,
attitom;ll Holland, a country etuiueutly cow.