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MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS

The Kilklermonster and Worcester Gas Ltght Bills, the
Foreign thringgiers 11111. and Bradhury's Patent BM, were
besought up from she Nurse of Cunsmoust, and read a first
time.

The Regency Aet Amendment Bill was returned by the
House of Commons.
ACCOUNTS. _

Accounts mere preaebTerliron; SS Nichnlass' Ray Harbour
Cusupinsy, sod from the Royal Hospital at Grresswich.—
They were laud uts the table
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PRIVATELY STEALING IN SHOPS.
Lord HIALLAPID iiiii ved the sceimil reading of the Bill fur
taking away stir ewpsial pvit.tity attached to the rriutr of
privately stealing in •istin..
11,r LOUD CIIAmCELLOR said that R•Ils similar to this
hart already been three times rejected by the liostse 3 nor
timid he see any reason why their Lordships should change
'Mir opinion reaps cling the proxiple of the measure-_
The gurstiou being then pot, it was istialiVed WllisuUt op-
positiou.
ROYAL NurnA LC.

On the motion of the t'..” I nr Lir ',atom., Addrinme• of

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ConzrAlutiUuu were no dered In be preseor.l to the Prince
Revittoiler Yaw', mot the Dula *tot Duchess of Cain.
bridge. ou iise uce+►um of his Kopt Digitises, the Duke of
Camblidges ManiAit..
THE CAME LAWS.

The. Earl of I.IIIISItICK piovcil the third reading of li~e

CHURCHES IN SCOTLANII.
Lord ilfirtvit.ca aspired the sewed roodiug of the Rill for
building almalora in Sautland. • . •
Tha Baal of LAvisapaLe conceived the Bill nenecey.
vary, and should, therefore, owe against 1. rive it was,
that there were several perishes in die High Node of Scot-
laud, not leas than *0 or 25 miles it, length; but what could
be the wheautafe of building olairtlies in such parishes,
•PPOintliott to officiate in them; and
what foods area there for the support of Clergymen ? In
areal parishes of 25 miles in length, there, might, nut be
More than 10 ur 12 families, but It should riot be imagined
that the but of churches rendered Untie families lodi &rent
to the duties of religion. He bdieted that the service 4.e
the cheerio was as impressively pegnormed in those orient,
families, and attended with as hymeneal results to aoriety,
as if solemuistd iu the body of the chary*, and by a Mois-
ter of religion.
The Marquis of Luusnoivit observed, it was just either
that the people of Scotland should have chore*, or be es.-
mop' from paying fur lotildirachurches in filogloitin.
The Marquis of Dorietisitioc asked, Whether icy clause
in the Dill extruded to Ireland? .
Lord Mrietts.a replied, that the Bill had refereace role-
ly to Scotland.
O the suggestion of the Earl of ri.....VDERINILF, the far-
ther proceedings on the Hill were postponed too Friday.
eta the rhotioto of tbs. Earl of LavouLDAL; the Passes.
gees Regulation Rill was read a second time.

STATE OF THE PRISONS. ..• . .
The Marquis of lawsnowN roses in portioned./
of his notice, to call their Lordships' attention to a
case of the utmost importance, affecting the heat
interests of society, as it regarded the toorali:liarac
ter and habits of a large elution of the community.
Their Lordship* had an opportunity, from paperi
laid upon their table, to ascertain the progress and
vast increase of crime within a period of ten years.
They could there find, that within that short peri.at
the number of convictimis had increased double,
and the number of commitments not less than three-
fold. The number of -conirictions throughout the
extent of England and Wales were foe ten year*
before that period 7,865, while within that period
they amounted to no less than 19,736. This was
a statement that ought not to lie on their Lord-
ships' table. without exciting their attention, not
only frordthe Jisireasitig feelings that must eriol
from the mere contemplation of the fact, toot also
from the important results that must arise from it
to the character and interests of society. This &rods
ful increase of crime may be traced to several causes :
to the extreme leugth of the war, and the change
of circumstances thence arising to numerous inch-
viduttls—to the Veal increase of the paper currency,
offoiding many facilities to the Crime of forgery—
and finally. to the general effect produced by the
combined influence of these and others depetod.
ant upon them : but Whatever might be the
cause, the 'object was one of deep and gene-
ral impintance, Which: could not be regarded
,with iudiffereuce by their Lordships or the Guverd-
ment. Considering then the increase of crime, and
the consequent increase of persons consigned to
prisons, it was of the utmost importance—arid he
conjured their Lordships to pay thii point their
most particular attention—:.to ascertain how tar the
state of those prisons was calculated on the one
hand to correct the delinquent, and to save society
from the recurrence of offences, or un the other
baud to foster and iiromote crime, and to Negro-
vate the evils that already premed illicit the coun-
try.—(Hear, hear.)—lt was of no trifling import-
ance, when their Lordships reflected that 13,000
persona were annually committed to prison, of'
whom probably 12,000 were again thrown back on
society, to ascertain the state in which they were
likely to be restored, and whether they should be
regarded as useful members of the community, or
masses of contamination, whose touch must engen-
der polution.—(/hear, hear.)--In coitsidering the
remedy that might he sipillied to the evil, they
had only to consider the opinions of able and
enlightened men, and to truce those 'ltalian*
embodied and brought into operatiou by Acts of
the Legislature. Tt,ev had, io fact, Goofy to pre.
ceed upon the proeml principle of Perim eat 4.
cere imprebos ptrad, nisi probes continewe
lino. lie then alluded to the regulations th.t
prevailed in most of the prisons in the kingdom,
and referred, in terms of commendation, to shobr
which had been established by Sir George Paul, in
the gaol of Gloucester, but which had in a great
measure failed of producing any salutary effect. He
also referred to Mi. Nield's work on Prisons, mid
complimented that of Mr. Buxton, from which lie
read an extract, representing the disgraceful state
of the Borough Compter prtsnn, and et the Vol of
Bristol, which exhibited an example of every thing
that ought to be avoided. He noticed the stele of
News:its., as another instance of gre.it iieglect, and
alluded to the benevolent eiterti )))) of Mrs. Prv, as
ass itistioice of wont might be dove by tm indivi-
dual of active charity, even a here the subjects of
such ellefllollB were of the most ahandimed yna-
rioter ; for there were moments in the Lees of he
the werie so
iu
ld
isifinesice of the sprit of amendment, when that
iiiiiiltliiiieetiweoei,alswior;:levigr.?:;pitidi.atis'lLhey might say,

Seeisz I have flowed is zeiet;
The smiilioit wind can native Inv.'
To bring tliss tubjeet more sativfactorily before

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soder t.
linestent. The Noble Lord then ellsiling
locretote e,tate, re it appeared from the papers be-
t•re the 11.6 use, aaid it might be attributed to some
of Ihe comm.* mentioned by the Noble Marquis, but

lie still thought it an almost inevitable consequence
of the confusion attending the transition from a
state of war to peace. in confirmation of this opi-
nion, he read some documents to spew, that at the
clove of the war in 1783, the increase of crimes was
for a few years very considerable. He remarked, that
within the last twenty years the severity of punish-
ment had very much decreased ; the horrors of
itsprisooment had bees diminishd, eves by the
very philanthropy that sought to amend the inter-
nal conilitiou of girds ; transportation was hardly
looked upon as a punishment; sod even the num-
ber of persons executed, in comparison with those
sentenced to death, was sant+ less than in former
years. Taking the period frees 1749 to 1817, iu
the fir.t seven years. the neamber of persons sen-
tenced was on an avevage 61. af Athook 43 suffered
death. or something about twei-thieds. From the
year 1798 to 1806. eightpitis were Oen-
teured to death, of wham asty 14 mama ; and in
the last seven years 10111111F'nns were sentenced.
of whom only twelve andstrwent the execution of
the law. This he snesitioaed to falsify the un-
founded asaertions that bad been urged in a perio-
dical publication, that in modern times the system
of criminal punishment was one of sanguinary
windy. He felt that finless a plan of classification,
and of instruction were introduced into the prisons,
no exertions could be of any avail, nor could the
prisons be considered as tending in any way to im-
prove by correction, the state of society. lie rally
Coincided iu the views taken by the Noble Marquis,
to whom he returned his sincerest thanks for leaving
brought the subject before the House. A Corn.
Mission should be instructed, during the rectos, to
Wake those inquiries which were specified in the
motion, and when their Report should be submitted
to the House, he trusted a Committee would be op-
pointed to take it into their consideration; and he
had no doubt that the molt would tend very mate-
rially improve the condition of the prisons, and
through them amend the character of the lower
classes of society-•-(1/ea.)
The motion was then pat and carried.
tome LAWS.
Oio the motion f.r the third reading of Ihe Bill
for Amend's' the Poor Laws.
Th.. Earl of CAILOARTOW, alladieg to the clause (or rating
the owners instead of the oeeispiers of boom papist swot
bet e'en 61. sod VW • year, proposed as ao awstwdeseut, ilud
41 should be sulestsitifrd for 61.
The F.arl of LIVIIIILIPOOL improved of the swiendment, bet
feared, in the pre.eut state of the Session, it would be impos-
sible to have such an titivation elftcled in sufficient tune.
He therefore recortiosevided that A should be withdrawn
until the nest Sessior.
This suggestion was secedcd 10, and An Bill sou read the
third lime, and passed.
Earl tiaosyrtrow postponed his motion relative to trust-
ing Siutrure Plares uu rrvcrsion until Miley.
The other °Aces of the Day were thee disposed of, soil
the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, WIDNUDAY, Anis 3.

At a "tarter past three o'clock the Stwaiaft took the
Chair. Ike House was shortly afterwards suusmosed in the
usual form to attend the Howse of Lords. Oii their return,
the Speaker int:wooed the Howse that the Royal Assent had
►ee. kis. n by Comnsissien to several public *ad private
For whkk see Me I ord.. Riper...)

On the ',otitis of Mr. COURTPNAT, the Parochial Benefit
!lonely BM, sod the Piiendly Society's Bill, were com-
mitted, the Reports received, and mitered to be taken into
forth. r consideration this day fortnight. The Ono Gentle-'
man said, it was unaided to distribute copies of the Bills
tbruogluiut the country, fur the purpose of risceiving sug-
gest tiering the recess, and adopliag early next Session,
seek measures as mien be deemed advisable uu these
subjects
Tim Innkeepers Bill was read the third time, sad passed.

greut breeets, Aid the licensing system. As ,
Wive. tho Cunituittee, after a het tertian'.
„ were of opinion, that the prices were neither
lief nnreesonable, a the profit more than
ie brewer was entitled tie.,_accordoug to the price•
of Mee fair ingredients he bad 'to isle. The Cam-
• gave no co 00000 on on the interest Obtained by
to publicists on leases of particular
and its effect on the price. They gave to
as to the prices of any house which, dealing
proprietary houses. compelled them to take
nrer article they chose to send. As to the in.
'ure of-deleterious ingredients, they likd en-
into the fattest exammation' by a reference
e Minutes of the Excise Basard, and other
competent initherities. They felt the importance
r this branch of the iii airy. and were happy
that not a single tustauce was to be
of the use of any such ingredients in any
eleven great breweries.—(Hew, Atee.)—
instance (and this was a solitary exception)
Mr. Thomas Mews had been prosecuted for
the salt of tartar in one particular case—
however alleged et the time. that this Was
deleterious ingredient. The inquiry of the
'tire had gone back for six or seven years,
. was gratifying to nod. that the eleven great
brewers stood etuttereted hoot the use of any other
ingredient in the composition of their porter than
malt and loops and the mixture* allowed by law.
-•-fileer.)-I.When the Committee made this im-
portent staterhent, they felt it right to state, that
though the great brewers already alluded to, stood
completelyexinwrated on this important point, yet
it had appeared before the Committee, that some
deletyriouseitigredients had been used by some of
the small brewers, end also that they had been pur-
chased by some publicans. and mixed up with
their porter for the feted trade, though wholly un-
known to the brewer, whose arson facture was thus
deteriorated after it was delivered from his house.
Indeed, in some instances it had lieen found, that
the yubliceit had been furnished with a book of
instructions, to guide him in the intermixture of
the ingredients with which he wished to adulterate
his porter.—( Hear. )—The Committee had also
lobked into the nature of the licensing system, as
connected with the trade of the victualler. and
found in it many abuses, which it was yet difficult
to remedy, without trenching upon the validity and
security of a system of private property, which had
long been suffered to exist, owing perhaps, to the
inattention of the Legislature. They had found,
that from the system of a large number of houses
being in certain places under the control of one
mast, some evils existed, not indeed so mud) (if at
all) in the metropolis, as in the country puts,
where the evil was so much felt, that it became tie-
ceseary in one place to collect together the priori.
pal uoblemess cud gentlemen of the neighbourhood,
to vote for the license of a free house, which
would sell a different quality of porter from that
previously vended in the neighbourhood.—(Heee.)
Though the Committee could nut recommend any
interferetice with the principle of property which
bed grown up under this system, yet they ventured
to recommend a prospective measure, and it was,
that the Magistrates should have a discretionary
power to refuse a license, when hereafter one should
he celled for, to such house as might fall into the
brewer's bands by any arrangement with the holder.
to vend exclusively oily particular article. The
Committee were fully of opinion, that so far from
the large brewers having, as was supposed, done a
public injury, by reason of what was called the
monopoly of their trade; they had. on the contrary.
done a public benefit; lsy the superior article it was
ascertained they were enabled to furnish, from the
better arrangements which their large and extensive
capitals necessarily commanded. ft was right to
state, that four of the principal brewers had volun-
tarily come forward to the Committee, and tendered
in the amplest and clearest manner the whole per-
ticulars relative to the management of the trade,
and the ingredients they used io their manufacture.
--( Ilear.)—The Committee strongly pointed out
the necessity of rigorously enforcing the penalties
oesinet persons found adulterating their porter.—
(Hear.)
On the question that this Report do lie on the
table, - _

of Parliament the wl.ole practice a, it noW 'pre-
vailed, with a view to the enaettneut of a inure salu-
tary system.—(Hear./
Mr. Was. Sun. said, he had always been tf
opinion that the imputations aping the large
brewers were *About foundation. lie had also
cantle ttttt ed the cry of monopoly that vriis raised
against them, because he thought the large capitals
in HO, manner eitsbarked operated to the advan-
tage of the public, and to sending forth the best
beer. On the subject of the infliction of penalties,
he thought the Excise should invariably exact the
large 4 penalty the law allowed where any delete-
rious ingredient had been used in home.) food.—
/Hear)—As front the arbitrary neare of the Excise
Law., a Cage disc►etion Must occasionally be exer-
cised by the .Board, lie thought this subject was
one in which no quarter should be given; and fur-
ther, that the names of all persons so convicted
should be posted up and published in their several
districts.—(Hear, hecir.)
General THORNTON raid, that the lionse and the
public were greatly indebted to the labours of the
Committee. Their Report contained a mass of
useful information. The lion. General thought
that Mr. Barber Beaumont had done good in call-
ing fur this inquiry ; his motives were moat lauda-
ble, tl gh he had been certainly mistaken in some
points of information.
The Report was then laid on the table. and or-
dered to be printed.

Su t

%fr. Jonts S>ttTH expressed his approbation of
the Report, and the pleasure he felt at the full and
complete removal which it must effect, of the pre-
judice that had gone abroad in the public mind on
the subject of the large breweries.—( Heur.)a—
The Report must completely remove such an im-
putation from the eleven great breweries of the
metropolis.—( Hear.)— it was now, he thought,
clearly and satisfactorily made out, that these large
establishments manufactured nothing but the ge-
nuine article. The effect of this most satisfactory
explanation would be, he trusted, that the great
mass of the people would adhere to the good old
English beverage of porter—(Hear)--now that
they clearly found where it was properly manufac-
tured, and relinquish as much as possible the con-
sallow' of gin, which he believed to be a liquor
most injurious to the health of the consumer.—
(llear.)—The public prejudice as to great brewers
and their practices, was now ascertained to have
been utterly void of foundation.—(Hear.)
Sir M. VV. RIDLEY having been a Member of
the Committee, felt it right to bear this testimony
to the total removal of the imputation which pub.
tic feeling asiigued to the eleven principal brewers,
He repeated the statement, thAt they used no other
thau and proper expedients in their porter,
though it was iewertained that compositions of a
different description had been sold to some small
brewers and to publicans, together with books of
instructions for the use of the coniposind, but in no
instance with the knowledge of the large brewer.—
( Ilear.)—lt was important that where any such
discovery was made. the Excise should inexorably
levy the puoislinieut assigned by law to such a
crime. _ . .

Mr. BEnXr expreised his full belief that the
idle rumour against the principal brewers was to..
tally destitute of foundation, and that it was not
long since, at their request, a colourable liquid,
authorised by Is in the matioracture of the article,
was forbidden, front tin that it might, in
c, !Nato iii,tances, prove winnow. On the subject
1,1 licensing, he fully °greed with the Committees
that it contained gross abuses: indeed tut convinced
lie of this, that early next Session he meant to
propoee new regulations on this system, for which
I,urpose he would bring uuller the consideration

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it lie a...wally too a pout, so fir es
and albelillog, in the execution of the
inielit. The jury, however, found him
of minulJughter only, thungle hie crime, if
evidence he true, was se atrocious murder.
The sentence was also • initigialed one for man-
slaughter; fur it was only a fine of eno!. and three
months iniprisoutnent. It is a law of the Islam' of
Nevis, that when sue slave died, if he had not been
attended by a physician', a Coroner should imme-
dietrly he ruoned to inquire into the cause of
his &nth. The Howie would see the value set on
the lives of their unfortunate people, when such a
verdict as 'het given before a Coroner, was, after
some deist', obtained iii this c.ise. The verdict of
the dilry'at law was a no less extraordinary one. If
they believed the evidence, they had only one ver-
dict to find ; if they did not, they had only one
duty to perform by acquitting the Prisoner.
In finding him guilty of the crime of man-
slaughter, according to the facts of the case,
they either did Mr. Rawlins the grossest injustice,
or they compreinised their own solemn awl impera-
tive obligation. 'Lord Bathurst makes this appro-
priate remark in his dispatch to Giverilor I'robyn,
repairing the minutes of the trial—" II this state-
ment be true, or in Huy way epproachnig to truth,
Mr. Rawlins could not have been guilty of luau-
slaughter; it must have been murder, or an acquit-
tal." It was worth attention, that in the first tbs.
patch of Governor Probyn to Earl Bathurst, dated
St. Kett's, October 17, tali, communicating the

occurrence of the death of the sl:►►e, is this pas-
sage—" I have also thought it proper to give your
Lordship the result of the trial, lest any incorrect
account might be taken to England."—( Heor.)—
Here in the beginning it was apparent that son►e
ulterior inquiry might possibly be made into this
transaction. Lord Bathurs►, iii acknowledging this
communication to the Governor, and calling for
further particulars, very justly observed—" As
your dispatch teems not to consider the transaction
in so very serious a light as it must be considered,
if the accounts which have been by private channels
given of it are true." In answer to this requisition
Erma his Lordshir, Governor l'robyo, in his dis-
patch of the _lst last March, enters for the first
tisue into particulars, but without giving the evi-
dence before the Coroner. The evidence on the
trig, however, detailed a most horrible mass of
cruelty. He would now ask the Gentlemen who
charged those with issuing injorioui and exagger-
ated statements on the sal►ject of West India mat.
ten, with what face could they repeat such a charge
after this scene of cruelty had been exposed to the
public eye ?—(llear, hear.)—They had now au-
thentic facts, and not vague rumours, to inform
themselves on such practices ; and lie trusted the
House would pursue the inquiry in the manlier
justice demanded.—(hear.)---He concluded by
moving for the depositions taken before the Coroner
in the Island of Nevis, on the body of a slave
named Congo lick.—(//ear.) . .

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two of these cart whips, the appearance of which
would harrow the feeliogro of ally wan who con-
sidered the uses to which they h.id been ac-
tually applied. The Him. Mt-uglier opposite (Mr,
Marryatt) IllUtito,r in which these
Cates were brought forwarol ; but lie (Mr. Smith)
could assure him, that were it not for the trams.
mission of private coin ttttt nicationa, neither the
country tier the Colonial Office would be likely to
possess much information ou the treatment ut slave I
In some of the Col es.—(Hear.)—He could
prove that the utmost atrocities were committed in
some of them, and that those who were charged
with bringing forward exaggerated rtioteineins writ:
rather criminally foilitilvisig iii *Cling upon
doubted facts and information.—/Hear, hear.)—
There were some of those alto stout high among
West India Legislators, that if the Facts reaper:till
them were brought before the public rye, would
find it hard to get a hole to hide their heads isia
Circumstance, might lie made public :is to, the con-
nectton between the Riseliiis'a and the
and the rank of some of then', which would re-
quire future colon's-union.
11Ir. WILHERFottcc sand, that if any Gentlcrivon
was of opiodou that ii.tpitry by the !louse vas
in the prisent iuiluult untiecessaly, lie e title:slid
him to consider what he wool,' think if :s Irathan us
murder had been committed within a few tulles of
an I the most material facts of the case hood
been suppressed by him, whose duty it was to give
a roll Hail impartial accaunt of them. A Kurt
inisfortsitie that these loom people laboured ulio!ee
was, their distance from the iiiotlier e tttttt Irv. Tile
charge was almost just. that lie and his Foiends
had beets criminally indifferent. Au Mem-
ber spoke of a letter he had in his posse:silo,. lie
also Was in possession of a letter, fully sutisi.o,ll.
sting one fact, namely, that the GUVerllol' es ii
he heard of the verdict of the Corutter's
with great uneasiness. /low could that be tour,
when in his continuo'. ati tttt to this county
lie had not said a word about the ingot-tots ?
The Jury were also well acquainted with the
facts previous to the mat's death—yet they
brought iu " Died by the visitation of God." The
Governor never took any notice of the inquest in
his first letter, and were it tint for the oilier lett, re
his Majesty's Government souls' never have braid is
word of it. IVithoot the letters also the fact of the
previous trial would never have come to light, awl
all the (Noel circumstances of the case. He would
entreat the House to draw this one conclusion from
all they had heard on the subject, that if Ins Ma-
jesty's Amster* were sincerely desirous that justice
should be done in these distant drpendenciea, they
ought to listen to every private source of informa-
tion, by which only all tile circumstances attendant
ots t rely case could be entirely developed. What
would Ins sense of the House ins the transaction he,
if it were Pinned on his first letter? Ile did nut
knosv Goe.-rt:or liri,byti, but it was lint unlikely he
went Out to the %Vest Indies to repair bus fortune,
or advance his virwt its life. The whole trainee-
tam proved, that the Govertsuient ought to
make both Governors 'and Judges independent.
He could state on the authority lie hail referred to,
that the Guru, nor had endeavoured to suppress (lie
facts preceding the sham's death, and ibist Mi. Raw-
limo was not taken iuto custtldy till long *tier the
irsinsactiosi, nod when in prison was alluded to live
as he pleased, and to entertain his friends and see
company. The House ought 10 iiissituie an in-
quiry to discover whether the facts mete so or lint.--
(Alert the cries (j' .‘ Qmestion ."' became eery loud
and freipieni.)—ln reply to Gentleineu a In, vet shed
so impatient, he would ray that negroes Were witO
acknowledged to lie rant. As the Gnversioor had
beets guilty of is most material mnissnon to his re-
ports on the case, lie deetned it the duty of the
House to direct a full investigation.
Sir S. (twit 10, reply, 113111, that an Hon.
Gentlemen opposite (Mr. Marry sit) 113,1 charged
lutist with being premature; but that Charge could
not in justice be wade, when lie was its p:osessiou
of every infotioation on the subject, except the
evidence given before the Coioind's Itupiest. If
the Hon. Gentletwais should ray, lie °own loot yet
to Cell-ore the Co is Inquest, lie autos' concur
with him, but ito farther could he go. He load
also accused him of aggravation ; but *lieu the
House rousidered the heinous nature of the case
they could scarcely be of that opinion. Ile had
nut spoken of Mr. Rawlins being restored to his
situation, which yet was the fact. As to the large
islands, lie !sad &stilted), stated on this, and a
former oc. assort, that his ilbset rations on abuses
wipe confilied to the smaller islands, and that the
administration of justice might he very different to
the others. lint he could not forbear remarking.
that no case, of whatever enormity, could be jou-
duced beline the !louse that dud nut Iliad extriitia-
tot s.
The question on the motion was tlikw,Rpt wild
agreed to. it 4 al et -
A Menage from the Lords evil, that ifilLord.,
ships hail agreed to the Portugal Convenii tttt Hi I—lhe Sol-
diers' Pensions Hill—the Hoek Salt Dons 1.1.11-“,se East
tidbit Shipping and Marriages Hill--mud the Niffiltahle s.
turitit is Dill, with Our Aivendatvids to which they' desirtd
Ilse vouctirtenve of the Hour.
EDUCATION OF THE POOR.
Mr. BROUGHAM brought up the Report of the
Seleet Committee on the Education of the Poor.—
Ordered to lie 011 the table awl be printed. :
Mr. Bitoecitawi said, lie rose to, make the motto!)
of which he had given notice. He would, III)11 etc r,
tluminence by stating, that since he hail List ad-
dressed the House on the subj cr el the Poor
Education Bill, it had undergone trrtaill Mritet 1,1
alteratsuns iu soother place, winch, by rreuhrtu it
to its original efficacy, had induced hint to loth.-ar
moving, as lie had intended, that the flue=e should
not tierce to the timendineins. At the time Le
alluded to, the 801 l had been rendered a there nul-
lity—its essence taken away-a-its energy and virtue
.
-uric powerless
,wis persons--not
log inquiry, but
he thought that
he made per-
country, if they
rceedingly harpy
:tionable clan-its
ill had been in
pristine vigour—.
g the
at up, to agree to
tiit 11161CLUitlitto
eroornt
a tupodrstis,e,

Mr. MARRY ATT Said, that he weulti be the last
man in the House toefesid the 'e;cercise of cruelty ;
but he could not help complaining, that the lion.
and Learned Gentleman had taken an opportiessity
of drawing conclusions as to the general administra-
tion of justice in the West India 'shouts, merely
from the single 'circumstance of a particular fact,
and one on which he confeised he lied not all the
inforniO!'n which the case required. He (Mr. M.)l
front looking over these papers, could see 'so
ground whatever fur supposing that Governor I'ro.
byn had not conducted himself in the most ho.
noontide manner, and sliewit a readiness to trans.
mit every infermation which was necessary on the
occasion. As to the mode or inflicting punishment
for runaway slaves iir the West Indies, It must ne-
cessarily, for the sake of example, be dorm in a
summary manner, and sometimes intrusted to dos-
errs, who might perhaps exceed proper hounds.—
The punishment must be executed as it generally
was in the army aed navy. The Hon. will Learn.
ed Gentleman had arraigned the correctness of the
proceeding ; but he had treated some of the facts is
an exaggerated manner, while he had certainly con.
fined himself in others to those points which neves.
warily required proper attention and consideration.
The Hon. Gentleman here referred to parts of the
evidence, where it was stated that the punishment
of the slave did not last longer than two or three
minutea, and that he was neither tied down, 11111'
heard to cry. nor observed as if labouring under
the heavy pain alluded to. It was also proved, that
the marks on the body could not have been inflict-
ed by a whip, the weapon with which punislimenia
were always inflicted. The driver, it appeared,
had certainly exceeded his order—and the manager
was, by the subsequent trial, held tesponsibk for
the act. The Jury could not, he thought, have
found a verdict of murder, under the circumstances
of the case; that was a crime where malice afore-
thought must appear, and here there was no such
feeling, nor any motive for it. indulgence. When
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman talked lightly of
three months imprisonment, he should recollect in
what climate this punishment was to he inflicted,
and he could assure him, that in the %Vest Indies
it was one of great severity. He was free to ad.
ntit, that there war enough in the rime to entitle it
to inquiry, and lie could certainly have no objec-
tion to the motion, though he saw no reason wuat-
ever for cawing the reflection• that had been made
on the practice of the Colonial Judicature.
Mr. GOULBURN, on the part of the Colonial
Office, could only say, that the inmost alacrity hail
been sheen) to obtain every intormari relative to
this case with the least possible delay.—(" Hear,
hear !" front Sir S. Remaly.)
Mr. ALEXANDER GRANT begged leave to read a
letter which he had received from a frit lid of the
first respectability at Nevis respecting this transac-
tion—it was for the purpose of *hewing that the
circumstance had excited the most marked disap-
probation on the spot. The w,

• single moment ind been lost
into the reuse of the death of

the charge could have beet' proper!'
to Mr. 'Lewitt's, there was Bp dni
would have immediately follgowed

lion. Ile further i.tatt-Ci, that e,
law of Mr. Rawlins had, since

•freak to him, tool that repre•et
sent home to the Bishop of London
of hiving him deprived of this -
Member concluded by making
the cart whip used to punishing
Mr. Wawa)* SMITH •aid.

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their linrdshipa, and fur the puma* of ascertotit. eleven ill
ing the notate of the existing regulations, soil hue t
to the pri
for it might he prudent to revise and alter then", hr two, wen
ehoul.l moire sio humble Address to his Royal I ',utifsies, al
'Highness the Prince Regent, praying thin he may be the brevet
$ groeion.ly ',kissed to command that at, or as soots of the foi
after,lhe'next meeting of Perliement is ninskt be nutter ga
conTruient,:thate be laid before the House au AC. advances
comet of the state of all the aaols, Hott.,:s of 'houses, s
Correction, sod otbey Isthmus in the Kingiloirt, 'opioion a
• Iwitli llniumether.4 t'rnioner• confined in them at with pro'
i any tinie-dinii 'he yekr 'Um, specifying MOD 'whatever
ages and itheir standee. lennixtui
•", Urn, SittSioutu said thit a subjeit 'of More im- 'treed ill"
portauce had never been brought before their Lord- I to the M
ships. His ewes feelings upon it might have been competes
. collected frosw hie hoeing at en earlier period tif of this Ii
Vie Seskissie moved en Address to the Crown for the to **ate,
1 yrimbicoissii, 4 those papers to winch the Noble fawn, of
111Lattislia had eluded. Upon these it was tloe in. or
. th. e
trotters of his ilejery's M"o"wers, (boring the re- In one ii
rem., to institute (Whet inquiries to the extent the Ist'
embraced by the motion, h‘tlre felt happy at having "II thi
this intention anticipated h' the Noble Marquis. it was ho
ber.siow it twist be of the uiumust adrautage to have not a deli
ruck ass i:squiry prosecuted soder the emptcesof Par. Commit;
.
t liament. The Noble Lord thee alludiag to the tots it ws

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niter stated, that not ' destroyed—and itself reodtred a nit
It iii making inquiry strument in the hands of ll iskiam
the slave, and that if only devoid of Abe means of enforci
operly brought home4;absolutOY prohibiting it, and hi
doubt ins execution '414 *atop of Cpstimons would
red a capital convit*,,"t* :i'ttn, ,p delasion en the cc
even the brothee's-itft.'" had ~ - . to them. lie was exc
e the affair, ceased thlto ..: ;bat most of the object
.sentations bad beet 4 44 . —.emitted—that the Bil
radon for the purpossino..e" tinware restored to its in
it gown. Thellok" 11404) trements made ai
ng some allusiote. '. ... 1,
tt' •'‘X. it was far from
• ,4 .!I.
1g slaves.—(Heoi' Ii it had been sent
that he bud onsi
nab*
4rti* • bad understood
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