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dt'lty on hills, -drafts, and orders fut•paytnent, ebti4l,
tained an exception,. which was, that orders upon,.
Bankers payable to Dearer, if drawn within ten miles
of the place where payable, should not be liable to
the dtitn.
,but the- Aee required. that thiß place where
drawn should be expressed -upon-the order. The
word. London, however, did not appear upon. the
Present check, and 'of 'course it did not come within
the exceptien -of the.-A-6t. •of Parliamenttlat. was,
therefore, in' fad, only waste paper. •
After a good deal of diScussion this objeaion was
sustained, and. the Prisoner was acquitted.

•SO II A,VERICA.

THE cARACCAS: • - •
(coucludrd from our p 4per oit svatierday
RELIGIOUS scruples have prevented.the Spaniards
froi engaging in the African slave trade;; but, with
a casuistry not unprecedented on that subjea, they ,
have reconciled their conseiencelo the lawfulness of
purchasing slaves, when brought to them by other-,
Nations ; and they have even made treaties, and held
out pecuniary inducements, to embark their neigh-.
bours in that- iniquitous traffic. The slaves of the
Spaniards, however, are taught their prayers with the
greatest care; and -the utmost solicitude is.sliewn to.
prevent slaves of different sexes from having an illi-
cit, commerce together. . The young girls are locked
up during the night, and watched during
from the age of ten till they are married. But these
precautions are frnitless • whether it be that they are
ill chosen, or that the unrestrained'int,rcourse
,of
the whites,rwith the female slaves defeais their 'opera-'
tions. M. Depons complains that • the Spaniards ne- •
glea to :clOthe and feed their slaves:.' properly, and-
that they have no Physicians to attend them in their
illness. He contrasts,. with no small -complacency,.
their concha& in these particulars with that' of the,
French COlonists in•Saint-DorningO. But,,from his
own statement, it appears that the Spaniards give.
their, slaves land to cultivate fot provisions, and
allow them leisure for its cultivation ; and that,
in their dress, houses, and accommodations, ,the
slaves Of CaraccaS'al-e not on a ,worse-footintr, when
compared-with the slaves of St. Domingo, than their
masters are, compared :with. the. former planters -
of that island.. The slaves- of -the.. Spaniards pos-
sess some, advantages which the slaves of no other .
nation enjoy.: • If they are hlastyp..
they can compel him to sell' them to another per-
son 5. and if a slave can amass , a sum- equal, to his
purchase-money; he has a right to buy back his; free:
dom. - In 1789 the royal authority, was inlerposi,t'
to ameliorate, in some other,particulars, the condi..
tiotrof the slaves ; but. its plans of reform were'sO
absurd and impra6ticable that no .eaaWl-14evel- r:67.
Suited, from its interference. lii 2 Colony 1.-vitc;re
many of the masters sleep upon shins,. and have ljut
one apartment for theirwhole
-ordered, that every slave should have. his :separate,
sleeping room, furnished with a.bedstead, inattres";-7
coverlet and curtains. Police-Officers were appointed
to determine the quota of labour
,that.should. be .C.X..;
acted from every slave. The male anSfentala sh is,
were to be kept in separate gangs; and not allOved,
to have any communication, even on days of feStivity.
Such regulations, as M. Depons justly remarks, wird
'better calculated to form a society of, Monks, than
to supply the .wants or accelerate the growth Of. a •
rising Colony: The 'free blackS -and people of colour
are more numerous in the Spanish-Settlements than'
in the Colonies of any other Nations. The.lawk..of
Spain, contrary to the usual systern of colonial fig-
licy followed by the Europeans, are extremely favour-
able to the manumission agaves ;"and the piety and.
devetion_of the Spanish chargter contribute power-
fully-, as in the dark ageS, to increase the number of .
freed Men. The people of-colour in the Spanish co-
loniesare in -general poor, and not more industrious
than the Creoles. They are not admissible to any
public office in the State, nor into the army of the
line;' but the; 'may serve-in fhe militia; and even
rise to the rank of captain: They are liable to a ca-
pitation 'tax, which, in Caraccas at least, is nOt
a6lecl; and they are forbidden to have Indian ser-
vants. They may be physicians; but they cannot
be priests. ‘:

,There are various sumptuary laws regulating the•
dress of their women; .but they are fallen .into ne-
glea ; and the only regulation now in tOrce is one
which prohibits them from having a cushion to
kneel upon in church. Trifling as this distin&ion is,
it is sometimes abrogated: for, money, in favour of a
particular family,.by a royal order, raising the mem-
bers of it to the rank and privileges of whites.
The. Marriages of people of colour with white.fa-
milies of distin&ion have been always extremely
rare in the Spanish Colonies ; _hut . with the lower
ranks 'of Whites they were not unfre.quent till 1585,.
when the difference of oolour vvas,deciared to be a

sufficient reason for refusing consent to a marriage
on the ground of disparity of condition in
the par-
ties. Since that time such marriages hate Ceased,.
except in the' case of white women, who having'beerl
expoSed, when infants, by their mothers, to conceal
their frailty;, have been saved by negresses or people
of colour, and who found themselves reduced, when
they grew up, to marry in the class where 010 Bad
been educated. 1.2. Deppns calls loudly for a found-
ling hospital at Caraccas to remedy this evil: •

Seven Fretich Prisoners escaped from-Chatharrr •
1 Qll Friday evening. Diligent" search was snaking
for them at the 'cohtio.uous ports; and it was fully
expelled they would bec' disco, eyed in the vicinity of
Dover. Twenty shillings is the fixed. price for de--
.
tealitig 'persons' of thiS deScription; and the' pilatS
smugglers round these diStrias are remarkably ex
,-.
pert In the execution of the busittes
We are'sorry to' hear, that many persons '.have
been disappointed in their applications 'to Messrs.
Mathews and Leigh, of No. 18, Strand, for • Dr.
'Taylor's justly-esteemed Remedy for-Deathess. In
consequence of the Advertigement -which 'appeared
In this Paper some' time ago, the applicants were
so numerous, that many were of necessity sentaway
-unserved. We understand, however, that Messrs.
Mathews and Leigh have just obtained a suVply.of
the ReMedy, and consequently those who were dis•-
appginted may now apply with success. It-is not
a little remarkable, that one Bottle (which is very.
small) is, in general, a complete restorative, and that
it, is perfe6tly mild, side, and' innocent.--See the
Pamphlet on 'the subject, which is delivered gratis
at No. 18, Strand.