The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-14 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

THE SLAVE TRADE.--Furtlier Papers relating
to the Slave Trade have been laid before the House of Com-
mons. They are too long for insertion, or even for an abstract
to be given. The first series consists of correspondence with
France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United
States ; and the second, of correspondence with his Majesty's
Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havannah, and Surinam. With
the French Government, the urgent applications of the British
Secretary of State, and Ambassador, do not appear to have been
peculiarly successful, for the correspondence concludes with a
letter of Lord Londonderry, dated the 26th of March, 1822,
enumerating a formidable list of offences by French vessels, and
concluding with an injunction to Sir Charles Stewart to urge
the propriety of following in France the examples set by the
Spanish Cortes, who have made it felony -for a native of
that country to be engaged in the Slave Trade. ‘ The
correspondence with the Netherlands concludes with a letter
from Lord Clancarty, in which he states that he had, on the
21seof March, a most satisfactory conference with the Mi-
nister for the Colonies, who admitted that, by- the treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the Netherlands, the Slave Trade
was entirely forbidden to the subjeCts of both countries, and
declared that the measures which he had taken, under the i
orders of the King, were such as to ensure the full execution of
the treaty.. In the correspondence with Portugal, the Marquis
of Londonderry- proposes—" that a declaration should be issued
' in the spirit of the treaty by the powers concerned, purport-
ing,' that' if there should be a proof that a slave or ..::,laves
had been, for the purpose of illegal traffic, put on board a-
vessel in the course of the voyage in which she was- cap-
tu'red; such vessel night justifiably be detained by the crui-
sers; and finally be condemned by the Commissions." In
the correspondence with Spain we observe nothing of import-
ance except the article of the criminal code already noticed.
That with the United States relates principally to the esta-
blishment of a mutual right of search. Dispatches have been
sent to the Governments of Denmark, Sweden, and Holland,
complaining of facilities afforded to the Slave Trade in, the
islands of St. Thomas, St. Bartholomew, and St. Eustatias.

The Rev. CHARLES THORPE, Rector of Ryton,
in the county of Durham, has generously inte—
rested himself amongst his parishioners for the,
cause of humanity in Ireland. He collected
151. 11s., and paid the same into the Bank of Sir
M. W. RIDLEY, Bart. and Co., at Newcastle, a
few days ago. Let us hope this good beginning
in the pious, work of charity will, be promptly fol-
lowed by others in the North.
Mr. PERES, the rich Jew of St. Peterslnirgh,
formerly Farmer-General of all the Beer and
Bre whouses in Russia, has recently become a
convert to the Lutheran religion ; he at the same
time entered into the holy state of matrimony,
although considerably advanced in years.
The Hon. Colonel Sir FRANCIS BURTON, Lieu-
tenant Governor of Canada, and brother to the
Marquis CONYNGISAM, sailed for Quebec on the
Ist inst. Prior to his leaving town his MAJESTY
was graciously pleased to nominate him one of
the Guelphic Knights, and to confer on Mica, the
'Star of the Order.