The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-21 00:00:00

FR EEDO M.

The Protector and Guardian of Slaves rose, and with refer-
ence
to a notice that had been inserted in the Gazette on the
18th of June, applied to his Honour the Chief Judge, on be-
half of the slave Judy Brush, of the Phoenix-park estate, stat-
ing that she was prepared to pay the amount of her appraised
value for the purchase of her freedom.
Mr. Burnley, as administrator of the Phcenixepark estate,
opposed the motion of the Protector of Slaves. When before
his Honour on a similar occasion to oppose the manumission of
Gregory M'Gregor, a slave belonging to the same property,
the l'rotector had urged that the Court could not-enter into the
consideration of any previous circumstances, nor inquire into
the character or conduct of any slave wishing to purchase his i
freedom ; and that under the 29th clause of the Order in
Council, die Court possessed no discretionary power, but was
bound to order the manumission of any slave, with reference
to no oilier circumstance than the mere ability of the slave to
lay down a sum of money equal to his appraised value.—
This doctrine contained principles so monstrous, and led to
results so ruinous to every class in the colony—to the slaves
as well as to their masters--would be so subversive of all the
meliorating effects, contemplated by the Order in Council—
that he felt himself imperatively called upon to oppose it.
Ile hoped the Learned Protector of Slaves was not prepared :
to assert, that any single clause in an Order in Council was
to be decided upon without reference to the connecting clauses
in the same Act, or to the objects and principles hid down
in its preamble; for in such case it might not unfrequently
occur, that a single clause might bear a construction hostile
to the spirit and meaning of the whole Bill, and produce
results never contemplated or intended by the Legislature
which enacted it. He begged the Court to remark the
peculiar manner in which the Trinidad Order in Council
had been framed ; it was divided into sections, embracing va-
rious circumstances supposed to have an influence upon the
welfare of slaves. Now, although the 29th clause might not
be connected with every clause in this order, yet it was directly
connected with the other clauses in the section to which it be-
longed, and without reference to them could nothe correctly
ihterpreted. This section commenced at the 24th clause, and
he begged the Court to observe how closely each succeeding
clause, to the 29th inclusive were connected : they rose step
by step on each other until they arrived at the object contem
plated by the Legislature—namely, the manuniision of an
honest and industrious slave. The 24th secured to him the
right of holding and disposing of his property ; this was to give
the first impulse to his industry. The With and 2fith clauses
establish and regulate the savings' banks, in which his honest
earnings may be safely deposited, and bear interest until he has
accumulated a sufficient fund to purchase his freedom : and the
28th, 29th, and succeeding clauses regulate the mode in which
that manumission may be obtained. The 29th clause certainly
did not particularly describe the character of the persons who
were to be permitted to purchase their freedom, because that
clause only contemplated the individuals referred to in the
preceding five clauses, who were supposed to have acquired
their money by honest industry. This was clear by the read-
ing of the 27th clause, which authorized a Court of Inquiry,
as it might be termed, to be held on every slave wishing
to deposit twenty dollars in the savings' hank, if his master
suspected only that he had come unfairly by it; and would
the Protector now pretend to assert that the same act which
directed this inquisitorial process into the conduct of the
petty pilferer, intended that the wholesale robber should
escape all investigation ; that twenty dollars dishonestly ob-
tained might be rejected at the savings' bank, and that 300
or 400 dollars obtained by similar practices could not be re-
fused admission into this Court? What was the language
of the preamble of the order? It was short, but decisive :
"Whereas it is necessary that provision should be made for
the religious instruction of the slaves in the island of Trinidad,
and for the improvement of their condition." He contended
that the objects recited in this preamble were only to be se-
cured by the scrutiny into the character of every slave who
claimed his freedom in that tribunal ; and should he not suc-
cessfully pass through the ordeal of such inquiry, the benefi-
cial results were obvious should his honour say to him, " Go,
return to the estate whence you came, you are unfit to move
in a higher sphere, amend your life, and at some future pe-
riod you may obtain the rank you aspire to." This lan-
guage would come home to the feelings of slaves, it would
furnish the best practical plan of religious instruction which
could be devised ; but the doctrine urged by the Protector of
Slaves was totally inexplicable ; to patronize the admission of
slaves generally into the ranks of freedom without reference
to the mode in which they had acquired the means of pur-
chasing the privilege, would only be an incentive to immo.
rality and vice. What was the language held by Mr. Can-
ning on this particular subject, when he laid the Trinidad
Order in Council before Parliament ? He begged to be per-
mitted to read an extract froM his speech, as published in The
Times newspaper of the 17th March, 1824 : 4 By the course
which Government had prescribed, freedom when it did come,
would come as every good thing in this world did come to
human nature—by endeavours, honest and successful, and by
laborious exertions, hated facilern ease viam • the difficulty
with which great object: were attained was the best corrective
of ambitious desires." Such were the sentiments of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers ; they were in unison with the preamble of
the Bill, and they spoke the same language as the 2,4'h and
succeeding clauses, which pointed out that freedom was to
come by endeavours honest and successful, through the me.
dium of the savings' bank. The labour and the difficulty
which would accompany- it had enhanced, in the eyes of
the Honourable Secretary, the value of the process ; but
what would be his feelines, were he to hear that in Trini-
dad this difficulty resolved itself into one bold push at suc-
cessful crime, and that in this. Court the swindler, the rob-
ber, and possibly the murderer, were permitted, without
inquiry, to enjoy that boon which the Legislature intended
to reserve as the reward of laborious exertion and ho-
nest industry ? And he begged to assert that many slaves,
more than the Court was aware of, had already purchased
their freedom by money procured in the most unjustifiable
manner; it was notorious in the community, although the
Court might be unacquainted with the fact, that a slave of
Mr. de Harvey Soters had lately purchased his manumis-
sion with a fund raised by splitting staves and shingles, whilst
a fugitive in the woods; such was the course of his honest
endeavours—he had gained his freedom by robbing his mas-
ter of his services, and the crown of its timber. The case of
the slave Gregory was still stronger ; lie had absconded from the
Pheenix Park estate to accuse his manager of ill-treatment.—
The falsehood of this charge being established, to escape pu-
nishment, he offered to purchase his freedom, but his means
being far short of his real value, he endeavoured to reduce his
physique to the state of his purse ; and so great an adept was lie
in the art of dissimulation, that he imposed upon an eminent
medical practitioner in this town, and procured from him a cer-
tificate, that he was labouring under a disease so inveterate, as to
afford little chance of recovery ; yet in a few weeks afterwards,
when his freedom was obtained, and dissimulation no longer
necessary, he appeared before Mr. H. Murray, requesting em-
ployment, and exhibiting such an athletic form and appearance
of robust health, that he was hired by him without hesitation,
as an axenian to tell forest timber, at the highest rate of wages
given to that laborious class • nor was his roguery confined to
this single act ; he never could have made up the suns required
for the purchase of his manumission, hut by a loan from a poor
cultivator in the neighbourhood of the town, which he engaged
.to refund by working for a fixed period on his estate; but the
moment he found himself free, he brake his contract, and thus
was his outset in the career of freedom marked by gross
swindling, and the blackest ingratitude towards his benefac-
tor; he (Mr. Burnley) was in possession of full proof with re.
spect to every thin,, lie had stated, which he was prepared, if
required, to lay before the Court. He now begged to recall to
the recollection of the Court a recent criminal trial, in which
a slave named I'itt Minister had been convicted of robbing
Captain Ruse, of the 9th regiment, at St. Joseph, of a large
sum of money ; he had been sentenced by the Court to be
flogged for the offence, but the money stolen he would give no
satisfactory account of. Now suppose this same slave were to
appear shortly in the tribunal, and offer to purchase his freedom
could the Court listen for a moment to his petition ? Yet, ac-
' cording to the arguments urged by the Protector of Slaves, the
Court possessed no discretionary power to prevent a convicted
robber from coming into Court and carrying off' triumphantly
that prize his Majesty's Ministers had destined only for honest
industry, it was impossible—it outraged common sense. The
Court must possess a discretionary power ; if to be exercised in
one case, to be exercised in all, and in none would it be found
more requisite than in the case now before the Court. He op-
posed himself to the manumission of the slave now claiming
her freedom, because she stood before the court at that mo-
ment as a crithinal and an offender against the laws. She was
a runnaway and a deserter from the estate to which she belong.
ed since the lit of May ; shortly afterwards she had been appre-
hended, but on her return had given her conductor the slip, and,
again absconded. He, Mr. Burnley, had been unable to dis-
cover her retreat, yet she had managed during that period to
have frequent communications with the Protector of Slaves,
and to lodge her money in the Colonial Treasury ; and it
was most extraordinary, but most true, that an offender
against the laws, whilst she successfully avoided the sop-
ant eye of the police, could safely hold communication with
public men and public offices. He had but one more argu-
ment to urge ; suppose this woman were declared competent by
the Court to purchase her freedom, what principles were to go.

THE SUN.

SOLEM GUIS DICEItE FALSUM AUDLAT ?

LONDON, •
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1825.

The French Papers of Sunday, which arrived
last night, are filled with details of the solemnity
which was observed on Friday in honour of the
memory of Louts XVIII. The Duchess of
ANGOULEME, the Duke of ORLEANS and his
family, together with the great Officers of the
Household, the most distinguished persons about
the Court, and the Diplomatic Corps, headed by
the POPE'S Nuncio, attended divine service in the
Abbey of St. Denis, which was on this occasion
hung with black.

The Moniteur contains, in the official part,
a very long Royal Ordinance relative to
the forming of the Salt Mines ; and another
relative to the Veterinary Schools at Alfort,
Lyons, and Toulouse.

The Constitutionnel contains a copy of the
Manifesto of the Greek Government, offering to
place the nation under the protection of this
country. This document, together with the pro-
test of the soi disant Philhellenic Deputies of
France and America, will be found in another
column. The officious intermed d ling of these gentle-
e n in this transaction casts a shadow upon the act
of the Greek Government, which would make us
doubt the sincerity with which they submitted to
England, and we entirely agree with a Morning
Paper that " nothing was wanted to throw ridi-
cule on the whole transaction but the protest of
two foreigners, a Frenchman and an American, to
this free, unclaimed, and unaccepted deed of sub-
mission."

The Hamburgh Papers to the 18th of Sep-
tember have been received. They do not con-
tain any political news, except, indeed, an ar-
ticle from Mayence, dated Sept. 7, concerning

the free navigation of the Rhine. This question
has been some time under discussion 1a
the Central Committee for the navigation
„
of the Rhine, France, and Holland, seeking
restrain it, and Prussia, Bavaria, and nesse'
wishing to leave it open. The question it seems
will be referred to a higher tribunal. Extracts
from these Papers will be found in another
column.

The Journal de Frankfort to the 14th SePter"
ber has been received. It contains extracts from
the Trieste Observer, complaining of the faisitY
of the news given in the French and German
Papers as coming from Trieste, upon the subjece
of the war in Greece. We subjoin the article
TRINSTE, Auo. 29.—The Observer of Triote publishes the
following article :
" We often see in foreign journals, both French and German'
articles dated from Trieste, which contain the most false and
absurd news relative to the affairs of Greece. These journalists,
knowing that this city receives the first news from the
theatre of war, conceal under the date of Trieste the fables
which they desire to circulate, and even if they do come front
Trieste, they can only be ascribed to corrupted individuals, or
to unfaithful correspondents. We therefore think it our Of
to caution the public against giving any credit to their Pre;
tended news from Trieste, but what they merit of the:lodge
and from the impure sources from which they come."
(It has long been notorious that there is a manufactoll
Jew
news at Trieste, but it must be owned that it has greatlY
dined since the establishment of that at Zante
takes a much bolder flight; with rare assurance it pats
circulation the most impudent falsehoods.) this lot;

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 14th of Sept.
came to hand this day. The news it has from
s
Greece is highly satisfactory, as it confirm
every respect the defeat of the SERASKIEft on
.10
retreat after the unsuccessful attack upon Aliss°'
longhi. 'We subjoin a paragraph, detailing
affair between GOUItA and the Sceasfosit
Carvassara
„I, of
TRIESTE, SEPT. s.—Letters from Corfu of the
August confirm the defeat, of which we have already l'°//en;
a
of the army of the Seraskier Redschid Pacha, on its set he
after the unsuccessful attack on Missolonghi. It was (111
7th August that Goura with three Greek Capitani, hastenilo
from Salons, attacked at Carvassara the rear of the Turks
their retreat, and captured a considerable quantity of artilleri;
Since then Redschid has remained at Carvassara, where he
assembling fresh troops. Our Gazette mentions this skl.to
the following terms :—According to accounts given by caPT; $
of ships, a few days after the' fruitless attack on allissolongopii"
corps of 3,000 Greeks under Goura appeared, coming fr
.A' tbe
Salons, and together with part of the garrison 4tte7 -into
Turkish camp. They succeeded in throwing the besieger:l.
confusion, and in spiking some of their cannon and °GrI3

tal. hats
Charleston Papers to the 16th Ang I
been received, but they do not contain 110 OW
‘
information.

ASantautrl(viit:yrtilsaysmt advertisement inserted in the Deily rol'.err:
of
must
have
ve :for
informed the cot°l'
that the turbulent spirit of the Shipwrights let
the river Thames has not yet subsided. 131 01:
advertisement it would be seen that the direr
owes which existed between the ShiPwrigb f
and their Masters had been placed in the 04
I°,
adjustment by the active interference of t'l 1
l
workmen in the Royal Yard at Portsrnottth,
oi
the principle that the price book of each Ilhis
should be settled between the owner litlcivi
workpeople, without any reference to the Pri
given by ally other yard. t '4ll
The principle upon which this adjust ~111-11 r 9 io
made received the sanction of the Shipbuilje.osl
a general meeting held upon the 10th of
Mgje.
last, and the Shipwrights also considering tilts
f gr'
cision as a triumph, did, at the instance e
ers
Jolts CAST, ratify the agreement he had ester the
into upon their behalf. The settlement 0{ jr
Price Book, however, was, from time to thliel the
layed by the workmen themselves until, I.ll)c)rosti,
Sth instant, the masters, weary of this Ps°clreo
nation, issued a notice, calling on their w°r,,rice
to appoint a deputation to consider the
icecto
book of the different yards where that not jo,
•t Wog
given. In consequence of this notice 1- it
, where
titnated to the proprietors of the yards ,4 OP
iveti
was given that the Shipwrights had es
cap/
make no alteration in the price book .as 5,100
stlettatfol
by themselves, and that no fresh contract:op 0
he taken by the people of ally Dock Vol: ' of
013 'ltiel
declaration had been signed by the ricl4
r)tol lc Dock Yard,
tii
e
equitable.
ard whio. of
(pen
A I • 'IL St6b" 1p
considered as a triumph, and vv.114, Dot
fusle.tillutso, fulfil‘'vith without
atellryllrlSeausfontl:eta'a: ti:cse.r7le'lltl::;
the who f,
hill:al,: ritgi 11 the
tys price 'II,: 1:11.le°' I:: '''lla
met with the 64 rail:neat/On" Of . ,01 113
We are sorry to hear that an eminent vr'oly.4l,
d deciaoi j
asent:ied%:,,:l,suanii)dpoasceqsuiigensceeddtillitethree
,arty may to
qiitiolir,teitleolt:
ov,true
jioeo'
If this is fact, trust the par 3
.1 node
AderS, ' ""
11, e,
by the rest of the ship-but possi
btful "'"? duct'
understand, in the least doo ,
such
con _
the opinion they must entertain ot '"1.01,
of ti,leitt
'idiot] fr° are to°
expecte°,
this oppor.
cause was hardly to be
(1)i:1,i Is]
egrtvliunst
s,fa
such
uvvc
li: fats tdoeorde. the :ilc: :jail
o,i :el r Jl5,
we find that
more astonished when

Wily was taken to desert the cause ; and that the
Parties guilty are the respectable firms of WioRAM
"• Glizxx, and C. D. GUIDON and Co.
the conduct of the Shipwrights upon this oc-
casion is, however, worthy remark, displaying as
It does what would appear to be the true feeling of
this body., Hitherto their claims have met with
Partial support from the public, misled by the idea
that they sought only a just reward for their labour.
li
tit is now clearly demonstrated they seek only
to establish a controulling power over their mas-
ters that will compel them to submit at all times
t° the dictation of their own servants, and to ac-'
in any demands, however unreasonable,
or Lowe unjust. This fact is sufficiently evi-
nced by their resolution, conveyed to the Ship-
wrights in consequence of their notice of the Sth
ills 1001) which can be characterized only as an
unPrincipied departure from their own agreement,
indas a declaration that they are guided by no
"lings of reason or justice, but seek only their
‘°,l' advalicement, and that at all hazards.
10,,r he declaration of the Shipwrights, even sup.
4—sing it were just, was premature. They could
t't
tell how far the Shipbuilders would or would
sqt ''cluiesce in the prices fixed by them-
ves
It would then have been but just and
await (did they comprehend these terms) to
carlal. the issue of the respective meetings ere they
the e t° this declaration, and thus openly avowed
Selees. lout to create a misunderstanding
as their determination, and they deemed it
pru-
dent t 0 Prevent the smallest chance of reconcilia-
tion
) by assuming that their prices were unrea-
-I°Tiable, and could not be agreed to.
si.the Public therefore is bound to support the
'Thunders in their contest with their work
Pe°Plei and which, however deplorable in its
he to them, or to the nation, ought to
tue pursued with vigour, and carried on with de-
tilltll"ed resistance, until, taught by experience,
'e work People may feel their errors.

THE GREAT ST. LEGER STAKES.
oNetirry.it RACES, TUESDAY.—( By Express.
Great St. T.seger stakes were wou by Mein
°?1, beating Alderman and '2B others.

tram 4,6 ~113•NTINR.—The following communication
y t`lle French Consul-General in London, was
- r'ay posted at Lloyd's :
Li %,
, " French Consulate General, Sept. 2, 1825.
eaul‘l4iritlk-':pkving been authorized by my Government tobtaocn.
hit:llp ;I,ll' the information of Lloyd', and all others w
r' °le 'Lea-tern, that the restrictions which had been enforged-
,r4ttrti and of Health at Marseilles, and by the iloineu
:'4lese " have been withdrawn, both for the harbour of ithaar;
14 endfutt; for the other French ports in the_ octeir,i:lianntdo
any
port ill all ships bound from any port in C
their 4 Floee, shall be as formerly admittedzr,ea' notwithstanding
'nag
Gr not any Levant goods on board.
13aroi:' I am'
"To John`
tsennettSEGEUl its
I. ren Consul General."
Itc.
&c;ch
, 1:49, Lloyd's."
-------..3„,.._
i,s_The Cabinet Council which is to determine the.
fl4Portant question of the fitness of dissolving
Firrlianlent, is to meet at the Earl of LivEitmot.'s,
rnoie House, to-morrow, instead of this day, su-
Por_," to that effect having been issued from the
,-.gri and other Offices.
jlilldetters
funit Port-au-Prince, dated the 31st of
thalVvere received yesterday, one of which states
101111..reSident BOYER., in consequence of the rea-
-*ale ter
arch— .°ll on which he had been enabled to
ndeoPfettmdeamgof France, had. formed.
ilia
in:t7tlion
offers to Spain for the
104 1:11, that
part of the island which formerly be-
,feht4 to that country.
Prqs,? King of PitussrA has ordered that the
101 'lan Loan contracted for in Holland shall be
jilltewdiatelY paid off.
LNita, as reported at the West End of. the Town
ard CY, that Lord ST RANGEono had had an interview with
itti,44l4tlvottPoOL the etiANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.,
..
Ptr-.,t present . ‘-'00.111.41; and that the subject of conversation was
(1 ° distracted state of Turkey, and its dilemma in r!;
sati bt,,ireece. It was further stated that the assistance which..n
/144 t orF tendered by English subjects to the Greeks had pct.
Zleriou, ettee to the Sublime Porte, and that the latter had made
er, itt°tOplints to Lrd Strang' ford on the subject.
,Moreil-
-1,141 hot irvlo4' repsrumou hat the approaching Cabinet Ciossuonicy.
ri 6 tile pstn,Uch for the discussion of the propriety o d
t.744k of !Illanint, as for the taking; into consideration' the
qieritixfotel_e communications from 'Turkey, of which Lord
tit:ltkity4;3,the bearer. We by no means vouch
as.mvell to,'it?ese rumours ;we merely give them they I
Th;4•uunteated to 113.—(iforning Paper.)
idle fater
`se named Golden Ball, the deplor-
,tn:i of which is mentioned in another part
4 4., aN4r) was the best horse of his day, and
w, 'llliration of the Mellon Hunt. He cost
" hilnd Was sold for eleven ! As the fate of
411 d src)cir etas
has excited so much attention
,r)4371,414:•athY, it will probably induce those who
-atisid -' tacers and hunters to be a little more
'the erate in
n the.disposing of those noble animals,
!Itil• 'r Powers are lost in age and debility.
, is tia.o, •
4kt..,"1.0te h• J Is the anniversary of SAINT AI ATLI EW.
4 'll int la Gospel in Hebrew,. which was afterwards trans-
441t04111:;tr°
ta(l;eeeolaiebcotuntr the Christian
meraan4ys.. He was either
erted labours
titiltcThe Ve,3, closed 'hisa' life after
Nadabar, in Ethiopia,
4it )' is de'ae by martyrdom, but of which the a,ithen-
4'llrthit'd i?,'ll°,te`l• This day' is also the beginning ofre
the the „..ratier
.. Week in the year, of which there are
411e4L'4.st or,,,after the first Sunday in Lent ;the second after.
the `Pelk, r entecost
tr
rttliorcht, after the .litiirlteeetin'itrid after
the fourteenth of Sept. Sept.;
I "of December. By a canon ot
;111,4`1e-ho
of Is enjoined, that Deacons or Ministers be.ordaned
S't P 4,,, n Y on the Sundays immediately following these
, ..,s.
1:11:4..L.p0 r
14 1111 s'' AMONG SIILEP.-An article, dated
°':ac t.he Gae4Pt' 41 says :—" Ills Royal High-
t)! ,jibin,,„?. DILKE has issued an ordinance
4), issue appear to be adopted in consequence
`.41), in trifearanre of the snzallpox among the
kll''''e liaii• Pr°vitice of Domitz and other places.
14111' i'l tills
0 be
i,.
le
(;irsetroierttslererl to take care that the
41 "Itnediat where the contagion pre-
t'leti Ae•knAliz eIY vaccinated."
414
,are
4. ZI
1,: tpr es numerous body of work-
Ilerllliteitt'g tl4'esent actively employed in Mac-
el'squar::h°le of the carriage road in