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THE LATE THUNDERSTORM.- On Thursday
e 'ening this town and neighbourhood were visited with one of
the most violent thunder storms ever remembered. The day
had been very sultry, and towards sunset the clouds in the
South..east at the edge of the horizon portended a tempest.
From'eight o'clock till half-past nine the lightning flashed
literally without ceasing ; indeed, we do not recollect having
witnessed such innumerable discharges of the electric fluid in
so short a space. At the latter point of time the thunder began
to be heard, rapidly increasing in londness until it burst over
our heads with a noise resembling the simultaneous discharge
of a park of artillery. The wind blew strongly from the
south, and a storm of hail, or rather of pieces of
ice, fell with a violence seldom seen in England. In
the buildings exposed to the south the windows were broken
by hundreds and thousands, terrifying the inmates, especially
females, by the suddenness of the unusual visitation. The
extreme intensity of the storm abated soon after 10 o'clock,
and passed into other districts, spreading dismay and devasta-
tion over the country. The damage caused by this appalling
storm is enormous. At the Great Western Railway station
almost every pane in their numerous skylights was broken,
and we hale heard that it will cost nearly 2001. to replace
them. The hailstones were of sizes from that of a hazelnut
to a small walnut, and therefore most destructive wherever they
fell perpendicularly. In the surrounding villages the damage
was of a most serious character. At Purley five valuable
cows, the property of Mr. B. Peel, were struck by the electric
fluid, and instantly k;l!ed. They were of a superior deset iption,
and were destined for the pastures of Sir R. Peel, at Drayton
Manor. The village of Caversham, which, rising from the Thames,
presents an exposed elevation to the south, suffered more than
any other place we have yet heard of. The greenhouses of
Captain Montagu, Caversham-hill, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Stephens,
and other gentlemen were literally destroyed, besides a large
number of squares of glass in various parts of their dwellin.v_
houses. The mansion of Mr. Crawshaw, which forms so well.
known an object from the London-road arid the railway,
had scarcely a whole pane left ; and in that 'parish alone
several hundreds of pounds must be expended to repair the
damage. As far as we have yet heard, no loss of human life
has occurred through this awful storm. •It must have been
very general, ab we understood it extended from Epsom and
the western parts of Surrey into Gloucestershire ; how much
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SHIPBUILDING IN DERRY.-411 Mr. Coppin's
yard there has been laid the keel of a vessel, intended for fo.
reign trade, which, in point of dimensions, will come very little
short of the largest steamers ever built. The proprietors of
her are• partly Englishmen. She is to be impelled by the
Archimedian screw, and to have a horse-power of between
500 and 600, and to be of 1,500 tons register. Her keel is
feet, only a few feet inferior to that of the greatest steamer-
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My attention -has been this day called to a etter
in- The Sun of the 27th inst., signed F.' A. Kentish;
which is so full of falsehood and wilful misrepresentittion,
that I am surprised thou 'should have suffered it to ap-
pear in thy columns. •
Within the last three months I have received four or.
five letters from this F. A. Kentish, but they have lv...en
of such A character, that I should have degraded myself
by replying to them. 1
When I-purchased some shares in the Imperial Bra-
zilian Mining Company some ten or twelve years since,-
I had not the slightest idea that the mines were worked
by slaves, and many years since Iwas interested' with
others in endeavouring to promote their welfare and
freedom, and F. A. Kentish well knows that I have re-
cently been co-operating with others in the same situa-
tion.as myself, in endeavouring to obtain their complete
emancipation, as the enclosed address shows, although it
suits him to conceal this fact.
In the next place Joseph John Gurney never has been
the 'treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society, ner has lie, ever held any shares in the Imperial
Brazilian Mining Company.
Although nearly every sentence in Kentish's letter
'contains gross 'rnisrepresentition or falsehood, I will only
notice one other point for the sake of brevity, which is
that at the recent general meeting of the Proprietors of
the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association, " made special
to consider the propriety of emancipatin the, slaves; :And
securing their future_frecdon," 4witsp• ..ftbout.ll)o Pro 7
prietors.pre.sent.,-;ifity ieveesilyjporlted . he Motion; and six
it
of,these were meinhers of the Society of Friends.
Trusting thou. wilt rice this letter, and the ~accomp-
anying addre'SS in proof of my statement, a,place in thy
columns, • I am thy friend respectfully,
-.ft.. ~-, ~...• - ,
.HENRY TUCKETT

.
sth month, 29, 1841, South-street, Finsbury.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE IMPERIAL
BRAZILIAN MINING COMPANY.
Ha.vitg, unknowingly in the Srsi instance, become Share-
holders in a Mining Company which employs slave labour, we
de,ply feel the responsibility which devolves upon us, and
upon all who have an interest in Compatties similarly situated.
Thus impressed, allow us to call attention to the painful fact,
that you, with ourselves, are slave,holders, and to present to
you some information and reflections in connection with the
subject.
' WW may observe, that the Brazilian Mining Company claims
about 4113 slaves, of whom about 168 are men, about 114 are
women, and about 131 are children ; and, in addition, there
are 40 slaves hired by contract for a period of two years.
Allow,us to remind you, that the slaves which are thus owned
or hired, are the victims or descendants of those who were
obtained by cruel wars, carried on its Africa, in many instances,
waged for the vet y purpose of procuring captives for sale, or
have been procured in other ways no less inconsistent with'
humanity and 'religion. " This is the origin of the slavery the
Imperial Brazilian Mining Company is countenancing 2
We not only object in the strongest manner to the wayi n
which this unrighteous species, of property is acquired, but to
the system of slavery, as in itself unjust and necessarily cruel.
We cannot but regard such a system as in direct opposition to
the righteous law of God, and to the merciful principles of the
Gospel.

. Eittertaining these views of the essential character of slavery,
we must strongly deprecate the countenance of it by the Im-
perial' Brazilian Mining Company under any circumstances.
We hue, however, thought it our duty to make some inquiry
as to the particular sittmtion of, the sl.aVes held by the Com-
pany ; and we regret that upon several important points on
which we hate sought information, we have either not been
able to obtain it, or that which we have obtained is of the most
unsatisfactory character ; for instance, the nature, extent, and
effect of the punishments inflicted on the slaves is not known
to our Directors, only one return of such punishments appears
to have been sent home, arid that- several
,years . since ! And
with respect td the education of the slaYes„ it appears to have
been abandoned in deference to ,tite feelings and- wishes of the
slave-holders in the vicinity ! ? .
We will not dwell upon' the statements which have been
made of crueltils perpetrated by'scut-ma 'of the servants of the
Company, when separated thousands of miles from the Direc-
tors; some of which, however, we believe to -be too true : we
would rather call your attention to the circumstance, that the
slavery which is thus sanctioned by the Imperial Brazilian
Mining Company, is a system by vtliich millions of human
beiug-s-aro .subjected to a debasing, cruel, a.nd in many in-
stances, lifesdestroying bondage—.a system which fosters both
on the part of 'the slave and his oppressor, a. fearful amount of
,immorality, and neglect of religious obligations.
, It must also be ever borne in mindohat as slavery origin-
ated in the enormous iniquity of the Slave-trade,. so it conti-
nually fosters this evil which exists to 'an enormous extent in
the Brazils, in despite of laws for its abolition ; the number
of its 'annual victims is calculated at sixty thousand! With a know-'
ledge of these facts, can you withheld "your most strenuous ex-
ertions to'remove from your character the reproach of being a
slave •holder, and from your conscience the ;,*wilt of being im-
plicated in' a dime so fatally and extensively destructive to,
human happiness, and, to the advancement of civilization
and religion, , • 1.
The Directors have, in accordance with our earnest request 4
resoled, to make the General Meeting of the PFOpietary on
the 13till of ,sth month Vaay) special, for thet•onsiderationk,
of the. propriety of emancipating the slaves,,km4roviding for
the security of- their future freedom; we, therefore, respect-
fully, but ealiteitly call upon our brother Shareholders, to at-
tend that;lneeliug, or entrust, Ottrir proxies to the friends of
tl r*hieettp, q ;and we trust they will all be so deeply
r‘iri.mikiesolitiOttWeesailf of-this step, that they will freely
oiler their assistance to accomplish it, and let all bear in
mind the precept of our Holy Redeemer, " Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do
ye ev,..n so to them." Should the Company perform that
act of justice which is sought at their hands, we
entertain the hope that it would in no small degree
promote the righteous cause of emancipation in Brazil and in
other parts of the world.
kor ourselves, ue feel it a solemn duty to protest against
the employment of slave-labour by the Imperial Brazilian
Mining Company, and express our determination to use our
most earnest exertion to prevent its continuance, whenever an
opportunity is afforded.
Signed by EDWARD HARRIS, London.
GEORGE THOMAS,
ED WA RD THOMAS,
JOSEPH FRY, Bristol.
FRANCIS FRY,
'RICHARD FRY,

HENRY TUCK ETT. London.
Any communication on the subject may be addressed to
Henry Tuckett, at No. 7, South-street, Finsbury.
London, 4th mo. 2d, 1841.