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NUMBER 9893.

ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
IT being the Opinion of many Members of
this Society, that its Anniversary Meeting, advertised to
be held in Freemasons' Hall on Saturday the 29th instant, had
BETTER BE POSTPONED till after the Discussion in
Parliament of the case of the Missionary SMITH, which
stood for this day; but has been unexpectedly deferred, the
members and Friends of the Society are respectfully informed,
that the intended Meeting WILL NOT TAKE PLACE on
the 29th, as proposed, but on a future day, of which public
notice will be given.

AIR. OWEN to the EARL of LAUDERDALE,

IN ANSWER TO
SOME OBSERVATIONS OF HIS LORDSHIP
LAST NIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS.

MY LORD—I am indebted to you for the
Speech which you made last night in the House
of Peers, in reply to the Marquis of DowxsiunE,
when he presented a Petition-from me, praying
for the appointment of a Committee to examine
a Plan which I have prepared, to remedy the
evils which for centuries past have been suffered
to afflict so many millions of our fellow-subjects
in Ireland.

W. L. HANBURY, Secretary.
No. 18, Alderrnanbury; 27d4 May,-1824.

ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET PLACE.
THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA-
DEMY is now °PENT,.

Admiasion (from Eight o'Clock till Seven), is.
Catalogue, is.
• HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec.

I am indebted to you, my Lord, because you
have oppOsed the measures which I have pre-
pared to ameliorate the condition of our fellow-
men, both in Ireland, in this country, and in other
countries, upon definite grounds.
You express an opinion, that. the principles
and plans which I recommend for the gradual
improvement of society are such, that if they
wero carried into practice, none of the present
Governments of the world could remain as they
now are.

CHANGE OF SEASON.

LADIES who require a Change in the Thick-
ness and Warmth of Under Garments suitable to the
,Season, can be supplied with some curious Articles in Petti-
coats, Under Waistcoats, Drawers, &c. &c.. in Cotton or thin
Lambs Wool.—As these Articles are Patent, they cannot be
Procured at any other Establishment in the World.
MRS. ROBERTSHAW, 99 and 100, Oxford-street.
Wash Leather Drawers for Riding.

PROTECTOR LIFE ASSURANCE SO-
CIETY.
Capital—THßEE MILLIONS STERLING.
ISIEsIDENT—The Most Noble the Marquis of LANSDOWN.
C E-P RESID EN TS.
Right Honourable Lord R. Edward Somerset, M.P.
Honourable James Abercromby,.M.P.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Gore.
Stephen ,R. Lushington, Esq. M.P.
DIRECTORS.
Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S. George Jackson. Esq.
Robert Campbell, Esq. Major-General Sir Eslw. Fier-
tear-Admiral Sir Edward Co- rison, Bart M.P.
drington, F.B.S.- Captain William L. Maberly,
Ileory Thomas Colt brooke, M.P.
Si~F.R.S. Mot* T. Nicholson,-Esq.
Sir Alexander Crichton, M.D. Alexander L. Prevost, Esq.
P.R.S. George Raikes, Esq.
Proneis.Gore Currie, Esq.- George Ranking, Esq.
Thomas Curtis, E Isq. Peter M. Roget, M.D. F.R.S.
Richard Hart Davis,Esq. M.P. James Scott, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. I Major-General Sir Henry
Nathaniel Hihbert, Esq. Torrens.
AUDI-roux—George Hathorn, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Charles Saville Onley, Esq. M.P. -
134xxens.—Messrs. Courts and Co. Strand, and Messrs. Cur-
.
• ries, Raikes, and Co. Cornhill.
AcruAnY—Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S.
CuNSIILTINO PHYSICIAN—Sir Alex. Crichton. M.D. F.R S.
PHYSICIAN—titer M. Roget, M.D. F.R.S. .
COUNSEL—Robert Grant,. Esq.
Souctrons—Messrs. Meyrick and Cox, Red Lion-square.
The Opening of this Office for the commencement of busi-
ness is necessarily postponed from the 31st instant to the.
30th June next.

My Lord, I fully admit this conclusion, and it
is for this very reason that I have thus far perse-
vered in bringing before the Legislature and the
public, from time to time, those measures which I
have advocated, and which, ere long, cannot fail
to be generally adopted.

Since these Governments were established in
their present form, and upon their present prin-
ciples, the greatest improvements have taken
place in the various sciences connected with po-
litical economy ; and the human mind has made
the most rapid, and extensive strides in the
knowledge of human nature and in general
knowledge.
It is not, then, that the devices of any indi-
viduals, however active or intelligent, will ren-
der a general improvement in governments neces-
sary.'or practicable ; their most strenuous efforts
would little avail, if the late gigantic advances
of the human mind did not, like other great ope-
rations of nature, make it imperative that im-
provements in one course should be followed by-
improvements in every other direction.
Any attempts to stay or to retard this march of
intellect,-or to prevent it from going forward in
the natural course of events, you, my Lord, will
be soon convinced must prove puny indeed.
The well-being of those who govern society,
as well as that of those who are governed, will
speedily call loudly for improvements in govern-
ment, corresponding with the improvements in
the arts and sciences.
Permit me to ask you, my Lord, if you deem
it possible, in the nature of things, that, after this
little island, with a population under 16 millions,
has acquired, in less than half a century, a new
artificial power of producing wealth which ex-
ceeds twice the whole unassisted manual power
of the world, millions of its subjects should yet
continue to be allowed to remain in as low a
state of ignorance and poverty as if no means
existed to supply them with the first- necessa-
ries of life, or to furnish them with the first etc:
ments of knowledge ? Would there be one par-
ticle, my Lord, of wisdom, or justice, or even
of regard to their own self-interest, in those who
direct the affairs of this great State, if they were
to stand by and suffer such a system of misrule
to go on from day to day, without applying some
effective, practicable remedy ?
I readily admit, my Lord, that Great Britain
at this moment deservedly stands at the head of
the civilized world. -Its real power is enormous,
and, under a wise administration, it would be in-
exhaustible and irresistible : its present resources,
if they were judiciously directed, are sufficient
'not only to place all its own subjects in a situa-
tion of complete and permanent pecuniary inde-
pendence, but they are abundant also to enable
this Country to bestow a similar boon upon the
population of every other country, into which
our mechanical and chemical inventions and dis-
coveries can be introduced.

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would experience:great inconvenience, or with whom it would.
be utterly impossible to prepare the Decoction; the Fluid
Extract,' which possesses the advantages of portability, and
of keeping in any climate, will be found a most desirable
mode of employing this much-esteemed Medicine.
The Diseases in which it has proved most beneficial
ate those of the Skin, such as Scorbutic Affections; Erup-
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eased State of the System at large. It may he taken either
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strength as the Decoction.

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FOR ROTTERDAM.
With a BAG of LETTERS from the POST-OFFICE.
THE KING of the NETHERLANDS,
Steam Packet, Captain JOHN SLATER, will proceed
from off the Custom-house every Saturday Morning, at Eight
?'Clock, returning from Rotterdam every Wednesday Morn-
ing, with Passengers, Carriages, and Luggage.
The Proprietors beg to announce to the Public they are
a Second Ve.sel, which wilt be got ready with
all possible dispatch to afford the accommodation of a con-
velooce twice in every week between London and Rot..
tordAm.
For further particulars and to secure places, application
tx,,, he made at the General Packet Office, 859, Strand ; No. 36,
n*gent Circus, Piccadilly; or to N. W. Symonds, No. 37,
Crotched Friars:

But, my Lord, we have not only attained a
period, when, by extended science, Judiciously
directed, the population of this and of other
countries may be with ease rendered independent
with regard to considerations of wealth—we have
also been permitted at the same period to ac-
quire the knowledge by which, with equal ease
and certainty, the human character shall be
formed to virtue, to intelligence, and to hap-
piness.

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These are not the rash assertions of youth
or of inexperience, nor yet the speculations of
one who is unacquainted with the world ; but
they are put forth by a thorough-bred, money-
making, cool and deliberate man of business, who
is now ready to be examined at the Bar of your
Right lion. House, to prove the truth of the
principles and the ease of the practice by which
these new and hitherto unheard-of consequences
shall be established throughout society.
And, my Lord, if these things are as they
bave been stated, who is there that has an in-
terest opposed to their adoption ? Whose interest
is it to place an obstacle in the way of attaining
so much good for our present suffering fellow.
creatures, and such permanent benefit for the
rising generations ?
I do call to mind, my Lord, that some years
ago I had, for a considerable period, almost
daily communings with your Lordship respecting
some of the practical arrangements which I had
then formed in furtherance of some of the exten-
sive views.which I entertain ; and I do recollect
that your Lordship was much enamoured with
what you .were pleased to
.call the beauty and
order of the practical measures which I placed
before you, and in these feelings you indulged

FRIDAY, MAy 28, 1824.

for some time, and also arnuseil me with hopes
of your cordial aid and assistance, and I well
knew how valuable the acutvness, the intelli-
gence and activity which you possess, would
have been to such an infant cause as mine was
at that period.
I do recollect, too,
that One day, when I
was dilating to you, with
great satisfaction.
to myself, on the 1)mm:rolls advantages which
the working classes would derive from the new
combination of favourable and virtuous circum-
stances, which I had arranged for them, to
replace the unfavourable and, vicious circum-
stances-by which they have till now been sur-
rounded, that, to my surprise and astonishment,
you exclaimed, as though the idea had at that
moment, for the first time, Hashed on your mind ;
64 I see most distinctly the independance and hap-
piness which you have prepared for the working
classes, but what is to liecom-e- of us ?" mean•
lug the aristocracy of this and other coun-
tries. And from that day "to this, I. could not
succeed in inducing your Lordship again to enter
upon the subject. If I had not been so unror-
tunate as 'to frighten your Lordship with the
idea of the independence "and happiness„ to be
given by this system to the working classes (ex-
clusively, as you then thou ht), I have- no
doubt that I should soon have convinced, you of
what is really the fact, that much as the condi-
dition of the lower orders would have been
ameliorated, the improvement in the situation of
the higher orders would be still more important.
Instead of the almost universal dissatisfaction
which they now necessarily experience, they
would possess in security and abundance the
highest enjoyments that human nature, with its
present knowledge, can attain.

But your Lordship said last night in your
place in Parliament, that when you expressed an
opinion to me, that the plan which I proposed
would overturn all the existing Governments,
my reply was," that your Lordship well under-
stood the consequences of the proposed improve-
ments," or words to that effect.
It is not only in private, my Lord, that I
have admitted the extensive consequences which
would naturally follow from the adoption of the
measures which I propose and recommend—l
have also uniformly stated, in the most distinct
manner, at every public meeting I have held,
that this was the impression upon my own mind,
and that I anticipated an elevation of the human
character and condition solely through, these ex-
tensive changes. But I have as uniformly added,
that they are changes to be effected, not by revo-
lution or violenccybut by prudent, steady ad-
vancement in knowledge and virtue ; not by the
overturning of any government, but by the im-
proyement of all governments. I have also uni
formly advocated the necessity that these great
ameliorating circumstances should be introduced
and directed by the existing governments. This
sentiment I still entertain, and I am every day
more convinced that it would be the highest
wisdom in the present administration to take a
much more decided lead in adopting the improve-
ments which the vast increase of science and
must have expressed myself very inacu-
is strongly forcing upon society.—
Aknn(d)witedge
rately if I have conveyed to. your Lordship's
mind any other impressions than these.'
A most decided improvement
all classes must at this
Period take place. As well
in the condition of
may any of the European Governments, if they
were so disposed, attempt to stay any of the
other great operations of
nature, as to retard this
wisdom would lead to
I
mbealkieefiaciavlioculemonfge—and necessity,
To .produce this,
change without violence, to
Government, and most
ir:eiiid(r it
efi-e
jae
lfor
rsy all for the
classes, I
tendered my petition
by the Noble Marquis, who feels a deep interest
in the welfare of Ids suffering country ; and I
trust, for the honour of Parliament, that the
prayer of the petition will be granted, and that
you, my Lord, will see cause to give it your effi-
cient support.
My Lord, the plan in question is to employ
and educate the Irish Peasantry at the least pos-
sible expeuce,
consistently with the efficient at-
tainment of these important objects ; it is the
only practical plan before the Public, which has
been matured by extensive experience, or which
promises the smallest chance of permanent
benefit.

It is my duty to offer it to Government in the
first instance. Should it, however, be declined,
I intend, knowing as I do its capabilities, to lose
no time in presenting it to the Public, who will
then ascertain its defects, and judge of its bene-
fits : and I feel not the least anxiety as to the
result.

I ought to apologize for the liberty which I
have taken with your Lordships' name; but it
has been called for by a great public duty.
I have the honour to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Lordship's obedient Servant,
ROBERT OWEN.
To the Right Hon: the Earl of Lauderdale.
May 27, 1824.

Letters from Berlin, dated the 11th instant,
state that, from the Ist of the present month, the
Post to the Russian capital would be dispatched
three times a..Nveek, by way of Dantzic,
Konigsberg, and Memel,' to Saint Petersburg!),
where it would arrive on the eighth day, a short-
ness of time which, not long ago, would hare
been deemed impossible. A courier extraor-
dinary, let him make all the haste he possibly
ran, will find it difficult to pin 24 hours in going
over the same ground.