The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-07 00:00:00

SLAVE. TRADE.

The gracious Speech delivered to Parliament,
- where his Majesty assures us that he " has not
44 been unmindful of the Addresses of the two
Houses" with respect to the" Slave Trade," can-
not fail to be received with gratitude by every
friend of humanity.
Let us hope that this detestable traffic, so ex-
tensively carried on in Egypt, which has excited
so much disgust in all Britons who have been
eye-witnesses of it, will not escape notice, espe-
cially as the Paella of that country is so warmly
attached to Great Britain, and will listen to any
proposition in the view of improvetnent.
On perusing the work of one traveller who
has recently been in that country, we find that
41 the place set ,:apart for this most scaudalous
" traffic at Cairo and other places, is a Jorge
" court in the form of 'St quadrangle, with a range
" of apartments, not unlike what we meet with
11 in the yards of inns in London. In one place
" I observed a person bargaining for the pur-
" chase of a young female, who was stripped of
" her rags, turned round, her joints felt, and
44 tongue inspected. a In others I saw wretch-
" ed creatures of all ages, up to 50 years, had-
" died together in hovers like cattle ! At the door
" of a miserable den, the cold hearted guardian
" or keeper of this receptacle of woe, was seated
44 on the ground cross-legged, smoking, watching
" for the arrival of purchasers, and having pre-
" sumed that I had come to the market with this
" view, demanded in a growling tone, if I want-
" ed to buy a boy or a girl ! At this time a poor
" naked,helpless child was turned out, and 'could
'' not suppress a tear at this incident, and at the
" unfeeling conduct of this barbarian, and hur-
" ried away • from a scene, in which it would
" be difficult to determine whether human
" nature itself appears in its most guilty or
CC abject form. . This depot continues always
" well stocked with slaves of both sexes. On a
44 person entering the market, which is always
44 concluded to be for the purpose of buying these
" despised creatures, they are turned out quickly
44 from their dens, ranked up, and exhibited
" by their inhuman keeper."—This Gentleman,
after referring to other heart-rending circum-
stances, adds, 41 rs it not mortifying to every sen-
" timent of charity and civilization, that the Le-
" gislature of the most enlightened Nation on
" earth has debated for• years whether this
" abominable trade in human flesh and blood
" should,.or should not, be abandoned, and still
" refrains from the adoption of measures of the
" most pozccryill and coercive nature, which are so
" loudly called for, to tear up Slavery by the
" very roots ?"—( Travels in Egypt and ilie Holy
Land, by William Rae Wilson, Esq.)
• lie that stealth a man and selleth, or if he be found in his
hand, shsll surely be put to death.,-„Excet. 21, DI

Cyry Bumess.—Yesterday the LORD MAyon
held a Court of Aldermen for the dispatch of ge-
neral public business. The Hon. Charles Ewan
Law and John Mirehou.se, Esq. elected by the
Common Council to be Common Pleaders of the
City, were introduced to the Court, and took the
usual oaths. The Lord Mayor declared a va-
cancy in the Rectory of St. James, Duke's
Nacre, and. the next Court was appointed to fill
up the same. A Report was presented from the
Committee to whom it was referred to consider
the proper Assize to be ,set upon Salt, and the
same was ordered to be advertised. ' A vacancy
was declared of one of the Houses in Hart street'
Cripplegate, and the next Court was appointed
for the election of an aged couple. . The 4th of
March next was Appointed for Licensing Vic-
vtuallers. The Court agreed with a Report from
a Committee, approving of the Sheriffs' nomina-
tion of James Spencer, to be Keeper of the
Debtors' Prison, and ordered him to enter into the usual bond previous to his being sworn at the
next Court,

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

710CSE OF COMMONS. •
.Loris, 00 die Februarii, 1823.
The House met, and Forty Members not being PIO
four o'clock, Mr. Speaker adjourned the Houle.

NOTICE OF MOTION for THIS DAY.
Mr. Frankland Lewis,—Bill to explain andanonath

neral Turpike Act.
Dropped Notices of Motions of lota*
1. Mr. Hume,—Copy of Report of Commissiot►rnl
Lands ( Ireland)--of Letter of Mr. Goulburth
rant concerning the Office of Vice.Treasuret ofir#
2. Mr. Goulburn,—To continue and amend thooo

mann- Acts.
Dropped Orders of the Day of YesOrikt
1. Lords Commissioners Speech to be considered•
2. West India and American Colonies Trade Mt pp
451—Committee thereupon.

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THE
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LONDON,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

The disunion in the French Chanibt,
on the Address in answer to the KIP

must form a melancholy contrast for the ccm"t
plation of the War Party, when it is 0°111:
with the unanimity which prevails Oil the'
subject between the KING, the Ltgigh
the people of Great Britain. All fairisn
into
61'
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with but one voice in reprobation of the .:itto:
attack. upon the independence an rights.
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Spain ; and all England entertain; P-01
deep-felt and settled conviction a the'.
?
which it becomes a great and free nal°
Fa
sue at this crisis, if war should not beo: to
and of the determined and unconquer4".- tot
ance which this country is bound to t'll.llloo
monstrous principles and iniquitous Prpiectsoet
ed by some of the Continental Courts. The oil
meat proposed to the Address in Ch
thiri
of Peers was lost by a majoritrof l'n/1 fori
seven votes,—the division having bee n/.100
Amendment, 53 ;--against it, 90.
third,. therefore, even of the Peers, diss
t t....
from the 'warlike views of the Govern"' n
oor
it not probable that a still more Ort"i"d 1,1031
Position c
may yet be manifested 'by the oti
of Deputies, especially after the senti'lloi
England have been unequivocally 61; ,t 1
ed !, And how unpopular, are we not
ranted in concluding, must • be the, I;stit
ed war with the mass of- the Fre"' ,ap
to
when it is thus seen that so great
i:e pie
the Nobility, many of them elevated iu t" to II
et TO
age by Louts X VW. himself, are
projected 11111840 H of Spain !
Papers, containing the important n0°3010,0,
policy' of our Government on the °P6
Pr,r,l
Parliament, must on their arrival inflch
appalled the war Party, the greater Per-es wit
have evidently been flattering then"eicetlffl
c
the idea, that if England was not s'stere
vourable to their wild and criminal el)
W observeeillso
against Spain, she ould at least
jr
neutrality during its progress- Illeirtrl/01,
now opened; but we fear that the
of the
burst upon them too late for the seuljr"
A
own honour ancitinterests or for the PViij'
rotas',ol
tion of the peace of Europe. L"e
„ 110 41
and the Viscount de CHATEAus3"'i'ljeerifr:i
fortunately declared to the Chamber °I r`L
61141 I
France wilt not lay down her orrn-
'
shall have been restored in Spain' ill
DOP
jf
from the contest is now, therefore,

but by an entire change of the French Ministry,
and by the utter, irretrievable, and perpetual,
disgrace of the Royalist Party.

A person who left Madrid on the morning of
the 26th ult, reports that the last levy of 22,000
men, ordered by the Cortes, has been raised, and
that most of the recruits have joined their regi-
ments.

The Echo du Midi, a violent Ultra Journal at
Toulouse is at length compelled to acknowledge
that the forts of Urgel are daily more closely
blockaded by the army of MINA, and that their
garrisons are suffering severely from the want of
provisions. They have not ventured to make
any sorties recently, and it is supposed cannot
hold out much longer.
The same Journal also admits that the army
of MINA has been reinforced by several fine re-
giments from Barcelona.