The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-27 00:00:00

BRAZIL SUGAR ANI) BRAZIL
GOLD.
COPY OF A LETTER TO VISCOUNT MELBOURNE ON THE
SUGAR QUESTION.
MY LORD,—The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery So-
ciety has forwarded your Lordship a strong remonstrance,
dated the 26th March last, against the admission of Bra-
zil sugars, because produced by the legal slave labour of
that country, although it-would greatly relieve the coin-
munity and extensively benefit the manufacturing com-
mercial, an shipping interests and the
revenue. ,
Mr. Henry Tuckett, of 7, South-street, Finsbury, the
Chairman of the Anti-Slavery Committee, a philanthro-
pic quaker, signed the document in behalf of the Commit-
tee, yet he is a large slave holder, whose gold produce is
imported five or six times a year into this kingdom
from Brazil duty free !—a fair sample of the interested
hypocrisy of patriotic benevolence !
Mr. Joseph John Gurney, banker, of Norwich, and,
until these few days, Treasurer of the British and Anti-
Slavery Society, is another of those philanthropic qua-
kers who is agitating the world on this subject, and hold-
ing up to universal execration and abhorrence all who
legally inherit slaves in the United States (as English-
men
did formerly), and yet this benevolent gentleman is
a large slave owner in the Imperial Brazilian Mining As-
sociation, whose produce also conies in duty free !
During the last sixteen years, these merciful, benign,
and charitable men have committed several thousand fe-
lonies by buying and working as many slaves, with no
object in view but mercenarily to secure a large interest
on their investments, although liable to transportation
for each offence. They have no objection to our re-
ceiving cotton, coffee, and innumerable other articles,
the produce of slave-labour, but the admission of Brazil
sugars would lessen the profits of their West India pos-
sessions, be useful to the community, interfere with
their misplaced clamour about slavery, and render the
present Ministers deservedly popular with the greater
portion of society, and therefore those things they must
of course oppose !
In 1824 the law justly declared every Englishman a
felon who should thenceforward purchase a slave, even
through an agent. In 1825, the year following, that
great philanthropist, Mr. Joseph Fry, and many of his
benevolent Quaker and other friends, got up a Company,
.vhich they called the Imperial Brazilian Mining Asso-
;iation. The object was to buy several hundred slaves.
who were bought, and to form an extensive slave colony
in the interior of the Brazils, which was quickly accom-
plished, out of the reach of the law of England, for work-
ing gold mines. They forgot that they remained within
the reach and operation of the said law to answer for
their nefarious proceedings.
The Company was immediately formed, the shares
eagerly bought up, for the greater part by anti-slavery
Quakers and other vcr7 opulent and anti-slavery men,
and the following were chosen and have ever since acted
as the Directors, with three exceptions: Joshua Walker,
chairman; 'Timothy Abraham Curtis, a Director of the
Bank of England ;
.Thomas Gibson, Isaac Lyon Gold-
smid, George Lewis Hollingsworth. John Shore. Thos.
Stokes, Michael Williams, copper-merchant, Thames-
street ; John Wray, Fellow of the Horticultural Society;
Joseph Fry, banker, a bankrupt ; William Plaxton All-
cock, deceased; and Edward Oxenford, removed, but now
a Director in the National Brazilian Mining Association,
which Company has also purchased many hundred slaves,
now working at their gold mines in the Brazils. The
Solicitors to the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association
are Messrs. Freshfield, slaveowners and solicitors to the
Bank of England, and their Chief Commissioner at the
mines is a George Vincent Duval, Director, on absence,
of the Saint John d'El Rey Slave Mining Company,
who, like many other English Mining Companies, have
bought many hundreds of slaves.
In the last seventeen numbers' of the " British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter" I have laid a full expo-
sition of all these matters before the public, which the
Directors of the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association,
in their various replies, have admitted, and which shows
that the enormities practised upon the slaves by the said
Association surpass the worst periods of West India
depravity.
These discussions have created such a sensation
amongst the anti-slavery party all over the kingdom,
that a meeting of the shareholders of the Imperial Brazi-
lian Mining Association was called on the 15th inst., to
take the present crisis of their affairs into consideration,
in opposition to the wish of the Directors ; and although
between one and two hundred of the proprietors of stock
attended, only seven supported a motion for giving free-
dom to their slaves, yet a large portion of the whole are
philanthropic quakers !
The day previously, the annual meeting of the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was held at Exeter
Hill, and one of the speakers, a quaker, in addressing
the assembly, very emphatically observed, " I very much
regret that on one point to which the Committee have
directed their attention, that of the Minim?, Associations
in foreign countries, their efforts have not been attended
with greater success. British merchants of high stand-
ing and reputation still implicate themselves in the guilt
of murder—murder ,of the blackest character—for the
sake of filling their pockets with gold ! Should these
remarks reach the ears of those involved in it, they will
be heard by many very intimate friends of my own (the
Thomas's, and Tuckett's, and Fry's of Bristol, and hun-
dreds besides), and I shall not regret it."
It is my intention to present a petition to the Legisla-
ture, detailing all these facts, and praying that the At-
torney-General be instructed to proceed criminally
against the Directors of these numerous Slave Associa-
tions, unless your Lordship conceives it more appropriate
that such instructions should emanate directly from the
Government.

I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
May 24th, 1841. F. A. KENTISH.

Colonel Thompson has announced himself at
Hull as the candidate of the working classes ; and says,
" While We have life mid health and strength (and it is
not very likely we shall all hteitit down together), let us go
on here and every where to the promotion af atir abject,
which 14 tlio. iltfiliijtitplit of a fair share of political inflii•
ence for the industrious and the tillfepfesented,' This
,
announcement was receiveu with loud cheering.
TRH 110!6aVoLY CiiihstlON.—The cause of
monopoly is deemed strong by its iriend§ tieeattse they hear no
clamorous outhttest of feeling throughout the coutitfy against
it. They descry tie &Inger id the stern silence far the ttio.
meat preserved by the people on this subjtidt. The eSteein all
is safe because the Whispered notes of alarm reach hHE thtit
ea! a. But let them not be deceiied: the people are silent bc-
cauSo they are determined—they Matt nu outcry because they
are resolved to wait for the time When the Canattain their
object. They knout the OppdftOpportunity u iii be afforded them,
aallirdeadtyheyicn
lamir not aboutthe what
thing their
though silent, the people are not inactive : theirs is
minds 4. Will 464 because
is dorm. But
the stillness which precedes the Ptorm. In what do
the monopolists put their strength? In the counties
is all their cry, and it is a. fallacy, The ,lounties
cannot save them if the cities, towns, and boroughs be
against them. The b 3 counties. of England and Wales, with
the Isle of Wight and the two Unitetgitif,s, fettirri 103 mesa=
hers; and there are 201 cities, towns, and boroughs, -Whieli FP.
turn 437: thus the latter send more than double the number;
of Members to Parliament. Neither in Scotland nor Ireland
is there hope for the monopolists, It aletiouls then on the
towns and cities of England to free the country from the into.
lerable oppressions of a fettered eolinneree and ni.erwhelmintt
taxation. The question is, Will tito majority kilo* tlidnisOlveS
to be swamped by the minority ? Will the country cotisetit
that a few should be enriched, while an universal i m sery
crushes the remainder ?-- Cambridge Arkertisef.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.--Mr• nod.
sham, an old and meritorious public servant, at this TheatrO,
hasannounced his benefit for to-morrow, the 28th instant, when
a favorite Comedy will be performed, followed by other novel
entertainments. The uniform civility and attention of the ser-
vants at this house, and of Mr. Housham, in particular, call for
a hearty remunerating expression of the public thanks, We
wish Mr. Roush= every success.
GENERAL ELECTION.—We are glad to find
that a Committee has been appointed to sit dail at the
Reform Club, for the purpose of attending to ythe ap-
proaching elections ; where all communications, ad-
dressed to the Secretary, will meet with immediate at-
tention.

A NEW HAY STACK.—Yesterday, G
Rumble. finished his haymaking, and got all stacked in xcel,•
lent condition. For so.early a 'rnoWing the-crop is. groafv, ;in
usual.-.-Lincoln al. —Lincoln Gazette. •