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London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

tend to—otherwise the acts of oppression com-
mitted in its name would be multitudinous—may
be inferred trout the following extracts from a
correspondence which appears in the Demerara'
papers. The Agent-General for Immigration
writes to the Secretary of the Government, and,
speaking of a vessel which had just brought over
a cargo of seduced free blackm from Sierra

Leone, says—
I then read his Excellency's memorandum to the im-
ported negroes, naming the various estates on which it
was proposed they should be advised to go ; they ap-
peared very much gratified, and thanked the Governor
for his kindness ; but it was evident that the head men
or delegates who have returned with them had already
made a different disposition in favour of the estates on
which they had themselves been located.
I regret that I have not been more successful in giving
effect to his Excellency's intentions, as contemplated by
the memorandum, in the allotment and location of these
people ; but more than urge his Excellency's advice to
them I could not do, and they have pleased themselves.
Writing to the Agent-General, an immigra-
fon agent of Guiana at Sierra Leone, says—
Accompanying the emigrants in the ship Superior are
the six delegates who returned from Demerara in that
ship. Whilst they have been here I have given them the
means of subsistence at the rate of is. per day ; this
sum was by no means adequate to their wishes.
One of the men is called Thomas Cole. I have had
every reason to be to much dissatisfied with his conduct ;
he has appeared several times before me in a state of in-
toxication, and has been the source of much annoyance
and complaint even from the authorities here ; owing to
his misconduct I have not advanced him anything, but I
have been well aware that he has had the means of sub-
si3tence.

Were I to suggest a plan to the authorities at British
Guiana, it would be to send back either Tom Freeman or
the head Krooman. I send Charles Walker and the
head man of the liberated Africans, Charles B. Christian;
it would inspire the people here with confideinee, and I
believe them to be intelligent, sober, and active.
The emigrants I have embarked, I belieVe; will be
found, for the greatest part, strong healthy labourers. It
is true that the other ships are freighted, or about to be
freighted, for the other West India colonies.

From such minute communications, now it ap-
pears, that the Government, in taking on itself
the control of a general system of immigration
into the Colonies, would make itself responsible
for the conduct of a great number of agents,
liable to great temptations, for the sort of
labourers embarked, and for their conduct;
and for the due distribution of the men amongst
the different-estates when they arrived. We can
conceive that the claims of rival planters would
be as perpetual a source of trouble as if the Go-
vernment were to undertake to settle the quar-
rels of lovers. The description of first seducing
the Africans by Kroomen, then providing for
their passage, and finally, endeavouring to ap-
propriate them to different estates, by reading a
memorandum of the Governor, entitles us to as-
sert that there is, in fact, a revival of the slave
trade, but conducted decorously, by the Govern-
ment. The proposed scheme of the Herald
would therefore convert the Government into a
great slave trader.

If such considerations have no weight with
our statesmen, eager to rush in where angels
would shrink back, let them look at what the
Herald states as to the effects of their interfe-
rence on the consumption of the people and re-
venue of the Government. The taxes on sugar,
raising the price, lessen the consumption. By
whatever mode the agents for carrying into effect
the control of Government over immigration be
paid, the cost of maintaining them must raise
the price of articles and limit consumption. It
is not only the tax on sugar which lessens the
consumption of it here, but the tax on bread, for
people will buy bread before sugar. The more,
therefore, that Government extends the sphere
of its operation, the more it must extract from
the resources of the people, and the more it must
limit consumption and production, and in the
end limit its own revenue. It is clear, therefore,
that this extensive system of doing everything
for the people must come to a still-stand. It
cuts its own throat, though it be by a slow pro-
cess. It increases expense on the one hand, and
diminishes means on the other. At present the
national revenue is not sufficient for the expendi-
ture and, under such circumstances, to increase
the former by any further restraints on the free
employment of labour and capital, instead of al-
lowing
the latter to be increased by the expan-
sion of the people and their resources, is almost
as absurd as an attempt to control the seasons.

The manner in which the chief organ of the
Ministers yesterday abused the Chartists, calling
the " generality of them" " rank, incorrigible
scoundrels," is an index to the manner in whicli

the Tories are preparing, by means of their new
barracks in the manufacturing districts, to treat

he Chartists. They will no longer be allowed

to bold their conventions, and intrude into
public meetings. They must no more
think of assembling in the Bull-ring. or
of rallying round the defeated candidate
for Nottingham, standing on hostility to
the New Poor-law. Heavy as was the hand of
the Whigs on them, they will now find that the
hand of their late allies, the Tories, will crush
them as with the foot of an elephant.

The Chartists will also admire the morality of

the Tories. Their political opinions make them
scoundrels and, according to the Times, an aspi-
ration for liberty is a grave moral offence, like
forging Exchequer bills. If the Tories remain in
office, they will destroy, with liberty, all moral
distinctions. They are, however, consistent, fbr
it is necessary to obliterate the distinction be-
tween right and wrong to preserve their power.
To carry out the Ministerial views, the Times
borrowed from the French Tory papers a
long diatribe against the Secret Societies of
France, to terrify the upper classes here against
those " rank, incorrigible scoundrels," the Char-

tists. The Tories make bitter complaints against
Mr. O'CONNELL for receiving assistance from
Republican America, but they invoke all the aid
they can from despotic France. Independent of
the notorious Holy Alliance, which was never
put an end to, and which is now tacitly revived,
there is a combination of all the Governments
of Europe to act against the people. The
growth of freedom in Spain or in England
is looked on by them with great abhorrence, and
they are always ready, like Louis PHILIPPE in
Spain, to check and stint it wherever they have
the means. Their Press comes to their help,
and thus we have the exaggerated, partial, and
distorted view giVen by the French official
authorities of secret societies, adopted on the
same day that the Chartists are described as
" generally rank incorrigible scoundrels."
If the populace in both countries were well
provided for, there might, perhaps, he some
justice in the vituperation; but when they are in
both countries in a most wretched condition, and
have many just causes for discontent—when
England is almost threatened with a servile in-
surrection, it seems to us alike impolitic and un-
just to exasperate the populace in both countries
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From the amicable terms in which the French
Ministerial Journals now speak of the Regency
of ESPARTERO, we anticipate an early with-
drawal of the French troops now assembling on
the Spanish frontier.
The Paris Globe of Tuesday takes up the question of
the right of search exercised by
.England over French
vessels, with a view to the suppression of the slave-trade
in the same way as the Presse had done. Neither of
these journals attempt to show that the treaty, could have
been carried into execution without the exercise of this
right, nor will it admit that the stipulation of reciprocity
takes away all the character of degradation from the
concession of the French Government on this subject.
It does not strike them that an English journalist might,
upon as good ground, complain that the English Govern-
ment had degraded itself by permitting the reciprocity, '
which, according to them, does not shake the argument
to which they resort. The Globe asks why the English