The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-12 00:00:00

the cruelties which were inflicted on the slaves at Honduras, lief
quoted several passages from the " correspondence" on that
subject, which had been printed by order of Parliament, and'
called the particular attention of the House to the case of Dun-
cannette Campbell, who was tried for punishing her slave Kitty
in a most •atrocious manner. The medical gentleman who
examined - her, •deposed,` that she exhibited the scores of
wounds, apparently inflicted with a whip or cow-skin, on her
shoulders, left arm, neck, and face ; one of the stripes had
divided the ale of the left ear, another had divided the left
eye-hall; both eyes were much swelled and indented • so mach
so, that it was some time before he could recognize fier. The
defence set up by Duncanette Campbell was, that the slave
was her own property, and that therefore she had a. right
to punish her as she thought proper. The Bench, which con-
sisted of four Magistrates, briefly observed, without adverting
to the aggravated circumstances of the case, that by law every
owner was justified in punishing to the extent of 39 lashes;
and therefore the only point for the consideration of die Jury
was, whether a greater number of lashes had been here in-
flicted ? Without five minutes' hesitation the prisoner was
acquitted. The Hen. Member concluded by observing, that
when atrocities like this were committed with impunity, under
the existing state of things, it was absolutely necessary that the
Legislature should interfere.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH read extracts from several letters,
describing the cruelties which were inflicted on slaves at Hon-
dunes. •
Mr. W. HORTON said, it would be very inconvenient to
go into details on this subject—a course which was rendered the
less necessary after the statement he had made, that it was now
under the consideration of Government. There were circum-
stances connected with the situation of that colony which fully
justified Clovernment in not having yet. taken any steps with
respect to the treatment of slaves, or the conduct pursued to-
wards the free Indians.
Mr. WILBERFORCt consented to withdraw his motion,
in consequence of the assurance that Government bad taken up
the subject.
Mr. W. Of IT H presented a petition from the inhabitants of
St. John's, Hackney, praying for the Abolition of Negro
Slavery.—Laid on the table.
Mr. 'W. SMITH moved for a return of the amount of the
Slave Population in each of his Majesty's Colonies, distinguish-
ing males from females, for each year, since the first establish-
ment of the office for Registering Colonial Slaves.--Ordered.
Mr. W. HORTON moved for a return, showing the pro-
gress that had been made by the Commissioners for Auditing
the Accounts of the Army, from April, 1822, to April, 1823.
Ordered.
The Return was afterwards brought up, and ordered to be
printed.—Adjourned to Wednesday.

A LIST OF THE MINORITY
Who voted against the Clause in the East India Mutiny Bill
for trying Europeans, for all capital offences in the Army in
India, aboVe.loo mica from Calcutta, by Courts Martial in-
• stead of by. Civil Courts as at present.
Chaloner, It. Lushington, Dr. Wilberforce, W.
Cavendish, lA. G. Lamb,-Ilon. G.
DenTlllllli T. Robinson, Sir 0.
Gordon, It. Rumbold, C. E.
llobliottie, J. C. Smith, Wm.
Hughes, Colonel Scarlett, J.

TELLERS.
Smith, ltobt.
Hume, J.

FRENCH LOAN.

" PARIS, JULY 10, 7 o'CLocz,

" To-day the French loan of 23,114,516 of renter has been
adjudged to the house of Messrs. de Rothschild, Brothers and
Co. Four o'clock wits the hour appointed by the official an-
nouncement of the Minister of Finance for receiving the ten-
ders of such Companies as intended to bid for this Loan. The
public rooms of the Alinister .of Finance in his hotel, in Pile
Neuve Petits Champs, were thrown open to the public about
two. By three a considerable number of persons had col-
lected. At four the suit of public rooms were nearly filled, anti
the apartment, where a kind of bureau was placed for the
Contractors and the Ministers, was crowded to excess. One
would have supposed that the Stock
,Exchange had adjourned
from jobbing in the funds to the house of the Minister trf.
mince, to witness the creation of additional means of specula-
tion. At a few minutes past four, a bustle in the crowd announced
the entrance of the Ministers. Not only the Ministers of Fi-
mince and War attended, but the Minister of the Interior, and
the Minister of Marine. M. de Villele declared the sit-
ting opened, :and ordered the Royal Decree to be read, which
authorized the sale of the twenty-three millions of renter. This
dectCe was read by the Minister M. de Villele's secretary.
After this the Minister's regulation, fixing the conditions of
bidding, &c. was likewise read. 31. de Villele then formally,
deposited on the bureau the sealed paper containing the mini-
mum foi which he would allow the :Tule; to be adjudged.
These formalities being completed, the representatives Of the,
different companies who intended to bid deposited their tenders.

" The lists were four, and delivered in the following order:

Ist, Messrs. I.afitte and Co. ; 2d, Messrs. Oreffulhe, Sartores,
and Co.; 3d, Messrs. de Rothschild Brothers; and 4th, Cesar
de Lapanouze and Co. After they had all been deposited and
numbered, M. tie Villele began by opening M. latte's, which
was numbered first. M. Lafitte, who had combined with A rdouin
and several others of the liberal bankers, made a tender of 87f.
75c. for every hundred of renter : offering, of course, to fulfil all
the stipulations required by the Minister of Finance's official
regulations. This offer excited a little movement in the as-
sembly, as the renter, to-day, had left off' in the coidire,
at six o'clock, at 90. francs 25 cents. M. Oreffulhe and Co's

tender was then opened, and read. It contained exactly the

same offer of 117 f. 76c. Messrs. de Rothschild and Brothers'
tender was the third in, the order of presentation, and the third

read. It excited not • a little movement in the meeting by its

discrepancy with the two former. It offered to the Minister for
the renter 09f. 55e., being nearly 2 per cent. above them. The
fourth and the last test was that of M. de Lapanouze. It was
the same as that of M. Lafitte and M. Greffulehe. The Mini.
ster, after recapitulating the contents of the, four sealed papers,
announced that he adjudged the Loan to -Messrs...-de' Roths-
child Brothers, their tender exceeding his sealed minimum,
which of course was not opened. The Minister has since an-
nounced that his minimum was 80f. 50c. Though the bidding
of Messrs. de Rothschild is much higher than the rest, it was
still on 'Change considered so good a bargain, that their certi-
ficates were sold at one and a half premium. The, three other
companies, it was supposed, from the uniformity of their W-
angs, had formed a coalition to keep the Loan among French
capitalists."

Czyr.oNtiu I rsatm At, Itilimms---The opinions
of the Ceylonese, with respect to the punishMent of the wicked,
are of a singular and very poetical kind. They believe that there
are 0 principal hells, all of which are hollow metallic squares,
composed of different alloys of the common metals, with-
out any openings. In each there is an intense fire, which
burns constantly without fuel. Though they do not differ in
kind, they do in degree ; the lowest being the largest and,
hottest, and the punishments inflicted in them proportionably
severe, and cif longtx duration. Sinners are doomed to diffe-
rent hells, according, to the degree of their crimes ; thus, those
who are merely guilty in thought and, intention descend to
the first hell ; and us the crime deepens Its tly-e, the sinner
sinks lower. For each great sin there is a particular kind of
punishment :--for murder the wretch is perpetually murdered,
and the
-very act he has been guilty of, in all its minute circum.
stances, is constantly repeated on him; for stealing, the sinner
is punished by gents of great value in appearance tempting him
to seize them, and when seized turned into fire-; the drinker of
spirituous liquors is drenched with melted lead; the liar is con-
stantly tormented by the application of red hot irons to his
tongue; and the adulterer is punished perpetually by climbing
up and down a thorny. tree in pursuit of his paramour, whom,
when he is below, he sees alluring him above, and who m, when
he lies forced his painful way through the thorns to the top, he
sees practising the same arts below. Besides these particular
punishments, there are innumerable others. Tney all suffer
dreadfully from intense heat, and from hunger anti thirst, the
pains of 'which are heightened by the expectation of gratifies.
tion, which instead of enjoying, they swallow fire. Besides
they are liable to be impaled on burning brands anti to be
flogged whilst burning, and to be cut and chipped, and ta.
shloned like wood.