The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

TEM SLAVE TRADE

Kiwis'valet oc-r. 26.—0 n Thursday, in the
Home flOuse of As,emhly, after .'readime.,r, several
hills for the third time, the House resolved itself'
into a Commit teeon the State of the Island*,iwilen
the Report from the Committee ;appointed to con-
sider of the Bill to be introduced -into the British
Parliament relative to the oala9:ful importation- of
Slaves,into this Island, was read ; lipoo which, •
Mr. SHAND rose and moved, that as t het' Bill
had not heeu perused by all the MeThers of the-
:House., the Clerk should then read it ; which, oc-
cupying the douse till almost dark, it was pro-
posed, that Mr. Speaker shookd einonne the Chair,.
and the Counnittee to report some progress, Which
_wmem agreed to, and the House adjoarued. •
Yesterday afternoon the House egein resolved
itself into a Counnittee on -the State of the Island,
when the report underwent a very lot, and inte-
resting discussion ; and yve werefurteoate enough
to obtain a copy of that part of it which passed
the *House at a late rotor last night, which
l‘aminary to the Resolutions it is as fedloes :—. •
" Mr. SPEAKER-I'o u' Committee appointed to
take into consideration the copy of a Bill which
appears toliave been introduced into the Hattie of
Commons of Great Britain, aiat printed by its.
mle', entitled A Bill for effectually preveuting
the unlawful Importation of Slaves; And the hold-
' ing Free Persons in Slavery in British Colonies ;
the information Which has been transmittediby
the agent on the subject of the said Bill 5/ and to
report their opinion of the measures which ought
to be; adopted by the House-to present the said
Bill being passed auto a law
",• Hive given their hest attention to the Mat'-:.
ter 'referred ,to them, and imr.e. or opinion that:a
more solemn investigation ought' to be•instftnted
t hag the present Committee have pon'ers to make,
by the examination of evidenee, under fell powers
from. the Houses they tnercfore beg leave to re-.:
commend the appointment Or a larger Committee,
to inquire into tits proceed%4s',wl;ich bete taken
place in Great Britain, to induce the imperial
Perliament to entertain the question Of enacting a'.
law to,compel the registration of the Slaves withio
tinder grievous pains, penalties and
forfeitures, and to report the effect of such a law:
if enacted, on the Constitational .rights and pro-
perty of theltihabitants, and the ineastires which
they think best adapted for preventing so great 'a
caletnity„
" Tteineuire into the allegations and facts al.:
stinted by the preamble and enactments of a Bill
said to be priuted,by order of the: Ilouse of Coln-
mitts,, entitled A•Bill for effectually preventing
the unlawful Importation of. Slaves, &c. in the.
British Colonies,' and to examine eVidentes
ascertain whether there be auy,foundatiMi for the
said allegations, as far as regard's Jamaica, or any
probability that a clandestine importation of Slaves
shall:in future b,attempted.
"To investigate the present condition of the
Slaves,compareJ with their state in former times,
mud to report whether any improvements or awe-
lioratiotenetheir situation, can he-accomplished
by legal enactments, with safety to. the content-
nity and due, regard to the sacred rights of pro-
perty..
" To refute the' calMunies which have been dr-
- culated, with the weight derived from time name
of the African Institution, in respect to the wan-
' ton oppression said to be exercised over the said
'population,. and the misrepresentations of the
condition of the free persons of colour, es far as
the,Counnittee Shall thhik such calumnies and tins-
represetitetions likely to infiwence the Members of
Parliament in their proceedings on-the measures
contemplated by the said bill.
" As some time must elapse before the exami-
nation can be completed of all the witnesses who
may be thought necessary for establishing the
.facts which must form the basis of a report, re-
futing the calumnies and misrepresentations that
appear to have been industriously circulated, to
'influence the proceedings or Menihers, anll as it
' should scent that the bill above-mentioned is to be
taken up early in the next Session of Parliament,
time Committee beg leave to recommend, that the
House should, without delay, take into considera-
tion the constitutionel question arising out of the
said bill as printed, which proposes to exercise
the most extensive and oppressive powers of le-
gislation vithin -this Island, and to inflict penal-
ties and levy flues, fees, and gratuities, not con-
nected with commercial regulations, on the inha-'
bitents.

This (int:grit:ln is not necessarily connected
,•
Avith ro•be estahlislied by e'-videnee,' and
it ap'pears illdterial that the Imperial Parliament
and the- Ministers of his AtOyal Highne'sS the
Prince itrgetit should, through our agent, be ap.
prized of• the sentiments; of the House on this
most important ,slibject; -before the disctissioits on
the said bill Multi' its cOnsideration.

" The Cormuittee have dritwn uli ~1041 ariU'exe(l
to,tbis repoit, certain resolutions, cletlar'atory of
who.t they consider to be the counitutionia aud

L i; •
unatienamc rignt. of .the inhabitants •Of
with. grent det.erenee subitiit thussatnc to the
jng ,
ument (4 the !loose,"
On the above being agreed to, on motion, the
•
Chair was restnner , and some progress reported,
when Abe. Manse, adionrned.-'
OcT. 28..,--00 Saturday i'se . published die ,Ite•••
•
port of a Committet of the Hon. House of As
AeMbly; appitintedttieonshler the effects of a Bill
,•ttely intro!ineed into the House or_ totninons•,; -
(he sane Coninnittee sat arena on. Tuesday, and, ,
together with the Reporr, reeornmenfled to the
House to come to the following Resolutions, to:
which the House unanimously agreed :
" Resulted, t. That Alie free British suhjects who con-
quered and settledio Jantaiga, or have tierce removed to nod ,
established themselves in this island, are bound by the !die
allegiance as every other subject of the realM, and -carried
with them, have enj.iyed, and ought of right to enjoy, all
liberties anti immunities of• free and natural born subjects,'
to all intents and purposes, as if they had been, born and re-
mained within the realm, modified and adapted to their pe-
culiar situation as colonists : And particulayly have enjoyed.
and ought of right to enjoy, so long as their Knights and •
Burgesses are not called to sit in Parliament, a distinct and
entire civil government, of the like puwers,.pre-eminence, audi
jurisdictions, within the said island, a* are established in the
British Government, -in respect of the British subjects within
the realm, which Government, according to the Constitution
of Jamaica, is composed of -his Majesty the Kit g of Great
Britain and Ireland, and Lord of Jamaica, the Council ap-
pointed by his Nlajesty; and thellepresentatives of the Peti-
plc, freely elected and rust in general assembly.
‘4, 2. That the most important of the rights, privileges, int-
- munities, and franchises, winch are inherent in British sub-
jects as their birth right., and have by them been brought to
this island, is toconsent to those laws by which they are to
Ire governed. by the exercise of tilt• right to send their Repre-
sentatives to tie said General Assentlily, who, with his Ma-
jes•y, and the Council, can. and of right ought to do, all such
acts and matters of legislation, respecting. the internal Go-
vernment of the island, as the Imperial. Parliament .can
•du within the'Llnited Kiagdoni of Great Britain and Ireland. '
-• 3, That it is the peculiar privilege of the 'ffee British
subjects settled in Jamaica, by their Representatives met in
General Assembly,- to give, and- grant all 'aids and subsidies
to his Majesty; and to impose all rates, duties, taxes, ft-es,'
lives, or penalties whateier and that laying and-levying. any
taxes, fees, does, or penalties, tither titan such duties of:
toms as are were regulations of trade, on the inhabitants. by
any other authority than the Legislature of this Island, Cant-
' posed as aforesaid, is altngether un_onstitutional, and a vim
. lation. of their dearest rights. . .

" That the inhabitants of this Island have not had the
liherty and privilege of electing Mid sending any Knight's and
11nritesses„ or otheli. to represent them in the: High Coma of
.• Parliament, ;tot; explain the condition of their country, and
ought .not to be bounden:by laws, or 'touched and grieved by
sobsiditts, 'fees; or penalties, enacted, granted, ant) imposed,
without their assent, other than such external regulations, in
respect- oleounnerce, as are necessary fur the COMUIi.III weal
Of the Empire. •
" S. That the Inhabitants of this Island have always ac-
kniiwieded the poWer'and authority of Parliament to make
all laws necessaryfor the general benefit of the Empire, or
affecting the wholl subjects thereof, -fur regulating oiir ex-
ternal-relations, narigation, trade-and commerce-, and have
not been dispos,d captioasly to raise t.ldictilties. about ;he
exact limits betwemi this-et-institutional jurisdiction and the
, right of. internal legislation. •
"U. 'Plat this Coiamittee does ft-trther, with grief, acknow-
',ledge that. the British Parliament has in fact,; but not of .r:glit
made divers laws, by whieh tae inhabitants of this Island are
grieved and notated, Ity being dem ived of the benefit of cross-
examining the evidence exhibited by-British Creditors in our
Courts, and by an extension of the pnwersotthe Conti of Silt-
ooknown in the mother country, and onticce,sary
here; by which the inhabitants are deprived of their pro-
pel ty, without the intervention of ajory.
7. That it has been the received opinion that mane of
these laws originated from causes winch the.C.ido-
- nies that Mil icily were .soliject'to' treat Britain to North
,Antvica; hut it Was hoped that laws so sul!yersi-st of consti-
tutional principles would a tit be further drawn into precedent,
'and-espttctally that it would neverbe propteted ti offer g,.i..fitrr
violence to the Constitutional rights: of t.l64:Colonif-, whose
loyalty and attachment to the mother Country hate es-ex-6mo.
unimpeachiable. . .
8.1/4That we hare sect) wlth surOtize -and concern the
dtanght of a Bill saik-to Dave .brete.pritned by order of the
Cimniirms House of Parliamrin. entitled- A 081 fur ette,.-,
orevent big the lino-skins import:Ai:oil of Slaves, awl the
limbic:lg free l‘ersons iii sla...ery, inthe British Colonies,'
• which asiames a right of 1e.:3..1.114m -the `,,lAnd upon
a st.thject, Of mere municipal regulation and niter awl po-
liver ex,ercising a powor.over the est,ites and property of
• the -.in htnntanis, imposes the most iciierotis • pritaii::es raid
forfeitnre,, tube inflicted at the will of a ,itigle.Olii,:er; with-
011t t rial' by• jticy, and 1-evies fees' and gratuities to. the tits- of S
the sold ()tiker and othrrs, .on. the. halal:it:nits. nutgiven be
cot:se:l4,d in hy their Iteprcsentatit-es iii (ieneraLAssetubly;
by which ext.vine-Os, forkilutemi asFrlsmentst
nut only the of internal legislathoris
friitged,• hut the pl ri,:o.,i-et• .1-taxation, 'ttieen to-the
Colonies by the Stitt:it,- .it ;.; tit-A..3, C.. 12, is. yioirtted..,
"9. That tine Taws .to the Stirs Tr,„1,.. by the
British Proliament, ;lit tt;th t.);;.riiitts to thc property Of a
great-proportion of the irtant; hareAbeeo aelnieseed-
gookfatth, and not attempts hays ever been- madeiu
this island to evade the said law, or any of them. Anil this
house doth 1)10g-ell-self fort liWitleto enter into an inresti•
gallon - of the facis, and toetttablish, 'by testi:mu:y.ole must
4irrefragablet, that uu ilbeit trade in slaves has holed .- carried -
on-in this'lsland, and that ;ill .the allegations made in site
preantlil.,, or assumed by the enactments .1 the said:
.1.1111, as
. printed, of an illegal commerce in African or other Slaves,
haring been carried on iu Jamaica, are utterly unfounded."

The-committee of .the Registry Bill was en-
larged by the addition pt six. members,' to .proceed -
in the ittvevigation, lor which the llou6e:was
pktige.tl to enter into by the last Resolution.
The flouse,• after agreeing- to the above:Reso-
hitiOns, Caine also to a Resolution;—directing ate
Committce of Correspondence to transmit a copy.
of the Report amid- Resolutions .to the Agent, in-
structing lay them before his Majesty's
Ministers as soon as possible', and by all constitu-
tioual 'means in his power to resist the-passing of
the Registi y

On . Friday Ilst, the Right Reverend the Lord
Bi%lmp of this.Dincese consecrated the Church-of
St. M4ric, in this town, in which divine service
has.,hitherto been performed by license ;. and on
Saturday, his Lordship consecrated,therecently
erected Church,. in Re.nsbaYr-street,, dedicated to
St. Andrew, when an appropriate sermon was
preached by the Rev. W. Rawson,.A.
latter building, which has been • erected by Mr..
Gladstone, is principally formed of brick, stuc-.
coed And coloured to
.imitate,st.one,- in the orna,
mental, or modern, style:of brrecia.trarchiteeture.
The inside is distinguished.by_ach!lsteness and sim~
;dicky of execution, which has, a highly pleasin
effect to thC spectator; and suitable to:the sqcred,
purpoSes Of the edifice,. which is calculafed,to ac-
crimmodate upwards of a thousand persons.--On
Sunday morning, his Lordship preached. an
ex-
cellent sermon, at St. George's.Chtirch, . for the,
benefit of the Blue Coat Hospital.-7(Lixerpool
Courier, Dec. 20.)

Sunday last, his Grace the Lord ArchtkishopGf
this Province ordained 14 Priests andl29 Deacons,
in its UisliOpthorpe,
Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, has been nnanintoully eb„:etr
ed, by the corporation of Ripon, to he the. Re—
corder of. that Borough, vice John WiEicitnson,
Esq. tejit:ed.---York Chronicle, Dec. 1. .
• On Tueday se'nnight., the Re.v. R.'lt YV4iite-
lock.l. A. was. nowi,,a:e4 to theperpctnal
'ritcyof Choi.lron., in Lancoltire_, FacttuE, !.?y-
-,e,sioi) of ;be Rev. G. Ilinehinion, nOW Vicar of
St. 'l\larY's Nottingk:tn, and Prebendary of
Southwell. • •

LAW i&iiiii.LiczNbfi,

COUWr bEc.

Lorcishili fives ,selig.,:gtni tile greater part of
this woritiiig iii 'iti;-ictissing of the Jute
Ito ptitilic ititerest:

COWra OF sKING's. 1:t;1,q4, DEc. u.

ki IL.T. V. NoNi:0„

waS an action upon a hill of exchange foi*
865/..dated 2 th of July, 1813, drawn liy tiie
late .Aisf..iph Drew 411 q, who Was executed for fOr.:
fiery, accepted by the defendant; and indorsed ki
the plaintiff for.
,i,aluable consideration. Thee
plaintiff was steed ,to be-a res•iL!ctahle diercharit;
and the defendant a drysalter, carrying on husi=.
ness in Thanies'-street, partnership with ano-
ther person *anted M•intoch, but wits not inelud
ed in this action, from the cheunistance of hi*
being outlawed. The. acceptance and ritinTay.7.
meat by the defendant were prOved.
On the part of the defendant it Wag contended
that the action did not lie; as the bill had
ready been paid tinder the folioivitig; circum-
stances :—Previous to the offence, for which Mr.
May had unfortunately forfeited his life; hii
friends were desirous of doing every thing in
their power to prop up his s liking affairs, and
many of them accepted bills for' him to a consi-
dorable amount. Amongst other persiOnslvho lent
him asSiStalleC, the defendant was induced jo ac-,
cent the bill in question, which at. tire tiine of ac-,
ceptance Was in blank, but witir.anassi'ranec that
it should have the name of the respectable 'house.
of Newmarsh and Co. attached to, it. It tarried
out, however, that May himself filled tip the hilL
and indorsed it to the plaintiff, from %elicit!) be
had received cash to the amount. Shortly after
May was apprehended on a charge of forgery,''
Mr. Lambe, the defendant's attorney, waited up-'
on him at the Poultry eninpter, to kno.v- what
security he had to give for the payment of de-,
fendaut's acceptance When it should become due.
To. this Alay.replied, that he had given to the pluin-
hf aecePittees of a Gentleman named-Brougham,.
a native 'of -Westtnoreland, 'of more than the
amount of the bill in Trestion, the proceed, of
which the plaintiff promised to applY to, the pay,
nient of the defendant's accept:lnce when it was.
of age. It was admitted that Air. Brut:glut:Wl
acceptances Were duly honoured. The result of
what passed at the Poultry Compter was commu-
nicated by Mr.Laurbe to the p!aintitl, . who did,
not deny that what had said was true.
Mr. 14.,ki,i13E deposed to these facts -3.' and
Thu A7•ruaNitY4iENEttAt., admitting that this
was an express undertaking, on the I,art of the
plaintiff, to take up cite present bill when it be-
came due, said, it was au answer- to the' action,
mud. be therefore 6M-seined to be- non Suited.

About seven- o'clock on -32..iiIttayercnipg
the servant girl of Mr. Ttupier, 51;•
Thomas; having gone to the pituip for sinti.e tvaLOP
she obsgrved three Allen standing in the court-.
yard, One of thenn ittivnetlitttelv knocked her do.,":'t
and beat her mot violentiv.with a Intatgton; I"ri
groans brought her twister to the spot,
her laying on the ground in a JenSdeSS btate; 5 'l'.
W;l5 COLVeyed to the, Dt;NO/1 and • Exeter '
and "still continues very ill front the cffeets of: the
blows. The'villios nitide oil; atiii lyrivc not yet
been discOvered.. Their Litentic:n no don:,.t
to rob Alic premises, expecting that no othcr per-
son but the ‘ervaut was at home:—(Ereter •
. . .
ost,P Dec. 20:) 7 •

. The benefits aCcritiag to Sitief.y., iii consequence
of ankviltori,s,ed Members of the Faculty,
Omit ribaittes to one peculiar nranch of Ale pro-
fession,. cannot he more_elearly excloplified Abe"
at UeStrs. GOss-'s Institutiun, established many
years for the cute of every st'tg.e :of theVencreat
Disease, under whose cat e slight symptoms ottr3
_disappear in two days, and Strictures, or others
Diseases of the Urethra, are speedily rentovoi,
witbaut any application of caustic.—A just tribute
to their skill and (Jinni-miry, cottipeis this publi„e
.avowal of their judgment, which en-ables. tit"' "'I
treat successfully the Most
.delicate habit , witliffl:
subjecting it to the usual harsh, and tenttrall
unnecessary methods : this. surely must be:a plc";
reflection to females labouring under any "
the above circumstances, or those-disorders anti
deficiencies interfering with the functions of nil"
.tore, and impeding conception. To the,misgnidea
votary or solitary sensuality, a renovation of healtil-
is liroffrred, even under -the most, inauspicious
state of debility, tottering perhaps on the brink
oftnbrtality, front ignorance• of the source of
clkiirder—

"inns alit venis et cceeo earpitur ig-ai,"—VIRGI I"
lessrs. Goss and Co. Alcmbers, of the RoY3'
College.of.Surgrons, atttitul at 'home daily,
personal considtation, and auswer all letters-Mr
return of post) stating minutely the case, and
,cloSing a ice.—The, requisite medicines cail
be
carcinily paCked, and sent to any Part of tbe.kiitg"
cloin.7-13,J3ouverie.. :street, Fleet-street, London.

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