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London, England, 1833-07-12 00:00:00

nave durr
the slave the same remedies against the plan, t
the Scoi
as the planter has against him. We do not methat the slave should be deprived of his action C remetn
law in case of any very aggravated ofre ;lit in L
ted to (
being committed against him by his master,
indeconoi
he
it is not fair to say to him that, if struck' biaitinktelY,
this we
th
overworked, he shall go without compensatil,
omurekstet
unless he bring an action in a Court of La }le
oafs sudde
We know that the second clause subjects
,But
to the
master to the same penalties for all olden
against his apprenticed labourer as if he
free man, and that penalties for assaults mai' •
, .he dew)
a certain extent, be imposed summarily.
the imposition of a penalty on the offendi: 'tlY ma
aye a pit
party is merely a satisfaction received by the Is
But if i
it affords no compensation to the person in
Now, what we contend is, that such a cony
e be an pm,
sation should be put within easy reach 01
loes Dr.
negro—for, putting on one side the diffics
lentil:4oi
which will be in the way of his bringing an
enough
?
tion for damages (even if he had confidence il
m °ugh
jury of planters), and, on the other side, ,
en
unwillingness and dread he will reasonably 4 tulle
tertain of punishing a man whose service : budenefi)
t Pa
benefit
cannot leave, and who, keeping within the vet for
of the law, will still have so many means': as-thther,
making him miserable, we have no hesitation we ,e ti
saying that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hor not ee nc
dred, the most outrageous acts of oppression' It "Me
i
the part of the masters will go unpunished s is a t
this part of the Bill be not altered. The e bunc:!--
a I
pense and delay attending legal proceed° thi
often amount to a denial of justice for giri achieved
opinion exerts so powerful an infine.j. 5. -8
you
over the conduct of all' . classes of „, urrely tht
community, but the same evils would be !.. t.„Lahing
with a tenfold aggravated force in the West i ijrn a Si
flies, where what public opinion there is o'o 1,.1',..1.° be
be all on the side of the oppressors. SS ehe'ily, t
amendments have suggested themselves to I) pange 11
0A HI-

minds as fit to be made in different of the

eight clauses of which the Bill consists ; hot
we doubt not they will be moved in the C°l
mittee, we shall postpone our remarks 013
them till they are brought under discussion.

We
13°14.ti,
schedule
of them

It is the opinion of a Morning Contempor4
(the Post)—an opinion gravely set forth,
diligently insisted on, that the Duke of V'
LINGTON " is the highest living authority
Europe, upon any question of practical pac,'
This startling assumption is founded—not,'
his Grace's conduct with respect to Refol
not on his late speech on the West 11
Question—but on his declaration last 111 r,
that to strengthen the moral influence or,
church, by purging it of its abuses, is to violate'.
spirit and letter of the Coronation Oath. WS:*
der the " highest living authority in Europe I
did not make this discovery when busy witl'
Catholic emancipation scheme. But the re",

of his strange blindness at that momerl
period, we take to be this. His Grace
pinned his faith on Dr. PHILLPOTTS,
finding that that immaculate Bishop-
having written divers dull pamphlets to p!
that Catholic emancipation was a flagrant /I 1
tion of the oath in question—had at
(just as the see of Exeter became vacant)l
covered that the Catholics might be erto
pated, without so much as a rent or BOP
fracture, or even a puncture, being made in
CoronationOath;—his Grace, finding that so ,
an authority had made this seasonable disco*
of course concluded that it must be orthol
and endorsed it with his wonted heartiness.

But now, says his Grace's Mentor
Mentor is worthy of the Telemachus ) , the
tion is altered. Now it touches our own.ls
sonal interests ; now our episcopal pere
are in danger ; now innovation knocks at
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very door ; intrudes itself into our very the
hold ; stares us in the face, and rudely tells(
it will be listened to. Now, therefore, theig
ronation Oath is in danger. Bless me, acluj
" highest living authority in Europe," ant
it is. How odd that this discovery Pei
struck me before : however, better late than
Hence the secret of his Grace's tardy.def4
tion last night. In this as in the former log"
the Duke has been earwigged by the Bishf
pretty conclusive proof that the claims o'i
highest living authority in Europe" to suf?
statesmanship are so " high" as to be posy
out of sight.
The Coronation Oath, like the Constitd.

is one of those accommodating bugbears
suit all occasions, and are therefore
brought forward on emergency to split
sides of the sceptical, and throw the cred'iv .
into fits. How often has the Constitutiooii ,
dead, and coffined, and buried ! Yet hereoc
even by the Tories' own showing, just as 'lOl
active, and frolicsome as if those disco?s,e4
mourners had never sung " Miserere
its remains. How often has the Coron.
Oath been pitch-plaistered—hocussed—burl4l
dissected, and thrown to the dogs I Ye'`
Grace and Dr. PHILLPOTTS still swear .1'
alive, and are ready to die in the last ditch
defence. Talk of the nine lives of a cat !
are they compared to the lives of a Collo
tion or a Coronation Oath—about which,
0 'll,
theless, the Tories are as solicitous as if
with the broadsword could kill the one,
dose of Sir H. HALFORD'S physic the
But this canting, factious humbug 03
ceive no one. Not a man in the kingdO,
can count ten on his fingers, but knosl;
that the Coronation Oath is a mere crio.
up for party purposes,--a spring-gun set iff
Episcopal domains to frighten poachers
premises.

We quote the following paragraph Jr('
Morning Contemporary : " Yesterdefti
CHALMERS preached a charity sermon /
of the Indian missions set on foot by the of
Established Church, at the Chapel (10°
Mr. E. IRVING'S) in Regent-square.
leading inference which he aimed at
tiating would hare pleased the English hieil
and was curious as comingfrorn such
viz., the superior advantages of a united et,
and state establishment, especially of
powerfully (but not corruptly) aided
funds in its propagating power, when 0,
with abortive efforts of voluntary zetwool
sermon, which might rather be called 3" °eig
was extempore. Regent-square was t !googol(
the carriages of the titled and fashionable co
And no wonder ! Doctrines like thee d,
but prove acceptable to the " titled I' 01
shionable world," whose only noti°,°„,
Church establishment is, that it sijivs"
" powerfully aided by State funds." rod,
ingly, we find that the Doctor's discutlo
already in high favour with the Tory Par 0), 1:
Duke of WELLINGTOti—who, of couresiolr
';
be imbued with a fine critical apprel'ellpr,il
the beauties of a sermon—Sir R. l'Oe
indeed, the majority of the Conserv/di/

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