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I duals, and that, were proper mu-aura to he adopt-
; ed, compensation would not become very burden.
some to the State. The magnitude of the com-
pensation would never deter him from doing every
thing in his power to accomplish the desirable
end. Persons who have bargained for their pro_
petty with the public, and who have not yet
Paid for it, would, he thought, be entitled either
to restore their lands, or get compensation. If there
h Would he found any grants of great antiquity, and
whete no steps had been taken to procure a settle-
Inent of those grants, it would, perhaps, be a just
ad of forbearance on the part of the Crown to with_
hold compensation. The pia!), however, would ne-
cessarily require some fair mode of valuation to be
adopted, and to recogniz, generally; the prin.
eiple of it in the Bill, would be to put the matter
out of the hands of Parliament without a proper in-
vestigation, which might be attended with danger..
ous cons.quences.
Mr. FULLER sp-ke against the Bill.
Air. ROSE said, that great good had been de-
rived from the various discussions of the question,
I
because the situation of the Slaves had been consi-
derably improved by the inquiries which had there-
by been made into their actual situation. He was
sorry to hear that the-measure which had been sug-
g,e'ted by one of his Majesty's Ministers (Duke of
"ItTLAND) to Assembly of Barhadoes, had been
8° "jetted, as was stated by an Hon. Gentleman op.
,13,°sue. because he saw no reason why the muyieltof
"ave should not be punished with death, in a similar
mannera,the murder of any other individual. He was
afraid
that the
•t Indies would
not dis,„t Negroes in the eb -
and Abolition, difference betwixt Emancipation
Those who suffered by such mea-
sures would,
Motion no doubt, be entitled to ample indem.
for we had no right whatever to be ho.
Inane at the expence of others. He conceived that
any
Proprietor of
lands in the West-Indies, who was
at
all affed to ed by this Bill, had a right that in-
demification, and that it ought not to be confined
of
to those alone who had recently purchased the lands
the Crown, He was desired by a Noble Lord
(Lord BALCARR ES) to State, that it consisted with
his Itllowied-e,
g that the Negroes in Jamaica were
Tternely alive as to what was going 101-Wards and
that they made no alteration in the meaning of
the words Abolition and Emancipation. If 3 or
400 Negtoes were thus driven into the woods, it
would require the whole of our forces stationed there
to I,ubdue them .
• Was it prudent then to adopt such
before
measur-s, with such probabilities and fans
our eyes If it does pass into a law, he was
there w
cvineed that in the space of three years hence
ould not be one while man left alive through.
out the whole island of Jamaica. He drew a tnelan.
eblY pitture of the condition of Sierra Leone,
which, he said, would be in no condition to engage
the slaves that would be driven to the coast, alal
concluded with noticing son extensive contrads•
offered to the merchants of .Liverpool, by the Spa-
nisi atvetoment, which he said would perpetuate'
the Slave Trade in another channel, if this Bill,
should pass, and would have the further disadvan.
rage of carrying the talents and capital of British
Suhjeds intoa foreign country.
Mr. BARHAM explained.
Mr. HENkY THORNTON considered the Awry'.
Cons of the Right Hun. G-zratletuan (Mr. Ross)
wholly inapplicable to the Cdony of Sierra Leone.
der inapplicable
Slay,* Trade radic,illy unjust.
Ante
4DDIAGTOAI sincerely believed that the
condition of the Blacks would he rendered yet more
lamentable by the operation of this Bill. He was
a warm advocate for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade ; and had the Motion been for the consider-
ation of the most effenual means to abrogate-it, and
not for the Bill in it present form, it would have
received his cordial support.
Mr. WILBARFORCE could not avoid being sur-
Ptized a a dire opposition from the Right Hon.
Gentleman, when, by a strange inconsistencyite pro.
fessed himself friendly to the general abject of the
Bill. Since the proposal on this important subject had
been made by him (Mr. WILBERi'ORCE), 340,190
''felines had been dragged from their native homes
to West India bondage, of which 132,000 had been
imported into Jamaica. He trusted the Bill to the
Mr.
honour and humanity of the House.
. D axr opposed the Bill, and considered the
indiscreet.
refusal to hear Lord BALCAtetEs at the .BaTi very
The House then divided,
For the third reading
69
Against it

JJ
Majority for the Bill
. 36
The Bill was then read a third time, and the
nouse adjourned.

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LONDON, yUN E 28, 1804

As oar Paper was about to be put to Press, we
received parr, Papers to the 20th i
Dumbjournals to the 24th nstant, and
, from which we have
cxtraEled the following articles
of intellience :have
PARIS, J g
JUNE ,IB.—Nothin is •talked of at
V Nothing ienna but the approaching departure of Count
D'ESTERHAZY for Paris. He will. be accompanied
by a very numerous Suite, in quality of Ambassa-
dor' Extraordinary from the EMPEROR of GER-
MANY, to compliment the Emperor of the French.
Advices from Berlin state, that General Count
TAucrlzt EN will be immediately sent to Paris, to
compliment the Emperor of the French in the name
of firs PRussrAN MAJESTY.
A Letter from Rome, dated June 31 seems to con.