The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-21 00:00:00

DENIERARY AND ESSEQUEBO.

We, the undersigned, Proprietors or Representatives of
the several plantations set opposite our names respectively,
and owners of Slaves in this colony, do hereby solemnly
declare, each for himself, that we consider the Order in
Council, dated the 2d of November, 1831, and published
in the Royal Gazette of this Colony on the 12th thy of
this present month of January, 1832, by his Excellency
the Governor of British Guiana, purporting to alter anti modify the relations heretofore existing between the
Slaves in this Colony and their lawful owners, and the
jßights under which we have lawfully possessed and en_
oyed the services of our Slaves—to be wholly ruinous to
the just interests of each of us the said persons, and to be
a direct ♦iolation of the sacred rights of private property—
rights which Were and are sacred by law, and ought to be
inviolable.
We declare that the necessary effects of the said Order
will be to inflict an irreparable and extensive injury on all
the agricultural and other interests of this Colony—will
lead to the rapid decay of its sugar plantations in particu-
lar, and will inevitably cause the speedy ruin of a large
proportion of the present proprietors, which the under-
signed are prepared to prove.

Wherefore, each of the undersigned, for himself, de-
clares to protest most solemnly against all authorities and
parties whatever concerned in promulgating and enforcing
the said order, fot all the injurious and destructive conse-
quences to arise to each and all of us from its promulgation
and enforcement.
We protest against it, as being a direct infringement of
the fundamental laws of this colony, under which we ac-
quired and hold the property now invaded, and also as be-
ing in contravention of the express and solemn pledge of
the inviolability of private property and rights, in carrying
into effect the improvement the condition of the slaves—
which was contained in the unanimous resolution of both
Houses of Parliament relating to that subject.
We protest against being considered as acquiescing
in,
or voluntarily submitting to, its unjust, vexatious, and op-
whichexactions and restriction., by
, under an overruling necessity, we may yield to
Y obedience
its Provisio; and we severally demand and claim full
compensation and indemnity for the loss and injury in-
flicted on our respettive properties by the present and all
previous orders emanating from the same authority, ac-
cording to the value of the said properties previously to
their deterioration by the repeated and pernicious orders
of his Majesty's Government respecting the supposed
this colony.
amel res
oration of the condition
of the slave population of
And es it is extremely inconvenient for all of us, the un-
dilligned, to appear personally at the Colonial Secretary's
Office, for the purpose of executing this present protest
per
llsonally at the said office, we do each of us hereby spe-
ciay authorise and empower any two of the following in
divitluals, viz. :—Edward Bishop, Charles Bean, George
Rainy, James Johnstone, N. M. Alan et C. Revers,
Joseph Bette, to appear before the Deputy Colonial Secre
tarY, or any. of the Town Clerks in the Colonial Secretary's
Office, officiating as Notaries, to execute a protest of the
tenor and t
of allo
and the effect hereinbefore contained, in name and
behalf each of us the undersigned, and to causes
the
same to be duly intimated to his Excellency the Go-
ornor.
[ Here follows a most respectable list of subscribers,
Jan. 1882. j