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it Would be more convenient to postpone all further conver-
sation until the question came regularly before the House.
He would assure the Hon. and Learned Gentleman that it'
would then be his endeavour to meet the question fairly.
Mr. BROUGHAM said it had never entered his head
to charge the Right lion. Gentleman with any unfair use
of his office in order to advance the opinion he maintained.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman must see the difficulty of answering the ques-
tion whether Government was satisfied with the progress
made by the Colonies. He was happy to inform him, how-
ever, that upon one great head of improvement, to which
he had himself alluded, considerable progress had been made.
Mr. BROUGHAM was anxious that the intended mo-
tion of the Right lion. Gentleman might not he brought
on before seven o'clock to morrow night, as he could not
he present before that hour. He did not intend to take
any part in the debate, but was anxious to hear the state-
ment of the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Mt. W. HORTON expressed himself ready to accom-
modate the Hon. and Learned Gentleman.
The petition was then ordered to be laid on the table.
GREEK SLAVES.

Sir R. WILSON wished to call the attention of the
Secretary for the Colonies to a question which related to
the slave trade in Greece and Turkey. He did not wish
to extend his question to any thing which bad taken place
before the battle of Navarin, but a report had gone abroad,
that after the battle, 2,000 or 3,000 slaves had been re-
moved from Navarin to Alexandria by the Pacha of Egypt.
When he considered the state in which the Turkish vessels
had been left after the battle of Navarin, it appeared reason-
able to conclude, that the removal of these slaves could
not have taken place without permission of the Al-
lied Fleets. He was far from entertaining that opi-
nion himself, but as it htd already gone abroad, and had
received some countenance from the state of the Turkish
vessels, be felt it his duty to afford the Government an op-
portunity of contradicting it publicly, if possible.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, it would give Lim great plea-
sure to be able to contradict the statement, which he would
confess had reached him from the Levant, and which he
believed, from many circumstances, was but too well
founded. But though he believed that the unfortunate
Greek slaves had been removed from parts of the Morea to
Alexandria in the Turkish ships which had escaped destruc-
tion, he was happy to be able to state, that it was not done
with the concurrence of the allied fleets. The fact was,
that after the action the combined fleet had repaired to
Malta and other places, for the purpose of refitting, after
the damage they had sustained. The blockade was conse-
quently interrupted for a time, and the Pacha, availing him-
self of that interruption, had despatched his vessels with
the slaves. He could assure the Hon. Gentleman, that it
was the most anxious wish of his Majesty's Government to
prevent the traffic in slaves at all times and in all places,
and that orders had been sent to the Mediterranean for the
detention of all vessels that might be found engaged in
that traffic.
Sir R. WILSON was of opinion that instructions
might he sent to the Commanders in the Mediterranean,
to make the recovery of these unfortunate slaves a matter
of negotiation, without at all entharrasing the question- of
peace or war.
SUSPENSION OF A JUDGE IN INDIA,

Mr. BROUGHAM had heard a rumour, and seen a
statement in several of the public journals, which affirmed
that one of the Judges in India (Mr. Courtenay Smith) had
been suspended from the discharge of his functions, in con-
sequence of having expressed an opinion as to the renewal
of the East India Company's charter. He knew not to
what credit the report was entitled, but be was sure it
ought to be contradicted from authority, if false.
Mr. HUSKISSON said it was impossible for him to
afford any information to the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man, as he had as yet received no official information on the
subject.

Sir W. W. WYNN presented a petition from the malt-
sters of Wrexham against the Malt Act.—Ordered to be
laid on the table.
Mr. DAWSON moved for an account of the sums pay-
able by the East India Company in 1828, and for an ac-
count of the half-pay of his Majesty's forces in India.
Mr. HUME took that opportunity of objecting to the
duties upon legacies of wearing apparel, which were ex-
ceedingly obnoxious in Scotland; and also to the stamps
on protests. As the law now stood, it required a stamp of
4s. 6d. to prote•t a bill of only 21.
Mr. DAWSON admitted the importance of the subjects
referred to by the Hon. Gentleman, and could assure him
that they were all at present under the consideration of his
Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. DAWSON gave notice that it was the intention of
his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
to move the Annnal Sugar Duties, in the Committee of
Ways and Means, on Friday.
Sir T. ACLAND gave notice, that he would move, in
the Committee on the Bill for repealing the Test and Cor-
poratiDn Acts, for the insertion of a clause, imposing an
oath or declaration upon those who were now obliged by
law to take the sacrament.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as Monday week
was St. Patrick's day, when many Gentlemen were in the
habit of absenting themselves from the House in order to
attend a dinner connected with a charitable purpose, he
would postpone his motion for the Committee on the Test
and Corporation Acts until the next day.