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London, England, 1826-02-16 00:00:00

SEIZURE AV SLAVES Al Toicista.A.

Pt. ButtN.A.rill was heard on behalf of the appellants in this
ease, but wn stopped by the Court.
Lord STOwELt. was of opinion, in the State in which the
ease Was brought:before the Court, that ho could not annul the
sentence of the Court below. lied it been regularly brought
before this Court, ho ( bard Stowell) would not shrink from.
applying the remedies prop:keit' by the legislature. Ilut since
the low contained inlet:l,64ns in favour of the removal of dolltit.-
tic slaves, he couid not he the first to shut the door against the
permission. It was evident that all these slaves, at least, were
not field alttreS, for some of them were children ; and was it
expected that they should be condemned
Dr. 111;112'44113Y asked for the expellees of the seizor.

Lcad S t'oWt:i t. observed that it Wall Untlettal to meddle witii
the subject of costs in an appeal from the Court below.
Rootx so:sr—The (;olrt below has dearly been in
errtir, for it has condemned the Crown in costa l • the informa-
tion was filed by tin Attorney tienerul of Tortola.
STOWELL Watt of opinion, that ;us the appeal hail been
brought before this Court by desire of tiovernment, the tic-
Yernment slionlel pay the seizor's expences. Ile would direct
that each party should pay his own (nets.
The appeal is therefore dismissed, except as to, costs.
Lord STOW 1 ci. remarked upon the great obscurity in the
A. is ,of Parliament on this _subject, especially the Milli of
(eo. III:
Dr, Lo situ/GI-0s admitted this. The exceptive section :it
that Act (sec, la) occupied two whole titles, and containe4 O'k-
emtitins within txceptions. The 48th, however, did n0t..40,1,i1'
out of his workshop.
Sir C. Holt rN Y,-,14 hoped that no misapprehension s would lo
Ithro-Al from ;,I;ision of the court, and that Panle'i "4 4
not think the power to carry ,lavC6 from} a.136t0
tc
foreign unloss tiny were dearly within the rhettrth?it
the Act. Ile mentioned thib,.becai,The stirs` was a Pen uuPP‘:
of the iSiaIWL now to t •

M Et. Cott it 14A Y..*tr~lf't3t1eo3,lttl 8011 Con(
rates an innlate tit the libutte of tierrection, where he oce
pity the State rt om. lie i, ttaiti to be perfectly reconciled "ttl
It
.W.tti',.tion, anti to hare repeatedly decttAtil that he is huppk,
where he now lit than he hiAt bttn for ye 4t, before tie ix elt.
titled- to his liberty on fintlitig attrettta tot hi, keeping the ptut,

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FED. 15.

Mr. DENI6ON anti Others-from the Commons brought a
Message from the Commons requesting per Mission for Lord
Middleton to attend a Cotnmitteo of. that llonse, anti be exit.
inined respecting the charges against Mr. Kendrick.
Lord GIFFORD (who sat again
,on the Woolsack in the
.absenee of the bofitklhantellor). %Otte& that their Lordships
would send an answer by Ales en;xers of their own.
The Earl of lI.CIIEST/At prevented a Petition from St.
Neot's, in the County of Carmarthen, praying for the Abolition
of Negro Slavery.—Laid on' the table.

IRELAND.
Earl DARNLEY was afraid that In what he said sOnle days
ago respectine the possibility of applying any thing like a aye-
tent of Poor Laws to Ireland, he had been understood as agree-
ing entirely with a Noble Friend of his, who, he knew, had a
horror of that system. What he meant to state was, that al-
though he should be sorry that the abuses of the English aye-
tern of. Poor Laws should be transferred to Ireland, yet he
wished that some provision should be made to prevent any in-
dividual in that country from dying of actual want through no.
Sided. • He had read that very day a paragraph in an Irish
.Paper announcing that a man had died of starvation. Ile did
not feel himself competent to bring, the subject before their
Lordships, and was the less disposed:to do so, as n Noble bortl,
not now in the House (Earl Carberry), had moved last yesr
for papers, and hail in some measure pledged hithself to bring
forward some proposition on the subject in the course of the pre-
sent Session. Should that Noble Lord, however, not redeem
his pledge, lie (Earl Darnley) would nil the attention of their
Lordships to the question. He was fully aware that the only
eit'eetoal system of • relief would be to procure labour fur the
poor ; but. Still their Lordships ought to consider whether corns
modified provision for the infirm and the aged might not be
usefully introduced into irelsed,
The Earl of LIM ERICK ruse to express his astonishment
thht, at n period like this, it Noble Lord, possessing any thing
like
.experience, sitoidd • stir a subject of a more mischievous
and itiflanstrtatory nature. Ills Noble Friend said that he had
read in a newspaper an account ol tho starvation ofan individual
in 'ireltinth In h newsmer ! Oh, most excellent record, which
never contained any thing but truth ! Bet if his Noble Friend
hid read c)f one case of etarvation in an Irish Journal, he (the
Ear! of 'Limerick); had perused many in the-English Papers.—
Ana for one case only, was a system most oppressive and most
impoverishing tube introduced. into ? Were they to
act as a Medical man who, having two patients, one ill, and
the other sound, should force upon the sound one the res
medics which the one that was ill was obliged to take, for
es) other reason than because he took .• them ? But tide was
•etre of the projects of this age of projectors. A distinguished
rofessor of political economy had described the system of the
rVor 1,1. Na, as one which -encouraged idleness :and profligacy,
How could it be otherwise a man knew that he nerd not
provide for seasons of dis.case or old age, wits he not encou.
rascal asst he idle and profligate? But there was another danger.
Let the• Poor Laws be introduced, and' let his countrymen,
(whose recklessness induced them as it *ass m enter intwearly
marriages), once know that all the children whom they might
produce roust be supported by the parish, there would he such
rush to the Priests that their'poekets won't]. .be highly hone.
at-Attie population, that to,tin evil of • the country, would
ley greatly increased. Such a •ow it had beerrjustly 'remarked
iz another place, would operate as an Act of forfeiture against
20! who had 'property in Ireland.
' Earl •DARNI/EY had tits intentention to propose the intros
dtrictien of theEuglish Poor Laws into ird:lntl; lie only tug-
gesti3l whether some provision might not he inado, which, with
olit producing the ill tenets 'of -those lime', would relieve the
infirm and the aged.- • •