The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-29 00:00:00

HAYTI.

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OP THE
BRITISH AND FO REIGN ANTI- LAVE II Y
SOCIETY TO THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI.
HAYTIANS,—The great body of philanthropists in
Great Britain and Ireland, especially those who have
been actively engaged in securing the abolition of
slavery in the British colonies and possessions abroad,
have long taken a deep interest in your welfare, and
have watched with no common pleasure every, indi-
cation of the rising greatness and prosperity of your
country.
Your enemies have pronounced you unworthy of
the liberty you enjoy, and have invented a thousand
calumnies to injure you in the eyes of the civilized
world. But your friends have been prompt to repel
those calumnies by an impartial appeal to the history
of your great struggles for freedom, and to demand
for you that consideration and justice which they
feel to be your due.
The object of your enemies has been not merely to
destroy your character, by exciting the horror and
disgust of the ignorant, the unreflecting, and the pre-
judiced against you, but by that means also to im-
pede the great work of African regeneration, and the
extinction of slavery and the slave-trade throughout
the world. In Great Britain this was the case previ-
ously to the abolition of slavery in its West India co-
lonies. In France it is the case, now that the friends
of human liberty there are exerting themselves to
achieve the same noble object for its colonial pos-
sessions.

Such being the 'fact, judge, then, of the pain
with which the sincere friends of Hayti have heard
of the unhappy divisions and disorders whic have drawn
upon you the eyes of Europe and America, and have
filled your enemies with exultation and delight. In the
continuance of those divisions and disorders they see the
germs of a civil conflict which will exhaust your
strength and resources, and make you the prey of a
powerful European State which once controlled your
destinies, and is still anxious to possess so splendid an
appendage to its territories as " the Queen of the
Antilles."

As the great organ of the abolitionists of this coun-
try, the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, in addressing you their sincere
counsel and advice, presume not to give an opinion on
the cause which has led to the late disastrous events
in your island. They deplore its existence, whatever
it might have been. They deplore them for your
sakes. They deplore them for the sake of Africa.
They deplore them for the sake of the millions of your
race now held in bondage. They deplore them for
the sake of mankind at large, for so long as the en •
slavement of any portion of the human species shall
be continued, so long will the final triumphs of
justice, civilization, and religion be arrested in its
course.

But the Committee sincerely trust that the events
they deplore may be finally terminated ; that Hayti
may be preserved free and independent; that stability
may succeed to disorganization ; and that the whole
body of the Haytian people may feel that whatever
cause of dissatisfaction they may have had with the
past state of affairs, that now they have the strongest
reason to combine loyally and firmly with each other,
to promote the welfare of their common country,. to
develop Hs vast resources, and to• cause it to be re-
spected the nations of the earth.
To the accomplishment of this great end the Com-
mittee would earnestly exhort you to lay aside all
sectional jealousies. Let the parties .in the east, the
west, the north; and the ',south fee:: that there . is a
nobler object. to be gained than mere political pre-
dominance, namely, the welfare of their common
country. Let there be mutual forbearance ; let diffe-
rences of opinion be healed by wise counsels and-ge-
nerous concessions ; and let it ever be remembered
that there is no wisdom in the sword, which is the
mere symbol of physical force, not of enlightened
reason ; of brutal passion, not of calm deliberation ;
of proud ambition, not of self-sacrifice and love of
country.
Let not the .pride of caste and the prejudice of
colour dissever you. Strange that the children of a
common Parent, endowed with similar mental and
moral attributes, influenud by simi!ar affections and
passions, should allow the tincture of the skin to form
an impassable barrier to fraternal union and generous
co-operation. On this point the Committee appeal to
you as brethren ; fur however much they differ from
you in complexion, they feel united to you by a
common origin,
.and would enforce and practise the
common obligations arising out of those natural re-
lations which were intended by the great Creator to
bind man to man in a holy and inseparable brother-
bood. _ _

Let not differences of religious conviction, opinion,
and practice, separate you. The rights of con-
science are • of paramount importance. Where
they are not respected, no other rights are or
can be secure.., On this paint the Committee
appeal to you as Christians, and, with the history
of Euttope open
.before their eyes, where they
behold the ascendancy of Catholicism on the one hand,
and 'Protestantism on the other, and the bitter fruits
which have resulted from it, they would earnestly
exhort you to avoid the perils of religious con-
flict. IntOlerince of the opinions of others in mat-
ters of ,religion is the oft.spring of bigotry; and
bigotry, if it be not controlled by public opinion,
leads to proscription and persecution. "Let every
man be fully persuaded in his own mind," is the lan
guage of the great Apostle of the Gentiles. Let, there-
fore, those who suppose themselves in possession of the
truth use none other' weapons in its 'propagation and
defence than, those furnished by enlightened reason
and the sacred canon of the Scriptures ; and instead
of the bitternest of strife, let there be a holy emula-
tion to follow the divine example of the great Re-
deemer of mankind, who, whilst on earth, " went
about doing good," and who came into this world,
" not to destroy Men's lives, but to save them."
Feeling the deep importance of the subject nri
which they have addressed you, the Committee have
foreborne to appeal to you on the lower ground :.of
self-interest; yet ..they would venture to remind you
that never was there so favourable an opportunity
enjoyed by Hayti as the present m ment offers, for
the development of her internal resources and the in-
crease of her foreign trade. Not only has Great
Britain repealed a detestable law, which forbade
Haytian vessels and Haytians from entering the
ports of her colonies, but her Legislature, during the
last' session. of Parliament, has enacted a law which
allows sugar, the produce of free labour, to enter her
markets on favourable terms, whilst it excludes that
raised, bythe oppression of the slaves in Brazil and
the Spanish colonies.
Ha,ytians, yob, have now.an opportunity presented
to you. of benefiting your country, by the establish-
ment of peace auiong yourselves ; by calling into ac-
tivity the energies of your cultivators; by the enact-
ment of•just laws, and their impartial administration ;
and by. promoting the intellectual, Moral, and reli-
gious improvement of your rising
_youth. We
earnestly beseech you thus to act, and thereby falsify
the sinister predictions of your enemies, and realise
the sanguine expectations of your friends: By
adopting this line of conduct, you will greatly assist
the friends of human
_liberty in every part of the
world in their exertions to promote the abolition of
slavery and the slave-trade, and will' assuredly hasten
the coming of that day when the fetters by which
millions of human beings are tortured in body, and
degraded in mind, shall be universally broken.
On behalf of the Committee,
(Signed) THOMAS- CLARKSON.
27, New BrOad-itreet, London. Aug. 16.

THE OLD. HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Who that has sat in the gallery of the old House of
Commons—that 'venerable building which the calami-
tous fire of October 16th, 1834, reduced to ashes—can
fail to recollect his first feelings of disappointment as
he gazed with a sense of wounded pride around the
dark and narrow -room, and looked in astonishment at
Ilionourable Members grouped in various attitudes of
carelessness and indifference ! The aspect of the
Chapel, plain almost to rudeness, appears to have struck
an inteliq,ent French stranger with a feeling akin to
pity, or contempt. 44 La salle," he writes, " est petite
et sanse decoration—point de marbre—point d'or—
point,de'peintures."* Its paltry dimensions, confined
Space, and want of accommodation, could only be
-adequately described in the vernacular of Cobbett,
*rho possessed the peculiar faculty of disenchanting
iris readers from all charms of poetry, of vulgarising
the noble, and debasing the sublime.' " Why " he
asks; w
Frith the natural indignation of a new Member,
4' are sixthundredAnd fifty-eight of us crammed into
a space that allows to ns no more than half a foot
, ;square . There we are, crammed into this little hole,
squeezing one another, treading upon each other's'
toes. running about
get a seat, going to the
hole at seven o'clock in the morning, as I do, to
stick a bit of paper with my name on it on a bench, .1
to indicate that I mean to sit, there for that day ; ,
then routed out of those places again after a divi-
siontaken place, and running and scrambling
for has
for a seat in just the same manner as people do
when they are let into a dinner-room at a .
public 'dinner at the Crown and Anchor orelsewhere."
Yet such as it was, " cabin'd and confined," undeco-1
rated for a century, decked only with a new coat of
painting and whitewash, destitute of all architectural
pomp, unadorned by a single monument of sculpture
or art—into That building what intelligent stranger
was ever ushered for the first-time without a throb-
bing heart and heightened pulse! Who but has
lowered his voice on first entering that room as he
felt 'the genius of the place compelling awe, the
deep inspiration of the past! Mighty memorie,,
rlqd Aspopitiions,. breathe their subduing spells around
the stranger. Within those walls the battles of hu-
nianitf,have;been'fought, the privileges of freedom
- -
,vindicated; and the liberties of England won. For
ten gei:erations, ever since the gentle

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Edward VI. allotted that consecrated chamber, lo the
great council of Parliament, the genius and virtue,
the dignity and rank, the wisdom and eloquence, of
the nation have been there represented. Treasures
of statesmanship have been lavishly poured forth in
that hall, which there Sias no prudent hand to gather.
There blushed the chivalry of Raleigh, there wept the
servile patriotism of Coke, there recorded its protest the
faithful loyalty of Hyde. Its floor was once profaned
by the hasty step of the unhappy Charles, who left his
guards at the door as he faltered into the Speaker's
chair—once far more basely desecrated by the stamp
of Cromwell, as he crowded the benches of a truck-
ling assembly with .the myrmidons of an usurper.
But fearfully was the insult avenged ; nobly have
those assaults of despotism been requited by the Acts
of freedom—the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of
Rights, and the Act of Settlement—those death war-
rants of tyranny which have since been read there as
law. There with an eye glowing fire eloquent as his
voice, Chatham spoke for immortality, and triumph-
ing over physical weakness and bodily decay, made
his very crutch an instrument of oratory—there the
great Commoner crushed the House of Bourbon, and
smote her power with that electrical shock which re-
verberated in another hemisphere. On that floor
the mighty Burke—great even in his failures—
threw down the dagger, as a specimen of the pre-
sents which French fraternity was preparing for his
countrymen. There Castlereagh walked proudly
up the House amid loud huzzas, with the Treaty of
Peace, signed at Paris, in his hand. There Canning
called the new world into existence, that he might
redress the balance of the old. By the table in that
Chapel, afterwards stained with Percival's blood, the
brow of the boldest warrior has grown pale, as he
stood up to receive the thanks of the House, and
with trembling voice stammered forth his gratitude.
Blake, and Albemarle, and Schomberg, Marl-
borough, and a greater even than that proud captain,
the hero of a hundred fights, the Duke of Welling-
ton, have drunk in there the pealing applause which
heralded Westminster Abbey. At that bar the
proudest of England's peers have bent the head to
deprecate the Commons' vengeance ; the governor of
millions—the Ministers of State—have there bowed
the knee, and in their impeachment confessed
the grandeur of the great national inquest.
There the noblest sons of genius—Bacon,
and Newton, and Wren, Addison, Gibbon,
Milford, have sat ' mute but not inglorious.'
There Oglethorpe taught the lesson of humanity to
inspect our prisons, and Meredith and Romilly
pleaded, against capital punishments, that criminals
still were men. These walls have rung with shouts
of triumph as the slave-trade went down in its ini-
quity. Peals of laughter have awakened the echoes
of that chamber to generations of wits—Martin and
Coventry, Charles Townshend, and Sheridan, and
Canning. The hollow murmurs of sympathy have
there rung back the funeral tribute to the elder and
younger Pitt, to Grenville, and Horner, to that
eloquent orator, conspicuous among his countrymen,
Grattan, who in his dying hour there poured forth
his soul. What exhilarating cheers, the only re-
wards to St. John, for those lost orations which
have perished for ever, have there rewarded the ef-
forts of Pitt and Fox, as they sunk back exhausted !
The forgotten oratory of that chamber would more
than balance all that is recorded! Magnificent as the
new building may be, adorned with paintings and
embellished with trophies of our progress in the arts,
far more convenient than the oldchamber, in splendour
not to. be-compared, the-palace-of senators, and not
the more hall—it can never rival, in the mind's eye,
that humbler room empannelled with living memories,
blazoned with illustrations of the past. The cloud of
light, which filled the old temple with the glory of
the Presence, far more than transcended the vivid
splendours of the new. Though the rising structure
cannot be for centures what St. Stephen's Chapel has
been, it will stand, we may rest assured, as the former
House, the classical sanctuary of Britain's intellectual
greatness, the chosen palladium of her proudest attri-
butes—freedom, and eloquence, and power.—Towns-
end's Memoirs of the House of Commons.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 28.
(Before Mr. Commisiioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD EDWARDS.

In this case th,- bankrupt had carried on business as a
draper in the Cily-road, and this day had been up-
printed to receive proofs of debt and to choose assignees.
Several amounts, constituting in the aggregate between
400/. and 5001. were proved, the creditors being either
bankers, or wholesale warehousemen in the City. Mr.
Thomas Scales, of the house of Scales and Co., Milk- ,
street, was chosen assignee, and an allowance of 2/.1
a-week was made to the bankrupt out of the estate. • •

SECONDARIES' COURT, Aug. 28.
Mr. Secondary James sat in the Court, Basinghall-
street, this day, at eleven, and heard the cases, but
neither of them contained any point of interest to any
except the parties concerned.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 26.

CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)

FARRAR V. DEFLINNE.

This case, which had occupied the Court from about
Friday noon, came to a conclusion this afternoon. The
question was (as has been beFore stated) whether the
defendant was, at the time of the liability incurred to the
Manchester.
a partner in the firm of Todd and Co., of
Manchester. Notwithslanding the great length of the
case, it was from the very nature of the point in issue a
dry repetition of acts and declarations from which the
partnership might be inferred.
Mr. BAINES having concluded his case,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the jury on be-
half of the defendant, and commented very ably upon
those features of the case which bore in favour of the
defendant. He did not call any witnesses.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case briefly,
without going through the details of the evidence, and
the jury after having retired for a few minutes returned
into Court, and delivered a verdict fur the plaintiff—
Damages 1,2351.

CRIM. CON.- WOOD V. MONK.

This was an action for crim. con., alleged to have
taken place between the defendant and the wife of the
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hoggins appeared fur the
plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Atherton for the
defendant.
Mr. KNOWLES, in stating the case to the jury, ob-
served that the injury of which the plaintiff had to com-
plain was one of the deepest that a man could sustain,
and which could be brought before a court of justice. The
plaintiff was a stone-mason by trade. He had also been
the keeper of a tavern. About 11 years ago he marrit,d a
beautiful young woman, who had since borne him three
children, and with whom he had lived upon the most
affectionate terms. He for some time resided at Preston.
About three years ago he went to keep the Hesketh
Arms Inn, at Southport, but in 1842 he returned to
Preston, and conducted an inn known as the sign of the
Grapes and Punchbowl. The defendant was a person of
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respectable station in life, being an alderman of the bo-
rough of Preston, in which town he had for many years
carried on an extensive practice as a surgeon. In that
character he had been introduced to the plaintiff's house,
and had taken advantage of the facility which these cir-
cumstances and the misfortuMes of the plaintiff gave him
to effect the ruin of the plaintiff's peace. The plaintiff
did not succeed in his undertaking, and was sent to Lan-
caster Castle, from which place he obtained his libera-
tion under the Insolvent Debtors' Act. In the mean-
time, his wife carried on the business of the inn. The
defendant was called in to attend her professionally, and
taking advantage of those circumstances, effected her
ruin. On the subject he (the Learned Counsel) would
add nothii4; but leave it to the jury to say what da-
MageS such a defendant ought to pay to the plaintiff,
whom he:had so deeply injured.
A woman named Mercer was then called, who stated
that she had lived servant with the wife of the plaintiff
during his• absence at Lancaster ; that about the Bth of
October last year her mistress sent her to the defendant
to 'tell him to come and see her, as she was ill. The
witness went, and soon after the defendant came. He
and her mistress went into the back parlour. While
there a man came for a glass of spirits, and offered 6d.,
which witness took to the parlour to get change from
her mistress. On opening the door she saw the defen-
dant and her mistress in a position which she described.
She drew back, gave the man his sixpence, and let him
go on trust. On another occasion her mistress had a
swelling on her finger, and sent witness for defendant.
lie came, and they went up stairs together. Witness
went to the room to ask her to change a half-sovereign
for a customer, when she found• them both in bed toge
they. Witness was then single, but; had since got
married.

On cross-examination she denied that she had ever
seen the plaintiff strike his wife till after his return from
Lancaster, and that she had not been offered 201. or 5/.
by the plaintiff to prove his case, but had been told she
should be well paid, and have her expenses clear.
Mrs. Prodtor, a married woman, stated that in Ja
nuary last she went as servant to the inn, and detailed
some occurrences similar to those deposed to by the last
witness. : •

On cross-examination she admitted that she did not

live with her husband ; she had been parted from him
three times. He was the ostler at the inn at Boscough-
bridge. She.had lived in the house of the plaintiff since
his wife had left.

Mr. WATSON addressed the jury on behalf of the de-
fendant, and urged the immense importance of this case
to his client; Niho, as a married man, with a family,
holding ,a respectable position in life, and being of 'a pro-
fession in which the most rigid integrity was necessary
to insure or "retain success, had everything at :Alike in
this cause. "He then commented on the nature of the
evidence which had been adduced, its unlikelihood, the
contradictions between the two witnesses, and all the
circumhtanCes of the case, which, he contended, deprived
their testiniony of any credibility whatever. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses b contradict
the case of the plaintiff, and the case was adjourned at
seven o'clock.

CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
CHARGE'OT MURDER.—Owen Leonard was indicted
for the-wilful murder of his wire, Bridget Leonard, and
inflicting several wounds on her body with a razor.
Mr. tlulten and Mr. Drinkwater conducted the prose-
cution; the prisoner was defi.nded by Mr. W. M'Oubrey.
It appeared from the statement of James Leonard,
the principal* witness fur the prosecution, a boy twelve
years of age, that his father, the prikther, was a tailor,
living in Pter-street, in this town. The deceased was
his mother. There was a family of six children, of
whom the witness only was residing at home. The de-
ceased was in the habit of letting part of the house
to lodgers, and on the 27th of July the attic was occu•
Pied by a :person named Livingstone and his wife.
There was another male lodger in the house whose name
did not appear. On the evening of that day this boy
had retired to, bed in a room on the first floor, where the
deceased and the prisoner slept. He had on going to
bed left them and Livingstone and his wife and the other
lodger in the kitchen below. He was awakened by a
noise, and found that it was the lodger singing ; and he
then heard the voice of his father in angry altercation
insisting upon the lodger leaving the house. The boy
came down stairs, and found the lodger on the point of
departing. After he was gone, the prisoner continued
very angry. He called the deceased a w—e, and accused
her of misconduct with one John Guest, who had been a
lodger several years before. Soon after the Livingstones
went to their room, and were let up stairs by deceased.
The prisoner followed to the room on the first floor,.and
the boy saw his father put something bright into his
pocket. He went up to the room of the Livingstones
and desired' his wife to come down stairs. He himself
went down to the kitchen and barred and fastened the
•door and window. The deceased soon after came down,
and the prisoner recommenced his abuse of her on the
subject of John Guest; and used the same opprobrious
epithet as before. She only replied, " Are you sure ?"
which she repeated several times. She was sitting in a
chair behind the door, and the prisoner struck her with
his fist somewhere about the face, and then took:" the
bright thing" out of his pocket, which proved to be a razor,
and began cutting her about the throat. The boy cried
" Murder!" and endeavoured to pull him away, but he
repeated the blows in different parts of his unfortunate
victim. The boy at last got the door open and ran
for the police. In the meantime Michael Hamilton,
a neighbour, came to the door and endeavouredto push it
open. s The-parties were behind it, and he could only get
-hold of the Irair-of the prisoners who again forced the
door to. Oa a second attempt -he forced an entrance,
and found the deceased lying on the ground, and the
prisoner standing over her, striking her with something
he held in his hand. He said to the prisoner, " You old
villain, what are you doing to your wife ?" He then
found that the nose of the unfortunate woman was
entirely cut from her face, and she had a severe gash
upon her cheek. The witness ran to call the police, and
the unfortunate woman in the meantime crawled parti-
ally out of the door, saying faintly, " Keep him in, keep
him in ; put 'something to me, I shall die ; he has cut
my throat.", The prisoner then pushed her with his
foot, whenshe fell out on the pavement, and he shut the
door to. Several policemen coming up she was carried
to the house of a surgeon, and thence to the hospital,
but died from loss of blood before she arrived there. The
prisoner was found in the middle of the kitchen floor
washing his hands, and being asked why he had com-
mitted the act, said she was an old b—h. seemed to
have been drinking, but yet to know what he was about.
On examination of the body of the deceased, it was
found -that several frightful wounds had been inflicted on
the face; neck, legs, and thighs, one on the latter being ,
seven inches long and near six inches deep. The lateral',
jugular vein and the femoral artery were divided. •
Mr. ISPOURREY addressed the jury for the defence,
and contended that the prisoner was insane ; and that,
at all events, under the provocation stated, the offence
did not amount to more than manslaughter ; and called
several witnesses in support of the first position, but who
failed to make out that defence.