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London, England, 1819-01-21 00:00:00

HOUSE OF coMMONS.

The Speaker took the Chair at three o'clock ;
when forty Members were sworn, Ktnongst whom,
we reeog,nized Mr. Brougham.—Adjourned.

JAMAICA PAPERS.

ROSEAU (DOMINI( A), SEPT. 16.

(Concluded from Yesterday's Paper.)

His Honour the Sneaker and House of Assembly, to his
Excellerwy the Governor.

The House, in furtherance of the object of their
former measures, beg leave to inform your Ex-
cellency, that they, on receipt of several chains
sent them by you, formed themselves into a Com-
mittee of the whole flense, to 'eke into consi-
deration the subject, which Committee has been
resumed from time to time, up to the present
date, the result of which consideration tery here-
with transmit to your Excellency in the form of a
Report, which has been unanimously adopted.
The House made the first object of the.r censi-
aeretion the five cases transmitted by your Excel-
lency to Earl Bathurst, in which are found the
differences in the several weights, which your Ex-
cellency will perceive in the accompanying. Re-
port.
They then caused to be weighed in their pre-
sence all the chains sent by your Excellency, of
which the heaviest, not completely identified,
weighed only 9 lb. 12 oz. and some as low in
weight as Jib. 11 oz.
The House deem themselves bound, in justice
to their character and that of the Colony in ge-
neral, to observe that Planters are not in the ha-
bit
of forging chains for the purpose of placing on
the 'persons .of their slaves, of any description,
but avail themselves of such as may happen to 6e
at hand for plantation purposes ; these chains are
sometimes the traces of a mule-cart (as was the
case in some instances stated in the... Report), which
areof a very slight texture, of a length only reach-
ing from mule w mule, and in common weigh-
ing about 31-lbs. It may have occurred in cane or
two instances, that the chains used have beets
those for sustaining the scales for weighieg pro-
duce, which are generally from 5 to 51 feet in
length, several single chains of which kind have
been weighed and fOund to be no 'bore than 4-1
'to 5 lbs.

The House cannot refrain from observing up6n
the injustice of holding up to public odium and
detestation the characters of respectable indivi-
duals, as examples of cruelty and inhumanity,
without giving them, an.onportunity of justifying '
thetriselves from such ID-founded.. chatgcs, and ,
that on the bare assertion of slaves, in general of
the most infamous characters, who are well known
to have little regard for truth, particularly where
some object is to.be obtained. This cruelty and
injustice h the more to be lamented, as, although
the slander may be refuted, the venom of its ef-
fects may still operate with some persona notwith-
standing such refutation.
The House, in expressing their abhorrence of
all acts of cruelty and inhumanity, speak the purls
language of truth and sincerity ; and they trust
they have ever evinced a readiness to attend to and
punish such offenders in every capacity which its
members hold, whenever such instances may coma
before them.

WILLIAM ANDERSON, Speaker.
House of Assembly, Sept, 9, 1818.

The Committee of the whole House, formed
for the purpose of examining the chains sent by
the Governor to the House, in consequence of
their messages of the 12th August and Ist in-
stant, report—Ll-fere follows a minute detail re-
specting the chains.]

We are requested to inform our Readers, that
Messrs. COOPER and Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte-
House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road,
have, in consequence of their extensive practice,
and for the aceuthmodation of patients at the
West-end of the town, established 'a Medical
Board in Woodstock-street, Oxford-street, a few
doors from Bond-street, where a Physician of 40
years' experience, and a Surgeon of great cmi.
nence, reside, and where all the Board alternately
attend, the whole of whom are Members of the
Royal Colleges—:hat thousands have been restor-
ed to perfect health by their united talents is uni-
versally acknowleged, many of whom had been
discharged from Hospitals, and otherwise impro.
perly treated.—They are consulted at Woodstock.
House, Woodstock-street, from Eight in the
morning until Eight at night ; and at the Medical
Board, Charlotte-House, Blackfriars-road, from
Twelve till Eight in the evening,—Mechanics
have advice gratis every evening from Six till
Eight, at both houses, and on Sunday mornings
until Twelve o'clock.—N. B. Messrs. CooPaa
and Co. neg to observe they have no connection
wk.' any other concern,ltherefore all letters are
to be directed to Charlotte-House, adjoining
Blackfriars-road,