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London, England, 1826-04-21 00:00:00

with the Slave system. The appointment of an oil&
cer, to whom the Negroes may look up for protection
and aid, will, in 4.4 probability, prove highly benefi-
cial. Petitions were
ipresented, complaining of the in-
jury done to West ndian property by the' lauguage
used in Parliament and elsewhere by the Abolitionists.
However this may be, we suspect the condition of the
Slaves would have been much worse at this day but
for the Abolitionists.--(Bid.)

[NEW TIMES.]
French and Dutch Paper to the 20th, were re-
ceived last night. The latter contain the latest ac-
counts of the operations in Java, intelligence from
which island has been received by the Dutch Go-
vernMent, up to the Bth December. General Van
Geen had been passing a few days. at Batavia, after
an expedition against the rebels, in which he had been
so far successful that none of them ventured to await

his attack. The Dutch authorities have, as a piece
of prudent policy, displaced certain of the native
governors, whose faith they found it impossible to
rely on, and appointed others, who have sworn on the
Koran to bear true' allegiance to their European mas-
ters. Whether these Javanese Mosleim will keep
their oaths any better than their predecessors, remains
to be seen. By some notices from Russia, of date
the Ist April, we are informed that the Coronation
of the Emperor, contrary to what was stated yester-
day, will not take place until the 7th July, his birth
day. Either the French authority, from which we
drew the account of the faipily of the Emperor
Paul, in --our number of the 13th January last, must
have deceived us, or the present Emperor was
born, not on the 7th, but on the 2d July._ The Em-
press Elizabeth and the Empress Mother will,
it is said, be present at the ceremony. There is no
certain intelligence :yet received with respect to the
fate of Missolonghi, nor whether it still holds out or
not.

By Letters from Buenos Ayres, it would appear that
the condition of the Republic is very far from enviable.
Their finances win the most wretched state, and
they have had recourse to a very wretched expedient, in
order to remedy them—the issue of notes under the
sanction ,of the Government, which have already fallen
20 per cent. There is one comfort, however, to the
friends of the Republic, and that arises out of the
weakness of the enemy they are contending against,
who very evidently is as destitute of resources as they
are. Much time may pass in the struggle ; but when
both parties are so helpless, it is not likely, in the issue,
very materially to injure either.—(ibid.)

[MORNING HERALD. 3
Actuated by a desire to serve the national interests,
we felt it our duty to bring the Lists of Naval Promo-
tions for the last year under the review of public opi-
nion. In doing, so, we stated nothing but what we
were supported in advancing by facts, and those
facts, it should be recollected, were taken from
the documents furnished by the Admiralty Office
to the HOUSO of Commons. The authenticity of the
particulars to which we .have referred, cannot therefore
be called in question ; and lest it might be supposed
that we made erroneous or garbled extracts, we printed
the whole of the lists to which our references were
made, while we pointed out those individual cases of
unequal promotion that appeared the most deserving of
public notice. Fair as tins mode of treating the sub-
ject was,- we did not expect to please those whose
interest it is to uphold the vicious system of patron-
age, and keep Naval Promotion as a snug thing for
the benefit of certain families, and the maintenance
of certain political connections. We should like, how-
ever, the expression of displeasure on-the part of those
whose conduct stands arraigned to be accompanied by
something like argument ; for to say, that our state-
ments are not founded in fact, as a writer in defence of
the Admiralty does, is only to assert that the Naval
Returns published by the authority of the House of
Commons are spurious or falsified. papers. We evi-
denced our statements by no other facts than what those
Returns afforded—we conceived that those facts made
out a strong case against the present government of the
Navy ; but if they can be explained away, or accounted
for by any just or honodrable principle of promotion,
why is it not done ? Abusive epithets can do nothing
for the party accused, except to show an irritation of
temper not at all incompatible with the conscious in-
firma', of a cause. We shall revert to this subject
again, at present we refer our readers to the letter of 'a
Correspondent in another column, which gives some
facts that the Naval Returns do not furnish, and which
the Admiralty writers may find it difficult to answer.

[THE REPRESENTATIVE.]
The Petition of the Merchants trading from London
to the West India Colonies, and others holding
mortgages and other securities upon Slaves and lands
in the said Colonies, which will be found at length
in our report of the proceedings which took place
last night in the House of Lords, will, we doubt not,
command the serious attention of the public, no less
from the high respectability .of the individuals by
whom it was signed, than from the temperate manner
in which it remonstrates against the unjustifiable at-
tacks which have been recently made upon the an-
cient property of the West India planters. It shows,
by authority which no man in this country can con-
trovert—by the authority of repeated Acts of. Parli-
ament—that slaves; as it exists at present in the West
India islands, has not only been connived at, but ex-
pressly encouraged by • the Legislature and Executive
of this country ; it shows that, upon the, faith reposed
in these repeated Acts of the Legislature, purChases
have been effected ; money has been advanced upon
mortgage ; family settlements have been entered into,
and provision has been made for -children ; and it adds,
that if the measures recommended by the Abolitionists
be carried into effect, all the parties interested in these
several arrangements will be involved in one common
ruin. It alleges that the Planters have evinced on all
occasions the sincerest desire to promote any improve,
m
eat iii the condition of the Slave Which is not ut-
terly inconsisted with, and repugnant to, the interest
of the master ; and it contends, that.if the Legislature
of this country should go beyond this fair limit of its
authority,,, justice requires that a full compensation
should, be made to all the parties who may suffer from
any new regulations. The petitioners say in ef-
fect—,, The property which we hold is ours under
the sanction of repeated, Acts of the British Le-
gislature. If any suggestion should be offered to us
for the amelioration of the condition of the Slaves,
which. does.not go, teethe" extent of depriving us of the
labour which we have fairly, purchased, we are willing
to adopt it ; but if ,you ye quire us to adopt measures
.which will deprive us of this advantage, which consti-
tiitei!, in effect,
.the real value of our estates, we beg
Yo 4 wall take our Troperty into .your own hands, to
manage as you. may think proper,. and give us an ade-