The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-30 00:00:00

ErrrX obtiAvett APPEAL§:

II Saturday Cite Lords CotthniSSiOner's of Api-6-4
in Priie-Causei finished theit sittings ;or the Seii
shin; and previous to their adjournment ihty gad
judgment in various reserved cases of !peat import
Unice.: One of them especially, which have,
trthCh pleasure 41 reporting, 'was of the grc.akst
tereat to the friends of liberty and hiimanity, and
its decision was such as we doubt libt Will give great
and equal satisfaction (his country and America.
CASB
O. THE AbIEDIBJAMES JOHNSON, MASTEFS
This was a vessel -under American toloors, with
sio4:s. from Africa, captured in December, 1801, in
the West. Indies, and. carried into Tortola. The
claw ant pretended that she was hoUnd to Charles-

town', South Carolina, whefe the importation df

slates continued to be. tbe en'cluf !kit

year; but. that having been detained dfi the coast;
and there being., no prospect rqaching. chterle4--
town before, the Ist day of Jantiar , : e6g, the pe-
riod appointed for iiie..cessation of the Sfate Trade

in every pat of the United States, by a take, of mei
General Congress,, the ;1141aster of necessity bord
.way for the Isidoci of Coba, there to wait di.ec-1
flair., from his Owners.

It wag_ contetttled, vu 'the bther htfitd.; by the
Captot; thai its stayMent was_ a mete pretence;

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and that, in ttnt.:, the oiiginal plan of the ,csrag
way a domination to C'ulm, which was, unlawful uriA

der the Atueritan laws, lorts pre% ious to thrir gene.;.
ral Ab lition at the SlaveTra-Je. . - •

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Admittnig, however, the case 90 to be, it vi,as
streruHiousty cot,t.-i.de.l for the clitirnalit,..thwiL
tisli court of Prize had no ri4tft tit take-Utiv (~,

nizance ut Arne' icon mu::icipal la and ;I) )1 a,
11.liigelent right of tbis.country tidal been
the pr petty ought to be les m'ed 10 the neutral
Ciky ot-r. sc.rivs‘ of precedeuts.,s.eemed to stippoi t
this doatrior.

The ship M•as condemned at Tortola., and the- en
Afri, ans mere, acc,ord'ng to our Abulitioca
Act, reslorTd to ti.eir fieedow ; bnt the clatinfatit
app.aled, the liberty Of the Africans: as melll.
4s the proi)erty.of the ship;,depended otilbe- issue,
of this
appal.
The case was solemnly argwed iii March List, a tut

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1 as in the opinion of the Co9lt, it turned on the
new question of 'the, effect of the NmeiTC'an and
British Abolition Acts on this specks of contra 4
band commerce, when brought before a Cow t of
1 Prize, the case on account of its importance. has
! since stood over for judgment. ' Se: eral other case;
of American Slave Ships have also stood over as de-
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i pending on the same general question.
I Saturday-the judgment of the, Court was delivered

1 by Sir WILLIAM GRANT, the Master of the Rolls,
nearly in the following terms
".This. ship must .be considered es being cinploy,
ed at.the time of capture in carrying.slaves from the
coast of Africa to a *Spanish Colony. We think •
1 that this was evidently the original plan and pun-
pose of the voyage, notwithstanding the pretence
set up to veil the true intention. The claimant,
however, who is an AMerican,, complains of the
capture, and demands from us the restitution of
property of which he alleges that he 'has been' on
dispossesse.4. In all the. former cases of
this kind, which have come before this Court, tho
.Slave Trade was liable to considerations very "ditfea
rent from those which belong to it now. Ji had at
that tinie.been prohinited (as far as respeBed carry,
ing slave's to tne colonies of foreign nations) .by
Atnefica, but by our own law, it was still allowed.
It appeared to us, therefore, difficult to'consider.the
prohibitory law of America.in any other light' than
as one of those municipal regulationsmt .1 foreign
.state of which this Court could not take any cognia
zance. But by the alteration, which has since taken
place, the question stands on different grounds, and
is open to the application of very different prito:
The Slave Trade has since • been totally
abolished by this Country, and our Le4islatitre has
pronounced,,it to' be contrar) to the princp:es of
Justice and hutnanity. Whatever we might think
as. individuals trfore, we could ribt,sit Ong ..s Juiges
in 'a-Brit'ish Court of Justice, regard toe trade in that
light, w:bile our own laws 'pertnitted It. But we.
,can now assert th'at *this. trade cannot, abstractedly
speaking, have a lroitimate existerce.
" When I say,abstraCtedly speaking, I. mean that
this Country has no right to controut any foreign
Legislature that may think fit to dissent fit:4o this .
do..irine, and to permit to its own :objects the pto,
seention of this trade ; but we have ti low a rght to
affit in that pruhdfccie the trade gal, anti thus
to throw on claialanti the
.bort of proof that,
in iesi;e6t of them, by the authority of their own
it' is otherwise. As the case now stands, we
think we are en:itled, to say, that a el:Ain:int can
have no right upon principles.: of universal law, to
claim the restitution in a Plize Court 'of human be-
ings carried as his slaves. He must shew some right
that has tidbit violated by ilie.captore, some property
ty of wktich 'he has been clispossesse.l, and -to which
he-ought to be revtored. In this case, the laws of
the claimant's Country allow of no right of Proper-
such as he claims. I'here•can, iherifore be no right
to restitution'. The cansequence is that the judg.
;merit onto be affirmed." ti.
We oongra-ulate ' the friends of, the oopressed
Africans'-: on this important and roost salisfaaory
judgment. • It givesa death Ulu w,.10
.I.he most active
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contraband.'dealers n human blood on the coast of
-Africa, and removes one of thej gleatest obstacles
to the efleclual execution of our, lawn laws for .the
abolition of the Slave' Trade. .

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Captaln'STicEß, of the. Royal Nary, is appoin tett
to 'he con:nil:in& of the Impress Service at Swansea,'
in Wales.

SIIII"Q7IFIELD MARKETi Jut 30.

This day's Market was well supplied with prime
Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other respeats was
very good; I3eref, Vealt POrk, and Lamb, suppOrt
last pr:ces; Mutton is dearer; and the trade in ge-
neral was pretty brisk.-7.. The sales in the Hay Mar-
ket were somewhat lively; Clover sold at last price.;
Hay and Straw fetched better prices.---We subjoin an
accurate stattlnetit of the prices and numbers :-L

To sink the offal per stone of Sib.
Beef 45. 51. to 6s. od. Mutton 4s. Bd. to Gs. od. Ve2l
Ss'. od. to 7s. od, Pork is. od. to is. od: Lamb ss: cd. to
7s. od.
Beasts 2tOo. Sheep and Lambs a 3.000. ales 290. Pigs
220.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARtET:
Hay /1. tos. ovi. to 91. os. cd. Strew al; jos. od. to 31.
35. od. Clover 71..5. ed. to 91.,9e. odL

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Fitmohu LO DUN GAZETTE, JULY 28. 18 10.

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,IPai-Cylce;. July i 5,. IS 10.
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His Majesty taS been pleased to appoint
MAJOR-GENERALS
'Patrick Sinclair, William Orchard Huddlestone, George

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Fetid, lames SoViderby, Sir Thomas Bloomfield; Bart. ("other
Maim Dow.,ld NPDonald, loin Pratt, Forbes Champagn6,
Josiah Champ igne, Harry Ci)lvert' George Cock borne,
Eitw'ard Dunne, lames Drummond, William DoWdeswell;
A lexarider Mackenzie; George M, ncrieffe..Thomas Meyrick,,
Thuinas Graliain, Charles Cranford, George Henry Van.
sittart, Honourable Charles Fitzroy, Francis Hugonin 9be
rieutenantl Generals in the Army. •
JJ. •
- • • COLON EL§ •
Frederick Baron 11:cken, of the King's German • Legion.
'John Ramsay, of t he_ Royal Artillery, Christopher Lianby,
of the 5.4 th Po it, William Balfour, of the 57th Foot,
liarn Wilkinson, of the pill Foot, Henry fucker Muntre-
sor, of time pith Foot, Albert Gledstartes„ of theiOth Foot
lolls Hodgson' of the Half-pay 131st foot, Chirfes Ste.-
venson, of the York R ngers, Lawrence Bratishaw,,of the
Ist. Lite Guards, Richard I'. Nelson, on the Half-pay of
• the late Essex Fencibles, G. W.: Richard Harcouri; -of
the 12th Foot, William Palmer Ackland, of ttie;'Cold-
streain Guards, Nicholas Nepean, on the Half-pay,ol the
late Banffshire Fencibles, lames Taylor, of the I..ih Foot;
Miles I,lightengall, .of.the 69th Foot, lames Flay, IVil7ilith
Ccckell, of the sth Foot, Leonard S. Orde, on the t eat.
pay of, the 132 d Foot, Riehard,Bingharn of. tl2,e 3d Foot,
lehn Lee, on time Half-pay of the late r iitir Foot, Henry `1
Clinton, of the ist toot Guards,. lohn SOlitag,
W. L. Popham, on.thesHalt-payof the Cambflan
- lames Dunlop, of the 59th tout, Fitzroi, G. AtAcieari, of
the 37th hoot. Walter Ker, lie Half-nay of the Loyal
. British Fencibles, .Alexander of the "York •
Light Infantry Volunt,ers, Henry Frederick Campbell; of
Ist foot Guards, William iinrw:ft, oft the liaif-pay of
the York HusAars, Riehard stewart, of th-P 43d hoot,
Honourable Wiiitam Charles Stew-Lti, of:the 18th Light
Dragoon,. Augustus Baron Veltheini, of tiv• King's
Ger-
n'.tan Legion, (with temporary Rank only) Ceorke Baron
Buck, otthe.King's German. Legion, (with ditto) Thuntli'
Trotter, 'ot, the' Royal John Smith, of the Royal -
Artillery, William
.Cuppage, of the Royal. Artillery,-
Thonias"Seward, of the Reny l Artillery, FrasCis,L.,y~e,
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the Royal Artillery, Bayley Willitigtoni of the. Royal' Ari.l
Peterdu Piat,.ohtke King's;Gerinan Legion, (with
temporary Wink only),Augustus Baron Holtistedt, ot the
King's Legitin,"(with ditto) Victor Baron Alter),
of the King's Gerinan Legion (with ditto)• Sigismund
Baron Low, of the King's German .kegion, (with ditto)
fkdolptius neron harsse, of the King's Germaii Legion,
(wit,' ditto) Charles Baron Alten, of the King's Cerman
Legi,n, (with ditto) William Grant'of the Royal Invalid
Artiliery,, lul) Croker, on Half-pay, John Hope or the
bout Foot, Sir Montague Burgoyne, Bart. on the Halt-pay
of the zist Ligiit Dragoons, Alan Canicroti, of time 79111
Toot, Andrew Lord l;i oieY: of the 89th Foot, Honoirrable
Stephen Mahou,:of the 7th Dragoon Guards, Daniel Hogli-
Son, of the Sth Fout,-JotmSullivan Wood, at the Bth Light ..
Dragoons, Daniel O'Meara, on the lialt-pay of, the tzth
'West India Regiment; Francis Baron Rottenburg, of the
kotii hoot, H.Amutitble (Juries Cutvillc, of the 13th Foot,
Frederick Charles White, ot the ist ot Guards, Gcre
Bywne, or the .loth Foot, Lewis Lindemhal, of the 97th
Foot, Barnard F. 80“..5, of the 6th Foot, Roger Cogillar,
ou tiicz Half-pay of the 14th Garrison Battalion, Henry
Fai.e, of stile ist Dragoon Guarci.., Robert. Bolton, of the
13th Llhht Dragoons, Rob'ert Chei.ey, ot the tat Fegitnent
of foot Guards,. George Ans,m,- at the 16th Light. Dra-'
' goons, Kenneth Alexander How,td, of the Coldstream
Regiment of Foot Guartls—To 'oe Major-Geiteials the
Army.