The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

HAMPSFI IR E M EETING.
EDIT() r.,—The Hampshire Meeting, in-
tended to be ,held on Friday next, has been ad-
\'ertised in so many different ways, that it really
Puzzles me and some friends of mine to deter-
Tine Whether we ought to attend it or not; and
shall -hope to be properly informed, in due
thiough your widely circulated Paper, as
there will be no publication of the County Papers
fore the Meeting is to be held. In the Hanip-
81,4ire Chronicle of the Ist. instant, " The,,Free-
:'°lders and other Gentlemen of the Countywere
to attend ;" but in the Hampshire Tele-
. VtaPh of the same date, " The Gentlemen,
the County, were appointed to . meet ;" and
v) in both these papers of the Bth, the
"itation is, 44 To the Gentlemen, Clergy', and
(I),.ter FREEHOLDERS," excluding any Inhabitant
ho " is neither Gentleman, Clergyman, nor Free-
alder. Now this exclusion- it is that places
of my friends in a difficulty in deciding
slether to attend or not, for though I may my-
Itielf attend as a Freeholder, if not as a Gentle-
„ail) many of my .friendS, and friends to the
Ctt'se to be advocated, are !wither the one nor the
t:er, hut are of the order usually denominated
ler) rag, and bobtail," who. might all have at-
es under the comprehensive and convenient
et't"iPtion of Inhabitants, and swelled the majo-
ijthat I know is anticipated, and I have no
C4llut will be had, as I am told that my Lord
th,lAltvoN and his friends will be left to enjoy
tte:e themselves,triumph by as none of the Gen-
therr, iz of the County who think differently from
•TEs44nd who have already addressed His MA-
' }tag Itiean to attend, nor will my friends. Tag,
Gen' and Bobtail, as they never associate with
eteri
-.now len unless specially invited, though they
pro,, their • own pOwer and consequence when
his rrrlYcalled into action ; and I would assure
boti7lship, as a friend, that he has lost much,
qon 014 numbers and potiularity, by this exclu-
bNi°‘ sek many of his warm friends, and had he
arid in ore: fortunate in the day of his Meeting,
fixed it for the day dedicated' to my patron,
~IShU
would BLAsE, which is very near at hand, 1
w.,have insured him the attendance of all the
40°1 Sisters, " Woot-combers, Rug-makers, and
liat,.P-roakers in the County, and every subordi-
as order connected with our staple commodity,
well as his steady and warm friend,
A WOOL SORTER.

Winchester, 7th January, IS2I.
S. I have heard, though I can hardly he-
s'.7 it, that the Requisition has been altered
;tee, it was left with the Sheriff. If it were so,
p wish that he had in the last notice told the
titthlic what sort of Persons he really did intend
kQuld meet. It is said that he meant only
r"holders and other Gentlemen

The ABOLITION of the SLAVE TRADE•

We regret very much to hear, it is generally
belieVed, that the PRESENT. FRENCH GOVERN-
MENT, notwithstanding their professions of since-
rity and the Treaty they have entered into to abo-
lish this. inhuman traffic, have- not, yet Sent out
instructions to the Governments of the French
West 'lndia Coliinids• to prohibit the importation
of Slaves into those Islands; the Black Popula-
tion of which has been greatly increased 'within
the IpAt,rfiVe years. Indeed the traffic is carried
on to such an extent, that from the French
Islands, we are informed, the Dutch Settlements
have been and still Continue to be supplied With
Slaves, notwithstanding the King of the. Nether-
landssrhad agreed by •Treaty to abolish the Slave
Trade. This apparent Violation of the Treaty is
attempted to be justified by a pretended secret
Article, which, it is said, allows the Dutch Colo-
nists to obtain SlaveS throUgh the medium of the
other Foreign Settlements, though they are pro-
hibited importing them direct from Africa.

Under ;hat circumstances this total disregard
of the Treaties entered into by the Kings of
France and of the Netherlands has been tolerated
we are at a loss to conjecture, unless it is to pro-
pitiate the leading Members of the Holy Alli-
ance, and to further their general views. We did
expect that, after the discussions which have
taken place in Parliament, and the great pecu-
niary sacrifices, which this Country has already
made', under the unfortunate arrangements which'
were entered into on this subject, that strong re.
monstrances would have been made, and an end
put to a traffic as disgraceful to humanity as it is
extensively prejudicial to the general interests of
the BritishbWest India Colonies. •

The effect bn them is almost beyond calcula-
tion. The great increase in the cultivation of
sugar in the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Portu-
guese settlements is such, as nearly to exclude
our sugars from the' principal European ports,
from the low prices at which the Foreign sugars
are sold.—We merely throw out these hints, for
the consideration of those individuals, whose
duty it is to watch over and protect this most
important branch of the trade of this country,
whether it is considered in a financial, political,
or commercial point of view. We shall shortly
resume this subject, and we shall be obliged to
our Colonial. Correspondents to favour us, in the
mean tirne, with such further information upon
it, as will -enable.us to expose the disgraceful con-
duct of those Powers who still connive at the
continuance of this traffic, merely to enrich their
subjects who are resident or interested in their
Colonial posSeSsions.

TRADE•-" Bonny, elst July, 1820.—Since we
arrived here (the 12th March,) there has not been less than
nine, nor more than sixteen at a time, in a general way twelve
or thirteen vessels, brigs, and schooners, carrying horn three
to seven hundred slaves -each, and in New Calabria (which is
upon the same river) always three or four; as one goes away
she soon zeta replaced. There are always fourteen slave ves-
sels of different denominations here, two of which were here
whets I first called, and are now on their second voyage."
" Bonny, 30th dug:lat.—lt grieves me to think I cannot
make greater progress in my voyage. Since our arrival here
(the 27th March,) 120 sail of the French, Spanish, and Por-
tuguese vessels have arrived and sailed with staves, in conse-
quence of which the palm oil trade has been, and is now,
totally neglected by the natives."