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London, England, 1810-06-16 00:00:00

COMMISSION.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to
several public and private Bills. Among the former
were the Irish,Tax Bills.

The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Aylesford, and Lord Walsingliam.
The Bill for re-building Drury -lane Theatre was
read a second time:

On the motion by the Earl of LIVERPOOL that the
Appropriation Bill be'read a first time,

Lord LAUDERDALE moved that the 13111 be printed.
Lord LIVERPOOL opposed the motion, on the
ground that it was altogether unusual to print such
Bills.. -

Loyd LAUDERDALE said that unless the I3ill was
printed, he . should move that the Bill be read
throughout.

The House divided on the motion for printing
the Bill,

Contents • • • • 3
Non-Contents . . 9
Majority . . 6

Lord LIVERPOOL then moved the first reading of
the Irish Arms Bill.

Lord HOLLAND thought the BM ought to be
printed. It was a Bill of great importance, inasmuch
as it went to suspend the rights of the subject, and
he should deem it his duty to make some observa-
tions upon it. He hoped, therefore, the Bill would
not be precipitately read a second time.
Lord LIVERPOOL observed, that the Noble Lord
might offer his observations on the_ third reading of
the Bill. His wish was that it Might be read a second
time to-morrow 5 that, however, he should not press,
unless the Bills Was printed.
,The Bills on the table were then. advanced in their
respeEtive stages, and the Hooke adjourned.

HOUSE 4F COMMONS.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15.

The SPEAKER, with the Members, went up to
the House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given
to the Irish Taxes Ads, the East India Company
-Shipping and Recruiting Aets,• the Lottery Act, and
several piivate Ael4.
A Messao'e .as sent to
Lord Po the Lords, on the mo-
tion of LorHESTER, 'requiring the attendance
of B3rott:Walaingtiam and Earl Braybroke, to give
evidence before .the Conlinittee sitting on Sinecure
.Places. •

Mr. DENT gave notice that he would, enly in the
net xt Ses.ion of Parliament, make a motion re,
spe;,ting the islaricl of De►nerara.,

SOUTHWARK PETITION.
Mr. HENRY THORNTON said, he held in his hand
•the Petition and Remonstrance of the Eleators of
the baough of Southwark, legaq convened by the
Deputy thiliti:on the 13th inst, He apprehended
there was nothing in the language, of the- Petition
that would preent it from being received, and
therefore- presented it to the I-louse..
The Petition was read by
.the Clerk, which was
couched in much the same terms as the Westmin-
ster Petition,,, and prayed for the release of Gale
Jones and Sir Francis Burdett..

Si: THOMAS TUR;tON said, nnfortunaiely he did
not attend the Meeting, not having been ap-
plied to, 1 and knew no more of the circum-
stance, than 'any other Member in the House.
It was the quty of every Representative to attend
a Meeting.of his Constituents to give them his asi
sistance and advice; He approved of the senti-
ments contained in the Petition, except Where it de-
nied the right of the House to imprision for a
breach of pt ivilege.
The Petition was ordered to be laid on the table.
PRIVATE BILLS. •

Sir T. TURTON said, before the Sessien broke up,
he wished to Call the attention of the. House to
the proceedings on Private Bills above stairs.—
Great inconvenience arose from the' present• sys-
tem for arranging the bringing in and passing
of private Bills, as in the course of six weeks the
whole . of them were under consideratiOn, which
caused very great trouble and inconvenience to
the Members. He was of opinion, that the lime
for reporting them -ought to be enlarged; and that
some means ought to be adopted to enforce the
attendance of Gentlemen on Committees, which
Would -.greatly tend to fkiiitate the bus'iness.—
And, also, he was of opinion.. that a short-hand
Writer should be appointed to attend each Com-
mittee. •

The SPEAKER observed, that several matters
stated by the 'Hon— Gentleman were worthy of
the most grave and serious consideration. It, was
desirable. that he should iolkow them up with a
specific proposition, or to follow' them up with a
notice for future consideration. The House was
too much at the mercy of Agents and Solicitors of-
'Bills, whether they should be condueled quick or
slov.. There was another subject also worthy of
consideration,_ and that was the petitions -of hos-
tile parties .being presented in a late stage,: bt a
Bill, which was attended with delay, and great and
unnecessary expence and inconvenience. With

GALE JONES.
Sir J. HALL rose; in pursuance Of the.notice he
had given, to move for the Jiberation of John Galti
Jones: When he was. committed; -a great many
Members said, .if they had been present, they
would have voted against it. When brought bei
fore the House, his conduct was mild, and he ac-`_
,knowledged his offence. The Honourable Ba-
ronet who was committed to the Tower was ex-
ceedingly ardent, and he had bad advisers; but his
motives and intentions might be g,,od. He
thought he aced-inconsistently ; fur he supported
the privileges of the HOuse when others were com-
mitted, but resisted them in The case of G. Jones.
He thought he was-thuatedby a strange-degree of
phrenzy in resisting tile Serjeant at Arms, which
collected all the turbulent spirits of the Metro-
polis before his house. .He was' anxious to se.-
prate the case of John Gale Jones from, that of Sir
Francis Burdett,' as he might hate been enlarged
months ago, if he had presented a petition, %duel'
was a form with which, in his opinion, the House
should dispense. „He there Tore moved that John
Gale Jones, now a prisoner in Newgate, be forth-
with discharged. ±

Mr. Secretary RYDER opposed the motion, ore
the ground that Gale Jones was a voluntary pri-
soner, as he might be enlarged months ago; if he
thought fit to .petition the House. .He opposed big
liberation more particularly, because a similar tno.;
tion was brought forwaid some time ag-i, and nego=
tived,.and therefore the House would act iticonsist;
ently; if it agreed to the 'pteient pioposidon of the
Hon. Member.

Mr. PETER MOORE'3II4 Sir THOMAS TURTON sup.;
ported the motion, which was put and negatived
without a division. •

SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. BROUGHAM, after taking a retrospeCtiVe view
of the proceedings in Parliament for the Abolition of
the, Atricau Slave Trade, stated that it still existed,
and was cairied on through the medium of Spain
and Portugal, and though an Act against the intiu•
man traffic was passed in Congress, yet it was car-
ried on in American bottoms. The average amount
of Slaves exported from the Spanish Settlements on
the coast of Africa to their settlements in the 'West
Indies, since the year 1802, was 5800 per arnium,
and 30,000 were imported by the. Portuguese to the
-Brazils and their other settlements. A considerable
trade was carried on in slaves to the Island of Cuba,
which found their way by night in long boats made
for the, purpose, carrying 70 or 80 men each, to
Trinidad. Ships were fitted out for cam nig on this
iniquitous traffic, without those bulk-heads and plat-
form's commonly constructed for the accommodation
of the negroes. When they got out to sea, they
were fitted up by the carpenters, so as to answer the
purpose. They then proceeded-to Africa; took in a
cargo of dives, which were disposed of partly at
,Trinidad and Cayenne, but prit:cipally at the Spa-
„Dish and Portuguese colonies. He held in - his hand
the'recoid of the condemnation of a ship which had
been taken in the Tiver. Judgment in the case he
. adverted to had been suffered to go by default. tie
would read. to them some of tlie itenis of the cargo,
which he,thought Must do away every doubt as to
the-traffic in which- the ship was engaged. The ves-
sel mounted 16 nine-pounders, and 50 barrels of
gunpowder were on' board. There was 16,000
barrels of
.fish, and 38,000165. of rice. in fine,
there was on board six weeks' "messing" for 1000
men. /here wasQ Faso containing 15. dozen of pad-
,locks, and, moreover 197 shackles air the hands
and, feet, ninety-eight pails Of handcuffs, and
three hundred and a half Weight of iron chain,
and one box of " religious itholements.",He
did. not exactly know what they wore, but that
stood 'among the items in the record. For Ole ser-
, vice of all the men this vessel was intended to car-
ry, exposed to every kind of ill from the, changZ of
climate, &c. there was but one small Chest of medi-
cine, valued at 51. Such was the hUmanity of
these African slave-dealers. Since he had given no-
tice of his motion• on the subjeet, six ,vessels had
been detected fitting out for that trade, or rather
for the commission of that. detestable clime. He

rejoiced that such wretches were no lotiger screened
by the Legislature from those expressions ot.abi►or-.

rence and detestation he was di;posed to bestow.
He would not call them merchants, forthey were
miscreants guilty of the worst species of climes.
When, he said they were guilty of all sorts Jf
ders, far from thinking he expressed himself toa
harshly; he thought. his language not sufficiently
strong. For murder; in a common way, he would
admit there might be something like an excuse. In
some instances it might be perpetrated through sud-
den passion, or through deep resentment ol,injuries
received. Where no provocation had been given,
it might sometimes be excused by insanity ; but the
murders committed by these, "slayers" were deli-
berately committed, with motives the most mete.

nary, the most sordid, and the mc.sit base. The,
freebooter and highwayman who murdered the tra-irellt-r refusing to surrender his 'property, wete il-
lustuous chara6ters, compared to those dedleis in
blood. The courage of the robber in exposing his ,
own life to such danger, threw a sort of lustre over
his crime; •but here were a -set of men, who with

every disposition to commit murder, afraid' of ex-

posing themselves, systematically employed others
equally base, excepting their being iesl cowardly, to
do the horrid deed, They ought, not to ,be called
Slave traders," but " Liverpool murderers," or
Liverpool suborners of perjury andulurdet." He
begged to suggest to tile HOU3O the facilities which
would for our putting a stop to the Slave Thide by
'oUr obtaining 'possession of an island situated be-
tWten Sierra Leone, and the southern part of the
African coast. He thought a great number of cruis-
ers ought to be sent to that port, having an extiaor-
ainary number of-hands on board, and a considerable