The Sun.
London, England, 1811-04-09 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

The Home then resolved itself into the Committee
of Supply.
SIERRA 1.00 NE..

Mr. WHARTON, after mating the circumstances
which had OCOSioned the delay in the detho tore of
the Chief Jo.itiee of Serra ',collo (Mr. Thorpe)
viz. the difficulty whirl) eliisted in, the drawing
out of the Charier ; and, sabiegittittly, the
uf procuring an opportunity ru go out,
holly (it:curing until within the last three weeks,
moved,

is That a sum not exceeding 14.590. be guimett to his
NlitjebiY,, hit ileir.iying the expeiKe4 of the Settlement of

Jr.l\ rved, th,tt ht., Charier was
!lir ripp,ilotifit.itt tit the C.,sie.l Jittitter, could
wit (lewd, ;iv Ir ;I ; .11.41 11,A, ill,.rt.fore,

he *3l net entitled to Ins salary until that pea
fled.
Mr. Wasaron estate:tied. W. Thorpe had been
appntnted to IsQtt, when it tas imagined that the
Cliatol would be esteemed in d very short time.
In the hist plifeeotewever, there WWI found con.
Siderakk ditti!tifty in prepaiing the toll el instruct
This oeCuelest three iiotilles, It *as then
submitted to the Attorney Goetal. shereard* to
L6rd EllessherOuttlt, and lastly to the tbrd Chancel•
lereby,whom severd doubts were entertained with
„respect Ito ditterent parts of the instrument; and
Whl:h ddiihts r#Cnienne# din eiltinintlei delay
a teedvettionitt. the who of ties period
Mr. Thorpe was entirely precluded (rum setting any
other situati ; liable, as he Ives, to be called on at
a day's no ice to go 00 to Sierra Leone. Not bin
could be ism% lone therefore, trio thee he eliould
enitry the segtri.4.teres oe t.ad ben in the attend
eX reeling) Ortiet,tplinait.
Aaattoionate reprobated the delay whieb
had takes) place. eft, in. he. ifeerseil, pew e had
teen lidaiiisigtered in & rte Le..ne, the deist. *V
ernienal; if, it had. been well adtitiiiistered, the revii
poitorneut.sk p watt Ontsecamiary. Aft
MOrr 606 CaSe titter, in is tiptbibii, tame
htitord Parliarivnt ; awl as an Hotinerable Friend
below him (;.ir Matt) had given nutter for an i:n.
laity Into the seeetiots of the Colony of Sierra
4eone, he Willed that tf•e Comm tee would not
' largos Sinn as that • required, until the itit.
(wiry bad !alien pl ice.
Lord CASTLentrAos asserted the nerereite of die
establishment of eneatreregothrqyalerat'nt-jedloilure
in the Colony of Si;•r-‘1 'Amite; and .p...koi.g ot.
ementment of elle present
tool: plow when he was in office, de. tired ;tied he
had experienced great &dimity AP din:fint.e'pwririin
of repects.ble.,telents end characker w tteerut ifte
his uatitu,. Hea oad reepterited art than, and tanned
•titleinait iieur Imo Step;.ri) to endlavour to
di.eoVer Koine one wlto was rpialiti_ j, and who
wanki be disposeil I. artttio the odic 1 Out the kn«
qnirie of note, Honottralte and Le :riled Lientte.
111.111 11.0 bet.o At length he. appointed
Mr. T,porpe, ii Gentlemen who bad held a jilet-
cial situation in Upper (.;atiaila. 1-le entered into
an explanation of the ittpl difficult:A which hail
occurred in the drawing up of toe Cherie!, Ind de-
fended those who were concerned from ilto imputtl-
lion of has ing toffee;; any Unit :4 ninny tieleY.
Sir J. C. HiPPESLEY spoke of the ititelubrity of
the climate of Sierra Leone, which he knew (rem
his own eaperkiii c. Uf 1500 perisoni who were
originally sent Trom this country to that Colony.
only filteenAirvive,i in the year i 7811; and he him-
self should' have fallen a victim to the climate bed
he not taken a sudden departure.
PRELE defended the propriety of the grant,
which' was necessary to 'the dignity of jestice.
Mr. WITITEREAO Would leave to the
of the Slave Trade, to determine whether this cu.
Irony, rillhongh•certainly origin ging in good inten-
tions, had not been a connoted to, r„th h to.thetti.
Terre kid been. great mismanagement in the first
inteance, and much &vie Since the trattster of it 'et
Government. He objected to the paymer.t ef Mr.
Thorpe from the day. of Isis appointment ; and dam'
elated that this measure savoured tut ot‘sce Motive;
than those which wore Hiatt ed. Au Hon. Gentle*
nein talked of the dignity of justice. Whin dieter
WAS' iii:xtqsary in Sierra Leans ? In many cetrelies
the salary of the Chjellustiee wee only don,. vilest,
-In Upper C nada it was only !dont a pene Stft
there were other hems in the Sierra Picric Estirtiath
hmikt .6 that which rel tted to the Chief Jestier, thee
in lid opinion demanded ,consideratioo ; and tie roe
commended the patrons of the coloey ire postpone
the ptetentvcop until the p neves 'oen, of which
notice hail been given, heed acttrilly token
Tti. CItaNCEI.LOtt or the Excia Knees ueelarecl,,
that he should be very harpy to bless this 'tibiae!.
heveree into, and settled in such a manner as tower
vent the :ninon' discus,ioits that took place upon it.
Whatever might be the result of that inquiry, haw--
ever, lie could nut but recommend to the Cemmit-
tee so adopt the present vote; tor otiterwitts hall
the year must elapse before the cortimmecetion of
any dimitiotiettoin the grant could reach the colony,
to which porett, and incive,f until the return to this
country,. pet-sou:I who ii the diminution'
Would c itHo-to" relurni the'salaries of the alit' rent
otlieMr, Vic. irsuat, in jthtice be lipid at the old net .
Wile! good teiiii, a.a well as. of OW pulley of main- •
tensing the eoteny, he had tie down. Mee). roe
soils, Msroonscoti others, had edicts refuge in ti it
colony, and the expellee- of removing them, in the
event of abolishing toe cteony, ‘s, mild be. newly
'i • cry'
eqUal to that of the colony itself, _ ortess ty
appointing. to•the 'tvlce-Admitalrf Courts, pery.oitl'
by whom j .siite would be adintoisicred, w;' Ipq•
vions imu a small salary was nes a sufficient
dui einem to any r,...spectaf•k! individual. to lamps a
situation ultliarnattim. Whatever might be there,
suit of the • inquiry of his lime Friend, he saw no
reason for pustpenieg the 10 esent giant.
Mr. DENT ObServed, in explanation, that one of
the objetts which he had iii view iii the intended
• inquiry, Was to give protection to Il.e .Motets in
their present tiitintijoit. The report at present was,
trier tt ey were treated like slates.
Sir .1. NawroitT compared the salary f the Chief
Justice ol'Sierra twone to it is th ti sit the elitist Just vs)
of other eohltnies, in iitdvr to prove that sten
allowed wits, lei'' p.itlett tiles Lugo. Ho thought the
grant not be made until trim itirebt.gattull
bad taken piece.
Mr. STITIIF.N trusted that when the sebjetl came
to be disetirosed, tt.e lio.ourehle Gentlenien opposite
(Mr. Dem), would bring proofs of those assertions,
which, thrown out as. they now wale, (unsasriy, in
his opinimi), might make ate initevourable impress.
sion on tee public mind. Os all the preposterous
suppositions which lie bed ever heard, that of the
Nova Scotia filacks!_who formed the large mass of
the poptilanoneof Nova &wire being slaves, was
the most eetrnottlinary. There never was less cause
lot imputing partiality to Government limn in Vie
appointment of IW. l'horpe to the Ceiel Juitteesship
eel Sierra Leone; an appointment wivicn Was the
single ex.ception to the recommend s,i.rn of the. bee
rivvolent individuals *oft were he proprietors of that
Seittement but. re its transfer to G,,verntnent. The
1 at.lot.tion of the Sl..iva Ttade had r P`lert'd it ie es.

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