The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

bat the
understood that their necessities should be supplied; ,a, st
country would be surprised to learn that when a Spainrrot,
Poi teguese slaver was taken by one of our vessels, and „I for
ferret! to British protection, their wants were as little car. ,40,
as when on board of the vessels of their original captors.eatu.'re,
ores
was the case much improved when these unfortunate sseee
were landed at Sierra Leone. By the narrative of Mr, io l
Hill, whom he had not the honour of knowing, but whoule
man would honour for his kindness and humanity in see;
partying a cargo of those negroes in the character Of sdatiot
terpreter—by that gentleman's statement it appeare
alt the horrors of the slave trade were not exaggers,oo
and that they were such as to surpass the coneePt;,,
of the most fervid imagination. These horrors were the ~
whether those unfortunate creatures were placed underefults
command of a llritish officer, or whether under that ~,1
officer of a foreign country, for the hotrors appeared tot;s,
part cf the system. The physical condition in which .
negroes were landed at Sierra Leone was described as beetrehd
the extreme fi ightful. He would not speak of the °yr.'
fate of those whose deaths were caused by their eufferge,
that he would pass over ; his business was with the or, frets
Colonel -Nichols had stated, that when they were landeetobj
the vessels they looked like ghosts. Those who were se,
at the Cape of Good !lope, he believed, were better in 117-1,,J
ante ; their lot was certainly preferable, but still it tvassiett
enough. He did not impute this as a chargeyb
any Government, for in tllis matter be believe('shit
and Tory to be equally blameless. All he wished °,95,,ice0
her Majesty's eksvernment would review the instructions a ibt
to the Governor of Sierra Leone, and issued by hint tlshel
10,h June last year. By those it appeared that negre!s; their
liberated and carried to Sierra Leone, were to exercis bother
discretion whether they would remain in the colony, or ww were
they would be removed to the West Indies; but bebe per
they able to exercise any such discretion? In t ipter,
gresso, the vessel which Mr. Hill had joined IS, shoe
prefer, out of the whole cargo of' 447 not 10,401
230 were boys. In a dispatch from the rt'b a
uers.te°
office it was required that every able person who was sor
at Sierra Leone should decide whether they woulti t
`yeti
themselves or whether they would emigrate to the
of
Indies. Now, in this direction, no distinction was madee feet'
or sex. The child of six years of age was in the same th!
tion as the adult. In the case to which he had orator': be
Governor withheld the app.ication of this instructioit so",
own responsibility, and restricted it to those children 04 id!
nine years old. Now, it was a perfect mockery to o:lso,atieif
an alternative to those persons. They were laude even
and destitute on the shores of our colony, igeoranbir geler
every word of the language of their captors. He (SxB4s (I°
Inglis) did not think that he was a wiser man in rise
he was in 1842, but he bad yet the advantage ofexP,e_.,e,
and he did not, therefore, feel himself bound to abide icrle
bi
cision of the Committee in that year, notwithstandincat repel
not at that time protested against it. At page 15 °ft n(161(1'111
Hon. Members would find a provision which recornmeorces'
if a liberated negro was able either to maintain himself tote's
get any relatives or friends to undertake for his °llifte
he was to be at liberty to remain at Sierra Leone' tbea.
were without the means of maintaining himself,,,l4l blo
must of necessity become an emigrant to the ss,e:a, to esild,
He was tempted to deny the right of Government 'ted ptrf
force the departure of those slaves within such a lino ,set
for they must recollect that when that country tc'°;"(4 sic° 11„
the carrying of them to Sierra Leone, they Prn,te'sotesl, the'
only to protect but to provide fur them. Ele einnL, aftere;
fore, how far gentlemen could be said to be at libereT foro,ois
tering into this engagement, to free thernseil 0010 a
obligation to protect and provide for that P bt,jbeteit
The expenses of maintaining them at Sierra Lenneweetbe
very considerable, and it was for them to considers foal,
would be better to retain them on the coast of filt. led
remove them to where labour was more abundantbe
ting that that cost was 12,000/, a year, or, taking 0. Peso
at 10,0001., whatever it might be, he (Sir „,00,40.
maintained, that up to that moment there had bee'erai rtee
of income above the expenditure of' the colonies. • aseityt
clamation to which he had already so often
referrenrefeet)
authority of the King of England, and he held tre
it was not enough to say that they (t 01°1'0
were a burden on the local resources of the to id
They were pledged to France, to the world. Iftelyiy
whole negro race to maintain and protect them' bat ofotel
been said against the state of Sierra Leone, bollsore
[louse looked to the report of the Committee heed chsty
from, and which had before it evidence of a tnia„„eas Om 04
—they would find that a large proportion of Pe, ...thee...4o,
colony were liberally educated, more so, indeen, The ";
other of the dependencies of this country.
in tf,
stated, that one-fifth of the inhabitants were , std
education. if that were so, surely the foulnierfer the/
porters of Sierra Leone were entitled to credit tbeoi obi
ertions. They at least were not responsible Or of ii.dioeii
nagernent of the affairs of the country. ooead 1);
jections to the course which Government; t- tuna,
was, that they had interfered with this lastd
things.—( Hear.) In the month of July inthe
a Government agent had gne throughout inailisel
anti he would quote from a letter, written by as Ili
detailing the effect produced by his interference. to traptl
had required many of the children to enligrat: the °weir
Indies, or to be put out among the cultivators 0f
eej, t'slri
No less than 100 boys and girls had been ineinto les os
misrepresen.ation of the Government agent,',
schools of education, and to embark for Jarrone-tobirly r
not say one word which would imply the slighteeertsi° le)
free ingress into the West Indies, but he most
jected that, in the plan proposed by Governinecnoilsbor„,
giving the negroes a semblance of free-will' Dr. 00,1
that they could not exercise it. They were, "la receiseji
said, throwing them out of the window, at the il;
ing them, at the same time, not to fall °lt Aire, rol
They were in this manner depriving s IneVe
of one of the means of improving its advantage i,,,00ef0,
in a letter addressed by the Governor of Sierralitie, )ti
Stanley, in April, 1844, that such were the fa% blade los
ing the colony, that a very large number of th, floe,
tion were quitting for other parts of the eountrtha 141
always speak with respect of the labours 0 b,tbsthel dal
Missions, but he must also speak of the good dOne fat, 100.,0
of the Church of England. In that colony /1".,,r
no less than ten pastors, two of whom, he (Se sr to°,l,oero4
had the honour of knowing. Those were eirs"--;l47ries
would benefit to the utmost degree the colon) srse
thet
sons who were brought from the interior ss,iilidt tot
liberated there. He (Sir R. H. Inglis) had nsjeoirSl4
emigration. to the West Indies, but he certainly me
Majesty's Government should continue the ssatittle iilleeS
had been pursued by their predecessors, and for-boot/100,re
selves. If they gave to the black population se for tertse,l
dom of will, and if then they chose to lea ° tociretieserretv",
Indies or for other places, he should not desir,e,,„ial'er
When the Noble Lord at the head of the Cneri'st. ,f 0.501
at first undertook the revision of the policy 0' Sits thrill
he required that the proportion of the sexes To toiedtll,o
should be no less than one-third of the fernale,onteS ,tllestalt
the male population. Now, it could not he, ; doriSlo
was impossible to preserve hat proportion, °'oootefstpiel
few years the population in Sierra Leone a° 10 gels
116 s
'20,000 males and about 17,000 females. be het,
the commencement of the observations whisPrbitn,heir
to that House, arid it was hardly necessary is for 1-004
it, that he bore no to the Legislature ran bey
of policy upon this subject. But he knew t"eiee, and
had accrued in consequence of this act of thhe r ?le ;
not conceal from himself that it mighth otleieteee6 I
evil consequences in their relations )11 frois‘eost;
He would recommend the Government to set to reeeir the'(
of their colonies in the first instance, and tif theittiatelioS°#
doing that which was right, because some °one eeaf,tosi
might think it was wrong. Yet, at the w nit stb!„
should regulate their conduct so as to 054401 ere.;
offence to other powers. They had seen *1,4 E. 00 so
r
eye France looked upon the proceeding! seam,' ttieSi
they watched the question of the right of
aua tet fee";
thing connected with the culture of stign theit,oll/11 t
lioration of the condition of that section t the',
seet,
who were known as slaves. In the last repo' corwse
them of the proceedings in the 13rasiheaniotkod;
distinctly stated that their right t 11, "OA
into America remained untouched. 01 ma lie the, si4
$
therefore, from what he had stated, and frn_ troaetlalaS4
possession, but with which he would not the;st tor of A" 014
that there was too much reason to believe
st eosPee forte Po
like a shove trade was peculiar to the d easnoadeta,tiefle
as
supplying the Mauritius. Among the cur
No re. it ss o
he had moved there was an ordonnan° that. oils ted
Mauritius, and he had no reason to supPrefereecvarei „tots(
withheld by the Government. There tv,ia:aruritiostil; alsot
regular importation of negroes into the io cot jied
Slave Trade Papers of 1843 they would to •
the bit les-ael
the mode in which slaves had been taken na some tee fe;ittor:i
Africa to supply that colony. There srs,s_on theise aralso
phrase in the instructions emanating il,rbot
ttbe wieoler t
which authorized this slave traffic• te ingiticte
were to pre dispose and to , capon Vaaystiej
the negro—they were to part „ to ~it oto d
the landscape of that island—they
the
%tea
the happiness and comfort whien„.e west cetnig• r 4
All the evils which took place upon t" was antheir Vio
occurred in every part from which there,r, ill "if tFLerty
the labourers. The kings had a pronecadrateesce2 soeryit
and when labourers were wanted t° f their 10002
could not find a sufficient number 0, _ lands e," v
dispose of, they made incursions into teit7,lloplyierrS,,ef4
boors, and carried off their populationt t it O°,
It was true that this statement did noelere're-j, hand
pi Mpyi
to which the first part of his motion ld, the gel; ft,
'to the Mauritius, which was the object,. follow 9,7,
he would not ask the Government r
own ess, lor'.4„f)
their predecessors, but to follow thie,rntr
anby e
seat ths.l;e4°d
predecessors the Marquis of IsT sobject' he toi
Russell had spoken distinctly
caution could be taken which trotach!, o fat
eetti desi tto theisibe
infamy of the slave trade from b.,e.it'd es she‘n_rins• to j
emigration." His Right. himself' t.e_" sirdiar te_eptire.:olo.,
vernment had expressed r
v.is not Tit we' dr;
own part, he (Sir Robert Inglis), lode, ~,bilitlsttetsj
that the experiment should n
od
afford a pr.... owe
off
under circuinsmnoes which woe' 0 }
_iuoinle,'"to ,t 4
cess. Rut they should sacrifices d taitn,be gre_lopr
They should not keep the word n.'it;le that in lit iras_si,s oef
break it to the heart. Ile was sc?;,00000/.,,, the citte,„
riment for which England Paiey Rero"tlid resithe cer
i t would take away from the Nestlabourer° was but tt
coercion—that the bodies of the
,0
supply '1:he'll; tibeit
that the planters would only haves trot :`;,egro a_ed.t.;
of the coercion which was take,ne
adequacy
0012" of
was no doubt entertained 0
f the ab°lTes 0) ato
untitzbaotistdthteebldool:t'hi
oloc,f
the West Indies to compensated% west 'not
eat
Afri
e e_, hoseh t '
I,:was 00
-tor; ahe.ust
bfiettleiedv'tdo tthhaetAtthreieacnlirnraaotee;ohf
thenet interest
aid h o oft
hthiteikWtehstlnwilieets
secure fur ,
and saerT -
(ei barcr
might come.—(Hear' hear.) n • for forbYese
viduals and as a nation,
a protection from the miseries ra,,e-otiee thvoee
object of this country to rescue
they had made so much etexerr.,t,ionrnin
whieo
at 4
orjer,,,
dispatches and other Met
• Orders' thefeir.r,
moving for the returns s
the Mauritius. d eries 0. een- r
amidst loud • to se - ion rov
Mr. HOPE rose, f.oartrhoinintkabg..teton sierra
said that he rose
two, et- 44,
‘. Who seconds?"g it
lie his Ri st in thee ulbselea
—( Laughter.) He assuredlay deep ioterse
thst he felt an el
st irotest agains u, that boll jo
wpatbi
ts.be
persons for whom
is
used by his Hon. Friern-1. "u
awakened. But he mh !lino:, Firninen, ttree'let.sZte j°ofhebi,°:°i
tibhat thele,:setiofl:o;
dins of r
nitheeetbl'O.ooudldofwetihgeh tAhferilcuatner;cst°,scri:er very
instead sth
that good might
ns the en on,ol, ts s,
mote their by stat sets ltS
course pursued by theeeen;e.rninent. a- deaveu- d• e
vernment h ion ens' shiest On o'
faith with
_tlatiellbiebeenrattnetpl
rnA Irma i.te_auban
sunte I
from o'
as 1807 there was a provis
from
slave n
viare
401
tection negroes liberated
since tall the Peer°cssiVl
rations and improvements hadcomrnvnt
corntnesite e the 'slier° tl'er
time. His Hon. Friend
vra a 3 to ieavnied at
eiatielil'et°,o
of the Governor in such a y
dailitY thei 'errs it/
eate en "her •,, Si- yet' I
from the slave-ships, in a .
r o tion ir )
were required to make thei
when those unfortunate persons were Is °rid e°2o°4l,l`lll;
suPpport the--es.,„,eriao -,estio•-•
grate to the West Indies ore bad re
ou'e,roelein thoeelateol
by their own labour, befor tneY„,ead tb
..,tiee.ibe
—( The mr.l. Gentleman then a _os to. t it
the•pegv-`r tor, of
tion was only to w4r . but were tietecore
ilt a
own exertion%
-.,porentraetnidenedwthhiaelti
hhies.hHadonp„.
tnFttr,ioeltidialsm.a.,
0' 6'icettiioa,pottocti:
lock to their , • until flaw ta
ere 8 coo—
to sustain themselves ; f
they Wet-
ore
recover their strength be
Government from aulinagtitrthey
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