The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-20 00:00:00

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the Vice of plans of Mr. Durite and turd
all this, it wis a link too much
to rail at those who .tiotv brought forward the
lOtatell:e of ilegietre, as if it were the must titre.
'vegeta, the most absurd, the most mischievous and
'ddangeroded ineasare ever,brought before the timid-
'Aeration of PArliumem, It wits said they wished for
'the ems oeieitiOde of all he negroes in the eeltiniet.
.Nossinpoll lilts he begged to call the attention (gibe
House to the real facto, and, Onee more ttS state
ids sentiments on this aubjeit, if liotisibte to
're3col,7 theM from misrepreirentition.-Of4ll that*
'wh dad advocated the celiac, of eholition. there
v,iss not one who hadimt repeatedly declared, that
be wished to succeed. because the abolition would
he the, it edinS of improving the condition of slaves
—of alleviating their miseries-of improving theta
so ittttclt, that 'in' after times, be/ steps,
the West Indies 'Might be cultivated by a free and
happy negno pedesinfry. Milt, the great cry
against them, since 1783; Wet', that they wished
to make all the *laves free. And Yet, solo was this
(foal being the ease, that they thought the negroes '
iheispable of liberty; .it *mild be insanity to
ereeneipateallene, Bet then they might be gre.
dually improved to such a state, that in time they
might he susceptible of freedom. This part of
the Sithject•uaturally led hiM to anodise, which it
Was very painful for him to touch .11;1014:and the
ecineerti which he felt in alluding to it was mingled
with Much surprise. What he meant wrds,theitn•
potation that the Registry Bill was the cause at
the late insurrection of the. slaves: lie really
should! have thought it' impossible for any rational
man elatedly to assert this ; and he would tell
the House why. Those who asserted that the
advocates for the aholition wished to make
the slaves flee, did not consne themselves to
asserting it in this House, -hut they soill so
c)sewheeel.....they did inore—ethev. printed and
eireulated these assettions its the hulls
Islands. They were printed Iti-sWebe West be.
die newspePers. This fact was OW enough to
show the cause to width these lamentable effects
were to be traced: He held its his • hand, letters
written from the West India Islands since the in-
surrection, and from personi of the wrist respect.
able character. He then reed! an extract, from a
letter written by a Gentleman in the Island of
fiarbarines, dated a week before the insurrection:
htoke out, in which the writer shoed, that such
was the violence and intemperance with which
the Planters in that Island spoke against the- Re-
gistry Dill, even in the presence of aheir• Slaves,
that it *Mild be astonishing, in the stateof it.
ritatldn ih which the minds of -the Negroes
were thus kept, if some explosion, did not
take place. He must not mention the name
of the Gentleman who wrote this letteri'asit
Wert not be very tale to do. so,Hconsidering.
the eonddict of the opriterk of thii measure. He
knoted other, letters frotn• the .seine blend, in'
*bleb it ti as stated!, that, from' the violent Mid
ititirtirer4tt !ailt:Lltlg'r of the Planters; the Negroes
thee impressed wick a, hrlirf.tbat Perliantent'had
passcd swot fortheir bene6t,' whick
tits Coloniste-refused tts comply ; that this feeling'
l it . rouse to such a Laright that the Negroes'
etowtle'd round every packet the; reached Barba.
dites; and
.the' writers • predicted, 'that front the.
affitteect of their feelings, snit the frequenett ef'
their disappointments, some dreatlintellictnibance,
was.tO ht apprehended. All 'this 'Wes Written be.
f')re the blurts:oJ* broke out. 'There were
otbftr' statement i einstained in letters of Silver
dite;'which were not so emelt in the form of pre-
dletititi, and they all vinettrred in saying,' that if
ibis Registry bill had been spnkett of by the Plan.
terein• a more tenterate manlier, all that 'agita.
?fon Which Was exerted among thie negrties, might
have :been prevented. After all theta Statements
it surely swiss todonielt for the MOO man ' putient ma
to'bear withotit eMotion, that this~ insurrection
was to he inipetted to the Conduct dation who
hrodight forward Ind supported the Registry
thil 'that this too shottldi be said after the etplo.
*lnn kind 'taken place---when the negroes had beets
Serodight tip to this desperate act by those printed
statements which the opposers of the Hill had cir-
culated in the \Vest Indies-e.whett the piece which
they had overloaded against the advocates of the
nieddaddre had burst against themselves. if he hod at
all succeeded in explaining the nature of theltegistry
fill, it would beagreed that there could he nothing,
more' innocent ; hat if the insurrection .Wacto

be attl'ibuted to his explanations—if it was to be
supposed that the dliturbanee would be increased
by Psi Fitment agreeing to such a ;unsure, this
House might as well at once shut tla its doors,
and resign its functions. But were such assertions
to he endured When a tumult was some years
ago excited lit the metropolis by the coinsuittal of
certain persons by this House, on which occasion
several lives bad been lost, were the lives of the

nfertunate vicilms on that occasion to be charg-
ed on the resolution of the House ? On a more

rdcent occasion too, when riots took plate dining
the progress of the Corn Bill, were the litres to
on that occasion to be charged on the House fur
phssing the fill ? Anti still more recently, were
those disturbances In di-fere:lt part of the count.
try, whieit had roily
.ost-subsided, to be imputed-
the arguments nt -those who, during the die.
etissions tit this lionse oil the distresses of the

people, bad enlarged on the evils which they were
then staefinit, rind on the oeces.itty of a 'curtly )
DO if the Members of the House did their dirty
without attending to such imputations, they might
ley their hands on their hearts and remain satisfied
as to any result. As for such accusations, he
Loped he had sliewn ciearly that they ought to be
swerty disregarded; and especially in the present
ease they might say, 1' We ate innocent of the
blood of these unhappy personaetett ye to hi..
If it were necessary to go any -farther into this
most dlitressing part of ,the subject, he might
prove very satisfactorily to the House that there
were some circumstances in the situation of Bar.

bitdoes--(lte hoped nobody would insert its the
Jamaica newspapers wt►ut he, w►as going to say)=--
that the condition of the negro population of that,

island was Stich as-might accoutit for the insurrec-
tion. Thcie ,r►s ti particular class of those who
in that island were placed over the slaves, tyllose
c(,ll,hict row:oils them was welt as *as most likely
to will and oppress these.ttrifortunate black*. Of
ft 1 the Colonies, it Ives the Due in which the treat-
ment of the negro •tares was inch as to be likely
at length to provoke them to swot desperate in.