Star.
London, England, 1822-02-13 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE LAWS.

Dr. LUSIIINGTON, pursuant to notice, rose to
move for leave to bring in a Bill for the consolidation
of the existing Laws relative to the abolition of the
Slave Trade. As he did not expect any opposition
to his motion, he should refrain from going into any
detailed statement on the subject. He would merely
state, that for the last thirty years the House had
been passing a series of Statutes, for the purpose of
either checking, or for the final abolition of this odious
traffic. Those Gentlemen who had introduced these
Statutes had not thought it necessary to repeal the
Statutes which were in existence before them ; and
the consequence was, that it had become exceedingly
difficult for a person acting in obedience to the laws
to discover whether he was complying with the pro-
visions at all, or whether he was not accidentally vio-
lating some of them. It appeared, therefore, to him
that the consolidation he proposed should take place,
especially as the execution of them was entrusted,
amongst others, to Officers of the Navy and Custom-
house Officers, who had not an opportunity of cou-
. suiting these numerous Statutes. A consolidation,
therefore, he proposed to make, containing all the
provi.ions of the other Statutes, in a form so clear,
that if taken up by the Officer commanding a cruiser,
or any other person, there would be no occasion to
look elsewhere to know how to act. This the House
would see was a work of considerable difficulty and
labour, and he confessed that in the Bill he intended
to introduce, he had been assisted by the labours
of a Learned Friend, whose attention had long
been directed to the subject of consolidating the
laws. It was no intention of his to alter the law,
which would be precisely the same as at present,
except such as should point out in the shape of
amendments what appeared to him to be defects.
He trusted the House would permit him to bring in
the Bill, and in the Committee he would explain his
views more fully. He was aware that the system
was subject to many objections. Some of the enact-
ments were obscure, and others were defective; but
there would be a full opportunity in the Committee
for considering these points, and he would take care
that any individual Member, who should desire to
introduce a clause tending•to promote what had been
for so long a time the great object of Parliament,
should have an opportunity of doing so. The prin-
ciple upon which the consolidation would be made,
was perspicuity. His intention was, if he succeeded in
this instance, to apply the same principle in the
course of the next Session, to other parts of the law.
Much he thought might be done, by the principle,
in the Criminal Code. That, however, was a consi-
deration for the future-4or the present he should
content himself with moving—
.' For leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate and amend the
Laws relative to the Slave Trade."

Mr. BELLNAL wished for time to make some in-
quiries on the mode of executing these laws by our
agents abroad, before the Bill should pAss through
the House.

Mr.DAWSONconsidered that a Bill of this nature
was much wanted, and would be of great use. It
hal his full assent.

II:.LUiikeNGTON said, that as the Bill would

not be hi a Committee before the middle of March,
tloott would be plenty of time for his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Bernal) to make the inquiries be desired.
Leave WAS then given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. DA {WON Uhl on the table a Report of the comparative
Population of the different Counties of England. •
A Return was ordered to be made of all Fees and Emolu-
ments received by the Solicitor of the Excise for the years 1820
and ;821, whether from the Commissioners or individuals.
On the motion of Mr. Lusunsovors, Mr. BilliODIN brought up
the Report on the motion for Supply, which having been read,
it was resolved, that the House go into a Committee of Supply
to-morrow.
Mr. LUSHINGTON, in reply to a question put by Mr.
Hume, said it was the intention of his Majesty's blinkers to
propose some new regulation with reference to the management
of the Stamp Office in the course of the Session.
On the motion of the Right lion. Gentleman it was then
ordered that the usual F.stimates for the Public Service for the
ensuing year, be laid before the House.
Adjourned at a Quarter past Five.

MAJORITY AND MINORITY
AGAINST AND TOR MR. DAOUGNAMS MOTION,

" That it is the bounden duty of this House, well considering
the preuure of heavy burdens upon all classes, but Inure parti-
cularly upon those engaged in Agriculture, to obtain for the suf-
fering People such a reduction of taxation as was suited to the
change in the currency, and as would afford relief under the pre-
'int distresses of the country."—Feb. 11, 1822.

MAJORITY.
A'Court, E. H. Fleeming. John Onimaney, Sir F.
Alexander, J. Forbes, C. O'Neil, lion. John !
Arbuthnot, Rt. Hon. Forde, Matthew Onslow, Arthur
C. • Forrester, F. Osborn, Sir John
Ashurst, W. H. Fynes, Henry Palk, Sir L.
Astley, Sir J. Gascoyne, Isaac Palmerston,Visc.
.%ttwood, M. Gifford, Sir R. Pax ton, W.G.
Balfour, John Gilbert, D. G. I'earse, John
Bankes, Henry Gladstone, J. Pechell, Sir T.
Ilankes, George Gooch, T. S. Pcel,W. Y.
Bastard, E. P. Gordon, Hon. W. Pellew, lion. P. B.
Bathurst, Rt. Hon. Gossett, W. Percy,llon.W.
C. B. Grant, A. C. Phipps. Hon. Ed.
Dentine'', Lord P. Graves, Lord Pitt, W. M.
Binning, Lord Grentell, Pascoe Plummer, John
Blair, J. 11. GreviUe, Hn. Sir C. Pole, Sir P.
Bourne, Right Hon. Handley, Henry Powell,W.E.
W. S. Hardinge. Sir H. Pringle, Sir W.
Bridges, G. Hart, G. V. Itaine, J.
Broadhead, L. T. 11. Harvey, Sir E. Rice, lion. G.
Brogden, J. Harvey, C. Robertson, A.
Browne, Rt. Hn. D. Hawkins, Sir C. ' Robinson,Rt. Hn. F.
Browne, Peter Heygate, Alderman Rowley, Sir Josias
Buchanan, John Hill, Sir G. Rwsell, J.Watts
Burgh, Sir U. Hill, Rowland Scott. Sam.
Butterworth, Joseph Holford, G. Sheldon, It.
Buxton, J. J. Holmes, W. Shiffner, Sir G.
Cholmundeley, Lord Hope, Sir W. Skeffington,Hoo.T.H
Henry Minims', Lord Smith, R.
Calvert, John Howard, Hon. F. G. Smith, T. A.
Cecil, Lord Thomas Hudson, H. Somerset, Lord R.
Chamberlayne, W. Huskisson, Rt. Hem Somerset, Lord 0.
Cheere, J. M. W. Sotheron, Frank
Cherry, G. 11. Innes. John Stewart, Sir John
Cholnietey, Sir M. Jenkinson' Hon. C. Stewart, W.
Clarke, lion. C. B. Jolliffe, If. Strutt, J. H.
Clements, J. M. Irving, John Sumner, G. H.
Clive, Viscount King, Sir I. D. Taylor, Sir H.
Clive, lion. R. Kinsiersiey, W. S. Taylor, G. W.
Clive, Henry Knatchbull, Sir E. Thompson,W.
Cockburn, Sir G. Knox, Hon. Thos. Thynne, Lord John
Cocks, Hon. J. S. Lamb, Hon. W. Townshend, Hon. H.
Cole, Sir C. Lascelles, lion. W. Trench, F.
Collett, E. J. Leigh, J. H. Tudway,G. J.
Cooper, R. D. Lethbridge, Sir T. Tulk, C. A.
Chandos, Marquis of Lewis, T. F. Twiss, Horace
Coote, Sir C. H. Lindsay, Hon. H. Ure, M.
Copky, Sir John Littleton, Edw. J. Vensittart, Rt. Hon.
Corbett, I'. Lloyd, J. M. Nicholas
Courtenay, T. P. Londonderry, Mar- Vernon, G.
Cranbourne, Lord quis of Villiers,RightHn.J.
Crawley, & Lowther, H. Wallace, Rt. Hn. T.
Croker, J. W. Lushington, S. R. Wall, C. B.
Cumming, G. Lygon, Hon. H. IL Ward, R.
Cust, Hon. E. Macnaghton, F. A. Warren, C. .
Davis, R. H. Macqueen, T. P. Wells, John
Dawkins, IL Magenis, R. Wellesley, It.
Dawson G. R. Manners, Lord C. Wetherell, C.
Dens. John Alanniss, Lord 11. Westenra, Hon. H. R.
Dickenson, W. Manning, W. Wigram, W.
Divert, T. Mansfield, J. Wilbraham, E. B.
Dodson, John Marryatt, Jos. Williams It.
Dourville, Sir C. Martin, Sir T. B. Wrlkiughby, 11.
Doveton, G. Mills, C. Wilmot, R.
Dowdeswell, J. E. Mitchell, John 'Wilson, Sir 11.
Downie R. Money, W. T. Wilson, I'.
aincornbe, C. Morgan, G. G. • Wodehouse, Hon. J.
Duocombe, W. Worland, Sir S. B. Wodehouse, F..
Drake, T. S. Mountcharles, Lord Wood, Col.
Dundas, ltt. lin. W. Musgrave, Sir P. Wortley, J. S.
Evelyn, Lyndon Neale, Sir 11. B. Yorke, Sir J. S.
Egerton, W. Needham, lion. F. J.
Eastnor, Viscount Nightingale, Sir M.
Fane. Vere Nugent, Sir G. TILLZIL
Fetherston, Sir G. Nolan, M. Clerk, Sir G.
Fleming, John O'Grady, Standish Long, ltight Hon. C.

MINORITY
Althorp, Viseount Ferrand, R. Portman, E. B.
Abercromby, Hn. J. Pane, John Ricardo, David
Beaumont, T. W. Grattan, J. Roberts, A.
Barham, J. F. jun. Graham, Sandford Roberts, G.
Baring, Sir Thomas Gurney, R. Robinson, Sir G.
Baring, H. Hamilton, Lord A. Rowley, Sir William
Bernard, T. Ilaldimand, W. Russell, Lord John
Bernard, Viscount Heathcote, J. G. Rice, T. S.
Benett, John Heron, Sir R. Rick ford, W.
Benyon, Benj. Hill, Lord A. Smith, lion. R.
Bernal, Ralph Hobhouse, J. C. Smith, Samuel
Brougham, H. Honywood, W. P. Smith, William
Burdett, Sir Francis Hume, Joseph Smith, A.
BYnd, G. Hurst, Robert Scarlett, J.
Boughey, Sir J. F. Ilutchinson,lln.C.H.Sefton, Earl of
Burrell, Sir C. James, William Scott, James
Burrell, Walter Jervoise, G. I'. Smiley, Lord
lientinck. Lord W. Lemon, Sir W. Stuart, Lord J.
Carter, John Lennard, T. B. Sykes, Dan.
Calvert, C. Lawley, F. Tennyson, C.
Calvert, N. Leake, W. Tichfield, Marquis
Clifton, Lord Maberley, W. L. Tavistock, Marquis
Coffin, Sir I. Macdonald, James Whitmore, T. W.
Crompton, S. Maddock:, W. A. White, Luke
Curwen, J. C. klarjoribanks, S. Whitbread, W. 11.
Cr euvey, T. Markham, J. Whitbread, S. C.
Calthorpe, lion. F. Martin, John 'Wilkins, W.
Curtris, E. J. Monet, J. 13. Williams, T.-P.
DeCrespigny, Sir W. Moore, Peter Williams, William
Davies, T. 11. Neville, lion. R. Winnington, Sir T.
Denison, W. J. Newpott, Rt. Hon. Woll, Alderman
Dundas, C. Sir John Wyvill, M.
Davenport, D. Nugent, Lord Wawa, Sir Robert
Ebrington, Lord o)sulston, Lord
Ellice, Edward Palmer, C. Fysche 41•11.
Ferguson, Sir R. Pares, Thomas TULLIS.
Fitzgerald, Lord W. Pelham, Hon. C. A. Caicraft, John
Fitzroy, Lord C. Phillips, G. R. Duncannon,Vlseount
Fraokland, R. Price, It.
Mr. Bitch, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Browne, Mr. IL Cavendish.
Mr. C. Cavendish, Mr. Lambton, and about twelve others, were
shut out, the division upon this important subject having taken
plase very unexpectedly.

CITY BUSINESS.—The Loan MAYOR held a Court
of Aldermen yesterday, at Guildhall, .for the dispatch
of public business. The inquest of BishopsgateWard
attended, and made a presentment of the nuisances
occasioned by sundry liquor-shops being open on
Sundays, which was referred to the Alderman. Seve-
ral appeals against serying the office of Constable
were heard and determined. Several persons were
sworn and allotted Brokers, and others discharged.
The Cottrt limed sundry Coal Undertakers.

•
•
STATE PAPER.
OFFICIAL ?VTR FROM THE OTTOMAN PORTE TO HIS.
EXCZLLENCY LORD SPAS NoPoRD, THE ENGLISH AM-
BASSADOR, DATED OECESIBER 2, 1821.
A communication having been made to all the
Ministers of the Sublime Porte, as well as to each
of the Members of Council, of the contents of twodis-
patches, enclosing the instructions given to his' Dra-
goman, by our friend Lord StranglOrd, the distin-
guished Ambassador Extraordinary of the Court of
England to the Ottoman Poste, which dispatches, re-
gularly presented, and in the last place to the Sub-
lime
Porte, have confirmed entirely all the communi-
cations made by our friend, the very distinguished
Ambassador of Austria, in the conference lately held
with him, at which were discussed all the points now
in agitation between the Sublime Porte and the Court
Of Russia, and which relate also to some other repre-
sentations ; and the result of this conference having
also been communicated to the said Ministers and
Members of Council, the whole has been brought
within their knowledge.
It is superfluous to speak, and would he as unneces-
sary to produce evidence of the good opinion which
the Sublime Porte has always entertained of the
Court of England, her greatest and most affectionate
ally, of the confidence which she reposes in her, orof
the genuine and unequivocal friendship which sub-
sists mutually between the two illustrious Courts, as
it is to declare that the Porte has equally in view, in
conjunction with the allied Powers, the maintenance
of general tranquillity ; that she has no other object
than this, that shenever will be disposed to adopt the
detestable measure of violating treaties, and of being
the first to commence war, and thather attention and
scrupulous cares to fulfil exactly and literally her en-
gagements towards the Court of Russia are constant
and manifcst.

Whilst it is necessary, however, on the other side,
that Russia should observe in the first instance, and
before the execution of any other article, that con-
cerning the surrender of fugitives (the first point in
discussion, which admits no qualification, and, with
reference to the state of rebellion, ought to be sub-
ject to no delay), she has signified that under present
circumstances she cannot, whatever may be the mo-
tive, deliver those fugitives whom the Sublime Porte
demands by virtue of treaties, and because she con-
siders that delivery essential to the re-establishment
of tranquillity. With regard to the Greek nation,
which is forming imaginary projects of creating a
country, and rendering herself independent, she has
begun by a revolt in the two Principalities, and in
some other districts, from the Ottoman Empire. As
at this moment she continues to hoist the standard of
insurrection, and to e*rry on war in different Pro-
vinces, the Sublime Porte, in the sole view of main-
taining good order in her State, and in order to re-
store public tranquillity, proceeds to chastise the re-
bels according to the dictates of necessity, the rights
of sovereignty, and the interests of her internal affairs.
In this state of things, it would be highly inconve-
nient to withdraw the Ottoman troops from Walla-
chia and Moldavia, and to appoint and send Princes
thither; for those Provinces would then become an
asylum and refuge for traitors and for robbers.
However this may be, it would appear that the
end of Russia, in setting up this pretension, is to oL-
tain the countenance of Europe in acting at her own
discretion. The point, as it affects the Sublime Porte,
is replete (and this is clear as the day) with every
species of inconvenience, both as it touches upon civil
or national relations, or as it concerns those of law
and of religion. It is a matter which may, perhaps,
as has been already seen by the communications
which have taken place by command of the Sublime
Porte, lead again to disturb that tranquillity which
it is so desirable to establish, and to invade her au-
thority and rights.
The Sublime Porte hastens, then, sincerely to de-
clare to her Allies who wish for general tranquillity,
and who recognise as just the obvious reasons for
which she delays her assent upon this point, at least
for the present, that since it is announced that Russia
cannot surrender fugitives, whatever be the motive,
all which the Porte can do, and this only in the view
of preserving peace with Russia, and out of respect
to the friendly representations made by the Court of
England on this subject, is to postpone her just de-
mand with regard to refugees.
But on the point of evacuating the two Principali-
ties, and of appointing there two Princes afresh, as
the Greeks have revolted with the avowal cf an in-
tention to deliver Greece, as they are now in open
insurrection in various places, and as the first rebel-
lion took place in the centre of Wallachia and Mol-
davia, it is impossible at present, or until the revolt
is subdued, either by the punishment of the rebels,
or by their submission and appeal to clemency—ima
pcssible whilst the Sublime Porte remains unsatisfied
that there is nothing to be apprehended from their
part—to name two individuals as Princes amongst
them, or to confide to them the administration of two
rich and fertile provinces, forming a part of his High-
ness's hereditary States.
Nobody can doubt that the Court of Russia, by
persisting in her demand upon this point—a point al-
together incompatible with the internal regulations
of the Sublime Porte (and this is also as clear as day),
pursues a course contrary to the tights of Nations
and of Governments.

It is possible, then, in the last resort, to modify this
affair after the following manner; to wit, that until
the rebellion ceases, the Sublime Porte shall retain
possession of the two provinces, by Officers whom she
has there established, with such a number of troops
only as may suffice for their protection against de-
predators, and without the . slightest molestation of
the Rajahs ; that she will relinquish to the Greeks
those affairs which concern the principalities, and
which are now directed by the Caimacans,who are also
Greeks ; and that at present the evacuation of the
provinces, and the nomination of Princes, be deferred.
As to the subject of Churches, which is one el the
points under discussion, there will be no objection as
soon as the revolt shall be subdued, to their repara-
tion and re-construction, as far as the law will per-
mit, in whatever way they may have heen injured.
In what regards the free exercise of the Christian
Religion, the Sublime Porte, as in time past, has
never said aught against its exercise.
The punislinreuti me confined to individuals who,
in open rebellion, refused the amnesty ; and it is known
that inutoetion iy extended to thu4e ‘‘h4.• have net

raised the standard of revolt. As soon as ,
shall cease, punishment will cease. The gre,
care is shewn, as formerly, to distinguish .the it
cent from the guilty, even to the extent that (althg,
it is well known the conspiracy is general)
Greeks are protected, as formerly, who have not
tually raised the standard of revolt. All this Ix;
generally known, and your Excellency agreeing a,
the truth of the facts, it is superfluous here to 1,
them. It would inspire pleasure to think that, R.
the friends of the Sublime Porte, listeniniz iih
spirit of moderation to her just complaints nn
points abovementioned, which she has proved
founded in justice, and conformable to national t;g:,:
equity, and truth, avow such without hesit,rio„ ;
the Court of Russia, on her part, will obs?rve
is due to right and justice. In this hope the
Porte prays the Court of England, whose rood-,
towards both parties cannot be doubted, that in
ing all the means which sincere friendship and justi
require, she would employ her good offices to smooth
the way to a final arrangement of the difr
existing between the Sublime Porte and the Ct,i:rt
Russia. With this object the present Note has ti

drawn up, and transmitted to your Excellency
Ambassador of England.

REPORT

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