Star.
London, England, 1802-05-28 00:00:00

TRINIDAD.

Mr. CAN m tan rote to make his proniifed motion.
Circumitances, he faid, which he did not think it
1 proper or neceffary to explain, had prevented him
from taking part in the important dircuflions which
had recently taken place. But although he had
' been precluded from exprelling, except by his vote,
any opinion upon the peace, yet as it had been
concluded, and had received the fandion of Par-
liament, there could be but one fentiment, and
but one duty attached to every Member in the
Houfe—that was to contemplate it with a view
to make the belt of the fitnation in which it placed
the country, and particularly to improve thofe ac-
quifitions which we had been fortunate enough to
retain. It was with this view he had called the
attention of thejioufe to the fituation and circum-
(lances of one of thole acquifitions—the Wand of j
Trinidad. He would not deny that the confider-
ation to which his attention had been firft direded
upon this fnbjed, was the connexion it had with
another fubjet much difcuffed in the Houfe, and
on which he had always entertained a very de-
cided opinion ; but in what he ibonki this day

propofe he fhould not be offing from feelings of
his own. but on the recorded fade of the kioulto
as contained in the fcfolut_tons and Addreffes re-
' maining on its Journals on the lubjea of the have
trade. If, therefore, any Gentlemen were impress
fed with an idea that in what he had to propofe; it-
would be neeelftry to revert to difctifiions which
had before divided Parliament, they would be mit:
taken—ite had no inch intention. Retaining as
firongly as ever his opinions on the general meal. •
lure of the flave trade, he was not CO anxious as
to engage in it combat, the refult of which might
be doubtful, or to employ arguments which }ad
already been liicccfsful. If any Gentleman fop•
pored he had theft/I:Men defire of appreciating the
importance of the acquifition we had made by
the polled-ton of that ifland, they were millaken ;
he had no objet but that of reaklog it more va-
luable to this country than it could plainly be by
applying to the cad fyftem of colonization. If any
Gentleman imagined that he had the fmallefl wifh
to embarrafs the views of Government with re-
fped to that ifland, they were millaken : he could
alTure them, if the fubjed had been to have
been dircuffed under that Adminifiration which
had the glory of making the acquifition, in-
Read of that which had the glory of retaining it,
he thould have thought it his duty to have fubmit-
ted to the Houfe a iimilar motion. It might
be contended that this svas a Wind's in which it
was not necelfary for the Houfe to interfere, and
that it ought to be left to the Executive Govern.
ment ; to this objection he thould anfwer by a de-
tail of what had paired upon the fubjea. Soon af-
,to the tinning the Preliminaries of Peace, a report
was circulated, certainly with the knowledge ofGo-
vernment, relative to certain lands in Trinidad. It
was a report which made a confiderable imprellion,
and excited the fpcculations and avidity of thofe
who had large capitals. About the fame time
a notice had been given by a Right Hon. Gentle.
men, which teemed to imply an intention of rail.
itig a pecuniary fupply by the fate of certain Crown
Lands in the Illands of the Weft Indies. Putting
there circumfiances together, it had occurred to
him that Trinidad mutt be one of them, and be
had diked whether there was fuch an inteution
with refped to Trinidad, and had received an an-
fwer, not altogether fatisfadory, but certainly .a
fair one • he had aiked whether before fuch plan
thould be carried into execution, it would be fub-
mitted to the Houfe ? the anfwer lie had received
was, not that it would not be fubmitted to Parlia-
ment, but that there was no neceiiity for fo doing
for the present. Now what was the fituation of
Parliament ? The titbit& was not out of the hands
of the Houle of Commons, becaufe there flood on
the Journals of the Houfe an Addrefs to his Ma-
jefty,intreating him to take fleps to lead gradually
to the termination of the Slave Trade. If there-
fore the Illand of Trinidad was to be placed in an
immediate (late of cultivation, the Slave Trade
would not only be encreafed, liut the gradual abo-
lition of it removed to a period, the didance of
which was beyond calculation. Had not the
Houfe then a right to take the fubjed into eon&
deratien, by way of warning to the Throne, that
the cultivation of Trinidad, without limitation,
would lead to that which it had been the object/ of
the prayer of the Houle, as contained in its Ad.
drefs, to avoid ?—lt appeared to him the Houfe
had a very Prong duty to perform ; all he whiled
was a delay till the fubjea could be fully difeuffed
in Parliament, and till it !hold be fettled upon
mature deliberation under what reftridions and
limitations the importation of Negroes from Afri-
ca to the !nand of Trinidad fhould I.e carried on.
This the Houfe of Commons owed to is own repu-
tation, and was bound as effectually as it could,
by prayer to the Executive Governmen', to deter
the making of any grants which fhould faedion
the expenditure of capital by speculators, till it
fhould be feen on what footing the Colony was to
Rand. The fubjeEl appeared to him to divide 4t-
fell into two heads—firil, How far the Houfe of
Commons had pledged itfelf not to create or gr a..
ly augment the Slave Trade; and how far the cul-
tivation of Trinidad would have a tendency to
augment it? fecondly, what quetlion of policy %Sas
involved in one or the other of thofe confider;_
tions. With reiped to the first point, namely, the
degree in which the Houfe was pledged, he thould
take the liberty of defiring a refolution of the 21
of April, 1792, might be read. ( fhe Clerk of the
Houfe then read the Refolution, the purport of
which was, that the Slave Trade thould be gra-
dually aboiifhed). The next thing he whited to
have read, was an Addrefs to his Majelly, on the
4th of April, 1797, praying dais Majeftys to take
filch rneafures as might be needfary for gradually
abolifhing the Trade, and his Majefty's gracious
Anfwer, affuring the Houle he would comply
with their defire. (The Addrefs and Anfwer
were aliti read by the Clerk). The Honourable
I Member adverted to the dircuMons in Parlia.
I ment, which had led to the proceedings jolt read,
obferving that upon the fubjed of the Slave Trade
there bad been various ilruggles between thole
who brought forward the queition of its abolition,
and thole who retitled it ; but the Refolution in
1792, was not only founded upon the :diem of
thole who had uniformly fupported the abolition,
but alfo of thofe who till then had never leen any
propofition to which they could give their :akin.—
The refolution of 1792 had been moved by an
Hon. Friend of his, not now in his place, who
was as friendly to the intereffe of the colonies,
ls.eitHihooluft
Wide,adsorrhewacveiaesveabeddmben.yitthtewdeitHotho haupirsep,Mr ajefi y's
and to colonial cultivation, as any man who ever
aosbaittwioans,
Cfn4aottuu innrcathil
but particularly by thofe who had taken no part in
thi dirculTion. Ths Addrefc tin 1797 had been

brought forward by a Member of the Body of
Weft India Merchants, whore charafter was the
beff pledge of the fincerity and benevolence ofl
his intentions. That Addrefs had been carried,
and now remained on the Journals. The anfwer
of his Majelly was alto upon the Journals, in
which his Majeßy promifed to do all in his power
gradually to dimitith the neceffity of the Slave
bade, and lead to its terminatiun. Initead of
that atfurance being carried into cffea, we were
• now to refort to an unlimited cultivation of land,
and an unlimited importation of Slaves. It was
to she fpirit of the Refolution of 1792 he appealed,
and he therefore defired know how, if it was
in contemplation to bring the whole of the iflaud
of Trinidad into cultivation, the refolution of
1792 Rood other than as a mockery' in fuch cafe
it would he better at once to move its repeal.—
He thought the prefent queffion came forward on
totally different grounds from any quellion of the
fort which had ever been agitated, and as fuck,
he afked for the fcrious attention of the Houfe.—
He entreated Gentlemen o• Drip themfelves of all
former confederations which had aauated them
upon the fubjea of the Slave Trade—the motion
he fltould fubmit referred to new times, and was
connefted with new profpeas--Gon knew, with
tremendous profpeas for the colonial world. He
trolled they would come calmly to the difcuflion,
without adverting to ancient differences of opi.
nion. There were only two interefis from which he
could apprehend any oppofition, thole who thought
of the Slave Trade as Cicero did of truth, that
if it could be teen, all men would be in love
with it—thole who thought the Slave Trade ami-
akle, and that it ought to be tolerated for its own
intrinfic merits. It there were fuch men in the
Houfe, with them he could have no controverfy—
their minds muR be different from his. The other
daft would be thole who were of opinion that it
was compromiling the quellion to admit of any
thing Ilion of the entire abolition of the trades—
The principle of rejcaing compromife was, in his
opinion, a topic often employed to induce people
to fupport evil rather than refort to any remedy,
but the evil ought to be one which was experienced
by thole who refitted the remedy. The Hon.
Member then referred to the papers on the table,
from which it appeared there were in the ifland of
Trinidad two thoufand (even hundred and twenty
allotments, 'of three hundred and twenty acres
each, capable of cultivation. He then proceeded
to a variety of calculations, founded upon the
principles of Mr. Bryan Edwards, as applying to
the population and cultivation of the ifland of Ja-
maica, and the refult was, that in his opinion, one
hundred millions of lives mint be (wept from the
face of the earth before Trinidad could be put in-
to a Date of general cultivation. He hoped the
Houk would not fanaion fuch a facrifice of hu-
man blood to enrich a few individuals—not to add
to our colonial ftrength, or the !table intereft of
the country, bin to increafe the wealth of the (pe-
culators of the City of London. He defired to
be underßood as limiting the whole of what be
had raid to new profpe&ive meafures. He bad no
defire of interfering with the veiled claims of any
one. Having recommended to the Houk to leave
the cultivation of the ifkutd to its natural courfe,
without any new importation of Negroes—he ad-
verted to the impolicy of bringing the Ifland fud-
denly into a Date of general cultivation. He con-
tended that the gradual abolition • of the Slave
Trade, and the real interefts of the colonies went
hand in hand. He then referred to the Rate of
St. Domingo, and maintained, that the iffue of
that Druggle, be it what it might, would endanger'
the fafety of the Welt Indies, and therefore re-
commended the policy of increafing the natural
fit cngth of filch an ifland as Trinidad, by laying
the foundation of a native population. He ob-
ferved, that the opportunity of doing fo was id--
forded by the circumftance that there reforted to
Trinidad a hardy race of men from the Spanith
Continent, who were inured to hard labour. They
might be obtained to any amount,and (mall tracks
of land might be afligned. There were alto on
the Hand about tOOO native Indians—he did not
mean to fay that fuch refources would eftabliffi the
Colony, but they might certainly prevent the ne-
cetray of reforting to an immenfe Negro Impor-
tation. Such were the reafons which had induced
him to urge the Houle not to recede from its re-
corded opinion of the Slave Trade. Having Dated
an exception which he meant to propofe in favour
of thole perflins who fleould be defirous of remov-
ing from Iflands ceded to the Dutch, and even
with regard to them he meant to allow of their
carrying the Negroes they poireffed with them, and
not importing new ones from Africa, he conclud-
ed by moving—
.. That an humble .tddrefs Ihould be aerated to his Maki.
ty, rcprefenting that, in confederation of the great importance
of preventing the danger and milehief which might arifc from
the endive Importation of Negroes from Africa, If permitted
without reitrietion. Into the Ifland of Trinidad, and for avoid-
ing any colour or pretext, by new grants of land to obitrud
what to Parliament famed expedient, that his Majeity's faith-
ful Commons humbly hoped his Majelly would not authorise
any grant of land in the bland of Trinidad wldient se =pref.
condition. under the penalty of forfeiture at fish bad, tint no
Negro imported from Africa &mild be aiinpleysd ea the hid
land, until Parliament Otould have made prevail, se dream-
!Lances might require, for the prohibition or Imitados et im-
porting Negroes from Africa ; and that his Mildly would be
pkafed to give diredions to lay before the Hoer In the next
Salon of Parliament, an account of any loch additions/ grants
as Mould be made in the interval, and of the means
or provided for enforcing the performance Mae raid
and that his ANefty would be further pleafed to &red to be
laid before the Hoofe as fools as the fame could be
f.:elt plan of rrgidatlons as to Ms Majcity's Governmetrte=
• (rem molt datable for promoting the cultivation of the Wand
of Trinidad, and the means leaft likely to interfere with the
with of the Houk for the gradualtermination of the Sieve Trade,
and for the (lability of the intereft of the colonies 1A the Weft.
Indira, and the other colonies of the kingdom."
The Cirescit2toa of the Excalkote raid, be
could not help oblerving, that the motion now
made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, fo far as re-
garded the fcope,tendency,and objea of it,did not
accord with the expeaations that had been excited
in his mind, at the time the Hon. Gentleman hid
given notice of bringing it forward. At that time
he th4.utht it was the Hon. Gentleman's intention
to move, that no Elks of the Crown Lands in the
Ifland of Trinidad Mould take place, unlefs on
condition that they mould not be cultivated by

Negroes imported frniatAtrka. But as the motion
jut made did not come up to what he had exc-
ted from the notice, it was diverted of Conte of thofe
objedions which he: was determined to urge againft
it whenever it mould be brought forward.—Had
fuch a motion been made, he mould have felt it his
duty to give it a dire& negative ; but he muft alto
object to the motion now made for various reafons.
The Hon. Gentleman had adverted to the circum.
!lances on which he conceived it neceffary to bring
forward this motion : he Rated that rumours pre-
vailed relative to the tale of Lands in Trinidad,
which had caufed confiderable fpeculations among
monied men. For his own part, he had never heard
any fuch rumours until they were mentioned by
the Hon. Gentleman. It certainly had been the
intention of his Majetty's Government to difpofe
of fome of the Crown Lands in the Weft Indies,
particularly thole in the Viand of St. Vincent, for
the relief of the Civil Lift ; but when this plan
was conceived, the Crown Lands of Trinidad
never entered into the contemplation of Govern-
ment; for his mind was fully made up on this
point, that both on the ground of policy as well as
of jullice, every means Mould be adopted to pro-
mote a White population in the Wand of Trinidad,
which fhould be ;Ailed by a Creole population ;
and it mull be obvious to every body, from the
experience of pail and prefent times, that the co-
lony thus encouraged, fhould derive as little aid as
pot able from a Negro population. With refped
to the lion. Gentleman's motion, he felt Come
degree of regret that the fubjed had been agitated
at this time. It was to him a matter of furprize
that this propofition had not been brought forward
five or fix years ago, during which time the Wand
was in our poffeftion, as well as fome other Wands
which were taken from the enemy ; and in the
courfe of which time there was fuch an increafed
and immenfe importation of Negroes. He was,
however, happy to find the Hon. Gentleman's
motion came nearer to what was fuppored to have
been the declared policy of Parliament in the two
refolutions alluded to by him. But it was not to be
inferred that, becaufe the Slave Trade was not
abolifhed, that Parliament had broken its faith with
the public, at the time of its declaring, in tags,
that the trade fhould be gradually abolifhed. A
variety of circumftances had fine occurred, which
would have rendered fuch a meafure extremely
improper and dangerous. For his own part, he-
always thought the only way by which this gradual
abolition fhould take place, was not by the ens&
went of revere reftriEtions. but by the gradual
operation of moral cattle:, and by the introduaion
of new habits into the colonies. He could not
find in the propofition now made, any thing ana-
logous to the principle profeffed toy thofe who bad
originally propofed the gradual abolition of the
trade. And if that propofition was adopted, to
the extent of prohibiting or regulating the trade,
it would not lead to that gradual abolition which
had been intended. There was no one truth he
was more fully impreffed with than this—that the
effea of fuch a prohibition as the prefent motion
propofed to adopt,would be to enfure the carrying
on of the nave trade in other places, in a clandef-
tine manner, and under circumftances of much
greater enormity than any that had ever before
taken place. Betides, there were other reafons
which rendered it highly impolitic to comply with
the motion jolt made. It was well known, that
for the laft nine years there 'was a great demand
for Weft India fettlements, and the Britith trade
and plantations in thofe colonies were carried on
to a greater extent than ever had been known be.
fore. The effeEt of this was, an encreafed fupply,
without the demand having been furpended, or
without any glut having been in the market. All
this was done by Bntifh capital alone. France
and Holland had been long waiting for fupplies
from their own Wands after they mould be reftored
to them by the peace. They were in the habit
of being fupplied with Brit& (agars through
Hamburgh. They mutt Qill depend on us tor
fupplies until they begin to produce them in their
own Wands. Would it therefore be wife to pre.
vent that capital which had already made our
Weft Indian commerce Co flourifhing, from being
applied to the improvement and cultivation of Th-
nidad? Would it be wife to adopt partial reftriaions
which fhould &flea that Ifiand in particular, and
not apply to any of the other Wands ? There wet
no certainty that fetters would come into that
Viand in fuch abundance as to obviate the necef-
fity of importing Negroes into it. It was not his
with that there fhould be any unlimited number of
Negroes imported into Trinidad. On the con-
trary, every fentiment of his mind led him to make
this declaration, that there ought not to be an
unlimited importation either into that or anyotber
!Rand. Whatever reftriaions, however, were to
be made, they fhould be applicable to all the
Elands in general, and not to Trinidad in parti.
cular. It was his earnell hope and his anxious
with, That, when his Majefty fhould be pleated to
call the Parliament together again, meafures
might be adopted for the purpofe of carrying into
effea that gradual abolition of the 'lave trade,
which was wifhed for by all parties, as far as the
fame could be done confiftently with principles of
found policy, the fecurity of our colonies, and the
interefts of commerce. The Right Hon. Gentle.
man obferved, that the effea of an unlimited ins-
portatiotiof Negroes into Trinidad would be to
introduce two hundred and fifty thoufand of them.
From the belt information he had received con-
cerning Trinidad. he had every reafon to believe
that no fuch effea would be produced, mould the
importation be ever fo unlimited ; fuch was the
.excellent quality of the foil in that Ifland, and fo
*sty to be cultivated, that forty Negroes could do
as much work upon it as an hundred iany of the
other glands; the fugal., when produced, was
more abundant and fuperior in quality to that in
any of the other If ; and there was this
fingular phenomenon belonging to Trinidad,
that the very firft canes yielded (agar of the
Snell quality. This information he had from Go-
vernor Pickton' as well as various other perfons,
who all agreed in the flies be kilt Rated, and
wbofe opinion it wasb that the proportion of No.
groes required there was a; one to three, com-
pared to other places. The quantity of human

labour being therefore: fo finalloto fuels con.
fequences as thofe Rated by the'Hon. Gentleman
could follow from importing Negroes into the
Wand. All thefe circumftances did induce the nii-
nifters of the Executive Government to recommend
it to his Majefty:to caufe a furvey to be made of
the whole Wand : not a geographical furvey taken
by common futveyors, but an accurate examina-
tion of the Rate of the country, and the condition
and quality of the foil, to be made by intelligent
perfons, on whofe report his Majelly's Govern-
ment would decide what Reps were to be taken
in regard to the illand in future. He could af-
Cure the Houfe, until all this was done, there were
pofitive orders iffued that no Pale or grant of
lands Would take place there. Minifters were de-
firous to give Parliament every pofEble inform**.
tion on this fubjeft ; and as Pion as the reports
of the Commitfioners fent out to take the furvey

thould be made known, it would be laid on the
table of that Houfe. It was impoffible it could be
done before Parliament met again. He would con-
cur in any plan that went to regulate the whole
Ifyfiem of the Slave Trade ; but he felt the danger
of dircuffing the fubjeft at this time.—lt' did not
tend to quiet the public mind, and he was Rill
snore averfe to difcuffing it by piece-meal.—There
was one fad which he believed would be fatisfac•
tory to the Houfe, that whatever grants were to
tske place, they lhould be made on fuch exprefs
conditions as thould prevent the adoption of any
meafures likely to difcourage Creole population.
He tru Red the Houfe would do the Executive Go.'
vernment the juftice to believe that it was aauated
by a fincere with to do every thing that could pro.'
mote the happinefs and fecurity of the colonies.
For his own part, he now felt that he difcharged
his duty to the public ; he felt that he was taking
fuch Reps as would tend to carry into effelt thole
principles by which the Houfe bad been stewed
when they adopted the Refolution in 1792. He,
trutied the Houfe would not agitate the queftion
in a hopelefs way, but would confider with him
the prefent motion as premature. Impreffed with
there fentiments, he would move the previous
quell ion.

Mr. CANNING faid, he was not convinced that
his motion was premature. But in reliance that
the Right Hon. Gentleman would take the &Nett
of it fpeedily into eonfidemtion—a fabjett which
involved in it the greateit moral qtribon ever yet
agitated, he would forbear to prefs his motion.
Whiting, however, to have it recorded on the Jour•
nals of the Houle, he would not withdraw it, but
let it Rand as it was.

General Gascotana arraigned the laft fpeaker
for having profefed to confine himfeif to a praaical
point, when he afterwards entered on the general
queftien of the Slave Thule. He affeeted, that
nothing was fo likely to advance the profperity of
our Well-India colonies as the Have trade.

Mr. Wit.ssitroacz accorded fully in the fenti-
menu of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Addington)
as far as they went, and was fully perfuaded that
what he had promifed as a Mininer he would per-
form. Neverthelefs, he could not be very fangnine
when he confidered what had formerly taken place
in the Houfe, and even the entwine% of the Right
Hon. Gentlemanhimfelf. The fairer! profpeas had
been held out, and they had ended in nothing.
The evil ezilled now in a greater degree than ever,
and daily gained ground. He thought that &me
meafore ought to be inflantly taken to prevent the
increafed importation of negroes into the illands.
The effea of threatening to abridge the traffic ne-
ceffarily quickened it. He sand it to be known
that the Bridal importation of Slaves had been
much greater during the left three years, than at
any former period. He conceived that what had
formerly been a principal oblation againft the
abolition of the Slave Trade on our part, viz. that
this trade would be carried on with increafed ac-
tivity by other powers, and even with aBivity
derived from the Britiffi capital, may be obviat-
ed by Treaties with thofe powers.—lt had been
faid, “ What good would be produced by us aban-
doning it, if it were carried on by others," and
this argument was now Rronger than ever. The
only hope of this barbarous, inhuman,nnchriftian—
Getwral GAscolona here !poke to order, con-
tending that thefe.ohfervations were irrelevant to
the quation before the Houfe.
Mr. WI LIERPORCII maintained that what he had
been (eying was aridly in point. The object of
this motion was to prevent, as far as poffible, the
ravages, defolation, and barbarian of a third part
of the habitable globe, and by the cooperation of
foreign powers--
General Gascotous again !poke to order. He
Paid that any interference of foreign powers whit
the illand of Trinidad was quite unneceffary.
Mr. Wisasaroaca affirmed, that he had never
fpoken of any fuch interference. He then refumed
the ruble., and after a few obfervations 'on the ne-
ceffity of the trade being inftantly reftriEted, be
concluded by faying, that he fhould confider it to
be his duty to bring the fubjea bcfore the Houfe
during the precut feffion.

Mr. Pottle laid in precife census—"" If there be
a vanity more idle than another, it is the vanity
of public (peaking—lt is foolillt to fay much when
there is nothing to be raid, I hope that when this
queftion comes to be decided, it will not reft on
popularity on one fide, *T./kook& on the other, but
that it will be decided in the principle of true
phi lofoph y."

The motion was then put, and negatived with-
out a divilion.

Mr. WlLsstvoacs gave notice, that on Thurf
day next, he would bring forward a motion
for the immediate reßriaion of the importation of
Negroes into Britilh Plantations. He did not (peak
with certainty, but he might likeolfg move for
an Addrefs to his Majeßy, praying that he would
be gratioufly pleafed to enter into a Negociatiott
with the powers of the Continent for the immedi-
ate Abolition ofthe African Sim Trade.

General gescolowe gave notice, that on
Friday fe'nnight he IhouM make a motion, not to
limit and relirain'the Slave Trade, but to abolith
exiting reilriltions, in confequenceof the meafuree
the French were about to adopt on at rubjegt.
AdjOIMO 4.VIAF o'er'

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MAY 28.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOt K
3pa Celli'. Cattalo 73f. 74i, #.l4
Ditto, for Jul), tif, 1, I. 74. I.
co id 5 per Can. Hal, 103 f, I—New ditto to; 104
Osmium if

'After our Paper was at Pres yellerday, Mr.
New" Lama, of the Bank of England, informed the
holders of the Loan that the Bank will make good
all the payments yet to come, excepting the L 1
one. Before this welcome news was announced,
the Loan was at a difeount, but loon after it role
to ti per cent. premium, and a good deal of buff.
nets was done, though it was a holiday.
On the Debate in the Houk of Commons upon
Mr. CANNING'S motion, the CHMICILLOR of the
Eximarty sit informed the Houfe, that perfons
properly qualified had been fait opt to make a
Purvey of Trinidad, and that on their report Par.
liament would have an opportunity of confidering
what was proper to be done in the way of.regu.
lating the IYilem of cultivation in that Mind; be.
caufe, as it was intended to make no Grants before
the Report was received, NrArgent its
.2tobstv_
bility would have again met.' Theatints for the
prefent are to be made only to perfons leaving the
ceded Ifiands, and thefe Grants are on the condi.
tion that no claim should be Pet up by the Gomtees.
inconfiftent with any regulations adopted .by Par.
liament. •

The quetlion of the Slave Trade is likely (goo
to come into difcuffion, in a great variety of ways.
The COUNCILLOR of the Excnsgy le took notice
of the (inane, and, we think, culpable filence of the
enemies of the Slave Trade, while fuck vatl gun-
tities of Britilh capital was mifemployed in frufti.
Prins and improving the Dutch and French Colo-
nies by the importation of Negroes. We have not
yet heard a fatisfaftory anfwsr to this charge. I.
it only when the guilt becomes beneficial to Enr
land that it is to be expofed ? Or, week that the
matter is not to be agitated when there is a thaw
of fucceeding f What anfwer could have been given
had it been propofed fir or (even years ago, to
prohibit the importation of Negroes into Dutch
and French Automats t We amain no fatisfac•
Wry one.

Various reports were yefttrday circulated u
from Paris. The life of EmuArs had been
again attempted on the, parade 0n Monday lak :
his life had been faved by one Of his,Aideskie:
Camp, who fell a viaim tokis faithfUl.attaehmesi
General Burnt's. was Alb killed in'A'Auel by

General Lacouess. • -

On thefe, and ftmilar misters, it le Only sieiCf-
fary to fay, 'that the •Parii- jounusls of Toefciak
lafi, which welsifive this day retched, are.entirelt
client refpelting thein. • ... . .
There journals contain accounts. from-St. Do,
mingo, which come down ,e few days. lair. than''
the difpatches WI pnblithed : they are nos; bowe-
ver, of a more decifive nature. Souk' kind el
correfpondence has beat entered into bttween
TOUSSAMT and the Conimander in Chief, but no-
thing-is expelled to refult from it.. TotistliaT• it'
is probable, counts upon the havock the Fre*
army will experience from the difeafes liccafioned
by the rainy feafon.
Tree details alluded to, mut revere!' other articles.
worthy of notice in there journals, are here tub.
joined. Tier, Calsfirsdi 56 f. c.