Star.
London, England, 1807-03-07 00:00:00

P.4It6.I,I3IiNTTARr PROCP!(PING.!.

SLAV! TRAD!.

The Houfe then, nn !notion, refolved itfelf into a
Committee nn the Slave Trade Abolition Bill.

Sir CHARLES POLE opposed the mealure, not,
he obferved, with a view to the confideration of any
individual interests, but as an vbjeft of the utm,,ll
national importance. About the time of the year
1780, there were fifteen thoufand perfons deltroyed
by a hurricane in Jamaica ; in cafe of Inch an event
taking place again, it would be found impollibleto up.
hold the Rate of property in the Mends, without im-
portation. On the other hand, if the trade was nut
permitted by Parliament to be continued, it would be
found almoft impoffible to prevent fmuggling ; or
even if we did completely abandon the trade, it
would be immediately taken up by the enemy, who
would increafe and flrengthen his navy by that
means, and we might loon expel to fee the downfall
of the Britith Empire. 'At leaf} he thought it ttliat
be expedient to give the planters time to add to their
number of female eaves, as a probable means of
laying the foundation for a better fur ply in future.
He therefore moved, that inflead of May, 1807, the
words May, In 2, ihould be inferted, as the time for
the commencement of the operation of the Bill.
Mr. WA RD Rated, in a very impreffive maiden
fpeech, that he knew of an Aare in Jamaica, where
the population was kept up without importation ;
and that there was nothing in native, he was con-
vinced, that prevented man from multiplying his
fpecies there, but the malignant inttituti.:ms of man
liimfeff.
Sir PHILIP. FRANCIS alTuted the Efoufe, that
he was informed by an Officer of rank and expeti-
ence in the Britith Navy, that the Africantrade, and
that from thence to the Weft India Itlands, was ex-
tremely pernicious to our Seamen, and that a Com-
mander of a King's (hip would not wifli to take a
Single recruit from the veals in that trade. The gal.
lant Admiral had obferved, on the other hand, that
it would he impoitible to prevent importation, on the
one fuppnfition, if vt e permitted the enemy to have
the fall enjoyment of the trade himfelf, it would only
I be the means of ruining his navy ; and, on the other
it wt ,sld be impo%tole by this meafttre to ruin our
coltintes. ' . .

HOUSE or Low .W4D)i;ESDAY, MARCH 6.
The Ezrl of Oiforil took the .athmand his feat.
In an Appeal from Oat Court of 'St Ilion in Scotland, " Balder.
(toil v Hamilton," the Solicitor General and Mr. Brougham were
heard for the Appeliant, anal the Lord Advocate of Scotland
and Mr. Horner:for the B.efpondent —Further confideration on
Monday.

Mr. liobboufe, Mr. Byng, Mr. Stanley, an a feveral other Priem-
bcrs of the Hods of Commons, brought up the Brandy Duty Bill,
the Sierra Leone Bill, the. trial Duties Bill, the Sugar Bouuty Bill,
and two Private Bills. which were read a firft time.
.._ _ _

Lord WALSINGHAM prefented a Bill for diffolving the mar-
riage of John Ellis with Maria, hl, now wife; and enabling him
to marry again whtch was read a 11th time, and ordere-I to be
rrad a freontl time on hhaiday fortnight, and the Lorda to be
fummoned.

•DIAINISTRATION nv lUSTICII 11l SCOTLAND.
Lord tut ENVIM;F, in welter to (ulte tie eonvenicnce of (nine
Noble Lords who could hot attend de Monday, moved to waft-
pone the fecond reading of the Scoti Judicature Bill, till Friday
next. He wilbcd it, however, to be diflindtly underitood, that
hr had no intention of moving to pollpooc the Commitment of
the Bill, which flood for Monday k'nuight, and he hoped there
would be no bbjedion to go into a Committee un the Bill on that
day, as originally pmpofed.
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. . .
The Order for reading the Bill a feennd time, and for fummon-
ing their Lordfhipa nn Monday ,was di:ehargul, and rcnewed for I
Friday.-44130urnc4 till flftai:day.
.t HOUSsk OF COMMONS.
• The Marines of We nuildfurd Ekdion C turnicee Rated to
the Hoofs. that "mei kl,ollotVay the younger, who a vcry
pryt-
ctpSl wooers IsosOcAialctl Elediun, is a prifoner in the Ncw
Goal. Horfcnt ' lie moved, therefore, that the (Aid
Jtenes Hollovoy tkitktenci the raid Committee, and that the Eyeaker
do Mc hft *!mint accirtdingly.—Ordered.
Mr. BASTARD brought up a Bill, for the further Regulation of
Parfet Apprentices, Which was rcad a firß,and urdcrettro be read
ateennd time.

Mr. HOW-MUSE., Chairman of tj-e Wirk Committe. reported
I that the lion. J. S. W. M'Kenzie. the Sitting Mendrer, was duly
eleded for the tffrghs I 4 Wick, &c and that the Pititiou of big'
John Si-Ida& was not &Jealous or erlatious. • •
' Mr. DA NV Cs, from the bank. prelente4l an account of the Num-
ber of Bank Nett.. includipg Bank PEA Bills, in circulation dur-
Ind the Lilt year. dittinguifhitag each quarter, awl thole lender
—Ordered to he printid.• •
Mr. J 011 N SO N,lrnht the office of the Chief Secretary of Ireland,
prefented at the Bar an account of the. Revenue Ireland.—
Ordered to be yth•ted.
, •
Mr AIEILLISH obtained Iran to bring in a Bill to amc:.d the
•

Mr. FULLER would be extremely glad to hear
by what regulations the Honourable Member's fa•
ther (Mr. Ward) kept up the population on hi!
;Rate in Jamaica, and there could nut be the imalleit
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Amt of thcostl or the Ring, rel,tive to Raw Hiles, u far u doubt of all the Miser platters being exo•orely Gbh_
relates to tbacrtorriugb t•f Southwark.
ed to him, and mutt cheerfully following his exam.
Lord KiiNsll's.C. I ON liriroght tip from t"e Admiralty the Pa-
pers moved for, respeEling brake and or, sourbrad, Mr.ple ; he bad heard fornething of its local lituatiok
I
winiefrea. by Order 01 the Houfe—Ordered to be printed. preventing the negroes from mixing with thole oq
Mr PARNELL hroueht up the Ira Tax Colledti,m Bill, and ; the ellotes adjoi tong—their habits were different, and
that might in fame meafure account for the diffetence
then-A Tobacco Bill, which were feverelly read a tint; and or•
in the maintenance of the population on that patticu.
tiered to he read a fecund time on Monday.
Mr. HORNER obtained leave to bring in a Bill for railing and
,
fecuring a Fund, for providing for the Widows and Children of ; tar tibiae. He cautioned Gentlemen, howeve
Schnoloafters in Scotland. (againit being led away by falfe notionsof *r-
and humanity. Thole who were planters tPh(e)Prnufealt:eatY
ar Mr. most !TART brought up the Loan Bill for temsnpool.
•••• ht eafily toile a clamour againft the cruelty
Read a firft, and ordered to be read a (could time on Monday.
Mr. HOBHOUSE brought up the report of the Committee on I "g"
the expiring Laws, by which it appeared, that the Adis for the I the planters. &c. but he would have Gentlemen
to
Drawback on sugars, the Importation of Salt front Port Nairau, I recoiled that the Wed Indies had been the fuppon
in New Providence, and for the carriage of Coals and Culm on the
lof the count, y for many years, both as to feamell
a
Paddington Canal, were near expiring, awl a Bill was ordered to
be brought in for continuing the fame. and revenue. W e might as well fay, Oh, we will no
The Royal Navy Afylunt Bill went through a Committee. The have our chimney fwept, becaufe it is a little troubl
Chairman reported pro;rcfs, and obtained leave to fit again on fume to the boy, as that we fhould give up the ben:
Monday. fit of the Weft Indies on account of the fuppofed
The Committee of Supply, and the notice for movin: the Plan • hardships of the ocgro.
cation Eftiniates thereon, Was p ottpoaed to Monday.
General VYSE vindicated the character of the
EXPULSION OF • MEMIDR.
Colonel WILDER defired to alit an Honnura- Planters for humanity ; but lupported the Bill molt
hie Member, then in his place, who had fume time ltrenuou fly, on the ground that there was a malt
fhameful abule of the authority delegated by them.
fince given notice of a Motion for the Expulfion of a
Member of that Houle (Mr. Cawthosne), when he , Sir T. TURTON obfer veil, that if the meafure of
French iniquity was not yet full, we thould frutender
to them this guilty trade, that we might acquit
intended to bring it forward ? He thought a matter I
offences
of any further charge as to dila heinous
of that delicacy and ;mom tance, both as it affected up
who were offence: whiltt it might complete the catalogue of our
the feelings of the Honourable Gentleman againfi
towaids averting the
whom the Mation was made, and others,
enemy's climes, we, at the Lime time, mightt hop,
to judge of the quellion, ought not to be delayed,
but thould be difpofed of as fpeedily as poffible. to have taken one great flep
General PORTER laid, that as the Houfe hadi wrtaitht.olif
.titEDADv FlNNfG"TmOuNg.cupported the amendroent,
thought proper to appoint a Committee to fearch for
! but at thc frme time recommended that a Parliameto
Precedents, and they had as yet made no Report, he
Commiffion Mould be fent out to every Mond in
had refrained front bringing forward any further tarY
the Weft Indies, aqd that Froliament might alter-
tention to hring it forward on fume early day after proc•eding on the fubjed. It was, however, his in-
ward* lay very high duties oo the importation of
haves into every Wand where the traffic was found
the Ether Holidays, of which be believed he thould '
be able to give notice on Monday. t r be dill carried on.
MUTINY RILL. Mr. XVHI'I'BREAD thought it would be a Mod
Lord CASTLEREAGH ached the Noble Lord tedious and impotent meafure to wait until we bad
oppofite, on what day he propofed to proceed on the the Report of as many of the Commiffioners a
report of the Mutiny Bill ? might chance to reach home with the Report, and
Lord HOWICK anfwered, that it would be
then leave the meafure in a great degree to the dif-
brought up on Tuefday. cretion of the Governors of the different Moods. But
there was one point which he thought to be portico.
SCOTCH CLERGY.
larly worthy of notice ; Mr. Plomer, Counfel for the
Mr. KENRICK, before he proceeded to move for
Planters, had acknowledged at the Bar of the Houle
feveral accounts tending to thew the various aug-
mentations of !Upend granted to the Clergy of Seto-
of Lords, that it was intended to have feveral new
land fince the year 1707, took occafion to date, that pieces ut land cultivated, for which a freth fupply of
h
the object of the various motions he had to lubmit, aver was wanted ; and there was another point to
which he thought it necelfary to advert, Did the gal-
was, to prevent the removal of the fuperintendance
lant Admiral oppofite Commie that we, as Chriarans,
of thefe (Upends from the Court of Segion to any
other tribunal. If the power had been fatirfadorily could hope, when vitited by the wrath of Htayss,
exercifed by the Court of Sefton, there could be no as he had dated, with a hurricane, could we then
g f rom
nd the A by felting
reafon for removing it, except an intolerable weight
h
o ope for a Wff to Africa ellinto rob a mural LM
r inIG ordeHTY, r to recruit
of Winds ; and if it fhould appear that the poster
our cluck?
had been exercifed fatiffadortly, that fad alone
Mr. ROSE entered into a mutt minute and dater.
would be a proof that there was no weight of b
rate detail of the various proceedings of Parliament,
nets in the Court of Seffion fufficient to prevent its
and the opinion of the mod eminent public men fur
being Co exercifed. He moved Sett, That there be
a century pall as to this trade. He concluded by
laid before the Houfe a Copy of the Report of the
State 0(823 Benefices, and the fads relating to them, obferving, that his late Righi Hon. Friend was in his
heart a mon fincere Abolitionitt, as well as himfelfr
according to the Report of the Committee of the
thoh was fume difference of inion btween
General Affembly of the Church of Scotland in 1750.
themug asthere to the bed means of carryinopg that rr inciple
Ordered.
into execution.
Mr. KENRICK then proceeded to move frr fe-
veral other Accounts relating to the various Aug The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQIiER,
in a very animated fpeech, oppofed any further delay
mentations of the (Upends annexed to thole benefices
fince the year 1707. —he contended that the authorities cited by the
The LORD ADVOCATE Rated, that (itch an Right Honourable Gentleman were not conclave ;
account was abfolutely impradicablea
on fpeculative truths the mod clear and incontroaer-
Mr. R. DUNDAS recommended an amendment tible, there have been in all ages men of probity and
of the motion.
wifdoin who have had their own peculiar and exclu-
Mr. PERCE JAL and Mr. KEN RICK conceived five fentiments. In the Parliaments of France, how
long was it a fubjedt of difeuffion, whether torture
that the return down to the year 1783 would be a
blank. The account, therefore, would be virtually thould be fanBioned or nut ? and yet could there he
'
confined to the period fubfequent to that year. at this day found a man in cirilizedEurope who would
The SPEAKER thought it right to (late, that- profefa himfelf an advocate of torturef S r would,
it be with the Slave Trade. As to the neceffity of
when an account was required by the Houfe from any
delaying its Al olition, what had been laid ? They let
particular ellablithment, the want of a fufficient
out, faici the Noble Lord, with the propofition that
number of Clerks was not admitted as an excufe for
the Slave Trade is inhuman and unjuß, and then they
not furnithing that account. Such additional clerks
as were neceffary !honk! be employed, at whatever propofe to prolong that fyllem of injudice, and con-
tinue for five years more the prarStice of that inhto
expence, in order to comply with the Order, if the'
Houfe wilhed to enforce it. There accounts were unaptly.
General GASCOIGNE followed at confiderable
alto ordered. length, and contended drongly againit .an immediate
abolition.
Mr. CANNING oppofed the amendment, and re-
marked that ;he arguments of the Hon. Baronet and
the facts of the gallant General, taken colledively,
furnithed the mutt complete argument againit the
meafure for which they contended.
'' Mr. STANHOPE molt heartily concurred in tke
Principle of the Bill, tend contended that there was
Ito nation that would or could fupport the trade if
we abandoned it.
Mr. BATHURST objeofted to the amendment,
PrOaccompanied by a cooperative regulation'in the
way of duties on the import of haves.
Mr. BARHAM oppoled the amendment.
Mr.PERCEVAL commented on the incontinency
of the argument of his Right Honourable Friend
.(Mr. Bathurft), which was intended to !hew that the
trade could not he abolifhed at precast, but that.
`this meafure could be carried into effedt five years
hence—as If the interest of the Planters would not
be the fame as to this oueftion, now and at any future
period.
Mr.WILBE R FO RCE, in anfwer to a fait Rated by
'Mr. Fuller, p, oduced d document in which the edam
of that Hon. Gentleman was noticed, and in contra-
dittion to his ftatement it appeared that the negroes
on his ettate had intim:fed.
Mr. FULLER, in reply, read from a manufcript,
dated December and January, 0305, an account of
the cumber of Negroes, by which it appeared that
the redudion was about four to two hundred, or
two per cent. in the coolie of one year.
The quellion.being loudly called for, the Commit-
tee divided on the original queftion.
Ayes 125—Noel 7.—Majority tcB.
The Committee then proceeded with the feveral
claufes—after which the Report of the Bill, with
the amendments, were brought up by Mr. Hoanousa
—and it was ordered that it (horrid be received on
Monday.
After tome converfation between Lord Patter and
Mr. l'sacayao., his Lordfhip fignified his intention
' of proPoting a Bill for the Emancipation of Children
born of Enflaved Parents after a certain date.•
On the moti in of Lord HowICK, Mr. Secretary
Windham was' difcharged out of the cullody of the
Serjem; ot.,Arms, on paying Um ufual fees.
Adjoutnod' at Two o'Clr ck this morning to Mon-
day next.

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THE EVENING STAR.

LbNDON.

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Various rumours are io circulation, of difpatches
having been received by Government, from Lord
HUTCIIIIIIOI4, containing official details of the battle
of the Bth ult. They are, however, unfounded. It is
true, Government have received difpatches from his
Lordfhip, and that their contents relate to that battle,
but the details are not official—They are only loch
as reached his Lordihip by other channels, and are in
fubflance the fame as the accounts that have been laid
before our Readers. Government have alfo received
limilar accounts from Mr. Tmoaxrom.
Difpatches have alfo been received from Peterf-
burgh, in which, it is laid, the Emperor ALEXANDER

gives the molt folemn pledge that he will not Wien to

any terms of peace until the French are di iven entirely
out of the Poll& dominions; nor will he fantiion any
that may be agreed upon with Pruflia, under the
mediation of Aultria, that has not for their object the
immediate evacuation of the whole of the German
dominions occupied by the enemy fince the c,im-
mencement of the prefent campaign.—The latter part
of this may, however, be in fome incurred.
A velfel has arrived from Memel, after an uncom-
monly quick paffage. The Mailer, we underhand,
brings intelligence that an account had been received
at Memel of BONAPA RT 1 having fet out for Paris,
having previoufly conferred the command oldie army
on MASSIN A. It is not improbable that fuck a re•
port might have reached that town, but we entertain
curiliderable doubts of its accuracy.