Star.
London, England, 1802-02-13 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. WILBERFORCE faid, the Houfe would re-
collet that towards the clofe of the !aft Salon of
Parliament, he gave notice of his intention again
to bring forward the fubje.ft of the Slave nada.
He was very unwilling to give the Houfe unnecer-
fary trouble, but he underltood, that in the course
of this Seffion, when he was not prefent, a Righ t
Hon. Friend of his (Mr. Canning) bad given no-
tice of his intention to bring forward a motion upo'a
the fubjed. He wi(hed therefore to know from
his Right Hon. Friend, what the nature and ob•
jet of that motion was, and at what time it was
intended to be brought forward ?
Mr. CANNING faid, he certainly had it in con-
templation to bring forward a motion upon the•
flifijed, though he was not prepared at the prefent
moment to fix any period at which he should bring
it before the Houfe. In anfwer, however, to the
refine(' of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) who
wished to know the nature and objet of the motion,
he had to obferve, that the motion would not be
fo comprelienfive as that of his Hon. Friend, ask
did not go to dilcontinue the Slave Trade, but to
prevent the creation of Slave Trade. The motion
which he had to propofe was calculated as mach
to confirm and arengthen the ;literals of the Weft
India Planters, as the other motion had been faid
to militate againlt them. Having faid thus much,
he should have been perfedly ready to mention a
day fur the bringing forward his motion, was it
not for two circumftances. The firft was, that
rumours had reached him of an intend*, on the
part of Government, to accompany the grant of
land in the Weft Indies, with certain reft-ridions
and limitations relative- to this objet. Whatever
might be his opinion relative to fuch a fyltern of
reftridion and limitation, yet if it was intended to
be brought forward and fubmitted to the Houfe,
he was inclined to wait for that opportunity. The
other reafon that operated upon his mind was that
his motion would principally attach to the Wand
of Trinidad. That ifland was not at prefent de-
finitively in the potation of Great Britain, and,
he confeffed, he doubted how far it would be deli-
cate or proper to bring forward his motion, at a
period when that Wand mutt be argued upon as
belonging to Great Britain, before it was actually
difpolable, or in her pollellion. For thefe reafons
he thought it his duty to deter his motion for the
prefent.

Mr. WI coact Paid, that this quellion had
fuffered, on former occafions, by not being brought
forward at a period of the Seffion fuf6cieotly early,
he, therefore, only withed to obtain a com:d idea
of the nature of the motion intended to be brought
forward by his Right Hon. Friend.
Colonel G*scoyNa withed to know, whether the
two Hop. Gentlemen intended to unite their re-
fpedive motions, as, at prefent, neither of theta
had given any notice.
Mr. WILBERFORCE again rote; when
The SPEAKER obferved, that there being no mo•
tion before the Houfe, any further conve•rfatioa
on the fubjea would become irregular : if the two
Hon. Gentlemen withed to make any arrangement
relative to the bringing forward any motiou, it had
better be made elfewhere.

The converfation, therefore, dropt.
The Hnufe then proceeded to private builnefs,
which occupied a confiderable portion of Li; ne, uu-
til the Houfe adjourned, at fa o'clock.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s
3 per C. Confols, money, 691--Ditto, for account, 691.
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►RICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

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This morning we received the Paris Journal
to the yth infant, inclufive. Their co ntents,
however, are not of much importance.

Yellerday their MAlEsTifs and the PinotEms
left town for Windfor.

Yeilerday a Council was held at Earl Sr . Via..
CENT'S houfe in the Admiralty, at which a.ll the
Cabinet Minifters attended.

Yellerday the remains of his Grace the Duke of
Sr. Assam's were interred at Haworth, M iddle-
fex. The procetlion was as follows: a 1 hearfe
drawn by fix horfes. three mourning coacht:s and
fix, ts horfemen, and the Duke's carriage : and
four horfes. The Duke was Grand Falco; ler of
England.

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