Star.
London, England, 1825-01-12 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHFS GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 10, 1825.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet Major George Henderson to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Landmann, who retires; Captain Pa-
trick Doull Calder, from half-pay, to be Captain, v. Henderson.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
William Wright, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant of Northumber-
land and of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
BAN K RUPTS.
Richard James Greetbam, late of Liverpool, ship-chandler, to
surrender, January 24, SS, and February 22, at one, at the
George Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Chester, Staple Inn ;
or Mr. Williams, Union-court, Castle-street, Liverpool.
Robert, John, and James Byram, New-Year's-Bridge, within
Saddieworth, Yorkshire, woollen-inanafacturers, January 20, 21,
and February 22, at iwo, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attor-
nies, Mr. Lever, Gray's Inn-square; or Mr. Ackels, Manchester.
John Sugden, Huddersfield, cloth-merchant, January 24. 25, and
February 22, at eleven, at the Offices of Messrs. Whitehead and
Robinson, Huddersfield. Attornies, Messrs.. Clair and Co.
Chancery-lane; or Messrs. Whitehead and Robinson, Huddersfield
William Willcock Williams, Norwich, pawnbroker, February 1,
2, and 22, at four, at the Rampant Horse Inn, orwich. At-
tornies, Mr. Brightwell, Norwich; or Mr. Pulley, Great Car.

ter-lane, Doctors' Commons.
Hugh WlCenzie Walsall, Staffordshire, draper, January 26, at
six, 27, and February 22, at eleven, at the Woolpack Inn, Bir-
mingham. Attoruies, Mr. Wheeler, Lincolu'alnn-fields ;or Mr.
Smith, Walsall.
John Humphreys, late of Vauxhall-bridge-road, carpenter, January
25, 29, and February 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners
of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Shuter,
Mill-
bank-street, estminster.

DIVIDENDS to be made in BASING H A I.L.STR E ET.
Jan. 18, J. R. Benson. Artillery-place, Finsbury-square, mer-
chant, at one. Feb. 1, C. Tatner, Horton Kilby, Kent, farmer,
at ten. Feb. 1, W. Beale and J. II Wrathall, Billion-street, South-
wark, hatter, at ten. Feb. 5,J. G. Barnard, Skinner-street, Snow•
hill, printer, at ten.
DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY.

Feb. 2, T. Peirce and D. Williams, Merthyrtidvil, Glamorgan-
shire, bankers, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Merthyrtidvil. Feb.
7, J. Webber, Bath, currier, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn,
Bath. Feb. 4, P. Marshall, Scarborough, grocer, at ten, at the
Blacksmiths Arms Inn, Scarborough. Feb. 2, J. Hall, Stockport,
grocer, at eleven, at the Sun Inn, Stockport. Feb. It, W. Grave-
ner,late of Bristol, sugar-refiner,at one, at the Commercial Booms,
Bristol. Feb. 5, J. Hendrick, Liverpool, watch-maker, at one,
at the Office of Mr. Finlow, Harrington.street, Liverpool. Feb.
5, J. Shorthose, Hanley, Stailordbhire, manufacturer of earthen.
ware, at ten, at the Albion Inn, Hanley.
CERTIFICATES--Fsa. 1.
T. King, Frederick's-place, Kennington-lane, merchant. C.
Hann, Gartbrd-street, Limebouse-hole, :hip-chandler. G. Sid-
ford, sen. Bath, linen•draper. E. Humphreys, Swansea, victual-
ler. H. Stuart, Worcester, wine-merchant. IL S. Thomas, Han-
bury, Worcestershire, farmer. H. Levy, Rathbone-place, glass-
dealer. M. Solomon, Great Prescott-street, Goodman 's-fields,
bardwareman.

DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
Mickle And Co. Aionkwearmoutb, Durham, rope-makers. Mac-
lachlan and Co. Glasgow, tea-merchants. J. and G. Gibson, Ar-
broath, tanners. Gibson and Co. Friday-street, silk-manufactu-
rers. Lunt and Waddington, Liverpool. hart and Harvey, King.
street, Finsbury square, watch-manufacturers. Pease and Co.
Stockton, Durham, wholesale-grocers. Boyce and Chaplin, Grace-
church-street, coachmasters. Tunstall and Geer, Wolstanton,
Staffordshire, manufacturers of earthenware. .I.ines and- Wise,
Banbury, surgeons. Hesse and Pooley, Mincing-lace, brokers.—
minshull and CO. Asian, near Birmingham, turners. Moss and
Giblin, Kelvedou Hatch, Essex, millers. A. and I. Molteni,
Baldwin's-gardens. Jordan and Kvaus, Silver-street, Golden-square,
carvers and gilder& T. and J. Nutter, Kennett's Wharf, Upper
Thames-street, coal-merchants. Kirwan and Co. Heath and
Morris, Bursiem, Staffordshire, wheelwrights. Fletcher and Scud,
Millbrook, Hauts, iron-founders. Malt and Co. Habgood and
Parker, Macclesfield, silk-nianufactuters.

SLAVE TRADE._

The following extracts are taken from the Sierra Leon*
Royal Gazette, of the fOth of November, 1824 :
We regret never having before inspected the numer-
ous slave ships which have arrived here, in order to
ascertain whether they answered the description set
forth in their papers. Tile following particulars rela-
tive to three vessels taken by our squadron for be:ng
'engaged in this horrible commerce, and lately brought
'into our harbour for adjudication in the British and
Portuguese Court of Mixed Commission, will, we feel
assured, astonish even our readers, who have unhappily
had too many opportunities ..of witnessing the misery
which this traffic imposes upon its defenceless and un-

fortunate victims.
THE DIANA.—This vessel is stated, in the Royal yass-
port, to be 120 tons burthen; and permitted, by this
passport, in accordance with the Alvara of his Most
Faithful Majesty, under date of the 24th of N >vernber,
1813, to carry 300 slaves, being at the-rate of five to
every two tons. On being inspected, she is toon4 to
admeasure only 66 tons 52.94 fourths English measure-
ment, and, therefore, authorised to take at the rate of
five to each ton. The surface of the men's slave ...o°m
is only 4.80 feet, and two feet seven inches• in height ;
and that of the women, 103 feet surface, and three feet
eleven inches high; yet, on board this vessel, there *ere
actually shipped, at Badagry, for the passage to the
Brazils, 156 human victims, besides her crew, eighteen
in number.
THE Two BRAZILIAN FRIENDS.—This vessel is also

stated, by a like document, to be 146 tons, and, being
similarly licensed, might carry 365 slaves On inspec-
tion she is found to be only 95 tons, 54-94 fourths, and,

consequently, in like manner, atithorised to carry at
the rate of-four to each ton. The surface of the plat-
for m for the men is 615 feet, and the height two feet
six inches ; that of the women, 148 feet eight inches
surface, and three feet ten inches in height. On board
this.vesel there were actually shipped at liadagry, for
passage to the Brazils, 260 unfortunate Africans, be-
sides her crew, 18 in number.
THE AVIZO.—This vessel is, by a similar document,
asserted to be 231 tons, and by her license might carry
580 slaves. On examining her, it is ascertained that
she k only 165 tons 28-94 fourths, and, therefore, might
carry at the rate of more than five to a ton. The sur-
face of the men's room is 861 feet, height of ditto three
feet two inches ; that of the women is 215 feet surface,
arid the same height as the men's. Four hundred and
sixty-five wretched beings were stowed on hoard this
vessel, at the same port, for passage to the Brazils, be-
sides her crew, 33 in number.
We have here 328 tolls of shipping, licensed to carry
1,245, and actually conveying from the coast 881 slaves,
belts (in these three vessels) at the rate of eleven to
every four tons, besides the men navigating them, and
the water and provisions necessary for so great a num-
ber of people for the voyage, together with their boats
,and ship's stores. As the men and women thus em-
barked were 712 in number, and supposing the chil-
dren, both buys and girls, to be either always kept on
ideck, or confined to the long-boat (as is the practice,)
still only a little more than 31 square feet was allowed
for each adult African thus shipped—a space which,

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we,should suppose, no human being could long exist in:l
and, indeed, the number of deaths, and the emaciated
state of the survivors, too fully proved this to be the
case! From the crowdei state of these vessels, we do

rOt hesitate to say, that it would be impossible to cram
the number on board which the Authorities of the Bra-
zils (by sanctioning these false descriptions of the vessels)
give the masters permission to take; it is, therefore, to
a certain extent, useess, although proving to the world
that this Government, not content with allowing their
subjects to carry on the odious DJ:lie, sanction such
means of doin? so as aggrava.e the misery of the un-
fortunat,r victim:: thus forced away from their families
and com.try. We skill make no fin ther remarks on
t is painful sulsject, satisfied that such cruel deception
as is clearly shown to b..r sanctioned by this Pow er, which
i. thus adJiag further !romps to the ahead), detestable
slave trade, mill not be overlooked by our Government,
who are, no doubt, in possei,ion of the facts from our
gallant Commodore and his Officers.
The French Slave Trade. has lately most considerably

increased in the rivers Bonny and Old Calabar. Several
new vessels have arrived, and many, laden with full
cargoes of human victims, have left under the white
flag, and manned by henchmen, although the capital
embarked is orewibly Spanish. In (deer that our
Readers may judge of the barbarity and want of feeling
evinced by these subjects of an enlightened nation, which
publicly disavows such horrible and infamous conduct,
we de•ire to make koown, that Le Louis, commanded
by one Oiseau, on completing her cargo of slaves in
the Old Calabar, a few weeks since, without the slight-
est spark of humanity in him, thrust the whole of these
unfortunate beings between decks (a height of only
three feet) and closed the hatches for the night! When
morning made its appeal mice, fitly eaf the poor sufferers
had paid the debt of nature, owing to the confined, dis-
eased, and putrid atmosphere they were condemned to
respire. The wretch coolly ordered the bodies of these
miserable victims of his total want of human feeling to
be thrown into the river, and immediately proceeded on
shore to complete his execrable cargo by flesh purchases
of his fellow-creatures. To detail all the information
we have receive& relative to the enormities committed
by these dealers in human flesh, who feel they are pro-
tected by the nation they claim, and the flag they hoist,
would horrify any but slave-dealers, who seem natu-
rally callous to every feeling which ennobles mankind :
suffice it to say, they are heart-rending, and would dis-
grace the most unenlightened savage.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1825.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 95i to fur the Account, with
little cluing.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
The same bustle prevails in the Foreign Market as yesterday and
the day before. In the earlier part of the morning Mining Shares
opened brisk, but soon after they commenced lowering : Brazil
opened at .50, and fell in a minute to 35. It is almost impossible
to give the correct prices, as there is a fluctuation every five minutes
of 15 to 20 per cent.
Current Prices: New Spanish 15, Old 211, Russian 961, Mexican
79/, Colombian New 951 96, French &rip 141 pre. Chilian 87,
Austrian 96, Portuguese 891, New Prussian 1001, Buenos Ayres
45 46, Gas 2/ pre. Greek 561 57.
BHA RES. EA ID. ems TO-DAY.
Alliance Assurance - atloo - £lO £lOl pr.
Do. Marine - 100 - 5 21 do.
Anglo Mexican Mines - 100 - 10
United Mexican ditto - 40 - 10
Real del Monte ditto - 400 - 70
Brazilian ditto - - 100 - 5 56 40
Colombian ditto - 100 - 5 48 52
Rio de la Plata ditto - 100 - 5
Pt: ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2291 h sA.
S per ( ent. Red. 941/2
5/8
per Colt. Cons. ex div. 93% -A
Si per Cent. 101 100Y8
4 per Cent. New ex div. 10.5% IA
Long Ann. 2215.16 23
India Stock ex. div. 281 A A
India Bonds 98 100 98
South Sea Stock ex div. 105%—01d Annuities 941/3
£l,OOO Escheq. Bills (2d.) 59 60; (11/2d.) 58 60
1:500 ditto (11hd.) 58 61
£lO9 and 1.:200 ditto (11hd.) 58 61
Cont. tor Acct. 951/ Va 3/4