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London, England, 1825-09-06 00:00:00

COLO.vIAL 1 EILIGENCE.

FR3M THE BARBARIAN OF JULY 15.
The follossing petition from the Legislature of Sr.
Chtistopher's was secently transmitted by a Committee
of the Council and House of Assembly, to, be laid be-
fore the House or Comwons;— •
Tairbapilio Parisian of Ms Majesty's Conseil issl .Haase of
Assembly of the Island at Saint Cheistspher.

TO TOO C. !MOMS OF THE UNIT= IClNliklaly IN PAR..
• LIAMILIIT •ssemeteo.
Sheweth,—That the voice of your petititioners' the
faithful echo of the sentiments of the inhabitants of this
island, which upon former occasions had been raised
in sulsplication to your Honourable House, now assumes
.the language of despair.
That the prayer of • your petitioners has been. sus-
pended. under the hope that their representation and
manifest distress would have excited the attention, and
compelled the interference of your Honourable House
in their behalf. .
That /our petitioners have with mournful fidelity
heretofore represented the injustice • and oppression
which they, and the interests they represent, have long
endured ; and your petitioners now declare to your
Honourable House that the predicted crisis, the its-
evitahle result arising from the neglect of their rept,-
saltation. is arrived. • • :•:.;
That • every other part of the empire, every other
branch of industry, has prospered ender the wisdom yf
your protecting care, whilst Ibis. portion of the empire
is advancing with rapid strides to that ruin which a
mischievous system and abandonment to the visionary
experiments of specious and interested projectors, can-
not fail to consummate.
• That the evils which oppress your petitioners
must command immediate relief, or produce inter-
minable ruin. .
That your petitioners may not be silent under this
expectation, lest they, to whew important interests are
confided, should be considered as acquiescing in the
measures which have l.id them prostrate. and which
have made them and their children familiar with the
bitter evils of penury and want.
That the straggle of your petitioners is not row for
restoration of that prosperity which once smiled upon
them, but for bread; not for the acquisition of power,
but in order that the knife may be averted from their
throats. If they are to be sacrificed, let it not be ex-
pected that they are to be their own executioners ; if
they are to let them at least be prepared by con-
vening their plough-shares and pruning•hooks into
weapons of defence. That this is no exaggerated picture
of the existing distress and apprehension, is attested.by
the rapid revolution with which property has been trans-
ferred. Scarcely is an ancient name in possession
its patrimony • and those who have been driien to
the possession Of it, find it an incumbrance instead of
payment.
That the evils by which this desolation has, been ac-
complished are the heavy duties to which the staple
productions are subject, the peculiar pressure of the 4
per cent. impost, and the wild and intemperate machi-
nations of those who contemplate that desolation with
triumph and most unholy feelings. , That your peti-
tioners have only to refer to the Journals of your Hoii.
House for the proof that the faith of Parliament is
pledged to the abolition of the war-duty upon sugar ;
that this duty has been drawn, not from the pocket of
the consumer, but of the producer, during. ten years of
peace; and that a scale of duties, varying with the
price, is she only..fair mode of taxation. They have
only to refer to thsir own palpable wretchedness is a
claim upon the justice of your Honourable House, that
this pledge be redeemed by the abolition of this duty

'4, :

alone, or' by the modification suggested by the en-
battened *lint or a Committee of your Honourable
House. Carr-the consumeiion of sugar be increaser), so
es to make any beneficial impression upon the 5*,000
hogsheads for which, under great disadvantage to the'
Revenue, a partial sale is now forced upon the Cons
tinent of Europe' and of which the residue is accumus
lacing as as a fund, which checks the industry, and
blasts the efforts of these colonies?
Your petitioners also bring under the notice of your
Honourable House the peculiar hardships to which they
are exposed by the partial and oppressive impost of 4j
per cent. on all their exported produce. By a. principle,
in contradiction to the prevailing liberality of his Ma-
jesty's Government, as well as to the wisdom of your
Honourahle House, this imposkis continued to the most
exhausted and impoverished colonies ; whilst Jamaica,
with her internal resources, which make her independ-
ent of foreign supply; and Trinidad, who has lately
been draining themselves, favoured islands of thousands
of their labourers; and the recent acquisitions of De.
merara and Berbice with their inexhaustible soil. are
exempt from this fiscal duty ; the wretched islands of
this GOvernment, and some others under the same sad
influence, are exposed to its unequal operation. Your
petitioners know not by what authority this tax was
imposed upon this island. They do not regard the
departure from that which is alleged to be the original
application of this fund. They complain of this burden
es partial and oppressive ; as a check upon their anxious
industry, and as preventing a lair competition in the '
market with more favoured colonies. If it be con-
tended that it is the price of immunities granted by. the
Crown, in what do they.consist ? What privileges do',
these islands possess that are not enjoyed by their most
prosperous neighbours? It is at least incumbent upon
those who permit the tax, to chew that the colonies
which are subject to it have advantages which are de-
nied to those who are not. But your Petitioners hum-
bly submit that they enjoy no privileges that are not
the birthright of every Briton. That they ought at
least to be allowed to go into the market as unfettered
as their more prosperous neighbours, and that the in-
justice and impost are too manifest to require further
elucidation. And your Petitioners moreover complain,
.that the Act 4. Geo. 111. ch. 15, whereby a duty of 7t.
is laid upon every tun of wine of the growth of the Ma-
deiras, imported into these colonies, which is to be paid
into the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, and toge-
ther with other duties of the said Act imposed to be
entered separate and apart from all other monies paid
or payable to his Majesty, and to.be there secured,
to be from time to time disposed of by Parliament
towards defraying the necessary expenses of de-
fending, protecting, and securing these colonies is
at variance u id;
.the Act of 13 George 111. c. 12,
whereby it war declared 66 that the King and Par-
liament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax,
or assessment whatever, payable in any of his Majesty's
colonies in the West Indies, except only such duties as
it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of
commerc,., the net produce of such duties to.be always
applied to the use of the colony in which the same shall
be levied, in such manner as other duties collected by
'the authority of the General Assemblies of the colonies
are ordinarily paid." It was scarcely to be expected
that that, which was so solemnly abandoned in princi-
ple should be upheld in practice. And that the Par-
li 'mem, senouricing injustice for the future, ahould
tolerate, sanction, and continue that which was already
framed and organized. Aad your petitioners further
represent, that this duty, which ought to have been
teseried for the exclusive benefit of this colony, should
be considered as ample indemnity already in the King's
Exchequer ( f indeed indemnity can be expected for
such an injustice) for the 4if per cent. duty.
That your petitioners approach the remaining sub-
ject of their complaint with full confidence that the
energy of your Honourable House will for ever put
down within its walls the attempt which is so covertly,
but so successfully contributing to that result which
must exterminate one class of his Majesty's subjects in
these colonies, and familiarize the other with all. the
barbarities of savage life. Upon this subject your Ise.
titioners exercise the privilege of speaking openly—they
at once acknowledge the paramount authority, as by
law established,of the King sGovernment, administered
by responsible servants, and of a responsib:e Parlia-
ment ; and if these colonies were the victims of a power
which is recognized by the Constitution, they could only
deplore in silence that they are deprived of those bless-
ings and of that equal justice which their happy form
of-Government promised to all. But your petitioners
protest against their fortunes, their character, their safety,
being abandoned to the controul of an ascendant party,
which is composed of some Noblemen of the highest
rank, of several well-intentioned and of many Obscure
and crafty individuals, a party which, as it seems
to your petitioners, has been allowed upon all subjects
of colonial policy to have a fatal influence on the deci-
sions of his Majesty's Government, and even upon
the deliberate wisdom of your Honourable House, and
whit); still urges on, in despite of the streams of blood
which it has made to Row, its rash and relentless mea-
sures, so as to defeat the benevolent purpose which your
petitioners entertain, and hereby to retard or frustrate
the moral and religious improvement of the slave,
which can .alone qualify him for the entire possession
of his civil rights—a party, which in scornful allusion
to the calumnies which it propagates, has designated
the slave as its friend and brother, and has placed itself
in merciless and unchristian hostility to the move
unrortanate master, and which in its display al
cheap benevolence towards one class of men, has
deviated from the principles of common justice towards
another. Your petitioners lay out of your considera-
tion all these circumstances which the highest legal opi-
nion would authorize them to urge. They do not rely
'upon those facts, which no man can deny, 64 that per-
sone' %Lavery arising out of forcible captivity, is coeval
with the earliest periods of our -history of mankind;
that it is foOnti existing, and, at far as appears, without
animadversion, in the earliest and authentic records of
the human race. 'That it Is recognised by the codes of
see polished nations of antiquity. That under the light
of Christianity itself, the possession of persons so ac-
eeired,has been in every civilized country, invested
with, the character of property, and secured as such by
all the protectioni of law. That solemn treaties have
been framed, and national monopolies eagerly sought, to
facilitate and extend the commerce in this assorted
property, and all this with all the sanctions of law,
public and municipal, and without any opposition, ex-
cept the protests of a few private moralists, little heard,
and less attended to in every country till within these
'very few.years in the mother country of your petitioners.
Such considerations, from such authority, undeniable as
Ahoy sue, form no part of the case of your petitioners.,

THE EVENING STAR

LONDON.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,18 S.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 874 j for the Account, since
which they have been done at 117; and 871 for Money. No great
deal is doing, tnkt it is a stead, Market.
In the roteivi Market little or nothing is doing.
Current Prices: New Spanish 161, Old Spanish 211 1, Rts-
sian 921 93, Mexican 701 71, Austrian 951 96, Colombian New
761 77, Brazilian Scrip 81 8 disc. Mexican Scrip 9 disc. Darish
Strip 7 61 disc. Greek Scrip 17 161 disc. Guatimala 21 * discoUrt.

emelt OF STOCKS AT TWO tioL9CK.
Bank Stock. 229% 22814
3 per Cent. lied. Shut.
3 lier Cent. Cons. 87_3/S 1/2. %
•Si per Cent. 981/4 V.,t
Si per Cent. Red. Shut.
4 per Cent. New 1017 % 102'4 102
India Bonds 18 15
New Annuities 87
£l,OOO Excheq. Bills 3 5 par.
1:500 ditto 3 5 par.
£lOO and £2OO ditto 2 par.
Cons. for Acct. 877/8 1/2 3/4

The recent panic on the Stock Exchange seems to
have subsided. Consols remained during yesterday
tolerably steady at 87k, and this morning maintained
thcir ground somewhat higher,while the French Funds on
Saturday had slightly declined, the fives to 102.05, and
the threes in 71, so that abating the accrued dividend,
the former arc at 99.60, and the latter at 70.30 in nett

price, while English Consols are at 86k. We are of
therefore, that the English Funds are now
gradualisy settling down to their natural level, so as that
the investment of money in those securities will average
a profit of 34 per cent. per annum, at which it is.pro-
bable, they wili remain, while the increasing commerce.
manufactures, and agriculture of the country are likely
to afford sufficiently extensive employment for the
ordinary surplus of capital, which, in the shape of
savings, finds its way in the first instance to the Stock
Exchange-

We insert in another column a private letter received
in London yesterday from Corfu, dated 11th of August,l
and which, with one exception, though evidently the
performance of one who w fishes to believe the best of
the Greek cam*, seems founded on authentic details.
Three facts, of great importance to the ultimate suc-
cess of that interesting contest, seems sufficient', cre-
dible : Ist. That IHRAHIM PACHA COHtifiliti with his,

diminishing army in a most precarious situation; and
notwithstanding his well-known ability as an ezperi-
enceJ• and brave Commander, it would seem that the
active and cautious leaders of the Greek population
had beset him so as to render his retreat extremely
hazardous. 2dly. It appears that Mi•sol•bnghi had re-
' puled the desperate assault of the Turkish bzsiegers,
under circumstances which evince the most heroic reso-
lution to persevere in the struggle, in defiance of all ad-
versity. 3dly. It is very probable that the blockade of the
port has been raised by the Greek squadron, who were
about to pursue the Turkish fleet; and of the event of a,
reneounter between those two armaments, if they shall
meet there can be but one opinion. •
It is, however, added by the writer, that on the re-,

ceipi of thest cheetiag details at Onfti, the it Orthy Lora.
Won Coxi,Cissrosed- shed tears of joy. This, we pre
sume, is only a figuit 91 speech i* although weeatt Nell
bylisve, that the. excellent Person alluded Id, nartici•
patel in the feelings of his countrymen at home, in ar-
dent wishes for the success of e brave Heleni,ts, yet
Englishmen are not quite so accustomed to the melting
mood as to evince tliche feelings, by teas of joy on
every occasion, as the foreign writer may sul•pose.

We have receiied Frankfort Papers to the 30 h tet •
The following are the only articles 4t all north quoting.

BERLIN, AUGUST 25.

We learn that the Society of MAritime Commerce

(Ahich, as bas been stated, i, going to send a ship to
,Lima,) will. shortly publish an official account of the
etpedlit►on of. the Mentor to China, the first P usti.sn
s!,ip that ever niaife• that voyage. This palicity is

fouikleJ on the nature of the case, as the Prussian
State is by no means disposed to aim at a monopoly of
the Getman trade with Canton, but, on the contrary,
makes all these essays with a view of shewing to the
nterchaq•s of tl-e sea•putt towns, that a well-conducted
evterprise may afford ample profit. After the publi_
cation of this teport, which, it is to be loped, will not
he long delayed, interesting comparisons may be made
with the expense and the profit of the English and Dutch
enterprises of the same kind.
FRANKFORT, AUGUST 29.

A Treaty has been concluded between the Duke of
Oldenburg and Count Bentinck, relative to the Lord-
ship of Kniphausen. In consequence of the various
political events, the relation of this Lords) ip with the
German Confederation, are not precisely determined,
nothing having been decided respecting it, either in

1815, by the Allied Powers, when the Duke of O.den.
burg took possession of Jever, with which Kni phausen
had been united by. the French, or subsequently by the
Congress at Vienna.

Jamaica Papers t' the 14 h of July have arrived, but
they do not contain any nzws.

Milan gazettes, to the 24th of August, reached us
this forenoon. Accounts from Rome, of the 18th ult.
state, that the preceding week " two numerous co: p
of Austrian troops passed through this city, which
terminated the march of those troops which have lttt
the kingdom of the two Sicilies, to the number of
10,400 men. They preserve in their march the most
admirable discipline, costesponding with their reputa-
tion and martial appearance."

FORME/SI FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bch 5 p Cc. Iblex.Scrip, 1825, 9i 1 dis.
Brad%an Bonds, Ditto Acct. 81 1 91 dis.
Ditto Acct. 75 Neapolitan Bonds, 1824 881
Ditto Scrip, spet. 1825, Perim Bonds, 6 per Ct. 681 68
Ditto Acct. 81 91 9 dis. DittoScrip,lB2s, 6 pC.IO/ 10 dis.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 841 85 84 Ditto Acct.
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 73 Portuguese Bonds 81 83
..
Ditto Acct. 74 Ditto Acct.
Colombian Bds,o p C. Prussian Bonds 5 p C. 101/ 1
Ditto Bonds, 1824, 76/ 77 751 Do. Bonds .1822,5 p Ct.
Ditto Ace. 764 7716 Russ. liunds, 1022, SpC.
Danish -Bonds, 5 p Ct. 100 Spanish 5 p.*Ct. Cons. 21
Ditto Marks Banco, Ditto Acct.
I:o.Scrip,3pCt.lB2s, span.sp. Os C. 1821,
Ditto Acct. 7 dis French Rentes,s p Ct.
Greek Bonds 361 French Rentes.3pCt.
Do. Scrip 5p Ct 161 41s. F.schange, 25f. 10c.
Ditto Acct. 174 dis. Guatemala 3 di..
Met. Roods, Spet. 71 70/ 70 71 Ditto for Aec. 21 321 dis.
Ditto Acct. 701 Russian Inseript. 6 p Ct.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.

511NIS.
snail. PAID.
100.
- 100 • 5 -
o 100 5
Chilian - £lOO .
C3tlUan and Peruvian 5
Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 -
Potosi. La Paz, & Peru,. 50 S
United Mexican 40 SO
Ditto New 40 10
ASSURANCIE COMPANIZS.
Alliance 13ritisb & For. 100 10
Guardian 100 10

Anglo Milian
Brazilian

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