Star.
London, England, 1815-04-19 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. BARHANI rose, in pursuance of his notice,
to move for leave to bring in a Bill for prohibiting
British subjects from lending capital or doing other
acts towards assisting or carrying on the Slave Trade
by foreign powers. The Honourable Gentleman
pointed out the happy results which had already at-
tended the efforts of this country towards a total sup-
pression of the.abominable traffic in human beings,
which had heretofore reflected so mach disgrace upon
the civilized world. Spain ard Porttigal, he said,
were the only countries by v.hich this trade seas at
present countenanced, and he hoped in the end, even
these kingdoms %you'd be indtr._...d to fellow the ex-
ample of the rest at Europe. It was to he lamented
he said, that although this traffic had been :tun-
doned by Great B.iitain, )et there were still Lsritish
subjects base enough to lend their capital towards
carrying it on for other countries. Indeed so lucra-
tive was the practice, that the temptation was almost
too great to be withstood : for, from information
which he had received, he understood, that for a
slave which cost bnt £'2s on the coast of Africa, no
less than irom £250 to £4OO viola' be obtained in
the Spanish or Portuguese settlements. Whatever
might be the inducement, however, it must be the
sai-tr of every humane heart to put a final stop to
such proceedngs, and with this view it was his Bill
should be framed. The main provisions of this Bill
would be, to make it felony either for devoting capi.
tal to this traffic, insuring cargoes, or participating
in any way in the profits. And as an inducement to
detection, he should make the penalty so high, that
the risk would be too great to intrust an accomplice.
Having thus stated the principle of his Bill, the
I lonourable Gentleman concluded by Vying tt For
leave to bring in a Bill to prohibit 13ritisKsubjects; or
persons residing in the United Kingdom, from lend-
', mg money, or employing capital, or doing other acts
and assisting in carrying Asp the Slave Trade for
,oreign States."

Mr. Serje:iiit ONSLOW most cord;ally seconded
this trimitm, mid after a few words hum Mr. limows
and Mr. Wil.iliateoiter, leave was given to bring in
the Bill.

ALIEN ACT.
Mr. DATHURsT, alter repeating the arguments
%%Inch h?liad used last evening, moved for leave to
bring in a Bill for continuing the provision of the
Alien Act for one year.
Mr. WHITBREAD said he had yesterday ob-
jected* to this Bill, because of the state of the House;
And he now objected to it in principle, bec,,use he
considered it as a blot upon our Statute Book ; and
further, because in the course of last year the
power which it gave to the Government had been
twice abweid—first, in the case of M. de Berenger,
and next in the case of Mr. Corraia; and though
they had been indemnified by the House for thew
abuses, he couiti not consent to see that Act now re-
newed. When the Alien Act was first passed, the
country was placed in a state of war and peril. The
country certainly did not know what was its present
situation, neither did the House know, and he (Mr.

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Whitbread) verily believed neither did the 11;71,.
Honourable Gentleman nor his colleagues know al.
state in which the country was. But the Right lir
ni,urable Gentleman had said tlirt we were not
war, and therefore he (Mr. Whitbread) cotdd
consider there were any groi•nds for renewin4
Act, which had never existed in peat-. an..! wh:,
gave to the Government an extens.ori of power
grievous in many instances to iadividua'....
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, the apprehens: •
of the abuse of a lav{ WAS no algur..r.nt
enacturtnt, if it should he consislercl neces;lry. •i•
Noble Lord then contended that no al,,i 2 ni
Alien Act had ever exacted, as the Finn.
had asserted. With respect to the ca.e of 0;f,
ntard3 alluded to by the Hormaralsl..•
Was rather an abuse Or. t:.e p tr i 7
vcrnment than it Was Of ours. 'Via. !..,,,; 7;
tended that the preserit was tl.e perv.d
powers of this Act would be ra:,;:,t
Executive Goverrimen,.

Lord A. HAMILTON tl:‘7..zht !;,-re
cessity for the measure.
Mr. S. LOURNI., ::..• •
he considr; d a; most I.!?ceisary .1; .t r.
pre.semt, when nurnbews o: cnsons kw:» com;rg i,;:
this c,untiy, re::: „
pressed : protec,.. ,:t, r
nr:t he Airntained without
nle.t!itlte

I.•••ive elen giv,Nt ti:c 71i11
reAd a tiro time, all,t to. tie :e-a:
tims; oa

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CArthigft..a l:trOy in 4 Vk:
ri ni V:PCII,,YI 't

cu the principal:: in the d',:tuih,.!,:e vit!f•
atn• ng them were the I', ; ,$„!.
hiottlyr, and orsL•red to he tranirxted 14
iknlct ica, and t. v...(l•a;puir.t.c.l to CASTy
sail on CA! 22d inst.

On the 1411 Geret-,1 Castello trrrcl,c,i into tl •
city cf Carthagena, a force of Ifgai me,,, tor t:
purpose of .o.operatiog ti•e ioder:
dance of that place. -lie expres•;ed himself 'r
thankful to the different iiihabitants w!.;) had assi:te
in quelling, the tumult. •
The following, is an extract of a Letter frorn
thagena, dated rebut:my :
" Tranquillity, which at first appearcl to be ci•-.;:
re.established, has only, unfortunately. been a: irti
tart'. Three Posts, with -a quantity of specie, ha:
been detained at Mompos. The pelpie of t:!e lit-.
place are much dissatisfied that Penero., who is a -:
Live of that own, should hive been tra:. ,rated ; Lt
we hope that General Bolivar, whc Is corning trot
Santa Fee, with 400{) men, to take the .7-ml:nand(
the army of Magd.ilena, to attack Santa Mareia a:
Maracaybo, %via (pica any disturbance."