Star.
London, England, 1807-02-10 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 9.
The Bithop nt Glouceita took the oaths and his feat.
The Grain Intereourfe bill was read a third time and paired.
ltijh "Frearkyr Bi!!a Bill, the Seamen and Soldiers' Seduc-
tion sill. the Ir.s Gun•powder importation Bill, and the Canada j
Yaro Bill were read a f•cond time. and commi•ted for eo-morrow.j
Is4r. !late, from the Bauk of England, prefented an Account '
of the Expenditure of the Commiffioners for the ReduCtion of
the National Debt for one Year, ending the 31ft of Jat.uary tBa7.
Ordered to lie on the Table.
.On the motion of Lord LAUDERDALE, a return was order-
ed to be made forthwith to feveral Orders of the Ht ate, diredted
lab, &Mous to the Clerk of the Court of 'Fiends, in Scotland;
and he was further ordered to traufatit a lift of the proceffes
in-
Ritoud M the raid Court fince the tit of January, t8.:6, with
the dates and amount of the prec,eillng annteutations of flipeods
in the refptelve cafes.
SLAVE TRADE.
Lord WA LSING HAM brought up the Report of
she Bill for the A's.,litir.n of the Sl.tve Trade.
Lord GRENVILLE Rated that it had been found
More advifeable to fir the fame pet rod in all the claufes
of the Bill for the Ab liti lt of the Trade, namely, the
In of May nett:, and to introduce a provifo, allowing
• veffels employed in the Trade, which had cleared
nut from the ports of this country for Africa pre.
virus to that day, to complete their cargoes in Afri-
ca astd ttade with them to the Well Indies, until the
ta of January 18°8, at which period the trade Ihould
be finally abolilbed. He alto thought it advifable,
in order to obviate any objection with refped to the
crinfiruelion of the general words of the Bill, to in-
troduce words for the purple of limiting its ope-
ration to Africa, the Well Indies, and other puts of
America—his Lordihip propofed amendments in the
claufes of the Bill to the effect he had hated, and
it.rne verbal amendments, which were all agreed to.
The provifo introduced on Friday was (truck out,
and another proprled by the Noble Lord, allowing
lieffils which thoulil have cleated out from the ports
of this country for Africa, previous to the ift of
May next, to take in their lading in Africa, and trade
with their cargoes to the Well Indies until the IR of
January 1808.
Lord REDESDALE fuggelled, that as the lofs
of a veifel, or other nnavnidable accident might pre-
itcp.t the atriwal of a cargo from Africa in the Weft
Indies within the time limited, it might be advifeable
to mike an exception for filch a cafe.
Loud GRENVILLE raid, that the pet iod of the
it of January, tScS, had been fixed upon for the
porpnft of making i.n amply fuffici;nt allowance of
time for the voyages to be completed. He had no
obje&on, however, to the introduCtion of words for
the purpofe of providing for the occurrence of cir-
cumstances, inch as thole mentioned by the Noble
..nd Learned Lord.

After a thou converfation between Loris Redef
dale. Grenville and Earl Stanhope, it was agreed to
introduce s.Or..,is, excepting from the operation of
the Bill, thole cafes where the voyage to the Well
Indies could not be completed within the time limit-
ed, on account of capture, • the lois of the veffel, or
ciher unavoidable accident, the proof of which to
lie on the patty.
On the queilion for engrofling the Bill,
The Bithop of LONDON laid, he had intended
to deliver his fentin,ents on this meafure on the fecond
reading, but had di-dined 'on account of the number
of 'other Lords, who were anxious to deliver their
feritirneros upon that accalion. He would not now re-
peat• the arguments which had been already urged in
fupport r f the Bill. but would confine himfelf to a
point which bad rrt hitherto been touched upon, he
alluded to the improvement in the moral and religi-
oui 'nate of the negroes in the Wen Indies, which
woold be effected if this Bill was paired into a law.
`There were•at prefent about 500,000 negroes in the
Weft. Indies; whole moral and religious inflruttion
had been hitherto totally neglected, and who were all
either Pagans or Mahometans. In the ifland of Ja-
Yo aita, there were abont 250,000 negroes, and not
more than 22 parochial clergy, a number totally in-
adequate to inllruft iuch mils of aegro population
in •their moral and religious duties. When, how-
ever, this meafure lbould have paired into a law, it
would' become the intereft of the 'planters to provide
tofthe moral and religious inntufticin of their flares,
in order to put an end to that promifcuous intercourfe
of the ft.xes, which was at prefent fo prevalent among
them-, and which was fo great an enemy to the in-
creafe of population. His Lordfbip concluded, by
pronouncing an. t.P)quent panegyric upon the mea-
lure before the Houle.
The Earl of St. VINCENT expreffed his apple-
henhons, that in abnlithing the Slave Trade, we
ihoold give a boon to France, who, on a peace tak
ing place, might turn it to the greaten advantage, in
increafirig her trade, and extending her colonial fyf.
tem; which would be prOportionably injurious to
this country. He wifhed to admonifh their Lord.
hips with refpee to the coufequences of this meafure,
and he trufled they would ferinuily confider whether
it world hot in its effeEt'be a furiender of the great-
en advantages to France.
The Bill was ordered to be engraed, and to be
read a thi:d time to morrow.
ADMINthTRATION OF JUSTICE TN SCOTLAND.
_ _

Lord (:RI VILL.R, iii conf;quenct of tome Noble Lords be-
irg unlble to attend on Thurfday. timed that he fhould poltpone
hti.,aiiig in the iiiterded Bill refpeding the Admiuiftration of
Juitice ut Scotland, until Monday rest.
sidjoutu6d ttU to morrow (this day )
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A NiTefrage from the Lords informed the lioufe that their Lord-
Q,tp• had ,Kr,?.. to the Gr.,in Intercomie Bill.
I I,: Aecomita from the Treafuret4 of the Counties in Ireland,
Of the fur• pr.:Anted by the Gravel Jr-Tt.ri-s for the four Taft years,
w. re -In up purfuant to an order of the
ran account' was alto brought up frnm the l3,nk of the Sums
v. tiers there during the Taft quarter by the Comsniffioners fur the
ke4.le!ion of the National Debt.
The SOI ICI fOR GENERAL brought in the Bill for making
creAold atzs Acts for the Fraymtot of Creditors: ' he Bill
WI, read a tirft time, and ordefed to be 'reed zt fecood time to-
nt•,rrow fe'nnight
he further co. fitlervion of the Rtport of the Committee on
the T it; mcs Polk! ltilt wa, End for Wetlii4day neat.
sin the Mntion of v'r. HOBHOUSE. Me Order for the feeond
reading of the Land-Tax Commillionera hid was polipoutel from
the 17th Filitary until the 3d m Ntriareit.
he jr. CRhTAU Y 'a: WAR iirought.up a return of the effec-
tive fume of the iartie.,•erdployed upon the recr..iiting fersice—.-as
rib of tile rat r of'reciuit's railed ninthly; diftinguifhing thole
•ebteh enlifted from the home fcrvice, ,end alfa an account of the
I...inba of dar,ruusts. •

On the Motion, of qtr. JOHMTOIO, no account was order,
ad of the Income and Charges of the Confolidated Fund, from 04
sth,of January IMO, to the sth of January tBo7.
The Order of the Day for the further confileration 0/ the Re-
pot; of the Committee on the Petition of the Sierra Leone Com-
pany was poftponed till to-morrow.
Mr. UARHAM reported from the Committee appointed to try
the Plymouth Elcdtion, that the fitting Members were duly
defied.