Star.
London, England, 1804-06-08 00:00:00

PARLMMENTARr PROLEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNE
Conael were farther beard, and evidence addend, ea the
7.ouckse Peatge..—Poftpassed till Thurfday nest.
Oa the Oaks of the Day being wowed for the kneed reading of
the Ayltibtary Bribery BIU.
Lard GRENVILLE rake end Bata. that however cooßteent to
his own ides the provibons of this Bill might be, and however
mach he alight think them founded in Julticc and propriety. it was
net his lasentko, if a Bogie Member of that Hoafe dlfspproved
of It, or thought that fiefleient evidence of the milky of it did rot
airoady /add, to vas it on their Lordaire conlideratioa,
they had fa: New inecßiPzed its principles. He Quaid, therefore,
atone that Oannfel be allowed to attend to the evidence to be 'd-
ewed by Nit pates petitioning ia fappose the Bill
ARer haw cooverfaka between Lords Chanceflor, Grenville,
sad Auckland, It was agreed, that the Order for the kcood read
holltaid over dB Hoaday neat, sod that widow be wow heard
for the Yakima. In lupport of the Bill
Several erioeffee wore secordingly bard la rapport of the Bill
la the verde of which a whacks of the name of John Toms, having
Rated that be bed wade a asauwandnas of the gnome, of the Eire-
tans who had accepted of saenci to owe on the left elabian, which
nennonaden be bad left at Aybdbary , their Leedibire
wards®
that this wits& iheald go to Ayielbery for this ateneweadwa,
which be Rata I, be had hitt at helmet sad the Depute, Redact at
Anew sew Mesa to accowspaq kiwi, for the palpate a Sating to
the Houk theeireataftessees nadir tad& the pallor IMO be found.
He was &reified to rears as biaaday. The farther earegnatioo
at witaelks was palpated till twaseawerovuAdloante4.

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pa uant to the no-
tiee he had given, to call the attention of the Monte
braidede amea& of Mr. Nike Fox, of the Court of
Counatna Pleas; in Ireland. He was extremely foray
thft life painful "ditty Oswald be impofed on him, of
heasas forward is Cations charge aga!oft a perfon
hol fo high and honourable a fitaation as that of
one the lodges of the hied. But when fuels per.
loos mide an improper safe of their authority, it was
the duty of Parliament to enquire into.their wawa.
The Honoarable Baronet then recapitulated the lead.
ieg points of a petition, which he held in his band,
and which. he Paid. came from a very repel:table
Maelhate in the North of Ireland. He then pre-
foulad.- die petitioN which was read by the Clerk. It
portionot to boats petition of John Hart, E. of
'16,00 de in inland ; and Rated, that
the retail!? of certain elates in that
county, and in of Dosocgal. The Peti-
:rimier then relates the oiscoollsees oi a man named
-Dobfen having been tried it the IA autumn Affixes
for Donate, on a charge of improperly procuring
'tat oath of a matt. concerning the repair of
.411 goads, *ad that tie (Mr. Han) bad no concern
-whatente is that teal, or in the bufsnefs to which it
related. Mr. juftice TO; fat as judge upon the trial ;
soE'Mr.'llart attended as owe of-the Grand Jury.
b judge, during the trial, took oceafion to charge
.tee' petitioner with haring intkrfered in. the bufunts
in an haproper, annoy) and uted there expreffions
concerning him to the Petty Jury--0 degraded and
difgraced as he is by this trantaaioa, which will en-
tail eternal infamy on him and his fatally." On
the trial in queßlon, the Jury could not agree in
their verdia ; they continued (hut up till (even
o'clock, wise* the Jadge adjourned the Court, and
was pnweediog to dinner, when the Sub-Sheriff fol- '
lowed hint, and told bins the Jory were agreed in
their Verdict, judge Fox would not return to the
Court, but told the Sub Sheriff, that the jut, mull
cool their courciences till fix o'clock on the Monday
morning following. (This happened on the Satur-
day), On the Monday morning, the Jury were
taps. top the verge of the County, and difarged.—
On the (ante day, the Petitioner waited on Judge
For, siteraiked pertnifGon to return to Londonder-
ry, in order to attend a Corps of Yeomanry ; this was
rehired; and on the following day, in court, the
Judge anted an information to be laid againft Mr.
Hart, raid, he flood charged with a molt heinous
offence, mauled him to be taken into enßody, and
put into the common dock, viz. the place where coo-
!rifted felons utually hood. While in that fltuation,
the Judge &Aced him, what he had to fay for himfelf?
The petitioner was fo much affeßed by the fituation
be was.placed in, and by fo extraordinary an addicts,
that air* he was unable to articulate one word.—
The judge then charged him with the commiffion of
a moll infamous clime; raid the Crown Solicitor
fliould be direfted to apply to the Court of King's
Bench for an information againfl him; that he fhould
be tried at the next Affixes; and then held him to
heavy and enormous bail for his appearance. When
the next affixes came on, no Bill of Indiement was
found by the Grand Jury againfl the Petitioner ;
who now humbly reprefented to the Houle, that
through. the conduct of Judge Fox, he had ruff:red
great injury in his perfon and his charaiter. and
that in him, the rights of his Majesty's fubjetts
were grofsly violated ; that he could not, with any
probability 01 Weed's, inflitute a legal minding
againo the Judge; and he humbly prayed, that the
Hunk would adopt Inch prxeeding as to its t i.dom
thoulel kern ht. in order to give him redrefs, and cia-
red the abide he complained of.
On the motion that this Petition fhould be !aid on
the table,
Mr FRANCIS role to allt, before the Order theuld
tde, whether it was the intention of the Honour-

able Earonetto tale any proceeding grounded upon

- -
this Petition? - -
Sir J. STEWART replied, that after the petition
Could lie a certain time on Mt table for the exami-
nation of the Members, he certainly did intend tq
move that it &mild be referred to the confidcration
of a Committee of the whole Houk.

MR. CLICM‘MTSON.
Sir CHARLES MORGAN, after Tome prefatory otsferrat!ons,
highly complimentary to the cooduft of Mr. Cicmention, while
io the fuoice of that Houk, and dating that she motion be had to.'
fubmit was juftilied by precedent, moved an Addrefs to his Ma-
jetty. praying that fame adequate pmvillort &Gold be made for John
Clemestfon. Efq. who after roving that Hock very nearly thirty-
five years, during which he had faithfully and diligently performed
the office of Deputy Serjeant at Arms, and who had lately retired
In confelorsee of his advanced dine of life.
General NORTON felt a peculiar *afore in fecooding the
motion.
Mr. ADDINGTON was happy in bearing telUmony to the
merits of Mr. Clementlan, whale eoodut he had long an oppor-
tunity of obferving; and he could truly fay, that he had not only
never aertd an offence. but that he bad given univerfal (advise-
tkot in the wt. onsance of his long and laborious Cervices.
The motion was agreed to woe wo. and the Addrefs was or-
dered to be relented by fuch Members as were of his Majdty's
Privy Council
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PRIME AOIWCY.

11,1rIAAVIII sawed the Order for the fecond reading of the
Prise Agency Ilk
Mr. W. DICKENSON confidered this a meafure
of the utmoft importance, not merely to Prize Agents
but to all thofe connected with the Navy. Its prin-
ciple and provifion was at prefent under the confide-
ration of the Board of Admiralty, and they willed
for further time to come to an opinion upon it. To
the grant of that time he hoped there would be no
objection. As much and very urgent bufinefs Rood
for next, week, he moved that the Order fhould be
poßponed till Toefday fe'nnight.
Mr, ADDINGTON obferved, that this Bill was
founded upon the Report of the Commiffioners of
Naval Inquiry, which Report had lain on the Table
of the Houfe fince July lag, and the notice of his
Honourable Ft iend refpelling this Bill had beengiven
in February lan. He therefore taw no reafon for
farther delay, as every Member had already had fur-
&int time to confider it. Various reafons had oc- '
carted to delay its progrefs heretofore, but he hoped-
it would now, with all convenient (peed, be carried
into effeet. Its principle was (uch as he thought no
man could object to, as it was calculated to fecure
to our gallant defenders a fair diltribution of their
prim-money. by expediting that diftribution, by re-
-1 caving a fate lodgment for the produce of prizes
when any appeal thould be lodged, and by eftablifh-
big a public prize agency office, to which (cameo,
their affigns, and all others interact!, could retort
ear information. There being the objects, he trolled'
that the delay of the Board of Admiralty to confider
'Edwin would not be offered as an argument againft
their adoption. If any of the provilions of the Bill
were not calculated to carry their objects into diet,
they might he altered in the Committee, but he could
not conceive any reafon why the Bill &mid be pre-
treated from going through the Rage for which the
order of this evening Rood. If, however, it World
b ripened according to the amendment, he willed
k lii be underflood from Minillers, that the fecond
would take place on the day fpccified in that
;lesit. Anxious as be felt for the fuccefs of
she 4 afore, it would give him pleafure to have it
taken up by Government, and he would be Mil more
pleafed that they (tumid fupport the prefent. Bill,
which he was not without hopes that Houfe would
agree to have read a fecond time this evening ; at all
events he trolled that no further delay than that pro.
',Mid by the honourable Gentleman on the Tres-
fury Bench would take place.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
laid, that the defire was to poftpone the difcn of
this Bill until Tuefday fe'nsight. The grounds were,
that it was in its nature extremely novel ; thofe who
were molt competent to judge, entertained different
opinions concerning it, and the Board of Admiralty
had not been enabled, from the multiplicity of bufinefs
which engaged its attention, to afcertain as yet how far
it would be adrifable to recommend its adoption. In
this Rate of things it would of courfe be impoffible ,
for Minifters to make any pledge as tc the part which
they Mould take upon the ultimate determination of
this queftion. The reafons which induced the pro-
pofition for putting off the confideration of this Bill
to fuch a diflant day, arofe from the important nature
of the fubjea, which was likely throughout the whole
of next week to occupy the attention of the Houle.
This argument he was aware he could not hope to
make any impreffion upon the mind of the Right lion.
Gentleman who (poke fall, for he profeffed to think
that the adoption of any further provilion for the
military defence of the country might be put off till
the next Seffions. With rc foe& to the defire expreffed
on this occafion, that the Bill before the Houle fhould
be hurried forward, he could not help exprefling his
furprife, that it fhatild have been Co long delayed by
thofe who now feemed to think it urgent; and that
after having had the Report alluded to, and the Bill
itfelf before them for fu many months as had been
Rated, they fhould now refute to others who had not
the fame advantage, the opportunity of a few days
to examine the fubjca.
Mr. JOHNSTONE proftffed to difagree with both
the Right Hon. Gentlemen who (poke lag—as the
former had procraftinated for In many months the
progrefs of a meafure which he fecmed to think fo
preffing, and the latter and his colleagues had had full
time enough fince their acceffinn to power to invef-
tigate the fubjea ; and alto, as it was underftood
from the Secretary of the Treafury on the lag day
this order was pollponed, that the fecond reading
Gould take place this day. Upon the principle and
detail of the Bill before the Houle, the Hon. Mem-
ber referred the declaration of his fentiments till an-
other opportunity, of which be timid ava;l himfelf,
to (hew that much complaint conneaed with this Cub-
jet lay evict! the Court of Appeals, whole cantina
was a reproach on the adminiltration of juftice in this

country.
Mr. S. BOURNE difciaimed having 7,iven any
pledge of the nature &Imbed by the Honourable
Gentleman, adding, that be never had any authority

to do fo.
?Ir. IL WARD thought the Right Honourable
Gentleman (Mr. Addington) would find himfelf
mill aken in fuppnfing that no Member could °Neil to
the principle of this Bill. For his own part, he thought
it very objea'o e. It propofcd to introduce quite
a new ende—quUe thiTerent groin that which has el-
ided (ince the rc,r,n of itieen Anne—to erea a new
office, mkt the direltion of the Board of Admi-

ratty, with fabrics of 0001. a-yqr, livery man le'
the ?levy, below the rank of Captain. was affii' to
be deprtvcd 'of the riga of porninating Igs own
agent; and that copulae! ever theplot-coifs of
prize money, while an appeal was pending.. pificia
feamen now had in conlitoence of a late AR, wet to

be done away.
Captain MARKHAM thought it irregular in the
Hon, Gentleman to ilifeufs the principle of the Bill
on the prefent oecafion.
Dr. LAWRENCE thought otherwife, and the
Speaker corroborated his °Onion.
Mr. WARD refutned, and after a for Luther ob-
(citations, the amendment was agieed to.
MAVIS TRAM.
Mr. WILBERFORCE moved the Order of the
Day for the fecond reading of the Bill for Aboliating
the Slave Trade.
Mt. FOSTER intreated the Hon, Member to al-
low precedence to another Order of the Day. for
going into a Committee on the Petition of the Ira
Linen Manufaturers, as it was upon a &hp* of the
moll preffing importance. involving the Intereas of
the (la* commodity of Ireland, and upon which the
Petition of all the linen manufwiturers cud merchants
in Ireland were before the Hoeft ; betides, the Lab
great linen market at Dublin. was to be from the
middle to the cad of the month. 'anti. all the great
orders for exportation remained pending the decifsom
of the Houfe upon the fajta.
Mr. WILBERFORCE Paid it was peißbiehe toSlave ac-
commodate both ; for as the &hen...upon t
Trade Bill 'Meru*. place tri a future Gage, samelY.
on the motion for the Speaker's barbs the chair.
previoufly to going into, a Committes, all that be
meant to prefs that evening! was easily the cond
reading of the Bill. and the bearing dfee' sad
examination of evidence.
' Lord TEMPLE raid it would be impollle to
poßpone the debate this day upon the few:id ,rcat.
jng, as this night the mail for Jamaica wadi be
made up, and it was of the tamed impatience that
it thould carry with it the decifem s the Houle

upon the fobjea.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEnEII.
Paid, that however important the Noble erd
may conceive it to be, that the Weft Intha mail
of this night fhoold carry with it the • ,
of the Houfe upon this quakes, be feared if
del
Houle fhould even go into debate Upon the Dill.
mail could have taken its
its
before the li
/bat& would have formed its deri6n. He was,
'therefore, for acceding tb the propofition of bfir. i
Wilberforce, as the day on which Counfel wire to be I
'heard on'BiUs, however insportent, did Roth**, to
fie days of fall attendance, and' as it world be too
late an hour to go into debate, after evideece thould
have been gone through, and the alguethels of Conn.
fel concluded.' . ' • • ' .
Sir LAWRENCE P' ESC* - Cob . 411.111104 .
of the Slave Trade A lion leok:1, , ' ~.;
circonsikances, a new fubjea to -% • ~
bees of that Houfe. In the year 5706 it .710 !r
palled that Hook for abolifbing the African III*
oath
Trade, after a United peridd; but this it erak
a principle agreed on, that in the Interim
&mid be taken for increafing the native
of the Weft India Hands. Was the oath
prepared to proceed with a Bill of this me . 1
Without enquiring what progrefs had Welk
this refpea ? A correfpondence of COO
length had taken place limes* the Secretory ell
State and the Well India itwent ore *shin
Jed. the papers open *bleb were now 14.7 1101
table. He was confident that Got WV afti.
Members of the Houk had read dtdik prone tu
was even fire that the Honourable Wither who ip►►
troduced the Bill had not read them ; he dieter*,
hoped the Houfe would not be precipitated to a dm
atoll upon a fubjea which occupied Icemillhicaef
capital, which produced two tnalions, of rrreoter,
which brought tote country eight millions of pro,
duce, and enabled us to export four millions of pr.
' duce, until .thde papers were twisted, and time al-
lowed to Members for due confideration. He weal
as much an advocate for the abolition of the Slave
Trade as any Membei of the' Route, neverthelefell
he %elated the Houfe to proceed with deliberation,
and not in its furor to promote the porpofes of ho-1
manity towards the Weft India Slaves, to defeat thole
pur pores.
Mr. WILBERFORCE made a few remarks oil
Sir Lawrence Parfons's fpeech.
I On the queßion being put,
Sir L. PARSONS rote again, and made a variety
of obfervations, in which he contended that the only
tendency of the motion would be, to transfer the
trade to other nations • in which be was followed by
Mr. Dent and Mr. Fuller.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
thought, that if the Bill was difcuffed that night,
the next flep would he to hear Counfel.
Mr. DICKENSON; Sq. laid, that the Petition
of the Weft India merchants had only been received
' the day before, and that therefore a fufficient time had
I not been given to Members to turn their minds to the
fubjeft. He then moved, that inßead of the word',
" now," the words " this day fennight" flunk! be
fobilituted.
Mr. ROSE firpported the Amendment.
Mr. CALCRA FT thought the courfe of proceed-
ing diforderly.
The SPEAKER confidered the proceedings as
being perfealy in order.
Mr. ROSE explained, sad alluded tb a pamphlet
recently publifhed, with a view to influence Gentle-'
men's minds on the fubjea.under difcuffion.
Mr. WILBERFORCE thought. that as the Hoek
had determined oothe fecead reading of the Bill for,
that evening, no fort of objeaion could be rationally
taken to it on the ground of Coeliac. Thole who
oppofed the meafure were perfealy attentive to their
own interefts. He had fern the Counfel in his way
to the Houfe, whore habits of indußry and attention
were, lie was fore, futhcient to bring them before the
Houk perfealy prepared for the queßion. As to
the pamphlet alluded to, he had read it with great
pleafore and appronation, but he could not fee what
improper effeEt it could have. Was the Houfe to be
fuppded to be taken captive by that book, fo as to
require another week to enable them to recover their
judgment ?
Mr. FULLER fpcke itrongly for the amendment.
The meafure was calertated only to
~gratify ill affea-
ed peanut, by the plunder of One of the Rata pro-
perties of the Empire.

Sr W. YOUNG Spoke in favour of farther delay.
, It was r" contell of parties for vietorgfs fake, but a
,quefti, "on which depended the fate of the Empire.
Lord CASTLEREAGH thought that the great
.mats of information on the table ihould have been
I W-
nrinte
Hd fore
thcould not come
advantage of the Members of that
oufe. properly to the diftuf-
i fion without a knowledge of the details. He was a
friend to the abolition, but in looking to that obje&
I he differed widely from the mods propofed by his
Honourable Friend. The Houfe on former occa-
Sons, in voting for abblition. had always in view
abolition with regulation, but abolition without re.
siltation had been always related., His Right Ho.
insurable Friend. be was well allured. proceeded on
the principles of a beneSolent andliti virtuous h
in mind
' but the experience of former propoona, bot this
and the other Honte.fulfieed to Stew that he had not,
In the prefect taken the molt prudent and
Kennet line.
1. Mr. FOSTER falde the queltion had turned fo
much on the merits and demerits of it, that he thould
only fay, that be •wilhed to fupport the meafure of
abolition; bat that to-morrow, in the first inflance,
be Should mowed to the other bnfinets .refpating
Ireland, of which be had before fpokm.
Mr. DICKKNSON, jun. laid, that the .C.nunfel
Were not Folly. having 13C;11 engaged. i 4 the Houle
of Lords, He therefcce_put the mister to the can-
dour of the Honourable Gentleman.
1- Mr. DENNIS BROWNE (poke a few words.
The CHANCELLOR of thr EXCHEQUER
Ilead no übjeftion to proceeding in the manner propof-
b lay Mr. Fake for to-caorrow.
CM the Tuition being put on the amendment,
there appeared—Ayes, 66 ; Noes 74.
04 the GaUeryleing re-opened,
Sir W. YOUNG was found upon his legs: He
Mat .ccolierable. length *yank the prtnerple of
and Waved that it .had. milled from the
ligolge of King Charles the Second to the prefect pe-
rkily during which time it bad been of effential be-
ad' to the revenue and commerce of the country ;
be thought that it was a Bill of general foreclofure
coming to a haltreoielufton, entaterefore found it
a duty umninbent co him to opWe it.
_Sir RALPH MILBANK obfarved, that the work
of the plantations might be very wcU carried on with
the alliance of mules, au. Ike, and that, by adopt.
in dad plan of only math% a moderate portion of
labour 'froen the Negrogs,lhdr populAuoa would
_ .

""TlLLlA—Viligtfil
‘lmlgra • Mafia fosse degree
of (strife at Morin .the Worthy Baronet who
(poke at but oat'leillkht that he thought the Hooks
was casing to.a hay: es:Manton, when tha•mtellitia
i had barged, Reties yeari before the Hoists. •With
nifped.tatheirgantent. that the, population of the
Sept Hands 'cooldao&pogibly be kept up for want
a a *Went number of (erodes. he mentioned that
it • : fallee withii-his win knowledge.
befit
• ' . si that an to Manager.
••- • ^
a . . ithougb; it necelfary to buy tc*
beta .‘
- " .ai Wore& his flock during thlt
peer i,..... impdry, be fotmdthat ha bad
thugs._ . '. . -The inferesioe
_was 'dittoes, boys(
or' • • . _J: Pete foetid heft to =fair the put,.
.. - . '"ii, 7-• ... • did nos chore to purchafe
that defeription of Negro& that Wis [aid to be want.
int to laerwatibe *mulattoes' they bad rather put; .
ch*Gt:aa addition. than go to the trouble - f rearing
att addition to their goek
jam..GOELL (44;u:dr:vow of the Bill.
- . far 3 NEWP9ILT that it was his wigs
to natoissehigi = irbsols tugsa trade reffeded oa
tsar fain as It was a traffic which had its
*iodides in hijuillt apd in Mood, and against loch
IliNilluntlnible article of 'eolowerce, he would ever
talk his voiee—assa jellos, ram Cans I
~ lard TEMPLE objeded to the dikvifion of the
"Aim in &thin a Houle, aad recommended that
forta a wears time Mould be given for Membeii to
esalfidar o(the vat quantity of- Britifh capital that
wasaasplayed in the Well India Iflands.and to adopt
fosse plan for the relief of the Proprietors who might
(offer by a too (ridden abolition of the trade. At all
events, it Was likely that other nations might take up
the trade if we left it off. and therefore he fhould op.
pofc the Bill in every flage ; it would teal the death
warrant of every white inhabitant of thofe itlands.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH EWER oh-
fervid, that he had thought that the fubject had be-
come fo hacknied that there could not be any thing
new introduced upon the fubjed. The opinions which
the Noble Lord had just delivered had, however, con-
vinced him of his error. He at firll Teemed to bet
'for a week's more time, as if that could he any objed
in a bufinefs that bad been Co many years under dif-
euffion. He then laid that other nations might un-
dertake the trade though there was not any other
nation that cooldifpare either the capital or the (hip-
ping that was nece ary for that purpofe. And lall,and
moll extraordinary of all, he had laid that the aboli-
tion of the African trade would teal the death warrant
of all the whites. It was br ameliorating the condi-
tion of the negroes already in the illands, that Tome
degree of attachment and fidelity to their mailers was
to be produced, and not by the additional importa-
tion of barbarous and unenlightened favage recruits,
who would be ferocious, vindiaive, and untraeable ;
who had freth in their minds the idea of being torn
from their native country; who could not poffibly
have any attachment for their new mailers, and who
were molt unfit for even the molt laborious Rate of
civilized fociety. The old Negroes, or thole who
were born in the iflands, wereTamiliarized to their
fnuations, and in many intlances would have a degree
of friendikip for a mailer whom they had long ferret/.
white would make them &udder at the idea of any
revolt againft him. The Hnufe had long fince fees
the danger of French revolutionary principles coming
in contaft with the fituation of Negro flavery ; and
yet the Noble Lord teemed to fuppofe that they were
to be fnothed by the kindnefs of introducing new vic-
tims, who were ufel:fs in a domestic point of view,
and who, from their barbarous habits and utter igno-
rance of the kindneis and humanity of their new maf
ter, would not be to likely to do any thing to injure
them, as the old fervants oho hid experienced their
generofity and their feelings towards them even in
their degraded fituation.
Dr. LAWRENCE paid 2 jult tribute of praife to
the powers of the Right Honourable Gentkinan in
declamation. He, however, differed from him in
opinion as to the propriety of the Bill br'nre t!,:
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any contrary or with riffled In any Licicription of hr..
man beingl. However, he could not think that the
made now adopted for doing awav that (late of
Lavery was as fil fECitnt to the norptife.l% the other.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL lamented that
with all the Hrnourable and Learned Gent'eman's
anaiety for the abolition of any Hate of livery, he
neither could bring his mind to agree to the mealure
now before the Houfe. nor yet to bring forward any
new prnpofithin for that porpufe. He, however, en.
vered hirnfelf in general terms with a recommends-
lion of the other mode. as if it was fo generally known
that there was no neceffity to define it, although that
mode had never before been heard of. or at !eel be
had sever bad the happinefs to be prefent when it was
deferibed.
Lord CASTLERKAGH oopnfed the Bill in a
. fpeech of confiderable length. He thought the Oslo,
i ntended would be better obtained by inflituting Come
wife and comprehenfive regulations with a view to
encourage the population of the eaves. Enconrage.
' meat might he peen alio to the importation of the
fame attieles as thaft fapplied by the Weft Indies
from other quarters; and thus by diminithing the
confomption of their protium, render their demand
for (laves lets urgent, A duty might alto be impefed
on thebepertation of naves, which might4roitradm
ally avereafed, and thus render the export table,
while the import would be the contrary. e thought
the difficulties of the Weft India Planters already fufe
kindy numerous, without expofing them to the ha-
zard of new experiments. He refilted the meafore.
in general, on account of what appeared to him to be
its intmaakability.
Mr. FOX Paid, that the Noble Lord had alluded
to the Tuition of praftability in a manner which he
(Mr. F. could not underitand. ft was not, however,
a queition which was new ; and as to the regularity
• of alluding to what had patted, or might yet path
in another Houfe, he centered that it was undoebt-
tdly true. that Bills of rertiog bad been there
thrown out ; but that fin eiredmatnee did not
argue that a different ecru t Might happen on the
prefent oceafion, or that we might not yet have the
chance of the coalition of that Houfe, becaufe it had
undergone changes in every repel. Was there not
a Reverend Benel of Bilhops there who had is general
}hewn that they underftootthe true principles of re,
ligion. and were confequebtly difpofed to leave, as
it were, the queftion of prafticability behind I It bad
already been proved that, to propofing the Abolition
of the Slave Trade we never mold have the cordial
content of the Wed.Tndia Planters. In the year 1797,
4 an Honourable Member of that Hoare had propofed
a recommendation to the King, in order to prontote
a pumas fusilier to the pretest Bill. - That potion
Whom carried. and be would now with m Iwo
what had yet been done towards the abolition-of dtat
Illegal traffic ? Them had bech neither aleffitins,
dietinutios, ern_gulation adopted, tentfiug to that
clearable end.. If there had been any ttung done
• in confeqomice of filch propofal, the eawnerr would
have had oecafion to have Loafed of it at this da .
sal
The only queftion that now reme nnittal foe •
devotion was, whether we could or could net
it t and it was extraordinary to hear she
Kraal! it. Could not the Parliatettat of GYMS
tale prohibit the ruble& debit comity free*
log on any trade whatever. and why &odd him
that they costa not do fo in the prefent leftmost •
it meld not do fo, it was no Goverment at all.
Noble Lord teemed to argue from religions '
Which he (Mr. F.) could not underfeed. 110
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beard of Come egtraordinary inftanees of the ' il
fel tikes of religious infinencs epee fetes penis
muds; and he keuld mention
ow ia the Ws of the'
late Mr. Cowper, the poet, who, during a calk
able part of his life, was depsived of hts fenfM;Med;
was troubled with ideas the molt horrible in lime'
nature, conceiving that the Governor of the teehneftil
had marked him out for eternal perdition, aistffilerm
fore he (Mr. Cowper) thought it wet latteielleet ,
upon him not to lift up his hands, or offer *prayer"
for his faleation. How far fnch a cafe might apply
. in the prefent inftanie he would leave it for the
Houle to determine. iNre were thus going on from
day to day, violating all the laws of humanity and
principles of lattice. and faying that it was not'
us alone. but all the nations of the world, who
were doing fo. The Slaie Trade was to be confi-
dered in the prefent inftance a liiiiifh trade, and
no other. and therefore it depended on curfelves
to obviate it, and adopt what means we chofe
to meet the effels of a contraband trade. The,
defcription of the African trade, as given by Park,
was well worth the attention of the Houle.—
That Gentleman had Paid, that in proportion as the
diftrids of that country were remote from the coats,
the naves received better treatment. %Vas it to be,,
laid that,becaufe we were nut hound to go like Knights'
Errant to Africa, in order to relieve theft flaves, that ;
we were entitled to go and add to their oppreffion 11
Surpofing that the flares, when in their native coon-'I
try, were guilty of robbery, and other crimes. was
there any thing binding upon us to go there, and ad
as the Police Officers of the King of Dohomy ? Let
that King ad as be pleated, there was ferely AO 111-
cetEty for our performing the office of the melt boat-
Me individual, and becoming the executioners, or in
other words, to ad as the Jack Ketch of the King di
Dohomy (it lead IRO.) No perfon could deny,l
that the fituation of St. Domingo was a ferious and
awful warning to us not to increafe the aumbers of
Blacks over the Whites on our colonial poffeffions.
It was our duty to afford an example to other coon-'
tries, and in five years hence we would find it adopt-1
ed by More who lead not thought proper to petit-
vere in what they themfelves had attempted.
Mr. WINDHA hi faid he was not at all fatisfied
of the great enormities of the trade, and entered into
a long argument to prove this countr, by abolithing
it, would gain nothing on the Icore off humanity, but
on the contrary would lofe confiderably in a com-
mercial point of view, becanfe there was no fecurity
that other Nations would give it up; or that Briutb
(übjedt would not transfer their capital to foreijners
in order to carry nn the trade.
Sir LAWRENCE PA RSONS raid, he would with'
to fee Come plan propoied fur the gradual abolition
of davery, but difapproved of the present mealure, as
being highly prejudicial to the mercantile interet.
Mr. BARHAM fupported the Bill. He was for.
?nerly againd it ; but the order of things which had
t.iktn place 11: Sr. Domingo had briii•glit us to a (li-
fts, uhirh null determine us no -, either totally to
a°....clilti the trade, cr to r:nour.c: hot ever the defito.

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Mr. DEVERELL ems once as Artemis a Alp.'
porter of the tneaftwe as tither the Hon..butver
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feconder of the prefatt Bill, but he had outlived hit
opinion.
Mr. WHITEBREAD fupported it, particularly
applying his obferrations to thole ufed by the Hnn.
Gentleman (Mv: Windham). He inferred the proba-
bility of the Abolition of the Trade in time, by put-
ting an end to Lavery in the Colonies. He contended,
that if the trade was (uttered to 'lie, it would be the
means of our ultimately toting our Weft India pnf-
fenions.
Mr. WILBERFORCE fpolte at Come length
againe the opponents of the Bills on Mr. Windham
he was particularly revere. He applied to him the
lines of Pnpe in allufinn to Addifnn:
Who would not tank, if Nett a Man there be
Who would not weep, if ATTICUS weft bar
He expreffed his fatisfaffion, that the debate now
relied on the principle of Peke, and that Falfe
Inanity was•left wholly out of the qneftion.
Mr. WINDHAM explained.
On the divifion for the fecond reading.
The Ayes were. tot ; Noes, 42—Majority gs.
On the queftion for calling in the Counfcl, a con-
verfation of (rine length enfued. The Tuition was
carried in the affirmative. But Mr. Scarlet. on open-
log the bnfinefs, pleaded a want of preparation on his
own part and that of his colleagues. Their further
hearing was therefore porlponed to the next Page of
the Bill. The Honfe adjourned at two o'clock.

FRANCL

smarmT or ma MARINI.

TNT 1111111/TOR Of steams AND COLON'S/ TO HIS
VIAJIIIITT Till astritaoa OF Till flitittl.
Ps* s 9 flerest, Mei so. 1104
Sias—l take the firft opportuaity of having the
honour to laying before your Imperial Malay, the
accounts tranfmitted to me by Rear Admiral Yea.
null., commander in chid of the Saurian flotilla,
and Rear. Admiral MAGON, sommandingthe right
wing of the Nuked flotilla. Rear Admiral VI a-
NULL failed from Floating on the Feb of
(Mitt' t 6) with nineteen gun velTels, forty-feven Ba-
tavia* gun boats, and two French Prams, les Villes
d'Ais and el'Auvers. Scarcely was he tinder fail
estop contrary winds obliged him to anchor in a
Akie hi the pars of the Scheldt called the Inner+
Wielingen. On the asth, at break of day, di
Rear-Admiral fet fail with his fla.ilLt. and garne4
the height of aryl}, when the wind having veered
round to the South Weft, be refolvei to return
go his firl anchorage, running under a light fail
ies tha line of battle. An Englint ideate and a I
*titer" which were very WAIN ensaceuvred to cut of
the two gun-boats in the rear. and a beat of the coo,
wry. The 'tear Admiral feting there velfel. expofed,
Imnsie the fignal to tack in order to cover them; but
before this movement had produced its draft, the
boat of the convey fell int,. the hands ..f the enemy.
igbagosdesteglVaanoss,with that coolnefs and coo-
dpir by which he is ditiinguilhed, qtsitt•d the line to
;opgrage the two Engbar Teta. ; he made a fignal to
the whole flotilla to follrier him. The lot; ..f this
boat isms of little importance, but his honour was hurt
by it. The battle for two hours was esceeffinoly
hat Ulises", oasis of the enemy were difinaited. And
pliiere.l44_ Tour Mayfly had given order. to Rear
Admiral Veaueot. to proceed to Oilend
or thel: pa
fage remained open. he proceeded to that pt.—
CourTree Sir
, Joie welch, came op with the G.alla-B ita-
to
Sian Ma at the diftance of three league. from
Our flotilla carried only a hundred gotta.
(quadron, betides the advartage of large
feels, aneunted ago pieces of cannon. The con-
ed was not,equal : the Englifh thought they were
eip=l to certain victory. the cataftrophe they ca-
mas therefore more fenlibly felt. After a
4009/1 of (even hours. they were obliged to abandon
,* field afbactsle, The Commodore's fbip, the An-
Yaioes, pierced with flint, appeared to our radars to
be entirely {battered; an Engles frigate and a nor-.
vette were diftnafted, and a prig was obliged to quit
the lice on the commencement of the anion. There
OFT Aron' reafons for fuppofiog that it mull have
fpnt in the Channel.
Two gun boats which lagged behind were purfued
by a frigate: they had fuftained feveral broadfides.
when Lieutenant DUTAlLLls.commandiag the prune
la Ville d'Anvers, tacked, and after maintaining a
combat alongfidefor two hours with the frigate, was
fo fortunate as to bring down her mail, and to lave
the two boats.
Rear Admiral Vrem use. bellows great praife on
the condo& of Lieutenant DUTA4LLII, and in parti-
cular on account of his able =manes. This brave
Officer, though feverely wounded in the leg, never
quitted his command for, a moment during the ac.
tion. The Rear Admiral is highly plaided alfo with
Captain B&UPIZT, the Batavian Officers and crews,
and the French troops who were on board. He ac.
cities two of the Commatiders of the gun-boats who
did not difcharge their dirty, and he informs me that
they will be tried for their conduit.
I mug inform your May, that at the time when
the flotilla was moll warmly engaged with the enemy,
at the diftance of a league and a half from Oliend.
Rear Admiral blaoon difpatched, under the coot-
mend of Captain Larnbourg, twelve boats. which,
by help of their oars, were able to get out of port,
and did not heitate to pafs boldly within half a can-
non flint of the Commodore's fire, and particularly
of a (hip of 6o guns, to give more fpeedy affiflance to
the boats is the rear.
Captain Marotta bore np to the Ville d'Air, dur-
ing the laft two hours of the combat. This prairie
had two men killed, and 13 wounded. The Ville
d'Anvers bad two killed and 16 wounded. The
boats had two men killed, among whom were an
officer and fix wounded. The Batarians had la men
killed. and a 6 woonded. Total of the men killed,
id, four of whom bel,ir,ged to the prames and boats.
Total of the men eroundeJ, W ; of whom 35 belonged
to the prunes or boats.
Lieutenant L aaaaa one illt I, Adjutant of Rear-
Admiral Miami, had been detached with difpatches
for Rear Admiral Via u IL. near whom he remain-
ed during the whole engagement. This Officer,
who was the bearer of the account which I have the
honour of laying before your Majefty, elutes me.
that two canommers of the light artillery were kil-
led by his fide. The enemy were roughly treated.
and obliged to retire with con firkrable lob. Next day
Admiral Visit cte ant..u. red in triumph in the large

road at Oflend. Being de nips of fates-thee rev=
ing his v:tiory, before he entered into port, be re-
mained A day and a night, waiting for the enemy,
and it was only when he law the Englifh fquidrots
(landing off, at the di:lanee of four Sequa, repair-
ing their damage, and retiring, wail by steel, to
their own ports, that he determined to enter Mend.
This advantage is the fecund which has been gained
by Admiral Vtanutt. over the Engli% Beet in the
conrfe of a few months. I requefted a minute detail
of thi+ important affair, that I might propofe to your
Majelty the granting of rewards to the officers, &S-
-lots, and feldiers, who have dininellin," themfelves.
I beg your Majelty to accept my prof/sand refpee.
(Signed) DECLSS.