Star.
London, England, 1825-09-02 00:00:00

FROM THE NORFOLK HERALD.

EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE.A paragraph has
lately gone the 'round of the papers, announcing that a
Gentleman of Virginia had einancipatad upwards of
SO slaves, and chartered a-vessel to send them, at his
own expense, to Hayti, but without giving the name of
the author of so distinguished an act of munificence.
We think it due to supply this d iiciency, and to add
the following facts, which have been communicated to
us by a Gentleman familiar with them, as well as by
Captain Russell, one of the owners of the brig Hannah
and Elizabeth, cf Baltimore, the :vessel chartered.
The Gentleman who has thus distinguished himself,
is Mr. David Minge, of Charles .City County,- -living
near Sandy Point, oa James 'river. Cipiain Russell
informs, that there were pat on board the. Hannah and
Elizabeth, eighty-seven coloured people of .different
ages, from three months to ten years, being all the
slaves which Mr. alinge owned, e.cccpt two old
Whom he had likewise manumitted, but whovbeing past
service, he retains ah'cl supports th'em. The value of
these negroes, at the prices aox going, might be 'esti-
mated at about 26,000 dollars ! and -Mr. 'Wine et-
cndcti, previous to their einhika'Lion, about 1,200,

dollars in ptirchaiing ploughs, hoes, iron, and other
articles of husbandry for them, besides providing them
with several suits of clothes to each, provisions, gro-
ceries, cooking utensils, and everything which he sup•
posed they might require for their comfort during the
passage, and for their use after their arrival out. He
also paid 1,600 dollars far the chatter of the vessel.
But Mr. Mingis munificence does not end hem. On
the bank of the rivrr, as. they were about to go on
board, he had a peck of dollars brought down, and
calling them all around him under 'a tree, distributed
the hoard among them in suns, and under such regu-
lations, that each individual did or would receive seven
dollars. By this provision, Mr. Minge calculated that
his emigrants would be enabled to commence the culti-
vation of the soil immedia.ely after their arrival, wi h-
out being dependent on President Bayer for any favour
whatever, unless the permission to improve the Govern-
Men lands might be so considered.
Mr.-Minge is ab sot twenty-four or twenty-five years
of age, unmarried and unincumbeted in every respect;
possesses an ample fortune, and has received the be-
nefits of a collegiate education at Harvard University.
He assigned no other motive for having freed his slaves,
and for his stiblequent act of generosity towards them,
than that he conceived it would be doing • a service so
his country to send.them out of It.; that they had, all
been good servants ; but that he Was rich enough with-
out them.

ROBBCRS IN CANADA.-It appears by the •Quebec
Papers that the Canadas are now infested by an orga-
nized gang of robbers, who carry on their lawless de-
predations in the most daring manner. Many of them
are said to be well known in Quebec, where, and in
Montreal and Three Rivers, they have their principal
rendezvous, which regularly co-operate with each other.
They meet in prisons, brothels, and disorderly taverns,
where they. receive lessons in their art of thieving, di-
vide the spoil, and concert on their future operations ;
and when driven out of these haunts, they fie to the
woods. Their number is estimated at fifty. Till lately,
the Canadians, as in most of the United Stater, lived in
such security, that almost every house in the country
parts was left open during the night. Now the greatest
alarm prevails, owing to the existence of these robbers,
many of whom are natives of the country, and are re-
presented as extremely outrageous, and causing great
waste of property throughout the community. Among
a number of robberies which they had committed, the
following recent one is mentioned:—" On the night of
the 12th of July, sii or seven persons. masked and
otherwise disguised, entered the priest's house at St.
Michael d'iramaska, and ordered the servant man to de-
liver up the money belonging to his master, which the
servant did not comply with: they secured him, and
then went into the priest's bed-room, and after binding
him, they required him to deliver up his money ; upon
their being shewn a drawer where there was about 251.
which they took, they insisted upon his informing them
where the money belonging
.to the Church was depo-
sited; but on being assured that the Curate having but
lately come to the parish, weld not telt "where it wall
deposited, they took his watch; and went off, saying
the whole should be returned in a year. In the mean
time, the servant woman bad got out of a window, and
ran to alarm the neighbourhood,, but she was 'seized
just on reaching a house, b 7 two of the gang, and
nearly suffocated, to prevent her giving any alarm ;
they then brought her back to the house, and after se-
curing her also, retired. The neighbourhood had no
information of what had occurred at the Priest's house
till the next morning."