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as 06-14inmooLes &CM. Isags aaterniar, SAUD antastrias,
Iran tans VOYOKIIII, lel4.
" I am happy in assuring your Lordship that I have
every reason to think that the introduction of Slaves
into the Mauritius bas entirely ceased.
"" It is possible that a few may still be taken to the
Seychelles from the A &icon coast,but this cal§ neither be
well ascertained, nor prevented, until a small armed
vessel shall be constantly stationed at that dependency,
for the express purpose of cruising amongst the several
islands. All Slaves, however, brought here from the
Seychelles, are subjected to the established formalities;
and unless they correspond with their original recense-
meat, they are not admitted.
is but justice to tl.e inhabitants to say, that as far
as I can judge, I perceive no disposition whatever on
their parts to renew the traffic in Slaves; but rather a
feeling in condemnation of. the horrors incident to this
trade, seems to be gaining ground."

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
HOUSE 01? LORDS, MU 21.
APPEALS.
In Duncan s. the Lord Advocate of Scotland • Auchterciony v.
Officers of State of Scotland; Young and Co. v. Ramsay, the inter-
locutors of the Court of Session affirmed.
In Jeffrey v. Ure • Magistrates of Montrose 'v. Ewing ;-and John
Graham, W.S. v. the Beeper and Commissioners for the Society
of Writers to the Signet, and their Treasurer and Procurator Pls•
cal, the interlocutors of the Court of Session reversed. In the
I .at case it was so decreed on the single ground that the respond-
ents did mt sue in the character of a " Corporation," but merely
in the names above characterised, individtially.
In Pearson v. Jack, Counsel were fully beard.
Mr. Batman and others, from the Commons, brought up the
Western Ship Canal Bill, and several Private all,, which were
read a firot time. They also brought a Message, stating that the
Commons had given leaveto Mr. Dominick Browne to attend their
Lordships' Committee oh the State of Ireland.
Mr. THORN TON, from the Directors of the East India Company,
presented a Copy of the Case laid before his Majesty's Attorney-
General and Solicitor-General, In the year 1522, relative to the
39th section of the 13th of George 111. entitled an Act for the
better regulation of Loans in India, with the opinion of the Attor-
ney and Solicitor-General thereupon.—Laid on the table.
The Marquis of HASTINGS said, that these Papers having
been laid before the House, there was no further occasion for de-
lay. He therefore gave notice, that he should move to-morrow,
the second reading of his Bill to amend the 13th of George 111. and
moved that the Judges be summoned.—Ordered.
Mr. ITARRI4O2I having been heard a considerable time at the Bar
in support of the Sullivan Divorce Dill.
A conversation ensued, in which the Loan CIIMICILLOA, the
Earls of LAUDERDALR and Dower, and Lord Bauer, took part,
'het which the Bill was read a second time.
QUARANTINE LAWS.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order of the Day for
reading the. Quarantine Laws Ament:ment Bill a second time.
Earl DAItNLEY did not rise to oppose the Bill. On
the contrary, he admitted that some of the Quarantine
regulations were oppressive and required to be altered.
Neither should lie call their Lordships' attention to its
details, although he wished that it were made impera-
tive that cotton coming from Turkey or Egypt should
be taken out and ailed for a sufficient time before
finally admitted. The only clause to which he shokild
draw their Lordships' notice, would be that which gave '
or continued a discretionary power to the Privy Court
ell to extend the quarantine of ships, or to dispense with
it altogether. He objected to this power, because he
contended that of late it had beets much abused. The
circumstances had reached him, in consequence of his
residence being near the Medway. He understood that
vessels laden with cotton had been admitted in the
River, without undergoing any quarantine or any air-
ing whatever, although they had come directly from
Egypt, which was the focus of the plague. If it were
granted, as he conceived it must be, that the plague
was contagious and might Is: shut up in cotton pack-
ages, it was most extraordinary that those vessels had
been so admitted. He had inquired into the subject
snore generally, and had found that in 1819 a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons had been engaged in
an investigation to ascertain whether the plague were
contagious or not ? The opinion that it was only epi-
demic had first been broached by a Learned Gentle
man, of whom his Noble Friend (Lord King) had lately
becomh a disciple. The Committee were of a different
opinion, and consequently did not advise that any
change should be made in the law. Another Com-
mittee, however, which sat last year on Foreign Trade,
had recommended that a considerable alteration should
be made in the Quarantine regulations, and it was on
that recommendation that the present Bill was
founded. With respect to the vessels to which he
had alluded, it was true that they had clean bills
of health ; but any one acquainted with the state of
the Consulates in the Levant, knew that it was not
very difficult there to obtain dean bills of,health.—
If it were true, therefore, that the plague was contagious, it was
extremely hazardous on the part of his Majesty's Government to
act as they bad done. The Noble Earl then alluded to the restric-
tions which had been laid in souse foreign ports upon Mash vessels,
in consequence of the alarm produced by the reported change of
our Quarantine Laws. He refitted the doctrine of Dr. Maclean,
that the plague was not contagious, and read several passages of
Sir T. Maitland': dispatch from Corfu, to chew that the plague
' was caught by contact and not by infection. He then called upon
their Lordships to put an extinguisher upon opinions which, if
adopted, might lead to public danger.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL should say but little, as
there was no opposition to the Bill, and that little should
be confined to explaining its objects. The attention of
his Majesty's Government had been attracted to the sub-
ject by the solicitations of the British Merchants trading
with those parts of the world where the plague was a
frequent visitor, to revise and alter our Quarantine Laws.
Their Lordships were, no doubt, aware that the Levant
Merchants of some countries, of Holland, in particular,
had a great advantage over ours. This arose entirely
• from the superior mildness of their. Quarantine Itegula.
tions. It was true that the Committee of last year felt
disposed to adopt the opinion that the plague was not
contagious. On the contrary, it had admitted the whole
-doctrine laid down by the Committee of 1819, and the
May question had been, not whether security was re,.
quired, but what kind of security should be afforded?
and the feeling had been and still was, that it was the
ditty of his Majesty's Government and of Parliament,
if they committed any error, to err on the side of safety.
It had• been thought necessary at the same time to give
our commerce the benefit of a relaxation of our Qua-
iu
L which were very severe. What then were
made no alteratiOn what-
lotions, but justly vested the
"ing in Council. But even
in their extent, and so
even of those who thought
The two great objects
to conditions of a wholly
AW passed in 1805, the el-
borne by the ships which
operation. This appeared

ranting Laws, which were very
the principles of the Bill ? It r
ever in the Quarantine Regulati
right to make them in the Rini
then they were very limited
framed as to meet the opinioni e
that the plague was infectious.
of the Bill, in fact, related to
different nature.- By the law
penses of Quarantine were bo
were obliged to undergo its en