Star.
London, England, 1807-02-28 00:00:00

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Mr. ROBINSON thought the petition contained f Mr. BARHAM vindicated the charaaers of the
very improper language, and that it ought to be ie. `Well India Gentlemen from the imputations which
jelled, if not withdrawn. 1 popular clamour had dircaecragaina them. He de.
Mr. ADAM thought the petition ought to be re- i Glared, that the population of the Well Indies could
jelled, becaufe it contained language not decorous ; : nor be kept ma without a regular importation : that
and if the fuhllance were allowed to be broargia be • : he had himfelf tried the experiment on his lawn eflates
fore the Heufd on a future day, it might be with- 1 in Jamaica as fairly as it could be 'tied : that theft
drawn without any injury to the petitioners, or to the : wa, much lets flavery and more comforts among the
dignityoftheHon.Gentlemanwho brought it forward. i Negroes, than among the lower orders in Europe :
Mr. BIDDULPH faid the Right Honourable ! and the old Negroes , n his eftates were much dif.
Gentleman had complained of his want of candour, , plealed at his not purchafing newly imported Ne-
in not informing him of the petition. He Allred groes, which he had always declined to do, in conk-
him that he entertained the fame refpea for him he i quence of the difgull he felt at the firli (live market
had ever done ; and if this petition had been the i at which he was preterit, and which made an indeli•
fill of the kind, he fhould have communicated it to ble impreflion 'upon his mind. Noiwiddlanding he
him ; but as it was, it had never occurred to him till I had laboured as much as he could for the happinefs
Mr. Shetidan had mentioned it. As to the petition of the Negroes on hiseftates, he did nut with by any
itfelf, he fhould be a bad advocate for the petitioners I means to f,eparate- his own. charaeler from that of
if he did not yield to the arguments he had heard de- other Welt India Proprietors, .wlna had, as he con-
livered on the fubjea. If agreeable to the Houle, I ce'Ned, been very unjullly accufed of cruelty and op-
and the Right Honourable Gentleman who feronded preflian.
the motion, he would withdraw it. Mr. COURTENAY luPported the motion for the
Mr. SHERIDAN was about to' fpeak ; but I Speaker's leaving the Chair, .and was altoniihed. to
The SPEAKER informed him he could only ex- 'hear that the vote for the Abolition of the Slave
prefs his c ,nfent or the contrary. Trade gaffed the other night, attributed rather to the
Mr. SHERIDAN faid he had not his own con- i eloquence than to the found judgment and ftrong
fent ; but it it were the plealure of the
.1-loufe he reafoning of the Noble Lord. The oratorical talents
could net fay nay.—The Motion was then Withch awn, of two of the moll dillinguifhed perfons in this coun-
and afterwards the petition. try had long been ineffeaually employed on the fame
SLAVE TRADIF ABOLIrION BILL. i fubjeft. ~ .
On the Motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, .Sir R. MILBANKE fuPported the motion.
Sir C. POLE role, and laid that his opinion of the Mr. MON rAGUE lamented the oppofition given
impolicy of the prefent meafure had gained confider- to the Bill in this Rage of it. He thought that .an
able strength from the arguments he had heard urged Hon. Alderman (Mr. Hibbert) did mit place him.
by the oblelt and moft converfant men upon the fub- fell in thefituation of the unhappy Africans, when
jell. He thought that the Bill would put to riftille he refilled the meafure. If he were taken from the
more than one third of the export trade. The trade plenteous board of the dignified Corporation of which
at prefent maintained tOOO (hips and rfnooo reamers. lie was a Member, and tranfported to the Weft Indies
He hoped the Houle would confider chipafilanately to perpetual fervitude, he might then form fume no-
the great fuhjeel before them, and not be affeeled in tiar of the African's fituarion.
its decifinn by popular clamour. Mr. HIBBERT raid that he had already endurrd the fufferings
Mr. WILLIAM WYNNE Paid that there was a to which los Hon. Priend, in the raciclfe of his • fen& imagina-
tion, had configned him. Haying reftgned the gown...he no longer
great difference between popular clamour and public
enjoyed that luxurious abundance which had been referred to, and
opinion. His mind was made up open the fubjca ; he was delivered over to a conditiop worfe than Wilt India fl.i•
he withed no further evidence. He thought the evi- very, by having his property involved in Colonial, Settlements.
dence of Carolina and the Bar badoes Affembly mote which were now to be furrendered to romantic Ipeculations of
juftice and humanity.
than sufficient. • Mr. BATHU RS I' Rated the °Pby intim. which he, and thole
Mr.HEUCHANTaid, he role with that diffidence with whom he had 'idled at a former time,hid been ;sided. lie
which a &it public appearance in that Houle ought had never any ohj •dlion to the abolition, but be always thought
natut ally to infpire. He thought he might be allowed that it &mild be gr 'dual, and he fhould propofc a clinic with re-
to give his opinion, however, without incoming a fpeA to the time, in the progrefs of the Bill through the Com-
charge of art rgance or pre fumptinn, as he ;elided kr min'
Mr. BARHAM and Mr. MONTAGUE fcverally end:lmA
ten years:in the Welt India Colonies, and had made Mr. JACOB raid, that the meafure propored for the abotitiin
the condition of the (laves and their amelioration the would fupply a liberal compenfation to the Planters for any butt
peculiar ohjea of his confileration. With the benefit they thould fuftain by it in other relpeds. One hundred n-rroes
of this experience, therefore, he fhould proceed to sere eteinviepriyitendegtroo hew
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difcharge what he contidered to be his duty as an a planter poll ling that number, would immediately double his
independent Member of Parliament. He had no proper:y in the Raves he employed.
hefitation In f.tying, that the limits of cruelties pr ac- Mr. WINDHAM admitted,that flavery in itfelf was pernicious;
obutcc atfhoetrk -e
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findwhich
tiled upon Negroes were either wholly unfounded, cr
at lealt grofsly exaggerated. He went over, with himfdr that courageP which others aci.nmaPicdged. It might be the
great ability, and, in a very logical and argumenta ruin of this country,tmd at no dittant period; and it retitled cat.
Live manner, the various reafons adduced by the aboli- culatcd to promote no es-I,nm and immediate advantage. If Gen-
tionifts. He admitted that the Slave Trade was an tlemen were dif,-,3E..1 to wail, their hands of iniquity of the
of
trade,thole
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ti,Ac'
c. 1-3_, .:wilhiiicnt! chctotearerleiedvtehheirme fwelair frtooomntlhnechburretahroenn
evil, but it was an incurable and a neceffirry evil, if we
regarded our commercial, or naval profperity. It to appah•-nd.
would be recelleaed, upon the refpeaable authority Mr. WTIITCREAD,in a long and eloquent fpcech furnmed up
01 Wing') Park, the African traveller, that a (tale uf the varimts alpine:its which had been adduced in the courfe of the
withwhich
o,
ita,sevaiave andt, aoinfelaetiedo
mreoply. He
Slavery was impofed on the Inhabitants of Africa bytahapotw he was cdoebanettue'detdo
the difpentatior sof DIVINE PROVIDENCF. In their and promifing Membersg,of Parliament deliver their faLymoentintgs
own country, the (tate of a Have was much more mi- againft the trade,in a way fo highly honourable to themfelves, and
ferable and deplorable than it could poffibly be in the it was the pride and glory of his life to conduce to the attainment
Welt Indies. He then went into a detail of the cru- of anrulijleAdtTftio
Tjimrtraen: tlosotteilis country and to mankind.
cities praelifed on the flares in Africa, their native mg ROSE FULLER Bated many particulars refreding his
country. The hardfhips of the middle paffage, which own ettates in the Weft Indies, and obferved, that after the mild-tt
had been ft, much exaggerated by the Abolitionitts, conduct towards the Raves employed in them, be found it impoffi-
were amply compenfated by the change in their Mu- blertofmuanidntatlnion tfhe p:temlatina.
fHe dedclareddthat there was no
oration for the better, which they experienced on their than there was in that ofretre"p.ortocr brewed by ttherturHeon.cfGfielrvtlees-'
arrival in the Weft Indies. If Gentlemen would look man ( Mr. Whitbread) being made of Cectlat Inclieut, and other
into Mr. Pat k's book with attention, they would find • rifons—(a 14ied hough ).
that the proportion of (laves to freemen, even inAfrica 1 Lord HO WICK re•ained his conviction, not only of the jultice I
was as three to one, and even fometintes greater.
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After a viactry gained by the King of Bainbarra over Friend (Mr. Windham). Finding :he debate on the progporal for
a neighbouring Prince, with whom he was at war, the Speaker's leaving the Chair, had been protraeted, for the come-
out Of 900 captives, only 7o were ft eernen, the Lett Menet of the Houk at this late hour, he would now fuggeft that'
were all fisees. As to the humanity and policy of tnhnestßeidli
ohne
acozmnriendeadnifoorrdarear, atonrdftuhrtathietrbedirperionintoeft and recom.
the trade with refpeel to the treatment of the regroea l ,
After a tew words 'from Sir C KYLE and Gen. GASCOYNE,
in the Weil Indies, he was willing to meet the Aboli- I the Bill was lubmitted to the Committee. After which, the Re-
tionifts on thefe grounds alto. Whatever might have port being br-tight up by Mr. HOBHOUSR, it was received and
been the (late of the ncgroes when the quellion of the read,r and It was agreed that it be taken into further conlideration
ua ed,onerday next, and ago that it be printed, as amended.
Abolition was full agitated, it was now much al- Adi rned at Hall pat One o. Clock this Morning till Monday
tered. The infurreCtions in G:enada, the Carfibbee next.
and the Maroon wars, and above all, the revolt'.
.ion of St. Domingo, ought to be taken into con
iideration lay thofe who now argued the quefliun.
—The condition of the negro (lave in our islands
was far happier than that of the free ;legr oei of
Saint Domingo, fubjea as they were to the murders
and mafractes which the revolutionizing fpirit of
emancipation had produced. The Honourable Mere.
her then argued at f tore length, that the meafure of
ab,ilition was imptaaicable. rhe trade in flares car-
rued on by Great Britain, was only one fifth in pro-
portion to that carried on by the other Continental
Powers. rortu,:al had always the greatell (hare of
profit in this tt a Ric, and now thofe pre.fi.s would be
increased to a fin' greater magnitncie. I: was impel.
little to akettain what was the exalt amount of the
trade cart ied ea by Portugal, becaufe, in their pal
lage from the Coalt of Africa to the Brazils, their
slave (hips had no occation to touch at any port
where we could alcertain the extent of their trade ;
and this circurottance would alto encreafe the facility
t-f their fmuggling the flares into our coiosties. lie
had as much humanity, he hoped, as 1;11 to the lot
of any man ; hut he feared, that fo far f:orn the
fituati•tn of the negro, who was at pref.:tit happy
and contented, cheerful and gay, brim aonnitteare,i,
the change would be to hi; c!ifadvantage, and at tie
expencc of our colonial pofilfii ms. He concluded an
able and argumentative fpeech, by ex prelfing, that
he would malt tirenuoufly concur in any nreafute
which could better the condition of the flares, nr that
could pumfb feverely any cm uelties that might he
praetifed on them ; but he could not, colitidently
with his duty, fupport the total Abolition of the
Slave Trade.
Mr. BROWNE followed on the fame fide. He
thought the Slave Trade a political evil, but an I.ln.
avoidable one, interwoven with the itttereits and
profperity of Great Britain. He argued 'in the Ma
c'equacy of the Bill unlefs all the other Powers con
turfed in the abolition, as Great Bri•ain !hared hut
one firth of the trade ; and inlitied up -n the ruin of
the C,lonies by the failure ot the continued lupply
oi. Negroes nect.lfary to their cultivation.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
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The intelligence which has lately arrived from the
Continent undr.ubtedly of a moll important nature,
with a view to the refults that may pulLbly follow
from the relative liitration of the armies oppofed to
each other. We are ourfelves inclined to hope for
the heft, and to reit our espeeations of a favourable
itriie on the tried valour of the Radian forces, and on
the jthlgment and (kill with which ti ::r operations
have hitherto been ctindueled.
There k, however, another view to be taken of the
ftate of affairs on the other fiJe of the Zanla, to
‘vhich, we cannot dirguife to our Readers, that we
attach Tome degree of confidetation. It k now pretty
evident, that the order di-ilea by BONAPARTE to put his
army into winter quarters was nothitig more than a
pretence; and there appears to be Come ground fur
folpeing that the operations ca' tied on by his left
wing againft lilbing, Konigfberg, &c. was nothing
more than a feint ; the obje4l being to draw the atten-
tion of the Rutifian army to Ciat quarter, to refisme
()Irvin ve operations, and to draw neare, to theViti
It is covimis that the operations of the Ruffian al my
in that direetion, Tuna =Warily be fupported by the
main body of the army. In the mean time, Boma-
MITE has hen pultiag forward hi right wing, and
I evidently with a view of getting upon the rear (.1
the nu:haus; and, in'cafe of a vitiory, of cu tin:, off
tt.eir retreat to the heart of their own territory.
This it wa• clear was the game (hat he played with