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remember what! was due to the charaCter of their that (Fate which would Irbil; of : greater portion of
country. The frith People were univerfally sic• freedom than they hitherto enjoyed ; and, confider-
knowledged IS be brave, generous, and lambast ; ing the notation of St. Domingo and Guadeloupe.
that ;entire, at leak was granted to tkemby . , who he was convinced that the Rate of our Wag& could
plea,. not long continue as it was at prefent.
denied them othergreat qUalities; hecalledu
therefore, to come forward to wipe away let Weft Mr. W. SMITH began by paying a compliment
blot that Reined this country, with• which they We to the fincerity and liberality of the arguments tiled •
now incormerated. He could not help en . .. by the Hon, Gentleman who (poke Ink ommery oc-
perfuafion that they would join with him Oa • - lion when this queffion had been urged, and parti.
away fo criminal a purfuit : if they did wan, they. `Fulady.to the fentiments which he had expreffed pn
(bare in the guilt, the cenfure, and `the shame. the indent motion of his Honourable ctiend. He
OW obtervation more he would offer. He may be thoteg.ht.'hiawever. the Heinle was in a very eatiaor-
thought pertinacious by Come in fo fregaently bring- dinsires Siltation. After having refolved, Wale years •
ing forward this queßion in °popgun:in ; morhat is age. when there wasonlp aloe Sentiment on aids Sub-.
called the declared fenfe of the Hoare., Nlttlocithere lea in the Hook; and tharwas that a period Meld
may think be was not fociently perieiren ng in erg- be put to this execrable trlific ; they now foood that .
bg it, He declared, that he had elver ceded to after a lapfe of t 6 years they bad not gone on' finale
fon** the coorfe which he thtioght bell adapted to Rep. What, he shed, was the propolltion or this
the advancement oldie great catife.:staithat he Wet night ? Why that the praeice of buying and Offing
io no indatiee, fo ' far is his coOduft..Gelsowned it, men. to make them and their ponerity Raves.for eve,.
situated by any other motive.—While he had a voice Mould now be aholithed. An Honourable Gentleman
tp cry out, or hand to lift again(! this dreadful exade, behind him (Mr. Fuller) 'had faid that this traffic
lie never woad ceate to labour foreits eiiindien. He ought to have been flopped at the commencement.
looked upon it as the greatell imootir Pkirritieitila lied If there was any truth in that obfervation, it was
bellowed on him, that be avaa tilled tet be. thnpro-
f clearly evident, that te
enaf the
he in
to juriousabolifh pradic
ed te had
ad
motet of this calif'', and, that, he,4114 hem tweeted o long prevailed, it gbe
is it by all that yeast -m4and„ honourable on both moment they He
convinced of its atrocious eon-
Adis of the Honk. . Ii 'ebbe fopportshe owidto feguences. He was confident that the regulations
bosh fisme obligetkin ; Itifraidte obligation of *de which had been made to ameliorate the Middle
eountiyowid bi thmeleeditheit. foe tbeir iont. Pangs were Co greatly evaded. that in his mind
that had Wt their aid to pot aa end.to.fo ilset. that ileum Vasa fulficient reafon for the Houle to
a traffic. His charatler of the Slave ,pos,Oot *OA) Ihnileaffic. He had attended with the art-
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his alinse t one of the Mud em care
it
whole evidence, and to all the ar-
who had *ken of it on a former int.. '. tints -bidet bad been brought forward on the
the Slave Trade was, the dame of Great ' fit. tijittk; iiiid be was certain he could prove there
—Another, a Hebb Lord, bad not been bantlar. was opt One point of argoment ufed by thole
ward. Every Gorselemats io site:kl .. 4 - • * who oppoted the meaftwes that was not direly
very few. indeed. had joined in • , •
.. cortraffieed by their own witneftes. He then
didpro-
een thole who were againti its !'t,`;‘x7.,,.. ',,.7.-, ;.,.. ~ eroded to cite. Several paffages from the evidence
obt deny the mahistets which' ,-.,‘,... --' `''''' .".'1"-' laid .befori-the Privy „Council and alto before'
When, therefore,. he moved 'for Wee Bs . •• hi a thelrlouKtibleh were very contradidory to reafon
Bill for the abolition, hempeeed the fuppOrt thole and mamba fettle, fo muelt Id indeed, that be was
who may differ with him as to the time when the allemilhed lifff'l4lo could patte•them on paper. Heil
abolition was to take place. that, being a point to be could not *lime theta, aor.did he think any rational
regulated in the Committee on the Bill. which he being could believe them;
.and he would, therefore,
hoped to be permitted to bring in: He concluded call on the Houle to do away. the evil which they
with taming, 04 that leave be gore* to being in a bill were intended to Support. It‘bad, am. ng other
for the Abolitioo of the Slave Trade, and that the things, been Rated for what eaufe,tbefe tinfomuninei
Cho* medi Hoofs a itielfmto a Committee to coo- lamp were made Saves in Africa. Some memlantelp
Wei Of the motion. Bates, it had been urged, for gaming; Come want'' ,
Mi.. MUER einte'lli dtbilltd 100 and. if the laid made Saves fir adultery. mind many other caufes ;-
in the Well India Mends could be cultivated by the and many, it bad been faid, Were bred flaves. He
Sims defeeiption' of Palos* atiatid in dila cotiotry. denied *Wm be the cafe ; but if it really were foi
re •
,:th.rct,cnnh.t.,..
reevrer.
es.
The werwledeeit,e lee aloud,
erTberceospetirilier t
awdeg
h 111,
eto • choteunt
'-huitil white 1t that one emu (catering feeds niece and encourage the breeding of Raves in Afti-
rith hit ilitaili nrithont ptcrions culture, can mile ea, in order xi (apply the abonsimildr traffic whicli
crops lifficietit for a fataily of 14 or s 6 perfont. It It was the "jet! of his Honourable Eziwars memo'
vowsodi known in Barone, that labourers too well ;a
alaolith ? He was for
there caUld be but
Ipe fl-
paial..too eslily provided4sg, were , age* to go- Ism, aad that Mull be a three tiegati4e. t
when
hati
Teen; .! .if
*n a country. thirernees• nberelabour. would been alto dated, that if thefe pool /fegroes.
nirtil* tieeefraer 01' the. o°o4' toles want, a taken in Africa. were not ibld, they wrotld be teu6
Allketigid diltiplibe di:nein be iskd lowirdi free dered. This he ridiculed, as frahght with the gm*
id
polkas, .suolk he etalffifbeit. '-A peat deal bad ell abfurdity, and called on the (lode
ou
hoist foid eltrltt lbo.l44tealmOstt of. .the Raves in , rimey whether any fylleat, of, policy could
the Well India,( re we Ls our.— ' than in cgotiniting an encourage:Rem tOlbeb
.1
Re enew thife ripngen has e. The bet mous critsies slid injußice? fhb Ada
fleVi does not 'de; •e Ildrit or's ' well labotiret yet ta iitefylimi of kidoeppingignallifediica/ire,
fh *brit* addl44ll Idle& sbeikEelAnnSifirlieboll- order to fupply our traders to Inman flea, whisk he
disseik mintekies. .. -lice himiffisierre thatedvs being condemned ~in very fen* , imps,: nikd raid, that as
happy in Africa ; but he hisdiltpunamakin .his pato long, tuk, Ives tountenag !)..y tllnt Houle. it would
fret to prove that they
.were. repbed sander. their ' ren7ilis a Rain upon the'c'iiu t ." ft had been argu
petty tyrants there; end ihii the hives iti the Wands ed, Middies; Were rgiiall • the protection of
/headed no punifhinent Co much as beimg fent hack the law ,as we routes—birt Isiliefilled that could. not
to their own couotry (rs lasegi4 .. Old thole' Gm- be the cafe ; there was no protection for the Sava
Omen know, who mikado( ritefeappioars of Africat, agaio# his matte,; where die..e‘tdence of the flare
that the pMecer.? . ?pesm,..eronesed 1,0
.4cAsji. **far pothintaad that of ifineialler for all and
4acet
and their comm. , rairii
thong!, in orderipglerery • &fig. filf Aid .thiitte traffic was naafi •
terror to early °nth* • f' He eintittided eireffiedir--thild aseliefoetiditi to 'Mond, and injtifl
dal the leg/minor aft OA . bed Si-Arica the tics; and. . gestiesid • iannalesside mimes ; : that I
Primal alms,. dot folkasett-fellalee could Dot •her watundifgaace to a great and enlightened; nation.,
maintained gormsgeele not liesedio. the Woods. He calling Ouachita Chritlians, and whole greatet,
)*ed !It.* De Hoch .bed applied _to our Goleta- boaß was, thit' they were themfelves a free people.'
mini for an importation Of, flieris„ to Thew that even. For all thee resilins the motion bad his hearty fopo
in St Domingo, the emild ade - maintain the )0. pert. •
imlatiod without importation. He maintained that Mr..FULLEI j
refe to explain, that ullice re-
birenenatature could not be ,gwerseel by that ma. noised* perfous interefled in the trade Ibould be re-
ratity which looks too Mc* into the nature of all munerated for the injuries they would perfonally fut.
anions ; and referred to our,Fast India peel:Sem at, min, if the prnjeaed innovation were adopted.
I proof:
' ' • . , • * General 'CARLETON faid, he elleemed it a duty
Mr. BAR declared that Ai Atm reiretts' incumbent ori him to offer a few obfervations on the
which led hits to opperfentotiens of this kind here- argoineots ufed by the Honouraiala Gentleman who ,
mime. were welly thole which would now iodine fupported the pretest: motion. He, perhaps. 'night
him to concur in what was propofed. He denied, be deenied one of thole prriferibief perform who had.
however, that the hardfliips and cruelties complained been Co emphatically defcribed,br the Honourable'
Of had any esitletice in the Britifh Welt India Idands. Gentleman who brought forward the motion:=
except in Come fear individual inflames, which mutt That Honourable Gentleman had faid, that on his
occur in all courtesies, and confidered the negroes fide were ranged all the talents. all the worthy, the,
there to be in a better condition than the poor is this hone% and the good, which the Houle contained.—
country. The Gentleman that now made thefe n- A profcriptinn, he 'bought, equal to any that had
Indentations had but little local knowledge of the tub- ever fallen from the lips of Sylla, or any other def-
ied:and took everribing upon troll; yet be did not potic &Bator. He begged leave to remind the
wonder at loch flatements, as arbitrary power was Houle, that, in looking round the world, they Caw a
always liable to ah'dee; nn the bell refutation of great many evils, which. though acknowledged as
them was, that elide naves were often found willing fuels. and very great ones too, were hill obliged to
to shed their blood in the defence of their mailers, be endured for a certain time.' Nit one ofuld deny
who were now called their tyrants: His former ob- dtat tirar was an evil of the greaten magnitude 1 and
jt&ion to this Mestere feted printipally on the yet we were compelled frequently to eater into Wdifi.
grated, that however we might prohibit this trade and could any one fay, is will therefore abolifir war, ?
in our own iflands, we could not prevent it on the The winnal, debt wait alto a great evil; and yet
Coal of Africa ; for when there was a likelihood of wooW any man fay that we !hall have, therefore, n 0
0 the libblition being carried into deft before, a con. ' more loses ?He thought the Amebas applicable to
fiderebie quantity of !Vita capital was tubtcribed by the Slave Trade t It might, in the opinions of loose
our own fellow-tubjetts to carry oit the traffic under Honourable Members, appear to be a great evil ;
the proteßion of the flags of other nations. His wilh, but, even if it mould be t.iought Cu by the Houk,
therefore.was to Inad and clog the trade as much as
,he, for one, mutt objea to an immediate abolition.
poffible, withoot giving encouragement to that con- He adverted to that part of the Honourable Gentle-
straband kind of commerce. A IMO thould be put than's fixed, •in which he centered all the Weft In-
to the clearing of new plantationc, and an induce- dia merchants, and others, who vetted their capitals
Merit be held out to cultivators to attend to the po- in Weil India property, the drift of which he cat-
tier of their oegroes. The principal motive which donned, as adding to to alarm which the circuits-
would guide his vote on the prefer.' occailon was, dances of the iflands, and the prefent Rate of Eu-
that he raw no difpnfition in the monied people of rope. had made great enough before. lie wnold
this country to embark their capitals in a remote and not take up the time of the Hoyle at prefent, there
contraband fpecies of cm:met-cep and the more Co would be many opportunities of delivering his fenti-
as the profits of the Slave Trade now were reduced aunts more at large on the tubjeo. It was not his
to unethird of their form:r value. If, however. new intention to divide the Houle upon it ; but he thought
plantations were allowed to be opened in Trinidad, that in his Motion, as it now flood. the Honourable
we may give lip all hopes of abolilbing the Slave Gentlelnan had gone too far.
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eTerea,lie,...ineTcheofotrle,feenteteßdeate ofeStLDornege.reineothmanadeeeetrhe.
to Meer; MANNINGicii kid, h:(11.: hoped,
hthiciit when
d
but in the proviiimis meant to be adopeed, he !acorn- fo trulyeLapiorteraant ae gaol:7;1ton ast she pre°teant had palled.
tended to the Hoot to touch es little as poffible rho hare been brought forward. Ile espreffed Ms full
Ibbjea of interior regulation. He was glad to find cnividirsh of she heinourable motives which bad cc
that no emancipation was intended, but the :‘,l..ption coated the Gentleman who brought it forward i and
of eit meallsre would put t,: ricgroci, in time, into . allowed that the -rionourable Ger denim hod render-