Star.
London, England, 1804-06-28 00:00:00

AG,NCY ■ILL.

moist'. 'The document was feat to him from the
Weft Indies by a eallant young friend now no more.
the fon of a worthy Member ot this Houk., Admiral
Davers ; and this account Rates, that upon the pro.
ceedings for the condemnation of 3t prizes, the pro-
duce of which was but 863,0001. the charges in the
Prize Court amounted to 5 t,oool. and betides this,the
charges for agency amounted to 50,0001. more! His
gallant young friend, Captain Davers, who wrote this'
account hut a few hours before he expired, Stated
further, that he was for a feries of eight year, endea-
vouring to obtain junice and the payment of the
prize-money due to himfell and bit gallant (hip's com-
pany, but in vain. Was this, he would afk, to be to-
lerated towards that loyal and gallant clafs of lITICO who
compofed the 11l hills Navy; and whole bravery and en-
durance of every danger and hardlliip were fo cheer-
fully and indefatigably exerted in the mule of the
country ; or was it a cafe that (hould admit of de-
lay, or be preceded by any other objea for Parlia-
mentary confideration ? It was a queftion of public
juftice, and not cf party, and therefore he law the lefs
pretence for poftponing the adoption of the meafure,
and mull fincerely regret it. He underflood now,
that his Majefly's Chancellor of the Exchequer had
a meafure in contemplation, for ftrnilar objeas, to be
introduced early in the next &Mon. He hoped its
objeas would be really timilar, and not calculated to
(hater peculation, in which cafe he would warmly
oppofe it. It might be Paid, with a view to palliate
thefeo grievances, that they had exifted heretofore,
but (hould not do fo again ; but, this he confidered
no redrefs to thole who had been fo flagrantly injur-
ed, and to whom juftice and retribution was certainly
due. The pralfices of which he now complained,
were not confined to the Weft Indies ; he had many
iisftances to complain of in the Prize Courts at home ;
and, amonglt others, one cafe of a capture of twelve
Using boats, by the Ms, on the breaking out of the
prefent war. of which the nett proceeds of fide were
' tonol. the charges of court tees and agency upon
which was 57
Mr. DICKINSON fupported the motion for poll-
poning the Bill, on the ground Rated by Mr. Jervis.
Befides, the Bill bad defies that were m ,terially and
radically objeBionable ; and it was feldom prattica-
ble to amend, fatisfaawily in a committee, defeas
which were radical io the principles of a Bill, and
which would be more cafily obviated by bringing in
a new BilL
Sir WILLIAM ELFORD difliked the prefent
Bill, Immure it was formed upon the illiberal and un-
juft principle of fuppofing all mankind thieves and
robbers, and guarding againft them as fuch. He
Weald not deny, that in amok every clafs of fociety,
individuals might be found, whole condua and prin-
ciples were difgraeeful to the rank they filled ; this
might be the cafe with retina to the Prize Agents,
and even with refpea to Commiffioners of the Ad-
miralty ; but was it therefore to be contended that
all were equally bad, and equally obnoxious to fur-
picion and feverity ? Another principle for which he
slaked the Bill was, that it went direaly to tale
away from four-fifths of the claffes of men on board
(hips of war, the right of appointing their own agents,
and this for a reafon that was pretty obvious.
Mr.FRANCIS wholly difapproved of withdrawing
the prefent Bill, and had heard no reafon aligned
for I. doing, that appeared to him fati.faCtory, after
the detail of frauds and grievances, Rased by the
Honourable Gentleman who brought in the Bill, on
itsfirft introdultion, and which called loudly for the
fpeedieft poffible interference of Parliament.
Mr. gIiNIS explained, by repeating the motives
he had already aligned.
The ADVOCATE GENERAL faid, there was
no doubt whatever on the part of his Majefty's Go-
vernment, that very flagitious frauds and grievances
had exifted in the Well 'lndies, as dated by the Hon.
Admiral; but it was not to be concluded that, be-
mule the prefent Bill was withdrawn, for the mo-
tives affigned by the Hon. Gentleman, in order to
the introdu6ion of another Bill, for fimilar pur-
poles, early in the next &Sion, that Government
had taken no Reps to check the milchiels com-
plained off; the truth was, that Government had
taken the molt effctlual means in its power, by lef-
fening the number of prize ports, limiting the fees
payable in prize courts, obliging the agents to pay
into the offices of Government the net proceeds of
the prizes fold by them ; and thus taking out of their
hands the temptation to protraft proceedings which
a poffeffion of the money was apt to create.—Of the
refult of thole meafures he hoped there would be fpee-
dy fatisfaaory accounts ; and with refpea to the
eircumflance of the ia tithing boats Rated by the Hnn.
Admiral, it did happen, that a copy of that very docu-
ment was fume days lance laid before the particular
Judge of the Admiralty Cow, for his confederation ;
and that Learned Judge, and not Parliament, in the
fiat inftance, was the proper loom whither to retort
for redrefs, which he was confident, that Learned
Judge would be ready to grant, if jolt ; but which,
it he refufed, there would then be time enough to ap-
peal to Parliamentary authority. He himfelf could,
however, tell the Hon. Admiral, that the only fee
charged in that Court on condemnation of thokboats,
was fax guineas each, and that the remainder of the
expences were incurred at out-ports, and by expense
of prize keepers, as well as by feparate proceedings
by different owners, which could not occur if thole
edits had been one capture, and not different ones,
at different times and places, under which circuits-
fiances the expellees incurred were as great as if they
bad been twelve Indiamen.
Mr. BURROUGHS hated, that fimilar complaints
exiled, with refpeet to prizes captured in the Eaft
Indies ; remonftrances upon which fu'ijell he knew
had been long lance fuhmitted to Government ; he
svilhed therefore to all:, u lie, her any maruCtionshad
been lint out on the fohjc;t
Lard cAsTLER EA GH laid, that from the com-
plete annihilation of the enemy's commerce in the
Indian Peas, there could be little apprehenlion of in-
convenience miring to nor (hips from any captures to
be made there. ' flits anfwer, however, he admitted,
was nothing in the porpnfe; but he could allure the
Hon. Member, that the India Company had the mat-
ter in contemplation ; and though no initruttions
were y.:t f i ~tat, they would freshly be forwarded.
Mr. jElt.‘ (Si' mat inn w.,:"l:.cit put and agreed to.

Mr. JERVIS moved, that the Order of the Day
be now read for the fecond reading of the Prize
Agency Bill. The order being read,
Mr. JERVIS rote, and expreired his regret. that
from the proceedings upon this Bill havingbeen poft-
pored Co frecp.eutly from day to day. and from the
many important objeCts for confideration which it in-
volved, and the very advanced period of the Seffion,
rendered it almoll impraCticable now to carry it into
adoption. He had, however, the flrung atfurance
that it was in the contemplation of his Ntajelly's pre-
fent Minillers to bring forward. early in the next
Sefton, another Bill, having fimiler objefts in view;
and for the prefent, theretui c, he fhould move that
this Bill be read the Iccond time this day three months.
Sir CHARLES POLE exprelied extreme regret
dim the Hon. Member fltould withdraw tale Lill, even
late a, it was in the Safion, when he reacted how
very cuormous and oppreffive the gri:vances were
;which that Bill w as calculated to remedy, and how
lousily and urgently they called for Parliamentary in-
tet &fence ; and he thought, that whatever were the
deka) of the preient Bull, they might be eafily te.
tuedied in a Comm ttce, rather th-n pollpone till
next Sefton a =afore fi neceilary to
Cheek a (cries of fhe moll fraud and oppref
fin. upon a ;alLant and merittirimis tit of men, the
qtr.,s and lea.nen of our navy. Ile had in his hard
IdoCuMents to flu w loose of the moll flagitious in-
utes of loch fraud and oppreflion prattited by the
'Prize Courts, and P.ize .t 6 nts in the Welt Indies,
kaactly czeditale wi bout the clearett teat-

CALICO PRI

Mr. SHERIDAN rote. he faid, to call the atten
lion of the Houle to a (Mika of confider:llllr import-
ance. He had beinre hint a petition prcfented to the
Houle lone time floc:: from a volt number of the

The Hon. Member apptaletto the candour of the
Hook, whether any aflidancelty a benevolent work
could be looked for from fuch men !
Mr. W. DICKENSON deprecated the idea of
Gentlemen attempting to legiflate for perfuns fo dif-
ferent in manners and (dilation, as thole in the Cola
nies were, upon the fame principles as thole which
were applicable to the people of this country. He
condemned fittingly the ground upon which the ad-
vocates of this Bill refted their arguments. They
feemed to think they were promoting the caufe of
humanity, while the fad was, that they were fubjed-
ing the letded negroes to do all the work of the
Wands, and precluding them from the relief they de•
rived from thole newly imported. The Honourable
Member commented on the condo& of the MilEona-
ries who went from this country to the Colonies, and
aliened that they did much mifehief. Generally
fpeaking, their maxim was the fame as that of Ra
befpierre—that all men were equal. Their favourite
text Remed to be, that s, the firft fhould be lag, and
the lag firs." He dwelt upon the fituation of the
different Wands, and particularly that of Jamaica, in
which there were above 6000 prifoners, with nor
more than goon troops. He therefore cautioned the
Houfe againd adopting any vifionary fchemes of re-
form, which might produce infinite mifchief.
Mr. BARHAM vindicated the concs& of the Mif-
fionaries alluded to by the Honourable Member, and
in proof of the advantage derived from their fervices,
Rated, that to his knowledge not lets than ro,ooo Ne-
groes had been converted by the Moravians in the
:nand of Antigua. Such was the effeft of this con.
verfion upon the morals and manners of thole Ne-
groes, that the Honourable Member faid they were
railed in value, and would fell for sot. a man more
than others. The Honourable Member denied that
the Miffionaries were at all in the habit of connetling
religion with politics. They feemed to feel that jolt
opinion, that, wherever they .were tonneau], the one
tended to corrupt the other. As to the deficiency in
population that might arise in confequence of the
adoption of this Bill, he thought it would be well
fupplied by the introduBion into the colonies of fome
of our Sepoys, whole manners were calculated to im-
prove the Negroes by the influence of their induttri-
ous habits—of their free labour—of their fubjettiott
without flavery. The Honourable *Member preffed
strongly the jultice of granting indemnity to thole
who in certain cafes were likely to Coffer by the ope.
ration of this Bill, a Bill which would have the etre&
of deftroying the (mall Rulers, and it would be need-
Cary, in juftice. to make compcnfation to thole who
really (offered.
Mr. DICKENSON, jun. in explanation, allowed
that the exertions of the body of Moravian Milfion-
aries were in general highly ferviceable, but that
foote had abufed their million in the manner—Mr.
BARI 1•14 obferved, that this body of Moravian Mil-
fionaries was in number five (a laugh). Mr. Dice's.
sox faid, he meant the Miffionaries in general (a lead
Lush ).
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEWER
Paid that it had always been his declared fentiment,
that compenfation should be granted to any perfon
who should be able to make out a fair claim. Al-
though he was adverfe to the wild notion that was
held out fo often to deter men from fispporting this
meafure, that if it should be adopted all men connat-
e.' with the Slave Trade would be entitled to indem.
nity for thelofs of fuels wealtb.as they could cent.
l ate upon obtaining from its contineance ; he was
not, therefore, by any means clifpofed to refill any'
well grounded pretenfion. To the propofition made
to hips on a former evening. for his Majelly's content
to ingraft a chide refpeßingeompenfation upon this
Bill, he objated, beeaufe it was fo fudden and ones-
peided. It was, in fart, prefented in filch a way as
was incooliftent with the ufual forms of proceeding
in that Houfe ; but yet he begged, that fuch an ob.
jeftion might not be construed into any hoffility on
his part to a fair application of the principle of corn.
penfation. In fuch a cafe as that mentioned by this
Hon. Gentleman who (poke fart, namely, where a
Planter had purchafed property from the Crown,
which was to be fettled within a certain time, and that
the fertlement depended upon the Slave Trade, un-
querfronably if filch ground were Rill not fettled, and
that they did appear not to be Co in confequence of
the default of the purchatfers, an indemnity was
clearly due. If any other claims squally thong &fluid
appear, he would be reedy to admit their juthce, and
any motion to bring loch claims under the coolitera-
tion of the 14,,ufc,Ite would moll chea.fully fupport ;
t as to the mariner and amount of the conspenfatiosi
to he allowed in every particular cafe, his opinion
mutt depend on the refrilt of particular inve (ligation.
After alt that had been raid of the danger to be rap;
prehended, and the loffes to be tamed from the adop-
tion of this meafure, he vas happy to hear from the
Hon. Gentleman who (poke last, that the amount of
real lois would be fo comparatively final!, and that
the danger was merely ideal. If; however, the pc,.
coniary lois were Rill greater—w_re it to exceed
millions, he would never balance money against the
demand of jollier, while he would never put it in
competition, of thfer it to Rand in way of that hap-
pinefs which the adoption would ferve to communi•
cate to millions of our fellow beings on the Coed of
Africa.

journeymen calico printers complaitilog of various
grievances. This petition had been .ieferred to the
conlideration of a Committee with orders " to re-
porttlAls aeir,rinare had not u
ion thereon.'
nfreiiti y
'llleentteifte red. w.arsfuchas
he wbut
which, in his mind, and that of many of the bell in-
formed men in that Houfe, namely, that the Com-
mittee, after louse examination of the cafe. thought
proper to adjourn/sae du, and thus evaded bringing
up any Report whatever. This was a fort of pro-
ceeding which ought at all times to alarm the jea-
I loufy of the Houfe,for moll unqueftionably no Com-
mittee could have the right of (malty deciding upon
any cafe thus referred to them for invedigation.
Their province was msrely to lay before the Houle a
briefed the cafe and the evidence, with their opinion
annexed, but it did not belong to them to aflame to be
the ultimate judge. The adjournment in the loth=
he alluded to was, he obferved, the more to be re-
gretted, as the petitioners, whole means were very
(mall (the wages of not one of whom exceeded 305.
a week) had expended above toool. in confequence
of their application to Parliament, and had alto ex-
!mulled a rod deal of time. They had brought up
a number of witneffes from the remotett parts of
Great Britain, fome of whom had been examined
before the Committee. The Honourable Member
added, that feveral of thofe poor journeymen bad
been, both during the lalt and the prefent Seftions,
attending upon the Houfe in fearch of redrefs. Their
cafe was one which be felt to be extremely hard—(.f
cry of Hear! Hear!)—He begged it, however, to be
underftood that he meant no reflation upon the
Gentlemen who compofed the Committee. They,
he had no doubt, thought themfelves right in with-
holding the difcullion of this fubjea from the Houfe;
but in this he differed with them molt decidedly.
' Upon the nature of the difpute between the Peti-
tioners and their employers, he would not at prefent
pronounce an opinion. He entertained a fanguine
hope that it would be during the meat amicably ad-
ufted to the fatisfation of all parties. He knew
that fuch an adjultutent was very praticable. If,
however, it (hould not take place, and his cape/la
tions mould be difappointed, he pledged himfelf to
bring-the fubjed before the Houfe in a very ferious
way, m the shape of a Motion for leave to bring in a
BM' to redraft the grievances complained of by the
Petitioners.
Mr. LASCELLES laid, he was one of the Com-
mittee alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman, and that in
his opinion, and that of his colleagguues, the Petitioners
had not made out a cafe to (tibia the allegations
contained in their Petition. They therefore adjourn-
ed for three months, meaning t . bring up no Report
The Hon. Member might, howeyer, ilhe walled, have
the minutes of the evidence laid before the Houle.
Mr. DENT, as one of the Committee, corroborated
the fentiments of the lad fpeaker, and deprecated the
claims of the Petitioners.
Mr. SHERIDAN afked thofe Hon. Gentlemen,
why, if the Petitioners had made no cafe, the Com-
mittee to which they belonged did not report that to
the Houfe, and upon what ground that Committee
could Anent to decide the coeltion The Hon.
Member deprecated any dileufffim upon the merits of
the Petition alluded to without having the Report of
the Committee before the Houfe. He had abstained
from any opinion upon the fubjed, and he did think,
that it would haze been more becoming in the
Gentleman to have abflained from it alto; all he now
afeed for the poor Petitioners, in whofe behalf he ad
dreffed the Houle, was this, that their cafe might not
be prematurely gone into, and that the Report of the
Committee might be brought up. This. he hoped,
would not be deemed unreafonable on their part.—
They were oppofed in this cafe by a number of very
wealthy men, who derived that wealth from their
labour, and many of thofe wealthy mess were in town
during the fittings of the Committee, and regularly
attended it. He hoped, however, that fuch an op-
pofition, or its influence, would not preclude the Pe-
titioners from experiencing the liberality and juffice
of that Houfe.
Mr. DENT rofe, but
The SPEAKER Rating that there was no quer-
tion before the Houle, the converfat ion dropped.
It was ordered, on the motion of Mr. DENT, that
the minutes of the evidence taken before the Com-
mittee on the Calico Printers' Peti.ion, fhould be
printed for the tie of the Members, flee.
scare TIADI.
The Order of the Day for the third reading of the
Bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade being read,
Sir W. YOUNG (poke againd the Bill. He thought,
at that a clause ought to be introduced int it,
allowing, that in cafe of the depopulation of any illatid
or diftriA, in confequence of pettilence, rebellion, or
other cattle, his Majaty fhould he outhunted to grant
a licence to fuch Planters as mi:,?,ht Coffer, to import
Negroes.
Mr. FRANCIS animadverted on the defperate re-
(Entice to which the adverfaries of the Bill were now
driven, in fuppofing that they could pulh its advu
cotes roan extreme conclufion to the principle upon
which they relied their arguments. Thole Gentlemen
argued, that the abolition of this odious traffic mull
neceffarily lead to a propofition for emancipating the
Slaves in the Colonies, but this by no means followed,
for although the one was quite within the reach of
OW power to accompiifh, the other might be found
neitker fate, prudent, nor pratticAble. Much bad
been laid a. to the propriety of confulting the Leg&
Lames of the different iflands as to the means of
orneliorAting the condition of the negroes, andthe
Advantage likely to be derived from their co-opera-
tion ; but as A fpecimen of what degree of hope could
lie cntert.tmed on that head, and the ditpofitions of
tilde Affemblics towards humanity and justice, the
Honourable Member took occalion to read the fol-
lowing 'mirage from the correfpundence on the table :
lIIRACT OW A LAITCII FROM LORD AAAAAA TX TO LOAD MO.
OART,DAILD AAAAA DOES. MARCH 18.180 L

Mr. FULLER Rated, that the inereafe of the
Negroes was encouraged by the,mafiers, but was im-
peded by caufes eziaing among the Negroes, one of
which was, that when pregnant females were exempt-
ed from labour by their meters, they carried heavy
burthens for their own benefit ; another cattle was
the unrearained intercourfe between the fezes. (
latish 1. The affair alluded to in Barbadoes arofe
from a difagreement between the Affembly and the
Gove.nment, and an unwillingnefs in the Affembly
to allow thennelves to be dißated to. The emanci-
pation had dellroyed St. Domingo. The principle
of compenfation was jut and neceffary. There

" Your Lordhip will °Mcrae, in the 101 l day's proceedings of I would Sea
greet felling off, particularly in the camel
the Allanbly, that the majority of the Houle bad taken confider- ,
able offence at a mien' of mine, recommending Al Ad to be lately fettled.
pallid to make the mania of a Gave (rimy. (At regent Use linc Mr. G. ROSE appreher.ded the moll rnifchievous
for that crime is only Isl. currency or iit is. fterlint .1 colifcquences frum the adoption of this meafure. The
"'1 he Trusfurer propawl, and the A torney Caporal fccooded iimpreliion upost his muid he declared to be. that if
a motion to take the mastic loos coals:ration. The qualm'
was pot and carted in them-padre! this Bill Mould pals these would not be a white man
" The [mirage fent to the Agrembly was founded an ands,, and all at in Jamaica in three yea's, and that a limiter
inftruetinan from hks Ma)cily, coennionlcoml by the Secretary "1 rein/1 would follow by degrees to our other Wands.
Star, and originally derived truest ibaarefles or ref...MS.4n see the •Clit prsileffed objea of the Bill was humanity . but
Houle of Cups:nano. The Agreeably refokd even to take is Soto
r,,,,kkmk.,. pgo am*, toi, qp,r, to h.ive been G ~,. tut 0,,,, what was to become of the think brought from the
of the Mronbers propokd—' That a mdderatc and tripecitul an- itltct Inv of Africa to be fold. if no purchafers offered
(wee might be
_prepared, bur cainiiand to repd samit, and to .i. the wall ? death innit probably ; while the Mere
• "Ss" that dm lUde "4"11"4 Sts Wicreitar "4 agkily4 us 1 importation of Negroes in the Colonies, will generally