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So far, isdebdi 4rilavtisey.Mmi 'being tibia to prove
to that they could mit even frame igeir accusation'.
It contracts for *vie had been' entered into, there
must be a when and) Where. Now, if they ivould
state it !'llll the when and where, he would commit
tonooo 10 the onus of proving that the alleged trans-
actions did not take place. Every one who studied,
that miserable, though able attempt,—(miserable on
actount of its :perversion ot facts, able for its so.
poistry and. eloqueaice)—to fix on the colonists the
come of having caused the disorders in the West In-
dies,
would perceive that it was full of false reason-
ing and unfair statement. What kind of proof was
it Gentlemen demanded, to convince them that the
alarm in the West Itidies was not attributable to the
colonists, but arose solely from the Registry Bill ?--;
athat kite:l,of proof did they ask ? It they would not
stattait, he would adduce every kind of pionf, and
eery kind of proof in the highest degree. Was it
teriniony they wished fur ? They could have the
totimony of every white colonist in the islands. No
doubt they would refuse this, for they proceeded on
two axioms. The first axiom was, let the character
of a colonist be ever so excellent—let his motives ap-
pear ever so pure and disinterested—his testimony,
on a subject of this kind, could not be received—
Why ? because he was a colonist. Then came axiom
two. Let a man bring any charge against the West
India proprietors—let his character be ever so base—
tit his motives be ever so foul and detestable—the
single fact of his bringing such a charge removed all
liseicei. The only question was.“ Do you not bring
soot charge against the planters ? That is sufficient.
core to our arms;--4ake our fraternal embrace."
,otio matter what your character is—no matter what
vats disgrace yOu—a charge of criminality against
the West India Colonists washes away every spot.—;
(Nair, hear). —Let any man read those books which
bad leen lately published against the Colonists—let
him attend to the prOceedings of the African Society
...(he here did not speak of those Gentlemen who
were Members of that body, and never went near
them, but of that miserable junto of impostors, who
were active in their proceedings)—and they would
perceive, at once, the truth of his description. Well,
then, his opponents hid got rid of the testimony of
all the white inhabitants. Still he thought he could
get through. There were, in the Colonies, Cover.
nets amd Officers, Military and Naval. All these, to
a man, would state that the insurrection had arisen
from the Registry Bill. But then he would be told,
that their view of the case was not the result of per.
sonal observation, but
,was derived from information
given by others. The Officers being with
their regiments, and the Naval Officers being on
hoard their ships, could not, it would be said, judge
for tiemselves. Their evidence must, therefore, be
&rind from the inhabitants—and this, of course,
disqualified them from giving evidence. Still he was
not conquered. He would adduce the testimony of all
dee Blacks—:f these Who Rode joined in the insurrec-
lila, Sind of those who had shed their blood in defence
elf their masters—who would state. that the Registry
Bill occasioned all the mischief. Here, no doubts it
would be asserted, that the confessions of the former
were extorted, by means of the torture, and that the
latter clasi was bribtd. Then, of course, all testimony
wiled be set aside—he- could not benefit by it.--
But he would immediately advert to circumstances ;
mid, perhaps, on no previous occasion had so great
a body of circurnstanoal evidence been brought to
Lear upon a fact.* garbadoes was the oldest of our
itnlonial establishments in the West Indies. It was
fin our possession upward% of 200 years—and. up to
`the moment when the Lite disturbance took place,
aktutigh the laws were estrOnely severe, no insure
miien, as far as he could learn. bad ever occurred
fled!. But the Registry Bill arrived; and from that
moment the ferment commenced. It increased 'with
the arrival of every packet—and, when the last in-
Ott red there, without bringing them the expected
basiio discontent burst forth in insurrsction. Hose del
it happen that all the islands were in a state of trate.
totality wail the measure was transmitted to them,
and then they immediately became disturbed ? Could
such a coincidence prosihly occur, unless it anise
from the oger.oitie of olio impolitic Bill ? It was mon-
strous to C.l, , that ti.e inhabitants of the different
idathis woov.d exert teernselves to produce a state ot
whir, h must have the effect of lowering the
vaiue of their property—and yet, such must be the con-
clusion of close who denied that the Registry 13.11 (sc.'
c4ioned th.e evil. This was a strange sort of accusa-
tion to moke against a body of men who were satJ
to be unit Fly guided by their individual interests.-.-
If tho,,e who blamed the colonists would take flee
Iroulle of examining the inhabitants themselves•—if
they :would hear with their own ears, and see with
thdr own eyes—they' would find that, to the Registry
17.1 alone could the mischief be traced. 'limy would
find that the truth had not been stated to them and
idiot gross misrepresentation bad been palmed ae on
them as fact. If they examined the case theme-lives
they w0.,1d be satisfied that the Registry Bill, and the
tacumstances connected with it, were the sole cause
of the alum that existed in the West Indies. The
author of that measure ( Mr. Wilberforce) might
retire, in the storm of his **Own passions, and the deli-
rim of his own enthusiasm. but where would he
retire, by and bye, when he had discovered that he
had been misled ?—.Where would he retire, when, in
Soule still hour. the two thousand miserable blacks,
who had perished in Barbadoes, approached him and
said, " Twelve months ago we were contented and
happy, and, but for you, we would have been so
°WV" it ever he envied the fame of any man, it
was that of his Honourable Friend, earned by his
exertions in the cause of emancipation—and, though
he meant not to depreciate the great work he had aee
complithed. yet, seeing what had passed, and con-
sidering what was likely to happen, in consequence I
of the Registry Bill, he would not eachairge his
bumble name for that of his Honourable Friend.
If a contraband trade in Slaves had been, carried on,
way was not the tact fully inquired into—not by two
or three persons of the African Institution, but by
those who could have extirpated the evil ? Instead
of this direct course, anonymous evidence was offered
by the African Institution, as justifying the Registry
Bill. The names of the persons who gave this testi.
mony were concealed, because they would lose bene.
tidal situations if thy were discoveired. Now, in a
moral point ot view, he conceived it was wrong to
encourage such evidence. Here were a set of men
allowed to give testimony, who were anxious to re.
Wade/ situations usder their masters, whilst,

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j thei 'were belt-apex their etinfidehee.. deal:
they could not .be persobi of note; or else they might
haie checked the evil. And, if they were ilidividnals
whO possessed 'only one or t*o hundred a fear,
did not the African Institution, composed as it Was
of Noblemen and Prelates, inderinify them, and then
(bring them forward publicly? If the African Insti.
tution would not do this, the West India Colonists
would. Let those persons be produced—let theta
substantiate a case against the Colonists—and he
pledged himself, that, if they were discharged from
any situation, in consequence, the West India Platt-
' tern, who were accused, would indemnify them from
I any. loss.—(Hear, Rear.)-11 they did not make an
arrangement by which the operation of the Registry
Bill would be stopped, they would soon have no
Colonies. It was impossible for the thing to go on
as his Hon. Friend imagined. His Honourable
Friend, like others, lived in a world of his own—
he heard only one side of the question—and when
he (Mr. Barham) proffered to give him informa-
tion, he disregarded it. With all his experience
on this subject, there was no man who was less

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conversant with the real state of the West Indiea

than his Honourable Friend.--(flear, bear.)--
I'his arose from.his not receiving intelligence on both
sides of the question. It he (Mr. Barham) went to
the African Institution to state facts, they would not
be attended to by Mr. Stephen or Mr. MRcauley.
They lived in ast atmosphere of prejudice, from which
they excluded all true information—(lfear, hear.)—
He would tell his Honourable Friend. however he
might doubt the fact, that the poiso:i of diicontent
was perlectly ddrused throughout Ow island.; and he
would be a bold man who would say that the nest
packet might not bring an account of an insurrection
;in Jamaica. To prove that the tr.:groes were orga-
nized in that colony, he read an esiract of a letter,
dated March '23, in which the wiirer says:
" There has been considerable anxiety here, in c.insequenec of
the Registry LW being misinterpreted or misconstrued by the
Negroes into an Act o: Emancipation. Nleeting4 have beim held,
under pretence of preachtug fur Blacks, but, I believe, for pur-
poses cif a different nature. One Negro has been executed, and
anothtr transpomed, in consequence of seditious coniuct. 'they
were iliscoveted, at the dead of the night, singing tha: Mr. Wil-
berforce bad made them free, but that tie White People here•
would not let them get their heedont, and that they would take
Ac by force." _ _

He admitted that the Registry Bill had been mitre.
presented. It w.ts not intended as an act of entawi.
pation. But by whom was it misrepresented ? Was
it to be supposed that the cnlonists—those who wete
likely to be ruined by the misrepresennition —was it
to be supposed that it originated with them ? No,
the misrepresentation had been disseminated through
Jamaica by the Methodist Preachers. (Loud cheerier* )
It his Honourable Friend wished to put him to °the
proof, he was ready to go throughiit, and he would
not proceed on the cautious principle of concealing
names. The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded
to combat several observations contained in the ke-
port of the Afriean Lictitution, which lie termed the
text-book and Bible of those who opposed the cobs.,
fasts, and concluded by expressing his decided con-
viction. that, finless the Slave Registry Bill %env put
an end to, the worst consequences might be appre--
headed in our West India possessioos.
Mr. PONSONIW observed, tbat the merits of
controversial pamphlets were not the proper subject
et debate, but what steps Pat iiament should adopt in
the present dangerous situation of the colonies!—
(Hear.) T_ he danger to which they were ex,osed he
attributed to a misapprehension on the pot of the
sieves, that it was the desire of the Excel:Live and
Legislature of this country to enfranchise them,
itettile that desire was opposed by their masters. To
ratmove that erroneous impression was essentially ne.
cessary, s Web, lie thuttAhr, would be obtained by
rite 'adoption of the !emperate and reasonable amend-
' ment proposed by the Honourable Gentleman.—
(Neer, hear.) He therefore suggested to his lino.
Friend the propriety of acceding to it, for he was in.
filienced by a sense of duty, not to proprietors or
planters, but even to the slaves themselves, tor. move
the delusion under which they evidently laboured
( Meas., hear.)
Lord CASTLEREAGH perfectly concurred in
tf e opinions of the Learned Gentleman. The general
s dormatioo which the Honourable Genlemaii had
I aid benne the House, corresponded with the intetli.
gence received by Ministers, who, in sanctioning the
Registry-Bill, never could have adopted any thing so
wild, as to encourage complete emancipation. Any
idea so preposterous could only involve the colonies
in the greatest caiamities. The Address embraced
three propositions. tVe owed it, in the first instance,
simply to make Car ;iiiople feel that our hearts and
eatr tions were dented to watching over their interests,
and that if it wa>i not in our power to undo ail they
had soared, we might at least adopt the-only remedy
that could prevent a recurrence of the calamity. It
was due to the deluded Negroes themselves to unde.l
ceive them, by :hewing that the Legislature never
could de any thing more than to ameliorate their
condition, and he trusted the Assemblies of the Islands
would propagate this principle. He lamented chat
the question of ultimate emancipation had been at all
touched on. He was not so sanguine as to hope that
he should live to see complete emancipation effected;
but it was only by making manumission a blessing
and not a curse to them that this great blessing could
be worked out. While the idea ought to be repelled
that registry meant manumission, he thought it proper
to mark in the strongest manner, that the Legislature
at home were anxious to communicate every possible
blessing to the slaves, and the House ought to give to
each other a mutual pledge to effect this object --
We lived in an age when the risks of discussion could
not be avoided ; but he trusted that the Legislatures
abroad would feel that the best chance of avoiding
danger was, to enter into the feelings of their coon-
upturn at home, and they might trust to it that there
would be sufficient firmness and justice in the mother
country to protect them. Of the meaning of the
Registry them could be but one opinion, and he
trusted that this unanimous opinion would soon be
communicated to the West Indies, and acted upon
accordingly. lie did consider himself pledged to
act on the principle that had been gone into 1 for be
did not • believe that illicit importation had taken
place in the West ladies to any such extent as his
Honourable Friend had surmised. We had the satis-
faction to know, that
we hid obtained the co-opera-
tion t,f one of the greatest Powers in Europe (France),
from which we had received the most cordial assur-
ances of her determipation to go with tINI heart Aud
hand in effecting the object 01 sedisitiog the italic I

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' and th lildWiwi* rise, priipeet, t!tat it ito ietttute
period twa. Other Powels (Spain and Portugal) would
join as In th*good wofk. 'l7dder-theveairctnstances,
he did'uot attach that.degree of inipol Once to the
qtlestion which was-given to it by his Hon. Friend,.
Parliami.ut ought to nuke their sentiment:
.clearly understbod, and be was convinced that ho
time ought to be lost in doing so: We were not to
stand still and see enormities committed without. ap-
plying a remedy ; but nothing was so much zo by
deprecated as interfering with the question of local
legislation, for if the time came when we shotili take
the legislation into our own hands, we should have
difficulties to encounter, which we were by no means
aware of. We should therefore leave them to leg's.
late, and be satisfied. He hoped the disussion would
not bear the character of a diffience of sentiment.

Let the Addresi go to the Weft Indies, id the name
of Goo, with the unanimous opinion of the nce.
It was useful advice that had been gieen to his 116-
noursible Friend to withdraw his motion ; for if the
House should he unanimous inVoting the Addreis—
if it should go abroad that the propOsitiou was made
and the House was unanimuut in voting the Address,'
then it Might be supposed that the House was unaiii-
, nlous in. giving the information called for, whereas
they were only unanimous hi undeceiving the deluded
Slaves He was sure that his Hoiwurable Friend
had no obiect in view but to do good, and he there.'
fore hopcu and trusted he .would follow the Advice
that had been submitted tds

Mr. BItODUfiA M d6nied that his Right Honour.
able Friend had advised his Honourable Friend to
vradraw his Mo it, sot- the purpose of making room
Cit. t!►e Amehdlnent. It was rather extraordinary
that the HoHourable Centlermini %rho had given no.
cice of a Motion tor to-morrow riiirt on the suliject,
should get up that ereniag, an-1 propose, as an
amendment to his Honourable Friend's Motion, that
which he had given notice he would not move until

to-it-sorrow. However desirous be and his lineour-
able Friend might be of unanimity, he put it td the
candour of the House, whether they could be content
to sacrifice their declared opinion, by assenting to the
Amendment ? Wouid it not be a sacrifice of their
principles, to adopt a proposition foen.led re: opposite
principle ? letter the course that wits taken on the
other side, when citiotnities, which had been fifty
times told, and ac alien telote.l, were brought fn.-
ward and embotlie.l in the speech of an Honourable
Member on the other bide; when tl.e nintives of the
ters of Registration had been misrepresented,
and when that measure had been coupled With ermine
cipa!ioa end insurrection, he felt it itnpoisible to sit
silent under the charge, however reluctant he might I
he :o trespass on the time of the House. Toe
Gentlemen who Agreed with him (Mr. Ileongham)
in opinion on this measure, were accthed ten onli a;
the causes, but as the wilful causes, of iusturi.:ction.
They were charged with a wish fur nothing less than
the emancipation of the sieves. If on easy term;
well, but at all events and under any conditions, they
were said to desite ernaecipation. These he strongly
denied to be the principles held by himself or hi'.
friends, and he was not surprised at tl,i; misrepre-
sentation, when he recellezted that whirh.hed gars
abroad no other occ tsians, and against Lien now no
more, who, w!:en they exerted themselves on the abo-
lition 13•11, were charged with a disposition to set the
black population of the Coloeics et variance with the
white. He (Mr. Brougham) and his friends did in-
deed wish for an amelioration of the condition of the
slaves, such an amelioration as would prepare them
for final emancipation, but he did not say that the
prevere tinge was Z.ll fittest for such emancipation,
which would now be a curse, put a blessing, to
the sieve and to his master—(Hear, Hear, heor.)—
His object was to prevent that which the Noble Lord
(Cestlereaeh) and others had said at the period of
the abolition—the introduction of slaves. It was
said at that period by the colonists that it would he
impossible to prevent the importation of slaves, for
that JI was essential to the. colonies ; but they now
came forward, and when it answered their own con-
venience, they alleged that nothing could be mote
easy than such prevention. Numerous creeks, and
vast tracks of sea, which before were aneauened as so
many obstacles to the total abolition of importation,
were now declared to be no obstacles. The creeks
were now more easily watched, and the large tracks
of sea could be More easily guarded against any
cl.indestine attempts to introduce slaves. So much
for the truth and consistency of the statements made
by the opponents of. registration. The Honourable
and Learned Member then contended, that there had
not been, and could not be, a connection established
between the insurrection, which was said to have
taken place, and 41:e proposed registration. What
Were the prop!' of this connexion A Negro, going
to execution for insurrection and plunder on loos
mashies estate, was said, to have declared it.—
But admitting that this statement was title, sthi:h
he (Mr. Brougham) denied, could there not be
other witnesses found to give an account of it be-
sides that unfortunate Negro, if it were of the' nature-
described i But there were no other produced.—
There was another authority mentioned—that was
the Speaker of the Assembly at St. Vincent's ; but he
did not mention any direct evidence, and only gave
an advice, on which the present charge was founded.
Yet this was the son of testimony on which the sup-
' posed connection between die Insurrection and the
Registration Bill was founded. He next contended,
'that the charge brought against the Methodist Mis-
sionaries, as the cause of insurrection, was equally
groundless ; and he alluded to a letter, dated the
I.Bth of November, addressed to the Editor of the
Jamaica Gazette. . In this letter two persons describ-
ed themselves as having put on brown beards and
grey wigs—(a laegh)—and having gone in that garb,
with rueful countenances, to the Agents of Wilber.
force, deploring the wickedness of the age, and beg-
ging to be sent as Missionaries to instruct the blacks.
'they added, that they were immediately appointed
Ito a mission, and they went on in the letter to give a
ludicrous account of the mode by which the several
Missionaries were distinguished. These were the
grounds on which charges were made against the
Missionaries, and the means which were used to bring
them'into disrepute. But he should say for his Ho-
Pourable Friend (Mr. Wilberforce), that he had never
sent any Missionaries out, and that he was not con-
nected with any Society for sending them. He wish-
ed, indeed, that religious instruction should be disse-
minated as well for the white population as for the
blacks, who was more amerce% and more is aced

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that if, the ei.eitionsi for such religious -iristtuctinn
(sere 'confined to the Established Church, . the light
4-the Gospel would , never teach those poor people.
He denied that the Registration Bill was the cause's
ul any of the blood which hid been ihed t—On the
cotitrary, where it had been acted upon in its.
spirit, no distorbance had taken pleee.—(flear.)—•
It any bad effects had arisen from it, they pi-neeeded
chiefly from the misrepresentations niade of, and the
miscor.sit actions put upon, It. If those misrepresen•
cations and 4nisconstructions had blowo up th.' Pomo
of insurrection, the fault was not with the advocates
of Registiaiion, but with ihose who had falarly asso-
ciated the idea of emaricip ttion with that measure.
It was to such speeches Is that made by An Honour-
.able Member near him—it was to the enitstruction
put upon the Bill itself hit some of the L•gialative
Assemldies of the Colonies. Ile held in his hand
three .1 tmaica Calcites, iii winch it was openly
avowed that Registration was only a cloke for tMan•
cipatinn. When these and such mita:instructions of
the Bill were industriously circulated in the Colonies,
would it be said thit a pamphlet publisi; ed in Lon.
don, or speech in the House of Commons i. 6 i tvosir of
thlt measure, was the real cause of whatcver dinar.
bance took place ?It the speeches the j itnphlett
in favotfl of Registration could .rind thAr way to. the
Colonies, so could the erroneous i onstrttetions which

were put upon them, and he would contend that
the speeches delivered in the House that even-
ing were much morn injurious in their tendency
than any measure of Registration could lie;
One amourable Member had even given an ineen•
tive to further distUrhance, by reminding the black
population of Jamaica (for if they only got their in.
formation through this I.4•iiise of what had heed line
there in favour ot Registration, it was just to infer that
they would, through the same channel, get shat had
been said against),that as they were mare numerous in
pr portion to the whites than the population of Bar-
badues, they could more easily succeed is an insur.
rection. This he (Mr. Brougham) contended was a
much greater incentive to insuhadination than all
that had ever been said in tavour of RegittratiOn
Mild be. The Honourable Member next tentended
that it would not be sufficient to leave ttis Registra-
tion to the care of the CAunial Assemblies, who
would not take as effectual steps to carry it into effect
as might Le wished. And he instanced, as a proof
of the construction they would be likely to put in
their own favour on such a measure, a case where, at
the interference of this country, it teas made a Capital
offence to murder a slave with malice prspense.—
This had al!rrwards been construed into murdering
a slave without any. provocation. So that by that
conaruCtica the most trilliog provocation on the part
of a slave, even an angry word or a look, would be
held a sufficient justification of his murder. He also
observed, that the conviction of a white man for the
murder of a slave was a thing almost unknown in the
colonies, although it was no:minus that eeveral catch
murders had been committed. He could mention to
the House three cases of as fi :grant murders of slaves
under circumstances as shocking as ever disgraced
human nature, and these were committed in the pre-
sence. of others, and in jusaificatian of them it was
said that the persons murdered were oily slaves. He
did not mean to impure to his Honourable hood
(Mr. Barham), or to any of ids West India friends,
any of those abuses which he had mentioned..
He thought, on the coatrary, that their presence
on their West India property, would preclude the
occurrence of such disgraceful scenes— ( flear.)—
But while they were discharging their duties in this
country, so much to its advantage, and to their own
credit, the care of those estates must necessarily be
committed to ethers, and he did not hesitate to say,
that the lower order ot. Whites in the Colonies were
the grossest and basest rabble that ever deserved the
name of human popul aims. It was on this account
that he wished to preserve the distinction between
legislation and regulation. It was because he wished
to tear off the film which covered the worst of crimes
by which torture and murder were kept up under
other names. It was because he wished to have come
regulation of the property of West India Proprietors,
when that property was of the same nature with them-
selves, that he supported the motion of his Honourable
Friend. He would agree on the part othisklonourable
Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) to the Amendment; pro-
vided it were not substituted for his motion.
Mr. CANNING said, the Honourable and Lear.
ned Gentleman had been so clear and faithful an in-
terpreter of the speech of his Honourable Friend,
that lie feared he should be unsuccessful in enforcing
the expediency:of adopting the recommendation of
the Right Hon. Gentleman ; but he did not alto-
gether despair. The Hon and Learned Gentleman.
it seemed, bad understood. the recommendation of the
Right Hon. Gentleman in a totally -different sense
from what it was understood in by every other Mem-
ber in the House. He (Mr. Canning) understood
it to be to accept the amendment ; but the Hop. and
Learned Gentleman understood it to be to vote his
own motion. He called upon his Honourable
Friend to consider bow little lie would gain if be
persevered in his motion and carried it, and how
much lie would risk by going to a division. Tile
House had manifested a sincere disposition to st-
cond the fervent zeal of the Honourable Gentle.
man, and his motion, if it were now pressed, could
only have the effect of weakening the Address is
which the House seemed willing unanimously to jai::.
He and leis friends bad ever taken a distinction be-
tween the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and the
Emancipation of the Slaves. Far be it from him to
doubt the omnipotence of Parliament, but. he hail
always thought, as he still c.lntinued to think,
question on the latter subject ought not to be stirred
up, unless interference became absolutely necessary.
When the necessity for such interference should be
proved to exist, his voice would' be fearlessly raised
in its favour, but he would not anticipate the arrival
of that period at which so painful an exertion would
be imposed on the British Parliament. He disap-
proved of the manner in which the Colonial Assem-
blies had been spoken of that night. It the honour..
able Gentleman opposite had any remote idea of
making use of these, it was not well that they should
be treated with so much contempt. If such a thought
had been entertained, so much pains ought not to
have been taken to degrade them. It was an unwise
effect
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libßity, and we suspect your honesty.--,
Tltift Might be said of the Colonial Assemblies, when
they had been tried, and when it was found they dire
served such language; but at present it was' unwise,
as it was inequitable. He could easi7 conceive a
man might stand up in the Assembly m Jamaica and
ridicule our laws for the punishment of homicide,
with as much effect as the law of Barbadoes had
been ridiculed by the Honourable and Learned Gen-
tleman (Mr. Brougham). lie might say, AS a mur.
derer here was tried, for that he had committed the
offence imputed to him, 46 not haviitg tke fear of Gon
before his eyes, and being instigated by the Devil,"
that sinless proof were afforded of his 'having been
thus instigated by the Devil, the crime could not be
brought home to him.—(i flaoch ) To say a person,
had committed murder, 6, being instigated by the
Devil," might he more elegant than to say it was
done 'through bloody-mindednerr, but the latter might
be equally true, amt not less efficient to punish that
crime, abhorrence of which was not confined to Europe
or to America, to one country or to another, but was
known in every land, and in evry climate, ro be im-
planted by GOD and Nature in. the human mind.—
He did not say the late disturbances in the West In-
Mei had been caused by the Registry Bill, but he
could not think .as a penal visitation it ought to be
resorted to. He did not know to be sure, but from
*lithe information he had been able to obtain, tie did
not believe on illicit trade 41 Slaves had been carried
main Jamaica. He could not, therefore, vote for this
'Wlf, tits punish a crime, which lie-did not believe
to haire been committed, though he could approve
of the provisions it contained for preventing an illicit
traffic, and for ameliorating the condition of the
Slave, He bad known in some cases instances of
obstinacy in the Colonial Assembles, which left that
House no choice but direct interference. Such con-
duct might now call for such an exertion on the
part of the British Parliament, but all that he
pleaded fur was, that time should be granted, that
they might know if the Colonial Assemblies would
take upon themselves to do what that House was
Pleased to declare should be done—(hear, hear.)
The present Address could not be misunderstood. It
. told the Colonial Assemblies, you are safe for the
present from the interference of the British Parlia-
ment, on the belief, and on the promise made fir you,
that you, left to yourselves, will do what is required
of. you." To hold chit language was sufficient. The
Assemblies might be left to infer the consequences of
refusal, and Pariiament might rest satisfied with the
consciousness that they held in their hands the means
of ucomplish.ng that which they had purposed. He
again recommended to the Honourable Gentleman
the cenrse which had 1-v-n pointed ant to hits, confi-
dent that it woald answer every purpose, and that
conciliAti..n and wisd,im would obtain all that could
be desired, and save us from a crisis, of which, though
he did n It fear the danger, he most earnestly' depre-
cated the experiment - (Hear, /ear.)
Sir S. RONIILLY did not c-.)nsider 7t a matter of
much import:axe whether t!,e itiution for papers or
for the• Address was carried first. The Right Hen.
Gentleman oho sprite last says, 4, see whether the
Colonial Legislators will not themselves proceed to
legislate ;" but have they not already been tried
CH all the things, hoWever, w! ad astonished him
in .the speech to the Right Gentleman,
he felt most surprise at the u• ay hich he had
spoken of the colonial law for the punishment of
murder. The Right Honourable Gentleman had at-
tempted to be facetious about special pleading, and
the words fear of Von and itutigariox of Ilse devil; but
those words were never contained in an Act of Par-
liament ; and we were now not talking of an indict
meat, but of an Act of Parliament!! The Right
Honourable Gentleman had for a short time belonged
to the profession of the law, as well as other Honour.
able Members of the House, and would Any tine say
that tie slightest possible provocation under the es.
isting statute would not be impunity for the murder
of a slaved To spew that there was a great laxity of
feeling in the West Indies, he alluded to the well-
kwown case of Hodge. The Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Barham) had asked if we could rest after the
mischief which we should produce ; but be (Sir Sa-
muel Romilly) was not satisfied that the Registry
341- had been the cause of the avents which he de-
plored. It he did he should rest in peace, for he
should enjoy the satisfaction of having done his duty.
The scone reference and imputations hail been made
to the Slave Trade Bill-in its long discussion, which
were levelled at the Registry Bill. He deplored, as'
much as any man, the events which had occurred,
but if they were attributable to a misrepresentation
and misunderstanding, this argument would go to
prevent mentioning the subject at all ; to the argu-
mient was good for nothing since it went to prove too
much—(ll/).
Mr.GRA T was satisfied that no illicit importa.
tient of Slaves into our Colonies had taken place and
stated the Slaves in them to be very well treated.
Sir J. BE RESTO R l) maintained the Slaves were'
in. a very comfortable situation.—(4 laugh.)
Mr. MANNING read a letter on the subject of
;he late disturbances, which represented a pamphlet
lately published in England, and the question raised
on the Registry Bill, to have done more to prevent
the improvement of the condition of the Slaves in our
Colonies, than the African Institution would be able
to counteract in 2(1 years.
Mr. WILBERFORCE replied. He could not
agree that no Slaves had been smuggled, because an
Honourable Member had said he did not know cf
such a tact.—(Hear.)—They were disguised as Ma.
eines, and in various other ways; and thus introduced
into the island. A Mr. Mathison, who had written
against the abolition, had admitted that the waste of
lite among the Slaves had principally arisen front bad
feedii.g, and other kinds of ill treatment. Of the two
Gentlemen who had been alluded to, he might be
allowed to say a word—however, of Mr. Stephen he
should say nothing, as it might be attributed to per-
sonal feelings of regard ; but of Mr. Macauley he
could say that h. had known him for '25 years, and
hte had impresses pot only him, but many others,
with the highest possible opinion of him. The Hon.
• Gentleman (Mr, Wilberforce) acknowledged the ap-
peal that had been made for unanimity, which lie
was anxious to promote, and would therefore with-
draw his motion, with an understanding that no ob-
jection should be made afterwards to the production
of the paper.
After a few words its explanation of the point of

form frog) Mr. alllitAllp Me. PALIOOO.II4 Lord-
CAITLIRRAGN,_
Mr. BARING objected to the motion being with.
,drawn. He thought it was one of those measures of
tampering with the colonies which ought to be re-
jected.
The SPEAKER intimated, that the motion was
already withdrawn.
The amendment was then carried unanimously.
Mr. WILBERFORCE then submitted his motion
for papers to the House, which, after a conversation,
in which Mr. CANNING, Mr. BARING, the CHANCEL-,
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. PoNsoNBY, mod Mr. W.
S‘trrts participated, was carried.
The other Orders of the Day were then read. and
the House adjourned at a QUARTER PAST THREE
o'CLoCX this morning.

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We have received the Paris Papers of Monday.
They are filled with silly unmeaning details respect-
ing the marriage ceremony of the Duchess de BMW,
which took place' on Sunday, -an 3 which was pre-
cisely as mawkish and insipid in all its formalities as
a French Court marriage can be supposed.