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London, England, 1819-02-17 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

3C161211113 IlltTUltirlDl TO qTRVE TN THU PRZILIIT
City of Peterborough—James Scarlett Esq. in the room of the
Right Honourable William Elliot, deoessed.
Bea ough.of Guildford--Charles Baring Wall, of Norman Court,
in the Parish of Titherly, in the County of Southampton;
Esq. in the room of William Draper Best, Esq. now one of
his MajestfeJoetices of the Court of King's Bench.
Borough of Great Yarmouth—The Honourable George Ansa*,
of St. James's-square, in the City of Westminster, in the
room of the Honourable Thomas William Anson (now Vis-
count Anson), called up to the House of Peers.
Borough of Blechingley—Sir William Curtis, Bart. in the room
of Matthew Russell, Esq. who being chosen a Burgess for the
said Borongh, and alto a Burgess for the Borough of Saitash,
hath made his election to serve for the said Borough of Saltaah.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
'Francis Tully, Bristol, baker, from Feb. 13 to April 3, at
eleven, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Joseph Job, Ivy-lane, Newgatootrezt, Merchant.
Robert James, Bristol, cabinet-maker.

BANKRUPTS.
George Bentley Highfield and Charles Highfield, Liverpoot
merchants, to surrender March 0,9, and 50, at one, at the
.Goorge Inn, Dale-street, LiverpooL Attornies, Blaek-
stock and Bunce, King's Bench-walks, Temple ; or Mr. Mor-
row, Marshall-street, Liverpool
Charles Fricker, jun. late of Stoke Newington, mercliant, Feb.
20, 27, and March 30, at elevens at Guildhall. Attorney,
Mr. Maugham, Great St. Helen's.
William Dodsworth, York, whip-carpenter, March 2,3, ar.d
30, at eleven, at the Black Swan Inn, Coney-street. Atter..
Wes, Mr. Smith, Pump-court, Middle Temple; or Meant.
Brook and Blamer, York.
Thomas Fish, late of Iltidport, Dorsetshire, victualler, Feb.
PS, gas sad Dinah 30, at eleven,. at the Bull tan, Bridport.
Attornies, Mr. Kidsoletts. Bridport ; Mr. Allen, Clif-
ford:, I.
Wil• Usu. Cohbetts jun. late of Klngsland-road, common-brewer,
Feb. 20, 27, and March 30, at ten- at Culla:ill. Attondes,
Messrs. Lamb and I lawke, Princes'-stmt. Bank.
John Johnson, Lucas-street, Commercial-road, merchant, Feb.
23, March 6 and 30, at ten, at Guildhall Attorney, ..blr.
Willey, Wellelos6-square.
Francis Wright, Budge-row, merchant, Feb. Ilk 27, and March
30, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Mee*. Stratton and
Aliport, Shoreditch. • •
John Lomas, White Horse Inn, rcpt.'s's% tavers-keepett,
Feb. 23. March 2 and 30, at one, at Guildhall. Attorniess
Messrs. Mayhew, Price, and Styan, Chancery-lane.
Michael Ollara, Watford, Hertsi inn-keeper, Feb. 23, March
and 30, at eleven, at Guildhall, Landoll. Attorneys Mt.
Williams; Blackman-street, or Ilt,rkkampetead. -
William Woods, late of Ilauglitota•street; Clare-market, coal-
merchant, Feb. 23, March 2 and 30, at twelve, at Guildhalls
Attornies, Messrs. Thomas and Kaye, liarnard's Inn.
DIV IDF.NDS to he matte at GUILDHALL.

March 16, J. Stoneham, Beckford-row, Walworth, cheese.
monger, at ten. March 9, J. Day and J. Sprataweil, Tavistoch.
street, Covent-garden, drapers' at one. March 9, T. Holmes,,
J. Harris, and J. 1). English, Long-acre, coach-makers, at one.
March 27,. W. Day, Providence-buildings, New Kent-road,
plumber, at twelve. March 20, G. Oakley and J. Evan., Old
Bond-street, upholders, at twave. March 9, J. Willi:gm,
Lower Coleman-street, Bunhill-row paper-stainer, at one.
March 9, G. Evans, sen. and jun. Hiila-street, Southwark, hop-
inerchants, at twelve. March 9, Y. and W. Lloyd, I-owcr
Thames-stret, slopsillers at bnc. March 6, J. F. T'urockmor-
ton, Guildford-street, Pimlico, insurance-brcker, at ten. March
13, E. Read and T. Baker, Gnat Russell-street, Bloomsbury,
linen-drapers, at twelve. March 9, W. Edensor, Bush-lane,
broker, at eleven.
IVI D EN DS to be made in the COUNTRY.
March 10, R. Baddeley, Coventry, grocer, at eleven, at the
King's [lead, Coventry. Match 51, J. and T. Barker, lichee-
ley Biackmocr, Yorkshire, grocers, at eleven, at Lhe
Coney-street, York. March 5, J. Hambidge, Stew-or-•te-
Wok!, Ploucestershire, currier, at ten, at the White Hart,
Evesham. March 10, T. .Wilierton, Coventry, riband-manu-
facturer, at eleven, at the Craven Arms, Coventry. March 11,
J. Cox, Liverpool, linen-draper, at twelve, at the Office of Mr.
Morrow, Marshall-street, Liverpool. March 22, R. Johnson,
Lane End, Staffordshire, manufacturer, at eleven, at the Woe-
buck, Newcastle-under-Lyme. March 10, J. Chorley, Liver-
merchant, at eleven, at the Golden Lion, Liverpool.
March 12, J. Bennett, Manchester, woollen-cold-manufacturer,
at twn, at the White Lion, Manchester. March 10, 11. Alcock,
Atherstone, hat-manufacturer, at eleven, at the King's He..d,
Coventry. Marcb9, W. W. and S. Atkins, Chipping Norton,
bankers, at ten, at the White Ilart, Chipping Norton. March
n, J. Holden, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, black buckle.
maker, at eleven, at the Castle, High-street, Birmingham. •
CERTIFICATES--Maass 9.
I. B. Gooch, Wantford-court, merchant. N. Gardner Shell.

ley, Worcestershire, farmer. D. ILL Lakeman, Liverpool, met-
chant. C. Moles, Bennington, Oxon, baker. W. Hart, Newport,
Hants, schoolmaster. R. W. Moxon, G. Moxon, and J. Myna,
Kiusston-upon-Hull, merchants. W. Williams, Amen-Corner,
bookseller. E. Flrenstrom, l'en.ceurt, merchant, Jacob Bagel..
atrer, St. Thomas -square, Hackney, broker.
DISSOLUTIONS OF.
Koper and Broughton, Great Blarlberough-street, attornies.
W. and E. Toiler ,Ifuntingdon' corn-merchants. Samuel Read
and Co. Gospel hak, dealers In iron. Hawley, Edwards, and
Cooke, Shrewsbury, ale and porter-brewers. Hutchinson and
Wilson, London. Harthorn and Hanson, Bilston, milliners.--
Cocks and 13.1trhIge, Birmingham, silversmiths: linathcche and
Tysoe, Manchester, manufazturers. Jain and Benjamin Stead,
Leeds, curriers. Ilatmen and liarfoot, jun. Winiborne Minster,
anniedeers. Still and Co. Bristol, brass founders. Inman, Ben-
s°, and CO. Lancaster, silk-spinuers.' Israel lard Wagg, Yen.
churchotreet, wholesale druggists. S. and S. Tregelles, Pal.
mouth, merchants. Holt. Dsvis, aad Comer, Liverpool, cotton
brokers. Barnes and Webster, Great I%.ratoalt, printers, Bar.
row and "toper, St. Mary Axe, wiut-merchants, Northam. aid
Howe, prime's. Balton and Cawthorzie, at Horton, in
Bradford, colliers. J. Jawer. and J. Clarke, Warield, In Sdop,
mayler Maud and Blakey., Itradtord, wpm. Milsozu And
cod,. Preston, upholsterers.
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STATE PAPERS
RELATIVE TO THE •AVE_TRADE.

A series of Documents connected with the efforts
of the British Government to procure the universal
Abolition of the Slave-Trade, have been laid before
Parliament. They are very voluminous, and conse-
quently all that we can do is to give a faithful ab-
• stract of them :
The Papers commence with the conferences which
took place at London, in December, 1817, for the
purpose of resuming the discussion, pursuant to the
additional Article of the Treaty of Paris, of the 20th
of November, 1815. These conferences were attended
by the Ministers of Russia, Prussia, Auitria, and
France, and they invited Count Palmella, the Por-
tuguese Minister, to be present at them. At one of
. these conferences (February 4, 1S18), Lord Castle-
reagh read a Memorandum, in which, among other
things, his Lordship stated,
" That a considerable revival sof the Slavc-Trade
had taken place, especially on the coast of Africa,
north of the line, since the restoration of peace ;" that
4‘ the parties engaged in it had adopted the practice
-of carrying it on in armed and fast-sailing vessels ;
that " the traffic thus carried on was marked with
increased horrors, from the inhuman manner in which
these desperate adventurers were in the habit of
crowding the slaves on board vessels better adapted
to escape from the interruption of cruisers than to
'serve for the transport of human beings ;" and that,
" the improvement of Africa, especially in a com-
mercial point of view, had advanced in proportion as
the Slave-Trade had been suppressed ;" while, "with
its revival, every prospect of industry and of amend-
inent appeared to decline."
No conclusive arrangements, however, emanated
from these conferences at London. The subject was
resumed at Aix-la-Chapelle; and Lord Castlereagh,
in a dispatch to Earl Bathurst, dated Aix-la-Chapelle,
November 2, states, that in the conference of.the 24th
October, he opened to the Plenipotentiaries the exist-
ing state of the trade in Slaves, and gave notice that
he should, on a future'day, submit to them two pro-
positions: first, for addressing a direct appeal, on the
part of the five Courts, to the King of Portugal, ur-
ging his Majesty to decree the final abolition of the
Slave Trade in his dominions at the period already
agreed to by Spain—namely, the 20th May, 1820;
• and, secondly, that the Powers there represented
should accept the principle of a qualified right of
mutual visit. Ilis Lordship adds:—" It was impos-
sible not to perceive, in the short discussion which
ensued, that there was considerable hesitation, espe-
cially in the French Plenipotentiary, with regard to
the principle of the latter measure." The reserve of
France on this point became subsequently the great
obstruction to every definitive arrangement.
In a subsequent sitting of the Congress (Nob. 4), a
proposition, made by Lord Castlereagh, was adopte.
unaai mously.
" That a letter should be written to the King of
Portugal, in the name of the Sovereigns, in the most
pressing and at the same time the most affectionate
terms,' in order to engage him to fix the 20th May,
1820, as the final term of' the traffic in his dominions.
A copy of this letter is given. Lord Castlereagh also
proposed that " it would be useful and perhaps ne-
cessary to consider the Trade in Slaves, as a crime
against the Law of Nations, and to assimilate it to
piracy." This was submitted as a matter for consi-
deration merely.
In a letter from the Noble Lord to Earl Bathurst,
dated Aix la-Chapelle, November 23, transmitting
the Notes -of the Russian, French, Austrian. and
Prussian Plenipotentiaries, upon the two propositions
submitted to Congress, hi. Lordship says, " the result
of these notes being extremely discouraging to our
hopes, it was determined t 6 review the objections
brought forward to the measure of mutually con-
. ceding the right of visit, especially by the Plenipo-
tentiary of France."
" The modification whiCh I have finally urged of
this measure, and, Y trust, with considerable hope of
success, is, that in addition to the limitation of the
right of visit to the coast of Africa, and to a specific
number of ships of each Power, the duration of the
Convention should be for a limited number Of years,
say seven, at the end of which period the several
Powers would again have it in their power to review
their decision, after some experience of its conveni-
ence or inconvenience, of its efficacy to the object,
and of the necessity of its being renewed, regard
being had to the then state of the illicit Slave Trade.
This arrangement would sufficiently meet our most
pressing wants, whilst it would go less permanently
to disturb the acknowledged principles of Maritime
Law, as regulating the right of visit. By the aid of
I this latter expedient, I flatter myself that I have
made a considerable impression in removing the
strong repugnance at first felt to the measure.
The different notes above alluded to are given at
full length. They shew the objections, real or as-
sumed, which are felt by the Governments of Eu-
rope with respect to the only measure that cats ever
render the abolition of the Slave Trade complete.
The result of all these delibei ations was, a decla-
ration on the part of the Allied Sovereigns, repre-
sented at Congiess, that they would instruct their re-
spective Ministers in London to continue the discus-
sions upon the subject ; and Lord Castlereagh, in his
last dispatch to the Government at home, dated
Paris, December 10, 1818, says, though " I cannot
give hopes of any immediate progress, I venture,
xielertheless, to indulge a sanguine expectation, that
if the object be pursued with the same persevering
and conciliating temper on the part of Great Britain,
ashich has already achieved so much for the cause of
abolition, the French Government may be brought,
at no distant period, to unite their naval exertions
with those of the other Allied Powers for the sup-
pression of the illicit ilave Trade, under the modified
regulations submitted for this purpose to the Pleni-
potentiaries assembled at Ais-la-Chaptlle."
I lete the iinportant question rests at present.

The forthcoming Novel, THE METROPOLIS, by the
Author of Link Hydrogen, or 7he Devil on Two Slicks
in London, of which another edition is nearly sold off,
is said to contain Sketches, many hundreds in num-
ber, of every personoof rank or fashion. It is full of
curious Anecdotes, and is the production of a titled
Lady of high distinction. We need scarcely add,
that the eagerness expressed for its r-uc:11 fully equals
the interest such a V. ork must nett •,arily excite.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE S7'ARs • •
STATE OF THE COTTON FACTORY qIJESTIO9;
OR, AN APPEAL TO BRITISH JUSTICE.
Sea—From the peat and acknowledged import-
ance of the subject of the Cotton Factory Bill now,
pending before the House of Lords, as to the state of ,
the Children employed in the Factories for the Spin-1
nine of Cotton, as well as on the general principle of
justice and benevolence which recommends itself to
every uncorrupted mind, 13m tempted to hope, for
a place in your columns for a few remarks on the
history and present state of that question, which have
not. perhaps, been sufficiently attended to.
The origination of this measure goes as far back
as the year 1815: it was in that year that Sir 11.0116 AT
PEEL. first submitted the subject to the House of
Commons, and it stood over for consideration unto
the following Session. In 1816 the business was re-
ferred to a Committee, and much evidence heard,
bothfor and against the question, which evidence was
printed. During the Session of 1817, no progress
was made, owing to the indisposition of the Honour-
able Baronet, which made his attendance as Chair-
man of the Committee impracticable. In 1818, a
Bill was brought into the Commons, founded on the
evidence before received; which passed the House
by a large majority, and was sent up to the Lords.
By their Lordships, it was referred to a Committee
of their own House, and, at the instance of certain
Petitions to that effect, the parties were ordered to
be heard by themselves and Counsel. The opposing
party were heard accordingly ; and their evidence
was proceeding when the dissolution of Parliament
supervened, ere their witaesses had all been examined.
in this state were the labours of the Committee
broken off. The opponents of the Bill were heard at
much length—the petitioners to favour of it, not at all!
The next thing is, the new Parliament assembles—
the Lord KENYON, as Chairman of the Committee,
moves for its re-appointment, to continue and com-
plete the hearing of evidence, which at present is all
on one site. Can any thing be more equitable than
the proposition? Yet this ts strenuously resisted hi
the opponents of the measure. They plead, in the
first place, for delay; this is conceded. The Motion
at length comes on : they deny that any Committee
at all is necessary, and would absolutely dismiss the
business, without suffering the other party to adduce
a single witness in support of their pretensions, which
are, in fact, no other than the claims of a most nu-
merous and interesting class of British subjects—the
claims of helpless, unoffending, and suffering infancy.
Meanwhile, the question is once more deferred until
the 22d instant.

Now, Sir, give me leave to ask, can a decision
founded on ex parte evidence be either fair or honour-
able ?—ls this conduct of the opponents of the Bill
agreeable in any one sense to the accustomed rules
and principles of British .iustice ?—Does it harmonize
with that spirit of impartial eqnity which has gained
for this country so large a share of its high renown,
which pervades its constitution, and predominates in
all its domestic policy?—Shall ts,e suppose that in
the wisdom of the Legislature is not included its im-
partiality, or that political prudence may not be.con-
sistently just and humane?
These suggestions, I trust, are neither unreason-
able, nor without importance.