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on a Wein& t asirs. eke Min Sgelinas.
Wm doers and dragged him tdoog the feed. -Yak
iroll so hail as to -Scanlon his death :in four to
after he arrived-at Solidad.
‘, When we arrived at St. Martha, we were patio
the guard house. It being Saturday next day, be
Captain, owner and two officers of the English big
were taken from amongst us, and put into ars Ilona,
or Fort. This day we were visited by Cep& 514,1
ford, of Baltimore, and Capt,Eustis, of New Wens,
who gave us the assistance they could. Next day'
we were put on board of an old brig in the harbotr,
which was in a sinking states here we were obliged
to keep both pumps goiog constantly w keep ter
free. We were divided into four watches, and as soon
'IA one watch left the pumps they were compelled by
.the guard toasaist in shipping and getting bet tack/et
kc. on shore; numbers of the men at first refused to
work, but were most cruelly beaten in consequence
of it. On Modday the leak increased, and she began
to go down so fast that we had scarcely time to get
out when she sunk. We were then marched back
into town to the guard-house, where we were kept
that night, and the next day carried to an Uninhabited
house, where our situation war much better.
•• Thursday, Ist February.—The officers, owners
and passengers of the schooner Comet, were taken
before the Judge to be examined : they were then
shown the declaration that they were forced to sign,
et Cartbagens, which was wrote m Spanish, and en!
tirely different from what they had said: after being
asked a number of unnecessary questions, were per-
mitted to return to prison. 66 J 091141 Ai.ww*,
Captain of the schooner Friend's Hope."

THE .EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY. MAY 30. 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT IWELVE O'CLOCK,
Reduced 634--Coss. mo. 64H--for sec. 6511
4 per Cent. 78 ft--6 per Coot. 45ii—Boads 14. 21. pr.
Oasa. pay. 44i—.Ezeb. Nis Is. dia. Is. pr.

The measures taken to repress and prevent tumult
and riot have, we are happy to say, proved gar.
rally efficacious; and we hope we shall hear no MON
of such wanton acts as have lately disgraced Tarim*
districts. We have great pleasure in statiig, that
the subject which we ropeatedir pressed upon the at-
tention ofiblagistrates and others possessing influence
has, in various places, received that consideration
which it merited. On Monday a meeting of Magi-
strates of Suffolk, at which the Lord Lieutenant at-
tended. was held at Bury, when the following Reso-
lution was passed :
" Resolved—That it Is the opinion of this Meeting obit the
most patient sad careful emotion should be glees, with a view
of hada& the causes of these disorders, and el nimbi:, as far
sr eirantutssea still prig", ship t &dresses the labouring
par : but that k b the decided opinion of this Meeting, that es
esseettiou skald be made, Nor say agerettteat extend into tea Wise
people osessoklei ix a riot's: or threatexixi manna; and that the
=Melt exertions will be used to put down di tumults, and to
being to puebbment all persons who 'pay be cesierned in such
riotous proceedings. (Signed) " 10.62T0tt."
We 'yesterday called the attention of our Readers
to a subject of great impoitane• now before MAMA-
Malt —the present state of the Poor Laws and the
circumstances connected therewith. We pointed out
one; great source of the' evil so universally felt and
complained of, to be, the compelling of those who
apply for parish relief to quit their dwellings and
:become inmates in the Workhouse. A badge of de-
gradation being thus put upon the individuals, all
desire to maintain independence is taken away, and
for ever after they become a burthen to themselves
and to the community. But how came this system
to prevail so universally ?
This question deserves the most serious investiga,
lion, and when duly esamiaed, will incontestibly
prove, that all the Parish Worlihouses, as now ma-
blislud and soadasesd, ought to be got rid of. The
present system was founded in a delusion so palpable;
when investigated, that it is surprizing that no parish
should have yet detected it and got rid of the evil ;
for it is in the power of evert parish to adopt men.
.sores for retracing its steps, though it will be long
before the evils which this system hest entailed upon
the community can be eradicated, and the Moral
feeling of the lower orders be again raised to that
pitch which made it be felt as a disgrace to any,
person (except orphans and the infirm) to bell:nom;
to receive parish relief.
The origin of the present system was briefly this s
One of the richer parishes in the Metropolis, perhaps
under the influence of a mistaken spirit of liberality
.....or;issr/seps, acted upon by a ism praiseworthy no.
tive in the individuals who were-at the bottom of the
contriveace, and who longed for some parish cow
tracts—resolved to build a house for the greater mom.'
'fort, as they believed, of the poor of the parish. .It
was hoped that a eery small addition to the rate
would enable them to effect this laudable -object
The house was built—the poor were compelled 4
quit their dwellings and go into, the itser4tant;
and this unlooked-for fact followed sr-Thepoorin
that parish wire found to cost less, than they di!
before the new system was introduceed Here
was a discovery 1 The event was blazoned abnad
through the neighbouring parishes : the fact was
established on incontrovertible evidences and it
is not surprising that others were willing to benefit by
this wonderful improvement in parochial econonspr
Bag it is somewhat surprising that no one *Sold We
takin the pains to investigate whether tin system, if
extended, would produce the same melt gimerayl
Had a little pains been taken to-ascertain the red
facts, it is probable that other parialns, instead
building workhouses, would have petitioned
meat to compel the parish or parish% Whirakid