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tat COVII4S. 117/OENCT Tu.THESTANISN NATION, ON
ANN.MIBAARY oft MAY 2.
Miitiorabla day, 'Spaniards, on which the
siatiiiri rare to the Majesty of independence, from the
depth of servitude and dismay, has now come round
for the third time. What grand, but at the same
time moursiful recollections does not O.s return excite!
—When Napoleon was kitting from Bayonne his
ve-
crees of blood—when, madly impatient, he was ac-
cusing Murat of remissness, for not precipitating the
means of tenor—he did not percente that these atm-
, tic)* counsels, recoiling won the very iniquity which
planned them, wouidbe destructive to their treache-
toes agents.
The 2d of May dawned—the French had fixed up-
on it for completing theiopurderous plots; and the
people of Madrid, indignant at the outrages which
they suffered, rose at once, to revenge them or to die.
111-armed, without plan, without Chiefs, they did not
hesitate a moment to attack those veteran battalions,
foemidable by their arms, their victories, and their
union. , The, patriots died fighting nobly ; .or they
perished by treachery, while thinking therzselvezpro-
tected by the truce which disarmed them.
But the bloi.d which was shed iotild welt tie • con-
futed to the ,Itkadti of the Capital—it SPrOd ttself
over the soil,4theFeninsula—it every where .474,itecl
poihnsiasin ; and .at on and the same time, andwiils
one voice. the aigoal was every where given, for
.this
- rancorous, sanguinary, and tiesolativig.warof
similar-
in all respects to the execrable aggtession whieleinve
it bith, •
• It was then.said by nape t 7 enemies,' and
their unworthy partizan'," flow rash and unavail-
ing your attempt ! You have neither arms, maga-
zines, nor. soldiers' your Generals and Officers want
eiperience tout military knowledge ; your poverty is
great; your igneirance greater ; you must lose every
battle which you hazard against the most practised
troops in. the world ; ' the war will disorganize, will
ruin every thing ; and your impotent efforts, instead
of saving that shadow.rof a rountry which you adore,
will plunge it ia misery and desolation, and .load it
with much heavier chains 'than those you now Wish
tare."
Spaniards. you rejected with horror these vile sug-
aestu.ns, ind devoted yourselves to adversity, certain
of shaking off ignominy by resistance, and of finally
e.tablishing, thettgh at the expence of immense la-
b and nun.berless exertions, that independence
and.happinets to which• you aspired. True it is that
the stupid tyranny to which you were previously sub-
ject had left you without mounds to oppose to the
inundation. A furious sea broke in, and covered
with its waves an unprotected country ; but it mils,
one day abandon it again; and the inundation, though
now destructive, in like manner as the earth is fertiliz-
ed by the conflagration of forests or the ashes of vol-
. canoes, will deposit in our soil all the germs of pro.
sperity and abundance.
What combats, what vicissitudes, what contrariety
of events have you not experienced during these three:
terrible years ! Conquerors at first, then conquered,
formidable again by the force which you opposed to
your enemies; favoured by the war of Austria against j
the Tyrant, -.but too soon deprived of, that puweitul
assistance : condemned again to experience all the
rigour of destiny, and reduced to extremity ; threa-
tened with the dissolutioti of empire hy tht separation
of some distant provirces ;* yet always.firm, always
magnanimous, encountering adves sky without being
overcome by it ; torming new establislutients amidst
your very ruins, and dismaying the enemy by your
ceaseless efforts-
If from this stormy and uncertain spectacle impar-
tial Europe and posterity turn their eyes to your poli-
tical and civil march, how much will they, aee to
compensate for your military. misfortunes ! What i
were you before the '2d of May ? Grier to recollect
it, and shame to utter it I—slaves, bending under
the yoke of tyranny; obeying, like a worthless herd,
the empire of despotism and caprice. What are you
now? At the solemn voice of your representatives,
in Cortes assembled, the imperishable rights of the
people are revived, which despotism had usurped—
arbitrary Government has disappeared, by the three-
powers being no longer confounded in one ; the po-
litical balance is re-established ; the liberty of thought
is secured by that-of the press; the execution of jus-
tice is at this moment rotas ling cn the eternal basis
of natural equity, and the constitution which is pre-
paring for you, will be the key-stone of that grand ,
arch on which the throne of the reorganised monal-chy 1
will be erected.
Thus, the Spaniard of the present day, dependent
upon the law alone, inviolable in his person, his pie-
perty, and the just freedom of his opinions—tootri-
, bitting to such taxes only as are imposed by the Na-
tional Congress—interposiog by himself, or by per-
sons enjoying his confidence, in the collection iludisp.•
plication of such sacrifices—having ' all trieVitthr of
knowledge, of glory, and of fortune, opene4t6 his
activity and industry--matches proudly-EU Itke face
of the earth, in no respecto lutesior toittpirtentates'
in social dignity.
In vain will you search for his eqirar OdAti'e.on
tinent, where the iron rod of oppressionirolds inen
degraded, and where all are his inferiont YEm snug-
search for his equals in that island alone, hinzene-
rous ally and heroic compeer in this greg.comest
in that island, the happy sanctuary of liberty, the.
grand seat of laws, and the eternal model of human,
civilization !
Such is, such ought to be, the Spaniard under the
reign of law. 0 you who-live under its benign in-
fluence, convey yourselves in thought to the pelmets
oppressed by the eiteitiy,'nod conspire your sitttatioh
with that of those Who ate there greaniog in vorrow I"
Behold them tyrannised over by the chiethiesulted
by the subaltans, pillaged by the taz-gistlierene—be-
hold'them harassed by spies, assailedby suspicions,
ruined by accusations, without security' withbut con-
. &fence, withwit civil or. political consideration. Thee
will you feel how nuali more the rapacity a
costs than the defence of your Country, and the pre,
;creation of ro,i laws.
Whatever blessings social order pilfers upon ma%
thijee tbc:Spanish citizen has either in prospect or in
Orin. One impeditnentalone prevents us from
•eirying them in their extent,and that impediment I
is wag,* a way kw, necessary, unavOitiable. Has it
been declaisei iky the Joide,or the private interests of
a donut* by Ole f4tioOlf feTet4titer or through.

kn.-Ow-bow to imitate ,the magnificent example of the
2d of May, as it has followed hitherto without
turning aside for a moment. Yes, Spaniards, since
the 2d of May has again dawned upon our eyes, and
finds us struggling with +the same inflexibility as at
first ; let us, on it, proudly repeat to the slaves of Bo-
naparte, that.the tyrant was most bitterly deceived in
his Calculations at Bayonne. The innocents sacri-
ficed At Madrid could not plunge us into the stupor,
of. terror. By them. began a war which perhaps shall
lan fur ages. Thousands •upon thousands of war-
,ri.ri shall ,be immolated to our vengeance. 'What;
though discipline and military skill inay gi+e them
victories l'.7,,their, fate shall not on that i►ceount
be
.better. in this terrible +country, Conquerors, or con-
quered—today in, small numlsieloirity-morro*
iys
greater—as many as pass the Ppmetarshall, soonest
.or later, accompany the three hundred thousand lei
tints whom we have already offered' as a holocaust to
the manes of those who fell on the 2d of May; and
Spain, like the gulph of eternity, shall rece►ve the
French on her bosom, aad shall not permit one of
them to escape from it. [Signed)
PEDRO DE AOAR, Yreoident•
MasiuELJosxJ QUISTANA, &MUST.

Cadis,

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ILNA-MEN7ARr ritocEEDims.

HOUSE OF LOIWS, JUNE 13.
The Lottery Bill, the Norway Timber additional Duty Bill,
the Cornish Miners Regiment Bill, for the extension of their
services to Ireland, the Woolwich Ferry Bill, and a variety of
private Biils were brought up from the Commons.
A person was ordered to the Bar, and reprimanded for Impro-
per beliaviour to o,ie of the officers of the House.
StAlliEl.l4l( PEERAGE.
The Committee of Privileges assembled to-day at half pact
one o'clock, in pursuance in their adjournment yesterday. Ad-
miral Prescott was called in, and continued under examination
till nearly three o'clock. It was then suggested, that the Nob,.
Peer alluded to yesterday (Marquis of Buckingham) would by
able to attend the Committee, when they should next assemble
upon the present inquiry. On account of the absence of other
witnesses. Whose testimony was desirable, it was proposed that
they should now adjourn; and Accordingly it was ordered cleat
the Committee du adjourn till Saturday, at two o'clock.

GRAND JUNCTIosi WATER-WORKS.
Lord REDESDALE rose, and repeated his objections to sun.
dry clauses in this Bill, which he moYed should lie read the third
time this day three months.
Lord EitAINE defended the Bill at sense Ungth.
The LORD CHANCELLOR opponti it.
The Earl of BUCKINGH,AMsHiRE supported the principle
and object of the Bill.
Contents 24. Nut Contents 14--litlajority for the Bill ie.
Lord REDESDALE proposed three verbal eelellanlentS, one
of which passed.
INSOLVENT DEETOEs DILL.
Lord ELLF.NBORODGIi objected to raising the itirsoent of
debt tip, to which Debtors should be iberated, which was done
by this Bill, front .E2COO to ‘souo.
Th.. :Earl of MOlit Pt defended the principles on which rich
Bills were founded, on their humanity and justice; and with
snitch animation and eloquence argued no the impeficy and injuti•
tice of our present Debtor and Ceetlitot Laws.
Lord ti.LENBORCIIJOH strenuously opitosed thf Clause.—
A rather tirarmConversation took place between lord Etiondso-
rorgh and the f ail of Mara; whets the House ffivided--:Foi
Clause as proposed (v 5..E.30:t0) nuutent 6—Not.eontcut 4. •
Majority for that. Clause 2. .
'Whets the doles west re-opeued, Lord
,Eix.11141101101:Ce was
moving au amendnient on another clause, whereby a person ow.
irg to the amount of A4OOO, and Laing; been confitied three
ytan, should be entitled to his liberation. He proposed to make
it the same as in former bits of that natire, namely; that the
term should be five years.
After souse obiervatiOns (rein the Lost D Cnatteet t es, Lord
ELLENuoitodas, and the Earl of Moles, the clause, as propos-
al, was carried.
Some verbal artiendments were agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be engrossed.
The I.OAD CHANCELLOR observed. that he did not think
himself precluded from moving on the third reading an altera-
tion of the amendments then made. He mentioned this to pre-
vent any misunderstanding between him and his Noble Friend
(the Earl of Moira.)
• The Fail of MOIRA said, that he was certain no misunder-
standing. would arise on such subjects between them.
INDlrrldfiNT AGAINST A PEER OP THN ItgALM. •
The Earl of RADNOlihrom, and statod•his intention of mov-
ing, to-morrow, or some other dayssoore convenient. for the au-
thenticated unify of the indietnuant lately found against a Noble
Peer.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, that this was a motion which
might, in its con,idenstion, bivalve soros very nice and difficult
points. The oily pryccdent he knew on the subject was the
case of Lott'. AudlLy ; but he was indicted singly, whereas Mink
present case enodter person wa► intlict.d, who was not a Peen
lie wtsliul, theretOre, for a fewdays, to give their I.ordshlps
time (Cr considering whether it would Ire super to support or
oppose such a motion.
.Earl GREY coincided generally with this suggestion, obsetv-
fug; that an Impultala bt smear stood NT debate to-morrow,. •
The Earl of LIVERPOOL was of, the same optmoni• swot,.
stated farther, thee a Moline-ea if importance pas also fixesl.ftni
kiontlayithe -Militia; lintathanwe•BilL r •
Tlee..iieri of RAQNOR said he had taken -advice as to she
mode of proceeding. It was finally agreed on, that the motion
should be Made oat Tuesday next. —Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,
The House went into a Commute on Lovedsn's Divorce
oil which evidence was examined and Counsel bear&
A message from the I.ords &Oared the lloy.d Assent to the
Bacliegurr Bills Bill, the Assessed ruts, Bili, and I Ile kialiWarr-
hOilbll

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the exaggerated declaniations of an asnbitika dean- objects in the is to which he had alluded, a sub.
gogue ? No ; all•Spaniafds have voted it is a man. jeet which he hoped' 'mild be properly appreciated
ner the most unanimous and.solemn'; all have hasten. by a.British House of Commons. The Honourable
ed to revenge the gleatia outrages which ever were Oentleman here went through an history of the first
offered to any nation ; and to defend the first bless: settlement in the Island downeto the present time.—
ing of a great people—their independence. All the At first, the Spanish law had been in force there;
Authori,ies which have been hitherto established—all but, upon several representattows and petitions froth'
the systems of government which have succeeded the British subjects, an English Commission was seat
tacit other—have they not all been for maintaining • out, in the person of Mr.. Smith, who was quite ;goo,
the struggle ? Has any one of theta talked of peace ? I rant at the time of his departure of all' the Spanish
Spaniards ! you have demanded war ; and the war 'laws and customs. This Gentleman acted in
is in the mean time a cootinued and painful series of ;Court as a Lawyer, and in another as a Judge ;
tad
dangers, of alarms, of fatigues, and of privations.— lin consequence of the Spanish and British systems,
But if individuals seek under the rigours of adver. ;being pursued at the same time, the grossest abuse"
sity, powerful nations_ never •ponsh and (Kiev will prevailed, • and the most inconsistent decriei Wei*,
.-• lain; -- Court as .a

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double legal capaciel, of which his Learoc! Frier(
had complained, be reminded him of our own legal
prictice at home, where such a circumstance was leg
no means extraordinary. In the county of Lancaster,
as he had witnessed. a Judge might try a cause in the
' morning, and afzer twelve might be called on in so
appeal front kifa:nwn jadgmett, to review the CUM.
The right of demanding a new trill was well known
in this cotmtry in the same Courts, and betww the
same Judges who had alrt-a Jr decided the cans!.--.
The Lard Cgantellor; too, might decide on a cause
in the Court of Chancery, and have it again brought
• befork him in another capacity in the House of Lords,
as np Sian *wad pretend to IV that the Lord Chan.
celliii did Got take an adtive, art in such ippeal Cillifel.
Id any rite, Mr. Srtiish had appointed deputies, and

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owned. Thus Mr. Smith AL ig in one . —... ;, _ ___
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laviyer, charged certain fees on the examination Of eta feinietyiditsie .' ' •el die absurdity corn.
evidence : the charge Was refused :an appeal was plaint:tot , iilitc' sOnanct hid been censured,
'made to the Court above, and immediately Mr. Smith because he gold is gainformitY to aid Sliaiiish laws.
doffed his legal costume, put on his Judicial
Mr. Smith- weeesitit -levee* -ee IneinnoveSote, but
diabili.
meats, and decided in the Appeal Celia, as a Judge, from his knees Wit the teistetifibi Mete, it clearly
that he was entitled to the tees which he clainied ee a /fleered that he dOtibted if Mill ftiboiVation would
lawyer. He did not mean to say anything invidious of be an improvetnent. He speillit of the Spanish sys.
Mr. Smith, whose conduct was the consequence of the tem of kin- di they relate t 6 the-minagement of
system. 'll6 Gentleman, in a short time, found that slaves, as almost 4vene, and from thenature of those •
the business so multiplied on him, that to discharge it laws establish/ea, he believed in Cherie% V's time there
singly was impossible, and so he called in two Spanish, *is no doubt that their hortianity end benevolent
officers of justice to his assistance ; and thus three were tendency was much superior to these in our own co-
employed indoingtheworkof one. Such ebieses as these lorries. No 'peniehrnent conk, be inflicted on slaves
werenottheonlybedconeequencesolthepresentsystem ; unless either byethe master or bis steward., and that
it was subversive, not only. of the security of property pureuliment eseedd`ftetexceede_
_in any ease, twenty.five
but of personal liberty. While any offender against lesihes I and W int'biieblsii 6tebleiod appeared, therms.
Mr. Smithl dignity was severelyspuniiheß, the often: ter Warliablelfel *l4ete peri,titles ; and in case are-
fers against justice were suffered to escape. The case peated o'ffeSeiseeo have- thi-sliii mien from him as
was this : by the Spanish law no delinquent could be unworthy of the trim le oar colonies, on the con-
punished unless he confecsgi his offence, and the jus- trary, a elite might reeeier tiro or three hundred
nee of his sentence ;by the. English system, Mr. Smith lashes, ficir froutthebinds of the ntisfer or the steward,
had no power of enforcing any such confession, aid. but teeth some feibeitius deed driver, who escorted
so it was in vain to try where it was impossible tes by'tosthit' and blood More lalidtie than the Unhappy
punish. The-difference made between the free co- wretch Watt cepible of 'statteinitig ; one slave Was eve:.
loured persons and the whites was most unjust and made to Whip anothet. In Trinidad 'no such thing
oppressive. 'Chug, if a free coloured person cohabited *es known as the cart whip, or the negro driver ; and
with an Indian, he was punished with one hundred i was it fit for the House to consent that so humane
stripes for the first offence, and in proportion for every I and benign a system should he entanged for one so
future one. If a free coloured person dared to lift his i much inferior in point of heniatety ; Resisectblg the
hand against a white, it was ordered to be cut off ! 'Friel by Jury ineTrinidad. it w 4 Conducted out most
--There were several instances of the most flagrant unjust principles; the Juries `weteienmiesed of men
city and injustice ere-cised towards the oeeroes. among whom the cart whet was, andwhe were aware
Hsi ivonhl state one, whic'e if doubted, there was then 'of the cruelties which were daily peptised. To call
a person in the H. by whose testimony it could this a trial by jury was a mockery to the 'try name
be substantiated. Several intoxicated officers met of it. So little was the Spanish law kn inn in this
a party of negru.slaves, men, women, and children, country, that the Court of ding's Bench had not yet
and drew their swords on-them; they wounded seer- grade up their minds respecting th... case ot G 'once
nil, and among others, a young child in the tumid, Picton ; this very doubt was this strongest answer to
its mother. They were brought to trial t the,defenee the motion now made. lie adverted to Lord Liver.
WAS, that the negroes had no right to be off their mu. post's dispatches, and observed, that they displayed a
ter's estate after sin-set, and on such a defence were feeling of moderation which did great credit to those
the delinquents acquitted. Such were the blessedeffects , who were intrusted with his Majesty's Government"
liof the system of laws now pursued in the island of Trie , He gave his decided negative to the mottos.
nidad. A prospectus had been transmitted in 1804 e by . Mr. STEPhEN felt it necessary to offer. some re.
the Attorney-General of the island to the English Go- Marks on the time of the introduction of this motion.
vernmenthere, stating that those laws were both oppres: His Hon. Friend (Mr. Marto ett) had proposed to
sive and detective, and agreeable neither to the French : dissolve, in one breath, and to abolish, with one mkt!.
nor Spaniards. Indeed, it weretotally impossible that the jririsprudence of a Country, on almost the last day
the British and Sp.t tish systems could la poetised ,of discussion in the present Session. The motion was
with effect together. The HortouraVe Geaticinin shaped in such **ay, that, if there was no other oh.
adverted to a trral Which had lately token place be- jectia,lt siiintiVbe impossible to make the proposi-
tween e Mr. DA‘stil of Liverpool, and to Mr. Taiddya ' isontrUtiCabhi. ' His Hon. Friend gave a variety of
of Triaidad, in which, from vnbamineuapieadingskusgW ieritii arid indefinite ideas, and then called on
required by the Spanish lap, the papers were more 1 tise Etodiel so resolve on a dilEcult and abstract queto
then filled a large 'cart; 'frotiraelikh'theiiiitise trill ht 1 pact Hif therefore conceived that both the mode and
form some .judgment of the benefit of the_Snanislisqfliinleereinadiniisihle. He stated, that it appeared
laws. l'ricridat4l,,he said,sis one of a cluster of Wands, ' fates the most recent accounts, that the number of
all of which are under the, government of 'Great Bri- ' Briikh men in the Island did not exceed five hundred
tain I and if the law! are not the 'same in all,. it. wiil : and-sevenuen, while the 7population, of which they
eauseMfielte'leelettstes and disquiets, whichinnit'be . were to be the legislatOrs • .consisted of 52,481. The
prodnetiee of the most mischievous consequences.-- submission of that body ;I-people was very great, and
Very.sotm after the arrivalofJudgePentith, tharlearn-o•alrould appear extraordinary, it the means by n hich
ed Gentleman ceetaiiily hadbroacheddectrines which.' they were intimidated were not cotsidered. When
were never before broached there, nor as he (Mr.' they heard that the white men itsthe island had pre-
Marqat) believed, any Where else.; on which ..ths . pared eesitition fur the introduction of British laws,
Britisheettlers andinhabitants there petitioned his Ma,' Iti*b eves to be conveyed to the Throne, they asked
jesty,.' that the ilritiiih Calonial -Laws Might be es- • Goenner. Hislop for !care, in the most submissir
tended to Trinidad ; but be insisted that such. petie manner, to send a petition also. They were refused,
tinsesdelnrit co ntehe a word'which required the British- and they did not dare to oppose the oligarchy which
Constitution. He then -made several cointnenttists oppressed them. Notwithstanding this, the agent of
'Lord Lives pool's instriretiOns, and observed thsit his the Colony, his Hon. 'Friend, came forward, and •ed
Lordship. had concluded ewy refusing w the 'petitioe that the men of colour were not hostile to the mea-
nly* the British Constitution, witiekthey had never sure, and asked for that which was so repugrent
'raft' he.. The Honourable Candelas then pro. to the majority of the people of the Island. The
teeded to compare what had Seca done by the Foe Learned-Gentlemen then proceeded to state several
vernment of this country in other camestif at limb's; disabilities and degradations which the Mulattos sue.'
nature. Jamaica, he said, as Tsisidad, bad been cone ter le coneequeece of the severity of labour, there
: teetered troneeipain. Wesent thither OtirCoMmiesioners Was a yearly loss of near 12 per cent. in men;. Il tt wat
'---ileenGovernor socceeded Governor; yet all was con- not mitigated in liar cost: se 0.6 or 6 years, the weele
Eision;and stithingbut the measured introducing the population of the island would be destroyed. He bore
British' laws could ever have produced peace and ample testimony to the character of Mr. Small; :rem
quietness,• that introduction, however, was, no sooner his conduct in the Colony, daring the persecueen It
effectell, than the island became uniformly prosperous, . underweutdrom the faction which applied this tight,
Peaceable, and happy. It had been the same also in he (Mr. S.) wit astonished at the firmness and conee.
Granada, where he lived' ton years, and had been wite [racy Of his public virtues. In the case of the printer,
nese tithe good accruing to the inhabitants from the ! some intemperate expressions escapee him ; but et tee
operation of English laws., It appeared to him very..l4aine time, it should be considered that the most in•
strange that his Majestyes present Ministers. should j aammatory paragraphs had been written, and, ne.
-persist in retaining the Aedseneiat and all the. othet. 1 withstanding a warning, contumeliously repeated.
tyrannical and oppressive proceedings of the 4p,isfqh ' Respecting the imprisonment of the primer, his Hon.
'law; se/bids-4e all the proclamations of the teitCreecos: •Vrielid waseso wrong in many of his statements this
Mexico, &c. are stated as the chief reasons why the' eight, that he was warranted in conceiving him to bs
people In those countries are deter Mined to eeptleaei also wrong in this ; from the infortnetion which he
themselves from their Mother Country. .Me thee • teceived, the confinement appeared to be of the mildest
moved the following Resolution :.-;- ~ kind. - The Governor and Council of Trinidad had
"'Char it appears to this Muse to be expedient, for the bitter assumed to tiatmeelves the. Kingly power, and had
security of the liberty and property of big Majesty's subjects in abdicated Mr. Smith teem his office. ii, was eow
the island of 'Trinidad, that the administration of justice, Word- coming home, and he (Mr. S.) hoped that the sub.
ine to the laws of Spain be abolished, and that the laws of Gras ject would be brought under the cootie:ewe of ehe
Britian be inuodueed in lieu thereof?' proper Tribunal. He strenuously opposed motion,
• The Resolution being banded to the Chair, the as the proposition %%tech it contained was ensound.
he
I kl,mourable Gentleman intimated, that if it were care,- . Lard CASTLEREAGH rose to submit to t
ried, he had another resolution with which he meant .I:Louse the grounds which enlaced him to recommend
to follow it up, the purport of which was, for 'that Co his Mejesty the appointment of Mr. Smith. A new
House to address the Prince • Regent to' *Stead his island coming into our possession tinder pert
'Mercy to the inhabitants of Trinidad, by complying circumstances,itiairopportunity was offered itt Peeking
with the said Resolution. .. _ an aloft to conduct it on an Anti•Shere Trade pee-
ictiee
The Resolution having been read from the Chair, ciple. On minute investig aim, it AppeAred inipoii-
Mfe BROUGHAM, on the question being put,. tic togive a &stash system of Goverment to 1 lino
if:4e ;oyoppose the motion. Had any Gentlemen on dad. Lk was therefore Moore tight that tl,e Speotsh
ithe other side of the House offeied Himself, he should Laws ehould remain, but with certain med'6eau ' '
have declined intruding trent their notice. When he For this purpeue A Blitish Lawyer was app tinted to
SAW thegrounds on which his Honourable Ft tend had administer them, and the person best calculated tor
:brought forward his motion, he tek himself °liked to such eu ofEce was Mr. Smith. He was ready to el
sive it his negative. He denied that in our Colonies the justice of the nOn. Gentleman's nwtives who made
tree men of colour were oitiniitted as witnesses in .he proposition, but he . hjected to VlA:we% pov. sir°
Courts of Justice; tiod if this watthe only fonndation into we frauds of those wh i were woe diir $ "I, _
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to Me. Snxida'sholding two offices, and acting in a until the Legislature could bitter see its W.y.