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London, England, 1829-02-24 00:00:00

s J ‘C. ait•Ca .41. 11, CC. .illl g • • which h.d
brat notoriously the tomb of a greater number of Eng-
lishmen than any other place on the face of the globe;
and that. without a single advantage attisadlolf it•
.spiee of the atonality which ocruired year at er rear-
otte Governor after anothei, sod one corpi Atm another.'
. The Yeast* assigned by the'Right'Hoo 'Gellman v/r-
-alio most unsatisfactory f atoire4olortoveryilay Valise
large 'gem* to add- to. the thentbet of the eaptnrets
Africans, and thus adding to the difficulty of which the
Right Hun. Gentleman complained. Thee were many
ways in which thou unfortonase individuals might be
disposed of better 'thin leaving theta in *a
condition•
which was•wotse Man .ordinaty slairety... He hoped,'
therefore, they would no longer be considetectan-ob
staCe .to a removal of our establishment from Sierra,
Lisone. Ii hi. Majesty's Miniitero did not adopt some
measure on the subject, he triaged some Iton. Member
would bring itsdittinctly tinder the consideration of thr
House ; and if no other Member came leeward for that
purpose, he pledged himotf m &Ito.
.Sir GEORGE MURRAY Said, he did not recollec'
having last Session given the Honererable Mem' er for
F *moose the information to which be bad alluded. II

repeated, that an arrangement was in ,progress foe
abandoning Cape Coast Castle; but hewao.not aware
that there was a.iy intention at present at abandoning
Sierra Lone. With tevect to the diftleties in the
way of the latter, they were difficulties -for the oteasion,
'Of which he was not responhible. • !
Mr. HUSKISSON had never intimated to any one,
Airing the trate that he had thehonotte to bold the seal.
of the Colonial Department, that it was in the comer! •
,dilation of his Majesty's OoverameAt to withdraw out
'ebtablishments altogether film Stet ra Leona Every step
irr4cticable. hovrever.had been takes to reduce the mow •
talky in that colony ; and with th it View the duties of
it had been made to-devolve as miith as 'possible on the.
wohentary residents in the colony, and on the African
Wien he stated that the private properly in
bit Dingy ice: in the colony amoontedin virtue to above
a milli.* sterling, it w sCii at ruce be sint'tnat any
I.lll.ldea abandonment of it would be attended with in.
justice as w.ll as With difficulty. • The sante obstacles,
however, di i net esist with seference to Clio CoasiCastles
Lord NUGENT, adverting to the Reports shieb
bad been made by the Ctutertsistionett., who, three
*years ago. were beat out to ioquire into e state
44 our Colonies on- the coest, of Africa, 'ridged to
know whether it was in-ended, in the presets, Session,
to introduce. any !mature founded no those Reports?J
General GASCOYNE observed, thavishat Was
sirable was, isot-metely that ecentiray.`shoulil be eon.,
salted, with reference tis 'this colony; bur
fiat a feeling of huinanity should- inteifeie to prevent
the temptation of sleet emolument, which now existed,
its induce so marry 'permits .to go out to periab.—
If no atherMember wash' -do so; be-would move for
a return of the smother *CI Europeans, who 'had Wen;
lost in a Colony more destructive fo human wife thins any
establiahment ol ii similar kind that had e'er existed.
Sir GEORGE MURRAY 'rimed that he -hat as
Mach humanity as the Gallant -Genet!. .-It .was,tiet
estirelron she principle of 'etitoary th it he had made
statement, but on the principles Of "humanity also.
The case War, indeed, one -of -humanity client be-
nianity.' He repeated that. since be entered upon the
race he had endeavoured to pave therway for an ulti-
`elate abandonment of the Colony, . Mid that he. should
be vary happy whenever it might he in his power to
propose carrying that object into atm. - •
Mr. LABOUCHERE said he would oak, that oppor-
'tittaitj of exSressing his hapelthat the Right Honour-
able Gentleman would pay attention to the Canada,.
He hoped the •Right .Honourable Gentleman would
mention whether it wee his intention to afford the House
tiny infirmation on the state of this Colony during the
.present Ses,ion. He was sorry to understand from the
newspapers that discontent still rageit there. He bi-
'Hived the /loose was shortly to be called on to vote a
large 'slim of money for fortifying these provinces, arid
he thought it would be little less than cosmic to sop.
pose that we could reclaim them by any iortificatioos,
Without the rod will of the people.( Heeatreated the
Right Honourable Gentleman nor to lose the golden
opportunity of conciliating the people of .Canagia
fate it was too late.
Sir GEORGE MURRAlrtaid, be warmo4 anzioos
to bring the subject under the consideration Of the
Hobse. He was cohfide4 that touch ccu dbe June fb
the improvement of the Canada., but the Honourable
Gentleman, who had been a very active member of the
tanada Commrtee, mast be aware that furthet iefot-1
motion was netessary befoe the whole subject could be
fully brought under the consideration of the Hod es.
That information was now in course of being obtained.'
Sir •LEXAND2II. ORAN!! brought up the Report et the
Ceaunittee of SopOy on the Are
_y Rstirnates.
The CHANCRLTAOR of do R*CHlLlatiltit moved that the
Rapes be agreed to. .
Mr. HUME said, he had a. number of Pethions to
present. praying a reduction of tuition, which he
thought the public bad a tight to expect—but he was
confident .no reduction would take place while' such
a' large force was kept up. In 1823 the Hour
was ilamotout for reduction, and his Majesty pro-
mired that reduction should be made ; but Mibisterk
iaatead of keeping that promise, were calling upon: the
House to vote estimates to a large amount. The pre-
sent army estimates were $ll 0001. more than in the
yeir 1824, and the whole of the estimates for Ariary.
!dairy, and Ordnance would be a million a year more
tbap its 1828. We had now 120,000 men in arm.--
be was confident one half the nuOther would be fully.
sufficient, and he hoped the Noble. Duke at the head of
the Government trivial& rake. deck,ive measures foe re;.
doting the' expioses of the team:l.—The Report was
aimed ie.
-Hr H. tiotIiDINGE said. he should seat weep baba* to the
ROSSO the Annual Meeting BilL
Mr. HUSIR hoped its soonnous ilownsioas would JR curtailed.
It was ieadered scarcely intelligible by Its unneeessary length.
• Sir EINIIDINGS had great sat!sfactica be assuring tbis.
Hun. Gentleman that its dig leasteap witreiedisid 944 14
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On the motional the CH tftelt LLOit itt the IIICHROPIM
the douse resolved Itself Late a Oweasitterst thembele House on
the Life Ansaity_ NEL
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
rise,apursuent co saintimation that he had given to the
House towards the close of the last Session of Pulia-
mein, that at the commencement of the present one be
should be prepared to introduce to the House a memento
authorizing his, Majesty's Government to grant amok
ties on terms different from those at present in exitteine..
His object in new modelling the system was to crest
the principle laid down in the former Act (sepealed
last Seuion) With respect to the granting life annui-
ties, and to lay down a more accurate mode of granting'
them, at once to satisty the purchaser and to protect
the interests of the public. In that Hill; there ivould,
be made time necessary alterations. With respect to
the exteesionrif the principle of the Bill he would say
that the Acts which autborisestthegrantingofannuitiee
*ere coofined solely to the granting than on single
lives, joint lives. and lives is reef:jun. Now, his Bid•
would go .to extend the pte,eat sassinue so as to enable
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the Commissi neis to xl4. :an sue .fus t-r ins f )easss
eitber for a definite term of years. or at ao eapiratiou of
some &tore period. He wasqu•te aware that there would
sat Wage...end disposition,toll therughout the country to
patches. au•surties so tesininatie—th4t the public ist
general wt ell not be disposed to mike payn ems oelt
of their present means to smote an increase' income
for a definite numl er of years only. Ilcd d not. thee.
.ftwe. anticipate that thisargument would be cricked intal
elfe-t to any Brea, extent. It would be diferett.hou.
ever, with respect to the delfrred annuitiFx. He pro-.
posed to add t, the 841 soother rovieums, nt,t to be
round in theirs me, oaer although it was not.ltkitly tbat
pi-tree- would to •anp greet extent :pay..slown Attie
stoney in•the'purch4setof terulleable annuitbpt• rt. it
41. p tired to bin that, if. romal power were Oren
to enable them to m Ike annual payments with the •
mew to the lu u e increase or their incom-. it • would

be produeive 00 considersble heoeit, The Bili•woold

err toeoeble the Conto64. nen ti secure to Mit.

thongh. probably, not numerous class. a means of
tasking a provision for thole:we, not by the insrneJiate
scrifice ni capital, but by tine exercise of thrift. The•
,test; and perhaps the most important subject to which
he would call the attention of the Committee, was the
elteiratious that had taken place in the. strode °teaks..
14144 annuities. Trie Committee was some that, in
pa ping tie turniet Aut. the Legislators had• adopted •
trielmodenf calculation the in use in all the is-urante
Whin of the .crountry.—be • meant the Northampton
sape4 • The Cqmmittee, and-indeed every eadividoal
whb had an ndeJ to• the• subk•et. must be ewe/ethic
ob.ske table* .plesrnte4 i mo e untsvoutatle view of
hulasn lite, than chow of later calculators. This was
twin new duct instil had asiipt.out ut swims causes.
The public mind bad Ist lengily !woos satisfied that •
thee tables we'd tun applicable to the present day:.
, that longevity had increased rapidly of lett r years.—.
There way perhaps* some sloth in this•docume I tame— -

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over, those tables were (amed•itt teforosee to the deaths

in one town only of this to entry. It was also worthy of
observation that the deaths in the town of Northampton
doring•the peg iod comprehended in the calculation ax.
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ceedici the bilths during •the whole of the same time t
yet, .t the cad of that pet iod, thepopeiai ion was found to
ea..ecd the nutobtr at which it blood at the commence-

meat of it. It was obvious, therefore, that in the mean
time additions had been made to that population otter•
wise than by birth. Noe, it was perfectly clear that,
for the puipotes of fair•inquiry, the obseivationsi f the
calculator should apply only to the same parties.
Bendy, to these actually born in that tows for steeple
might have beeeltie residence of it at an advanced period
of life, and under other circumstances which might ma•
terially affect the principle •of the calculation—
(Hear, hear, he•r). but whatever. the cause might
be, it was suSaient- for oar pupae that chow
tables were' feu id to contain views unfavourable to

human life, and that the charge apinst the coerrctness
of the Nor haute too tabl-s was ism.. In order to as
that fact, snot& r set of calculatimis haJ some

.time since been made, in doing %stitch it had be:n
'whitely necessary that the lives on which they should
be founded• should bet ken, ni.t from a solitary dn.
rrigt, but. as far as possible, 'with' ref tence to the
United Xingdani; siel, in doing this, it was arP
judged achrigable..to t •ke into account the kin of
the whole of tore persons who had patchased
npities Jur life of Goveinment. becau.e, in eeei
ins•ance, an accurate riti.try thoie persons,
their dges, and the reralit of their death, had
been kept,. In'adopting-tliat mode of calcolatiowthere
was the 'advent/4gs of applying the inquiry throughout
to the same iudiviJual The :vault must, therefore, con•

sequently be as /ear kis possible ci.rrect. The basis of the
eicJlstioa rested, the el re, on solid grounee; firs . the
examinst ion of the great tontine • I.kh began ii. 1663 and
aided in 1782; neat, tram the list of persons treiciving .
exchequer annuities Nader the dorsal 1745, 17460717 s
1766, 1778, Lid 1779 ; and also tram the ',giblet: of
the Irish tontines of 1773, 1775. en !of 1778; and of the
English tondo, of 1789. To these would be added nb.
eav•tions on the lives of those who purchased annuities
of Gasman's% ender late Act,. The mass of lives r hey
sontemplated would amourrt to 24 000. and, vii•en the
compara ively very small numises of ptosnas tensile-
beaded in the inquiry of Dr. Price (namely. 7 o(al)
should be considered. the Committee would •ee the
soperlority. of *umber was •so• great, as' to glee the
presser calculation stronger. rl.ims •on its. art mice. .
Of ten thousand persons or the age of torsi, shire died •
.134 r before they reached the age • f of ty one. Of the same
rosinber, comprising pers. us if .be age of fifty years,
6166 Ted before they bed the age of 51. This be
wisheJ to state in pattiCUlar, as that way •the average
tags of she •persons apply ifig toe annaidera H. re he
should remark she great dilfs.re ice between the dined is •
of the lives of men and some.; holding antacid's. Of
10 000 women, aged flirty ye .r., Imy 112 ded before
theyleached the term of 41 years: while t.e number
4 i met dying undevihs same cicumstances *mourned
tct 184; and of women of the a‘e of fifty. only 120 -
died before they reached firrpone ; while 160 men
died between the ages of fifty and fifty-one. 19 these
read s it was found necessary to make up two tables of
annuities, one for men, and another for women; but, as
that arrangement would lead' to produce very volu•
ominous calculations, it would not be expedient that they
should be appended to the Act of Parliament as the for-
mer tables used to be. The Lords of the Treasury would
have those tables arranged. and a copy of them should
be deposire.: with the Commissioners for the Redaction
of the National Debt, to be consrliteJ by persons wishing
to make calculations on annuities; and another copy
withthe Lads of the Treasury. This plan would.psie
every necessary faci:ity to persons desirous to °Maine*.
nuities, and so teed much to the ultimate reduction f
tie National Debt. By die former Act of Parliament the •
Commissioners for the reduction of the Debt retained in
their hands the amount of stock deposited with them for '
annuities. He should now propose.that they stidirld'sct
an a Merest principle, more simple and ilitelligibie—s. :
mpoely, that the stock transferred on account pt annei.
tie, to the Commissioners of the National Debt should .
be cancelled, and paid" into the consolidated fund, and
that the annuities be paid out of that fund lis soy olbst •
sum of expenditure. This would tend to Wescott speedy
reduction of the debt: He hoped that the Hoist *add
agree. to the revolution fl that-the Croornisefostersios the •
reduction of the National Debt be ranbolised.to great •
annuities on tablenthat shall be hereafter determined by
the Lords of the Treasury.*
Mr. WARBURTON' t lossotht that the tables ones
to be given AO the' public; ib Order to enable them to
amnion whether the 'sables sae *meg eflbeit sam.
fidence.
Mr. Alderman WA ITHM AN wish e.. 1 that the Hose
and the publ.c should have some memos of forming a
judgment on the accuracy or the calcaltriem. The
Government bad expended LOW within dit Ist g4B
year* on getting the tables calculated; yet those tables.
were incorrect. Why may not the table b shoot to be
proposed be incorrect atm? The tables say be-so
arranged as not to form any 'subhuman addition to
the Act of .Parliament. Siam the Nerthempteatable• •

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