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murder and warfare was pot, II PIO to. he be!ter. He
attributed this system of loathing to the avi.'ity with
sshich the fruits of such prrilarr:ry excotsions were
sought after. Men could be found fools ennugh to risk their lives
in such encounters at the hire of 41.1. per night. The Petition was
signed, he perceived, by the Grand Jury, the major part (if not the
whole) of whom were engaged in the manner he had thus de-
scribed, in the defence cf their game, and who felt an anxious wish
to have some measures devised which would preserve their property
without risking the lives of -their fellow-creatures. He heartily
concurred in the prayer of the Petition, and hoped the Hon. Mem-
ber for Yorkshire would persevere in bringing forward his plan of
relief on this subject.
After a few observations from Mr. S. Wonutrr,
Mr. B. WILBRAHAM rose to make an obserea• -
tion, which went to exculpate, in a great measure, the
Gentlemen of Lancaster, against a he:rtt an insinuation
Ind been made as to their manner of defending their
(Tame from the att icks of poachers. Y:ere were many
Instances upon record, in which when a party of
poachers to the number of-eighteen or twenty met a
gamekeeper, they would instantly fir? At liim, and if not
killed by this, they would Atte& him with their guns, and so disable
hint, that ft was a chance if he recovered from the effects. This
was just the reverse of what an HIM. Member had advanced, bet it
was no, less true for that. It was, therefore, with the intention of
protecting the lives of their servants, that these Gentlemen in-
creased the number of their pntekeepers, and provided them with
means of defence and not offence.
After a slight conversation between Lord MILTON and IWO other
Honourable Members, the Petition was brought up and ordered to
be printed.
Colonel BAG WELL presented a Petition from the Karl of Glen-
gall against the extension of the Spring Gun Bill to Ireland.
Mr. CURTEIS assured the. Hon. Member that as the union of
the Bill was never intended to extend to Ireland, it was useless
petitioning against it.
Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition signed by 2,100 inha-
bitants of Todnuirden praying the House (as they had already
granted several beneficial measures relative to Foreign Trade) aot
to relax in these beneficial measures, but to devise some alteration
of the present Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. J. SCOTT presented a Petition from the borough of Brill.
port and two other places, praying for the Abolition of Slavery.—
Ordered to be printed.
Similar Petitions were presented from Tring and two other
places by Sir J. Szaasour; from Guildford, by Mr. Sergeant
Onst.ow ; front Baldock, by. Sir J. SaRRIGHTI from Bridgewater. by
Mr. Trxxx ; front Truro by Mt. H. Vivian; from Keswick, by
Sir J. LOWTHRR; from the county of York, by Mr. S. Woarter ;
front Hollyborne, by Sir J. Lora; from a parish in the county of
Tipperary, by Col. BAGIVILL ; from Ashfield and two other places,
by Lord Ai:mous; from Monteith, by Mr. H. Gamesmen, from
the county of Tyrone, in Ireland, by Mr. KNOX ; from Guisbo-
rough and Loftus. by Mr. Thames; from Moffat, by Mr. K,
Dousurs; from Thornbury, by Sir W. Guts. • from three places
in the county of Aberdeen, front the First United Congregation of
Associated Ministers of Belfend, in Northumberland, of the burgh
Linlithgow, of West Caldor, of Dalmote, of Neweastle.upon•Tyne,
of North Berwick, of Morton Hampstead, of Dumblane, of Teys-
pie Sowerby, of the Royal Burgh of Alnwick, of Kinross, also a
similar Petition from the Second United Congregation of Associated
Ministers of Dumblane, by Mr. BROUGHAM ; from Reading, in
Berkshiie,by Mr. F. PALMIER ; and front Kelvedon, in Essex, by
Mr. WaSTERN.-.-The Petitions were laid on the table, and ordered
to be printed.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNsaid, he had-a-Peti-
tion to present from the Inhabitants of Barnard Castle
on the subject of Colonial Slavery. The Petitioners did
not ask their Lordships to have recourse to immediate
emancipation; it resembled in that respect every Peti-
tion which he had beenialled on to present. The Noble
Marquis added, that he had carefully examine& every
Petition put into his hands, and if he had seen a request
for immediate emancipation, he should not have laid
it before their Lordships. The Petitioners said they
approved of the resolution passed in 1821, as being well
ealculated to accomplish the gradual abolition of sla-
very. He knew of no mode of proceeding more likely
to prevent a deterioration of Colonial property. No-
thing would more proninte the securitrof West'lndia proprietors
than a dispoiition on the part of the legislating bodies, for amelio-
rating the condition of the slaves. Parliament had exercised for-
bearance before-uitknown. Their Lordships had called on them
to do justice to the unhappy slave, and taught them a lesson which
he hoped would be adopted by those legislators, when they came
seriously to reflect on the state of that society in which they were
placed. There cisuld be but one opinion, Emancipation to be effec-
tual, must be gradual.—The Petition was then laid on the table.
The 'Marquis of LA NS DOWN presented a Petition, having the
same object in view, front the parish of All Saints, Poplar.
Also a Petition front the Queen's County for revision of the Con
Laws.—Laid on the table.—Adj.

Earl GROSVENOR wished to ask the Noble Earl
opposite a question regarding the affairs of Greece. A
letter appeared in one of the Morning Paper•, supposed
to be written by an English Colonel in the Greek ser-
•ice. who witnessed and described the fall of Misso.
longhi. Great as bad been the efforts of the Greeks,
and the estimation in wllich they were held, this letter
was calculated to excite still greater admiration at the
c.u>tancy and heroisin of a city which had repelled
seventy attacks, and had only fallen at last, after the
thinned ranks of its besiegers had been reinforced by
20,000 barbarians. On such a subject there was, he
felt convinced, but one opinion throughout the House
.end the country. What he wished to ask the Noble
Earl, who would give as direct or indirect an answer as
he might think proper, was, whether he entertained any
hope whatever of the cause of the Greeks being taken
up. From what had been stated in the letter to which
he had alluded, it was evident that the cause was not desperate.
He was therefore anxious to hear that it was not entirely aban-
doned, and that the Greeks were not laid for ever at the feet of
their oppressors. He knew that Russia was said to be disposed to
interfere in behalf of the Principalities which she was bound by
treaties to protect; but he hoped that the annihilation of Greece
would not be made the price of the liberation of Wallachia or
Moldavia.

BYNG presented a Petition from the parish of St. Ann,
Limehouse, for an alteration of the Corn Laws; and another from
the same place, for the repeal of the Window Tax.
WEST INDIA PROPERTY.
Mr. BARING, in rising to present a Petition nume-
rously signed by persons interested in West India pro-
perty, would very briefly state the objects which the
Petitioners had in view. When they perceived the
temper and prejudices which prevailed throughout the
country, to diffuse which he might be permitted to say
no pains were spared; and no arts left unemployed, it
was natural and right that they should appeal to that
House, claiming its protection for the property which
had grown up under the sanction of the Legislature.—
What they justly insisted on was, that no invasion of
their property should take place without full remune•
ration and indemnity being secured to them. They
complained, and he thought not without reason, that
their property was Lung up, in consequence of the on.
certainty in which it was placed by many of the ex-
aggerations which had been diffused, and the excited
state of the public mind. The excitement was indeed
such, that the question was in some measure taken out
of the hands of Ministers, and even out of the hands of Parlia-
mem. He was as much as any man the friend of every practicable
amelioration in the condition of the slaves, and be believed that the
West India interest would go heartily with them in pursuit of that
object, if those who professed to be the peculiar advocates of the
slave population could say at what they aimed, and not goon malt-
ing the attainment of one object the stepping stone to others.
Mr. WM. SMITH denied every particle of the insi- -
auations brought forward by his Hon. Friend. He ad-
verted to a recent petition from the Council of Antigua,
in which they accused persons, whom they described as
pretenders to religion, of usurping the provinie of the
Established Church, and attacking private property,
and claimed protection from these officious intruders,
upon this, amongst other grounds, that their ancestors
had sought refuge in that colony from puritanical persecutors.—
The best answer that could be given to the allegations of these pe-
titioners, was to read pert of the evidence given some years ago
before a Committee of the Privy Council by Gentlemen from this
very colony, in proof of the improvement which the Moravian and
others Missions bad effected in the habits of the slave population.
Mr. WARRE admitte.i that exaggeration had been
emptied by the advocates of both sides of this question.
The proprietors of West India property had just cause
of alarm and complaint from the unreasonable language
held in this country. What,. for instance, could be
thought of slme passages in 0 recent pamphlet of Mr.
Stephens, who denounced the owners of West Italian
prope•ty as a cla.s, and described them as men unfit for
a kat in Parliament ? What could be thought of his
moderation and candour, when, on addressing the Elec-
tors of Great Britain, he appealed to their ie. lings for
the Greeks, and their detestation of Ferdinand of Spain, and told
them that the oppression endured by the Greeks was nethinlssiz.s
comparison with that inflicted upon-the slaves in the West In
and that tyrants, far more odious than Ferdinand, were supported
by British bayonets on their petty plantation thrones? This lan-
guage could have no other effect than to retard whatever could be-
nefit the slave, and towards the Colonists it was unjust, illiberal,

The Earl of LIVERPOOL, not having read the let
ter to which the Noble Earl had alluded, could give no
other answer than, that he believed the report of the
fall of Missolonglii was erroneous, as to the time at
which that event was stated to have occurred. the
facts mentioned in the letter could not therefore be
true, for it represented Missolonghi to have fallen at a
time when it had certainly not fallen. He had had no difficulty
in answering this question as it was one about news : but the
other put by the Noble Earl was of a different nature. It related
to transactions between Foreign States, in which this country had
throughout remained perfectly neutral, and on which he could ex-
press no opinion. Their Lordships and the country were aware
that the policy of his Majesty's Government on that subject, whe-
ther right or wrong, was one of neutrality. To this policy we had
remained faithfuUy attached, and had not interfered.

Dr. LUSHINGTON could not shut his mouth upon
this subject when he heard patties with whom, he was
proud to say, he had acted in concert thus attacked. If
exaggeration had been indulged, and excitement pro-
duced, to whom were they to be ascribed ? He was of
opinion that little exagg...ration could be imputed to the
Society of which he was a memSer. Documents had
recently arrived, which ,hewed that their statements fell short of
the naked facts. Tile lion. klembet had protfueitt one short pas-
sage from a work of 100 pages, without making any allowance for
the provocation its learned and excellent author had received, against
whom a torrent of libels had been published in the West Indies.
Mr. BERNAL asserted that the grossest exaggera-
dins had been di,semitrated. He instanced the branding
of Nebroes, which practice had been said to prevail in