The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

The following is an extract of a letter we have received,
dated Sierra Leone, 24th Nov., 1835 :—" The Pylades
arrived here on the 12th, after having called off, Porten-
dic and landed specie for the commissiariat at the Gambia,
at which place she remained two days. The only vessel
of war there was the Griffin, Lieutenant Parlby, who
was drily in expectation of being relieved by the Rolla,
Lietenant Glasse. The Buzzard, that most lucky vessel,
has just sent in a fourth prize, the Semiramis, of-Havan-
na'', captured off the Bonny, with 477 slaves on board.
Mr. May, the governor, and Mr. Bedford, master's as-,
sistant, brought her up : she is condemned, and the hull
has been already sold for £B5O. Lieut. Roberts, late
first of Trinculo, is the officer at present in command,
and who captured this vessel. The Buzzard has captured
in eleven months 1,967 slaves. She is at present crff the
Bonny blockading a polacco bark. The Thalia is daily
expected here from the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension.
On the evening of the 15th a Spanish brig, the Argo,
prize to his Majesty's brig Charybdis, Lieut. S. Mercer,
captured of the river Gaboon., anchored here; she had
on board at the time of capture 428 slaves, and during
her passage up (five weeks) has lost 62. She will land'
the remainder this evening. The master of her says he
has run eleven voyages clear, and this was his twelfth,
trip : he appears rather a better kind of person than is
generally met with in his diabolical capacity. The prize
master, Mr. Rowlett, mate, reports that off St. Thomas
Island he was informed the Buzzard and Fair Rosamond
had captured the large polacco brie they were blockad-:
ing, supposed cargo upwards of 600. The coast seems
all alive with the slave trade, and the Spanish flag pre-
dominates in spite of all our attempts to suppress it.
Twenty-five sail were lying at St. Paul de Loando six
weeks ago, mostly Spanish and large craft. On the 21st
instant another prize, a Spanish schooner, the Conde de
los Andes, in charge of Mr. J. G. Burslem, arrived here;
taken after three days' chase, by the boats of the Brito-
mart, Lieut. Quin, 297 slaves on board; this is her first
prize. She was captured off the river Bonny, and has
only lost six in her passage up of one month. The Cur-
lew arrived yesterday from a cruize ; she has detained
three Spanish vessels for being engaged in the slave
trade, in breach of the new treaties entered into with
Spain, by which they are liable to capture and confisca-
tion, if it can be proved that they are in any way fitted
for a slaving voyage. She could have seized three more,
(all within 180 miles of our principal
,settlement, Sierra
Leone,) but had no more men to spare to navigate them.
The Plyades will therefore proceed after them. Other
accounts state the Buzzard captured on the 27th Novem-
ber, off Bonny river, after a long chase, and a hard fight;
another slaver, with 280 slaves on' board.—llampshire
Telegraph.

DR. HAMPDEN.

(From the London Standard of Monday.)

We have great pleasure in presenting to our readers
the following letter, received this morning from Oxford.
Of the soulidness and the courage of the Heads of Houses
in the University we never had a doubt. If they wa-
vered in a slight degree when Lord Melbourne's last
monstrous appointment was presented to them, it is no
more than must always happen in the case of honest,
candid, and independent men, unprepared by factious
union, when a new and startling challenge summons them
to act. In such cases different minds, though moved by
the best principles, will suggeSt different modes of action,
and different lengths to which to proceed. But, where
all are sincere and well-disposed, and wise, a brief oppor-
tunity will suffice to bring them to a common principle,
if not to a common measure.

it will be seen, by our correspondent's letter, that the
common principle has already been arrived at—namely,
the condemnation of Dr. Ramprlen's Theology the
common measure will, doubtless, be framed by more nu-
merous artificers at the convocation to be held to-morrow

'"Oxford, March 12.--I am happy to infoim you that the
heads of houses have determined, by a majority of voices, to
bring forward a measure in convocation grounded on an ex-
pressed distrust in the soandness a! Dr. ilionpden's theoleyical
opinions.* The measure in itself is a mere. nothing, as it only
deprives Dr. 11. of the power of appointing select preachers,
and of sitting in judgment on sermons charged with unsound
doctrine; but the principle on whiCh it 's based is •oost impor-
tant; and it will afford general satisfaction that the heads of
houses have thus cleared themselves from the ;Jr potation of ap
proving Dr. Hampden's principles.

"From the circumstance of the board of heads of houses
being a secret tribunal, it is not always possible immediate!) to
obtain an accurate account of its proueedings. The divisions,
however, seem to have taken the following course.- When ;be
two resolutions of the members of convocation were first pre-
sented, the proposition fora censure oi! Or. FL's doctrines was;
negatived by a majority of 20 to -I, on varioits grounds. such as
its being unstatutable, inexpedient, dangerous, Sm. The other
proposition, :or an address to the archnishops and bishops in
accept the ..largaret Professor's certiiicaies, was sahl to tpive
Dr, r Peeted by a majority of 14 to lit: hut it is low sold that
ti,.his 'srlVen himself carried the onestion in his own- favour
t 4.„ or tinirea.te Note. However this :nay he, it is certain that on
question ti;:itsibzuent occasions Dr. U. actually deeidcd the
two proctors tira.rvit_
a cote. It should also he noservcd that the
aolivays sided with his party ; so that it ap-
pears the maj
opposed to him YO ,ii e heads of houses have been generally
majority of three, a b ylOnesday last the board adopted, by a
to prepare the above meteve') the proposition for a committee
or twc,
on pri,hasure; and it was finally carried by a.
majority
the 22d of March, at N.:a .;,..elThe vice-chancellor has appointed
air the convocation.
" I may add that the 111e°°t-k.'
ree-, on a deelareatV4 0f
members of convocation
trines also ag a
gainst Dr. Hampflen's doc-
, which :s now in course of signature, anal which
receive immediately. you will
" The clergy of Bath, Bristol, Macklin .
Warwick, Devon, Yorkshire, a:,... h.,,,,%l;tirness, Dorset,
dressed the crown with an e';presaion of ihcirli •'.ll‘r '''l'eadv ad-
pointments nade to high ecclesiastical
(olfi,i,fz°,.ter;TcLibielyata':
that of Dr. fiausp'len, or are tirepariog to

* The Passage in the_ proposed .tati.tt. referred to is as ;„1..
Ina's:—" Quim vet.° qui onrc Pr(lessor e.st, seriphs sills
lici juris factis ititres theolt,tfictis iracto vinr, ut in hac p4l:e
null= epis fiduclam habent Universitas," &c.