The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-06 00:00:00

MURDER AT WANTAGE.

Dear Sir,—This morning (Saturday), between six and seven
o'clock, a murder of the most horrid kind was discovered at
the White Hart public-house, in this town. A little boy, step-
son of •Ann Pullin, landlady of the White Hart, came down
stairs, and was about to open the window-shutters, when he
discovered his mother lying on the floor, with her head severed
from her body. The head was lying near the feet, opposite the
fire-place, and the shoulders towards the door. An alarm was
given, and constables were despatched to Letcombe, a village
about two miles distant; and a young man named George King,
of Cumnor, who was employed in bean-cutting, was arrested.
Seven p.m.—l am just returned from the inquest; and after
a very patient and persevering investigation by a most respect-
able jury, the coroner committed the prisoner to the custody of
the constable for the night, and was about to adjourn the court
till to-morrow morning, when the constable brought back the
prisoner, saying he was willing to confess who it was that com-
mitted the dreadful deed; that he was not the person, but that
he knew who was the murderer. The coroner said he would
take the confession in private, and the court was adjourned.
The whole town and neighbourhood are in the utmost confusion
and alarm.
If I learn the nature of the confession in time for to-morrow's
post you shall hear.—lnterim, 1 remain yours, most respect.
fully, WILLIAM GLANVILLE, Baptist Minister.
Wantage, Saturday, Aug. 31.

Lord's-day, Sept. 1, 4 p. m.—The prisoner King has confessed
that, on his way from Harmey to \Vantage, he was with a man
called Ned Grant, and went with him to the White Hart; that
Grant went in and called for a
.pint of beer, and he (prisoner)
stood at the door; and, after being. there about five minutes, be
heard something fall, and went in and saw the bead was struck
from the body, and the blood spouting about on the walls; that
Grant pushed him back, and gave him the murdered woman's
purse and ss. 6d., and swore that if he split (told) he would
murder hhn the first time he met with him; that Grant then left
for the village of Sparsholt. •
The country has been scoured for miles round, and no such
person as Grant has been found or heard of. Excuse haste;
having had to conduct three services already to-day, and being
about to go off to preach in a village, I am prevented from en-
larging. The inquest is still holding. The murdered woman was
a poor defenceless widow.
P.S.—The head was severed from the body at one stroke with
a large bean-hook. The bone of the neck was cut through.—
Christian Advocate.

SLAVERY ABOLITION BILL.

AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE SLAVERY ABOLITION

DISSENTIENT,.
Ist. Because it is attempted by this hill to emancipate a na-
tion of staves not prepared by a previous course of education, of
religious instruction, or of training to habits of industry or of
intercourse,social for the position in which they will be placed
in society.
2d. Because the value, as possessions of the crown of Great
Britain, of the colonies in which these negroes are located, as
well as the value of their estates to the proprietors and colonists,
depends upon the labour of the negroes to obtain the valuable
produce of the soil, sugar, whether as slaves, as apprentices, or
as free labourers for hire.
3d. Because the experience of all times and of all nations,
particularly that of modern times, and in our own colonies and
in St. Domingo, has proved that men uncivilized and at liberty
to labour or not, as they please, will not work for hire at re-
gular agricultural labour in the low grounds within the tropics;
and the example of the United States—a country but thinly
peopled in proportion to its extent and fertility, and always in
want of hands—has shown that even in more temperate climates
the labour of emancipated negroes could not be relied upon for
the cultivation of the soil; and that the welfare of society, as
well as that of the emancipated negroes themselves, required
that they should be removed elsewhere.
4th. Because the number of negroes on the several islands
and settlements on the continent of America; in which they arc
located, is so sinsll in proportion to the extent of the country
which they occupy, and the fertility of the soil is so great, and
the climate (however insalubrious and little inviting to exertion
and labour) is so favourable to vegetation and the growth of all
descriptions of the produce of -the earth, that it cannot be ex-
pected that these emancipated slaves, thus uneducated and un-
trained, will be induced to work for hire.
sth. Because upon this speculation depends the value of a
capital of not less than £200,000,000 sterling, including therein
the fortunes and existence in a state of independence of thou-
sands of colonists and. proprietors of estates. in the, eoloniee,t-.•
the tradeOf the country—the employment of 250,000 touts of Bri-
tish shipping, and of 25,000 seamen--and a revenue which pro-I
duces to the Exchequer, upon sugar alone, not less than
£5,000,000 sterling per annum.
6th. Because the Bill, in enforcing upon the colonists the
emancipation of their slaves, attains its object by enactments
and measures least calculated to conciliate their feelings and
interests, and those of the local legislatures. by whose influence
and authority the powers of government in the colonies must
continue to be exercised. _

7th. Because in the details of the measure an engagement
made to the proprietors of estates in the colonies has been vio-
lated; and a resolution agieed to by both houses of Parliament,
and communicated to the colonies, has been departed from, and
the period of apprenticeship altered from 12 years to six. Pro-
prietors who have slaves of 12 years of age arc under the neces-
sity of making them apprentices as domestics or as artificers.
Persons are to be appointed special magistrates (for the execu-
tion of the measures ordained by this Bill), unconnected with.
the colonies, not sufficient in number for the performance of
the duty even of protecting the property and persons of the re-
sident proprietors, or sufficiently paid to render them respect-
able, or even efficient.
The colonial legislatures are required to enact laws to carry
into execution these measures, under pain of the loss by pro-
prietors of slaves in the colonies of all participation of the com-
pensation held out by the Bill, in case those laws should not be
conformable to the model therein given to thein. The compen-
sation for loss is not in reality raised or granted ; nor does the
interest upon the grant accrue from the period at which the
sacrifice of property is to be made for which it is stated to be
intended that the compensation should be according to
the usual practice.
The colonial legislatures must first pass certain laws; and
then commissioners, appointed under authority of the Bill, are
to proceed to make a distribution among nineteen colonies of
the whole sum held out, and that according to a principle which
is considered by many of the colonial proprietors to be partial
and unjust. This distribution having been made and agreed to,
the detailed distribution to each proprietor of the compensation
is to be made by the same commissioners; but appeals to his
Majesty, in Council may be made upon the original, as well as
upon every other distribution by the Commissioners, each. of them
requiring renewed reference to the colony, and occasioning of
course interminable litigation and delay—thus postponing the re-
ceipt of compensation by the proprietor of the slave for years after
he will have lost the benefit of his services.
Bth. Because the extension of the act 52 Geo. 111., cap. 155,
by the 61st clause of the bill to the colonies, is not necessary
for the apprenticeship and emancipation of the slaves in the
colonies. It is not justified by any thing that has passed; and
will be considered by the colonial legislatures as a gratuitous in-
jury, and a breach of their independent authority, as provided
by the acts of 1773, and respected from that time to this.
WELLINGTON, I ENSHURSI,
ST. VINCENT, 1 WYNFORD.