The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

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Emperor of B

never personally acknowledged the ex-
Astence of slavery ; and what do you think of a legislature
and ministry obliging their young Emperor (now eighteen
years old,) to ratify a decree, annexed to the budget,
ordering the sale of a number of slaves belonging to the
Crown, for purposes of revenue ! There are now, lam
credibly informed, some forty slaves belonciwry
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g, barefooted, its saloons

ng is an extract of a letter from a party on
cited States ship St. Louis, dated from Rio
Janeiro, Sept. 13, 1843, to a friend in New York :
" Yesterday a slave prize arrived from Africa in charge
of two English midshipmen, who captured her in a small
boat with a crew of ten men, and brought her safe into
port. The captain of the slaver was shot while in the
act of repelling the English boat, and his body falling
overboard, could not be recovered ; the seamen, however.
surrendered without firing a shot, and they are now safely
deposited on board an English man-of-war. After the
slaves are rescued by the humane endeavours of the Eng-
lish Government, the} are resuscitated on Foard vessels
provided far the purpose; and, as I have just returned
from visiting the late arrival on board the Crescent, I
shall attempt to give you some idea of the state in which
I found them.

In a Correspondent.

board the 1

" The slaver is scarcely larger than one of our coasting
schooners, and yet she sailed from Africa with 450 negroes
on board, out of which but 315 arrived in port, the balance
baying died from starvation and disease on the vova
On -

t,rescent s ~,to who had escaped the
horrors of slavery, and I must confess I never saw a more
interesting, and yet a more touching, scene in my life ;
for the poor creatures were all on deck, dancing and sing-
ing their native songs, and breathing the pure air of hea-
ven ; and the happy faces and cheerful voices plainly indi-
cated that they were aware of their being at liberty again.
But such emaciated beings I never saw before ;—scarcely

one of the men had a limb larger than a boy's arm, and
the little children—for two-thirds of them were very
young—were nothing but skin and bones. Through the
kindness of the officers, we were allowed to visit the sick,
and during our stay in the apartment I saw five sable ske-
letons carried out for burial, while several, in which the
spark of life was scarcely visible, met my eye in every cor-
ner of the room. Near by was a group of some half dozen
others, who were watching the almost lifeless form of a
little brother, or following the humane doctor with wistful
eyes, as if he possessed the power of restoring their dying
One of the subjects which I saw was so much

associate

diseased th it lar

worms were appearing through his nose,
an occurrence m t rare, as the medical officers informed
me that in dissecting them the most loathsome sights are
presented. The villainous crew of the slaver are confined
as prisoners on board this vessel, which affords an asylum
to the poor creatures whom they have stolen from their
homes, and would have condemned to a life of bondage,
had not the timely appearance of the brave Englishmen
prevented it."

The Paris papers state, that the fortune possessed by
the ux-King of Holland amounts to 156,000,000 florins
(£l2,000,000). The greater part of this immense fortune
is vested in the funds of the Belgian General Society.
ERUPTION OF MOUNT 2ETNA—ROME, Dec. 5.—A
letter from B onte, dated November 28th, states that the
eruption of Mount Etna still continues. The lava had
reached the declivity of the mountain, and was making
its way towards the river. Some fertile plantations have
been destroyed, and 70 men. who were working at an ex-
cavation, have been killed by the descending stream of
lava.

DOELLING—FRANKFORr, Dec. 15.—We have just
learned that, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, a duel, with
two pistols, took place at Oggersheim, in Rhenish Ba-
varia, between Moritz Von Haber and Von Sarachaga, in
which the latter was shot. Von Haber returned yesterday
to Mentz. Von Sarachaga was killed on the spot. This
is the third victim which this melancholy affair has caused.
—Frankfort Zeitung.