The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

Le voyant sans

arnies,
s alannts,

Ts element

L'enfant voit galls pieure
Et dit: Gabr
Mais rang

e le touche,

Et berqant sa couche

sur sa bouche

Le'vei'autre 4u cid

Exquisitely as this oeu
owe writer in the Forei9
imple pathos are necessar
If the second and third
he present poetical one

planets of tire,
And of lovely women
Carrying infants' souls
In their arms.

gain the third—

Dream that enchants hini

lie sees the rivulets

And a sweet voice
Sings from the depths of the waters
His sisters are more beautiful,
His father is close by them,
And his mother, she has wings

concluding lines of the tenth also are far more beau-
. thus—Kiss with tears his tiny hangs than "with their
ars have warmed—his unconscious hand"-which destroys
The ori-
e simplicity, and hence the charm, of the poem.
nal, and it is very chaste, is from the pen of Victor Hugo.
R. M.

Like the birds

agree with our Correspondent in his opinion of the
,eauty of the above verses, both in the original and the
.
translation. The first criticism of our friers
not
however, !s
not exactly literal, whilst, owing to an omission in his
translation, the arms which carry the infant are
.not char-
acterised; and in the second, a literal rendring would
have made necessary some considerable deviations else-
where from the words of the text•]

0

EMIGRNTION OF FREE AF

(Korn the Colonial Gazelle.)
alleged that if we permit the egration of free In-
a ..fs from Africa to our West Indian Colonies, we cannot
Ad
dy France, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil the same privilege
that these nations will export and land freemen on their
wn shores, in order to make them.slaves. To any demand
othe part of those countries to be allowed to carry on a free
migration from Africa to their shores, we can reply, that by
eprinciples of abstract right, and by the treaties they he
eluded with us, they are entitled to do everything tfiat Ave
4,-, : they are entitled to carry free Africans to
-ersonal freedom is secure, and
te-
le country open whenever they desire *t.
as soon as they have destroyed slavery in
:----tbe only guarantee they can give for the
personal security of the immigrat—no objection will be
made by Great Britain to their carrying borne as mane
Africanemigrants as they can pandade to accompany them.
" But
of iustiCeindependent of treaties appeals to the principles
. there are obstacles which will prove sufficient to
• - •o-ried on under

) their Intl
ier wore

Brazil, Cuba, &c

mpg c.4".--- negroes
~ the first pAlle, LIO
~,
es.
ark in a Spanish or Portugueoe vessel, or we v
nation, known to be not inirnical a, the slavf
el.
ompulsion. In the second places ila Ill'asi'Lore-
..uoard of which a number of negroes sufficient
cal_
„ when sold, the expense of their
harked against their will, would dare to allow them that d .
gree of liberty req us_ to give a colouring to the pretext
Passage, had been _e_
that they were free emigrants, Besides, shipping negrces• in
the manner required to give the transaction such a colourinog
would not pay the slave-trader. He must take a larger pro-
would
portion of females than slavers find it profitable to
take;uil
must maintain them during the voyage in a manner that
s-v 7; is e
eat deep into his profits. Slave-trading. liacle- the dis
ofDad-
free emigration, would prove too expensive and tan ~„,.
gerous a game to be played more than once or twice. ;;;;;;
if. the abuse could grow up, it would only be for a time-
amountl!:
immigration of free labourers, both in respect to the r:
of produce they can rear and the cost to their emit)Yerasjo7i
of
afmuch more economical speculation than the import
must
slaves : the two cannot long co-exist, and slaver/. the
givea way. And while free emigration was undermining.
_,.
nighiave-trade, the adoption-Of its outward forms would dir4l.,!e
the suffering of the negroes in the middle PAssag,e. fret
ofcannotthe prevent the slave-trade as it is; and the osii'Y_,3 he
moreslavers calling themselves migration agents. vie*li'rJ'ai,
..oros humane treatment of the slaves during their papb,.?„.
, 0 j the Atlantic. But it is waste of time discussingo7;
afford,hypothetical case, since it is clear that no slave-trader ciu
_uotr. would. have courage to play such a trick..
B it is said that though free erniffration might puti a_
stop to slavery out of Africa, it would give a stimulus to !).
slave-trade in Africa, and increase its hyingdemoralii inta-.
ence. It is said that all Africans are slave% of te.e:so;
to that head-mon •y must be given to the chiefs to persuaci.eslitebi6
allow their slaves to emigrate , that the receiPt `" -11 A
bounty-money will induce the chiefs to make war, in ordersi
orderbrief
fto et slaves to dig o: e of in this way". Theore..olol:
answer to this question : where is the money Islouper-
from that it is assumed will he given to the chiefs ? of the
esomn. is to tain a right of property in the persons
to ay
grants ;the West Indian communities will have x Pea_
set,
in the way of passage-money, and nther:r.' P-
---
s employersl3 bring them to their islands, free to choose th..i, bee7o
hea and change them when they will. There will
-money for the chiefs. Even if there were it would create.
no new state of thingsin Africa. It would not occasioen ore
tigadting and kidnapping than there is now to supply
blockades IA out
e, which we cannot put down b our treaties tabodscoast
ckades and barrac burnings, but wnic i
y .•1 we one- r
down by the emigration free labourers. Add the emigr
tion would be creating a class of negroes tri .althv than
ore w--, 0;., who
trhemosae.whdo remained at home. more intelligent than ti? n• great
men remained home, ambitions of returning and begslnrrtsaers
for the Arff;T; it would, in short, be creating ePu_a_o, frog)
crs—the only means of elevating
practice old
slavespayin intoh citizens. Even though this imaginary' Pit would
haveead-money
merelygwere to become eattabished, aas it
.he effect of keeping Afric for some
is, neithertiknfricans
betterd nor worse; of liberating terns -
from slaver
civilization slavery, and
bringing them into
the internal' nof preparing the aof putting an end .
e.,::awars and kidolppil mealef
3. But the head-
contact with a higher
evoiiif
itm mere imagination : 'gosoe,,feA oflueld be found to paY
ptoo7ke:e required
tPhaerkre 10,..f -verY traveller in the interior of Africa,
--whiel, itwis not. for it is clear,
e - -gregor Laird, that there is a numerous
.negroes addicted to travel in quest of gain• •
Jections to a system of voluntary free emigration
a to our West India colonies are shadovty and un-
-4 free emigration, except by the instrumenta-
ader th superintendence and control of the
-.ernment, sea etiockery. The miserable glibped
ppt now making by the Governinent to appear
teething to promote free emigration from Africa, is
It is- restricts Co one British settlement,
-...5. the very eettterrteet in which influences hostile to
iving then.periment a fair trial preponderate Every po
sible obstacie is thrown in the way of intending ts
g ernigran
b insisting on their living idly in the c 1 timber
of
y 0 Orly fr a num
weeks before they are allow, ato :
. sa,l, the exaction freecritr
tion, and other tees, &c. The professional " friends of the
negro," who decry every attempt whereby which
the race .
might interfere with the " craft
they have their
lets than the British Govern-
living," are scarcely greater
ju
ment with its make-believe encouragement to free African

iscd slave-trade

I free emigratior

traise,
>f a

1 of any

from Af
real. To talk

nothing better.

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Uties enforced, against several persons in
lg spirits of wine without a lic
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n
s
e
.
oth Sper
i-
t be legally sold by druggist for
poses.—Manchester Guardian.

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