The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-07-19 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

A Meeting of the Members of the Church Mis-
Vonary Society to Africa and the East took place
rsterday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, .in the '
Strand, for the purpose of deliberating on a Petition
to Parliament ngeinst the continuance of the Slave
Trade. Lord GAstniza was in the Chair ; and the
principal-speakers were—Mr. Wtv.saavoace, Mr.
STEpuRN, Mr. lIENSY THORNTON, the Rev. Mr.
NORI., Mr. DALTRT, Rt. eUNNINOHAM, of Harrow
on the Hill, and Mr. ZACHARY MACAULAY. The
-speeches of these Gentlemen were highly animated,
and breathedp tone of fectirt,g and humanity in uni-
son with the general sentiment and the best dictates
of the human heart. This Society, it is known, by.
its religious establishments and unwearied exertions
to increase civilization, has been of incalculable he-.
refit to the natives of Africa, particularly hi the
neighbourhood of those colonies which,
..by the
.Treaty of Peace, have been ceded to France ;• and it
is with the laudable and humane view of preserving
those advantages and institutions to the unhappy in-
habitants of that country, who have been bartered
iway to a new race of slave-dealers, that the Society
deems it necessary to raise its voice against the high-
ly impolitic and obnoxious measure of again letting
.is the destroyer with tenfold force, among institu-
Aortas's° sacred, with a hoisted guarantee from a
Court in his hands to check the progress of
and_ Christianity throughout the East,
and again bring down the wrath of Gon on the na-
tions of Europe. The only sentiments partaking of
the nature of opposition to. the ResolutiOns propos-
ed, at the Meeting, were expressed on the part of

'Mr. STEN; EN, who, whilst he condemned the
Slave Trude, and attributed to it all the evils
llich bale for more than twenty years afflicted
• the mattOns concerned in this traffic, and which he
ettitsidetW as judgments...ll.°m :Heaven for their
offadeet against Goy and Nature, committed on the
tinoltilnding Africans, and such as would inevitably
einitinve to scourge the earth should this horrible
tat& be suffered to nisi,- could not but think the
pebble opinion as far at it imputed censure to his
.Majostyll Ministers, for 'Weir conduct, regarding
this metier, ought to be suspended, until the result
'o# the Ptegociationa at Vienna, and the information
fete leaf to a clear understanding of the sentiments
or other nations shall be made known. The Reso-
lutietts for petitioning, and showing by every possible
means to the world at large, Ale danger likely to
rt...,,0t to the cause of religion and homanity, liy the
totorati,)n of the Shive Trade, were in the end una-
nimously adopted, and a Deputation appointed to
wait on Lord C tvrt.Emius, to make representa-
tions on the subject.
We heartily rejoice to see how unbounded *ha
manifestation is in this country, of a spirit so exalt-
as weal() thus heal the bleeding wounds of na-
tions sa remote, who hate none in this country but
the hearts of its noble inhabitants to represent and
plead their cause, and who would thus extend to
others those blessings which, by the favour of Di-
vine Providence, we now so happily enjoy ourselves.
France will now perceive that it is no political trick
on cur part 'to insist ou her renouncing this ini-