The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-20 00:00:00

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the Glove trade. by the lewd abr
ova 'Kenai
.seisareassader therm. They are enable
irosT/rirariiirnserchants, tlie
.4 airririn tapir*, MO
seamen which heretofore aided in thii.traie, hive Wit-
doued it altogether. or have sought shelter .saicr
'Nags of other nations. ft is ascertained. linerbeer, that
the American flog, which heretofore coveted so large B•
portion of the slave-tradr, has wholly disappeared from'
the coast of Africa. The trade, notwithstanding, in-
creases annually under flags of other nations. Wince
has incurred the reproach of bring the greatest &tree-
toter in this traffic prohibited by liar laws k but it is to
Ise presumed that thi• results not so mach from the avi-
dity of her subjects for this iniquitous gain, as from the
safety, which. in the absence of all haa ird of capture,
her flag affords to the greedy and unprincipled silver'
turers of all nations. it is neither candid or just WS*
putt to a gall int and high-minded people the exclusive•
commission of crimes which the abandoned of all um
lions are alike capable of pereetraiine., with additions!,
wrong to France terlielf of using her Bag to cover aid
protect then. If the vigour of the American sway hag
saved its banner from like reproach, it has done ouch
to preserve unsullied its high reputation, and amply re-'
paid the expense charged upon the public revenue hr.&
system of laws to which it has given such hononrabla
effects.
But the conclusion to which your Committee has ar•
rived, after consulting all the P% itiPllCe !hi-1 their remit I
is, that the African slave trade now prevails to • great
extent, and that its total suppression ran never be-1
frets' by the separate and efforts one,pr
more states: and as the resolution to whichthis report
refers requires the suggestion of some remetty for the,
defeats, if tiny exist, in the system of laws for the sup-
pression of this traffic, your committee beg Mara to call
the attention of the house to the report and oc&rispany.'
ing documents submitted to the laat Congress by the
Committee on the Slave Trade, and to make the Ake a
part of this report. That report proposes as a remedy
for the existing evils of the systems, the concurrence a
the United States with one or all of the maritime powers
of Europe in a modified and reciprocal right of search
on the A frican coast, with a view to the total suppression
of the slave trade.
It is with great delicacy that the committee have ap-
proached this subject, because they are aware that the
remedy which they presumed to recommend to the con-
sideration of the house, requires the exercise of the
power of another department of the Government, and
that objections to the exercise of this power in the moods
here proposed have existed in that department.
Your committee are confident, however, that these ob-
jections apply rather to a particular proposition fur the
exercise of the right of search, than to that modification
of it which presents itself to your committee. They
contemplate the trial and condemnation of such Ameri-
can Mavens as may be found engaged in this forbidden
trade,_ not by fixed tribunals sitting in a foreign coon-
try, but by existing courts of competent jurisdiction is
the United States; they propose the same disposition of
the captured Africans now authorized by law, and at
least of all their detention in Acuerie.; • 4.
They contemplate an exchange of t tett
shall be in all respects reciprocal—al 05* we
deriving its sole authority from a treaty, "mold exclude
the pretension, which no nation, hostever,bas presumed
60 set up, that this right can be derived from the law of
potions; aal farther, they bare limited it in their cow
torption of its application, not only to certain latitudes
and to a certain distance from .the coast of Africa, bat
to a small number of vessels to be employed byte`
Power.and to be previously dasignMa Tbme at
search Art restricted, it is believddoroold ensure the
co-operation of one great maritime power in the pro.,
posed right of exchange, Sad guard it from the danger
of abuse.
Your committee cannot doubt that the people of Ame-,
rie.a hare the intelligence to distfognisb between the
ries: of searching a vessel on the high teas itt time of
war claimed by some belligerents, and that mutual, re-
stricted, and peaceful concession by treaty suggested by
your committee, and which is demanded in the name of
suffering humanity. In closing the report, they recom-
mend an adoption of the following resolution,
Resolved,—That the President of the United States
be requested to enter into such arrangements as tie may
deem suitahle and proper with one or more of the mari-
time powers of Europe, fur the effectual abolition of the
Slave Trade.

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YriacieOc; Oritriirotuntiry
of t►i province. Yectan sod

...... The.Coogreas was trauquilly proceed-
tOgatating the "mutiny of till wawa parts
It the yoriblic of Colambi* is divided, am,
title? tending to give permanettey litho new
Wags. Tito advice& free ;he city of Caree-
r* the likh March. The roylists held Puerto
but the place was closetrinvested, and de.
ertions were daily taking plain, width report the
Spaidsh force within the city to be minced to the ut-
most extremity. An arrival from Menlo. bad brongbt
intelligens.e of the installation of the Congress there
on the 28th of Feb., but no news of importance.—
There isle every prospect that the supreme power
would be conferred on !turbid,. In the affair of the
landing of the French detachment at Samara. is St.
Domino, an account very different from the esplana-
des of Tht .illoiiieenv, is given by the American
papers, as we *hewed by an extract in TUC SI•TEJS•
wax of Saturday. The French troops are there sated,
after having lauded with part of their fotce and sea-
tidied a repalse, to have bombarded the place from their
frigate, and wholly destroyed it. The massnre, there-
fore, adopted by the President Boyer, of laying as
embargo on all foreign vessels, seems to be justified
hie iatentions Levis, been to make Preach property
on the Island answerable fur the injury sustained at
Samaria.
TO TilkEDI fun or' Ida 4TATESM.IN.
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501..-1 saw in Vie Times of this morning a long ad-
vertise:tittle of a Meeting in St. Saviour's, Southwark,
sie nod.). W,Carter, Hon. Sec., to Petition against the
Catholic claims.- At that meeting, I am told, then were
not above fifty persons present ; shoot 30 of whom were
in favour. and shoot 90 atraiest the thing. It was got
tap, I am informed, by a Reverend Ordinary of a County
Gaol, aided by the famous John flutton, who, not will-
ing to he seen in all the jobs which he manages, puts
forward Isis partner on this sod 4 i wilar OCLaiiool. .fhe
whole history of the working of these Church and Meg
Creatures are of a piece. At Clapham, a few months
ago, there was a vacancy for Master of the Workhouse
at that place. There were several candidates. The one
approved of most by the 'inhabitants, was a man who
bad been a smell shopkeeper in the parish many years,
not rich; but of* most excellent character. The parties
who' harged the county 1722/. for recovering 8711. some
little titneogo (as noticed in your paper of the tlth of
April) clikrged this poor candidate with being a Dis-
senter, awl therefore alleged that be was not eligible.
Ile was, however, elected ; but a resolution was passed
obliging him to tittered the Parish Church:
&Lacy; May 17. Mt. J. M.
TO
rairß EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Son,--:At the Meeting at the City of London Tavern,
on Wednesday last, for considering Mr. Oiren's plan for
relieving liditish agricultural and martufactering la-
bourers, Mr. Owen's plait was violently attacked by a
persoo whose argument and eloquence consisted in the
veliceiont repetition of a single sentence, " it is all vi-
sionary " So cogent andurgent,llolrefer, did this man
a cePidion, Moe, Js• repeated it "is season and
oat of season ;"'atol, itliFffElpillle Sir iVm. De Creapjg-
ev, Pb. was accurately descrileing the state of distress
of the sleep keepers in Loddon, as well as of the agricul-
total classes, lee tiredly declared that t• there was no
distress in the emsetry l" Malty persons imme-
diately ecoulred who this bell speaker was. Some
of the pipers described him as a Scotch farmer ; pri-
vate infuttiopmates him to be a Scotch gardener.
In fact, I ha rued that this person had Wes em-
ployed in that capacity by the Earl of Liverpool, and
the employment is the hot-houses of his Lordship ap-
pears to have heated the pour man's brain. As an in-
stance of its effect, I am told, that the next day after the
'nesting he started off on a journey of discovery as far
as High Wycomh, to be confirmed in his opinion that
that there was uo distress in the country. On leaving
the coach to consult a husbandman whom hesaw at work
in a neighbouring field. the following conversation en-
sued :—" Arc you in distress?"—" Whatst ocean, Sir."
" Why, what waves do you ge_t ?" —.. Why, Sir, eight
shillings a week."—" Have yod a family ?"—" Yes; a
wife ash four children."—" A wife and fon, children,
and eight shillings a week, why then I think you have
enough!!! " —Like master, like man. A lah rrrrr with
1
These papers also contain a report respecting /he i five in family, having Is. and 2.1. each for subsistence,
Navy of the United States made to the House of Re- cwaenitisotsbielissaVilatrod hr
e &Ist v
each as
Lordo,mi lore'arseorroasl,
the
presentativer, by which it appears that there has been
built and equipped one ship of the line ; that there May 18;1822.
other to say the conurntrylaiseien a pros condition.
0!
have been built and launched three ships and one fri- :-.......-z-....-----
gate ; ready to launch, one ship ; nearly finished The Norwich papers have from an-
ship and two frigates ; half flubbed, one ship ; pre. thority, that Mr. Coke It is r no more
pared to be put on the stocks, one ship and three fri- ords who
of his rents. and we have hen
gates, and materials nearly collected for building one have come to the same determi rd Sondes,
ship, three frigates, and two steam batteries. The in our own neighbourhood, we he re to be among
same Committee also reported a Dill to f a , 1 the number Tie reason of ' 's obvious. What-
peace establishment of the United Stat "is rent is the lanaisl pro-
prevides far the establishing the grader / affords to the etiepier,
of the blowy, and to strike off the Navy I. an the fifth ctober into the
8 Mattire.Continandants, SG Licuten. of the tax d thus enables
geoos, I I Surgeons Mates, 4 Pursers, id the slime rive his stipend
38 Boatswains, and a number of Mishits or diminution. Lord rpool, in his
twice read and committed. These pape Agricultural question, expressed some
discussions in a committee of the within tardiness veined by landlord. in low-
presetitatives on the 28th of March, opot -eats, and was as
of the recognition of the independence the want of patriotism which this :Atm-
Spanish Provinces. The question being ested. Wonder is often affected w en
first resolution, it was carried in the affimiarive n,p u sorprlze is felt, and there were:those present who could
majority of 159 to 1. The sewed pies:ion was mug. have hinted to Lord Liverpool it would be time
nitoottsly carried. On the following day, the above enough fur the lundell Prop to abandon the
majority tvu jemmied to 167, by a practice which is moiety of his income, if need a mild then lw, when
permitted in the American legislature—that of allow- the Secretary of State's five thousand per annum is re-
in. open a motion being made fur the purpose, such domed to two and a half; when the government of
membe n not to be present at the division Weimer Castle shall be something better than an ex-
to have subsequently recorded on either side. cse for a rest-charge upon the people; when ao
The j cut of Congress stood fixed for the
yil
enormous standing army shall cease to be a greater
Bth lustant,aad the next assembling fur the 4th of terror to the liberties of the people than to oor ester-
Ntlittpr. Some journalists have taken alarm at sal foes; when the idle, the profligate, and corrupt
I the rture of the Russian Euroy, M. Poletiea, eon. whether placed or pensioned, shall receive so more--
ceiving it to have originated in the proceedings rola- and they cannot we!! receive hisa—than their deserts.
five to the South American Repablics, but The No- Till thesis times arrive, we shall cooinge to think that
auisal lietelligexcer Motes it to have been the intention Lord Sondes and Mr. Coke, and all who can reason
of that Minister to return home keg before the gees- upon the consequences of their coudecr, will persevere
tine was agitated. Advice. of the II th of March in their resolve, confichist as they must feel, that so
from Maracaibo. escudo. that the Columbian squadron long as Ministers can by craft or violesee maintain
under Commodore lielloche had arrived for the per- the present system, and continee to exact HAMM for
pose of blockading CUM. The Maracaibo troops the Onlinkuarnee of themselves and their adherents, no
1,100 stroog, and Irish Legion, 050 strong, under. seneihle diminution of our barthens can be hoped for,
Major Ferrier, had also crossed the Gulf of Alto Gm and that the landlords will be the sponge to be
cia, to proceed against Coto. Some skirmishing took squeezed as long as the sponge is willing or able to
yield any thing.—(Stawford Neer.)
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Pvinsett observed, that the above report was the
act of a bare majority of the committee (of which he is
a member), and wished it to be distinctly understood,
that lie could not lend his sanction to a narasui e which
he considered calculated to injure the best interests of
the country,
The report was laid on the table, and ordered to he
printed.

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