The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

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Aleasali .1A What ! S. 11., a may
rfitise liberty by the 1304.
slavish 'voles', enter into compro.
lies I What," continued he, with
ardour in bis countenance and
servant (net being s householder)
entitled to choose a guardian to
Ile property, or still more dear to
end liberty, as well as you or my.
!ling 'to keep up this vivid ands
.....std display of Ike patron towards helpless
clients, I subjoined. that (scrogding to the ancient
weatains:,‘.vi non possis quod veils, velis quod possin
U I ceild not obtain from a debtor the whole of wbits,l
was lie, I might reasonably consent to take tlitl
Lalf, without however acknowledging to have re.
ceived more then such portion. " Ab," said this
raped logician, " in commerci.l dealings that
conduct might be wise, but in politics the case

is by no means analogous: since those on
whom the demand is shoot to he made are as
able to give the whole as the half." I found it as
impossible to contradict such r►asoning, as I am glad
it was so—how far those on whom the demand is to he
made may he willing to pay, and when pay the whole
of what is due, or what force may be necessary to
make them act honesily,is ono: her question, and one
which I cannot undertake to answer, no more than I
can say whether either of my,est pealed friends. so freely
treated of, may be pleased with what I have said of
their conduct. So much I have thought it necessary to
urge to prevent injury to that cause et hick !Panda pro.
mitten( to the view of every enlightened matt, and the
merits of which ought not to be lessened in the eyes
of any one by the personal hickerings of one class of
Iteformers, nor by the polemical disputations, how.
ever learned, of a still hither class. Co-operation,
riot collision, is necessary to fulfil the purpose of the
benevolent Ili former. The advantage of co-opera-
tion is witnessed in our enemies, and we ought to
imitate them in that. wib huste duceri is a maxim
here imperlrusly dictated.
Bluuabbary. Dec. It

S. P.

The Duke of WELLINGTON is now a•Field•Marsha
in the Austrian and Prussia. service, as welt as in
that of Rossi..
It appears by the New York Papers, that the
hostile Seminoles, being in a ',ate of starvation, had
made offers of stil•mission, on condition of their
lives being spared, and rho remnant of their property
secured to them. The Macedoni,ii frigate had put to
• sea again, on her voyage round Cape Horn. The
boundary between the United States and the British
territory had been run in let. 45. deg. from St. Regis to
Lake Champlain, and is found to be only a few rods
'north of the old line of demarcation. The Legisla-
. tore of Connecticut has passed a law for per mining T
snail-coaches to run on Sundays. That of New Jae.l
ire) bits passed a series of regulations with regard to ,
the sale or transfer of slaves, sal,irb as ill, no doubt, have!
the effect of suppressing the tragic ill opgroes a rid men
of colour, which had recently slaw% up between
that State and Louisiana. The sale, transfer, or as.
signment of a slave, knowingly. to a non-resident,
or to any person intending to export him, is punisha-
ble with a fine of from 500 to 1000 dollars, arid im.
priannment for not I, ss than one year, nor more than
. two years. The purchasing or receiving an asisiers-
omit of a Slave, for the purpose of t-sporting him,
the attempting to export him, or being accessary
• thereto, incurs a penalty of from 1000 it, 2000 dol-
lars, and imprisonment, at hard labour, for a period
of from two to four years. The preparing of any
vessel for the exportation of States, incurs a for-
feiture of ship and cargo. The Slave who is the sub-
ject of any sale or transfer, in breach of 'hese provi-
sions, is declared to be ipso facto emancipated.
ARCTIC EXPEDiTIoN.—It is said, that early in the
• ensuing summer another Expedition will he sent cut,
for the purpoSe of exploring a north-western passage
to the Pacific Ocean. The Griper gun-brig has ar.
lived at Deptford, and will be prepared as one of
the discovery vessels, in lieu of the Trent. it is
also said, that two of the bomb-vessels which were
at Algiers, will he ordered out on the same destina-
tion. The Isabella and Alerttider will be paid off
this day or to-morrow, and the I',PMS will be allow-
ed a month to go and see their friends. The won-
derful Eseuimaux, who is still on board one of the
ships at Deptford, and who •lately sat for his por-
trait, has taken such a fancy for drawing land-
scapes, that the Officers have given him paints and
brushes, and every other facility for indulging his
pew propensity.
A Meeting of the Inhabitants -of the Ward o
Bri•ad••treet was held yesterday morning, at Ger.
varti's-hall, Cheapsitle, to take into cnusirleration the
eases of the unfortunate 01411. Cnchntan, Weller, and
Driscol, ordered to be harre,d this r..toruing for utter-
ing forged notes, and to ado," such measures lIM might
be deemed best calculated to pr.cure the suspensi •ta
of their execution until their cases Ara fully investi.
gated. After a brief explanation .f the ohject of the
Meeting, a Petition to the PaiNct; REGENT was read
and agreed to. praying his Royal Higratess to be gra•
ciously pleased to stay their execution until the evi-
elence on their trial could be reseed. The Petition
was signed by the persons present, and ordered to be
presented yesterdsy,with an accompanying letter to
Lord Stoblot;Tit, pressing his Lordship to
use all ex-
pedition in forwarding the Petition. The Petition
was immediately sent off by eapress to Br:ghtou.—
Mr. NictioL, volunteered to be the bearer of it.
The dogs brought by the ships of the Northern
Expedition, have for some days past been ••hjects of
much attraction at the British Museum. On Friday
one of the poor inoffensive animals was killed in the
grounds belonging to that nations% establishment,
for the perpose of its skin being stuffed and placed
in the rooms • and the other has been sent to the
Museum at iaris, probably for the same purpose.—
Of the four that remained at the Admiralty, two
have been scut to the Duchess of YouK, and the
other two to Sir JOSEPH Balms. The fates of the
four latter will be more cougenial to the feelings of
humanity than those of their companions-
flettaten Fitsliette.—A fish-curer ha' been in.
dieted to stand trial before the High Court of Jos-
t ticiary on the 31st curt., for the crime of falsehood,
&e. in presenting the same herrings in different
• horrels,,to be twice branded, for the Government
bounty, tied of making two false oaths relsthe
thereto.

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eaasirstian, he etch
who bas lost his for
mesh-mongering sla
raise with his enerni,
the seine generous I
metiner, '6 hss 1111 1
done that he is not
watch over his litth
his. over his life sr
self !" Not unwilli
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