The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

Lion from time to time of those etessures, mod the tip-
' plitation of sap peinciiiles tct ihelc present condi-
awl, which se& attandon bay ttegpst..kan stool
ream aCcomplishmout, of this inkportotot objecti
Coiumittvii-theieforrrare bt oplvdeb, 'that two sit,
teration at present appears necomary in, the Consptir,
aster/ Slave Lew, which was paad-duritig the test
Session, but that further time 'Weld be showed for
the development of those effects which it is calculated.
produce-"
y a return of the slave population, it appears,
there are 345,'25'2; and that the number of shires+
baptised in 1817, amounts to about 40,000 ; but we
returns had been received from three parishes. - -
The Douse of. Assembly,, as proof of their satiii..l
faction at the conduct of the Duke of Manchester,
have voted him, nem. con. an additional
salary +~f
30001. a-year. •

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
ao A. N. D. swim the Conduct of Electors,. is •intended for
publication.
The Letter of Pitu.o Barnes, to the Inhabitants of Great
Britain, shall appear the first opportunity.
We are obliged to snr Correspondent at Chichester for his
good opinion, bat as the communication be has made
seems of a personal nature between two rival &Ilion. we
fear it might be controed into an invidious attack on oaf
part, tor which ninon we must beg leave t•, decline its
iatertiou.

PRICE OF STOCKS Till
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9 per-Cent. C 081.06
Consols for Ace. 79iii
4 per Cent. 9t
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IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
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THE EITATESMAN.

LONDON:
fitolnealt, JANUAIT 29, IRIS

We have received Jamaica Papers to the 16th
&time. They contain en important Report from
a Committee on the State of the Colony, which
was hid before the House of Assembly on the 9th
ult. We have elsewhere *stymied lb* particulars
that relate to the effects of the measures adopted during
the last Session for the improvement of the condi-
tion of the slave population.. The Committee report'
that no alteration at present appears necessary in the
Colonial Slave Law, for the. Slaves themselves are
satisfied. The Committee do not, however, state
how the enquiry was made•which enables them the,
to vouch for the feelings of others.
In regard to the general state of the Island, its
population and agriculture, the Report is far from
pleasing.—" The prospect which the present state
of things holds out on these points," Ally the Com-
mittee, 66 is most uneatisfactory : no improsemeot in
agriculture, as it relates to the extension of it, can be
expected, when all .sources.of a supply of labourers
are entirely cut off, and whilst the attention of the
Legislature is constantly directed-to the diminution
of the labour of the Slaves by all possible means. It
Kill be in vain to expect that the cultivation of the
Island can be continued even on its present scale, be-
cause we must anticipate, for some years, a very
considerable diminution in the Slave population,
owing to the number of Afticatts. which in the
course of nature must gradually be extinguished."—
The remaining part of the Report points out the dan-
gerous consequences that may arise from any inter-
course with St. Domingo, notices the proceedings in
the Grand Court against Mr. STRATFORD, for dis-
seminating certain Haytian publications in the island,
and the prompt end energetic measures taken by Ad.
miral DOUGLAS for the recovery of Mr.M‘Kowetes
negroes who ran away with his vessel to St. Domingo.
The dispute between the Governor and Assembly of
the Bahamas, it appears is net yet adjusted. Oo the
' 28th of October some Resolutions were come to by
the Hogue on the subject, when they declared them-
selves incompetent to proceed with she public busi-
ness, while certain proceedings of the General Court,
in receiving the bailments of Mr. WYLLT, remained
annulled, and a Select Committee was appointed to
take a Message to Governor CA31101031 respecting
the same.

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The.doobts which we have stressed of the capture
of bitaa were grounded, in part, on the smallness
of the force which he is said to have had with him in
the heart of Wilco. It will be recollected that the
Spanish Extraordinary Gazette asserted. that he,
was taken prisoner, with twenty-five .others„ in
the Pais of Venadito. We find in the St. Jago
Gil:site an article from the Ila 'mulish Papers, of
the 21st and 22d of October, which affords
reason to believe that Mines fate was not such as
has been represented, and that his force was much
more considerable than has been stated in the
accounts alluded to. These (the Havaonah) Papers
contain a copy of an official dispatch from the Officer
commanding the Royal Army at the siege of the
Fort Sombrero, in Mexico, in which General MINA,
with his army, had taken shelter, deviling the ope-
rations against it from the commencement of the
liege on the Ist of August, until its capture by storm
on the 19th of that month; previous to which Mora,
with two other of the Chiefs, bad effected their
escape with 'a few attendants only, and had joined
another Independent Chief, of the name of Tosses,
tommanding an army, with which they attempted the
Wend of the besieged, but failed in the attempt.—lt
appears, however, that the besieged made sorties In
the night, for several nights before the storm, and
although generally driven back, so many effected
their-etcape in this way, that not more thin about


70 of S,od
' igners and 250 of the satires. laded,
. ...,.„ ,
lec lt . . . during the sieri- rawsdoad for' the
ki ' elder., which the. dispatch. states to
liFilk . - .. fah; of. ail the prhionere lekei, wimen
iiid ; r • -4••'''.4oly escepted.
~The Rezel. army
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'Ori--this service appearcto have 'imeseated
te i10w01,4800 miry sad that of the besieged within
\lleslPeboot else !homed.

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Peris•Papers to ther26th have arrived. The French.,
Stinistrfltave esperienced *another defeat in the re.
ivelott, by the chamber of Peers, of the Project of
jww relative to the Press ; eoly 59 feted le favour
sof the.Law,'and 102 against it. The dismission in
the Chamber of Deputies on the ftectidtment Pro-
ject continued on Friday and Saturday, and was
again adjourned till Monday. The only thing re-
markable sport this subject is, that M. as CAURANI
Wes called to order for having said, that he saw in
lb. Ministers of Louts the same apathy as
hrtbe •Mhtisters of the unfortunate Louts XVI.;
.and the same love for pretended liberal ideas which
-had overturned France, and threatened the over-
throw of Europe. He voted for the rejection of the
Law, because in 1792, as Dili, the army ayes called
SM National Army, out the. Artily of the King.-‘.;
Meny Frenchmen,' it.seems„y, will sow rather take a'
wife than a 6relock.. In one of the Departments of
France, the fear of the Law of Couscription.bas in-
duced crowds of young persons to hasten to be
united in marriage. le order to escape its operation:
This eapedlent to avoid' the. Boynton service, how.
ever, will, not How avail them. The report of an
intended journey of the Duchess a'AtteouLuma to
the South, is contradicted. .That Intelligence from
Madrid announces the death of the young Infanta,
the daughter of their Majesties. From Vienna it is
stated, that the military cottlingani-of the Germanic
Confederation, for a period of peace, is to be 120,000
men,

The private lettere from' Pant 'esy, It is beyond
doubt that the negociations,letwein -France and the
Allied Powers, respecting theleparture of the troops,
are not very far advanced, and that. definitive reso-
lution on this'subject bill not be taken these fire or
six months. The same letters inform us, that the
Duke of Wzr.uncTon was expected at Paris in
few days, accompanied by his Staff. Preparations
r were making for a ball, which is to be given at the
eapence of the city of Paris. The Prussian General
Mumsno, who has been attached to the Stall
of the Duke of WELtrnotox since the cam-
paign of 1815, was also to come to Paris.—
They talk also of the approadhing creation 'of
twelve new Peers. The Kura, It is said, will choose
most from among the Marshals and Generals. It Is
likewise asserted, that the King *ill grant to several
individuals comprised in the Ordinance nf the 24th
July, 1815, permission 10 retilit to France. if this,
news may be depended upon, General Salmi -will
probably be among the nember of those who will be
recalled from exile. A remoist bat been in timid'.
lion for some days that Fouctia is on she point of
obtaining from the KING leave to return Os France,
and this on the pressing request of the Duke of
WELLINGTON. We confess it is difficult to believe
this report.

&tract of a letter from the *seat to Lowey at
Dartmouth, d.ted 21th Jas.:—

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" I ,beg leave to inform you of tboerrival of the
French ship Elizabeth, Capt. Le Courts, belionging
to Rouen, from Martiniqoe, booed to Mere, with
a cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton,.&e. hr.3fl
ys•-.-
I find Captain Kaacetsu aid Ofikort, of 414 Frisch
frigate Caravans lately lost at Martiniqae, :am pas.
sengers on board ; and I is glad to find that aid;
one Officer and nine of the crew belonging to the
frigate were lost."

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, The Bill for repenting the Habeas Corpus Act
,passed throeg. it all its readings in•the Housed Lords
last night. Locd.lioLLAifp's.speerts (mike Conduct;
Coot Ministers will be reed with great satisfaction. -,..;;
His Lordship displayed the. .same spirit and ability
which ' characterised the speech of Sir S. Rotuma:ll
He took a general view of the state of the Imams and.
the occurrences of the recess. "His observations with'
respect to the 9ospasssion Act were most spropriste
114 just:" -He observed, with greet Mills, get ;kb'
odious Parliamentary Liw upon which. Ministers *,
Mare so unrelentingly acted, invaded rights which
were not conferred by Statute, but which belouged.
le us as men end freemen before the Statute few was'
'mown. A King may confer a title, and ae Act of
1 Parliament may take it away by attainder; bet ez..,
empties from arbitrary imprisonment - is a' right
pre-ezistent . to Kings or . Parliaments ; it is a
right of nature, a privilege of humanity, which'
belongs to os as rational end aesountable beings.—
Lord llot.t.s:t D stated what we believe to be trite,.
1 but which ought to be forther.enquired into. He,
seamed Ministers of deceiving the Legislator, whit.
partial and garbled itiformetioo, to procire assent-ft
their`erbitrary plan, and of withholding docuMmite
which would have disproved their allegations. His
Lordship characterised the prosecutions against Hone,'
as acts of the grossest hypocrisy, and though Lord'
SIDSOUTII, with great warpath, disclaimed all base
motives, and avowed that be was solely :cleated by
a regard for the interests of. religion., dm piode
Secretary did not fad it convenieit to orplelObilt '
seal for religtoe sboela come Wcopesp#llt,pi