The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-24 00:00:00

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THE prlNti MEMORIAL OF RI MO TO MIS WIFE,
p• 1711 5031 F PARTICPLARS OP HIS LAST HOURS.

The renaming well-authenticated oartirulars of the last
hares of General Riego, are exceedingly interesting, as
they speak volumes, as to the treatment of that anfortit-
pr patriot, while in prison, and completely refute the
calumnies with which his memory was attempted to be
„ivied by thr propagation of his pretended recantation
and confessiA. Indeed the document which appeared in
some of the French Papers, purporting to be the confes-
si„n of General Riego, needed no evidence to convince the
world of its want of anthentieity, the hnngling fabricator
it having made the General sign it two days after his
rieention !!
General Cloche, who lately arrived in Englsiall, was the
bearer of a small parcel addressed to a Mr. Binder, an
!owl gentleman, now in London. The General was
quite ignorant of the contents of this parcel. On its
reaching its destination, however, it was found to contain
ahlack awl a white handkerchief, enclosed in an envelope,
eith a letter, from which it appeared, that they had been
transmitted to the Duchess de Fritts, by General Riego, a
few hoary previous to his death. On the fifth of October,
too days before the execution of the unfortunate patriot, a
confessor, whom Riego had prevailed upon by the most
',matt entreaties, waited upon the Duchess to ascertain
whether she would receive a memorial from him, to trans-
mit to his rife. It appears that this lady is related by
martiaee to the Rirgos, General Valdes, a cousin of the
late General Metro, having married her sister. The
Thichrss im•nediately consented to receive the me-
morial. The Confessor went away, and a few
hours afterwards returned with a black hand-
kerchief, which Riego was desirous should be hor,arcl.-
ed to his wife. The next day, that is the day before the
emotion tit?. asue,triest. hroggistre white hood It eras!!! 10
be Irantudtteitiffeet,ilil Tali.. The man positively re-
fused to cuter into any explanation. lie was deaf to all
entreaties. In fact lie was evidently afraid to answer quite-
tions the moat indifferent. Ile had no doubt been prevail-
ed upon, out of compassion to the victim, to undertake the
charitable commission of delivering these memorials of love.
The manner in which it was undertaken and executed, clear-
ly proves that it was contrary to the orders of those who had
the superintendence of Riego's imprisonment; and tke affair
altogether iscontirmatory of hishaving hail opiates adminis-
tered to him • o prevent him from epcaki ng at theplace them'
tioe.hisol lois gaolers not leers convinced that he could have
wrdien in s-ch a manner to his wife, that would have rOlll.
pletrly Waffled their isles of his terkeasion, he would not
have been prevented front writing:or had he been inclined
to have recanted, they would, no doubt. Mire permitted
lan to send letters to any part of the world, provided such
recantation made a pert of them. But Riego could not be
prevailed upon to disgrace himself, therefore was be cut
off from all interennrae, either by message or letter, with
the world, to which he wife doomed so shortly to bid an
everlasting farewell. The kturffele, of having written
a letter to solicit his pardon, is complete? Milled by this
anecdote.

The handkerchiek are both at present in the hande of
the Canon Ueneral Valdes nut having arrived in
Englacd.

LORD BATHURST'S CIRCULAR TO TIIE
PLANTERS.
By the arrival of Jamaica papers, by which we have ob-
tained particulars, as given in another column, of the pr, -
reeding% in the Lep/iota:we of that island, we have received
the hollowing copy of the circular of Ler4l It.. hurst, which
been frequently referred to in the Culonial papers, but
has not before been quitted en tire :--

Colonial °Mee, Downing Street, Msy 29, 1823.
enclose a copy of a letter, which I have this day
tddresseil to the Governor of Dei , and ,on will hot fail
to follow the directions, therein contained as far as may he
applicable to Me Colony tinder your Government, where no
public body exists with similar Inactions to those of quh,Qoart
of Policy.
You silt, therefore, prepare the Slave Proprietors in the Co-
lony under your Government to expect, that the Court of Policy
are ins lied in the first instance spontanrously to enforce, and I
trust that they will be equally disposed, individually and in
ern.rert, to anticipate the decision of his Majesty's Govern-
au t.

have the boom to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant.
(Signed) BATHURST.
To Sir Ralpb Woodford, Bart. de. de.
(ENcLosuaE MIER REN TO.)

Colonial Office, Downing Street, May 94, 1523.
Stn,—l take the earliest opportunity orcummunicating to
)ou. the Resolutions, which were unaiiimously agreed to b) the
House of Commons on the 15th instant ; and in order that you
ea) better understand, not only the general impression of the
Rouse in coming to these Resolutions, but more particularly
the principles which hare guided his Majesty's Government in
proposing them, and which will continue to guide them, in the
treasures to be adopted for the furtherance of the important
ohjects to which they relate, I hare enclosed the best report I
eso procure although it may not be altogether a corruct one,
of the speech of Mr. Secretary Canning.
Ido not propose, in this dispatch, to call your immediate
attention to all the subjects to which the speech refers; but to
con;ine myself to one of those points, on which I have not
found that any difference of opinion exists, and which, being
tinier in its nature, may be at once adopted, viz.—An abso,
lute prohibition to inflict the punishment of dogging, under
sny circumstances, upon female slaves. The system of melba-
rating the condition of slaves, to which his Majesty's Govern-
ment stand pledged by these Resolutions, cannot better com-
mence than by the adoption of a principle which, by making
a distinction of treatment between male and female slaves,—
" csnnot fail to raise this unfortunate class generally shove
their present degraded level, and to restore to the (anode slaves
that sense of shame, which is at once the ornament and pro-
tection of their sex, and which their present mode of punish-
ment has tecded so unfortunately to weaken, if not to obli-
terate.
I should therefore have communicated to you his Majesty's
rvemands, that the punishment of flogging should for the fu-
re teak %ith respect to female slaves, had 1 not been de-
sirous that the prohibitit it should proceed from the Court of
Policy, as lam unwilling to deprive them of the satisfaction,
which fam sure they wi,l feel in originating and supporting
a measure which has beau approved of by all classes.
With respect to the practice of driving the slaves to their
Work by the oind of the whip, and to the arbitrary infliction
of it by the driver, as a stimulus to labour, I am equally dis-
posed to trust to the Court of Policy to originate measures for
the cessation of this practice, which I need not state must bo
repugnant to the feeliugs of every individual in this country.
In' la aware that a necessity may exist, for retaining the penisho
tilt of dogging, with respect to males, though, at this same
I 2"• it should be subject to defined regulations and restrico
"or; Mail an immediate measure, cannot too strongly re-
e2smend, that the whip should no longer be carried into the
Lid,_,l and there displayed by the driver as the emblem of his
a ority, or employed as the 'ready Instrument of his dis-
plessure.
!hare the honour to be. Sir, your most obedient Servant.
To Major General Murray, &c. arc.

An Inuest was held esterday . before Mr.
, gra, Deqputy Coroner for Westui.tsterevening, at the St. James
2armary, Poland Street. Oxford Street, on the bOdy of
Vr• John D.Howell, aged thirty-eight, who died suddenly.
verdict Died by the Visitation of tiod." Twenty-fi"
Paands Isere offered by a surgeon to have the body handed
°rar to him for dissection.. It as effeminate in its ap-
Nance, the bones were teniarkably small, and, to the
le of a common spettator. nothing extraordinary aP-
,ll4rrd; yet, so' valuable did it appear to the surgeon, that
the above enormous price was immediately offered for it.
"5 know not whether those who have a claim to the body
ail] consent.