The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-09-25

sitions among the Parisians, aid II was
doubted whether the company which late
iy wentthere from London, would not be
Obliged to return.
Tho French official paper, the Moni-
teur, contains the indictment against gen.
Berton and his conspirators at Saumur.
The number Of persons accused is ffty-
six, Of whom eighteen have lied. Gen.
Bertoh, and 81 others are in custody
The object Of the conspiracy is stated to
have been to destroy the kings govern
ment, and to excite civil war. The in
dictment then details the proceedings Of
the conspirators up to the time OF their
detection. Il states general Berton an
noupced that the rising was general
throughout all Paris that a provisional
government was established, and that the
marquis de la Fayette was declared ge-
nerallissimo of the armies Four OF the
most distinguished members of the OPP
position in the chamber OF deputies, are
implicated in the plot The society was
directed by q committee sitting at Paris,
and Berton was,ihe principe! agent in the
| department in the west. He confessed
in his interrog atory, that it was Grand
menille who came to see him at Rennes,
in the month of February, to conduct
him to Saumur. This Grandmenillc
made frequent journeys to Paris. Tie
has stated that he had intercourse with
gems. Foy and La Fayette, and with the
deputies Lafit,e and benjamin Constant.
II is under the tri.colored flag with cries
"ViDe Ia H6erte Vfve Waho!eon II"
and with the title of the general in chief
of the army OF the west, that Berton
marched, with band, which he had rails
ed upon Saumur, with the intention of
taking 1t.
Some arrests are stated to have lately
taken place at Paris. Ii is probable that
this occurrence is connected with the
| publication of the above document The
facts to which it alludes had given rise to
very stormy debates in the chamber of
| deputies.
ln debate in the house of commons,
on the 25th of July, on the subject of the
Slave Trade at the cape of Good Hope,
Mr.. Wilberforce begged the attention of
the house TO an extraordinary circum-
stance. Would it be believed, (said the
| Hon. Gentleman,) that while this country
abdared SO much to propagate the doc.
trine Of Christianity, there were men who
had been born Britons, and who boasted of
their birlh,who took pains to educate their
slaves in the principles OF Mahomelanism?
Yet there were colonists who did so, aad
they assigned in their justification the
most extraordinary reaso IS that the slave e.,
being by the p'i ciples of Moslemism pre-
vented from drinking wine, would become
thoroughly sober in their habits and also
that the want of Christian marriages
would enable them to separate the father
( from the mother of his children without
any injury TO their religious principles
He assured the house that the most odious
practice was carried on in some of the
colonies. He hoped that means would be
taken to prevent it in future. 1t had been
said that the Hottentois had always been
incapable Of civilization but the house
4 could not but be aware that man, once
stamped with the signet Of beneGcent
| Creator, was always capable OF feeling
| Mean as the Hottentots had been &C
counted;even as the ,neanest ofthe human
| race, Mr.. Barrow, in his intelligent work
on the Cape of Good Hope, had given
proofs of their capabiiity offeeling as men.
Sir ]. Craig too had, in defiance of pre-
JUDGES and sarcasm, proved that they
could be rendered good members Of So
ciety, and had formed some Of them into
a regiment.
MIR. w. Smith, also, regretted that the
! Hottentots had been in effect reduced to
the condition Of slaves by the artIhce of
those who employed them these far
mers supplied them with necessaries
and other articles until they got them
| into their debt, and then brought them
| before magistrate, when having sworn
to the debt (no doubt exorbitanD The un-
happy Hottentot, being in most cases
| unable TO pay, was handed over 10 this
| master, to work himself out of debt,
which in effect condemned him to slavery
although no more slave than any menl-
Der OF that house, and placed his liberty
| in the hands of an arbitrary and rapacious
master. He (Mr. S. had the highes,
respect for the right Of property in all
| cases, except one, namely-an unquali
fed property existing in one priviledged
individual, toshe labor and person of his
fellow creature.
KINGS VISIT TO SCOTLAND.
From The Caiedonian Mercnry,of Aug. 5.
His majesty's approaching visit to this
metropolis has become the universal to-
pic of conversation and interest, and Ia