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claim to the services of a negro, the on"s
should rest on the claimant.
IS. That distractions to manumis'
sions should be removed.
E. That .he provisions of. tie Spa
nish law (being by competent authority
the value OF the slave, and allowing him
to purchase day at time,) should be
Introduced.
~. That no governor, judge, or at
torney general, should be slave owner.
80. That an etleetual provision shall
be made for the religious instruction of
the slave.
"e. That marriage should be enforced
and sanctioned.
" 10. That the Sunday should be de-
voted by the slave 10 repose and religious
Instructions and that another time should
be allotted for the cultivation OF his pro-
vision grounds.
ell. THAI some (but what l cannot
say) measures should be taken to re-
STRAIN the authority of the master in
punlshmg his unried slave, and that a
! substitute should be found for the drl-
wing system.
" These are the proposed qualifica.
ions of the existing slavery. But | am
lar more anxiously b,at upon the ex-
'inction OF Slavery altogether, by rem
derlng all the negro children, born after
certain day, free. For them ii will be
necessary to provide education.
God grant that his Majesty's Minis
lers may be disposed to accomplish
these Objects or 10 permit others to &C
compish them.
Believe me, my dear Sir, yours,
very truly, L. +. b.
" String garden Hotel, .ahrit Is, 1928.
In conclusion, do think, from the
best consideration have been able to
awe the subjec:, that we owe the taking
up OF this question to principle OF every
kiGd--we owe il 10 humanity and justice
I'VE owe il to Christianity itself, at least
II there is any truth in the doctrine OF
& DO unto others as we would they
should do unto US" We owe it to the
character which this country has ever
maintained in the eyes OF Europe--but
mainly and chiefly we owe it to that
Africa which has been for ages SO cruelty
and wanlonly oppressed. To her,
think, we owe deep and large atone
mcnt- atonemcnt for all the blood split
in the African civil wars, fomented and
rendered intefminable through the agen-
cy Of British Gold--atonement for all
the horrors TO which The poor creatures
have been subjected, their rest being
broken in upon in the dead of night
dragged from their beds---fFom their
friends and reations--irom all their
! nearest and dearest ties, by thFse brutal
men -hunters-atonement for honest In
nocenee from christianity eXcluOed-for
tens and tens Of thousands murdered de-
liberately and IN cold blood--ior t6Ns
and tens of thousands smothered in BriA
fish lave.ships, by the iil-advised ava
rice OF these Inhuman traders-tor tens
and tens oil thousands oil men, in my
opinion, infinitely more miserable than
lhese, they who have survived, Who have
been consigned to perpetual slavery, to
brutal ignorance, 10 bodily torment--in
fine, to every species of cruelty to which
human nature IS susceptible. To these,
how large and liberal should that atone-
ment be ? rejoice that the time has at
length arrived when it is proposed in
| some measure to make the atonement,
when il is proposed to say, that the deA
graded African shall have something
| like law and iustlCe--when il is proposed
to say we will interpose a jury between
him aud his obdurale tyrant; and above
ali, when it is proposed to say, that all
children raised Oh his Malesty's planta-
tons shall have the benefit of full and
competent religious Instruction. Under
the full persuasion that every sentiment
| have expressed will meet with The d.
rect encouragement of his Majesty's Mi
nesters, conclude by moving" That
the state of slavery is repugnant to tho
principles Of the British Cons titution,
and of The Chris ian Religion, and that
ii ghtto be bolshedgradually through
out The British colonies, with as much
expedition as may be found consistent
with due regard 10 the well being Of
the parties concerned"
| PALACE OF THE KING OF NAPLES.
An American traveller in Italy, states
that the palace Of the King of Naples,
at Caserta, is 746 feet long, and 564
broad. This single building must
therefore occupy more than nine and a
hall acres.--N ear the palace are magni.
hcent gardens, cascades, forests, fish
ponds, &c. To supply the ponds, cas-