Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-06-08
FOnEAGN.
SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH WEST IN
DIES.


Earl Bathurst in the Lords, and Mr.
Canning in-the Commons, have intro
daced this subject. The following are
the provisions for the ameloration of the
Slave condition.:
|. The use Of the whip is to be utterly
abolished in regard to female slaves.
2. The whip is no longer to be borne
by the driver in the field !; to be no longer
employed as summary punishment oil
the male negroes to be wholly laid aside
as stimulus to labor, and resorted to on
y as chastisement for misbehavour,
deliberately proven and recorded.
3. Ample provision is to be made for
the religious instruction of the negroes
by the appointment oftwo bishops, with
regular clergy under them.
A. Marriage is to be encouraged, fami-
lies never to be separated, and the pro
perry OF the slave is to be protected BY
positive law.
5 Banks are to be established, in Which
the slave may deposit his earnin !, the
money so placed, to be sacred in all cases
rum t1c tiido.Si II asp
6. The testimony OF slaves, under cer-
tain limitations depending on personal
character, is to be received in all civil
cases except when the masters imme-
date interests are concerned, and I'D all
criminal cases except when the life OF a
white person is involved.
T. The slave who has acquired GER
tain sum OF money, is 10 have the power
OF purchasing his own manumission or
that of his wife or child; and thus the
father may become the instrument Of IL
berry TO his offspring.
With .respec to the slave trade, the
French government had agreed to admit
a mutual right of search, if the punish
ment was to be made severe. The Ame-
rican Government had formerly made
the trade piracy and now had admitted a
mutual right OF search by which British
ships might visit American as we'll as
British ships concerned in the trade; but
upon this condition, that British ships
should be sent FOR condemnation to a
British tribunal, and American ships to
a tribunal of their own countrynen.
Demerara papers from the Is: 10 the
10th April have been received by the
Editors of the Norfolk Beacon. /, ap-
pears from these, that another insurrec-
ton OF tho negroes was apprehended
during the Easter Holidays, and that the
militia was kept on the alert, and parad-
ed daily. Guards and picquets were sta
toned at the various posts occupied by
the whites during the late troubles, but
martial law would not be proclaimed, at
least not Immediately.
The inhabitants of Martinique, it would
seem by the following extract from the
latest Demerara papers, pursue sum-
mary mode Of. Kidding their island Of the
the African race:
"By private letters from Martinique
we Learn, that the colored people Of that
Island are daily shipped away with as
much despatch as possible. No distinc-
ton, We understand, is made amongst
them. Whether high or low, rich or
poor-whether guilty or innocent-whe-
Their implicated or not in the late pre-
meditated ins,.rrection, tho eea.enoo Of
Punishment is the same. The hue of
the skin is quite sufficient, and a pass
port Is politely handed 10 every one
whose name and residence is known, as
we'll as 10 those who are only known
abroad, in the public streets and high
ways. A considerable number of these
people had already arrived at Trinidad,
where, we are informed, they have met
with an unmolesed refuge" III