Te new be people to stres before then Sites be time but the Bocampistra Be aame now to Pas that the car had ILis very day, arrived, not refuse their consent LA VA Ating to complete this muasure of justice, and that all must be gla gored in England, because in the colonies were was not the power to give it. Bat he must first remind their Lordships, and report and through a few words would suffice, of what bad 2 wat cause—” be, been done in the West Indies with regard Glory and gratitude rough manous fortunes, even wien to this question. STILL THE DOSE Jenised by the pro-ever lasting to the people of Antigua, for is before him, and the circumstances their bright example had been followed 15 sombuduću biím, never for une in-elsewhere, and it seemed as if the lustre dis let wespondents as to its ultimate of their achievement had enabled others success, it wis, because he had at all to see the error of their ways. Antigua, however, took the lead. Antigua, two | Lordships only look to the state of Guiyears before any other, adopted a similar ana, Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Mauritius. course, came forward and dared to be He said nothing of the Cape of Good wise, dared to be prudent. She knew and Hope, where since the 1st of September felt, that the most prudent and the safest po- the slaves had been emancipated by law. licy was also the most virtuous, the most Were the slaves of Guiana and the other just, and therefore the most prompt and colonies which he had named less fitted the most bold. Her example was followed for the reception of freedom than those of by Montserrat, and by the smaller isles, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Antigua? Was and then by the greater colony, which ar- the lot of the slave under the tropical sun rogated to itself the title of "Little Eng- of the Mauritius, or in those other islands land" he meant the great colony of which were not blessed with the healthiest Barbadoes. There remained Jamaica. climates, one whit lighter than in Jamaica, and he was informed this day, as if by or in Antigua, where they enjoyed all the special interposition of Providence manner of comforts? Quite the reverse. having postponed his motion from time to It was in the savannahs of Trinidad, and time owing to one accident and another upon the alluvial soil of Guiana, that having put it off on the last occasion in con- human life was most prodigally wasted, in sequence of the illness of a noble Lord- ministering to European avarice, and it having thus waited till this day to bring was there that it behoved the mother forward this motion, whereof he had given country to interpose to put a stop to the notice, on this very morning there had ar- inhuman deaths, to the diseases which rived, to greet him on the dawn of the day were felt to be more cruel than death, to that should witness the last discussion in the fatal contamination which the necessity Parliament, as he fervently hoped, of this of labouring on those fatally unwholesome great question, the glorious intelligence plains inflicted on those wretched victims that, at length, Jamaica too had given way, of avarice. But the voice from Mauriand that, in Jamaica, with unexampled tius, which pierced their ear, and rended dispatch, in the space of three or four the silence of that eastern sea, was agdays, the measure had been carried gravated in its tones of pity, and fell still through the assembly, and the negroes of harsher upon their ears, from this hard Jamaica were free on the 1st of August. addition to the lot of the slave, that three These were the slave colonies which fol-out of four of those who cultivated the lowed the example of Antigua. The numbers emancipated were, in Jamaica 235,000, in Barbadoes 54,000, and in all, including Antigua, there were not less than 255,000, besides those whom the measure of 1833, as non-predials and young children, emancipated. But in the unchartered colonies, as they were called, which had not the option, even if they pleased it, of emancipating their slaves, the whole amount of slaves whose fate hung upon the decision of their Lordships was no less than 130,000 souls. With regard to those colonies which had legisla-ritius. If ever there had been a single tures of their own, their Lordships might with a show of justice have pleaded their reluctance to interfere with those legislatures, but could this be urged with regard to the unchartered colonies, which had no legislatures at all? The Crown was to them what the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council were to Jamaica and Barbadoes. Having no legislature, they could not, even if they would, follow the example which had been set them by some of the other colonies. Let their plains of Mauritius, all suffering worse torments than even those which were inflicted upon the negroes of Guiana and of Trinidad, had never in their lives been legally slaves at all. They had been transported thither, not only against the law of nature, but after the law of this land had made. transportation of the slave a capital crime; and 30,000 capital felonies had been committed in conveying over 30,000 of these victims of their weakness, and planting them under the unwholesome climate and upon the unwholesome soil of that Mau neglect of duty upon the part of a Legislature, it was theirs, in not having at once broken through the fetters of a mere legal informality, and passed a new law to prevent the recurrence of these monstrous outrages; but in paying, on the contrary, the frightful sum of 2,000,000l. sterling as compensation to those capital felons, instead of giving them their deserts upon the gallows. The House was perhaps not aware that there was not more than 7,000 out of the 38,000 negro slaves in Mauri *urant of the facts Setjut je socke De Jesus æsident in EX Tes of the GoSus address to the LIES, A FUCH. after dong be excrement za tis subject TLE I is country—to its testy and be thanked This add to its success-be mended the speedy emancipation de amprentices, and concluded with sable words:-" As Governor these circumstances, and I never stres from any responsibility, I prosance physically impossible to maintar the apprenticeship with any hope of s.cessful agriculture." Then for whom ibe now appear as counsellor? He efence had appeared for the planters themselves as appre-well as the slaves, and he had the authority. of the Governor of Jamaica addressed to its hereditary counsellors, that the Crown them, who, if he were dealing in terms of colonies had a right to look for assistance; mere romance would have turned away but he should perhaps be told of some from him in disgust, or whose experience, court of policy-or counsellors, or other if he were wishing to deceive, must have local authority-a mongrel legislature-a frustrated the attempt he had his au- doubtful spurious authority-half recomthority to say, that the cultivation of the mendatory, half law-giving, with respect islands by slaves would be physically im- to the acts of which they could hardly tell possible. The hoe would fall from the whether they were suggestions or enactnegro's hand; he would not work as a ments; but let that authority, or legislaslave; but he had already shown, that he ture, be what they pleased, until they gave would work as a free man for hire. His its acts force, force of law they had none. resistance in the former case might be On other subjects the Crown had not left merely passive, for he had shown himself those colonies to legislate for themselves; of all creatures, God knew! the most orders in council and instructions had been patient and enduring. But he would not issued. But there was another consideraanswer for the slaves of Jamaica or Trini- tion-time was everything in this case; dad, and still less for the slaves of the despatch was all-in-all; a week's delay Mauritius, rankling in their souls, as the might be attended with great inconveni feeling must be, that though others were ence; a month's delay was highly danthen under the colour of our unjust law, gerous; half a year's might be fatal. still there was some legal colour of a right A despatch from England would not reach de facto for it-whilst they were then the Mauritius in less than two months and solely by crime and capital felony. He a-half, and it would take the same time to would not answer for the tranquillity of any bring back the answer. Here were five one island in the eastern or Caribbean months gone, and another two months and a seas, if this right-for right he called it must pass before the proceedings of the was withheld. But he might now turn to colonial Government could have the force Jamaica, if not in language of admiration of law. Eight months, therefore, must for the exploits of which that day's arrival elapse, even if the colonists were disposed had brought them intelligence, still in to do that which he disbelieved in their terms of hearty congratulation. Jamaica disposition to do. He said he disbelieved had saved herself from all those fatal in their disposition to do so, because a scenes which, if justice were not done, less subordinate and less well-disposed set there was two much reason to apprehend. of men than the residents in the Mauritius "Rempublicam, vitamque omnium, bona, it was difficult to find. They had all the fortunas, conjuges, liberosque atque hoc prejudices of planters against the negroes, domicilium clarissimi imperii, fortunatis- all the prejudices of colonists against the simam pulcherrimamque urbem, hodierno mother country, and, added t these, the die, deorum immortalium summo amore, accidental prejudices of Frenchmen against ex flammâ atque ferro, ac pene ex faucibus Englishmen ; and, above all, that strange, fati, ereptam, et conservatam ac restitutam, but most mistaken, prejudice, from which videtis." He heartily congratulated that even the most liberal of our neighbours great colony, which by the favour of hea- on the other side of the Channel were not ven had taken that noble step; at length entirely free-that at the bottom of this it had deemed it wise and fitting so to act, question of slavery there was an English while it was called to-day, and it now no interest working against a French interest, longer had to dread the awful and tem- and that by following our example they pestuous night of negro insubordination. would be falling into some trap prepared Now, that brought him to the consideration for them. As the whole of the islands, of the unchartered Crown colonies. They having legislatures, had effected emancihad no Legislators of their own. They pation for themselves, why should not the could not do what Jamaica had done Crown come forward and rescue and conthey could not conserve, and restore, and place in safety their lives and fortunestheir wives, and children from the fire and the sword, and the violence of the negro; they had no legislatures; but to them it was, and to the Crown by their advice, as serve, and restore to the slaves in the Crown colonies their freedom, and that of their wives, and their children? By all these considerations-by the character we had for fortitude in war and courtesy in peace-by the patience which we had |