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    West Indies : Negro Slavery . A meeting of tke Planters and Merchants and others connected with West India Interests , was held on the 10 th instant , at the City of London Tavern There was much speaking , but no

    discussion , for on Mr . Dalbiac ( of Buckham Hilt , Sussex ) moving an amendment , ( to the motion for a petition , ) recognizing the gtiIs of slavery , and the necessity of measures for bringing about the gradual and eventual freedom of the negroes , he was received with hisses , and not an individual was found to secoud his motion . The

    Petition , which is to the King , is very humble in style , the petitioners declaring in the oriental manner that " they lay themselves at the feet of his Majesty /* but not a little assuming in matter . The real property of the planters in their fellow-creatures of another colour is of

    course asserted , and indemnification in the event of loss to the proprietors , through the measures of the Legislature , is demanded on principles of legal equity . The following passage is meant as a hint to the government , and , though the grammatical construction is not very clear

    it is a pretty broad one : " It has been urged with a view of shaking the title to such property , " ( in slaves , ) " that in its origin . it will be found to have been vitiated by acts of injustice or violence ; we might ask how much of the property of

    your Majesty ' s subjects ;—property hel 4 the most sacred" ( does this refer to Church property ?)— " could shew , a title to its origin free from injustice or violence ? Whether your Mejesty * s title tt > those Colonies , though sanctioned by treaties and recognized by the law of nations , could stand that test ? Whether it could

    be shewn that the original occupation of those countries by the nations of Europe , was sustained by acts of : cruelty or violence towards the native inhabitants ; or

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    how much of theJajided , property of Great Britain $ r | l ^ # could be retained by the present possessors , if such a title were rfequire ^ to be shewn ? The gen eral admission of this principle would shake property of all descriptions throughout

    your Majesty ' s dominions , and against a partial application of it to the T property of your Majesty ' s subjects in the Colonies , we appeal in confidence to your Majesty , the dispenser of equal justice towards all your subjects . "

    Vague reports have reached Europe of insurrectionary movements in the French colony of Martinique , but it does not yet appear whether the news has any other foundation than the fears of the planters , or rather their design of alarming thfc Governments at home , in order to put a stop to all measures of amelioration .

    The Courier has published the , folio w > - ing statement , which we presume is a&-thentic , respecting the condemned missionary at Demarara : " The King has been pleased to remit the sentence of death on Missionary Smith in Demarara ,

    ( which sentence had been accompanied by a recommendation for mercy on the part of the Court , ) and to direct that he should be dismissed from the colony , and be called upon to enteriuto recognizances not to reside within any of His Majesty ' s Colonial possessions in the West Indies . "

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    tract forms part of Mr . Henderson ' s Letter to the Committee of the Bible Society —after the receipt of which it was resolved that AH Bey ' s Version should still be circulated , but with a table of errata . Hence , Mr . H . ' s resignation , for he alleges that a table of errata is useless to

    the majority of readers , that in this case it must amount to the size of a third part of the volume , and that pernicious would be the consequences of exposing such an accumulation of error in the Scriptures

    to the Mohammedan world . This affair will , no doubt , lead to much controversy , and induce the subscribers to the Bible Society to look a little more closely into the way in which their immense funds are employed .

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    122 Intelligence . —FPe&t Indies . •" Negro Slavery .

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    Ecclesiastical Intolerance in Ireland . The Heads of the Established Church in Ireland , which church embraces , perhaps , one twelfth of the population , have been lately setting up claims and enforcing exclusions , which would seem to

    indicate that their purpose is to put in array against them nearly the whole people of this unhappy country . We refer to their prohibition qf any service by Roman Catholics , or Presbyterians , on consecrated ground , at funerals . Thi » new decree has occasioned some indecent scenes . The Roman Catholics were first

    debarred the melancholy satisfaction of enjoying their otvn religious rites at the graves of their friends , and the conduct of the Established Clergy has been discussed at several of their meetings , and angry feelings , as might have beea expected , have been expressed upon the occasion . But it was not enough to add

    another to the innumerable irritations of the Roman Catholics ; the class of people in Ireland next to them in population and wealth , the Presbyterians , have been now attacked . At the funeral of a Presbyterian , in a churchyard near Belfast , Dr . Bruce was about to offer up a prayer according to custom , when he was interrupted by the curate , who stated that he

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/58/