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    ytriftr 6 f the two Borises of assekkbly m the islad * . Here as in England is a proper place for improvement : and it is unjust to say that great improvements hare not been gradnally taking place uriiter tbe local legislatures . All has not been done that the Sanguine emancipator may expect ; but it

    would be time for Miv Wilberforce and his friends to call on a superior authority when , having proposed to the colonial legislatures a regulation , it had been rejected by them Without cause . The rude attempt to legislate for all the islands is such an attack upon the local legislations as cannot but excite dismay and distrust ; and if

    a similar thing * had been attempted in Ertgland , interfering with all our corporate bodies , the table of the House of Commons would have been overwhelmed with petitions from every part pf England . The spirit of insurrection first appeared in the island of Barbadoes , and it displayed

    itself in the burning of plantations to a very great extent . From the energy of the whites the misled blacks were brought into subjection , but not without considerable slaughter of the latter in the field , and tire execution of others by the hand of justice . The island , however , is in that

    state that the whites are compelled to keep a strict watch over their dependents . The proclamations issued by the governors of ether islands indicate that a similar watchfulness is necessary in them ; but it is hoped that as the whites are now every where on the alert the intended mischief may be prevented .

    In this state of things Mr . Wilberforce ' s motion was coming forward , but it was delayed' till government liad received its dispatches ; and after they had arrived , Mr . Wilberforce made u long speech tending ' rather to inflame than to appease the existing troubles . H « was replied to by a

    gtntteman connected with tlie West Indie 9 , who contented himself With a plain representation of facts , which pointed out the inevitable loss of the colonies unless speedy measures were taken to make it clear to the blacks that no such measure was in agitation as their emancipation * He proposed that an address should be presented

    to the Prince Regent to request £ hat the governors of tt * e islands might be directed to issue proclamations testifying his high displeasure at |; he late outrages arid } he insidious attempts of those who were exritidg hopes of emancipation , since no such measure wds in contemplation , though

    every effort should be encouraged which Hd in view their moral and r ^ ligiojis im-Vmtmerit : All siclea of the House saw *«* necessit y and propriety of this measure , J [ nich Was unanimously voted , and we trust that it will have the desired effect , though rt mi * rt not be concealed tbat > at this m © -

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    ttreot , the holders , of ptopetfy in the W&fc Indies are iri fear for ijt 9 security , as well as for the lives of their friends and relatives in those regions . The mischief that has already been done will make the legislature pause before it gives its countenance to a set of persons so little ac- * - quainted with our West India islands and deriving their information from very suspicious quarters .

    The spirit of discontent has appeared ia our own country . Great outrages have been Committed in the isle of Ely ; the alleged cause—tbe distresses of the poor from ' wtint of work and want of proper pay . By a dti « degree of spirit these

    infatuated people were brought under , and a number * of rioters were committed to pri * son . A special commission was appointed of two judges to sit with the judge of the isle of Ely upon this occasion , and after the trial , ' and condemnation of a few of

    the ringleaders , the crown very humanely stopped farther prosecutions , letting the rest ^ go out upon recognizances for future appearance and bail for their good '

    beha-. An occurrence has taken" place of a singular nature , which might give room for many comments . A meeting of the county of Kent took place at Maidstone for the purpose of congratulation on the late royal marriage . An address was moved arid seconded , but on taking the show of hands

    scarcely any hands were held tip in its favour and the meeting was dissolved . Th £ principal gentlemen retired to an inn and requested the High Sheriff to take the chair , which he with great propriety declined , arid the company resolved that copied of tbe adr dress should be sent to the principal towns

    for signatures . Addresses so signed want r ^ e legitimate stamp and can convey only the sentiments of individuals ; and the expression of popular feeling at the meeting canttot be construed into any intended affront to the young couple , in whose happiness all must be interested , though it is indicatory of a discontent which it will be

    the duty of government to examine , and if there are just causes for it to endeaypur to remove the grounds 6 t it . ^ In France all ia quiet , if we are to b elieve government reports . The principal

    instigators to the insurrection in Dauphinf have been executed . The court has been occupied with t \ yo grand-eve ^ U—the luarriage o /^ ie Duke ctf Berri and the celebration of their grand feosf called by then * the Feast of God . On the day for this

    feast processions are made in every parish of the Catholic world , ' The Wajfer godim paraded about the streets—altars are erected at various places—and the deluded multitude falls prostrate as it passes before thU miserable emblem and other abomi-

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    -v Stute of Public Affair * . 371

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/63/