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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. L is informed, that we cannot print Knibb's
evidence before the House of Lords. Although
fully aware of the importance of the subject, it
would occupy too much space.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH will appear in No. 2.
of "The National Gallery of Philanthropists."
The other benevolent individuals alluded to by
F. F. M., will also appear in succession.
We cannot insert trashy poetry: H. Horn's verses
are left with the Publisher.

THE TOURIST. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1832. WE do not wish to undervalue the talents or the literary pretensions of our competitors, neither do we wish to hold ourselves up as the beau ideal of a Penny Publication; but we cannot refrain from thus frankly acknowledging the extensive sale which the first number of "THE TOURIST" has met with from the public. Without dipping into the troublesome sea of politics, we have found, and shall continue to find, a fund of amusement for the instruction and entertainment of our readers. We trust to be able to maintain our claim to the support of a discerning public, on the fair ground of merit.

WE call the attention of our readers to the following spirited article, which appeared in "The Times" Newspaper of Saturday, the 15th.

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of the north-side parishes' of Jamaica | the missionaries or their hateful persecutors
have signalized the impotency of their pre- The truth must be told. These planters wil
ceding attempts against the Missionaries, not suffer their slaves to emerge, by the
avenue of knowledge of any description,
by the resolutions to which we have already
alluded, and which will be found in this from the level of beasts, to which a long
day's paper. It is possible that some of the course of degrading treatment has reduced
Baptist Missionaries may be men indiffer- them. If men be once educated, or even
enly educated, som", possibly, not of the shown the road to education, however im
highest prudence,-and that on one or two perfect, they will no longer endure the con-
occasions the language employed by them dition of quadrupeds. The Jamaica planters
for religious instruction or exhortation may, are well aware of this. Their resolutions
as is not unfrequent here in England (ay, are worthy of their system; but the At-
and in the Established Church, moreover,) torney General has commenced the lesson of
been ignorantly perverted by LAW, which remains to be completed by the
their half-taught hearers temporal Government and Parliament of Great Bri-
and mischievous meanings. But that tain."
does not make men incendiaries or
rebels. Rebels and incendiaries may be pu-
nished by law. Why have not the mission-
aries been so punished? It is plain that,
if they could have been fairly exposed to any
legal penalty, the planters would never, in
their desperation, have adopted, as one of
their resolutions, a pledge" to expel the
sectarians and other incendiaries from the
island." Why, the men are raving mad!
What power in the United Kingdom, or
in any colony under the crown of Britain,
can lawfully expel the meanest human being
from its territory, when he has committed
no crime acknowledged by the law of
England? But what despot, known to
Europe or Asia, has, in modern times, so
sinned against the human race, as to banish
a man because of the peculiar sect of Chris-
tianity of which he was a member? The
Grand Turk--nay, old Ali Pacha himself,
the monster of Joannina-would have spat
upon the Janissary who proposed it. Expel
all sectarians from Jamaica! Try it, gen-
tlemen; but prepare for a trial of strength,

SOMNAMBULISM.-An incredible story is told in a French Paper of a child of twelve years of age, who was found standing up to his loins in the sea, near the Conquest, busy fishing for plaice with a foene, a sort of harpoon used for striking flat fish. Some boatmen having approached him, they were astonished to find that the urch n was asleep, though he had succeeded in catching five or six plaice. On waking him the child was as much a tonished as the fishermen. He was conveyed home and put to bed, but had not been long in it before he was seized with a raging

fever.

BEARDS.-Some of the ancient German nations allowed their beards to grow till they had killed an enemy in battle; and the Anglo-Saxons,

probably on their first arrival in Britain, and for

a considerable time after, followed this fashion. After the introduction of Christianity, the clergy were obliged to shave their beards, in obedience to the laws and practice of all the western churches. By degrees, the English laity began to imitate the clergy so far as to shave all their beards, except their upper lips, on which they left a lock of hair, by which they were distin

ATTEMPT TO EXPEL THE MISSION- the next moment, with the people and guished from the French and Normans, who

ARIES FROM JAMAICA.

Reformed Parliament of England, and
who will first be expelled"

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shaved their whole beards. In modern times we find this national practice completely reserved.

ANCIENT MONUMENT IN SCRIVELSBY CHURCH,
SIR ROBERT DYMOKE'S TOMB.

"Public attention is drawn to intelligence from Jamaica, respecting certain resolutions which a body of planters in the northern division of that important island had passed; and which, we are bound to say, for daring illegality and monstrous injustice, have never been exceeded by any act, however offensive or unreasonable, on the records of colonial violence. It is well known that the sectarian Missionaries, who have gone forth from this country to preach Christianity to the West India Negroes, have been for many years objects of extreme jealousy to what is called the West India interest;' and that no instance of insubordination or outrage has ever occurred throughout these colonies since the abolition of the slave trade, whence prompt occasion was not taken to charge the guilt of it upon the unfortunate Missionaries. In Demerara, not many years since, a Preacher was tried by court-martial for an alleged participation in, or promotion of, the rebellion of the Blacks; and, if we remember right, the poor man's life fell a sacrifice to the severity with which he was treated in prison. In the late insurrection of Jamaica some Missionaries Scrivelsby church is a small building, were subjected to trial under similar charges, but notwithstanding the clamour consisting of a nave, with a north aisle, raised against them, and the excitement and a chancel. At the eastern end of the then prevailing in the island, no miscon- aisle are two tombs, on one of which is duct was substantiated against any one of the figure of a knight, in chain armour, them,-not one conviction could be obtained, cross-legged; on the other that of a lady, however ardently it was wished for, and with a lion at her feet. By the side of diligently sought. The bitterness, however, which has been cherished against these secta- these is the tomb of Sir Robert Dymoke, rians, has been apparently strengthened by who was champion at the coronation of the bad success of its undertakings; and Richard the third, Henry the seventh, the planters composing the colonial union and Henry the eighth; by the last of

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whom he was made a knight banneret. On the top of the tomb is a plate of brass, on which is sculptured his figure in full armour, in a recumbent posture, with his helmet under his head, and a lion at his feet. Above him is a shield, containing arms, and under him is the following inscription, in black letter:

"Here liethe the Body of sir Robert Demoke

of Serevelsby knight and baronet who departed ye yere of our lord god mdlxv upon whose owt of this present lyfe the xv day of Apryl in sowle almighte god have m'ci Amen."

THE TOURIST'S PORTFOLIO.-No. I.

SOMERSBY.

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with its pediment, which rises from this, is ornamented on the south face with the

representation of the crucified founder of the christian faith, and on the opposite side with that of the virgin and child.

NAMING THE WEAPONS.-"I remember," says Aubrey, "there was a great difference between Sir William Petty and one of Oliver's knights, about 1660. They printed one against the other. Sir William to fight with him. Sir William was The knight had been a soldier, and challenged extremely short-sighted; and being the challenged, it belonged to him to nominate the place and weapons. He nominated for the place a dark cellar, and the weapon to be a great carpenter's are! This turned the knight's challenge into ridicule, and so it came to nought.

ATTACHMENT.-The Dalystown estate, sold to pay off incumbrances, was the property of the late Right Hon. Denis Bowes Daly. A curious discovery took place after Daly's death. The body of his wife, who died thirty years before, was found in a high state of preservation, in a small closet, to which none but Mr. Daly had access, and which, when at Dalystown, he was the lady's decease, a funeral took place, and her in the frequent habit of visiting. At the time of interment, as was supposed, in a cenotaph erected on the grounds. The secret, however, never transpired until after Mr. Daly's death. He wore, to the day of his death, the ashes of her heart in a locket.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE SLAVE DEALER. BY T. PRINGLE, ESQ.

The following anecdote was related by the Rev. T. R. England, at an Anti-Slavery Meeting at Cork, in September, 1829.

"One day I was sent for to visit a sailor who was approaching fast to his eternal account. On my speaking to him of repentance, he looked sullen, and turned from me in the bed ;-of a great God, he was silent-of the mercy of that God, and he burst into tears. 'Oh!' said he, 'I can never expect mercy from God. I was ten years on board a slave ship, and then superintended the cruel death of many a sick slave. Many a time, amid the screams of kindred, has the sick mother, father, and newborn babe, been wound up in canvass and remorselessly thrown overboard. Now, their screams haunt mc, night and day, and I have no peace, and expect no mercy!'

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From ocean's wave a wanderer came,

With visage tanned and dun:
His mother, when he told his name,
Scarce knew her long-lost son;
So altered was his face and frame
By the ill course he had run.

There was hot fever in his blood,
And dark thoughts in his brain;
And oh! to turn his heart to good
That mother strove in vain,
For fierce and fearful was his mood,
Racked by remorse and pain.

And if, at times, a gleam more mild
Would o'er his features stray,
When knelt the widow near her child,
And he tried with her to pray,
It lasted not-for visions wild
Still scared good thoughts away.

"There's blood upon my hands," he said, "Which water cannot wash;

It was not shed where warriors bled,
But dropped from the gory lash,
As I whirled it o'er and o'er my head,
And with each stroke left a gash.

"With every stroke I left a gash,
While Negro blood sprang high;
And now all ocean cannot wash
My soul from murder's dye;

Nor e'en thy prayer, dear mother, quash
That woman's wild death-cry!

"Her cry is ever in my ear,

And will not let me pray;

Her look I see-her voice I hear-
As when in death she lay,
And said, 'With me thou must appear
On God's great Judgment-day !'"
"Now, Christ from frenzy keep my son!"
The woful widow cried;
"Such murder foul thou ne'er hast done-
Some fiend thy soul belied!"-
Nay, mother! the avenging One
Was witness when she died!

"The writhing wretch with cruel heel
I crushed-no mortal nigh;
But that same hour her dread appeal
Was registered on high;
And now with God I have to deal,
And dare not meet His eye!"

WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?-We copy the following from a Woodstock (Vermont, U.S.) paper. An incident occurred in this neighbourhood on the 4th inst. so praiseworthy in itself, and so creditable to the parties concerned, that we cannot avoid noticing it. The blacksmith's shop of an old man, named Philip Harman, living near the North Mountain, took fire on the 3d, and was entirely consumed, together with all its contents of a destructible nature, including his account book. The next morning about 40 of his neighbours assembled on the spot, with six waggons and teains, and felled, hewed, and hauled up timber enough for another shop, which they raised up before night, besides making the old man up a purse of 16 dollars, to furnish him with the necessary tools to enable him to work again.

MEMS. OF A SLAVE.

"Facts-not fictions."

The following little anecdote is taken from an interesting little publication, called, "Pity the Negro." We had just got out of the harbour of St. Thomas, on our passage to the island of St. Croix, when the captain of the schooner in which we sailed, sent a little Negro boy to the top of the mast to fetch down the flag; in untying it, he lost his hold and fell into the sea. He called out for help; but our barbarous captain would not let the boat put off to his assistance. However, a Spanish dog of the captain's seeing the poor little Negro in the water, jumped overboard, and laid hold of the boy's arm. The captain called the dog several times, but he would not come; when, fearing he might lose his dog, he ordered out the boat; but as soon as the poor boy came on board, he beat him most shockingly for losing his flag.

The daughter of one Barvet, a cooper, put to death a boy of the age of fourteen, who she thought, had too tardily executed a commission she had given him. He was suspended under the arms, and a large weight placed on his head. He was then beaten with a split rattan till he

died,

Col. Barclay had been sent to seize some new Negroes on the estate of a Mr. Cassenac, in the Mauritius. In a report of his proceedings is this passage, "I feel it a duty which I owe to hu manity to report, that during my examination of the outhouses, I passed two boys, apparently of from ten to twelve years of age, who had been most severely flogged. These wreched children were most heavily chained by their necks, and were placed with their faces near the ground, so as to expose their naked persons to the sun. On expressing my horror at witnessing such cruelty, and enquiring what crime they could possibly have committed, I was informed by Mr. Cassenac's nephew, that they had marooned (run away) and set fire to some sugar-cane. The children acknowledged their having marooned. In consequence of my interference they were removed into one of the buildings

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A man of the name of C. A. Hoffman, was thrice arraigned at the bar of justice, in New York, for abusing a child who unhappily was his slave. A witness proved that Hoffman tied the hands of the child together, drew them up above his head with a rope attached to the wall, and fastened his feet by another rope to a staple in the floor. He then stripped the boy, and applied a horsewhip with such violence, that the first blow drew forth a quantity of blood. The strokes were followed up with the same violence to the number of one hundred and forty, when the rope broke, and the sufferer fell to the floor. Not having yet glutted his fury, he gave forty more while the victim lay prostrate at his feet. So great was the quantity of blood which issued from the mangled body, that a woman was called in to mop it up. To increase the poor creature's torture, he applied a mixture of salt and brandy to the wounds. A second witness testified, that having on another occasion beaten the child in a most barbarous manner, he forced down his throat two table-spoonfuls of salts, in order to excite thirst, and then confined him in a small, uncomfortable, dreary apartment, without food or drink, duriug forty eight hours. What ag. gravated these cruelties was, that the child was of

years too tender to have given cause for them, nor was he conscious of having committed any fault deserving of punishment: This monster was fined two hundred and fifty dollars, and put under a recognizance of two thousand dollars, to treat the boy with more humanity. Notwithstanding this, Hoffman continued his cruelties, till the grand jury again found a bill of indictment against him; but he chose to manumit the boy, rather than stand another trial, and thus the case was dismissed.

ORACLE OF ORIGINS.-No. II.

DAGGER MONEY.-The Judges, entering Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to hold the Assizes, are cach presented with a piece of gold coin of the value of about 11. 10s., of the reign of James the Se cond, and which is called dagger-money. It originated from the circumstance of the Judges in that King's reign having been presented with daggers, to guard them from the attack of the Moss-troopers. When no executions occur at these Assizes, the Judges are each presented with six pair of gloves. Mr. Baron Bolland and Mr. Justice Parke received the dagger-money and the gloves on their late visit to Newcastle. The Judges, when they hold the Assizes at Lancaster, are presented with 301. each, by the Chancellor of the Duchy, upon condition that they perform any business belonging to the Chancellor's office that may occur while the Judges are on the circuit.

CHAIRING MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.-This custom was taken from the practice in the northern nations of elevating the King, after his election, upon the shoulders of the Senators. The Anglo-Saxons carried their King upon a shield when crowned. The Danes set him upon a high stone, placed in the middle of twelve smaller. Bishops were chaired upon elections, as were abbots and others.

THE HOUSEWIFE.

"A stitch in time."-OLD ADAGE. PRESERVING ICE.-Anybody that has a shady shrubbery may have an ice-house, without expense, by heaping a large cone of well-pounded ice, or snow, in the winter, and causing it to be thatched with barley-straw about twice the thickness laid upon a stack of oats. In this way ice may be preserved for three years.

BEES.-When stung by a bee, let the sting be instantly pulled out, for the longer it remains in the wound, the deeper it will pierce, owing to its peculiar form, and emit more of the poison; the sting is hollow, and the poison flows through it, which is the sole cause of the pain and inflammation. When the sting is extracted, suck the wounded part, if possible, and very little inflammation will ensue. If hartshorn-drops are immediately afterwards rubbed in the part, the cure will be more complete.

OINTMENT FOR PIMPLES.-Take of purified lard an ounce, of citron ointment an ounce and a half, of finest almond oil half an ounce, mix all well together. This may be scented by oil of bergamot. IRRITABILITY.-Take tincture of foxglove, ten drachms; camphor mixture, ten drachms; tincture of calumba, one drachm; sulphuric ether, 15 drops. Make a draught, to be taken every four hours.

LACONICS.

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"The best words of the best Authors."

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation, without blemishing another's by discovering his faults.-(Quesnet.)

Ungoverned desire, and fear, and rage, and revenge, dwell only in the gloom of a dungeon, and in the midst of maniacs.-(Dwight.)

Self will is so ardent and active, that it will break a world to picces to make a stool to sit on. - (Cecil.)

There be four good mothers have four bad daughters-truth hath hatred, prosperity hath pride, security hath peril, and familiarity hath contempt.-(Hale,)

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in irons chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to ac. complish, for he learns to economise his time.(Hale.)

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but a substitute for exercise or temperance.-(Addison.)

Whatever is not matter of evidence is not

within the oath, and consequently not within the duty of Jurors.

Interest is an extraordinary actor-there is no part, be it ever so high, or ever so low, but it can perform.

Aim at perfection in every thing, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -(Chesterfield.)

BREVITIES.

On the 27th of November next a comet will approach to within 3,600 miles of the earth. A coach-proprietor, with the infelicitous name of Onslow, has been advertising "expeditious" travelling on the northern road.

Rothschild stated before the Committee of the

House of Commons that he buys bills, drawn on foreign houses, to the amount of 80,000l. or 100,000l. per week; and received in the year 1824, in two months, bills to the amount of 1,500,000/.

The minor branch of the Royal Family of France is marked in history by misfortunes. The Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles the Sixth, was assassinated by the Duke of Burgundy; and the measure of calamity attending the family was not filled up before the year 1793, when Phillipe d'Orleans perished miserably on the scaffold.

The Duke of Reichstadt left no will; his mother is therefore the heiress of his property, the an.. nual interest of which is said to be nearly a million of imperial florins.

The march of matrimony has made no progress in the parish of Elmsthorpe, in Leicestershire, which contains only four houses, occupied by 34 individuals, the whole of whom are living in a state of single blessedness! The rector has a complete sinecure, no service having been performed since 1798, and then only when he read himself in! The church is now a ruin, clad with ivy.

Ben Nevis has, till very lately, been considered the monarch of the Scottish mountains; but it now appears, from the trigonometrical survey lately made by order of Government, that he must yield the palm to Ben Macdui, a mountain in Aberdeenshire, who overtops him by about 20 feet.

During the canvass of Mr. Garnett, among the electors of Salford, he and his friends called at a huckster's shop, in which was only a boy, who, having learned their business, went to the foot of the stairs, and called to his mother, who was above, "Mother, here's a mon, as wants yo't vote for him to be a Parliament mon." "Well," shouted his mother, "tell him thy feyther's not in, but if he'll chalk his name on the counter, we'lle nquire into his character.

LIFE.
Cling not to earth-there's nothing there,
However lov'd, however fair,
But on its features still must wear
The impress of mortality.
Cling not to earth-as well we may
Trust Asia's serpent's wanton play,
That glitters only to betray

To death-or else to misery.
Dream not of friendship-there may be
A word, a smile, a grasp for thee;
But wait the hour of need, and see,
But wonder not-their faliacy.
Think not of beauty-like the rest
It bears a lustre on its crest;
But short the time ere stands confessed
Its falsehood-or its frailty.
CHARITY.

In faith and hope the world will disagree;
But all mankind's concern is charity.

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Can a slave prevent the sale of his wife, if his. owner pleases? If so, quote the law.

Can a slave prevent the sale of his own child, if his owner pleases? If so, quote the law.

Can a slave with impunity refuse to flog his wife, with her person all exposed, if his owner pleases to command him? If so, quote the law. Can a slave obtain redress if his master deprives him of his goods? If so, quote the law.

Can a slave attend either public or private. worship, without the risk of punishment, if his master forbids him? If so, quote the law.

These are plain questions, which every slaveowner knows can only be truly answered in one'

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Sir C. Bethell Codrington's Letter. Gentlemen: Unwilling at all times to intrude myself unnecessarily on your attention, I feel that I should be doing my duty neither to myself, nor to that man with intentional malignity termed my slave, if I did not, in such times as these, endeavour to open the eyes of the misled anti-slavery Buxtonites. Gentlemen, if I were merely, like Mr. Buxton, to make assertions which I am convinced he will not venture to say he himself believes, I should deserve no credit for such assertions. I will therefore state that only, which, from a residence on the spot, I have been an eye-witness to; or which, extracted from letters in my possession, I can vouch for the truth of. I have lived among my Negroes,

victory will be your's-if you decline this invitation, the Electors of Gloucestershire will not be at a loss to decide where and with whom the error lies.

and seen their comforts, and I will assert (defy-
ing all contradiction) that a more happy and
contented class of beings never existed, until
cursed with the blessings of the Anti-Slavery
Society. Still, Gentlemen, I will say that no Permit me to suggest that there is somewhat
man can be more desirous of their emancipation of inconsistency in your mode of reasoning. You
than myself, because no man would be more be- are very angry with those who are friendly to
nefited by it, if it answered the desired object. the freedom of the Negro-but when you have
Gentlemen, my family have, for a century and exhausted your terms of vituperation, out comes
a half, held under the Crown an Island in the your declaration that "no man can be more
West Indies, eleven leagues N. of Antigua. The desirous of their Emancipation than yourself."
Negroes, in 1825, having within the preceding If the Negroes be so rich in comforts-if they
twenty years doubled their numbers, amounted surpass the rest of mankind in contentment, and
to about 430: their number, at present, exceeds the causes of contentment-why do you wish to
500. I have an agent on the island called a rob them of THE JOYS OF SLAVERY? Why do you
governor, who, with two overseers, form the labour (to use your own strange phraseology)
whole of the white male population upon an "to curse them with the blessings which the
Island eleven leagues from the nearest land, Anti-Slavery Society would confer?" Again,
among a Negro (or slave) population exceed-you and your agent agree in thinking that great
ing 500.
benefit would accrue to you by general eman-
Mr. James, in 1825, states the Negroes to be cipation"-where then is the necessity of the
happy and contented, although under the compensation for which you plead? Compen-
greatest subordination; and, in proof, he men-sation for an injury sustained has some colour
tions his having frequently slept in the woods of reason, but compensation for an acknowledged
(pirates frequently landing,) by the side of his benefit is a doctrine more likely to be novel than
horse, surrounded by 100 or 150 of them; and acceptable to the people of England. Again, you
and having often swam out to wrecks, followed speak of the increase of your Slaves, and you
by these cruelly treated Slaves, in seas where no insinuate this as a proof of good treatment. It
boats could live. That he was in the habit of is so-we are agreed upon the fact that mankind
leaving his wife and daughter on the Island, when only decrease under circumstances of peculiar
going on business to other Islands, (in fact, he cruelty, misery, and oppression. But do you
has actually gone to England on one occasion,) not now perceive that, in your anxiety to confer
although there was not on any door a lock, or on a compliment on yourself, you have touched
any window a fastening. In fact, (he writes,) upon the very point which, of all others,
"the greater part of them would lay down their condemns the Slave system? You cannot be
lives to serve me. Scarcely (he adds) does one ignorant that the population of the Slave Colo-
of your vessels go to Antigua without a quantity nies has, according to official returns, decreased
of poultry and salt fish to sell, and in good FIFTY TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND
seasons an immense quantity of potatoes. Many THIRTY NINE, in ELEVEN YEARS!
of them have ten or eleven acres of land in cul-
tivation, the produce of which, of course, is
their own property." My agent, Gentlemen, in
the present year (1832) writes, that the father of
one of my slaves will not allow his daughter to
be emancipated, thinking their present state
preferable to emancipation; he states fully and
convincingly the benefits which would accrue to
me from general emancipation, but adds his con-
viction that not a fourth of my Negroes would
be alive at the end of two years.

Gentlemen, I could add much more; but I
have already trespassed too long upon your at-
tention. I have bought my Negroes, and cul-
tivated my land, on the pledged faith of England.
Secure me from loss, or give me compensation,
and you may offer manumission to the above
Negroes to-morrow.

Your obedient servant,
C. BETHELL CODRINGTON.
Dodington, Aug. 9th, 1832.

Mr. T. F. Buxton to Sir C. B. Codrington.
Sir: In entering upon an answer to the unpro-
voked attack upon me, contained in your ad-
dress to the Electors of the County of Gloucester,
the first question which occurs to me is, How
does it happen that there is a dispute between us?
It certainly did not originate with me-I had
never offered you any personal insult-I had
never, in private or in public, mentioned your
name, or commented on your conduct. I ought,
perhaps, to take shame for my ignorance-but
the fact is, I was not conscious that there lived
such a person as Sir C. B. Codrington.

As, however, you have chosen to step out of your way for the purpose of criminating me, I feel myself under the necessity of entering into some examination of your statements. I shall do this in entire good humour. I have been so much accustomed to West Indian reproaches that they carry with them, to my mind, neither surprise nor pain.

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But no part of your address gratifies me so much as the anxiety with which you labour to show that your Negroes can be industrious when they work for themselves. You exult in the number of vessels carrying from your Island to Antigua the goods which your Negroes have acquired for themselves by their own labour, the poultry that they have raised, the fish they have salted, the potatoes they have cultivated, and. as if this were not enough, you assure us of them have ten or eleven acres of land each in cultivation." Indeed! then they cannot be the indolent beings which some Pianters repre. sent them-then they can engage in agricultural labour for their own benefit. If they make such good use of the scantling of time you allow them, may we not fairly conclude that when their whole time and labour shall belong to themselves, they will work with as much industry as the rest of mankind?

Thus, sir, your address, though short, is full of instructive matter. You have hit upon the test of population of all others the most fatal to the romance of Negro felicity-and next you have furnished me with one of the most striking and conclusive illustrations I have ever heard of the readiness of the Negro to labour when that labour conduces to the gratification of his own wants.

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ROBERT GRAY, Peacock Inn, Boston,

About two years since I found my hair gradually fall. ing off, so much so that I was convinced that in a very You begin by telling the Electors of Glouces-short time I should have been completely bald; naming tershire that you desire to open the eyes of the Son, of this place, I was induced to try your BALM OF the circumstance to your Agents, Messrs. Parker and Anti-Slavery Buxtonites." Why, then, did you COLUMBIA; at er using only two six shilling bottles, not point out some sentiment I had uttered-or I found my hair as thick as it ever was in my life. In some fact I had stated-and then prove the fal-justice to yourselves, and a benefit to the Public, you lacy of the one or misrepresentation of the other? are at liberty to give this what publicity you please. Why did you resort to general accusation, and I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c. steer clear of any particular and tangible charge? To Messrs. C. and A. Oldridge, I, Wellington-street, I suspect that it was because you found it easier Strand, London. to asperse the advocate than to grapple with his OLDRIDGE'S BALM prevents the hair from turnargument. You can however, easily remove this ing grey, and the first application makes it curl beautisuspicion. All the statements I have made upon fully, trees it from scurt, and stops it from falling off. the subject of Slavery are within your reach-se-shown by the Proprietors, C. & A. Olidge, 1, WelAbundance of Certificates of the first respectability are lect any one, or more, which you deny-and if lington-street, Strand, where the Balm is sold, and by I do not verify my statements, whether it be of all respectable Perfumers and Medicine Venders, price fact or of argument, by conclusive proof, the 38, 6d., 6., and 11s. per bottle.

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Professor BURNET will commence his LECTURES on BOTANY on WEDNESDAY, the 3d of October next, at Three o'Clock P.M., when he will deliver his He will give Two INTRODUCTORY LECTURE Courses, the one an extended and practical series, with demonstrations; the other a short and popular course. The first will be delivered daily, at Eight o'Clock in the morning; the other on Wednesdays only, at Three o'Clock in the afternoon.

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For the Morning Course... £2 2 0 110 For the Afternoon Course Students attending the Morning Lectures have free admission to the Afternoon Courses.

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W. OTTER, M. A. Principal.

MEETING OF THE T A SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE GUARDIAN SOCIETY, for the Preservation of Public Morals, &c., held on Friday, the 27th July, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state and future prospects of the Society.

Resolved: That this Meeting is deeply impressed with the extensive good, which, under the blessing of God, has resulted from the exertions of the Guardian Society.

That this Meeting, observing the income (by subscriptions) to be on an average not equal to one-half its expenditure, feel that, unless aided by immediate support, the Society's means of usefulness must be greatly diminished, it being possessed of no funded property whatever.

That the public be urgently entreated, both by subscriptions and donatiens, to give the Society that support which is absolutely necessary to the continuance of its efficiency. J. BROWN, Sec.

Subscriptions to any amount will be very thankfully received by John Labouchere, Esq., Treasurer, 20, Birchin-lane; by Messrs. Hoares, Praed, and Co., Hammersley and Co., Lubbock and Co., and by the Secretary, 15, Exeter Hall Strand,

AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN

EMPLOY.

for AFFORDING
MENT to the UNEMPLOYED POOR in the CUL-
TIVATION of LAND, and to give them a Permanent
and Comfortable Residence on the Soil they Cultivate.-
Office of the Institution, No. 3, OLD JEWRY, LONDON.
VICE-PRESIDENTS AND DIRECTORS.

The Most Honourable the MARQUESS OF BRISTOL, F.R.S.,
F.A.S.

The Most Honourable the MARQUESS OF DOURO
The Right Honourable the EARL OF SHREWSBURY
The Right Honourable EARL STANHOPE

The Right Honourable the EARL OF OXFORD and MOR

TIMER

The Right Roverend the LORD BISHOP OF BATH and
WELLS

The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER
The Right Honourable LORD TEYNHAM

The Right Honourable LORD ASHTOWN

The Honourable WILLIAM POLE TILNEY LONG WELLES-
LEY, M.P.

The Right Honourable SIR J. KEY, Bart., Lord Mayor
WILLIAM VENABLES, Esq., Alderman, M. P.

The Reverend LOVELACE B. WITHER

JOHN MOORE, Esq.

HENRY THOMAS WILLATS, Esq.

GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG, Esq.

And many other Noblemen and Gentlemen,
TREASURERS.

Sir John William Lubbock, Bart.; John Alden Clarke,
Esq.; and Edward Foster, Esq.
SOLICITOR AND SECRETARY.
Henry F. Richardson, Esq.

THE OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTION ARETo obtain waste and other land by gift, grant, lease, or purchase; to cultivate and divide the same into smaller portions where adviseable; and by means of letting it to the poor, to bring the same into a state of profitable culti vation, whereby all expenses, whether of outlay or otherwise, may be gradually repaid, and a small rent charged upon the occupier, leaving a comfortable subsistence for himself and his family, until the outlay and expenses are satisfied; and afterwards the means, by industry and frugality, of acquiring a competency. And to furnish implements, instruction, and other means to the occupiers to attain these desirable objects.

That the above plan is neither visionary nor wild, the demonstration of our neighbours the Dutch, who at Frederick's Oord, for sometime past, have most successfully practised it (is fully satisfactory as detailed in the Prospectus.)

The Directors have reason to believe that grants will be obtained from the Crown, and other sources, upon such terms as will enable the Society to realize their most sanguine expectations, and they are prepared to receive Tenders from such persons who may have waste or other land to dispose of on moderate terms.

The Directors trust the public will at once see the prac. ticability and excellence of the undertaking, a similar one having entirely succeeded in Holland, and they hope the public will come forward and assist them in this attempt (which can hardly be called an experiment,) in substituting Home Colonization for banishment, which under the name of emigration, is nothing short of a penalty, and a severe and often fatal penalty on misfortune. Noblemen and Gentlemen inclined to promote the objects of this Institution, are solicited to send their names and communications to the Office, No. 3, Old Jewry, London, where Subscriptions will be thankfully received; also by the Treasurers, Mansion House-street, by the Bankers, and by the Secretary, to whom communications are requested to be addressed.

Five pounds at one payment constitute a Governor for Life, and ten shillings annually a Yearly Governor. Prospectuses may be had at the Office, where attendance is given every day from 10 till 4,

OLONIAL SLAVERY.-Great misconception having been found to prevail as to the object of the ANTI-SLAVERY PARTY, the AGENCY SOCIETY consider it right, at the present crisis, again to deolare, for the information of Candidates and Electors throughout the kingdom, that their SOLE OBJECT is IMMEDIATELY to substitute judicial for the PRIVATE and IRRESPONSIBLE AUTHORITY now exercised over 830,000 of their fellow creatures, and to obtain for them an equal enjoyment of civil rights with free-born subjects of Great Britain.

The first of the following Schedules contains the names of those Gentlemen who are either Members of the existing Parliament, or reported to be Condidates for the next, and whose past conduct or present professions, or ad. mitted personal interest in the question, leaves the Agency Anti-Slavery Committee without hope that they will This support the reasonable object above described. Schedule contains, as a matter of course, all who are known to be Slave Proprietors.

The third Schedule contains the names of those Gentlemen whom the Committee recommend with perfect confidence to the support of all Electors who concur in desiring IMMEDIATE abolition.

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The Committee see no reason

at present to remove any of the above names from this Schedule, and particularly caution their friends not to be misled by any GENERAL Anti-Slavery professions.

SCHEDULE B

is intended to contain the names of those Gentlemen who
offer doubtful or indefinite promises; but, as it is probable
that some of them have not yet fully made up their minds
on the subject, this Schedule will not be advertised for a
few days.

SCHEDULE C,

containing the names of those whom the Committee re.
commend with perfect confidence to the support of all
Electors who concur in desiring IMMEDIATE abolition.
Abingdon, Thomas Bowles
Anstruther, Andrew John-

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Ditto, E. H. Adams
Chatham, Erskine Perry
Clare, Muarice O'Connell
Colchester, R. Sanderson
Ditto, D. W. Harvey
Ditto, Wm. Mayhew
Denbighshire Boroughs,
John Madocks
Denbighshire, Robert Myd-
dleton Biddulph
Devonshire, Hon. G. T.

Vernon

Dover, Capt. R. H.Stanhope
Durham, South Division.
Jos. Pease, Jun.

Essex, South Division, T. B.
Lennard

Glamorgan, J. H. Vivian

Glamorgan, L. W. Dillwyn
Gloucester, Capt. Berkeley
Ditto, John Philpots
Gloucester, Eastern Division
Henry Moreton
Ditto, ditto, B. W. Guise
Gloucester, West Division,
Grantley, F. Berkeley
Hastings, H. Elphinstone
Kedgwin
Herefordshire,

Hoskins
Hertford, J. E. Spalding
Ditto, T. S. Duncombe
Hertfordshire,

Alston

Rowland

Hythe, W. Fraser
Ipswich, J. Morrison
Kent, West Division, T. L.
Hodges
Kerry, Daniel O'Connell
Leeds, T. B. Macaulay
Leicester, South Division,
E. Dawson
Leceister, William Evans
Ditio, Wynn Ellis
Lincoln, South Division, H.
Handley
Louth, R. L. Sheil
Newark, Serjeant Wilde
Ditto, W. F. Handley
Newcastle-under-Line, E.

Peel
Oxford, W. H. Hughes
Penryn, C. Stewart
Poole, Sir John Byng
Ditto, Mr. Lester
Preston, John Wood
Ripon, T. K. Stavely
Ditto, J. S. Crompton
Rochdale, John Fenton
Rochester, John Mills
Ditto, T. Rider
Rye, Col. De Lacy Evans
Salford. J. Brotherton
Sheffield, J. S. Buckingham
Somerset, Eastern Division,
Gore Langton
Ditto, West Division, A.
Sanford

South Shields, Durham, W.
Gowan

Stafford, T, Gisborne

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Since making up the above List, we have received the following names to be added to Schedule C.-Tiverton, -Kennedy-Sussex, Lord G. Lennox.-King's Lynn, Lord W. P. Lennox-Chichester, Lord A. Lennox.Hull, M. D. Hill

To Parliamentary Candidates-The Agency Anti-Slavery Committee are ready to receive the opinions of Parliamentary Candidates on the abolition of Colonial Slavery, before the 29th, inst., when the schedules will be made up for the third number of "THE TOURIST," 'and the Provincial papers.

By order of the Committee of the Agency Anti-Slavery
JOHN CRISP, Secretary.
Society.
18, Aldermanbury, Sept. 20.
Where may be had the following short papers,
at 4s, per 1000.

No. 1. "A few plain Questions to Plain Men."
-2. "Common Sense against Colonial Logic."
3. "Citizens and Fellow Countrymen."

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Ditto by the Rev. James Clarke, at Guilds-
borough

Henry Sparkes of Exeterranea
Joseph Sparkes, ditto.
Thomas Sparkes, ditto

Collection at Wrexham, (balance after pay-
ment of local expenses).

Collection at Quainton, by the Rev. D. Walker
Donation from Lancaster

Second Donation from the North London and
Islington Anti-slavery Association
Donation from Beverley Ladies
Collection at Hertford
Donation from Worcester
Congregational Collection at Lickey-end, near
Bromsgrove, by Rev. M. Nokes.........................ene
Francis Hart, Esq. Nottingham.....................

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HORT Mr. JONES will commence A COURSE OF THREE LECTURES, AT EXETER HALL, in which he engages to enable all his hearers to write and read Byrom's Short-hand with perfect ease, without requiring Ten Minutes' labour from the Student. Each will be required to purchase a copy of " Method v. Memory," price 7s., which will be the only expense at tendant to proficiency.

Tickets of Mr. Jones, or at the Hall.-The number is limited.

E PREACHER. Vol. 4, price 7s. 6d.

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