THE SAFETY OF IMMEDIATE EMAN- with singular fidelity. During the year 1824, CIPATION. THE FREE COLOURED AND BLACK POPULATION. the community of Jamaica was alarmed by The parliamentary paper ordered to be "In the course of the discussions which took place in St. Lucia, and which led to public inquiry (directed by government), the glaring contradictions in the statements made by myself, comreference to the respectability of the free classes, pared with those of others in public authority, with and their general habits, rendered it necessary to investigate the point fully. On that occasion were examined, on oath, the leading merchants in the country; an officer in His Majesty's service, of many years' standing, who, in his capacity of drillmajor of militia, had had to discipline all the militia corps; and a medical gentleman of some thirty years' colonial experience ;-and I further collected all the information from the different offices which could bear on the subject. The result appears in the following abstract of the testibrought charges did not attempt to controvert.— mony, testimony which those against whom I had They, the free coloured and free black class, are proved to be about five thousand in number, of whom one eighth, or somewhat more, may be manumitted slaves; and there are eighty discharged negro soldiers. Among the manumitted slaves there are many who possess landed property and slaves. Taken generally, they are certified by these gentlemen to be tranquil, humble, and most unassuming; and their conduct, since all distincenjoy the esteem and consideration of the white tions were removed, as truly astonishing. They them. There is not, as unanimously sworn to, a class, nor was any disturbance ever known among more respectable set of persons, taking their station in life, in His Majesty's dominions. As militia-men (and they form the bulk of the militia), they are deficient neither in intelligence nor zeal, whether as compared with whites of the same corps, or with persons of their station elsewhere. So much is it otherwise, that there is a company, formed exclusively of them, for the protection of property in town, in case of fire, and such other contingencies. As to property, there are two or three sugar-planters, and a large number of coffee, cocoa, and provision planters, possessing each from ten to forty slaves. There are two first-rate merchants, and a large number of second-rate merchants, and retail dealers, among them; and many of the latter purchase from £2,000 to £3,000 currency, or about £1,000 sterling, of goods, in the course of the year. One third of the trade of the able for probity in their dealings, and for puncpossess almost exclusively; and they are remarkretail merchants and small proprietors, nor are tuality in their payments. The generality are they, by any means, so embarrassed as the whites." still more striking instance of the capacity of the To proceed," says the same writer," to a negro:-It happened that several slaves took refuge from Martinique, where the slave-trade is avowedly carried on, to St. Lucia, in 1829. This caused a discussion, the effect of which was to make it Ir is not sufficiently known to the British public that a numerous class of coloured and black free persons exists throughout our slave colonies. The enemies of negro emancipation cautiously avoid attending to this fact; and the friends of humanity have failed to employ it as effectively as they might have done. The truth of the matter is, it goes far to determine the expediency, in a political and social point of view, of the measure which we advocate; and, if attentively considered in all its bearings, will be found to establish the unsoundness of the fears which are expressed respecting the consequences of immediate emancipation. Our opponents affirm, that two evils are likely to result from the abolition of slavery; first, civil insubordination, or tumult; and, secondly, a deterioration of the negro's condition. The correctness of this theory may be determined by reference to the past history and present circumstances of the free coloured and black population of our slave colonies. Their number is about one hundred and fifty thousand, exceeding, by a third, the white population. They consist either of manumitted slaves, or of the descendants of such; and have come into the possession of liberty through a variety of circumstances, some of which have been far from indicating a superiority of moral principle. What then, it is natural to ask, has been their history since their emancipa tion? Have they lost the slight portion of November 1825, thirty of the former class had colony is in their hands. The dry-good trade they civilization which they previously possessed? Have they sunk back into barbarism, extinguishing the light of knowledge, and finding pleasure only in the animal gratifications of the savage? Or have they injured the property and threatened the lives of the white colonists? Have they become tumultuous and insurrectionary, refusing obedience to the laws, and claiming the plantations of their former masters? Such are the evils with which the abolition of slavery is represented by the planters as fraught; and, strange to say, they have long succeeded in imposing on a credulous and ignorant public. But when we ask for proof-when we require facts rather than opinions--when we demand from them the specification of persons, place, and time, they are unable to meet our claim, or to satisfy the natural inquiries of an honest mind. If the negro be so improvident and idiotic as the white colonists have affirmed, then it is natural to suppose that the free black population would be marked by indolence, poverty, and wretchedness; that their tendency, from the day of their manumission, would be from better to worse, until their condition exhibited the perfection of human misery. But their present state is the very reverse of this. They have been rapidly increasing in wealth and influence, and have been admitted, in some of the islands, to share in all the political privileges of the white inhabitants. Instead of disturbing the public tranquillity, they have been the foremost to protect it in "Barbadoes.-The average annual number of persons supported in the nine parishes from which • Berbice. The white population appears to amount to about 600, and free black and coloured to 900. In 1822, it appears that there were 17 white and 2 coloured paupers. "Dominica.-The white population is estimated at about 900; the free black and coloured population was ascertained, in 1825, to amount to about 3122. During the five years ending in received relief from the poor fund, and only ten of the latter; making the proportion of more than nine white paupers to one coloured one in the same number of persons. 66 Jamaica is supposed to contain 20,000 whites, and double that number of free black and coloured persons. The return of paupers from the parishes which have sent returns, exhibits the average number of white paupers to be 295, of black and coloured paupers 148: the proportion of white paupers to those of the other class, according to the whole population, being as 4 to 1. The result of all the returns may be thus stated. The proportion of enfranchised persons receiving aid as paupers is about 1 in 370, while the proportion among the whites is about 1 in 40. Here then is a species of proof, most direct and conclusive; it has the advantage of being furnished, not by anti-slavery writers, but by the colonists themselves, and most triumphantly disproves the probability of injury to the slaves from their immediate emancipation. Every unprejudiced person must perceive that it constitutes a strong presumption, to say the least, of the ability and disposition of the African to provide for himself and his children. And yet we are told, with a hardihood which is without a parallel, that the slaves will sink down into poverty and wretchedness, if left to provide for themselves. Mr. Jeremie, in his late pamphlet on colonial slavery, affords still later information on this point. generally known, that on a foreign slave's reach ing a British colony, he, by Dr. Lushington's bill, becomes free; and, in consequence of this discussion, several, exceeding 100 in number, came over in the year 1830. mitigated slavery; persons precisely in the con"Here were persons leaving a country of undition in which our whole slave population may be supposed to have been some thirty years ago, by those who maintain that the condition of the slave has improved ;-here were persons described by their government as incendiaries, idlers, and poisoners. "When I left the colony, in April last, some were employed for wages in the business they were best acquainted with; some as masons, and carpenters; some as domestics; others in clearing land, or as labourers on estates; whilst about twenty-six had clubbed together, and placed themselves under the direction of a free coloured man, an African-one of the persons deported from Martinique, in 1824. These last had erected a pottery at a short distance from Castries: they took a piece of land, three or four cleared it, others fished up coral and burnt lime; five or six quarried and got the stones, and performed the mason work, the remainder felled the timber and worked it in; and the little money that was requisite was supplied, in advance, by the contractor for the church, on the tiles to be furinshed for the building. This pottery was completed, a plain struc ture, but of great solidity, and surprising neatness. Thus had they actually introduced a new manufacture into the country, for which it was previously indebted to our foreign neighbours, or to the home market. "All this had been effected simply by not interfering with them, by leaving them entirely to themselves: they were mustered once a month, to show that government had an eye on them, and then allowed full liberty. One man only was sick in the hospital, and he was supported by the contributions of his companions." The report of the Committee of the House of Commons, ordered to be printed August 11, 1832, furnishes abundant evidence of the same fact. We regret our inability to quote largely from this invaluable document. One or two testimonies we must be permitted to adduce. J. B. Wildman, Esq., proprietor, of Jamaica, was asked 8131. Are you acquainted with the condition of the free blacks at all?-Yes. 8132. Are they increasing in wealth and prosperity?-Yes, I think they are. 8133. Through the medium of their own industry?—Yes. 8134. Are you acquainted with the people of colour at all?-Yes. 8135. Are they augmenting their wealth?I think they are. 8136. To a considerable extent ?-To a considerable extent. Vice Admiral the Honourable Charles Fleming gave the following testimony:the manners and habits of those liberated Afri2828. Had you any opportunity of observing cans in the Bahamas?—Yes. 2820. Is marriage prevalent among them?They are all married. 2832. Are they industrious ?—Yes, they are very much so. 2833. Do they work for wages?-They cultivate their own ground, and they work for wages there. 2845. Had you any opportunity of observing the sort of comfort which the free Africans, and free blacks, at the Bahamas, obtained by their industry?-Yes, frequently; I lived on shore frequently at the Bahamas. advance in civilization, and in the wants of 2846. Have they obtained a considerable civilized life?-Yes; they all had beds in every one of their cottages that I was in; they had cooking utensils of all kinds; and the huts were done up, for the climate, very well indeed, better than in any other of the islands; perhaps, though, that may be from its being more exposed to hurricanes. 2847. Have you any doubt that this liberated African population, by work, do obtain the means of purchasing comforts beyond the mere necessaries of life? No doubt of it. 2848. Was there any disposition evinced by them to return to the habits of savage life?-I never observed the slightest. 2849. Have you ever inquired into that the island, with the Governor, for the express point?-Very frequently; I made a tour through purpose of inquiring into it, and the result was, that we found they had no inclination what ever to return to a savage life; on the contrary, that they wished to acquire property; many of them had acquired property; their children were all well taken care of; they were clad, and many of the women were dressed out in unnecessary finery. Here we must reluctantly stop. Enough has been advanced, we hope, to satisfy our readers of the safety of the measure which we advocate. Our only difficulty has been that of selecting from the ample materials before fore they pronounce our conclusion unsound; us. Let our opponents disprove our facts, bebut, if they cannot do this, let them at least have the honesty to avow the principle on which their opposition to the abolition of slavery proceeds, that the British public, perceiving the enormity, may pronounce its deep and lasting execration. Injustice is now defending itself through the medium of hypocrisy, but the attempt is hopeless, for the light of knowledge has revealed even the secrets of colonial policy. T. TO THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, Esq. SIR-In calling upon the British public to renounce the use of slave-grown articles, I may be thought to require a sacrifice too great to be extensively made. Among them must be enumerated spirits, treacle, spices, coffee, and, above all, sugar; and, it may be asked, with a simplicity at which the West Indians may smile with complacency, if not with triumph, "How can such articles as these be dispensed with?" Now I will not at present say (what, however, is capable of abundant proof), that the total disuse of these articles is not necessary, but I will take up the opposite supposition, namely, that it is necessary; and then I say that, great as the sacrifice may be, no humane person ought to hesitate at it for a moment. They are none of them necessaries of life; they are all of them luxuries. The people of England lived for many ages without tasting one of them, and would continue to live if they were every one of them to perish. What then are these mere luxuries of life, that we should suffer them to stand against the attainment of so incalculable a blessing for mankind, as the abolition of slavery? It is a benefit to the world which every considerate and benevolent person should be willing to purchase, even at a much higher price, if it were required. To conquer their liberties, the North American colonies (now the United States) renounced every article as soon as the English Parliament taxed it; and if we hesitate to vanquish slavery in a similar method, it will obviously be because we care less about it. But, on the preceding supposition, the sacrifice is immensely overrated. Our abstinence could not, in any case, extend beyond a few months, inasmuch as the object of it would speedily be gained. Neither is it probable that it would be necessary for one month, since a conviction, on the part of the planters, that it was generally resolved on, would, with equal certainty, answer the purpose. But, besides this, the very same articles, I believe all of them, may be obtained from other parts of the world, as the produce of free labour. In most instances they are quite as good, and in all they are nearly so; and if not quite as cheap, they are also nearly as cheap. The only question, therefore, is this:-"Will I, for the sake of overthrowing slavery, be content, for a short time, to use coffee, sugar, and spices, almost as cheap, and probably quite as good, as the West Indian?" How long can any benevolent person hesitate in answering this question? Or to what a just and indignant reproof would any person expose himself, who should say, I will neither take a few pence more out of my purse, nor control the luxuriousness of my palate, though, by doing so, I could rescue a million of my fellow-creatures from a horrible and murderous bondage?" Every body knows that there are East Indies as well as West, and that they are extremely similar in climate, soil, and productions. With the exception of the island of Mauritius (the very name of which ought to provoke, in the breast of every Englishman, more indignation than I will here venture to express), the agricultural population are not slaves. The coffee, sugar, and spices, of the East Indies, then, are raised by the labour of freemen, and they afford us the opportunity of renouncing slave produce, at almost no sacrifice at all. who, on my recommendation, have employed it. There is, indeed, a delicacy in its flavour adapted to engage for it a decided preference. I am happy, also, to know that, instead of being quoted at nine-pence, or eight-pence halfpenny a-pound, a very good Bengal sugar is on sale, at a profit, at and that this article is fit to bear seven-pence, comparison with any West India sugar at the same price, and quite adapted to be brought into competition with what is generally sold at sixpence. Now ask this question:-Will the people of England perpetuate slavery for the sake of a penny a-pound in the price of their sugar? I hope every reader of this letter will answer-No. One of the principal obstructions to the general use of Bengal sugar, consists in the difficulty which private families often find in procuring it. In many towns it has not been kept, even by a single grocer, or by only one; and there is, probably, not yet a town in the kingdom where it is kept by the grocers universally, as a regular article of trade. People who wish for it, therefore, do not know where to get it; and so little do the shopkeepers, in many cases, care about really obliging their customers, that the Mauritius and finer West Indian sugars have been imposed on the unsuspecting confidence of the purchaser, a habit of deception which some persons have thought it would be hard to guard against. If it were necessary to use such a tone, the retailers of sugar might be warned, that, although much depends on them, every thing does not. Bengal sugar can be brought into general use, even if some of them should set themselves against it, since there are, in all places, benevolent and conscientious men who will aid the design. But I would much rather hope and believe that the grocers, as a body, will co-operate in the good work, which cannot put them to much even of temporary inconvenience, and can do them no ultimate injury. Of what consequence can it be to them, whether they sell East India sugar or West? I might almost say, of what consequence to them is their sugar trade at all, since it is become customary to do it at little or no profit, and sometimes at a loss, for the sale of other articles? If the grocers, then, are willing to promote the sale of free-labour sugar, it may be hoped that they will keep it as a regular article of trade, and put it forward; not merely of the finest qualities, but of the kind which, by its price, may be fitted to come into general use. It would be a noble thing, if, in order to favour its introduction, they should be disposed to sell it without profit, and to put, by universal agreement, a somewhat higher profit (say a halfpenny a-pound) on the cheap West India sugar, upon which, it is well known, their profit is at present unreasonably low. But, at all events, it may be expected that they will maintain sincerity and truth, and will keep at the utmost distance from taking advantage of the practical ignorance of their customers, and from selling as free-labour sugar what really is not so. I am quite aware, however, that, if the use of East India sugar is much extended, its price may rise, and, indeed, that its general use would speedily exhaust the stock in the country, while some months must elapse before the supply could be proportioned to the demand. I should hope, however, that before this case would arise the West Indians would give way, and that these gentlemen, who are by no means wanting in some As sugar is the principal article in which our sorts of prudence, seeing the resolution of the eastern possessions come into competition with country, would not push matters to such an exthe West Indian growth, the utmost pains has tremity. If otherwise, our remedy would be to been taken to keep Bengal sugar out of the Eng-discountenance the use of sugar itself, abandonlish market, both by laying on it a duty of about 7s. per cwt., or three farthings a pound, more than on its blood-stained rival, and by disseminating a violent but unfounded prejudice against the article itself. That this prejudice is unfounded I can assert, both from my own experience, and from the testimony of others, having used Bengal sugar in my own family for all purposes, and with entire satisfaction, for about nine years, and having received decisive testimonies of its adequacy and value from pastry cooks and others, ing it wherever practicable (as in sweetmeats, and in our tea and coffee), and diminishing it in every respect. In this way the desired effect might be produced in the colonial market, and upon the condition of the slave. And a resort to this measure may be the more necessary, because the increase of population in this country constantly generating an increase in the demand for West Indian produce, in common with all other kinds, and thus incessantly augmenting the pressure on the slave population. While recommending the abandonment of slaveproduce to the public at large, I am very happy in being able to say that, in some places (and Reading may be enumerated among them), it is already adopted, and in course of adoption, with a just and spreading enthusiasm. It is evident too, from commercial letters, that the colonial market already feels the effect of it, since it is stated that the Bengal sugars are more frequently inquired for. I hope that they will be inquired for more and more frequently every week, and that the West India proprietors will not deceive themselves as to the reason of it. It is not, they may be assured, for coffee-sugars, at 84d. or 9ď. per pound; it is not for fine qualities, by mixing, to improve the colour of muscovades; it is for cheap serviceable sugar to supersede their own, because the people are indignant at the long maintenance of slavery, and determined on its overthrow. Look to yourselves, therefore, West India gentlemen, and see what is before you. You are poor now; but depend upon it you will soon be much poorer, unless you set free the negroes. And in a perfect spirit of kindness I ask you, Had you not better do it at once? AMONG the astronomers who provided the materials of the Newtonian philosophy, the name of Tycho Brahe merits a conspicuous place. Descended from an ancient Swedish family, he was born at Knudstorp, in Norway, in 1546, three years after the death of Copernicus. The great eclipse of the sun, which happened on the 26th of August 1560, while he was at the University of Copenhagen, attracted his notice; and when he found that all its phenomena had been accurately predicted, he was seized with the most irresistible passion to acquire the knowledge of a science so infallible in its results. Destined for the profession of the law, his friends discouraged the pursuit which now engrossed his thoughts; and such were the reproaches, and even persecutions, to which he was exposed, that he quitted his country with the design of travelling through Germany. At the very comoccurred in which the impetuosity of his mencement of his journey, however, an event temper had nearly cost him his life. At a wedding-feast in Rostock, a questionable point in geometry involved him in a dispute with a Danish nobleman of the same temperament with himself; and the two mathematicians resolved to settle the difference by the sword. Tycho, however, seems to have been second in the conflict, for he lost the greater part of his nose, and he was obliged to supply its place by a substitute of gold and silver, which a cement of glue attached to his face. During his stay at Augsburg he inspired the burgomaster of the city, Peter Hainzell, with a love of astronomy. This public-spirited citizen erected an excellent observatory at his own expence, and here Tycho began that distinguished career which has placed him in the first rank of practical astronomers. Upon his return to Copenhagen in 1570, he was received with every mark of respect. The king invited him to court, and persons of all ranks harassed him with their attentions. At Herritzvold, near his native place, the house of his maternal uncle afforded him a retreat from the gaieties of the capital, and he was there offered every accommodation for the prosecution of his astronomical studies. Here, however, the passion of love and the pursuits of alchemy distracted his thoughts; but though the peasant girl of whom he was enamoured was of easier attainment than the philosopher's stone, the marriage produced an open quarrel with his relations, which it required the interference of the king to allay. In the tranquillity of domestic happiness, Tycho resumed his study of the heavens, and, in 1572, he enjoyed the singular good fortune of observing, through all its variations, the new star in Cassiopeia, which appeared with such extraordinary splendour as to be visible in the day time, and which gradually disappeared in the following year. Dissatisfied with his residence in Denmark, Tycho resolved to settle in some distant country, and, having gone as far as Venice in search of a suitable residence, he at last fixed upon Basle, in Switzerland. The King of Denmark, however, had learned his intention from the Prince of Hesse, and when Tycho returned to Copenhagen to remove his family and his instruments, his sovereign announced to him his resolution to detain him in his kingdom. He presented him with the canonry of Roschild, with an income of 2000 crowns per annum. To this he added a pension of 1000 crowns; and he promised to give him the Island of Huen, with a complete observatory erected under his own eye. This generous offer was instantly accepted. The celebrated observatory of Uraniburg was established at the expence of about £20,000; and in this magnificent retreat Tycho continued for twentyone years to enrich astronomy with the most valuable observations. Admiring disciples crowded to this sanctuary of the sciences to acquire the knowledge of the heavens; and kings and princes felt themselves honoured by becoming the guests of the great astronomer of the age. One of the principal discoveries of Tycho was that of the inequality of the moon's motion, called the Variation. He detected also the annual equation which affects the place of her apogee and nodes, and he determined the greatest and the least inclination of the lunar orbit. His observations on the planets were numerous and precise, and have formed the data of the present generalizations in astronomy. Though thus skilful in the observation of phenomena, his mind was but little suited to investigate their cause, and it was probably owing to this defect that he rejected the sys tem of Copernicus. The vanity of giving his own name to another system was not likely to actuate a mind such as his, and it is more probable that he was led to adopt the immobility of the earth, and to make the sun, with all his attendant planets, circulate round it, from the great difficulty which still presented itself by comparing the apparent diameter of the stars with the annual parallax of the earth's orbit. The death of Frederick, in 1588, proved a severe calamity to Tycho, and to the science which he cultivated. During the first years of the minority of Christian IV., the regency continued the royal patronage to the observatory of Uraniburg; and, in 1592, the young king paid a visit of some days to Tycho, and left him a gold chain in token of his favour. The astronomer, however, had made himself enemies at court, and the envy of his high reputation had probably added fresh malignity to the irritation of personal feelings. Under the ministry of Walchendorf, a name for ever odious to science, Tycho's pension was stopped-he was, in 1597, deprived of the canonry of Roschild, and was thus forced, with his wife and children, to seek an asylum in a foreign land. His friend, Henry Rantzau of Wansbeck, under whose roof he found a hospitable shelter, was fortunately acquainted with the emperor Rodolph II., who, to his love of science, added a passion for alchemy and astrology. The reputation of Tycho having already reached the imperial ear, the recommendation of Rantzau was scarcely necessary to insure him his warmest friendship. Invited by the emperor, he repaired, in 1599, to Prague, where he met with the kindest reception. A pension of three thousand crowns was immediately settled upon him, and a commodious observatory erected for his use in the vicinity of that city. Here the exiled astronomer renewed with delight his interrupted labours, and the gratitude which he cherished for the royal favour increased the satisfaction which he felt in having so unexpectedly found a resting-place for approaching age. These prospects of better days were enhanced by the good fortune of receiving two such men as Kepler and Longomontanus for his pupils; but the fallacy of human anticipation was here, as in so many other cases, strikingly displayed. Tycho was not aware of the inroads which both his labours and his disappointments had made upon his constitution. Though surrounded with affectionate friends and admiring disciples, he was still an exile in a foreign land. Though his country had been base in its ingratitude, it was yet the land which he loved--the scene of his earliest affections-the theatre of his scientific glory. These feelings continually preyed upon his mind, and his unsettled spirit was ever hovering among his native mountains. In this condition he was attacked with a disease of the most painful kind, and though the parroxysms of its agonies had lengthened intermissions, yet he saw that death was approaching. He implored his pupils to persevere in their scientific labours. He conversed with Kepler on some of the profoundest points of astronomy, and with these secular occupations he mingled frequent acts of piety and devotion. In this happy condition he expired without pain at the age of fifty-five, the unquestionable victim of the councils of Chris tian IV. Notwithstanding the accessions which astronomy had received from the labours of Copernicus and Tycho, yet no progress was yet made in developing the general laws of the system, and scarcely an idea had been formed of the power by which the planets were retained in their orbits. The labours of assiduous observers had supplied the materials for this purpose, and Kepler arose to lay the foundations of physical astronomy.-Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton. APHORISMS. than none: as the writing of a book, the building ANY engagement which is innocent is better of a house, the laying out of a garden, the digging of a fish-pond--even the raising of a cucumber or a tulip.-PALEY. Though it cannot be denied that, by diffusing a warmer colouring over the visions of fancy, sensibility is often a source of exquisite pleasure to others, if not to the possessor, yet it should never be confounded with benevolence; since it constitutes, at best, rather the ornament of a fine, than the virtue of a good, mind.-ROBERT HALL. There is not, perhaps, in all the stores of ideal anguish, a thought more painful than the thought ciples of having not only drawn others from the of having propagated corruption by vitiating prinpaths of virtue, but blocked up the way by which they should return-of having blinded them to every beauty but the paint of pleasure, and deafened them to every call but the alluring voice of the syrens of destruction.-DR. JOHNSON. The pleasure of a well-disposed mind moves gently, and therefore constantly. It does not affect by rapture and ecstacy, but is like the pleasures of health, which is still and sober, yet greater and stronger than those that call up the senses with grosser and more affective impressions.-DR. SOUTH. RHYMES FOR YOUTHFUL READERS, ON COLONIAL SLAVERY. We are all of us stained by this national crime, (Tis a serious thing, though I tell it in rhyme!) For the Stealers and Holders and Drivers of Slaves Soon would cease from their deeds o'er the Western waves, If good people at home, when they sweeten their food, Would abstain from the cane-juice that's water'd with blood. 'Tis not quite enough to look sorry and sigh, “But what can we do?" say my Readers dear : Sing" JUBILEE! SLAVERY IS NO MORE!" us. MITFORD CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. MONT BLANC. ARRIVING near the base of those rocks called the "Grands Mulets," we found that a chasm of eighty feet in width separated them from We proceeded up an acclivity forming a narrow neck of ice, but at its termination a wall opposed us; on either hand yawned a wide and deep crevice, and it appeared that there was no advancing without climbing this perpendicular mass of twenty feet in height. The neck we were standing upon overhung a gulf formed by the chasm and crevices, the very sight of which was appalling. The wall met this neck with an angle formed by these two crevices, which continued on each side of it, the angle coming to a most acute and delicate point. No time was to be lost; we were standing in a very perilous situation, and Coulet commenced cutting steps on the angle with his hatchet; and, after great labour, and considerable danger, in the execution of his purpose, got to the top, and was immediately followed by another guide. The knapsacks were then drawn up, and the rest of the party after them. In ascending this wall, being partly drawn up, partly climbering, I stopped for an instant, and looked down into the abyss beneath me: the blood curdled in my veins, for never did I behold any thing so terrific. The great beauty of the immense crevices around us-so deep, so bright, that the imagination could hardly measure them-excited not only my admiration, but even that of the guides, accustomed as they were to such scenes. Safely on the top, on looking around, we discovered that these large crevices extended on each side to a very great distance, the plane of the wall sleping from the upper to the lower crevice with an inclination which rendered walking on it very perilous. Some proposed to return to the commencement of the neck of ice which we had passed, and, making a circuit from it, to get to the base of the "Grands Mulets," on the other side of the great crevice, and climb up the rock; others were for proceeding, and their advice was followed. Walking with the greatest caution, in steps cut with the hatchet, we moved on very slowly; the ice was slippery, and a false step might have endangered the life of more than one individual. The wall now widened, but the slope became more inclined. Taking my steps with the greatest care, I could not prevent myself from slipping; as the space became wider, I became less cautious, and, while looking over the edge into the upper crevice, my feet slid from under me; I came down on my face, and glided rapidly towards the lower one; I cried out, but the guides who held the rope attached to me did not stop me, though they stood firm. I had got to the extent of the rope, my feet hanging over the lower crevice, one hand grasping firmly the pole, and the other my hat. The guides called to me to be cool, and not afraid;-a pretty time to be cool, hanging over an abyss, and in momentary expectation of falling into it! They made no attempt to pull me up for some moments; but then, desiring me to raise myself, they drew in the rope until I was close to them, and in safety. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, KING'S CROSS, NEW ROAD, LONDON. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL VEGETABLE MEDICINE. Cure of a Bilious and Liver Complaint, &c. Sir,-Having been for some years past afflicted with a bilious and liver complaint, attended with much flatuleacy and great debility, which completely baffled the efforts of several eminent gentlemen of the faculty, and the cause of severe depression and lowness of spirits, so much so, that I was incapable of attending to my domestic concerns, and my life almost a burden to me. Upon hearing of your invaluable medicine (Morison's Pills), I was induced to give them a trial, and am now happy to state, through God's assistance, that I am enabled to perform my duties, and my appetite and digestion are restored to their former state of excellence, and for which I shall ever feel grateful. I have also to observe, that it is not more than two months since I first applied to Mr. Joseph Webb, Feasegate, York, for the medicine, and who can vouch for the truth of my declaration, and to the restoration of my health at the present time. I am, sir, your obliged and grateful servant, Davygate, York, May 3, 1832. Cure of Asthma, &c. To Mr. Meyer, L. M. Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street; Mr. Field's, 16, Air Sir, I beg leave to state that, in consequence of an accident I received last November, I was attacked with asthma, shortness of breath, and swelling of the body and legs, for which I could obtain but little relief until the be ginning of last March, when, having a supply of the "Vegetable Universal Medicine," recommended by you in February, I immediately resorted to them, and ar happy to inform you that, after taking a few doses, agreeably to the directions given in such cases, all the complaints above-mentioned left me, and am now in sound although it is now upwards of two months since I expehealth, and have had no return of the aforesaid attacks, rienced the relief herein acknowledged. With gratitude to God, and thankfulness to you, sir, I am induced to make afflictions, may experience the like relief. this my case known, that others, suffering under similar I am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS STOKIS.] 2, St. Ronan's, Deptford, Kent, May 14, 1832. The "Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New Road, King's Cross, London; at the street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's-conduit-passage, Red-lion-square; Mr. J. Loft's, Mile-end-road; Mr. Bennett's, Covent-gardenmarket; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton-falgate; Mr. Haslet's, 147, Ratcliffe-highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Had they attempted, on the bad and uncerThe reason for this proceeding is obvious. Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-alley; Miss Varai's, 24, Lucas-street, Commercial-road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane-square, Chelsea; Mrs. tain footing in which they stood, to check me Chapple's, Royal Library, Pall-mall; Mrs. Pippen's, 18, at the first gliding, they might have lost their Trinity-grounds, Deptford; Mr. Taylor, Hanwell; Mr. Wingrove-place, Clerkenwell; Miss C. Atkinson, 19, New own balance, and our destruction would have Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth; Mr. Payne, 64, followed; but, by fixing themselves firmly in Jermyn-street: Mr. Howard, at Mr. Wood's, hair-dresser, the cut step, and securing themselves with Mr. Griffiths, Wood-wharf, Greenwich; Mr. Pitt, 1, CornRichmond; Mr. Meyar, 3, May's-buildings, Blackheath; their batons, they were enabled to support me wall-road, Lambeth; Mr. J. Dobson, 5, Craven-street, with certainty when the rope had gone its Monck, Bexley Heath; Mr. T. Stokes, 12, St. Ronan's, Strand; Mr. Oliver, Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Mr. J. length. This also gave me time to recover, Deptford; Mr. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico; Mr. Parfitt, that I might assist them in placing myself out 96, Edgware-road; Mr. Hart, Portsmouth-place, Kenningof danger; for it is not to be supposed that, in R. G. Bower, grocer, 22, Brick-lane, St. Luke's; Mr. S. ton-lane; Mr. Charlesworth, grocer, 124, Shoreditch; Mr. such a situation, I did not lose, in a great de-J. Avila, pawnbroker, opposite the church, Hackney; Mr. gree, my presence of mind. These were good T. Gardner, 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, and 9, NortonJ. S. Briggs, 1, Brunswick-place, Stoke Newington; Mr. reasons, no doubt; but, placed as I was in falgate; Mr. J. Williamson, 15, Seabright-place, Hackneysuch imminent peril, I could not have allowed road; Mr. J. Osborn, Wells-street, Hackney road, and them to be so.-John Auldjo's Ascent to the gate-street; Mr. T. Walter, cheesemonger, 67, Hoxton Old Homerton; Mr. H. Cox, grocer, 16, Union-street, BishopsSummit of Mont Blanc in 1827. 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The College will not be answerable for the consequences of any medicines sold by any chymist or druggist, as none such are allowed to sell the "Universal Medicines." CAUTION TO THE PUCLIC. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES having superseded the use of almost all the Patent Medicines, which the wholesale venders have foisted upon the credulity of the searchers after health, for so many years, the town druggists and chemists, not able to establish a fair fame on the invention of any plausible means of competition, have plunged into the mean expedient of puffing up a "Dr. Morrison" (observe the subterfuge of the double r), a being who never existed, as prescribing a "Vegetable Universal Pill, No. 1 and 2," for the express purpose (by means of this forged imposition upon the public), of deteriorating the estimation of the "UNIVERSAL MEDICINES" of the "BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH." KNOW ALL MEN, then, that this attempted delusion must fall under the fact, that (however specions the pretence), none can be held genuine by the College but those which have "Morison's Universal Medicines" impressed upon the Government Stamp attached to each box and packet, to counterfeit which is felony by the laws of the Jand. Printed by J. HADDON and Co.; and Published by J. CRISP, at No. 27, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, where all Advertisements and Communications for the Editor are to be addressed. |