British And Colonial Weekly Register (Newspaper) - April 17, 1824, London, Middlesex APRIL Price 7d is Published every Saturday at Two and contains all the Information usually given in a Sunday except the 11N8 sublet 6f interest came before either during nor does our di l v fft i of the of evi aad other on the trial of Mn Smith were ordered to be at yet 1JU0UULTC10 p nearly six after had been acceded Now must be to remark that this delav in extremely interesting to i of taken ore fumes committee fire ted in in the course of we conceive that an of and of judicial whereby an mister of die lost first in is a matter at least as important to as the impolitic embargo on artisans and The affair at Demerara is too for the to forget the portentous manner in which was announced the horrible oxtails of and and with as saM to be the terrifying statie of me not only in where it but the Among other the affair was as attributed to the Missionaries West Indian being the cause of all the insurrections that have happened in the col Jonies sincie their presence in those scenes of human depravity and at least in modern times which have happened among the slave the DK reduced tothe sober colours of merely a partial indication of among the created by improper treatment first but more immediately by the belief that some Benefits had provided for them were that some privileges that of religious in struction especially would be Had not the Smith been implicated with the transactions in colony j we have not the least doubt that the plan would have visited with the severest indignation the government and people of when the real facts of the case gradually happily they have diverted public atten another The audacious appeared respecting Smith and his fel ap impression upon public which could not be immediately and cannot be effaced Nothing short of a full and explicit detail of ihe facts and evidence on both sides of the extraordinary and of the as to the guilt or of can nation that he was not instrumental in plunging the colony into however improbable such an accusa ion appears of the Gospel of This detail is afforded official record of the evidence and the defence of the that after perusal of this mass of oe we pan perceive no fact properly attested upon a Grand Jury in entertain a place him in jeopardy of Proofs we discover of rancorous feeling against the hostility to of tenderness the negroes and sentiments regarding religion an entire absence of those principles which the That a Christian Minister aversion tve cart the answer the querist desires to be Frota 4he statements given in the testimony in chief of it would appear a if had directed the negro to improper and excited in him a spirit hostile to But when the questions are plainly put to this unlettered by the his answers are Did not the prisoner advise the from ihk pulpit and to do their and their and in authority over whew the prisoner to you about tKe children of did that of the tlike of the chil drep of or words to Again what demonstrates more convincingly the accordance of Smiths doctrines with the precepts of that religion he was employed to implant in the negroes than the evidence of in answer to the questions of the heard the pri soner speak about working on He if the to be you must attend to your masters You miist not or be I overpowering objections are made to the tri before which Smith was is difficult to that Martial law was not prolonged from the 11 to the 13th October for iro other object to avail themselves of negro which is rejected in the civil and criminal If such be the some paramount necessity cannot be tp appear which withheld the governor from fry ing the regular and accord ing to the established forms of the conviction Js Of and the of the ever We conclude that selected that none of his other papers furnish aught of evi As to the what can be more deci sive ida o tire than the disclosures in small portion Me given in questions put by the prosecutor ate of species yve believe technically called leading S indicate to the person under examination if your master forces you to work on Sun but you must do In answer to a question the he I heard him the prisoner say that if their masters gave them work they must do it and if they punish you the negroes for a wrong you must not grieve for From the same witness it that so far from Mb Smith acting in dence with the discontented a few days before the revolt broke the latter comporting together in Romeos Mrl was making them probably referring the prudent counsel given by the to wait patiently the npr made known to the of the British Ministry added this remarkable will his colour for ihe pr black These says the and f went away straight Iwas hurt j behave honest Smiths advice had been kind as well as and he was grieved to that his fellow blacks attributed from solely partiality the a feet is proved too by a for prosecution We the following remarks upon the evidence from Smiths defence Before I f feel it toy to observe upon the nature of the evidence brought It is the evidence of or pf with a very few grossly prejudiced against me prejudiced motives of that from that the diffusion of knowledge among the negroes will render them less valuable as of persons extremely and decidedly under the influence of their It cannot be expected that the love of truth and justice will render them superior to the fear which must exist in their of men their labourers have been even for attending divine Some of them are extremely and as the boy who did pretend to understand the nature of an until he was if he believed God Almighty a top of course he and he was legally I am aware that however necessary the policy Governments in this hemisphere may nave thought it to in a Court Martial it is strictly legal to admit In admitting the Court ought to well aware of the negro and to be very cautious as to the degree of credi bility to be attached to Nothing can be more even from the evidence before the than that negroes have but little idea of the obligation ef an oath hence the apd and con so apparent in They have no notion of and is but too that their evidence has been made up of shreds obtained from from and from their had been propounded to They are generally incapable of narrating a trans neither can they with any tolerable even the shortest so well known is that are seldom intrusted to deliver a verbal all has the prosecutor to produce against me Divest the of that shall prove to be and nothing will remain to me either in a or legal respect the other class of willab clergy for the religious instruction of the black population were crippled and also regarding his behaviour to ministers of Dutch and vere pended from functions as on of their remonstrances against his improper The matter came before an in Council has forward Act of the in 3rd of 1 which a change waa made administration to be null and The instrument burthen restores the Ministers ef the and Scotch to the exercise of the functions from on the of the disposition shown to content with and and their refusal to give in their accounts of for the last they were by We shall be anxious to tne result of more serious complaint against the late by the late President of the of and which we still under the consideration of the stain from more requesting a perusal of and if its well as the questions put the Judge do not bear me out in asserting that spirit of does exist against then Iam ble of forming au estimate opinions We shall resume this subject next when larger portion of the evidence shall before our The defence of Smith is temperate and sa t In our third we published an article cling tlie conduct of in respect to the Ioor Fund of whereby the efforts of the regular LATEST INTELLIGENCE Paris Papers to Thursday furnish no addition to our political intelligence from that Some made to show the probable certain able accounts from Colombia but the grounds ofj these statements are very The Journal des if Wednesday contains a dated March of the following According to the most recent commercial news from the Ionian Egyptian under command of Ismael has reappeared in Ar and has attacked some one of which only has been as proves how unfounded is the of Egypt has declared against the What also reV futes the report that the new to the Isle of We receive from another quarter the interesting that the troops assembled near Adrianople are under new orders to riot on but on the which again proves the jeal of the Porte towards The Flanders mail which arrived yesterday brings in that the negociation between Turkey and Russia assumes a unfavourable The Russian Cabinet is about adopting decisive the evacua tion of Moldavia and other it is affirmed that active preparations W war are making at an army of men is to be on foot in the month of Hamburgh papers arrived last but their contents are In of the towns in the Netherlands unemployed capital seems about attracted by as in this of commerce is to which 30 millions of guilders were subscribed at Amsterdam and 9 a half at The Dutch are too prudent a people to venture on foreign Price of Stocks this day at For the account in A number of persons stood kicking heels for at Lloyds 10 expectation having forgotten recent for it on Christmas They in the derout exercise of eating tbe buns appropriated to the and when their was awakened they bearing their crosses with the most edifying SUDDEN melancholy of sudden death took place created a ble sensation in this a the Swck and ini fiill denly in justing an account in his From an account just printed by oide JC it the Foreign into the Port ot amounted tons in tons and in to FUNERALS TN of Requisition tinder the TO THE OF I write to good Mister F My Uncle is is lead He died word Hed funeral So if at To pay for of grave we beg to know youll allow tlie corpse
