Champion (Newspaper) - April 17, 1814, London, Middlesex THE CHAMPION ' Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to A Saturday Edition of this Paper but calculated for the Country It brings down the Intelligence of the Week to the Moment before of Saturday Sunday Edition is calculated for London and its and contains whatever News may arrive up to Sunday with Saturday's 6T 1814. Price 0$rf* ON THE RECENT GRATIFYING If individuals were to allow their minds to dwell on the strict amount of their own importance as single ingredients in that mixture of actions and of interests which constitutes the living they would experience a sad coldness of and dullness of on occasions that now put their hearts into a and throw oyer their faces the suffusion of joyous is a as well a9 a most useful by which accordantly blending with the earnest feelings and importunate wants of their Surely we have a right to the social to be reared on so admirable a will be safe and that it will long at once beautiful and useful its inhabitants in their various and fostering the growth of their minds converting that which has been a field of hateful and bloody into amphitheatre for emulative exertions and graceful each of us is led to think and to conduct We occasion to relative to public as if he were perpetually there is a point of time when the appearances on with it is sure to advance or is this in disposition which unites mankind in a supporting body round the institutions of it is this which not merely but even a sense of dignity into the very humblest situations of by inducing their possessors to look out beyond their narrow and to fancy themselves concerned in proceedings of a more lively kind than their tame and dreary The who labours for fourteen in conformity to which law we that there is a power to renovate given to destruction In like manner wc have just seen the most aggravated aspect that the war has ever put suddenly converted into a look of more settled and we durst imagine to ourselves from bitterness and more widely spread and more keenly excited than was ever before the temper of the world has suddenly altered to a benevolence that suffers no hours a in a small box that will pot permit from national and is as liim to sit to himself at his he is buried among a few coarse tools and pieces of dirty at his as he springs out with his eyes into the glad expanse of a sunny and feels himself neither solitary nor as he views the rolling active in its impulses as was the vindictive spirit that so lately The change may be compared to the instant one from the unpromising rottenness of the to the sportive and shewy creature that goes forth to give fresh brightness to the and assurance of its crowd bustle by poor he is the direst wishes of exasperated not even discovered where he wag poured forth in we was this feeling of personal ful hostility all their strength and fury Paris was and interest in national so to be tlie point of the awful and its effects ly or so generally throughout all were to be in the highest degree the lowest as well as the as at this dve aml sanguinary to While prince has grand dinners paris has reconciled the hostile and the porters in the street carry their armies only arrived there to throw their weapons burdens along with a peculiar lightness of from their and to join amicably in its streets which is easily to be traced to the downfall and with those they came to of Buonaparte strangers greet each Gf these events that the people of other as they with looks of acquaintanceship different countries have become better and good the ladies make it a point to be and have bcen into excellent with even more than commonly fascinating in cach Th of the war has reconciled what with the during the and the them respectively looks and manners of their lights at and the white and the aW its termination has made smiling it may be that all each of them feel neighbours mate and has put on its livery of hfs good wilL Russian will return within to hail the punishment of a man of and the his entertaining a much better opinion of return of peace to an exhausted and bleeding the French character than when he left and the French will in when The gladsome change has been so suddenly blessings of their new free call it is so and in every respect so those barbarians to whose forbearance they owe that it air of i. piece of their escape from and to whose enlightened or let us of measures they owe their deliverance from meat from the grievous dominion of evil is indebted for its relief to the which we have been long The com- lious members of the great and ultimately mon observation that it looks like a dream it has been that the instruments of its ill but do not let us liken it to a however Asage were unwilling and Were themselves splendid let us regard it as the awakening up of equally To England all Europe is to light and after a tedious and to look with and she must now black during which it has bcen tormented cherish for Europe the same for the with all sorts of fearful and continental nations have well that they tive and malicious How is the undaunted in their and zealous mind affected when it refers to the state of the in their attachment to freedom and world three weeks and contrasts that with its diffusion of esteem and kindness is likely to present Three weeks the best tive a new character to the history of this quarter part of it was engaged in fierce the most com- Jf the world for years to coupled with plicated and apparently insurmountable difficulties presented themselves in the way of a pacific ar every throughout the minds of men and their political there were deeply planted the roots of strife and hatred no any where held out that the olive would permanently there was every reason to fear even if of concord should be able to one leaf its it would be quickly scared away by raging of the at this Europe of at to which people jumped with a sprin from opposite meeting and sacrificing selfishness and hostility at a central union peace which has bech ratified by the interchanged gras pings of commingled taking precedence of the forms of their yet sanctioned by peace which has for its foundation the liberality and unanimity of so he abhorrence of war that is generally felt through he protracted and painful experience of its evils let us protect it for a long while in enjoyment of the blessings of OR on an UNFOUNDED of not having taken the oaths of This strong adopted by the first legislative authority of the is supported the affidavit of the sufferer who makes oath that he was seized when quietly ut as a by the vice-governor in accompanied by he was not suffered to or inquire the cause of his being seized he informed the vice-governor of his being a and enrolled in the who paid no attention thereto he by the personal put into the till the keeper could by whose hands the punishment of twenty lushes was inflicted that he was sent to the on bread and water for four when he was without a word being said to him as to the cause of his confinement or of his liberation but that a Mr. Waugh put into his hands six joe is worth about a guinea and a which he afterwards were sent from the said that if deponent wanted more money he might have deponent refused to take the money deponent was casually that ho had been seized for his having omitted to attend at government to take the oaths of but ho swears that he did and had the oath administered by Mr. in the presence of the The reader already sees the brutality as well ns of this A without and refusing to listen to seizes an innocent has him lashed and fed on bread and water he to take any steps to ascertain his and then offers a paltry sum as an when ho discovers the extent of his The Examiner truly observes that twenty as inflicted n the West are very dreadful West Indian instrument of is infinitely more dreadful effect than the Both its length and its weight give a terrible severity to its as every stroke bruises as well as lacerates the flesh .in the hands of a skilful has frequently followed the though the number of lashes has been when the driver has received orders to use what is termed 1 close he most frightful consequences arc inevitable for as the whip is shortened by this it goes all round the particularly the stomach and making at the same time comparatively little The same further Though this outrage took as far back as the 12lh of April a of a no public we has ever yet been taken of it beyond the of the free people of and the resolutions of Ike General Assembly of founded upon both of which appeared in the Grenada Gazettes of May 22 and July 17, 1813. Such indeed is the deplorable state of the press in the West Indian that not one word of comment accompanied the publication of these though the as the petition was witnessed with * by any of the inhabitants of the pf St. George d as it further ' a general alarm and indignation among the inhabitants of the when it was discovered that the intention was to have embraced the earliest opportunity of off from the he would certainly have carried into had riot the inhabitants taken legal steps to frustrate this habits were offensive to the re- ATROCIOUS OUTRAGES IN THE WEST Examiner lately called the attention of the pub ma anc particularly the married portion of who carefully avoided the in which its neglected occupier used * To abuse toe time Id feasts nnd wanton But this atment of he to adopted by the General Assembly quit Grenada for his appointment Jf the Island of dated 1st 1813, a Jerning the conduct of a man named who cas formerly vice-governor It stales that ' evidence has been that the has been grossly and wantonly abused by th in the case a Free by his was PUBLICLY FLOGGED In the o the town of St. and afterwards and confined in the black bole iu Fort WITH tUrned aliased 1*�'? as many If his predecessors had hes ww merely * and people looking on with 4i his and expressing their contempt of him bjl ' but what has of this man Toe u's that hi has appointiS
