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Courier

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 16, 1823

Page

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Irish Customs Duties and Witnesses Bill in Lords May Session

House of Lords debates include Brogden presenting the Irish Customs Duties Bill and the Witnesses Abroad Bill while other Private Bills are cited. Lord Darnley asks about the Irish Insurrection Act timing as Lord Liverpool notes it sits in the other House. Abolition of Slavery petitions arrive from Higham Ferrers Birmingham and Norwich. Amendments to the Irish Charitable Loan Bill are read. Norwich Insolvent Debtors Act petition presented. Quorum, Union Duties, and Belfast Dublin Liverpool Gas Light Bills receive third readings. Commons bills read first time. adjournment to tomorrow.

House OF Lords Tuunsday Brogden House of Commons Lord Darnley Lord Liverpool Bay Mis Higham Ferrers Lord Fortescue Birmingham Lord Calthorpe Norwich Lord Sufield Lord Lansdown Trish Lord Suffield Belfast Dublin Liverpool Commons Lord Belgrave Chester Pontefract Cogeleshall Braintree F. Buxton Exeter Mr. Courtenay Thetford N. R. Codburne County of Huntingdon J. Russell Knaresborough Tierney Lraders Ludlow Lord Clive A. Baring West India Mr. Baring West Indies British Museum Huskisson W. Smita Jamaica Colonial Office Wilmont J. Smith Serjeant Onslow Marryatt Syices Robertson J. Mackintosh Privy Council Fox Windham Samuel Romilly Sheridan Dundas Burke Pitt Grenville Middle Passage Duke of Chandos Europe Lord Seymour Barbadoes

Petitions Across Cities Debated on Slavery and Linen Laws

Petitions from Durham Frome Witham Bridport Belfast Olney Gloucester Loughborough Dudley Worcester Norwich Walthamstow Mansfield Maryport Wickton Dover Market Drayton Great Yarmouth Swansea Bristol Calne Bath Liverpool and others were laid on the Table and printed. Debates covered Insolvent Debtors Act Linen Laws and Negro Slavery with petitions from Dundee Devonshire Norwich Upborough and West India interests.

House OF Commons Durham Frome Witham Bridport Belfast Olney Gloucester Loughborough Dudley Worcester Norwich Walthamstow Mansfield Maryport Wickton Dover Market Drayton Great Yarmouth Swansea Bristol Fye Calne Bath Liverpool Scotland Ricardo R. Fergusson Dundee Perthshire Maberly Marryatt Qumne Yorkshire Loskisson John Newport Aberdeen Deland England Baring Lindsay

Abolition Debate and Slavery Policy in Parliament

The speaker defends introducing a motion on West Indies slavery, rebutting fears of insurrection, and argues that gradual emancipation through legal reforms will improve conditions, reduce cruelty, and secure peace. He cites past predictions that failed to materialize, urges justice over fear, and outlines practical steps toward eventual freedom for enslaved people.

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