the prisoner, and he was immediately discharged."

It seems, then, that according to British law, a man may enter the service of a known slave trader, buy a ship for him, fill her with goods, such as are needed in the slave trade, sail her to his employer'sslave factory, consigned to his slave trading agents there, and under obligation, after delivering his cargo, to perform any service which said agents may require of him, even that of carrying a cargo of slaves to Cuba; and, after all, if their are no "slave implements" on board when he is seized, he is "not guilty."

So much for the laws which restrain British subjects from participating in the slave trade!

Do they extend the same mercy to others? If "slave implements" on board are necessary to convict a person of being engaged in the slave trade, by what law do they condemn a vessel without any such implements on board? For example, the "John Seys." Who can answer?

We wish just to place in contrast with the preceding, the following sentence passed on Captain Flowrey, by a United States Court, for participating in the slave trade, and let every person draw his own inferen

ent. In it were recapitulated the main facts proved on the trial, and the reasons for admitting the evidence by which they counsel for the prisoner. It was held, that were proved, after objections raised by the the district attorney was right in putting in evidence to prove the previous character of the Spitfire, and that the sale to Flowrey was fictitious; and that he was justified in in arguing, from the circumstances, that he knew her previous character; also, that he was justified in arguing that Don Scorsur, the apparent charterer of the schooner, was engaged in the slave trade.

"In passing sentence, Judge Sprague addressed the prisoner upon the subject of his offence, and reminded him that he had been convicted of having aided in fitting out a vessel to be engaged in the slave trade. His honor remarked, that he did not see how any intelligent jury, upon the evidence submitted to them, could have arrived at any other conclusion than that of his guilt. The slave trade, he said, presented to every well regulated mind, an aggregate of horrors. The offence was not committed under any sudden temptation, like many ordinary offences, which follow the temptation without time for reflection. The criminal voyage was contemplated at Havana, and steadily pursued, through various stages, from Havana to Key West; thence to New Orleans, thence back to Havana, and from there to the river Pongo, on the coast of but one step further, and taken slaves on Africa; and if the prisoner had proceeded board, his life would have been forfeited to the laws of his country.

"The origin of his offence was a cold, deliberate calculation of pecuniary gain. He could scarcely see a palliating circumstance in the whole transaction. It was above the medium of guilt contemplated in the statute, the maximum of punishment being seven years' imprisonment and a fine of $5,000, and the minimum three years and $1,000. But the jury had recommended the prisoner to mercy, and that recommenda

jail, and he named the one at Salem. The district attorney acceded to the suggestion; the prisoner was accordingly ordered to be committed to the Salem jail, and he was declared to be in the custody of the United States marshal,"

time.

If any masters have servants whom they intend to send to Liberia this fall, they are requested to communicate the facts to us as soon as possible.

CONTEMPLATED EXPEDITION FROM N.

ORLEANS.-We shall send a vessel from

New Orleans to Liberia in November or December, provided a sufficient number of emigrants, say 200, can be gotten ready in Kentucky at that time. We have instructed Governor Roberts to have a tract of

country, on the north side of the St. Paul's river, laid off for the location of a new settlement, to be called KENTUCKY, and to be commenced by emigrants from that State. They will enjoy all the advantages of the Liberia Government, and have the same privileges that they would have in any settlement in the commonwealth. They will be provided with houses, to reside in for six months after their arrival, in some of the adjacent villages, until they can erect houses for themselves on their own land. Those who cannot pay their own expenses will be provided for by funds raised in Kentucky. It is important that the vessel should not sail later than the 10th of December.

It will be seen from the list of our receipts, that our agent, the Rev. Alex. M.

our most sanguine expectations. In addition to the amount acknowledged as received from him, he has a large number of subscriptions payable at a future time; and he speaks of the interest in the subject as continually on the increase, and he thinks the State will very soon embark in the enterprise with an unusual liberality, and very soon send emigrants enough to form a strong and interesting settlement.

EMIGRANTS from Illinois, Tennessee, and Mississippi, our friends in those States will remark, can go out in the vessel from New Orleans. We hope, therefore, that they will at once give us information of such as will then be ready, or ought to go at that time.

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.-Probate was granted on the will of the late Daniel Waldo at the Probate Court in this town yesterday. The following is an accurate list of the munificent public donations, bequeathed by this will:

To the Calvanist Society in

Worcester, dwelling house and vestry, valued at To the Massachusetts General Hospital.

To the Massachusetts Medical
Society in Worcester County,
for the purpose of erecting a
Hospital in Worcester
To the American Board of For-
eign Missions

To the American Board of Do-
mestic Missions
To the American Tract Society
To the American Bible Society

$7,000 40,000

6,000

40,000

10,000

6,000 10,000

To the American Education Society

To the American Colonization Society

To the Leicester Academy To the Worcester County Hor. ticultural Society

To the Prison Discipline Society To the Seaman's Friend Society in New York

To the Seaman's Friend Society in Boston

To the Bangor Theological Seminary, Maine

To the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

6,000

Egis.

6,000

6,000 6,000

To the Windsor Theological Seminary in Connecticut

SIX OR SEVEN HUNDRED SLAVES TO BE SENT TO LIBERIA.-The late Stephen Henderson, of Louisiana, left by his will some six or seven hundred slaves to be sent to Liberia in the following manner. Five years after his death, they were to draw lots, and ten on whom the lots should fall, were to be sent to Liberia then; five years after this, ten more were to be sent, also by lot, and in twenty-five years the whole of the residue were to be sent. Suit was brought by the heirs against the executors, to break the will. This suit having been lost in the lower court, it was last June tried in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and was decided in favor of the will, which establishes its provisions and requires the slaves to be sent to Liberia.

Mr. Henderson died about six years ago, so that the "first ten" may be expected to sail for Liberia in the first vessel from New Orleans.

TWO MEN FOR LIBERIA.-Read their statement below. If we mistake not they have taken a correct view of the subject. We commend it to others of their race, well fitted to be useful in Liberia, but wasting their days in this country.

THE COLONIZATION ENTERPRISE.— Mr. Hall, in his address on Sunday last, stated some very interesting facts in reference to the influence of colonization upon missionary efforts in Africa. It is remarkable, that every attempt to establish missionary stations in Africa for the period of near four hundred years previous to the planting of the colony of Sierra Leone, resulted in failure and disappointment. During the made in opening a communication with the last half century much progress has been natives, and in obtaining their consent to

the residence of missionaries among them.

Liberia is pointed to as exercising an influence which is without parallel. Scarcely 23 years have elapsed since the colony was planted. And now this miniature republic, its institutions bearing the impress of our own, is highly prosperous, and rapidly increasing in commerce, wealth, and all else that promises greatness or usefulness. Through the instrumentality of its government and people, the slave trade has been banished from 300 miles of coast-a most salutary influence exercised over many of the natives, the result of which is manifested by an abandonment of their heathenish practices, and their desire to be instructed in the arts of civilized life. Nearly 100 missionaries are now successfully laboring among the benighted Airicans, which were sent forth from this single colony, and are sustained in their work by its influence and encouragement.

With this evidence that, under Providence, the agency of the work of Christianizing and civilizing the heathen millions of Africa, must be accomplished by the agency of her own children, who can help looking with absorbing interest upon the scheme of colonization, and lending it efficient aid and support?

Some idea may be formed of the awakened feeling on the subject in Dayton, by a statement of the fact that more than $600 have been contributed by many citizens to the funds of the Colonization Society during the past twelve months.

Ås connected with the subject of this article, we append the letter of Messrs. Abney and Ware, the colored men who desire to emigrate to Liberia, and which was read at the meeting on Sunday last. No one can read it without being forcibly impressed with the intelligence and independence of which it shows the writers to be possessed. The letter we are assured is entirely their own production, and is published precisely as written, with the exception of the pune tuation, and a very few errors in spelling. It required no more preparation for the compositor than is usual with most manuscripts furnished for publication. It is well enough to add here, that Mr. Ware was recently married, and his wife shares his feelings in regard to emigration. All three are professors of religion.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLONIZA

ing us to the resolution to leave America, the land of our birth-a land of light, civilization and Christianity-the land that contains, dead or alive, all our relations, friends and acquaintances-the land which contains every object which former acquaintance and familiarity hath rendered dear to us. To state, we say, our reasons for wishing to leave such a home, such a countryso blessed, so prosperous, and receive in exchange a home in Africa, a land that can boast neither of Christianity nor any of the advantages of civilization. For although we esteem the advantages of civilized and Christian society as much as any persons ought, yet there are circumstances connected with our condition in this country which justify us in renouncing or forgoing the small share of these advantages which we should be permitted to enjoy by remaining here, and taking up our abode where these blessings, if they exist at all, are but in embryo.

For it is a fact known to all, both white and colored. who know any thing about it, that notwithstanding free, civil and religious institutions exist here in this country in as great perfection, or perhaps greater than in any other part of the globe, and these benefits are more generally shared by all classes of the white population than they are any where else, yet the colored race, in the midst of all the superior advantages enjoyed by the whites, are excluded from all participation in any of them; so that their existence in this blessed state of society, under the circumstances in which they are placed, instead of adding to their happiness, improvement and prosperity, detracts from their happiness and retards their improvement and prosperity.

1st. It detracts from their happiness by holding up to their view constantly those advantages without permitting them to participate in the benefits of any of them, thus constantly exciting a desire in them to share in these advantages, while they are as constantly denied the privilege.

And secondly; This retards their improvement by discouraging them from making any effort to improve themselves.