strangled the whole of them, preserving the lives of the children, whom we sold at Jeipore for 120 rupees, half of which was divided among the members of my gang. After this affair I resolved on selecting for my victims the poorest class of travellers, and murdering them for their children, for whom there was so great a demand in all the great cities," He then gives an account of the number of murders which he had committed. Another says: "I left my home with a gang of 40 Thugs, and proceeded to Husseeagunge, where HEERA DASS and ROOKMUNEE went to the city of Muttra for the purpose of buying some clothes, and succeeded in winning the confidence of four travellers, two men and two women, with their three children, whom they brought with them to our encampment; after passing two days with us, TEELLA DASS, MUDHOO DASS, Byragees, and DEWA HOOKMA, TEELAKE, GUNGARAM, BRINJARAHS, BALLUCK DASS, CHUTTER DASS, NEPUT DASS, and HUNCOMAN DASS, prevailed on this family to accompany them to the banks of the Jumna, and murdered the four elderly travellers in a garden near the village of Gokool; after throwing their bodies into the Jumna, they took their three children to the tanda, or encampment, of DEWA BRINJARAH, near the village of Kheir, and sold the two female children for forty rupees, and the male for five rupees." One of them, a woman, says: We now went off to Thuneisier, where we encamped in a grove on the bank of a tank, and here several parties of travellers were inveigled by the wives of the leaders of our gangs to come and take up their lodgings with us-1. A Chumar, with.three daughters, one thirty years of age, and the others young. 2. The widow of a carpenter, and her son, ten years of age. 3. A Brahmin and his wife, with one beautiful daughter fourteen years old, another five, and a son six years. of age. 4. A Brahmin and his wife, with one daughter about fourteen, another twelve, and a son three years of age. These travellers lodged for two or three days among the tents of the NAEKS and BRINJARAHS, after which we all went one morning to a village in the territory of the Toorooee Rajah; I forget his name. Here very heavy rain fell at night, and deluged the country, and we got no rest. The next morning we went to a village on the bank of the canal, still in the same Rajah's country. The next day we went to a village on the bank of the Jumna; and two hours after night KANER DASS, proposed that we should go down to the sacred stream of the Jumna, say our prayers, and remain there. They all went down accordingly, leaving me, RoOPLA and his second wife (ROOKMUNEE) at the village. They murdered the seven men and women, and threw their bodies into the river; but who killed them, or how they were killed, I know not. The CHUMAR and his eldest daughter, the two BRAHMINS and their wives, and the carpenter's widow, were all murdered. They brought the nine children back to us a watch and a half before daylight. They were all crying a good deal after their parents, and we quieted them the best way we could with sweetmeats and playthings. We came to Beebeepore, and encamped in the grove. A daughter and son of the BRAHMIN's were extremely beautiful, and these we left with DHYAN SING for sale." (Lord BROUGHAM continued, but from the low tone in which he spoke, and from the excitement under which he labored, he was almost inaudible. We understood him to speak as follows): I have not language I have no power of speech wherewith to give utterance to the mixed feelings of pity and of horror which must arise in the breast of every man at such atrocities as these. But it is not necessary for me to add one word to the account which I have read to your Lordships. I defy the most powerful orator to paint these atrocities in colours more striking-to place them in a light more appalling-than they receive from the simple statement

of the facts themselves. Steeped in blood-no nation of the earth-nay, not Africa herself-ever presented more appalling examples of the proneness to take away life of the utter indifference as to taking away of life— which distinguishes this cruel, this revolting traffic. It strikes a blight upon the heart of every man, in whatever region it is permitted to curse. It debases the mind-it blunts the feelings-it lowers the intellect of all who are engaged in it, who are connected with it, or who even are spectators of it. But we ought to reserve some share at least of our just and natural indignation for those who allow the continuance of such atrocities. As long as Parliament, the noble lord continued to say, did not directly interfere, the dealing in slaves would not be put down. He begged to remind the Government of the advice given by Lord GLENELG with respect to accelerating the suppression of slavery in Ceylon, contained in his dispatch of November, 1838. He begged to recommend that dispatch to the consideration of his noble friend at the head of the India Board, and he fondly hoped that these inquiries by himself and his colleagues would lead to the adoption of measures to accelerate a real and effective security from the horrors of slavery and the slave trade. (Cheers.)

The Earl of RIPON said that the only reason which prevented him from referring to those cases to which his noble and learned friend had called the attention of their Lordships was that he had not before been acquainted with their fearful details. He would, therefore, only allude to a subject with which his noble friend had commenced his speech, and of which had a more personal cognizance. His noble and learned friend had asked him whether he should have any objection to lay upon the table the report furnished to Government by Dr. MADDEN. Anxious as he seriously was, that every information should be given on a subject of so much importance, it was with considerable regret that he felt himself compelled to say that it would not be expedient to lay that report before the House. That report was of an extremely confidential character. It referred to many of the settlements on the coast of Africa, including an account of the state of their defences, and other points of a similar nature. It involved also allusions to our relations with other countries, and it also affected named individuals. The publication of such report, his noble and learned friend would at once see, would defeat the object they had in view in making and maintaining such an inquiry. As to the questions raised by his noble and learned friend, whether certain acts connected with slavery were affected by the law as it at present stood, he could give no decisive opinion. But he would tell the House that his noble friend the Secretary for the colonies had given his best attention to the particular points of the Act of Parliament to which his noble and learned friend had that night referred. When the Government were in possession of legal advice, they would at once consider how far it was practicable to apply the law, if it were declared to be applicable; or, if it were not so held, to call upon Parliament to make it so. With this assurance of the intention of the Government to pursue a full inquiry upon the subject, his noble and learned friend would see that it was not desirable, nor would it be necessary, to press for the production of the report. (Hear, hear.)

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he was surprised that his noble learned friend was not acquainted with the report which had been laid upon the table on the 6th of April last, and which had been printed six or eight weeks ago. It was very inconvenient to read a few extracts from a report containing nine hundred pages, and merely from such extracts to judge of the general state of India. He had yesterday put upon the table of the House a minute of Lord AUCKLAND, to which he begged to call the atten

tion of their Lordships, and from which they would obtain a more general and more accurate view. With regard to the cases which his learned and noble friend had read, if they went to some particular part of the most civilized country in Europe, they would find individual cases of fearful atrocity. Let them go to Scotland, which was admitted to be as civilized, as moral and religious, as any portion of the United Kingdom; and yet not many years ago, their Lordships would recollect, persons were murdered in the metropolis of that country, merely for the value of their dead bodies. If they looked into the facts of those cases they would find them more connected with Thuggee than with slavery. And it was notorious that the crimes of the Thugs arose more out of a love of murder than for the sake of gain. They believed they were doing a kind action to the men they murdered. The Government had endeavored to overpower it, but they had not succeeded. It was well known, however, that these crimes were con:mitted for murder's sake and not for the value of the victims; for the value of these children could be little or nothingcertainly not above two or three rupees in any case, and, of course, less than that of the parents. In 1833 Parliament directed the Government of India to take the subject of slavery into its consideration. They had referred it to the law commission, and it could not be left in better hands. The local Government could decide upon the matter far better than they could; and when they had settled upon any course which ought to be pursued, there would be every disposition on the part of the Government to carry it into full effect.

Lord BROUGHAM said that the speeches of both his noble friends had been most satisfactory, but he could not agree with his noble friend who last addressed the House as to the facts which he had brought forward. Certainly the persons committing these crimes were Thugs, but they were peculiar to the Thugs in general in the respect to which he had adverted. His noble friend had been, too, most unfortunate in his selection of an analagous case. If he had wanted an instance to bring forward in favour of his argument on slavery, and in favor of the expediency of preventing such atrocities by extinguishing slavery, which was their cause, he could not have found one better suited to his purpose than that to which his noble friend had called the attention of their Lordships. He remembered that some time previous to the horrid murders which had been committed in Edinburgh, he had been conversing with three or four friends on the exhorbitant price of subjects for anatomical dissection, and he then said if something were not done to remedy the defect as to supply of subjects, they might depend upon it that they would have murders committed for the value of the dead bodies. Then those fearful murders subsequently had taken place, a friend of his Mr. JOHN SMITH, who had been present at the conversation, reminded him of his remark. It was precisely the same cause which produced those horrors that also produced the dreadful results of the slave trade in India, namely a price in the market. It was the ready price in the open slave market that produced those enormities, and the atrocities to which the noble lord had adverted only strengthened the arguments against the slave trade. What had been the consequence of these occurrences to which the noble lord (Lord ELLENBOROUGH) had directed their attention? They had passed a Bill which allowed "subjects" for anatomical purposes to be obtained at a low price, and since the enactment of that law no similar horrors had occured. should under the circumstances of the case, withdraw his motion for the production of the report of Dr. MADDEN,

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THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR.

ONE number more will complete the volume for 1841. We naturally expect many persons will order their paper "stopped." We should be disappointed were the facts to be otherwise. We trust, therefore, that they will allow themselves due time for reflection before they take this step. They and we have now been in communication one year. It has been our endeavor to furnish them with the best information in regard to this great cause, and to give them all the news respecting its prospects or discouragements. They will not, therefore, we are sure, forget that they ought to settle up all dues before they bid us farewell. Or if they think the paper is not worth the small amount it costs, we will readily forgive the debt on their informing us that such is their opinion. We only ask even justice.

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WE are yet unable to lay before our readers any more recent intelligence from the Colony. We have been anxiously expecting an arrival for several weeks past; but we have been disappointed. We have also been depending on receiving a return cargo of cam wood, palm oil, &c., to enable us to meet our heavy liabilities, falling due at this time. But in this we are also disappointed.

Our friends will thus see the importance of the Society's owning a vessel to run regularly between this country and the Colony. We might then calculate with great certainty both as to the time of the arrival and the departure of our expeditions. Now we are obliged to rely mainly upon transient vessels-whose movements are very little to be depended upon. And hence we are liable to be kept in anxiety and suspense in regard to the most important interests of the Colony.

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THE extracts inserted in the present number from the debates in the British House of Lords will attract the attention of our readers. The facts there disclosed confirm the statements we have made repeatedly on the same subject. We hope to see the day when the American Congress will make an investigation into the deep abominations connected with the slave trade, and when effective measures will be taken to remove them from the earth. We add once more, COLONIZATION is the one great, and the only,

emedy.

THE LIBERIA HERALD.

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THE MENDIANS.

THE Amistad captives were to set sail for their native land, accompanied by two or three teachers and missionaries, about the 15th of last month. Contributions were solicited both to defray the expenses of the voyage, and for the establishment of a mission in the Mendian country.

The antici pation is natural and reasonable that their being torn from their fatherland and providentially cast upon our shores should awaken so deep commiseration for them as to impel hearts that love God and liberty to devise plans for the redemption of that land of darkness and of sorrow. How much of good may be educed from their enslavement! How many in eternity may bless God that the Gospel was sent them, though by means so mysterious and by acts so painful and barbarous ! Thus, not unfrequently He makes the wrath of man to praise Him, and the wail of lament to precede the song of praise.

The Mendians have been to their own advantage detained long in this country; they have been instructed in letters and in the first principles of Christianity, and some of them have apparently received the Gospel in the love of it; thus they are qualified to return home with a just appreciation of the value of these blessings, and with desire that their nation should receive the like precious gifts. They will appear to their friends as alive from the dead-a joyful meeting! But more joyful for the blessings they bring for Africa in future times. When ОBOOKIAH from the Sandwich Islands was cast upon our shores, a helpless, wandering boy, the wisest seer among us could not have foretold that his coming and his death far away from his native isle, would result in such songs of redeeming love, from ten thousand of purified hearts so speedily. Nor can we foresee what purposes of divine love are to be unfolded, through the instrumentality of this unusual mission to the Mendian country. But from what has been, we may infer what may be. Let the mission go out, borne on the wings of prayer, and faith, and strong desire that it may result in the wide diffu sion of Christianity and strike another blow at slavery and the slave trade. For the gratification of our readers, we here insert a letter of CINQUE to the President of the United States.-Congregational Journal.

THE MENDIAN NEGROES.-We published a few days since, the reply of the President to the Mendian committee, in reply to their application for aid to return these negroes to their native country. The following characteristic letter to the President was written by the Chief, (Cinque,) who has been taught to read and write here :

FARMINGTON, CONN., Oct. 5, 1841. You have done a great deal for us. Now we want to go home, very much, very soon. As soon as you can send us. We want to land at no other place but Sierra Leone. When we get to Sierra Leone we get home we find a good place for our teachers, and then we tell our parents, come