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tionary miracles; and brief “sketches ‘of the 
many illustrious personages that have figured 
in the-annals ‘of France, render these vo- 
lumes ‘a compilation of most that is valuable 
to be learned, relative to that metropolis. 
‘We regret that our space in this number 
is too limited to permit us to subjoin a few 
extracts—but our readers will probably find, 
inthe ensuing Supplement, the defect, in 
some degree supplied.» 
The Negro’s Memorial, or Abolitionist’s 
Catechism; by an Abolitionist. 8vo. — 
Agreeing with the concluding observations 
‘of this pamphlet, that among the duties of 
an abolitionist are— 
*< To make himself [and others] acquainted with 
‘the history and facts of this great moral question. 
And, generally, to oppose all schemes which are 
‘calculated to strengthen the hands of the upholders 
of the West-Indian system, and render them inde- 
pendent of public opinion; but to favour all. pro- 
jects of an opposite description, and upon all occa- 
sions diligently to circulate useful information rela- 
tive to the subject "— 
we feel ourselves called upon, inthe name of 
dhmmanity, to thank the author for the labour 
and diligence with which he has collected 
and arranged the facts and materials if cou- 
tains. And although we do not perceive 
the likelihood of much efficacy in another 
of his prepounded duties— 
‘To abstain, as much as possible, from consum- 
ing West-Indian produce, such as sugar, rum, cof- 
fee, &c.: in proportion to the demand for which, the 
value of the slaves is enhanced, and the difficulty, 
which that value interposes in the way of abolition, 
is augmented ”— 
yet, in general, we admit, the soundness of 
jis principles, and the discretion and ju- 
diciousness of his propositions, as well as 
the correctness. of his arguments. We, also, 
would proceed (for to us it appears the 
‘orily:mean) to the abolition of the Slave 
‘Trade by the abolition of Slavery ; and we 
admit that the best, the most temperate, 
vand the least hazardous mode of proceed- 
ing to that abolition, is by declaring all the 
children that-may henceforth be born of 
slayes to be free-born; and providing for 
their education, &e.: seeing, especially, 
that no evils have resulted ‘from this mea- 
sure in the countries or settlements where 
the experiment has been tried. 
Second Report of the Committee of the 
Society for the Mitigation and gradual 
Abolition of Slavery throughout the British 
minions.  Itead at the General Meeting, 
$e.—The melancholy details which have 
recently come before the public, proving 
but too clearly that not gne atom of benefit 
, torthe negroes, or saitigution of the horrors 
“of the atrocious Slave Trade, has resulted 
from our legislative abolition of the traffic, 
casts a “gloom over this subject. We are 
happy, however, to see that the society, 
whose report now lies before us, so far 
from relaxing their efforts, are straining 
their eyes still more ee towards the 
Monrunry MAc. No, 411. 
Domestic and Loreign. 
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only rational antidote to this’ commercial 
cannibalism—the abolition of slavery, The 
expedient recommended is, that of national 
purchase of the imagined right or property 
of the slave-holders. The following quo- 
tation (p. 44), will explain our meaning : 
«© If we look narrowly into the question of com- 
pensation, we shall find it far from being attended 
with all those formidable and apparently insuper- 
able difficulties with which the exaggerated claims 
of the West-Indians have invested it. Mr. Barham, 
however, who is not likely to undervalue those 
claims, and who, in some points of view, exceed- 
ingly overrates them, estimates the annual net in- 
come derived by West-India proprietors, from their 
property in the West-Indies, at £2,100,000. If we 
suppose this estimate not to be excessive, and value 
it at sixteen years’ purchase (which, in a country 
where interest is at six per cent., and property ex- 
posed to much comparative hazard, is a high valua- 
tion), it would amount to £33,600,000. At three 
and a half per cent. this sum would be completely 
liquidated by a perpetual annuity of £1,176,000; a 
sum less than what the nation is now made to pay 
to the West-Indians, in consequence of the mode of 
regulating the drawback on Sugar, independently of 
the protecting duties, and exclusive of all other 
charges, whether civil or military. What we now 
,; Pay, however, we pay to uphold and aggravate Sla- 
very. A less sum, if ‘Mr. Barham be right in his 
estimate of the annual income of the Colonies, would 
be sufficient to buy out the whole system.’ And even 
if this were thought too large'a step to take at once, 
yet, by the appropriation of less than a third of what 
we now pay, we might redeem from their bondage 
the whole of the female population, and thus ex- 
tinguish Slavery in a single generation.” 
The statistical facts alone contained in 
this tract, if it had no other interest, would 
entitle it to general attention. 
The Actual State of the Mexican Mines, 
and the reasonable Expectations of” the 
Shareholders of the Anglo-Mexican Mine 
Association ; being the Substance of a Let- 
ter addressed to the Directors of that Cor?- 
pany ; with a Supplement, containing addi- 
tional Data, confirmed by recent Intelligence 
from Mexico ; and an Appendix of original 
Mexican Documents. By Si Witiam 
ADAMS. §8vo. 
An Inquiry into the Plans, Progress, Gil 
Policy of the American Mining Companies. 
—The subject of these two pamphlets is 
worthy of more investigation than we have 
time to give them. We must be satisfied, 
therefore, with little more than announcing 
that they are both of them on the same 
side of the question—in favour of the Min- 
ing-company speculations. , 
** His reasons for undertaking so laborious a task, 
(says Sir W. Adams), were, to afford to the public, 
in some degree, the means of forming a judgment 
for themselves, and thereby of escaping 2 repetition 
of the: ruinous losses consequent on the excessive 
fluctuations in the prices of. the Mine-shares, occa- 
sioned by the inaccurate statements which appeared 
about the period when he commenced his Pam- 
phlet, and also from the circumstance, that several 
of his friends, who had purchased Mine-shares at his 
instance, were,’ from panic and the want of detailod 
information, induced to part with them far bolow 
their intrinsic value,” . 
The 
