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bate, was carried by a conside- 

 rable majority, and leave given 

 to bring in a bill to that effect. 

 Whether this proposition will 

 tend to reconcile the opposing 

 parties, cannot be said till par- 

 ticulars be more fully explain- 

 ed •, but it does not appear 

 piobable that things can be so 

 modified as to please both par- 

 ties ; pofsibly it will please nei- 

 ther. Mr Dundas in his speech 

 hiated at the entire abolition of 

 slavery, a particular that gives 

 no favourable idea of the po- 

 pularity of the measures pro- 

 posed. Mr Pit and Mr Fox, 

 both declared themselves to be 

 decidedly against the amend- 

 ment. 



On the 17 th March Mr 

 West was elected president of 

 the royal academy, in the room 

 o fthe lace Sir Jolhua Rey- 

 jiold.-% 



A mill has lately been in- 

 vented in Yoikiluje, by which 

 cordage is manuiactured, from 

 the size of whip cord to the 

 largest cable, (^which, to make 

 in the common way, will re- 

 quire eighty hands, ) and which, 

 by this new machine may be 

 completely managed by one 

 man. 



Fifty thousand jiounds were 

 subscribed in the space of twen- 

 ty minutes, at a meeting of the 

 gentlemen and landholders at 

 Harborough in Leicesterfliire, 

 lately, for the purpose cf ef- 

 fecting a navigable canal from 

 that place to Leicgster. 



chronicle. 



A general court of pToprre- 

 tors of the Sierra Leone com- 

 pany, was held at the London 

 tavern on Wednesday last, for 

 I the annual election of directors 

 I for the year ensuing. The 

 j court was numerously and most 

 J respectably attended. The di- 

 ! rectors having read the body 

 of instructions given by them 

 to the superintendant and coun- 

 cil at Sierra Leone, and re-' 

 ported iu detail what had taken 

 place since last meeting, and 

 particularly their purchase of 

 a large ihip for, the purpose of 

 remaining on the coast as a re- 

 ceptacle for such of their of- 

 ficers and settlers as might 

 not be provided with proper ac- 

 commodations during the rainy 

 season, the thanks of the 

 court were unanimously voted 

 to them, for their unremitting 

 exertions in promoting the in- 

 terests of the company during, 

 their past direction •, and the 

 same gentlemen were, with the 

 like unanimity, re-elected di- 

 rectors for the ensuing year. ^ 

 The Jnstrr^tions for the su- 

 perintendant and council, com- 

 prised the code for tiie inter- 

 nal government of the infant 

 colony, and v»"ere spoken of 

 with much praise, as a compo» 

 si'tion replete with wise and 

 philanthropic regulations as for' 

 their elegance of diction. 



About L. 203,000 have al- 

 ready been raided tov;ards the 

 capital of this company •, and 

 the subscripticns are t»-be con- 



