sometimes happen-the public have done justice to the ministry, and have thanked the monarch, as from a sentiment to which they could not be strangers. But, when the views of the country are disregarded, insulted by the ministers, the citizens have accused the counsellors only of the prince, persuaded that he has been misled by them ou every occasion in which he has refused to listen to the prayers of the people. Nevertheless we ought not to dissimulate that a long and permanent opposition on the part of the administration, to the sentiments of the nation, must insensibly weaken the pious and salutary faith in a political dogma upon which the inviolability of the throne reposes. We comprehend the prudent slowness of power. Surrounded by ambitious rivals, it may be supposed that it might err, when it intends to act for the public service, and it hesitates long before it discharges unfaithful servants. Let us hope that hesitation on this point has arrived at its termination. It may be once more possible for an administration to co-operate with France. Who knows whether in two years such a change may not be possible? [N. Y. American. THE GREEKS. J.G. Eynard, agent for the Greeks in London, has published the following appeal for support to lord Cochrane and general Church. It gives perhaps, a more correct view of the present state of affairs in Greece than has hitherto been presented to the public. Under the date of the 25th of May, M. Gosse writes: "The efforts made to save Athens before the arrival of Kiutacki's reinforcements, and the disbursements for the equipment of the fleet have exhausted all our resources. Lord Cochrane displays talent, activity, genius, and a wonderful perseverance-what resources this extraordinary man possesses! Had the steam boats been with him, there would not now be a Turkish fleet in existence. The hope of Greece is in her navy. If means be placed at lord Cochrane's disposal, Greece may yet be saved. I send you the names of 18 Philhellenians whom Kiautacki ordered to be decapitated." M. Heideick writes from Poros, May 20: The Turks "The misfortunes of Athens are great. Things however are not desperate, if general Church and lord Cochrane be supplied with new resources. are in want of provisions, and if the vessels stationed off Negropont continue to cruise successfully, Kiutacki will be destroyed by famine. I send you by one of our officers the details of our expenses. You will see that the supplies have been carefully distributed, but we want means to go on." In a letter dated may 15, M. Blaquiere writes: "Several friends of general Church promised that they would assist us as soon as they should be informed of his being appointed commander-in-chief of the army. This is the time for them to fulfil their promise." Afflicting as are these details, they prove that Greece London, July 11. The unfortunate affair of Athens is still exists, and may yet be saved, if means be afforded known to the world, and to give further details on that to the commanders who have devoted themselves to subject would now be useless. I have received long re-her defence. Those commanders are two Englishmen. ports from lord Cochrane, general Church, colonel Heideick and M. Gosse. The principal facts are true, but parts have been exaggerated. The following statement is correct: Their courage, their perseverance, and the manner in which they have devoted themselves to the cause, entitle them to the aid of their friends and countrymen. Fresh supplies of every kind, in provisions, ammunition, and "Killed on the field of battle, 700; prisoners 240, in-money, have been forwarded to the commissioners in aid cluding 18 Philhellenians of different countries. Kiutacki, supposing that lord Cochrane and general Church were among the Europeans, had the prisoners brought before him, and, after carefully examining them, made the 18 Europeans be poniarded before his eyes, and ordered the 222 Greeks to be afterwards massacred. The clemency of Kiutacki, on the taking of Athens, was forced upon him by the presence of the English and French ships of war. His clemency is the artifice of the tiger." The expedition for the relief of Athens has exhausted a great part of the funds remitted by European beneficence, and has once more disorganized the Greeks. In consequence of the want of resources, part of the troops dispersed, but Kiutacki could not pursue them. His army is suffering from famine. The communications by which he might obtain provisions are cut off, and the reduction of Athens will not re-open them. of the unfortunate Greeks. The funds of the several European committees have served to procure these last supplies, but they are completely exhausted; and it is now indispensably necessary that the two gallant English commanders who are exposing their lives in this great cause should be promptly supported, and furnished by the generosity of their countrymen with a part of the means necessary for the execution of their plans. Never was there a moment when the support of Greece was more important. Her destiny occupies the attention of the European powers. Fleets are about to be put in motion to prevent her entire destruction; but in order that this protection should be useful, it is necessary that the existence of Greece should be preserved, and that the Turks should be prevented from availing themselves of the terror caused by the disasters of Athens, to finish the work of blood which they have commenced. The Greek cause has been rendered unpopular in England by many circumstances, to which I do not choose to advert, but which are well known in London. This, however, is the moment when what has passed should be forgotten, and when succour should, without delay, be afforded to a nation borne down by every kind of misfortune. Greece possesses three principal fortresses, viz: Napoli di "I am here watching the Turkish fleet in the port of Romania, Napoli di Malvoisia, and Corinth. All the isNavarin. It consists of 14 frigates, from 30 to 40 cor-lands are still in the power of the Greeks-Hydra, Spezvettes, and several small vessels. With a single frigate Izia, Poros, Salamini, Egina, &c., and the fortress of Gracannot destroy them, and our Greek sailors are not yet tionza, in Candia. This, then, I repeat, is the moment to sufficiently disciplined to attempt any decisive blow. Isuccour the unfortunate Greek nation. have ordered a small flotilla to be fitted out; but if I have not the means of paying it, what is to be done? I have not changed my opinion as to the means of destroying the Turkish fleet, and if I receive the steam vessels which I have so long looked for, I shall yet keep my promise with you. If I am supplied with funds to pay the flotilla which I am about to have, I shall attempt every thing possible to be done with such slender Ibrahim has resumed his excursions; but he also suffers from want, and provisions cannot reach him while the Greek vessels continue to cruise on the coast. Lord Cochrane has got ready 15 brigs, 6 galliots, and 5 fire ships; but he is in want of money to pay the seamen. He writes to me as follows, under date of the 28th of May, from on board his frigate in sight of Navarin. means." General Church writes: "The affair of Athens has been disastrous for Greece: but there is no reason to despair if we have resources for paying the troops. The dispersed soldiers will hasten to return as soon as they are furnished with the means of subsistence. The army of Kiutacki is in a destitute state, and cannot pursue the Greeks in their mountains. If we had funds, the mischief would still be repaired." still Several friends of lord Cochrane and general Church have offered to contribute to a general subscription in favor of the Greeks, on condition that the funds shall be exclusively applied to the support of the land and sea forces under the direction of those commanders. I feel assured that Englishmen will not fail to support their countrymen in such a cause. I therefore invite the friends of the two illustrious commanders to open two subscriptions-one destined to support the operations under lord Cochrane, the other those under general Church. But, as, to be useful, the amount of the subscriptions must be considerable, and as it would be unjust that some zealous individuals should uselessly sacrifice their funds, I propose that the subscriptions shall not be binding until each list amounts to at least £1,500 or £2,000. I subscribe for each list £150. J. G. EYNARD. THE GREEKS AND TURKS. I made, at the same time, to the two contending parties, a The London Courier of the 12th July, in commenting demand of an immediate armistice between them, as a upon the terms of the treaty of the allied powers in re-preliminary condition indispensable to the opening of any lation to Greece, remarks: negotiation. Should the porte refuse to accept the armistice which Art. II. The arrangement to be proposed to the Otis to be in the first instance proposed, or should the toman porte shall rest on the following bases: the Greeks object to it, it is to be announced to that one of Greeks shall hold of the sultan, as of a superior lord; the contending parties who shall wish to continue hos-and in consequence of this superiority they shall pay to tilities, or to both, if necessary, that the allies intend to the Ottoman empire an annual tribute, (relief), the use all the means which circumstances may place at their amount of which shall be fixed once for all, by a common command, to obtain the effect of the proposed armistice, agreement. They shall be governed by the authorities by preventing as far as may be in their power, all colli- whom they shall themselves choose and nominate, but in sion between the belligerents, without however taking the nomination of whom the porte shall have a determiany part in their hostilities by siding with or against the nate voice. other. Thus if need be, to employ an efficient interven- To bring about a complete separation between the intion against the Turks and the Greeks, if both are obsti-dividuals of the two nations, and to prevent collisions nately bent on war. which are the inevitable consequence of so long a strugThe New Times of the 14th July remarks, "we re-gle, the Greeks shall enter upon possession of the Turk ceived last night, by express, the Paris papers of Wednesday, with the Gazette de France of Thursday's date. From the latter we extract the following paragraphs, and subjoin to them a few from the other journals. Treaty for the settlement of Greece. ish property situated either on the continent or in the isles of Greece, on the condition of indemnifying the former proprietors, either by the payment of an annual sum, to be added to the tribute which is to be paid to the porte or by some other transaction of the same nature. Art. III. The details of this arrangement, as well as the limits of the territory on the continent, and the designation of the islands of the Archipelago to which it shall be applicable, shall be settled in a subsequent negotiation between the high powers and the two contending par In the name of the most holy and undivided trinity. His majesty the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his majesty the king of France and Navarre, and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, penetrated with the necessity of putting an end to the sanguinary contest, which, by delivering up the Greek provinces and the isles of the Archipelago to all the dis-ties. orders of anarchy, produces daily fresh impediments to Art. IV. The contracting powers engage to follow the commerce of the European states, and gives occa- up the salutary work of the pacification of Greece on sion to piracies, which not only expose the subjects of the the bases laid down in the preceding articles, and to high contracting parties to considerable losses, but be- furnish without the least delay, their representatives at sides render necessary burdensome measures of protec- Constantinople with all the instructions which are netion and repression; his majesty the king of the United cessary for the execution of the treaty now signed. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his majesty the king of France and Navarre, having beside received these arrangements any augmentation of territory, any Art. V. The contracting powers will not seek in on the part of the Greeks, a pressing request to inter-exclusive influence, or any commercial advantage for pose their mediation with the Ottomon porte, and being, their subjects, which the subjects of any other nation may as well as his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, animated by the desire of stopping the effusion of blood, and of arresting the evils of all kinds which might arise from the continuance of such a state of things, have resolved to unite their efforts, and to regulate the operation thereof by a formal treaty, with the view of re-establishing peace between the contending parties by means of an arrangement which is called for as much by humanity as by the interest and the repose of Europe. Wherefore they have nominated their plenipotentiaries to discuss, agree upon, and sign the said treaty, viz: His majesty the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the right hon. Wm. viscount Dudley, peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, councillor of his Britannic majesty in his privy council, and his principal secretary of state for the department of foreign affairs; not equally obtain. Art. VI. The arrangements of reconciliation and the contending parties, shall be guaranteed by such of peace, which shall be definitively agreed upon between the signing powers as shall judge it useful or possible to contract the obligation; the mode of the effects, of this guarantee shall become the object of subsequent stipula tions between the high powers. Art. VII. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in two months, or sooner it possible. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed, and sealed it with their arms. Done at London, July 6, 1827. DUDLEY, POLIGNAC, LIEVEN. Additional and secret article. His majesty the king of France and Navarre, the prince Jules, count de Polignac, peer of France, knight "In case that the Ottoman porte does not accept, with of the orders of his most Christian majesty, major general in the space of one month, the mediation which shall be of his armies, grand cross of the order of St. Maurice of proposed, the high contracting parties agree upon the folSardinia, &c. and his ambassador to his Britannic ma-lowing measures: jesty. And his majesty the emperor of all the Russaias, Christopher prince de Lieven, general of infantry of the armies of his imperial majesty, his aid-de-camp general, knight of the orders of Russia, of those of the Black Eagle and of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of that of the Guelphs of Hanover, commander grand cross of the order of the sword, and of the order of St. John of Jerusalem, his ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to his Britannic majesty. Who, after having communicated their full powers, and found the same in good and due form, agreed upon the following articles: 1. It shall be declared, by their representatives at Constantinople to the porte, that the inconvenience and evils pointed out in the public treaty as inseparable from the state of things subsisting in the east for the last six years, and the termination of which, through the means at the disposal of the sublime porte, appears still remote, impose upon the high contracting parties the necessity of taking immediate measures for an approximation with the Greeks. It is to be understood that this approximation shall be brought about by establishing commercial relations with the Greeks, by sending to them for that purpose, and receiving from them, consular agents, so long as there Art. I. The contracting powers will offer to the Otto-shall exist among them authorities capable of maintaining man porte their mediation with the view of bringing about a reconciliation between it and the Greeks. This offer of mediation shall be made to this power immediately after the ratification of the treaty, by means of a collective declaration signed by the plenipotentiaries of the allied courts at Constantmople; and there shall be such relations. H. If within the said term of one month, the porte do not accept the armistice proposed in the first article of *Suzerain is the term used; it belongs to the fersdal law, and signifies lord paramount. the public treaty, or it the Greeks refuse to execute it, the high contracting powers shall declare to that one of the two contending parties which shall wish to continue hostilities, or to both if such become necessary, that the said high contracting powers intend to exert all the meaus which circumstances may suggest to their prudence, to obtain the immediate effect of the armistice, the execution of which they desire, by preventing, in as far as may be in their power, all collision between the contending parties, and in fact, immediately after the aforesaid declaration, the high contracting powers will conjointly employ all their means in the accomplishment of the object thereof, without, however, taking any part in the hostilities between the two contending parties. In consequence, the high contracting powers will, immediately after the signature of the present additional and sceret article, transmit eventual instructions conformable to the provisions above set forth, to the admirals commanding their squadrons in the seas of the Levant. of dysentary and small pox, are now become such ne→ cessary incidents of the trade, that they excite no surprise. One case, however, which occurred so recently as Febuary last, may be specified. It is that of the Paulita Antonia Terrara, captured off Cape Formosa by lieutenant Tucker, of his majesty's ship Maidstone with 221 slaves on board. Her burden was only 69 tons, snd into this space were thrusted 82 men, 56 women, 39 boys, and 44 girls. The only provision found on board for their subsistence, was yams of the worst quality, and fœtid water. When captured, both small-pox and dysentary had commenced their ravages. Thirty died on the passage to Sierra Leone and the remainder were landed in an extreme state of wretchedness and emaciation." It appears from a letter of Mr. Canning's to the British ambassador at Madrid, that these vessels are chiefly sent out from Havana, and are equipped both for trade and war; but their trade is in human beings, and their war is pira ey. If they obtain slaves, they land them surreptitiously at the back of Cuba, and enter Havana in ballast; if otherwise, they seize the first vessel they meet, and if a slave ship, the better. "An instance is then mentioned as having recently oc III. Finally, if, contrary to all expectation, these measures do not yet suffer to induce the adoption by the Ottoman porte of the propositions made by the high contracting parties, or if, on the other hand, the Greeks renounce the conditions stipulated in their favor in the treaty of this day, the high contracting powers will, never-curred, in which a prize, with an English prize crew, had theless, continue to prosecute the work of pacification on disappeared, murdered, as it is supposed, by these pithe bases agreed upon between them; and, in conse rates. In another instance the Netuno, Brazilan slave quence, they authorize from this time forward their re- ship, prize to his majesty's ship Esk, was proceeding to presentatives in London to discuss and determine the Sierra Leone in the charge of Mr. Crawford, a master's ulterior measures to which it may become necessary to mate, when she was boarded by the boat of a Spanish vessel called the Carolina, mounting ten guns. The pirate captain and another, who were threatening to drag Mr. Crawford from the prize, were shot dead by him, and the remainder of the boat's crew jumped overboard and regained their vessel. An action ensued, when the pi rate was beat off, but not till one woman had been killed and another wounded on board the Netuno." resort. The present additional and secret article shall have the same force and value as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the treaty of this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged, at the same time as those of the said treaty. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereto fixed the seals of their arms. Done at London, this 6th of July, in the year of grace 1827. DUDLEY, The functionaries at Havana appear in this matter of the slave trade, to feel no obligation either of humanity or national faith. Under the very eyes of the commis sioners, slave ships are fitted out. "Some of the cases are of a very aggravated descrip tion. In one case a vessel, the Minerva, is chased into the harbor by two British ships of war. Notice is given of THE SLAVE TRADE. the fact to the civil and military authorities; officers of the From the Baltimore American. captain general's suite visit the ship, and see her living On this subject we collect some particulars from the eargo; and notwithstanding all this, two hundred slaves, twenty first report of the London African institution.' which were on board, are landed in the presence and aeThe measures of various governments on the slave trade, tual view of the British naval officers belonging to the are passed in review in this document. France during ships which had chased her; and when this disgraceful the past year has improved her legislation on this subject, proceeding is denounced, and the incontestible evidence having subjected to banishment, and a fine equal to the of the facts laid before the local authorities, there instantvalue of ship and cargo, on the parties concerned,-to-ly seems a concurrence among them to take no step to regether with confiscation of the ship and cargo them-cover the slaves and punish the delinquents. All they selves. These with other penalties provided, are inde- think of is to question the sufficiency of the proof, and to pendent of those incurred for other crimes, committed quibble about the law of the case. during the voyage, such as the murder of slaves. The past year exhibits, however, little diminution of the French slave trade. It is the practice of the traders to have double sets of papers, their own and generally the Dutch also, with which they are supplied at St. Eustatia, by connivance of the Dutch authorities. These are shown to French cruisers, while with the French they elude English capture. A new law is, however, expect ed in France. The Netherlands have indeed acceded to a mutual right of search, but their colonial functionaries place themselves in opposition to the government, which does not act with adequate vigor. Spain evinces one unvarying course of evasion in the colonial functionaries, and indifference, if not faithlessness, in the government; and though the number of Spanish slave ships condemned in the last year it Sierra Leone, is only six, yet the number boarded was immense; they swarm on that coast. The British treaty with Spain does not admit of their detention unless slaves are found on board, though the indication, of slave trading are as clear as the sun. They watch their opportunity, take their slaves aboard in a few hours, and sail for their destination. "The number of slaves captured on board these six ships was 1,360; but one of them being overset in a tornado, the slaves on board, to the number of 197, perished. The crowded state of these ships, and the sufferings of the slaves from that cause, and from the ravages Portugal for a long time refused to abandon this trade on the score of the necessities of her trans-atlantic possessions. But though Brazil is now independent, the trade continues, and Portugal has recently advanced a claim to carry it on for the supply of her African island, the Cape de Verd, &c., whence it is easy to take slaves to Brazil or Cuba. Mr. Canning has however represented to Portugal her distinct engagement to use her flag only for the supply of her trans-Atlantic possessions; and the result of the correspondence on this subject is an undertaking on the part of that power wholly to extinguish the traffic. By a late treaty of England with Brazil, the final period of the Brazilian slave trade, is fixed three years from its date, (March 1827), and the subjects of Brazil concerned therein, are thenceforth to be deemed guilty of piracy. Thus in three years, the slave trade will cease to have a legal existence in any part of the world. Hitherto, the Brazilian enormities, made known at the mixed commission court at Sierra Leone, have been extreme. "Between the 1st. January 1825, and 31st. July 1826, upwards of 1,500 Brazilian slaves were condemned into freedom; and it appears, from the Sierra Leone Gazette, that several important captures were subsequently made. One, the Principe de Guinee, freighted with 608 slaves, and strongly armed, was gallantly taken, after a desperate resistance, by lieut. Tucker, in a small schoonër, a tender to his majesty's ship Maidstone. Another, the Intrepida, measuring only 109 tons, had on board, 310 slaves in a state of great wretchedness and emaciation, 70 of whom died in 46 days. A third, the Invincible, with a cargo of 440 slaves-a number it seems 63 short of her full complement; but these were so crowded together, that it became absolutely impossible to separate the sick from the healthy; and dysentary, ophthalmia, and scurvy breaking out among them-the provisions and water being of the worst kind, and the filth and stench beyond all description-186 of the number had perished in less than 60 days. Two Brazilian ships brought to Sierra Leone for adjudication, were restored because, though they had taken their slaves on board north of the line, they were actually captured south of the line, for which the treaty had not provided. The slaves on board these two ships, the Activo and the Perpetue Defensor, amounting in all to 590, when they understood they were to be given up to the claimants, mutimed, and effected their escape to the shore; and having made good their landing there, the acting governor refused to permit force to be used to recover them and they are now under the care of the colonial govern ment. II. And be it further enacted, That the duties imposed by this act shall be raised, levied, collected, recovered, and paid unto his majesty in like manner as any duties of customs are or can be raised, levied, collected, recovered and paid. Provided always, that nothing contained in this act shall extend to the charging at any time of any higher duty upon any corn, grain, meal, or flour, than would have been payable at such time on the same if this act had not been passed. Provided also, that nothing contained in this act shall extend to admit for home consumption any corn, grain, meal, or flour prohibited to be entered for home consumption, either on account of the sort or description of the same, or on account of the ship in which, or of the place from whence the same had been imported. III. And be it further enacted, That the average prices of corn, by which the rate and amount of the duties imposed by this act shall be regulated, shall be made up and computed on Thursday in each and every week, in manner following; that is to say, the receiver of the corn returns shall on such Thursday in each week, from the returns received by him during the week next preceding, ending on and including the Saturday in such week, add together the total quantities of each sort of corn respectively appearing by such returns to have been sold, and the total prices for which the same shall thereby appear to have been sold, and shall divide the amount of such total prices, respectively, by the amount of such total quantities of each sort of corn respectively, and the sum produced thereby shall be added to the sums in like manner proand the amount of such sums so added shall be divided by 6, and the sum hereby given shall be deemed and taken to be the aggregate average price of each sort of corn respectively, for the purpose of regulating and ascertaining the rate and amount of the said duties; and the said receiver of corn returns shall cause such aggre"The time, it may be hoped, is fast approaching when gate weekly averages to be published in the next suea better feeling will pervade every part of the world pre-ceeding Gazette, and shall, on Thursday in each week, tending to christian principle and to the light of civiliza- transmit a certificate of such aggregate average prices of tion; and it is no slight encouragement to the cherishing each sort of corn to the collector or other chief officer of of this hope, that a decree has recently appeared from the customs at each of the several ports of the United the emperor of Austria, (remarkable both for the prin- Kingdom; and the rate and amount of the duties to be ciples it asserts and the sanctions it imposes), utterly paid under the provisions of this act shall from time to abolishing slavery through the Austrian dominions. time be regulated and governed at each of the ports of "Every man," says his imperial majesty, "by the right of the United Kingdom, respectively, by the aggregate nature, sanctioned by reason, must be considered as a average prices of corn at the time of the entry for free person. Every slave becomes free from the mo- home consumption of any corn, grain, meal, or flour, ment he touches the Austrian soil, or even an Austrian chargeable with any such duty, as such aggregate avership." The free governments of Great Britain, America, age prices shall appear and be stated in the last of such and France may learn a salutary lesson of justice and certificates as aforesaid, which shall have been transmithumanity from this monarch. ted as aforesaid, and received by the collector or other chief officer of the customs at such port. The report says it is to be regretted, that no arrangements have been made with the United States for the mutual suppression of this trade; and it then pronounces a strong censure on the internal slave trade of this country. Humanity has much to deplore, and national policy not less, on this painful subject; and though some misap-duced in the five weeks immediately preceding the same, prehension and exaggeration concerning it prevail in England, yet it is deeply to be lamented that we should afford to those who regard us at all times with national prejudice, so just a ground of censure. We heartily join in the sentiment of the concluding paragraph of the report. BRITISH FREE TRADE! NEW COPY ACT. his present majesty's reign, entitled "an act for ascer taining and establishing uniformity of weights and measures," "as the said act is amended by another act, passed the 6th year of his present majesty's reign, entitled "an act to prolong the time of the commencement of an act of the last session of parliament, for ascertaining and establishing uniformity of weights and measures, and to amend the said act." IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in the returns to be made to the receiver of corn returns, An act to permit, until the first day of May, 1828, cer- and the publications so to be made from time to time in tain corn meal, and flour, to be entered for home con- the London Gazette, and in the certificate so to be transsumption. [2d of July, 1827.] mitted by the said receiver of corn returns to such colWhereas it is expedient to permit, for a limited time, lectors or other chief officers of the customs as aforesaid, certain corn, grain, meal, and flour, to be entered for the quantities of each sort of corn, respectively, shall be home consumption, upon payment of the respective du- computed and set forth by, according, and, with referties heremafter mentioned, although such corn, grain, ence to the imperial standard gallon, as the same is demeal, or flour may not, at the time of such entry, beclared and established by an act passed in the 5th year of admissible for home consumption under the provisions of the laws now in force for regulating the importation of corn, or may be admissible only on payment of higher duties: Be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from the time of the passing of this act, until the 1st day of May, 1828, it shall be lawful for the! importer or proprietor of any eern, grain, meal, or flour, imported from any foreign country, which had either been warehoused, or reported inwards to be warehoused, on or before the first day of Juy, 1827, and also for the importer and proprietor of any corn, grain, meal, or flour, imported before the 1st day of May, 1828, from any British possession in North America, or elsewhere, out of Europe, to enter the same for home consumption, under the conditions and regulations hereinafter provided, and on payment of the respective duties specified and set forth in the tables annexed to this art. V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in each of the five successive weeks which shall elapse next after the passing of this act, the said receiver of corn returns shall make up and compute such aggregate weekly averages as aforesaid, by adding to the aggregate average price of each sort of corn respectively, for each such successive week, the aggregate average prices for the five weeks next immediately preceding, as the same shall have been published in the successive Gazettes of such five preceding weeks. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no corn, grain, meal, or flour shall be shipped from any port in any British possessions out of Europe, as being] the produce of any such possessions, until the owner or proprietor or shipper thereof shall have made and subscribed, before the collector or other chief officer of customs at the port of shipment, a declaration in writing, specifying the quantity of each sort of such corn, grain, meal, or flour, and that the same was the produce of some British possession out of Europe, to be named in some declaration, and shall have obtained from some other chief officer of the customs at the said port, a certificate, under his signature, of the quantity of corn, grain, meal, or flour, so declared to be shipped; and before any corn, meal, grain, or flour shall be entered at any port or place in the United Kingdom as being the produce of any British possession out of Europe, the master of the ship importing the same shall produce and deliver to the collector or other chief officer of the customs of the port or place of importation, a copy of such declaration, certified to be a true and accurate copy thereof, under the hand of the collector and other chief officer of customs at the port of shipment before whom the same was made, together with the certificate, signed by the said collector or chief officer of the customs, of the quantity of corn so declared to be shipped; and such master shall also make and subscribe before the collector or other chief officer of the customs at the port or place of importation, a declaration in writing, that the several quantities of corn, grain, meal, or flour on board such ship, and proposed to be entered under the authority of such declaration, are the same that were mentioned and referred to in the declaration and certificate so produced by him, without any admixture or addition; and, if any person shall, in any such declaration, wilfully and corruptfully make any false statement respecting the place of which any such corn, grain, meal, or flour was the produce, or respecting the identity of any such corn, grain, meal, or flour, such person shall forfeit and become liable to pay to his majesty the sum of £100, and the corn, grain, meal, or flour on board any such ship shall also be forfeited. Provided also, that the declarations aforesaid shall not be required in respect of any corn, grain, meal, or flour which shall have been shipped within three months next after the passing of this act. Barley: Whenever the average price of barley made up and published in manner required by law, shall be 33s. and under 34s. the quarter, the duty for every quarter And in respect of every integral shilling, by which such price shall be above 33s, such duty shall be decreased by 1s. 6d. until such price shall be 418. Whenever such price shall be at or above 418. the duty shall be for every quarter Whenever such price shall be under 338. and not under 32s. the duty shall be for every quarter And in respect of each integral shilling, or any part of each integral shilling, by which such price shall be under 32s. such duty shall be increased by 18. 6d. Qats: Whenever the average price of oats made up and published in manner required by law, shall be 25s. and under 26s. the quarter, the duty shall be for every quarter And in respect to every integral shilling, by Whenever such price be at or above $18. the And in respect of each integral shilling, or Rye, peas and beans:-Whenever the average price of rye, or of peas, or of beans, made up and published in manner required by law, shall be S6s. and under 37s. the quarter, the duty shall be for every quarter And in respect to every integral shilling, by which such price shall be above 36s. such duty shall be decreased by 1s. 6d. until such price shall be 468. 0 12 4 010 0 13 10 093 010 0 10 9 0 15 6 010 Whenever such price shall be at or above 46s. the duty shall be for every quarter Whenever such price shall be under 36s. and not under 338, the duty shall be for every quarter 0 16 7 And in respect of each integral shilling, or any part of each integral shilling, by which such price shall be under 338. such duty shall be increased by 18. 6d. VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the commissioners of his majesty's customs shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this act, cause to be published in the London Gazette, an account of the total quantity of corn, grain, meal and flour, distinguishing the produce of his majesty's possessions out of Europe from the produce of foreign countries, which shall be in warehouse on the 1st of July, 1827; and shall once in each succeeding callendar month cause to be published an account of all corn, grain, meal or flour, distinguishing the produce as aforesaid, which shall in the month preceding have paid the duties established by this act, together with an account of the total quantity of each sort of the said corn, grain, meal and flour respectively as aforesaid, re-quarter of oats. maining in warehouse at the end of such next preceding callendar month. VIII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the 1st day of May, 1828. A table of the temporary duties payable on corn, grain, meal or flour, imported from any foreign country, and warehoused or reported to be warehoused in the United Kingdom, prior to the 1st day of July 1827. Wheat:-Whenever the average price of wheat, made up and published in manner required by law, shall be 62s. and under 638. the quarter, the duty shall be for every quarter And in respect to every integral shilling, by which such price shall be above 62s. such duty shall be decreased by 28. until such price shall be 728. Whenever such price shall be at or above 728. the duty shall be for every quarter Whenever such price shall be under 628. and not under 61s. the duty shall be for every quar ter And in respect of each integral shilling, or any part of each integral shilling, by which such price shall be under 618. such duty shall be increased by 28. £. s. d. 1 Wheat meal and flour:-For every barrel, being 196 lbs. a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on 384 gallons of wheat. Oatmeal:-For every quantity of 1814 lbs. duty equal in amount to the duty payable on a Maize or Indian corn, buckwheat, beer or bigg:-For every quarter, a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of barley. A table of the temporary duties payable upon corn, grain meal or flour, the produce of any British possession in North America, or elsewhere out of Europe, and imported from thence before the 1st day of May, 1828. Wheat:-For every quarter Until the price of British wheat, made up 0 8 and published in manner required by law, shall be 678. per quarter. 1 2 8 Whenever such price shall be at or above 0 1 0 ner required by law, shall be 34s. per quarter |