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Page 14 - ... -was transmitted to Paris, where Bardere and his supposed associates were forthwith committed to prison. On the 21st of September, the accused were brought to trial before the assize court of Paris. Twelve of them, among whom was the advocate Bardere, were charged with having participated in a plot to destroy or change the government, or the order of succession to the throne...
Page 96 - Instance, nor the suppliant of the said tribunal, nor the Procureur-General of the said island, nor the Advocate-General thereof, nor the Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, nor any surrogate of such judge, shall be the owner of any slave, nor be the proprietor of or have any share or interest in any land cultivated by the labour of slaves, either directly or by any person or persons as a trustee or trustees for him; and each of the said several officers is hereby declared incompetent to be or...
Page 127 - Within the last three years he has traversed fifty thousand miles, encountered the assasRin on shore, and the pirate at sea : for ten years has it been his fate to face, in the service of the crown, every peril to which life is subject, whether from the ocean, from climate, or the hand of man.
Page 19 - ONE of the laws published for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the slaves. " Consequently, they will furnish no more returns of slave registrations— they will not make the declarations prescribed by the orders in council, laws, ordinances, and proclamations on the subject — they will not pay any taxes or duties, and they will hereafter consider what remains to be done, if force should be employed to compel them to promote their own destruction.
Page 113 - Ripon, was the entire omission of the 102nd and 217th clauses of the French code. On this subject the vindication of the legal authorities is full, entire, and satisfactory. The clauses, though omitted in this code, are transferred to the law upon the .press ; and, according to Mr. D'Epinay, appeared in the first draft of the penal code, and were subsequently transferred upon the promulgation of the law respecting the freedom of the press. The primd facie evidence of bad faith, not unnaturally raised...
Page 114 - I àm inclined to think also that the reasons which are alleged for the omission of the 127th clause, considering the different circumstances of the judges in France and in Mauritius, and the remedy which the executive in the latter has in its own hands, sufficiently explain the course which has been adopted. I am not disposed to enlarge upon some of the other points adverted to by Lord Ripon. because, although I doubt the propriety pf some of the alterations, more especially that of the 87th clause...
Page 113 - ... transmitted the despatch in question ; and it affords me a gratification, commensurate with the regret with which he came to an opposite conclusion, to be enabled to acquit those gentlemen of the heavy charge of corrupt intention. Yet, in doing so, I must not conceal my opinion that the disaffection and opposition to legal authority, which had for some time prevailed, and was ripening to maturity, the precise time at which the new law was promulgated, the nature of the alterations and omissions,...
Page 113 - ... presumption arising from the dates. They state, and I have no doubt correctly, that although the new code was not promulgated till the 15th of February, yet the labours of the commission engaged in compiling it, had terminated, and the work was delivered to the governor, early in January; that at that time the excitement which afterwards prevailed upon the subject of the Order in Council of November, 1831, and the appointment of Mr. Jeremie, neither of which had reached the colony, could not...
Page 113 - ... Council of 1830 had been practically disregarded; that general opposition was offered to the protectors of slaves ; that the colonists were both openly and secretly combining, under the pretext of mutual protection from apprehended insurrections among the slaves ; and that the temper and tone of the society generally was such as to require the greatest circumspection in framing any new regulations on subjects connected with the preservation of internal tranquillity. " Of the changes effected...
Page 16 - ... on them of making their conclusions for the assistance of the said tribunals : And it is further ordered that no judge of the said Cour d'Appel, nor the judge of the said Tribunal de Premiere Instance, nor the suppleant of the said tribunal, nor the procureur-general of the said island, nor the advocate-general thereof, nor the judge of the court of vice-admiralty, nor any surrogate of such judge, shall be the owner of any slave, nor be the proprietor of or...
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| Title | Recent Events at Mauritius Anti-slavery collection Anti-slavery collection, 18th-19th centuries Issue 29027 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature |
| Author | John Jeremie |
| Publisher | S. Bagster, 1835 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 260 pages |
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