S AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE.

Towards the end of the session, a bill was introduced for regulating the
trade of the African Company, in which there was a clause prohibiting
its officers from exporting negroes. This encouraged the Quakers
to present a petition for the total abolition of the slave trade: a
petition that may be said to have laid the foundation of those generous
and persevering exertions of gifted individuals, as Clarkson and
Wilberforce, which finally succeeded in effecting the abolition of
that loathsome traffic in the bones and sinews of man; which had for
centuries been carried on without compunction.

SETTLEMENT ON THE PRINCE OF WALES.

On the 23rd of June, a message was delivered from the king to the house
of commons, requesting means for a separate establishment for the Prince
of Wales. The young prince had now attained his twenty-first year, and
was of such extravagant habits, that his profusion was the talk of the
nation. He was particularly intimate with Fox, and was linked in with
the coalition ministry; and the Duke of Portland suggested to his
majesty that a demand should be made of a hundred thousand a-year for
his maintenance. The king, however, disliked the prince's connexion with
his present ministers, and therefore, he put his decided negative upon
this proposal; asserting that he could not think of burthening his
people with so large a grant, and encouraging his son in his extravagant
habits. Ministers had bound themselves to procure this sum for their
royal friend, but were obliged to submit to the king's will; namely,
that fifty thousand a-year should be allotted by himself out of the
civil list, and that parliament should merely grant sixty thousand as an
outfit. A vote to this effect was carried without opposition: the
young prince giving a proof of his filial duty and public spirit, by
signifying his desire that the king's wish should be consulted, and his
readiness to accept whatever he might think proper in his wisdom and
goodness to grant. At the same time he continued his close intimacy
with Fox, and gave all the countenance he could to a ministry which his
majesty abhorred.

PARLIAMENT PROROGUED.

Parliament was prorogued on the 16th of July, his majesty intimating his
intention to call the members together at an early period, in order
to resume the consideration of the affairs of India. In his speech
he expressed regret that he could not announce the completion o