PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,
IN THE
FOURTH SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, APPOINTED TO MEET 31 MAY, 1859, AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED TILL 6 FEBRUARY, 1862, IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF
HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.
THIRD VOLUME OF THE SESSION.
HOUSE OF LORDS,
Tuesday, May 27, 1862.
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THE SLAVE TRADE.
TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES.
OBSERVATIONS.
Spanish subjects should be made piracy and capitally punishable. The noble and learned Lord was understood to say that certain Spanish officers were believed to have received bribes for conniving at the slave trade.
EARL RUSSELL said, he would look into the papers on this subject, and make a statement on Friday on both the points referred to by the noble and learned Lord. With respect to Marshal Serrano, he believed that he was incapable of receiving bribes to permit the prosecution of the slave trade.
L
ORD BROUGHAM said, he wished to refer to the reply of the noble Earl the Foreign Secretary, on the previous evening, that there was a difficulty in applying the law respecting the slave trade to a foreign ship fitting out in an English port, for the purpose of stating that he had referred to the Acts of 1811 and subsequent Acts, and was obliged to confess that he could see no difficulty; but, at all events, should be declared piracy and those enhe trusted that measures would be taken gaged in it pirates, as the best mode of now to repress that abominable trade. He suppressing that abominable traffic.
LORD BROUGHAM said, he had never heard that Marshal Serrano had been charged with or even in any way suspected been most pure and honourable in his goof such conduct. On the contrary, he had vernment, and, as an instance of that, he had actually suggested that slave trading
desired to urge strongly upon the noble
Earl the Foreign Secretary that our Am- ACT OF UNIFORMITY AMENDMENT BILL.
SECOND READING.
Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
bassador at Madrid should be directed to urge upon the Spanish Government the propriety of adopting the suggestion of Marshal Serrano, Captain General of Cuba; namely, that slave-trading on the part of VOL. CLXVII. [THIRD SERIES.]
LORD EBURY* (having presented numerous petitions in favour of the Bill) pro
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