TRAFFIC IN SLAVES.-The fo...
TRAFFIC IN SLAVES.-The following extract of a re- cent letter from Guaelaloupe, of the authenticity of which we are assured, furnishea&proof of the cnormous cruelties still exercised towards the wretched Africans. Ships of war are conctautly cruising. against the slave-dcalers, bHt they regard it as nothing, and can always manage to arrive at port ; in(teed it may, almost be said that the cruisers protect themi:-" I he schooner La Louise, Captaint Armand, arrived at L'Anse a la Barque, Guada- loupe, early in the month of April, 1824., with a cargo of 200 negroes, the remainder of a purchase of 275, which ablc brought out with her. The vessel not being found to be sufficiently capacious to contain so large a number, the .sutrplus were thlrown alive into the sea by tlte Captain. Nature still shudders at this atrocity. The principal owners are Messrs. de Raniie and Co.; and proprietors of the cargo, Messrs.-INMoser,Hart, and Co.,Pedemonte, all of them rmerchants at La Poinue a.Petre. It is said that Captain Armand left at the Galenis the ship kahine, Captain Aver- nay, belonging to the port of Bordeaux, armed at La Pointe a Petre by Messrs. Svgend and Son; the brig l'Aaowwrst, Captain Allain, armed at La Pointe a Petre bv lress.s Verginis and Lemoyne, Dourneau, Durlos, Lamoisse, and Darnste, and Bartel and Colloniau; and the schooner La Daphne, Captain Marestin; ,Messrs. Dourneau and Durlos, owners: she also was armed at La Pointe a Petre. Htnce it appears that the force established for the suppression of crime has tended to the encouragement of it." SURREvYT THEAu ,E.-A new piece was produced at this Theatre last night, entitled.The Bsriig1 Bridge, or, Thle Spectre of the Lake. It is (as may bc coliected from the name) of the true inelodramaticcass; and, it we were pernitted to understand die story as it proceeded, it ittld-be far from uninteresting: but we are scrupulou61y kept in the dar&la 'ring a considerableportion--o its progressuntil at length we arc in formedtbataChinese Mandarin has requitetl the hospitality and friendship of a Tartar Chief, by murdering his wife, after aitempting her innocence, and consigtning the husband to perpetual slavery, in which he continues for 15 years, during which the:aspirit of the murdered chieftainhess, which has taken up its abode in the bosom of a lakc,in front of the Mlandarin's palace, tak& ever op orttunity of hauntinig hercruel destroyer. The Tartar having at length effected his eecape, makes his way into the Siantlarin's al'aIe; and there, after escapinc, by the aid of the spectre, from several attempts to assassinate him, he recognizes Iiis son, lone supposed to have been drowvned,and witnesses the guilty Alantdasrtm faLl by the hand lie bad employed to despatch himself. The principal merit of tepicsc consists ilt thebeauty of its scenery,