The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-02 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE. The following statements, extracted from a series of the Sierra Leone Gazettes recently received, are offered to the British public with a view of esta blishing the melancholy fact, th it notwithstanding all that has been dune to abolish the Slave Trade on the coast of Africa, thousands of our fiAlow creatures are yet annually made the victims of the cupidity of the dealers in human flesh. • . These statements, being most of them official do cuments, afford also satisfactory proof of the vigilance of our own Government in its endeavours to sup press the. Slave Trade. SIERRA LEONE, Ann. 31. CAAR OF TUB SCIIOONER I/MOCK Jose lIALLACCA. Tilt Put tugueso schooner Sea Jose Ilaliacca, 'brae to L ant. iidgen, of the Thistle, and condemn Me hinted Court, ado,ds a melancholy instence of the notecling and atrocious manner in which the slave trade is eartiodon to leeward. schooner, or rather schooner bust, did not measure seven tons hombre, was only 21 feet long, and the apace over the water casks, in which the miserable slaves in irons were stowed, was barely SEVESTEEN iuchee lu height! Front the information obtained by Lient. Hagan in the river Calabar, and curruboreted by the evidenee taken in this colony, it appears that daily negroca were put oil board this boat in the Calabar t that they were at sea nearly two mouths without being able to make Princes, when they put back to Calabar with the loss of ten ne grues literally sea red to death. It was ai this period the boats of the Thistle made the seizure, arid rescued the remaining lions the grasp of Duke Eplithim, in whose possession they then were. The slate In which these pour creatures were reduced, when received on board the Thistle, Lient. Hagen dent dies as mom dreadful: the action of the irons un their areas and uncles. and the sores produced by the small casks on which they were stowed, added to their extreme state 01 elitariolivil soil debility, preSeilled altogether such a spectacle of hoe rur mid soh feting humanity, as that officer, long us he had been on this coast, never mime witnessed. Six or eight of these victims of slave dealing cupidity died on hoard the Thistle on the passage tr this putt ; the rent.. her were, of County, placed ui the hospitals, where we uuderstaml they • are in a fair way of retort ry. Seer. 21.—The slave factories, of Masao and gimlets are as h frequented as ever. A brig fialled the Espe runza (once condoners:l in the Admiralty tourt at Sierra lituite),, the property of John Coelho, well known in the Gripe de Verd islands, has for the last five years been succrastully employed in carrying ott human victims from Cischeo and Bissau to Para and Alarasamia, making the voyages as quickly as circumstances would admit. This vessel carries a lung 21-puunder on a pivot, end 17 ear truNedes, with 70 able wee. It is a very tutfortnatite eir , camstance, that at the period whets the boats of his Majesty's ship Iphigento captured the Conde de Fllle Plot, tins vessel (the iisperaisza) was absent On a short trip to Goree,lor the purpose ut Cart ying the Hidalys Joss Pe ' tiers Betroth as a passenger (or Ike ' benefit of his health: on her returu she took in a cargo of slaves, and it ia be. 'tweed she has by this tune returned for a fresh ca. go.— A Dottier brig, formerly called the Lencasiro, the properly of Senior Joaquin) Antonio de Martee, of which Jesuit,. Pichiche, a lieutenant in the Portuguese navy, is master, bas also been a couitant trader fur the last three years in the same deli-merle pursuit, and equally secceesful. M. Brandao, the master and owner ut the Cutuk de Ville - Flor, has frequently declared publicly at the Cape tic Verd Islands Ills intention of plundering eve, y British vessel lie way fall in with, its orde to indemnity himself, as he says, tur the loss of his vessel. This renegade left the Cape de Veld Ist:tads a abort tittle sinet in a Satan ',chooser which he purchased there, with the iiiteutionof selling tier in the Bleeds, from whence lie will proceed to Ainet tea to purchase a larger vessel, suitable its every tea- pect to his piratical intentions. The capture of the Geoids de Ville nor excited .• mo mentary alarm ; the traffic in Itemau beings is by no means lesseurd ; it has, indeed, been gradually Mercantil within, the last few mouths, and vessels can receive Bielr cargoes without stopping many hours, either at the island of Sal or Butiavista. st. Jags, and indeed all the other islands, can at any time supply a ,lumber, as they are continually procuting thislkon bolsi the Ps witch and Portuguese traders, with whom they ate concerned in the Indic, front the river Cassematica, and the factories of Bissau and Cachets. This traffic is carved oil openly and to imminents extent by the stthjects of France residing at Doter and Senegal; this is such a notorious fact, that to demist it would be no thing less than downright insanity. SLAVIC TRADE In rum Btu Nunez, Ate.—Mr. W. H. Lawreuee, of the Rw Pongus, states, boat in the Rio Nunez slave factories are establistied at aturoSl every village, and that Bateman, Usepher, and Pearce, are the chief factors. The iistergourse between that 'leer and Cacheo and Bissau Is constantly kept up with multi cult; list Only Winn taken by the Pus teiguese for the goods sent, is slaves.— The Fattish slave tiade is turned at present towards the His N tines and Creba, at which latter place the l'ortu• guese have extended their stave factories. Dun Frrucisco Ereyre, master of the Rosalia, seized by his Majesty's brig fluidic, Lieut. Harm commauder, I. now at °mend', factory in the Rio Pimps, with the re sueinder of the cargo of me Rosana (tio slaves); he wary for a vessel from the Hav ennah to hike them err. LI 1821 ltloraleis vessel; k Schulaslique, and the Joseph ( Ofarga schounei), all took twin the km Pongee fnii car. goes of slaves. A sieve costs 10) bars, one SpariisliNlollar being equal to four bats. Beads, saw, *hive, tobacco, and rum, ate paid in the purchase of slaves; and the pro duce Oriented in the river is wax, hides, oil, White rice, gold. and ivory. Mr. Lawrence also states, that al the present period a slave sestet receives a fall eat go am her arrival ill less than one third of the time vessels were formerly detained. The Rio Pontos has out beets SO often visite_ill since 181 e as it was termer's , by the c.aunial Wigs laud expeditious from sierra Leone, nor were these so 'natty slave vessels puce musty to lele us since that ihne. The following in:urination uses mita Med from a respect title (lading Chief letely trout Legere' d, respecting the stave trade to the Galluiss sister the month ut May lest:— '' hie went down to the G..llilitts tit the beginning of last May ; un his arrival there were no .lave vessels—in a few days seem arrived, all under the Fietieli flag except one, THE NATIONAL REGISTER a Spaniard. These vessels receised full cargoes in due time and ailed; a month having elapsed, three other French vessels arrived, and when he left the Gallinas, its July last, their cargoes were in readiness to he shipped. Last month saw one of the head men from the Gallinas, Who informed him that five snore vessels under the French flag had arrived there fur slaves, making at total of French slave vessels, and one Spaniard, within the last four mouths. Hr states dietinctly that from our cruizers not taking French vessels with slaves on board of them, an from the pomp and bullying of the persons on board of these slavers, the natives louvered, believe thins the traffic is late lid, end therefore it flourishes there to a greater ex tent than it ever did at any former period. On asking I flout whence all the slaves are procuriA to supply the vessels at the Gallinas. he said it was the purl of one of the largest and most frequented paths into the , interior. and this is corroborated by all the respectable traders of the'culudY. *ea Compa, the chief of Rukelle, has made a path to the neighbourhood of the Gallium fur the sole pure pose of enabling Mimi° carry on more advantageously the slave trade." Sept. vd.—The Thia/e, during her late cruise, visited the Masao river, also the river and settlement of Cache°. Lieut. Hagan received in the latter place a full Corrobo ration of the information lie before outained of the Untie in slaves being still carried on in that settlement. About the middle of August, a Portuguese brig belonging to Mr. Coelho, a character well known at the Cape de Vends, sailed with a full cargo (*apposed 300) of staves; another brig (the Arian) the property of a Mr. John Pereira, Member of toe Junta in Si. Jego, arrived in. June for the seine purpose; but Lieut. Hagan was told she slid not take away any, owing to the indisposition of Mr. Pereita, who, it was said, sailed for Lisbon fur the porpoise of re ceiving medical assistance. Lieut. Hagan had reasou, however, to doubt this story. Lien,. Hap.. describes the town of Cached) as flip most wretched slave factory he ever visited. 'flue low, damp, and confined cells fur the slaves, wet e loathsome in Ik e extrense, many or them being below the high•tide mark of the river. rite block-house, or, as it is called, the fort, is iu a meat wretched state of decay ; one gun only is managed, the others being dismonsiteit Willi a log of wood ouster the initiate. The swamps and staguant pools imme diately in rear of the town, render Cacheo **sat edly the most unhealthy place that can be imagined; but this is 110( 1111(6Citt1( it/ deter the slave traders, who generally lose one ballot their crews, frequently all their Europeans. Lieutenant Hagan was nut able to procure auy stock, although it was in the WWII in great 61 Orrice Ihe was even refused a pilot to take lim out—the greatest jealousy appearing to prevail from a visit, . a unexpected trait was unwelcome. The Mails, however, by keeping the boats a-bead and other precautions, foetid no didicalty iu the navigation. The officers composing the garrison of tide place (Ca eheo) are all blacks and mulattoes, with the exception of the Governor, J. Antonio Gomez, abd another cancer: a creole Poo trignesemf the Cape tie Vent bland* slid not at tempt to conceal Oral a' bask trade in strives was still carried cos there, as well mar llissae ; and boasted. that had the Vasa, fns ird the two 'resets already named, site 'night probably have 'changed masters.; one being armed who id, the other wills It guns. 'lle 'earn of their vessels, as well as others, is spoken of um a matter of course in the present serum; soil, as tar as Lieut. Hagan could 1 judge from the flambee of slaves seen In the place, they will not LSO long iu completing their cargoes of %YAW klUille human •irtmmr. d BRITISH AND SPANISH COURT Of MIXED COMMISSION. OCT. a.—Srilooolel Jussiii, alias Mararagerca, Uilef Master.—'Chia vessel, of ninety Spanish ions unnhsest, with a Crow of twenty-one men, arrived with usie long eighteen-pounder, 'treaty one muskets, • cutlasses, twelve pikes and six pirsols, with a 000000 maims in proper • tion, cleared out from the Havanna', mu Use Ode of Apia last for tlhe coast of Africa, oetensialy fur a cargo °five. y t wax, dye woods, dire. The clearance was signed by the regulai cancer. " Nieolossle Forts," who sigued a clear ance for ilia same vessel, Dun JOAO Baptiste Z4Villit beL ing roaster, iu August, Hi 1,. for a similar soy age. in this last. iii,ntioned cleat atire st is stated that she was to land some "lire negroes" in• /Strive ; buss does nut mention who ar what they were, nor where to be landed. At the time of her sailing on her present voyage, it op , peas from the Role d'Equipage, DUD Josef Mayan, a ma= time of Malaga, was master and first pilot, Imo appal ently part owner; Jose Ferris, a native or the same place, Se. rood pilot; doze Zrvala, a native 01 . Biscay, third pilot, and Jaye Saaveclia, a native of Ferrel, " curitretuestre," or boatswain." After leaving the ll:Jeanne, the Josefa called at the Gal. lines, on this coast, Wen at Grand 'Lissa, and finally en tered Ilse River Ronny, where her cargo was delivered and a return cargo of slaves unreleased. Whilst lying in Ma river, with water casks full, piansm% laid and waiting tbr her slave cargo, else was boarded, in the Litter end ut July, by Lieutenant Ssi 00000 arez, in command of the boats of his Majesty's ship ,/river'; but there being nu slaves ' actually on board, he wan obliged so leave her, after taking the precaution of ',Mussing suer papers. She crossed the Donny bar on the ltish of August, and was met Ilse same day by the Driver, which had returned in search of her, rnd , alter a long char , was C 5111.11 1 .41 at eight next morning, having ou from d 210 slaves, all males, and, wills a small exception, all men. Captain Wuulrige immediately sent her to this place. Toe we being very clear, the Commissioners passed sentence of cuademeatiou without any StiII•SILS. A Jamaica mail arrived on Thursday morning, in 33 days. • By the royal Gazelle of the 11th of January, we learn that Santa Martha was taken possession of by the royalists on the 3d, after a spirited resistance. Every vessel, that could, got away ; and property of every kind was said to be confiscated. Subsequent accounts, however, state, that the Independents expected soon to recover it, es General Montillo had arrived with 700 men, and Colonel Peddle was off the port with an equal num ber. In the mean time, according to the Royal Gazelle of the 18th, the royalist governor had given a written assurance that British merchants and their property should he respected. A convoy of bullion front Cadiz arrived at Madrid on the Bth ult. It was conveyed in 21 waggons. 41 PROCEEDINGS IN LORD PORTSMOUTH'S CASE. The proceedings subsequent to one former report have consisted entirely of evidence hoot different persona to acts of Lord Portsmouth which did sot moor of insanity, excepting on Thursday last, when Drs. 51one o and \Vi llia weir examined, at the request of the Jury, mid each de. Glared his conviction of Lord Poitsmotitit's insanity, which decided opinions trout two so high authorities had evi dently great effect upon the Jury. Mu. Adam then commenced his observations in support of the evidence in opposition in the Commission, which lie colisimied on this morning (Friday), and having con. chided at i o'clock, the Court adjourned fur refresh ments; at halt . past 12 o'clock Mr. Wetherell commenced his reply, and concluded at half past three. Mr. Trowel, the Chief Commissioner, then addressed the Juiy—he contitmed speaking tilt six o'clock, when the Jury retired to consider of their VERDICT. Upon the return of the Jury, which was about 7 o'clock, Laid John Fitsii.y, the foreman, turned to his brethren and said As many of you, gentlemen of the jury, as ere of opi nion, that John Charles, Earl of Portsmouth, is a man of un sound wind and condition, and incapable of managing himsrlf and hie ajjairs, signify the same by holding up your hands.' All the jury held up their hands. The foreman than said—" Gentlemen of the jury, as many of you as are of opinion that John Chink*, Earl of Portsmuuti., has been of unsound mind and condition, and idcapable of sir,/ 'saying himself and his affairs, from the fat of January, Ibo 9, signify the some by holding up your hands."—The jury were unsinoinus in the allinnative. Commissioner 'Lower then stated, that as there had been nn eiridelitie as to who was heir to the titles and estates of the said Earl of Portsmouth, the said jurors were to announce the fact of their not knowing who was the heir. The verdict thus given was then committed in a legal foam to paper, and haviug been read over to the pry, received their aignatcres, preparatory to being presented to the Lord Chan cellor. The Foreman begged to slate, with respect to the limbers of Parliament who ware upon the jury, that the• thought pro per to repeat the oh tions they had already made upon the subject of serving upon juries during the sitting of Parliament, end that they were induced to do so to prevent such a measure front being drawn into a precedent hereafter. Mr. Comminsiooer Trower.—" Gentlemen, if we had not calledsipon you, or had you thoeglit proper to exercise your privilege, to use the language of one of the speakers on the occasion, we should be ' God knows where.'" The commission was then dissolved. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZSTTE. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. R. 13.spee, Drury Lane, dealer in ham and beef. BANKRUPTS. Jo Winton , Halifax. Yorkshire. fanner. Solicitors, Mews. Morton and Co. Gray's Inn Square. H. Bell, Bourn. Lincolnshire. corn merchant. &is. Mews. Plumber eyd Co. London Street, Fenchurch Street. J. Alachua. Haverfordwest,upholsterer. Sole. Messrs. Hilliard and Co. Gray's km, IL Pearson, Droitwich. Worcestershire, glover. Sole. Messrs. Williams and Co. Lincoln's Inn. A. Knibb, Barnwell St. Andrew, Northamptonshire, miller. Sol. 'Mr. Lys, Lincoln's Inn Fields. J. Riley, Sheffield, dealer in china. Sol. Mr. Darke, Red Lion Square. R. Ealand, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, hatter. Sol. Mr. Walker, Lincoln's Inn. _ . . J. Hi:mocks, Frome Seiwood, Somerscishire, clothier. So/. Mr. Williams. lied I.ioa Square. E. Chapman, Bridgewater Square, leather seller. Sol. Mr. Platt, Green Lattice Lane. J. E. Weinman, Darkhouse Lane, Lower Thames Street, fishmonger. Sol. Mr. Lang, Fenchumh Street. K. J. 111aclifonl, Lombard Street, sword cutler. Sol. Mr. Swinford, Jolm Street, Arne.ica Square. S. Thorpe and B. Marshall, Nottingham, wharfingers. Sol. Mr. Knowles, Ncw Inn. W. Haviland, Plymouth, printer. Sole. Messrs: Wright and Co. Temple. C. llucliert and T. Wostenholme, Sheffield, hair seating manufacturers. Sols. Messrs. Tilson and Co. Coleman Street. W. Davies, King Street, Covent Garden, woollen draper. Sol. Mr. 'fanner, Fine Street. J. Slade, Tottenham Court Road, butcher. Sol. Mr. Walters, Queen Street, Cheapsidc. T. Hull, Poulton, Laneashir., money scrivener. Sol. Mr. Norris, John Street, Bedford Bow. W. Garlc, S. Warner, and T. Garlc, Dowgatc Wharf, mer— chants. Sol. Mr., Moulton, Bedford Row. 11. Johnson, Samborn, Warwickshire, farmer. Sole. Messrs. Fuller and Co. Regent Strcct. 1)1 VIDENDS. March 22, E. M'Niell, Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital, coachmaker-22, J. Marcirant, Maidstone, caryienter-22. J. and J. Rose. Tooley Street, wharfingers-22, B. Martindale and E. Fitch, St. James's Street. wine merchants—lN, J. David, Threadneedle Street, merchant-22, J. Huntington, Snowhill, jeweller-26, J. Britian, Worcester. linen druper—W, S. Ri chards, Liverpool, merchant—V. T. Edmunds, Lampeter. Canliganshire, tanner--26, J. Youden, Dover, spirit merchant —tai, IL Henderson, Lowthian Gill. Cumberland, corn dealer -24, J. liseqsan, lhayton in Hales, Salop. mercer—Z. E. Cham bers, Cullompton, Devon • H. C. Granger Knightsbridge. Middlesex; and 11. Cham b ers , jun., Bruadheinbury, Devon, bunkers-14, T. Standen, Lancaster, slatq-24, J. Statham, Manchester, dyer-25. J. Quincy, Bishop Weannouth, ship orner-24, IL Vlund, Narborough, Leicestershire, dealer-22. J. Rockier, Newman Street, Oxford Street, dealer in stained glass-24. IL Wyche. New Sarum. Wilts. wine merchant...-. April 2. J. Marsh, Sidmouth. Devon. bookseller. CRIITIOICATES to be granted March 22. W. Green, Graceeburch Street, stationt:—J. Russell, Roches ter. wine merchant—T. Bates, Cushion Court, Old Broad Street, merchant—D. T. Menke, Primrose Street, Bishopsgate. merchant—T. Slaughter, Seal, Kent, tanner—D. E. Colston. Islington Road, upholsterer—W. Buckmaster, Old Bond Street, tsitor—M. Comfort, Brtglithelmstone Sussex, carpenter—T. Lamplough, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, corn factor—J. Bennett, Worcester, glover—J. Webster, Derby, tailor—F. Mitchell, New Melton, Yorkshire, corn merchant—E. and C. Weaver, Gloucester, pin manufacturers. The Bishopric of Meath, vacant by the death of Dr. Beirne, has been offered to the lion. and Rev. G. V. Wellesley, D.D., brother to the Viceroy of Ireland. On Thursday, as the Rev. Mr. Bartlam was sit ting in tie shop of Mr. Lloyd, the bookseller, in Harley.strcet, he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and immAliately expired. . TO