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

. "~.~,#. :-.~ ^0! rl(7 , 964 d's° .06 • - Vitt ri No. 1,408.—V0L. XVI. SLAVE TRADE. The following statemeats; extracted from a series • of the Sierra Leone Gazettes recently received, are offered to the British public with -a view of ester !dishing the melancholy tact, that notwithstanding all that has been done to abolish the Slave-Trude on the coast of Africa, thousands of our fellow creatures are yet annually made the victims of the cupidity of the dealers in human flesh. These statements, being most of their official do cuments, afford also satisfactory proof of the vigil riele of our own Government in its endeavors to sup press the Slave Trade.- - - t . , 81"EAtIX LEONE, Ave. Bi.: OP THE SCHOONER PRINCE JOSE lIALLACCA. The Portuguese schrionvr San Josa , ll4Wka, prite to • Lieut. Hagan, of the Thistle§ and r %ke {Nixed &lout, affords a melancholy instance cif4he auteiring and • atrocious manner in which the shore tra de is carried pn to leeward. This schooner, pi, rather schooner Mot) did not • measii4Sevin tons was only 21 feet-long, and the spice over tire. water casks, in which the miserable slaves in•irons were slowed, was barely sitrasiTeia inc Les iu height b_ From the information obtained by •Lient. Hagan in the river Calabar, and curiobistated by the eiristetice taken iu this celerity, it appears that thirty. Degrees were put on board tins boat in the Calabar; that they were at sea nearly two mouths withoin being able to make Princes, when they pitt back to Calabar with the loss of tell tie groes literally starved to dealt'. 'lt was at thisperiod the boats of the %%Wife mane Ate sriestre, and resumed the remaining hum the grasp of Duke Ephraim, in whose possession they then were. The state to which these pour creatures were reduced, when received on board the Thirik, Lieut. Hagan • dem Shea as moat dreadful: tito action of the irons on their arms and andes. and -2 sores produced by the small casks on which they were stowed, added to their extreme slate of emaciation and debility, presented altogether such a spectacle of horror and sufft feting Immahity, as that otiicerf lung as he had brew ms this coast, Dever before wjtotessed. Six or eight et these victims of slave dealing coltishly shirt tni heart! the Thistle on the passage to this Tort; she remainder were, vl course, illation to the hospitals, where we uudeisteud Wes,: are in a fair way. .of.recovery. SEPT. El.—The slave ittetutics of Bissao MI GlClltql are as much frequented as ever. A brig cailsri We Ary33. rause (mice cund;-mited in tire Admijatly Conti at Sirs ra Leone), Ilse property of .101111 Coelho, st ell known in the Cape de Verd 1-lands has for the last live years been successfully einpluyettin carrying tiff human victims trues ! Cache° and Bissau to fare and 11141ailliaiii, making the• voyages as geickly u circumstances nimbi admit. 'Fgts vessel carries a lung 241-puttuider uu a . pisot, and 17 Cat rortades, with 20 able risen. It is a very utsfurtossate cer cusostetsee, th.t sit the period whets tee boat* uf.his Majesty'. stisip Ipkigeoia captured the Coude de Tulle Flor, this vessel (the triter - arum) was assent usi a short trip . to Goree, for the porimse ut cart yin; the I lidelya Joys Pe teem Llarette as g passenger fur the benefit of Ins health: on her return she took its a cargo of stases, mad it is be lieved situ has by this time returned fur a fresh cat go.— •nother brig, formerly called the Leecastre, the property of SenhorJumpiim Aiituilio de Marie., of which detente Pichicise, a lieutenant ill Slte Portuguese navy, is ma,ter, lies also been a constant ti atter for the last three ~eats its the saute detestahle ;tocsin', and etpialty successful. M. It randao, the Waller and owner ut the Conde de rilie Flor, Iles frequently declared publicly at the Cape de Vern Islam's his isiteution of plitelileinig every British vessel be may tall in wills, in medic to indentinty himself, as he says, tar the loss of his vessel. This eeneged° lett the Cape tie Vert' Islands a short tissue since in a •sniall schooner which be pstrehaseit there, with the intention of isellisig heriu the Breeds, Irons whence he will peuverd to Ames ICA to purchase a larger vessel, suitable its every res pect to his puitiitill intentions. The capture of the Cloak de Ville Flor exciter, a mo mentary 4141'111 the te ethe in 1111111.111 beings is sly 1110 usrans le3/lellCll it has, nicked, biro gradually Mors asiog , the last few and vessels can receive Ibrir CAI gots without slopping many 1101113, either at the island 01 Sal or Bonavissa. St. Jago, and indeed all the other islands, can at any time supply a windier, as they are cusitinually procuring them trout Use Fs easels and Pot mg nese tranvia, With whom they are concerned in thy traffic, trout the river Cass: mauve, and Use factories of Bissau sett Cachet). This I ratiic is carried en openly and to enormous extent by the subjects of 'France iesiding at (Mire and Seuegal; this is such a notorious fact, that to doubt It *mild be no thing lets than dusvoirigt.t insanity. SLAVE TRADE IN cue CIO Ntraas, &c.—Mr. W. H. LAN rence, of the Rio Pungos, states, that ill the Run Nutirt Slave factories arc established at almost every village, and that 11411111,111, U.septiar, ansl Pearce, are the chief tamers. The intercoms.: het o teas that h iver anal CACIIeO and 11133411 Is constantly kept sip wins SOWI craft; the only return taken by the Portuguese for the I:110113 sins, is The Foetal, slave 'sane is turned itt present towards but: lite Nunes and Grins, at which latter place the I'artu geese have extended their slave factories. Duo Francisco Ereyre, master of the Rusedia, staged by his Majesty's brig thistk, L,ent. Hagan immunisider, 13 IttlW at OflUOLltell factory w the Rio rougui, with the se- • Our Etna, Confitttuti3nt an Eatini. MONDAY, MARCH $, 1823. reminder of the cargo of the Rosalie 00 slaves); he waits tar a vessel from the Havener.li to Sete them oif. In 1821 hloralefis vessel i Is Sao& lbw. and the .foseph ( Mary's schooner); all took from Meth° Pones full ear. goes of slaves. 'A slaws. costs 10:) lees, one .Spanisli dollar being equal to !bur bars., Beads, satin stripe, tobacco, and ram, are paid in the purchase rs' slaves; and the pro duce obtained in the river is waxi tildes, oil, white 'ice, gold, and ivory. , Mr. Laurence also states, that at the present period a slave vessel re tees a full cargo on her arrival in It.. lino' to third tJ the time vessels were formerly detained. The Nu Porty,os arm nut been so Mien . visited hitless Idle iii* te 1/41.11•= . by the colonlel brigs arsiroxpeilltlons nt fro Sierra e, nor were there so litany Wave Pastes pievionaly to lel tam since that time. • 4 1Pie following bet:meat/on wax °brained trouts respect alibi trailing tilliatety frimitLeewaid, remiecting the Are trade i %lie Shiites since the mouth of May last:— "He went t wn to the Gallium's iii the beg' • gof last May; on lii arrival there were no slave vessels—in a few days reonerarrived,. all under the French hag except one, 1 a Spaidaril. These vessels remised full cargoes io doe lime and sailed; I month having elapsed, three other Frencli vessels arriteed, and wheat he left the tiallinas, in Judy lasi, their cargoes were nereadiness to be shipped. List 11101101 saw one of the head men lions the Gallitias, who Uttar med hint that fine more vessels under the French i flag hail arrived theye tior slaves, inakiug a total of 14 French slave vessel!, and one Spaniard, Within the last four months. He sates distinctly that from one el nizere . not taking Freud* vessels with slates on board of them, and frointhe pomp and belying' of the persons on board ur these slavers, the natives unteerully belie.ve that the %ratite is lawful, and therefore it flourishes there to a greater ex tent than it ever did It any fin titer period. Oil asking km from Whence all the slaves areproenred to supply the Vesseis at the liallittas,he said it was the port 91 one of the largest and must fairneeted paths into the interior, and this is cm rohorated by 'all the respectable trailers of the coluny. Pa Ciiimia, the chief of Itetelle, has tirade a path to the neighbourhood of the Gaines for the rule put pose of taahlitig him it) carry ore inure advantageously the slave trade!! 'SHlllrr. vs..-The Thistle, tiering her late entice, visited the Bream river, also the river and settlement of Cachime Lieut. llasan received ire-titx„. Wier piece a full corrobo ration Ur We talul midis' lie 'saute oetented of the trade •in xlaves 'schizo:Al carried will% that settli mem. About Ilia mirlille.uf. A egos!, a Port s a 'pig belonging 14. Mr.. ClO.lllO, a character well litaigrtiat the - Caro 'le Verdi, sailed with a full cargo (supposed .560) of Sierra; anothel brig (the Apollo) the property of a Mr. Joint P. avian, Member of tut' joille in S 4. Jags, at tired in Julie fer the seine Plltttove rim Lieut. Hagan was told she did nut take away any, owirsg to the indisposition of Mr. Pereira, who, it was veld, sealed fur Lisnuti fur the purpose of le cciving medical ;15%1st:trice. Lieut. liegait had 'result, Irowitiver, t donut this stor y. Lieut. llagau describes the WWII of Cachet) as the most wretched ri.tvq factory he ever visited. ',tae low, damp, and cuidined cell* for the slaves, were loathsome in the extreme, minty oi . them lacing below the high•lide mark ail' the •• •l . Tree ithil-k-ItiniNe, air, as ii is called, the fort, hilt, n,inuat m a etched State of decay; one gun only is mounted, Ilto others being dismounted with a log of wood midor tilt' ItilliZle. The 14 ifflaillfis and stagnant while 'mine deriely is; rear, of the town, render Cat:llto assuredly the Nest unhealthy place that can be imagined! but tails is not oufficiont to deter the slave traders, who generaliy lose one ballot their crews, frequretitiy all their Lin opeaus. Lieutenant Hagan was nut able to procure any stuck, althungli it was ill the town in gloat eh endance i lie was even refused a pilot to take hint out—the greatest jealousy appearing to prevail from a visit, . a unexpected as it was imweleuate. The Thistle, however, by keepilig the boats a•heati and other illeeallitUllti, found nu thbicolty in the asvigatiim. The olticers composing the garrison of this place (Ca- Chico) are all blacks raid tuulattoea, with the exceotiiiii of the Onvernur, J. Antonio tireillti, and another oltici.r : a creole Portuguese of the Cape de Vent Islands del not at tempt to conceal that a brisk trade in slaves Was still carried uu there, Its well as at Bissau; and hototed, that had the Thistle found the two vessels already named,. she *sight probably have cligligvil Widstt.. rs ; one liciiig droned with 19, the uteier wilts II Wills. That a Mimi of theix vesitlsoss well as ut hers, is npoken of as a matter of cum se in Ike preseitt semen; and, as far as Lieut. Hagan co u ld judge loom the n 1111 l ott of elders men in the place, thi•y will not lie long iii convicting their Cal goes of main trilled': humans VlCtitlts. BRIM* AND SPAN VW COURT OP xEU COMMISsION, WT. S.—Soho/once Jurcjig, radius .Wegraete,terca, Josef Maphs, nviter.--Thirb vessel, of annoy boURNII IOU! 'multi ell, with a crew ut s tWelity•Olie muu , tirlivrd with ime eighteen-pounilei, INeuly one muskets, nine cutlasses, tyv rive pikes and six pistol*, with ammunition in ropur (ion, cleared unt from the Havaisnals on the Gth of Apnil last fur i lie eumit of Atriya, 041Wielibly fur a cargo °licitly, wax, dye woods, exc. The clearance Was signed by the regular °Mew . , " Niesthis do FOrO," who 'devil • clear ance fur this saute vessel, Dote Juan lialittsta Zavalit be ing master, its Angus., Itlzl , fur a similar voyage. In this last uteutrinsed clearance it is staled thst site was to laud some " flee urgroes" in Arica; but does net mention who or what they were, our where to be lauded. At the tittle til her on lief lisessiii voy•ige. II ;w -rote 1. WU the tole ti'Lstuipage, that Josef a MA tick I itt • t oo 4 t r. l / PRICE 94 tire of Maim*, wn , masirr au4l fir.t Obi t , and a pp aset aly part owner; Jose Feu ris, a native of the ennte place, Re. rood pilot; Joel , 411,414, a 1141iVr of ay, third pilot. snd Joee SAdlreelli, a bailee of Ferrol, " contrestseetre," or Wailed:do." A Jamaica mail arrived on Thur:.!ay morning, in 33 days. By the Royal GaLclte 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 ho confiscated. Subsequent accounts, however, state, that the expected soon to recover it, as General Moutillo had arrived with 7utt men, and Colonel Nadi() was off the port with ual ber. In the mean time, according , Ga.:elle of the 18th, the royalist governor a written toisumuce that their property uliJuld Liu Mier leaving the ILivanna, the Josef& material the Gal. • timer, on this coast, then at Grand Rays, nod flnaHy yr tered the River Bonny. where her cargo was delivered and a return cargo of skies purchased. Whilst lyisig in that river, with water casks, toll , platfortn‘laid and waiting for her slave eat go, she was boarded, be the lane" end of Julys tgientenarst Sairmarez, In command of the 66011 of MIS 'esty's ship Driver; lint there being no slaves aetnatly un heand, he was uttwillindly übligrd to leave tier. alter asking the precaution or indorsing her papers. Ws crossed the Bonny bar on rise Idth of August, and was ,pre , t thearanse day by thee Driver, which bad returned in 'search :a her, cud, after a long chase, was . Carlireid at tight next morning, having on hoard 210 slaves, sit malls, and, with a small exception, all mess. Captain Wounige immediately sent her to this place. The case heists; very clear, the Commissioners pasted sentence ut condemnation without any remarks. FROM SJIDUAFIDAIe ArleNT GdzErrE. BANKRUPTCY SUPEIISEDIi6. It. G. Spice, Drury I.ane, dealer in ham endireef. BANKIIIIrI'S. J. Wilson, Halifax, Yorkshire, farmer. Solicitors, Messrs. Morton and Co. Gray's Inn Square. 11. Btllylidurn. Lincolnshire, corn merchant. Sol& Mesas. Pm/rather ahtLen. London liireet, Fem./lurch Street. • Ilavertbrdwest,upludsterer. Sob. Mums. Hilliard and Co. Gray's Inn. R. Pearson, Droitwich, Worcestershire, glover. Sots. Mesas. Wi lianas anti Co. LincOln's Init. A. Knilth, Barnwell St. Andrew, Northamptonshire, miller. Sal. Mr. Lys • Lincoln's Inn Fields. J. Riley, Sheffield, dealer in china. SoL Mr. -Duke. Sol Lion Square. •R. Ealund, Stourbridge, IVorcestershire, hatter. Sol. Mr. Walker, l .inazdds Inn. J. niucocks, Front.: lielwotal, Somersetshire, clothier. Sol. Mr. Wrlltitins. lied Lion Squint:. E. Chapman. Bridgewater Square, leather seller. Sol. Mr. Pl.tt, Green I..i.tticed.arie. J. G. Weinman Ihtrislistua Lanai Winter Thames Street. • %I.A: Mr. I Fenclitiach 'street. P. J. Blackford, Coolliarti Street, sword cutler. Sol. Mr. Swinford, Ju7ru suect , AllsC1 , 1:14 :square. • So Thronle:aid It. alLaasyall , Nottiii,;ham, 'heritage's. Sul. 1111111t‘nowles, Neir IiHA W. I lawilund, 113iiioutli, printer. Selo. Messrs. Wright and Co. l'emple. C. lIItCIII.II and . T. Wo.tenholme, I ,1 ( stating nuoluf. curers. Soli. 'Filson and Co. Coltman Street. W. Davies, ding Street, Covent Garden, trood,.. diaper. Sul. Mr. Tamer, J. 8!4(!e. •IVieuliarti Court nista, butcher. Sol. Mr. Walters. gULY.4II Street, Chi:upside. T. Ilan. Poulton Lancashire, money scrivener. Sol. Mr. Norris, John ftecet, iktlford %V. Garle, S. IVarner, and T. Gavle, llongste . Wharf, mer chants. Sul. Mr. lloulton, Hodf rd Row. B. Johnson, Sainboria, Warwickshire, farmer. Bola. Messrs. Fuller find Cu. Regent Street. DIVIDENDS. March 22, E. APNiell, Charles Street, Aliddlesex Hospital. coachniaker-214 J. Merchant. Maidsume, carpenter--IS, J. and J. Rose, 'l'noley &nett, wharfiagets-sk,t;. Aiartindele and E. Fitch, St. James's Street, . merchansm.22, J. Devil, l'hreadnetille Street, merclinnt--gt. J. Hunt/Noah Snowball. jeweller...2G. J. Britten, Worcester, ham draper-4k S. Rt. chards, Liverpool, tnercliunt-22, T. Edmund*. Lamputer, esrdiganshire, tanner—w 6, J. Youilen, Dover, spirit eunreliant -26, - 11. Henderson, Lowthian Gill, Cumberland, corn dada.- 2wh, J. Rtasiton, Drayton in Hale", Salop. inercer-26, R. Chan:. hers, Culltmipton, Devon; 11. C. Granger, Knightsbridge, Middlesex; and R. Cie:tubers, jun., Brourtheinbury. Devon. bankers-la, Standen, Lancaster, slater-W. J. Staaliallb Manchester, dyer-25, J. Currey, Uisbop IVennnooth, ship oirner-24, B. Wood, Nurborougo, Leicater.,hire, dealer-‘2l, J. !tackler, Nuwmau street. °afoul Street, dealer to stained lass-1116, H. Wyche, New Sarum, Writs, wine merchant... April tr. J. Marsh, Sichisouth, I)euon, bookseller. CELL FIFICAII'ES to be grunted March et. W. Green, Graccchurch Strzet, stationer-J. Russell. Roches ter, wiuc merchant-T. Bates, Cushion Court, (hil Woad Street, merchant-D. T. Menkc Primrose Street, Bishopsgate„ merchant-T. Slaughter, Seal. ' Kent, tanner-D. E. Colston. gslington Road, upholsterer-W. liuckinaster. (lid Bond Street, tailor-M. Comfort, Brightlielmstone, Sussex, carpenter-T. Lamplough. Bridlington Ibuity, Yorkshire, corn factor...l. Bennett, Worcester, glover-J. Webster, Derby, tailor-P. Mitchell, New Melton, Yorkshire, corn merchant-K. and C. NVeaver, Gloucester, pin manufacturers. 11.1% un equal num- ;to the Alai — 4 - t „ ernor had 4 \ • own:hanks\ 444 • ys 4a, 4-64. ,••• , ;411 40 0 1 / 4 j OlealS .%0 - . 7 r ,