The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-18 00:00:00

SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

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At a time when Lord Derby is slam%
slave trute is increasing, the following report, pie-
seuttil by the Brazilian Minister of Justice to the
legislative Assembly. will be read with interest, as
proving that, in point of fact, it is rapidly on the
decline :
The government continues le Malley the utmost zeal and
energy to eatioguish the slave trade, and their efforts are
prodieing the happiest results. In the province., the
presidents, and in general all the authorities, have per-
fumed their daty with a seal worthy of the highest eulo-
gists. Nor, with the saormoes extent of our coast, and
the swill naval force thee at our command, could such
fir. i results hare bees obtained by any other means.
Tke landing of • ehlplood of slaves is not • thing that can
reumie long e secret, even when effected without discovery.
The west number of persons who, through the landing, in.
troehe.ion, sale, and purchase, are necessarily cognisant of '
the ion, disclose it within a very short time. The govern-
ment has not neglected a single opportunity of investip-
ting diligently the foundation of every rumour to that
street ; and at is not impossible that the truth has moms
times .4e:spa them ; it is not less certain, having regard to
the nature of the affair, that such landings must have been
very rem. On the faith of information scrupulouslyob-
tained. I think I can sirm that, beyond the speculations
whose eti.tencc is revealed by the seizures, and which are
(*ohmic Iby the relations hereafter transcribed, the land-
ing. Lase been few. It is equally beyond a doubt that the
groat majority of mi reheats who were formerly involved in
the nankin." altogether retired from it. Some, more oh-
stinste. still wok opportunities but difficulties, danger, and
fear, have paralysed almost always these attempts
before execution, or as soon as begun. The truth
of those propoeition, becomes very apparent if we
notice the revolution in the price of sl %yes here, and
in the ports of Africa, from whence they are usually
braugie. The increase in price here appears fibulous; the
ready money price is now double what used to be on credit ;
and ti pit es keep up and extend to slaves who formerly
found no purchaser • • • The excessive int erase in the
pries here (Rio de Janeiro) cannot be accouated for by
umplr deviseon in-slave trade sp. culations, but only by its
all but ee.sition, If the traders, embarrassed by the
difficulty of landing in this pronuce, have scarcely changed
la at,...,., the theatre of their speculations, as some pretend,
with,- would the price have ineressed hire so considera-
bly, nor would that elevation have extended to the pm.
new. where, by contrary, there should have bees
• decrease. But if we hod that in those pre-
selects whence come the slaves the prices rise, end
their ,apsrts.ton al trms the agricultural interests of those
From tuts t, •sseli natant as to seek to impede it, it is
.ter tbsi Slew mmittsnece ere taken front the anterior
existence., end not from fresh importations. At the same
time, in the p eta m the coast of Africa, and especially is
those nhith furnish slaves to Brazil, their price has fallen
in au evilly !arid proportion; and if our information is
correct, their are factories in which it appeared more pru-
dent to abandon than to transport the slaves already ready
for exportation. These eonsideratiom are still more elm-
trued by so great an abundant. of capital, that the indu-
bitable user:rase of animation in oarcenamereial transactions
and new enterprises have not bees able se employ it. To
account for so great a result, the simple decrease in the
traffic will not Mkt, bat only its all bat extinction. In
the meanwhile, it is proper net to dimmable that the fall of
prices is the African ports, sod the rise In Brasil, an
powerful imeintives to the INPIIIIMIMiaIIe of traders; it will
henceforth be neces.ary to allow them we truce, and set
with rf.loubleil diligent*. Elagtlist epiedoe of cultist*.
tors t, underceing a sensible tiMWzatlus. This °retrial
will contribiee much to wpm. YO Valid Sapnieese has
convinced me that, to reeiWailleelt the bodiega. me if
the ls..t *zeros is to stinstiaillthildiehiMMlO Of ibe awe*
the hope of • premium like dot paned bylaw le eduentet
sea. And to remedy obvious iseseeemieme of We mos. if
established imperatively by kw. reautiethui the Waft of
appreciating all the cireenneeinilee et
re theml4ll
have directed to the pees et the p • =
authorising them to mean ham the rimeielies tattle gor
vernment to give Web yeambene le these wanebe la sob
apreehesuese. But ala theme Ellissitise Tralum=.4 est
ob lambus, va, without zsi
.M
osier them assay logemilie, hes are tamest sem
be enabled le Mee deneily bin the eerie to the auto.
For toil it is assuawy to be by &Mai It from the OW
pm' town,, where eiebellmse era Renee easily be proms%
the rest of the teat met him • • •
The diereses of oboes in ewe suelpeet letesa, by eussemb
iag in them the, Nl_ ha* labour, and,
cueotly, factlitatio et subielmee le the races*
arrived, would be a pevearili isiessuleat to eelettisetim.
The first impulse to emdinatien to we Wee being given, it
is andentoud bow easily hem *ease they would synced
eato.the interior. The eo-esigiusee devii-labeur is, as all
nuncio ledge, one of the ieriraala Sieltibelee to the emigration
of free labouren. This dilleeky week! go on disappear-
ing in proportion as the slave seevies is circumscribed in the
interior. flappily we have billet seeth and south provinces
to which we could apply the ante system, with such alters-
Won as experience and the diversity of circumstances would
reader advisable. Finally, to counterbalance the interests
which aivocate the cause of the traffic, it is necemary to
Create others completely hostile to them, and prove mei-
tall, as in the United States, the sup' nority of free labour.
As • sag se these or other measures producing the same
result, shall nut be adopted, we shall be condemned to a ,
permanent strozgle with the cupidity of traders, all the
more stimulated by the prospect of great gains, the
are the results obtained by the government.
The report then goes on to enumerate the captures
of shivers by the Brazilian authorities during the
past year. the minister gives the names of ti ships
so captured, and sum up 10108 newly imported
Africans released.