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SLIVE TRADE.

PAPULE' RELATING Tt) THE ABOiITION OP THE
nbAV KAU',
(Ordered, by the House ulConolitons, to be printed, April
12, ibto.l

No. I.—Note from Lori. Ilullaud and MicklattJ, to Mean*.
Mauro.. nod Piottoey.
Dovittiugattect, October 15, 1,06.
Lord Holland and Lord Aneklitad have the
holiour to info, Mr. Munroe and Mr. Putkiley,
that a joint address of the two 11,41Nes of "'deli*.
silent was presented to His Majesty, on Wednes-
day, the •.5111 June, 1806. beseeching His Niiije.tY
to take such ineuswes as Ili ills wimloon lie
itihe proper, fur ustah:iid,iag, by iie;.:setation with
torekii powers, u concert sod ugreement for
uhulishiug the Africa's' Stove 'Erode; sod they L.:m-
oot help expre6ating their eonlidence. as it IA tiwir
vl.,.cst.. wish. that .!r. 3loitiov stud Mr. Pinkney
!)., ii,spOied to co-operste with them in the most
.1 manner, Car effectually proluUting the tab-
jecia of that address.

fsio.9.-i-Estract of a Dispatch fro® the Hon. D. NT &shine,
to Lord Viscount Howick.
iVaolkiugton, Much an, 1807.
The laws that were passed daring the last Session
of Congrvs-i, have not as yet been printed. But
there wrie only two that were part,eu:.n lc cotincet
with His Nliip-sty's interest; the Aliohtin:i of ti.
Slave Trade, from the Ist Jautt.iry Itina, and the
Act.

No. a-r-Copy ofa bispsirli froisi Mr. Secretary Canning, to
Lord Viscount Siounpora.
Foreign Oilier, April 15, Iso7.
MY LORD —After the solemn and final decision
of the Legislature of this kingdom, with respect io
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in as far us Iris
Majesty's subjects hare been engaged therein; it is
extremely desirable that the prini.iples of justice
and humanity, by whieh the Kim; and his Par hi-
meut Ease been actuated in decidsag on this bn-
portant measure, should nut be thwarted nor frus-
trated by the pertivacity of other powers, in alloa.
jog their subjects to cuarinue this disgraceful tral-
lick. By • tine coucurrenee of a majority of the
principal maritime nations of Europe, it has been
prohibited. and His Mlaj..sty cannot entertain the
suspicion, that, taking the advantage of the legisla-
tive exclusion of British subjects from this trade,
the subjects of Portugal r ill -be encouraged in the
prosecution, much more is the extensiois of it by
the coo:Avionics. or protection of their lioveroluent.
I have therefore to signify to your Lordship, his
Majesty's pleasure, that pm omit no opportunity
to repiesent to the Poi tugieese :11inisters, the gene-
ral benefit that would result from the acce.sion of
the Goveroment of Portugal, to the fullest extent
of the niessuras which the British Legislature, after
the most patient and laborious iutestigation, has
finally determined to adopt, oil a 'question which
has so long interested and agitated the pub:ie wind,
to this and in every other civilized country.
lf, however, from any contracted, and (as theme
is no doubt thst it will prove to be) mistaken po-
key, the Portuguese Goveutment should persist in
allowing their subjects to prosecute this traffic, fits
Majesty has an undoubted rlgl.t to require that
their commercial operations should be coatinsd to
the territories in Africa, which the Portuguese
traders have hitherto &welt accustomed to frerptent,
and should not be extended to the tract of coast
which II s sjesty has determined to abandon, and
to terve to the undisturbed possession of its native
. I am, &c.
(Signed) Geo. CANNING.

No. •.—Copy of a Dispatch from Mr. Sccittury Canning to
Lord Viscount Straugforit.
Awl 17, rocs.
My Loan—The Portuguese Settlement of Ws-
sus, on the western coast of Artie'', is in the midst
of a territory iii winch the slave trade is now nearly
disused, and, from its situation, interrupts the m-
w ere, of the ende.ivour which has been mad* of
lute years, to afford to, at least a ruble 'no-
tion of the coast of that Continent, a elisuce of im-
provement and repose.
If your Lordship should s.,e no imute•di.tte
prospect of being able to obtaci the ie,..ent of the
Portuguese Gov, rinuent, to the prun•iple
by my other dispitch on the Slave 'node, you are
directed to inculcate ; your, Lordship will ender.
your ►o persuade the Portuguese Government,
even if in other places the Stave Trade shall still
coutitme„ to &newton the trufhe in stews at this
particular settlement, (retaining whatever other
commerce way belong to it) or to asceitain whether
oo any, and what conditions, the Portuguese Go-
vernment might be induced to cede it to Ma-
)es:y. I ain, &c.
(Signed)

GEO. CANNING.

Ns. 5 —Copy of • Viatica; from Mr. Secretory Cumming,
to Lord Viscount Sionimfoid.
Pure? pi °dice, April ty, taco..
MY LORI--Your Lordship was instinCted by
me, during the lust year of your residence at Lis-
bon, to make earnest representatious to the Portu-
zuese Government, un the subject of the African
Slave Trade.
I stated on that occasion to your Lordship, the
grounds on which it appeared to the British Go-
vernment to he no less for the interest than for the
honour of Portugal, that she should nut continue to
talaintinu a traffic as unjustifiable as impolitic ; pro-
ductive at once of so much misery to the country,
f,otn which the supply of slaves is drawn, and of so
much insecurity to those into which they are im-
ported.
If these considerations were pressed upon the at-
tention of the Portuguese Government, at a i• me
when its South Ame'rican possessions were only se-
condary objects of its solicitude, their importune-
ia inere.kied ten-fold, now that 'Brazil is beconie the
...at of the monarchy, nod when, there:fire. to aug-
ment anal strengthen the population of that coo
try, it a concern of the most vital necessity.
A continued importation of negroes, capable
neither of being incorporated into the class of the
community. nor of imbibing any sentiment of at-
tachment fur the Prince, must contribute to weaken
the geueial power of iristAtice 'spinet an enemy,
to multiply the sources of internal dancer, and to
cheek the progre.s of valuable improt calcite, awl
the growth of • native population.
An the other hand, that article of produce to
which the labour of dares is for the most part ap-

plied, and which it will probably l,e mitt rrled 6F
the Portuguese Goverainient is not to be r:,ieed'by
the exertiona of any other tlescriplitm of lai movie,
is unquestionably that, from site cultivation of
which, the Brazilian empire is tik•ly to derive the
least putt of its periniment prosperity, and of which
even the iniuseiliite profit, so the present state Of
the world, scarcely repays the cost of its produc-
tion.
With respect to cotton. though raised by the
same menus, at present there is nothing in the na-
ture of its culture, that Arndd render the labour
of Africana peculiarly applicable to it.
But whatever be the motives of immediate con-
venience, or the force of existing habits, the. im-
mense interest which the Pallet Regent hes at
stake, in the permanent prosperity of hiceouutry.
will, it iii hoped, overbalance mere temporary con-
sider along, and lead his Ro)al Highness to take
steps at least for the gradual disuse, and *litho rte
and not distant abolition, of a trade so diogracecol
to human nature. _

Your torilabip it plainly to signify to the Portu-
guese Government, that in any treaty which skill
contain the filial arrainovient of the relations of the
two entwines, you will be instructed to propose on
article for this objiet; and you will express Mr
Majeates just expectation, that so long its this
trade shall be continued by the Portuguese, they
Audi at least abstain from furnishing slaves to other
nations, and shall forbear from airy parts of the
coast of Africa, to which British ships have hitherto
been mud to reAit, and which, by the benevolence
and justice cif the British legislature, have been de-
livered from that vis'hition,-1 are, &c.

(Sigund) GEOIAGE CANNING.
Viscount Stistigforel.

No. 6.-4:street of • Dispatch frosts Lord Viscount Strong-
ford, to Yr. tretrctury
Lisbon, JilUe 4, 1307.
T have latelphad some iotere,li.rg conversation
oirli M. d'Aranjo, o.i the subject of your Dis-
patch, No. I.
He began by declaring his ignorance of the pre-
cise wish, a of His Majtmly's Government, halo:et-
ing the steps to be token by Portugal for the abo-
lition of the Sl..ve 'fratle. If Ilia Majesty's Go-
vernmt tit eximeted Poi ttigal to annihtlate, Lr even
to discourage that trade, lie bad no difficulty in de.
Glaring, that such a laCasore was uttely
cable at present ; and that there were no metros of
collecting public opinion in this conntry, nor of
rendering the abolition so g .nerally popular as to
make the rights and interest of colonists a compara-
tively small consideration.
That those colonists were, in effect, the very
persons whom this Govertimi lit feared • mot t to this-
oldiiie ; rod finally, that Eogl:::!.1 email uiiiird to
mike experitnents, which would prove destrtir tit e,
if hazarded by any other nation.
He admired the philaistliro:l of 11.4 Majesty's
Government, but he declared frank y that tie
should be sorry to imitate it.
Ile entered at great length into acroutitsiof the
actual state of the Portuguese Colonies, imtlen-
deavoured to ;more that their very existence would
be endangered by the adoption of an) new system
of cultivation, busicver plitusibie and oppareutly•
favoaralile to the general interests of liduninity.
I donot repeat Nl.d'Artinjo's swami's, beeatnie
I am persmidcd that Ilia Majesty's Government
will find uuthilig new iii his mode of treating the
subject.
But, on the other hand, said -M. d'Aranjo, if
Great Britain merely expecti an assurance that the
Portuguese Legislature will not mid out improper
and extraordinary encouragement to the persons
concerned in the Sieve Trade, thus taking undue
advantage of the legal incapacity of -British sub-
jects to carry on that traffick ; if she retrains a pro-
illise thJt the Portuguese trailers will voin!on that
tract of coast which Iles Majesty has determined to
levee to the waihstarbeti possession of its native in-
habitants, iso hesitation will he made to give such
in any mode that 'tray be deemed tape-

divot.
It is however, he contioned, to he distinctly un-
dersood, that Portugal will ant forego the rglit
which she undoubtedly possesses of pr svidinfr her
own colonies with slaves front other parts of her
dominions, and that the troth, k tliert,of is mill Li
be kept up at Cabinda, the source from whence
the Portuguese Colonies are principally supplied:
7.—Estraet of • Dispatch from Lord Vi•COUDI Strang.
ford, to Mr. Secretary Canning.
I,:s de Jamie.), aoth Scpteniher, rims.
My communicicions with the Poituguese Go-
vernment, on the subject of the African ShiveTraile.
have assumed au official form, and shall be duly
laid before you.
I dare not, however, flatter myself that me ex-
ertions on that most interestiug subject iviil be com-
pletely successful.
I have some reason to believe that the Prince Re-
gent would be contented to cede the setilensent of
Bisssu to His Majesty, either in perpetuity or fur a
term of years.
I have not yet received any regular °vertu; es on
thi4 matter, but should sin h u propo.4l lie tootle to
tae, I shall not hesitate to take it "ad referendum."
Not —Dispatch from )Sr. Secretary Vanning, to the IL Olt
Hostiorabis J. H. Frete.
ForeignOtfice, 7th October tuns.
Sta—l inclose to you a copy of a dispatch w Melt
I addressed, by His Majesty's commands, to Lord
Srangford. this Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Prince Regent of
Portugal, nt the tune of that Mini:Aces departure
for the Broads, on the subject of the Slave Trade,
as connected with the Portuguese dominions in
South America.
So many of the circumstances and arguments
stated in this dispatch, apply also to Si/111161i AMC*
licit, that I have thought it right to put you in pos-
session of them; mid. though I am not to instruct
you to bnng forward at present any distinct propo-
sition upon the subject of the Slave Trade, I have
yet to desire that you will keep that subject so far
in your view, as to ornA no favourable opportunity
of explaiiiing and enforcing the principles which
have guided the conduct of the British Govern-
ment upon arn.
(Signed) Gie. CANNING.
110. 9.—Dopatai from 1...0.4 R.ronmt Stroogford. to Mr.
Secretary (arising.
Rode Janeiro, phi ape, 'sot).
has been represented to me, that the

Mader of of aRs itish itteteliantman, alsich seilea•
front this port seine time ago, (bound to the River
of Plate,) having fallen to with a- Portuguese
African trader, did actually purchase slims on
board of that vessel, end convey them in his own
ship to Buenos Ayres, %heir they wcre so!tl by
hint in a clandestine and illegal wanner.
lii order to guard against the rvenrrenee of simi-
lar practices, l have taken upon myself to insert a
clause (of which a copy is annexed) in the hotly of
the license granted by inn is the tame of the booth
Sea Company, to British vessels trading with Spanish
rAinerica, declaring that these licenses shall become
altogether nail and void, in cafe it should sppenr
that the ships to winch they had heel, granted had,
directly or indirectly, engaged in the Slave Trade,
or in the conveyance of slaves, subsequently to the
dates of the liccuses...-.1 have, &c.