The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-25 00:00:00

AFRICAN INSTITUTION.

Yesterday the Alcival Meeting of the Suh.cribers
ta the African Institution took place at Freestia-
reins' 11411, to receive the Report of the Committee.
At our o'clock his Royal Highness the Doke of
,ester entered the room, accompanied by land
(iambier, Mr. Wilberforce. Nlr. Bootle Nh'illira-
ham, Mr. Stephen, Mr. Smythe (of Cambridge),
Mr. Nlaeatilay. Me. Charles Barclay, and seieral
otli-r Gentlemen who take au active iiitcrest in the
off sirs of tin. excellent Institut. .
Via R.yil Hiehries. the DUIKE a GLOUCESTER took
the Chair.
Mr. thermos!, the Secretary, then read the
A 1 1111 l tes of the last Meeting, and afterward% the
Report of the Committee, which was of conaillera-
Lle 1. iigth. It detailed minutely the whole pro-
*ceding% of the Allied Powers ou the subject of
else Slave "Frolic. and patticul adverted to 'the
measures taken at the Congress uf
a Or porpour of siiiivetsally Emoting •n end to
lnr oilman Rita iniquitous traffic of the SL.ve
1 rade. and lamented that greater success hail nut
'wended the labours of bold Carstleressgli on this
sisbji-ct with the Plenipotentiaries of the other
Powers. We hive already published the papers
laid beim,. Parliament respecting these transac-
lions, which renders it unnecessary for us to repeat
their content« here. The Report it tted that the
tuck was still Carr) lug on to ao alarming extent by
freebooters and pirates of every description. and
regret,ad that up to the date of the last account*
Cum Geoggr Collyer, the naval commander on
the coast ol Afioca. no instructions had reached
Oust ufficer to legislate his pro eedings respecting
the alarming *strut dr this trade, carried on by
persinis who were well described in the Report as
tile Moses hmotomi geserie. ‘Ve vegretted to find
that the Report war cuminl4M s• allude to the
4011,11 pecuniary balmier us the ken& of the Tree.,
surer to promote the objects of the liestitution, an
sinus' the repetition of which, we la-t, the libe-
rality of the public will render unnectioary. The
4 illuwing allusion in the Report to the lamented
death of Sir Samuel Rumilly, oilr of the Vice.
l'residetits of the Institution, ass received with evi-
dent concern by the Meeting. " The Directors
take this oppuftunity to express that feeling of
poiguant regret, ta which they are sure to base the
sympathy of the Meeting, on the lamented terra of
the death of their much-valued coadjutor and Vice-
President, the late Sir Samuel Mutiny. l lia loss
indeed is never to be sufficiently lamented, fur the
intertias of benevolence and Isuinand)—and the
Disectura may be permitted more particularly to
eplure it, knowing, as they do, the deep indicted
. . • for which this 1

lie felt in the great Causefur which this Institution noted. To contradict this manntiptioo, they had
wrr tatablislied, the time and thought, which, in the testimony of those who were appoiated to in.
.. I the midat of the toils of a laborious prole's:am he vestigate the cruse, end whose declaim' he had
bestowed on the ',ruination of its object), and the since heard corroborated by the persons who were
convincing and irresistible power of reason mid t In- must likely to know the fact, and he believed that
.quence with which be advocated and ruppotted that great and transcendent mind had beau deposed
loon." from its throne by buddy distemper. 111 such a
Lord GAusiLa proposed the adoption of this rtate, 110 solace was to be found fur the affliction.
ikports to which lie hurt the tribute of his piat;e. The influence of sesiguation to the divine will. to
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