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,