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

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 trade 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 teethe 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-

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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. •
41Pie 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 Ports 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 story.
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 could
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 uts 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-