The National Register.
London, England, 1822-08-05 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

PorrsmottTir, Attu. 11.—Ou Wednesday morning we were
sarprised with the uew nuvel circumstance of the airival of a
French brig, of 24d tons, called the 1 igilmae, as a prize, she
having been captured, with several others, in the net ut slave
trading (having 2-13 on board), on the lath lit Avid last, in the
river lthuny (northward of the Leine), by the boats of his :Ja-
jestie snips Jpitiyrua and Myriaiduu, manned wilti about 150
seamen, sod rollosialideti by Lieut. G. Vt in. St. John %Mislay,
Oster a must severe contest, in whica two seamen were kills"
sod seven were wounded. It is not known how many of the
slaves antlered in this vessel, u they jumped ovelbourd and
wire destroyed by the sharks; and, nimbi; with the blasts in
the hold, after our seamen were in possession of the upper deck,
several slaves woe also killed. Our pour girl about tea years
of age, bad both her legs amputated, and was ItoStig well. This
vesvel, with six others, formed a little slave trading squadron,
which was discovered by the boats despatched by Sir R. Mends
to reconnoitre the river Bonny, moored sous* the stream of the
river, with springs on their cables, all armed, with apparently
about 303 melt on board, and perfectly prepared to resist the
ur boarders. Lieut. Mildusay pushed OD with his
boats, and as they got within rmige of the *lavers, they all
opened a heavy lire of eannister and grape shut and thusketry ;
but as nothing could withstand the coolness sad undaunted
courage of our seamen, all the vessels were soon in their pos.
ses*iun ; their defenders, on being boarded, many of them ran
below, slid others jumped overboard. The vessels roved to
be as follows :-1 semis brig I Syslante, 240 tons, four guns,
thirty ,urn, :;13 slaves; Freuels brig Petife Betsey, 144 tons,
four tans, 25 men, 2.Bslaves; Fiench brigautine L'Casule,
10J tuns, 'Oiy guns, twenty-set en men, 247 slates; Spauisb
schooner Fronting, 306 tons, ten guns, fifty-live own, 350 slaves,
Spanish schooner Bcasa, 130 tons, nine guns, forty-five men,
300 slaves; and another brig which took part in the action, but
she had no cargo in. The state of the unhappy slaves on hoard
those vessels it is impossible to dertribe ; some were linked in
shackles by the leg, in pairs ; some of them were bound io
curds ; and many of thou bad their arms so lacerated that the
firsts was completely eaten through! Anuther of the inhuman
practices of their purchasers is to hog them until they dsore and
eat, as an antidote to dejection mid despair, as under these
feelings they often throw themselves overboard in pairs ! V. hat
imtividual is there, with a heart in any degree susseptilde
human feelings, but meet pray for the eatinetiun of this aboni-
nnble trailic, and mourn fur the in quity done by Gki istianised
Europeans in that land of misery and woe—Africa' The flow-
like cruelty of these hateful slitveiitraders was difccivered, and
happily frustrated err its design took effect, on board of of
the captured tome's, which the niavera, on the *meek being
made, deserted, placing a lighted mulch in the magmatic, its
which were several bar, els of:gni:powder, in the hope, uedocht,
that so soon as uur men had bussued, tla vessel would blow
op with them, and the 300 slaves who were chained togethet in
the hold. Peuvidentially, one of the men discovered it, very
coolly put his bat under it, and carried it s etely on deck. We
regret very muds to mat-, that on the pusirage of the prises
tote the Bonny river to Sierra Leone, the line schooner l'ereians,
with 6110 slaves oe boast', and 23 kiteamen, upset in a tornado,
sad all in ber,perisheil, excepting right sessile's, who Mete
picked up live d afterward by the Mberaidine, in a state of
dersegement, fruit wept of Mod. Mess... Batty and Doughty,
midshipmen, perished in her. 'I be nuoil)er or slaves lot whomsJekated
by the capture of these vesselswas 11316, about 200
died on the palliahe to Sierra Leone ; the onsets (exeeptitig
those lust io the schooner) were lewlevi at that place. L. u.
Mi,dmay came home in charge of the Viggote, and on Lino.
set oaf tor the Jeonoraity with despatches for the Adiuiralte
with despatches from Cotwwxl..re Sir Robert Mends. The
Driver, 18, Capt. Wolrige, and Baum, 20, Captain Phillips, had
time eft Got from I,lortSOugoilin Sit Robert Mends into:Med to
sail for Englaud shortly in the limiueda.