The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-27 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL REPORT •OE W. DAWE,S, ESQ.

To the report fiom which the above extracts
are taken, a supplementary report was added by
William Dawes, Esti: one, of the ConimisSioners,
front which the4ollowiug observations have been
extracte,l..

perfectly concur in the statements con-
tallied in the first part of the report on the subject
of the Slave Trade. Unquestionably, whileit is
permitted to continue on its pr,,estut extensiye
scale, little hope can be entertained; either that
our commercial intercourse with that country
(Africa) will advance, or that its internal t dadl-
tion will be a!neliorat;(l. The sSuggestions which
are thrown Out on the subject of Bissao? I deem
peettiilriy important. Without either the abso- •
Bite cession of that sittlement, or the interdiction
Of the Slave Trade From its ports by the Po! 01-
4-iovernment,-it would be. impossible to tree
td
even that limited district of coast, called- the
Windward Coast, to which Captain Columbine
proposes ehiedy to cOnfine our efforts, from the di-
rect effects of this trader I cannot, howe'ver,.agree
that it, would be right so to confine diem': • It is
admitted by Captain Columbine, that the chief
part of the Slave Trade-is carried on froth the
Gold Coast, Whydah, the Bight of Benin, and
Angola; and* it cannot be denied, that if the-
same rigorous means were resorted to on these
'parts of the coast, which lie proposes should be
adopted to windward, the same beneficial eifectS,
which he so confidently. anticipates in the one
ease would not fail equally to follow in the other.
The naval force which would be 'required in this
case would be much larger than that proposed by
Cal4ain Columbine. it would require to 12e at
least doubled ; but then, it the. were ade-
['nate., that iis elects'iyoubrithiv-e-
-dons to leeward as they have been to windward,
there can be no dimbf. . ,

' While Great Britain• possesses her 'present
.
naval means it would seenn‘hartily• justifiable, in
any point of vicw,,to adopt the policy which Cap-,
-tamp Columbine has proposed, of abandoning the
whole of the African' coast beyond Cllpe ';N:17011.11t to
the unrestrained ravages. of the SlaveZraile.—
Captain Columbine appears evirlently„to have pro-
ceeded on the assumption, that -Government would
allow only, a certain extent of force.to this object.
In that case it be expedient to limit the
range of its oi,perations, but surely not -otheiivise.
When- Captat4 Columbine wrote, it was also on-
kn6w-ti to him, not only ;that the decision of Sir
Williath Seott, in the ca,ce-of .the Fortuna,, had
greatly_enlarged tile powers of our craizers under
thi2. cts ; but that the late ,treat` of
atnit,,- with the Court of Brazil exposed to captuje
and i,ondcmnation all Portuguese ve.ssels trading
for, slaves on any part.of the •AfKican coast,., net'
stiliject to the Crown of Portugal,--,
Captain Columbine lived to become ucciilairs,
ed ,with these. material changes, I an,persuaded
that his representations on this subject woudhave
been materially modified, -By far, the .greatest
part of the Slave Trade being carried on from the
Leeward Coast, it would also seem unfair to ocr
eruizers td debar them from the advantageswh;ch
• they could not fail to derive from the stippressiotfor
the illicit eoniniercs on that part of the coast
and notwithstanding-the ill success which :!-••;,1-
'et.l the four visits-of a ship of war to leeward, t,„.
which Captain Columbine 'refers," I think it ex-
tremely probable that there was not one or the.
many slave ships xvllich it was then deemed ex-
pedient to liberate, which would not now be
,fudged by our Courts of Admiralty good and
larv-
ful prize. -
In a national point of view, I would also Sug-
gest that' it is well worth the expense of all ade-
, " This remark does, not include Cave Cciast, either as it
applies to the .exclusive privilege of the pc-en-tor, or 'as it
a*ies' to the absence of ail t'Eurointan merchants; thare
tieing at present a great trade earried.ou by people residing
close to the castle, and in particular by an agent of a house
at' Liverpool."

's F2ENNY.

quate rinv-alitirct to. prevent thz i.,nportation, an. ,
nually, into the Ameritrin ,continent and islands-,
of such rx3t- 'Hasse, if African p.Op:i;ation as Cap-
tain Columbine represents, and represents, be-
lieve, justly, to be .now. carried across: the At-
lantic. • !.

I feel myself called upon for these reasons to
dissent entirely front Oat. part of the. repOrt, which.
wouid restrain the naval-efforts of _Great Britain
to suppress this trade, within i;:i.rrt.l.--er than.
are fLli a;:lecie,i-te t.) meet alt ti e;•sigencies.of the..
ease on every
,p n t .ot the Afriean',eoast ; aild
not doubt that Captain Colneilline irould 'hare
concurred in my views, had he known of :the eir-
e‘iiii,stanees to -,rchtch. I lkave. alluded as atl;7.cting
the cAtitui'e:of'. slave ships, or cortid he • ha.,e be-
naval to,..c:!' sufficient to scoar the
whole coase.kvoulti b airorded by Goverilawiit.

" I feel it incumbent on me i.f.e'xpre,;.s
opiniens that a. power:to. ,concurrent
effort hr an ark ;nate number of c.ruizers the
Whole line of the A.fri6.ll-1 coast, coatinited rag
succecdin:!: twelve 3110iitt154 Ti: L` effec
tually to suppress this traffic th continu-
ance of a smaller force on the ccLis... ,1
greater length of time. TAe trade inigiit
a blow during,that time from which •
hardly recover.. Should his- Majesty's- Gov,:rn-
meta determine oil making 'such an eifOrt, the
island.of. Princes would afford a moist convenient
render-ons-for a small sclinidron',.' such as Captin
Coiniubitie proposes should -be stationed to wind-
%yard, from_ Whence it would give must effectual
annoyance to illicit slave Ships throughout the
Bight o► even occasionally as fai' as
Cape Three `onits, westward., and Angola, smith:.-
ward. T - • ,
" also in the general statements of the
report with respect to.this..COlony. Its situation
is extremely Well chosen, and it possesses advan.-
-Lages , whiqh give it a decided superiority over
every other possession, of the Crown in western
Afri.::a. I also anticipate many' .benefits-to Africa
and Great Britaid,frOm its maintenance." • -