The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-02 00:00:00

EVENIND

AT a PUBLIC MEETING of the SO-
- for the EXTINCTION of the SLAVE
TRADE, and for the CIVILIZATION of AFRICA, held at
Exeter Hall, on Monday the Ist day of June, 1540 ;
His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, the President of
the Society, in the Chair ;
Supported by his Excellency Mons. Guiacit, Ambassador of
Prance ; the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of Euston, M.P., the
Earl of Chichester, the Earl Howe, the Earl of Ripon, the
Earl of Devon, the Earl of Morley, Viscount Sandon,
Viscount Howick, M.P. Viscount Mahon, M.P., Lord
Charles Fitz-Roy, 51.P.,L0rd Robert Grosvenor, Lord George
Lennox, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chichester.
the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Norwich, the
Ilishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the Bishop of Gloucester and
bishop Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Worslcy, M.P., Lord
• outli M P. Lord Seaford, Lord Eliot, M.P. Lord
Berners, Lord Monteagle Lord Calthorpe, Lord Nugent,
Thomas Fowel Buxton, Esq. the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, Bart , M.P., the Right lion. Stephen Lushington, M.P.,
the Right Hen, Gen. gir George Murray, G. C. 8., Sir Joseph
sic Courcey Laffan, Bart., the Right Hon. Sir Stratford Can-
.l,l!og,?_ M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, M.P., the
▪ Right Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., M.P., the Right Hon.
Sir Alexander Johnston, the Hon. William Laseelles, M. P ,
Um lion. Charles Langdale, ALP., the Hon. Captain
Francis Maude, R.N., Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart.,
!LP., Sir Thomas Dyke Arland, Bart., M.P., Gco. Edward
'''4l°,l, Esq., Francis Seymour, Esq., Sir Edward Bowater,
Sir George Stephen, the Archdeacon Wilberforce, Capt. Sir
'Edward Parry, R,N. W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P., R. M.
Wires, Esq., 1.11.1)'. D. O'Connell, Esq., M.P., N. A.
Vigora, Esq., 'Edward Baines, Esq., M.P., John Ir-
Ying, Esq , M.P., William Roche Esq., M.P., Charles Lush-
talptori, Esq. , p., Thomas Dyke Arland, Esq., M. P. ,
Bu field, Esq.. M.P., James 51'Queen, Esq., C. E.
Trevelyan, Esq., Joseph Gurney Barclay, Esq., James Cook,
89., James 13autnel, Esq., Joseph 13eldarn, Esq., ---
Quantamassa and W. Aussa, the Ashantee Princes, Baron
Oersdorff, the Saxdhy Minister, D. R. Morier, Esq., her Ma-
jesty's Minister to the Swiss Cantons, the Secretaries of the
„Church Missionary Society, the Wesleyan, the Moravian, the
-London, and the Baptist Missionary Societies, the Reverend
%eters Benson, Dealtry, Bunting, Bunter, Vaughan, Cox,
and Hannah, the Reverend Messrs. S. C. Wilke, J. W. Cun.
tingham, M. M. Preston, George Clayton, John Beecham,
lames Dixon, E. Boole, T. Jackson, R. Monro, John Bowers,
Isaac Keeling John Scott, John Burnet, John Licfchild, James
Sherman, R. i'yne, John Blackborn, William Jones, P. La-
am, William Allen, Esq., Josiah Forster, Esq., Robert
Ponder, Esq., Thomas St urge. Esq., George Stacey, Esq.,
E. FOrater, Esq., Samuel Gurney, Esq , Dr. Hodgkin,
Bowring, Thomas Farmer, , Sir Moses Montefiore,
air. Sheriff Wheelton, Captain Trotter, Capt.. Wm.
Allen, R.N., Capt. Bird Allen, R.N., Capt. Washington,
R.N., Capt. Henry Hope, G.C. R.N., Lieut.-Colonel
Edward Nicho Is, James, Cook, Esq., David Turnbull, Esq.,
J. borne,/ Hoare, Esq., Henry Weymouth, Esq., William
!mullion: P.:N., J. M. Strachaa; Henry Pownall, Esq.,
1t.'17-pelasse,.Esq., It. Matthews, Esq., &c.
L On the motion of THOMAS FowELL 13exatos;, Esq.
secontled by the Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER, it was una-
nimously resolved,
That, notwithstanding all the measures hitherto adopted for
tlm suppression of the foreign trade in slaves, the traffic has in-
creased and continues to increase under circumstances of ag-
riveted horror, and prevails to an extent which imperative-
.taila Inc the strenuous and combined exertion of the whole
Christian community te effect i's extinction.
thr the mo' ion of the Bight Hon. STEPHEN LUSHINGTOi,,
seconded by the Venerable Archdeacon WILBERFORCE, it
was unanimously resolved,
That the utter failure of every attempt by treaty, by remon-
strance, or by naval armament', to arrest the progress of the
IrPic ; sad the exposure recently made, by the publication of
Buxton, of the deep interest which the African Chiefs
"are in its continuance as the means of obtaining European
goods and manufactures, prove the necessity of resorting to a
Preventive policy, founded on different and higher principles.
a• On the motion of the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL,
Bad, M.P., it was carried by acclamation,
That the warmest thanks of this meeting be respectfully pre-
sented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for his conde-
scension in accepting the office of President of this Society, and
tor having taken the chair this day.
4. On the motion of the Lord Bishop of Ciric la ESTE ra,seconded
by SAMUEL GURNEY, EEq., it was unanimously resolved,
That this policy is to be found in the civilization of Africa
by the introduction of Christianity, by the promotion of legiti-
mate commerce, and by encouraging the cultivation of the soil
'limn a system of free labour.
$. On the motion of Earl of CHICHESTER, seconded by the
Ron. CHARLES LA NGDALE, M.P., it was unanimously