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OV the various Complaints incident to thejm-
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Leicester ; Dunn- and ,Sutton, Nottingham ; and retail by
most Country Medicine Venders in Boxes. at as. 9d. each,
and .4 s each.

" But allowing. that no. vessel be permitted to
pass which is liable to 1!,...-ood ground of suspiciou,„:
,still, it is to be feared, that without. somegreat
restriction by "Spain. and her colonies, and some.
further limitation on the part of Portugal,. no ef-
fectual means are in the power of Great BritNitii*
to stop such an extensive .and lucrative trade. It
is also certainly difficult even to catch the vessels
which are supposed contn:hand : most of them
sail extremely well, v are perfectly on their guard,
and have the advantage of directing their voyage
to -too- many distant ports across the Atlantic,
to alloW of any important molestation from our
cruizers, _ _

" The cruizers at present on this station have;
lately made four distinct 'sweeps along the coast.
down to.Prince's'lsland. Out of mauy slave ships
which were, boarded, only one has been caught
under circumstances which would admit her being
brought up fof adjudication.
Upon a careful review of the whole case, it
would seem that the following conclusions may
fairly be. drawn :

"'That we have not sufficient means to prevent -
the Slave Trade in general from being carried on ;
but if ,instead. of opposing it generally, we confine
ourselves for the present to some one branch of
it, there is a great probability of our success there,
,and of a constant --gradual extenFlon of that success
at a more remote petiodi
No-difli:.alta Can occur in choosing the par-
,ficular part to which we should confine our exer-
tions. The leeks'ard- coast, all that part v,-hiCh is
generally called'the Bight of Benin, •is too un-
healthy to admit much, cruir4ing, or the flrma- •
t ion ofa new establishment on some of the islands,
if Isbrtuol would cede one of them for that pur-
pose. As, to the 'Gold Coast, we have already as
many forts as can be desired there ; but little be-
n tit to expected from their co,operation-ii;
the extinction of the Slave Trak. as they do not
pOrisess—authOrity-Or influence enough to prevent
its being carried on, eren under their guns.
We must therefore turn. .our views to Sierra
Leone, from whenee will probably emanate any
degree 'of civilization which may be attained by
the adjacent ports of Africa is the south-east
yiarter. But no prop ess worth speaking of can-
be made until the SlaVe. Trade shall be so com-
pletely Prevented, that the - trading chief's and
other natives, no longer entertaining any hopes of
it restoration, shall feel the necessity of raising
produce sufficient to purchase those European cow-
-1 modifies, which the sale of their slaves at .present
furnishes to them.

" Far this purpose our cruizers in Afiica should
be generally limited to the coast between Goree
and the Kroo country; paying a more decided at-
tention to the. coast from the river Nunez to the
Sherbro. This unceasing interruption would com-
pel. the traders to withdraw from this part of the
coast ; but finding little or no molestation to the
eastward of the Gold Coast, they would naturally
direct their voyages thither, and leave western
Africa at rest, and with a fair opportunity of bet-
tering its condition."

the assistance which the captured neg..oes
afibrd, the country is assuming a more favour able
aspect. -
". The town and public buildings are assuming'
a more permamentform.
" But even allowing th'ai it may be many years
before trade and cultivation can advance in a great
degree, and ansadeqtiate peenniary return can he
made. to the mother country ICA- the expense which
she has incurred,* yet this? does not essentially af-
fect the far nobler-purpose for which this colony
was foUnded ; namely, the endeavour to ame-
liorate the condition of this.hitherto ill=fated nor,
tinn of the globe. It certainly has bad the effect
of d;ininishing, in-a Very great degree, the Slave
-Trade in its neighbourhood. :The frequent inter-
ruptions and annoyances which that traffic receives
.from the vicinity oe an establishment increasing
daily' in consideration (and •lately very much in
.power, by the constant presence of some ship of
war); will, at no dislant-periqd, put an effectual
stop to-it. The present white factors and dealers
of course make, and will inakevery effort for
its continuance ; .bUt they. are-diminishing, fast in
number, and it is not likely that any new ones
will'venture their lives in such situations as these
factors arc generally placed, to carry on specula-
tions of such very hazardous issue. These Ob-
servations, however, :are limited to .this imme-
diate • part Of western Africa, and are not even
in this small space without difficulties attached to
them.

It would haVe been in vain to make any at-
tempt to improVe the condition of Africa, without
hiring first established a colony of some strength„
founded upon, equitable principles, from whence,,
as a focus, all our efforts may, be directed : and
#Owever Sierra Leone may have fallen short of
the sanguine expectations which had been formed
of its. success, 'there is. every fair probability that
;Africa gill ultiMately derive much good from this,
settlement ; not rapidlyindeed, .nor perhaps ex-
tensively, for this century, bnt still advancing as
fast: as can be reasonably expected from 'power
and resources so slender and disproportioned to
such a gigantic undertaking, as the civilization of
any 'considerable portion of, a continent so steeped
in barbarity as. Africa. '
" The. want of the.stsong controul of law,. and
of a general systeni'ofjurisprudence, is ...so severe-
ly felt amongst: the traders inAfrica, that. the
foundation of, a colony,,•which, may.at,t4in here-
after a Sufficient magnitude to render it a suitable
seat for 'courts, armed with full authority to re-
prers and punish the enormities .which so fre-
quently happen on this coast*, and pass-without
animadversion ; the foundation of such a -colony
must surely be' considered as a matter worthy of
very great, attention ; and there is no place on
-the whole coast which 'could- in any degree be
rendered so, efficient for this most desirable pur-
pose as Sierra Leone. • - •
• " Neither his. the ,public money (considered
merely as a matter of account) by any means
been expended upon this colony without a return,
which deserves a mach greater consideration than
is generally given to it ; namely, the asylum which
it has affoirded to the 'Nova Scotians and the Ma-
roons, so that they are no longer a burthen upon
the British Treasury t." •
*" Committed by white people."
• t The report states, that there are 400 house.; within' the
malls of Free-town, Sierra Leone, containing 1917 inhahi-
'tants. This is entirely exclusive of the slaves who have been-,
liberated under the sentence of the Court.of Admiralty, and
ho, are supposed now to amount to upWards of 2500. The
h uses in the town are valued at 26,6001. sterling.