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,ABOLITIak

The following are Extracts from the Papers,-
which, by an order of the House of Commons, have
been laid upon the table of the House. The elo:.
quence of Mr. CANNING'S letter shows that liis in-,.
clinatiou corresponded with his duty upon thiS
teresting subject : • .

No. S.--Cop} of a Dispatch,from Mr. Secretary CANNING
,to Lord VlStolllit STRANCFOR.D.

"Foreign (Mice, April 17, z 803.,

"MY LORD—Your Lord Ship was instru6ted.by
me, during the last year of your residence at Lisbon,
to make earnest representations to 'the Portugirese
GOvernment, on the subjed of the African Slave
Trade._

•
4 I stated on that occasion to. your Lordship the
grounds on which a appeared to the British Govern-
ment to be no less for the' interest than for the ho-
nour of Portugal, that she should not continue to
maintain a traffic as unjustifiable as impolitic; 'pro-
duelive at once of so much misery to the country,
from which the supply of slaves iA drawn, and of
so much insecurity to those into which they are
imported.

If these considerations were pressed upon the
attention of the 'Portuguese Government, at -a time
when its South American 'possessions
.were only se-
condary objects of its solicitude., their importance is
increased ten-fold, now' that Brazil is become the
seat of, the Monarchy, and when •therefore to aug-
ment and strengthen' the population of that country.
is a concern of the most vital necessity.
" A continued iinportatiori of Negroes, capable
neither of being incorporated into the class of the
community-, nor of imbibing any sentiment of at-
Itachment for the Prince, must contribute to weaken.
the general power of resistance against an enemy,
to niultiply the- sources of internal danger, and to
check the- progress of valuable improvement, and the
growth °fa 'native poptilation.
On the other
.hand, that article of produce to
which the labour. of 'slaves' is for the Most part' ap-
plied, and which it will probably be, contended by
Ibe- Poi fuguese Government is not to be. raised by
the exertions of any other description 'of labOurerS,
is unquestionably't hat, from the cultivation of which
the Brazilian Empire is likely to derive the least
part of its permanent prosperity,
rand of which
even the immediate profit in the present state of
the world, scarcely repays the_ cost of its produc-
tion.

", With respect. to cotton, though raised by the
same means,
.at present there is-nothing in the na•
tote of its culture that should render the labour of.
Africans peculiarly applicable to it.
" But whatever be the motives of immediate
Convenience, or the force of existing habits, the
immense infere,st which the Prince Regent has at
stake in the permanent prosperity of his country,
will, it is. hoped, overbalance mere temporary con-
siderations, and lead his Royal Highness to take
steps at least for the gradual disuse,: and ultimate
and not distant abolition of a trade so" disgraceful to
human nature.

" Your Lordship is plainly to signify to the Por-
tuguese Government, that in any treaty which shall
contain the final arrangement of the relations of the
two countries, you will be instructed to propose an
article for this objet ; and you will express his Ma-
jesty's just expectation, that so long as that trade
shall be continued by the Portuguese, they shall at
least abstain from furnishing slaves to other nations,
and shall forbear from _any parts of the coast
_of
Africa, to which British ships have heretofore been
used to resort, and whiCh by the benevolence and
justice of the British Legislature have been delivered
from that visitation.

I am, &c.
(Signed) " GEO. CANNING."
" Viscount Strangtord."

NO. 1 1.-MEMORANDUM,
Foreign Ofpce, March 26, aro..
An article upon
.the subje& of the Slave Trade
has been inserted in the Brazil Treaty, now under
consideration, stipulating ,for the adoption, on the
part. of the Prince Regent, of measures for effeeting
a gradual abolition of that trade throughout his do-
tuinionS.

12.--MEMORANDUM.

Foreign Office, April x 1,•
The following Article on the subjeel of the Slave
Trade was inserted in the American Treaty, which
was signed on the 31st December, 1306, by Lords
Holland and Auckland, and by Messrs. James
Monroe and William Pinkney, but was returned
from America not ratified.

Article 24.—The high contraaing Parties engage
to communicate to each other, without delay, all
such Laws as have been or shall be hereafter enal-
- by their respeaiie Legislatures, as also all mea-
sures which shall have be.-en taken for the abolition
or.limitation of the African Slave Trade ; and they
further agree to use their best endeavours to proem e
the co-operation of other Powers, for the final and
complete Abolition of a Trade so reptiguant to the
principles of justice and humanity.