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&AYR TRADE.
FROM A NSW YORE PAPER OF DEOSNEBIR 15. .
DOCUMENTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
PAPERS IN RELATION TO THE CONTENTION BETWEEN THE warm STATES
AND GREAT ERITAPN, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TIRADE,
COMMUNICATED, WITH THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, TO CONGRESS,
ON THE 7TH DISCICSUIER, 1894.
MR. ADAMS TO MR. RUSH.
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On Monday next will be published, in Svo. I2s.
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE; or, in/
PORTRAIT!.
• Contents—Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Gifford, Mr. Southey, Sir Walter
Scott, Lord Byron, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. Wm.
Godwin, Mr. Jeremy Bentham Mr. Coleridge, Mr. Leigh Hunt,
Mr. Wordsworth, Sir James dackintosh, Mr. Brougham, Sir F.
Burdett, Rev. E. Irving, Lord Eldon, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr.
Malthus, Mr. Crabbe, the late Mr. Home Tooke, &c, &c.
Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, Neer Burlington-street.

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Department of State, Washington, May 29. :
.SlR—The Convention between he United S a el; and
Great Biitain, for the suppression of the African Slave
Trade, is herewith transmitted to you, with the ratifica-
tion on the part of the United States, under certain tro-
di6cations and exceptions. annexed as conditions to the
advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification..
The participation of tke Senate of the United State,
in final conclusion. ot All tredies, to wh ch they 4141
parties, is already well known to the Britikh,Gos WO,
Ricnt ; and the novshy, 'of the principles establiihed
the Convention, as well as their impot tante, and the re,
quisitte aunt of taro.' chili. -- -

Just published, in Tbree Vols. post Bvo. ;.Os.
•A SECOND SERIES of HIGHWAYS and BY-
Ll or, Tales of the Road Side. Picked up in the
French Provinces.
BY A WALKING GENTLEMAN.

" I hate tht man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and
say 'tis all barrel. !"—Svtaur..
Printed for I fenry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street.

__Je final conclusion of every part of a ratified
will explain the causes ofits ratification under this form,
It will be seen; that the great and essential principles
which form the basis of the compact are admitted. to
their full extent, in the ratified part of the Convention,
The second article, and the portion of the seenth, which
it is proposed to expunge, are unessential to the plan;
and were not included in the project of convention
transmitted to you froM hence. They appear, indeed,
to be, so far as concerned the United States, altogether
inoperative, since they could not confer the power of
capturing slave traders under the flag of a third party
—a power not claimed, either by the United States or
Great Britain, unless by treaty ; and the United States
having no such treaty with any other .Power, it ii
presumed that the bearings of those articles were ex-
clusively upon the flags of those other nations with which
Great Britain has already treaties for the suppreision of
the slave trade, and that while they give an'effective
power to the Officers of, Great Britain, they conferred
none upon those of the United States.
The exception of the coast of A ntei ica, frotin .the seas
upon which the mutual power of capturing the. vessels
under the flag of either party may be exercised, had re-
ference, in the views of the Senate, doubtless,• to the
coast of the United States. On no part of that coast,.
unless within the Gulph of Mexico, is there any proba-
bility that slive-frading vessels will ever be found. The,
necersity for the exercise of the authority to capture is,
therefore, no greater than it would be upon the coast,
Europe. In South Artieria, the only coast to whicht
slave traders may be hereafter expected to resort, is,
that of Brazil, from which, it is to be hsiped, they will
shortly be expelled by the laws of the country.
The limitation, by which each party isleft et liberty:
to renounce the convention, by six months notice to the,
other, may, perhaps, be useful hi reconciling other -na-
tions to the adoption of its provisions. If the principles
of the Convention are to be permaneritly maintained,
this limitation must Undoubtedly be abandoned; and
When the public mind shall have been familiarised to
the practical operation of the system, it is not doubted
that this reservation will, on all sides, be readily given
up. In giving these explanations to the British Go-
vernment, you will state that the President was fully
prepared to have ratified the Convention, without alte-
ration, as it had been signed by you. Ile is aware that.
the conditional ratification leaves the British Govern-
ment at liberty to concur therein, or to decline the ra-
tification altogether; but he will not disguise the wish,
that, such as it is, it may receive the sanction of Great
Britain, and be carried into effect.
When the concurrence of both Governments has
been at length obtained, by exertions so long and so
anxiously continued, to principles so important, and
for purposes of so high and honourable a character, it
would prove a severe disappointment to the friends of
freedom and of humanity, if all prospect of effective
concert between the two nations, for the extirpation of
this disgrace to civilized man, should be lost, by dif-
ferences of sentiment, in all probability transient, upiin
unessential details.
Should the convention, as ratified on the part of the
United States, be likewise ratified on the part of Great
Britain, you will exchange the ratifications, and forth-
with transmit the British ratified copy to this place.
On exchanging the ratifications, a certificate of that act
is usually executed under the hand and seal of the per-,
sons perforining.it, and mutually delivered. A copy
of the form of that used in- exchanging the ratifications
of the convention of the 20th October, 1818, is here-
with enclosed, and it appears to be the form generidly
used on such occasions by the British Government.
You will transmit the certificate exchanged, with the
W itish ratification. To complete the documents belong.
ing to the negotiation, a copy of the full power of the
British Plenipotentiaries, and of the protocol of the
third conference, are yet to be forwarded to us.
By the ninth article of the Convention, it is provided
that copies of it, 41 and of the laws of both countries.
actually in force, for the prohibition and suppression of
the slave trade, shall be furnished to every Commander
of the national vessels of either party, charged with
the execution of those laws." The fulfilment of this
article will require the continued and pal titular atten-
tion of both Governments. I enclose herewith a printed
pamphlet, containing all the laws of the United States
on this-subject, now in force. It is stated in your
dispatches to have been the intention of the British
Government to consolidate into one act, during the
Ipareti sen
gn ttoSe thes so in of Parliament,
subject;
and,
perhaps,all in British
Congress
at Laws ethrei
r
next Session may deem it expedient to do the same here.
At all events, you will not fail to forward me a copy
of all the laws in force, which come within the
purview of the Convention ; and although not ex-
pressly stipulated in that instrument, you will sug-
gest to the British Government, that copies of the
Instructions relating to this object, given by each
of the parties to its own Naval Officers, should
be communicated to the other, and furnished to
all the Officers, on either side, entrusted wish the
execution of the laws made by this Convention, corns
mon to both. Lists of the vessels of either patty, and
of their commanders, thus instructed, might also faci.
litate the accomplishment of the great purposes of
both, and harmonize the practical operation of a sr.