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SONGS a; Tits NEW OPAR4OO "THE ALCAID."
14%40/ SONO—hdonown
~Intlifiritantlet's down, nay lag infauk4l,
144-' Whate'er any fortune be,
For thee, my Owe, I'd lose the world,
'IIP • !A' Or win a world in thee I
"dilw tea! thou shah be my Fehr star,
O'er youth's bewildering tide,
•11i.'!e Iwfdr<of promised bliss afar, •
1111 'bright and beaming guide !
My gauntlet's down, &e.
• BON G:•--Roesozr..

?sulk be minor proud;
erigliSbefore k,
"4 "T•Like itif cloud, • • •
Pandas breaks o'er it!
• Bet loin the shower, - •
On leaf and Sower,
~61(191Ittees in beams more bright than ever; • • .
• So shines the tear
Of doubt and fear,
When Fortune crowns Love's food endeavour!
SONG—Jaaaz.
4 That wedlock's divine, •
lih.ty be all 'very Sue
When a man has his happines' handy;
Bat Wedlock like mine,
It on trod to disw,
dr a mater i 1 h Without brandy !
lieights! bifiyri lot that it ever should fall,
addle-bridn dunce, ,
Thus to wed all at wee,
And no bride-cake, no honey-moon, no noddies at all!
Al for the and my her,
• We are much sucha pair,
a As two ointint eyes, or fodorner, •
nut OW*
LIAM *Ole g the nese;
And one for a twist round atio.cesner !
• • . Height). beighe,

SLAPS TRADfir AN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

. 1.4 S. ' •
FROM THE EIGMTILDEPHIREFAIIT. OF THE DIREC-
TORS OF THE AFRICAN INSTMTION. •
At the very close of lair flesiiinwiit compliance
with an Address moved-by Mr. Wit.litiirpacir., a Inge
mpg of pipers on the subject of the Pgireign Slave
rade.wle bad before Parliament. The. Directors . will
endeavocr to ccmprest into as brief a arks as possible
the most material parts of the itiformaiiiiM which these'
japers convey, and which may not have been antici-
pated in their last Report; combining with it, as
tbdrpikieemir any fresh intelligence which may have
reached them. SPAIN.

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It is eofii inadelhe law of Spain, that pll Captains,
al tern, add Pildts of Spanish vessels, '*ho purchase
14,1egroes on the coast of Allies. or introduce them into
terry part of the Spanish monarchy, or are found withi
slaves on board their vessels, shall lose their vessels, and
be sentenced to ten years hard labour on the public.
works,, fir into be 'regretted that tisem,Petialties shoild
be so limited in their operation. Theysught to extend
.4
tb I Spanish subjects engaged in the flare Trade is'
'pals oi agents.
.t.
e letteas of the British. Cominiumpert at the. Ha-,
vianaah, however, clearly shew, that, notwithstanding
thiy law, 'ranching has beep effectunlirdone to prevept
the importation of slaves into the. Weinsistof ;Cuba. "In
the present defective item of the Spa ' law," they say,'
writing'op the 22d Of July, 1822, 4 it is not surmising
tbat.such transactions should be carried on with impu•
pity: Your Lordship is aware, that the Decree'Of his
Catholic Majes.A., issued in consequence of our Slave
'Vide Treityoe conceived in the most loose and vague
terms. Its, execution is not committed to, any particu
tar department, and is thereon begyretellky all. And,
abate allt, no reward is offered, tdeinfortner ; m that;
in tiiis,kontrahand traffic, Whichias the nsOst opityik c*r.
tied on, and in the continuation of which almost every:
man in the island is interested, no recompence is granted
for its detection, although in all other iinuggling trans-
actions the Judge and the informer. both reeeiecconsi-.
iferable shares of the confiscated, property. It is proba-
ble, therefore, that, so long as the law in qtiestion re-
mains unaltered, it will continue, as hitherto, to be al
were dead letter."
.`4! • 'Again, on the 22d of August,lB22:—.4ilt is scarcely
. necessary to point out to your lootdship now entirely
unproductive of any advantage have been the represen-
titions which, upon various occasions, we have made
to the chief authority of the island. We have been al-
ways well received, and redress, as Car as it was practi-
cable, pronsisedst- but the illicit Slave Trade increases,
ands daily carried on more systematically."
Under the date of the 22d of January, 18243, they
add'..;-..,4Tbe illicit trac in slaves with this island his
cei tainly diminished within the last few months; but we
have' no hesitation in giving it as our opinion, that this
diminution ij to be attributed solely to the general dis-
tress, as well agricultural as commercial, which has
existed here for some time, and by no means to any in-
creased exertions on the part of the authorities for the
suppression of the traffic."
The importation of slaves into Cuba is chiefly effected,
ender the French and Portuguese flags. But, notwith-
. standing the risks attending it, and the Fecal inflictions
denounced against it, the Spanish flag also is still em-
ployed in this proscribed traffic. And,in proportion to the
risks, the desperate audacity of the criminals appears
to have increased. They proceed, strongly armed, to
ciirt y on their work of blood and rapine on the coast;
and some of them have not been captured without a se-
vere conflict with the British boats, attended by the loss
of lives, and involving the guilt of murder and piracy.
The records of the Mixed Commission Court of
Sierra Leone, during the year 18242, exhibit six cases of
Spanish ships condemned for slave-trading. In addition
to theie, the Sierra Leone Gazette specifies several Spa-
nish slave ships which had been detained by his Ma-
jesty's cruisers, in 1825; and several more, evidently
the "Property of Spaniards, but which were protected
6GM capture by the Plena: flag. One of these cases is
thus alluded to in the Sierra Leone Gazette of .the Lida
October, 1825:
441 n oste last. we mentioned that a Spanish vessel,
tinder French colours, was purchasing slaves at Shebar.
With the deepest feelings of horror and pain we now
hare to acquaint our readers, that we have since re-
ceived information that her anchoring off Shebar has
been followed with the usual scenes of blood inseparable
from such a criminal traffic. The natives who reside
about fOrty miles in the interior (the Comous) bein
anxious to open a communication with the sea, in order
to receive rum, powder, dr muskets, on easy knee, have
accordingly moved down in large nuinhers, etrying
fire and devastation with them. Eight v4lages 'have
been destroyed: the peaceable inhabitants wiso,did not
perish in_the ferocious attacks have bden Made slaves;
and such as nem fit for market werebartered and sold
to the European villain who tonstrixiidi the vessel, Who
styles himself, sometimes I.‘coniieur linguine, at other'
times, Don Jonguillo." This'petsoo' it is added, has,
within eighteen months, by means of this nefarious as-