Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-08-05
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SLAVE TRADE-VERONA.

Presented TO both Houses the British Parli,ment
The trtlotring Extracts
No The Duke oi Wellington tn Mr. Secre,ar,
S'"ning, dt''d Pans, 2l- September, 1929 Re-
cetved tlic 2iih.
| have taken opportunity OF talking TO the
Aiench hin'ster respecting the slave trade and Of
nreng hm 10 adopt some effcctun measures for lis
reprtssion.
He stated that the king and the French govern
hen. "f,e sincerely anxious 10 put an end to this
tr'hc but hey could DEVISE measures 10 pro.
"nce That etrct, which tney could hone would he
adopted that the measure so often recommended IN
Their attention hy the Brush Ambassador AZ this
c"nri' That OF attaching a Peine InJImunte 10 TIE
c"hv'cton OF this crime" would he Inefficient even
passed uto law. He SAID that h. coulJ mo-, con-
ce' from me the fact HAT the aboiion OF the slave
trade was Unpopular IN France and he begged me
70 Observe, that The existing law for the ahoon oil
lie slave trade was the only law had ever pass
ell lhc legislature without discussion.
'rep'Ied mat did not tiiak we called upon
10 puini oni To tsem the measures which they ought
10 aWpp ~ order To carry into execution their own
eIgagrn'. sis Thar slated the measures which
hH, peen found the effectual in England and
elsewhere, aud we certainly had reason to complain
II no measures we're adopted 10y France To carry m
To- execution her engagements, the decree OF the
hing, and the law OF the country
Ahe trcnch minister said, that they had done, and
"ou'd no. a." IN heir power that they maintained
cruisers on The coast of Africa, aud off Madagascar
1r no purpose, except 10 check ihrs traffic TO whic
they were sincerely DESTROYS to pot IN end
told nun maj should certainly draw the alien
sress as they, equally with ourselves, were anxious
for The total abolition of This fr,ific.
No. ii-Mr Secretary Canning TO the Dnke of Wei
IIugor.
FoREiGH OFFICE, Der l. 1928
Alter dwelling Mt considerable irngb on The diff.
cuhirs presented by the refusal of France Mr. Can
ming says
Al present, whatever may have been the adyan-
ta5e or disadvantage 10 the British colonies IL Is
much 90 he feared tlai, Africa, the abuli,iun by
GreN Britain has been injury rather than gain The
slave trade, so far fToa, hepg diminished in extent
by the exact amount of what in former tim es h e
bri'isb demand ~, upon The whole, perhaps gtehter
than II was NJ the period when that demand was the.
highest; aud the aggregate OF human sulferings aud
Uie waste OF human LIE, in the transport of slaves
from The coast OF Africa to the COLONIES are cTeas
ed 10 y ratio enormously greater tlan the increase
oil positive numbers IL would seem us II those who
cortlnne THIS ahominablc traffic, had a malicious
pleasure in defeating te ca culAons OF benevolence
aud ~ V'suing nrnn the innOcen, victims of their
avarIce, the uitiess endcavors 10 rescue those VIC
tuS irnn their power.
Unhappy, IT canDoi ne denied, that our very a,.
te0,ps AT prevention, Imperfect as they yet are IN
der he treaties which now nuthniiZe our ;n,s TO-.
Hence, lend 10 the augmentation of This evil The
dread OF detection suggests expedieAts of conceal
mep' productive Of the most dreadful sufi.rirgs IA ,
cargo, with respect 10 which, 1t hardly ever seems 10
occur 10 ils remOrseless owners that il consists ol
seHir"i hp'ngS. Inc numbers put Oh board, in earl,
venture, are so Tar rom being propnrionpd TO the
proper capurlty of the vessel, that the probable mo
hts oi each voyage nourIousiy calculated nnIv ON
The survivors aud the mortality is accotdinol Is
trighuul to degree unknown since the attention
Of mankind WAS first called the horrors OF ibis
traffic.
To these enormous, and I am afraid, even crcw-
ing evils, we have nothing 10 ovpnse hot tke deel
raioo oi The congress ht Vienna our treaties with
op"n ahd I've Netherlands atolishing the trade
dchniiSey and totally aud tbu With Portugal les.
iucing lie Portuguese slave trade to The south Of
che Lise.
n +, fhr truth (ho,versr Imrnt,I,ls M, ;o.o:,, ,
that, by me iestlnopy Of The French government ~
sel, here IS no public Geeng-none on this suliec,
Us France, which responds ~ the smallest degree ia
~" sentiment prevalent ~ Englnnd-- no crcdl, il
gwen 10 The people, or 90 the legislature or Ibis com.
iy iur sincerity ~ those sentiments that onr apxie,
upon fhe matter is attributed TO q calculation of ma
UUnl interest and that q new law, formed ON 8,
proposition from Eng land for iesricl lions on the
illicit slave trade, would, this moment, be drown
9u' B." toe legislature Of France.
The principal adyoyiapcs, then 10 be derived from,
he union OF sovereign To- the cause Of tho tbolitiou
9Ipear 90 resolve themselves in these two -
It, ~ engagement or the part oi the cput,ne otal
sosne r1s, m'rk .he'- athprrrnce Of thu. accpr.
Ell rs hy refusing admission into their douintcns
Oi The produce Of 'ponie, belonging to The poyers
WI" have not abolished, Or who VIGOROUSLY continue
the slave irnde
-. declaration On Tire names II oossiblc Of the
whole alliance (; bat, " France should decline bepg
psriy 10 n, thea H the names nf the three other
powcfs, renewing The denunciafion Of the congress
~ btenua and exporting the maritime movers q bo
hive abolished the slave trade TO concert measures
anhng themselves Tor prpclimins and treating H. as
fuacy With view 90 founding, upon the aggregate
81 such srp4f 90 crgagemcnis bftween stfe u state
general engagement 10 be incOTpOratrd info tb.
rnhDc iaw oi he civilized world.
Such declaration. ~ u assumed no bindiag force
Wocf MOI 70" obnoEious |U tho charges whif wOpld
attach TO % ifclarafIur ~ 0ew public law by an
mrnwpe'rn.au'hDrii!, while, az The same iin,r. re