The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-02-09
From the Washington Globe.
MOVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

From, the Washington Globe.. .
MOVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN
The European powers are all inclined to be
very philanthropic and charitable from home
France, Russia, Austria, and the other cont.
nentals are willing to unite with Great Britain
IN rive freedom to Africa out of Africa. But
France will not (accordng to the late speech Of
Louis Philippe) relinqush the DOMINION OF the
sword in that part OF it called Algiess. Nor VIII
England Weld her foothold on the soil of that
continent nor the design to subject the products
and the people of it to her power as she. has
done those of Asia Austria and Russia keep
the woke upon the neck of their own3serts, and
vet with wonderful humanity they surrender
slavery on. the high seas to be dealt with accord
ing to the sovereign pleasure OF Great Britain,
as manifested in her laws:
aTpr.Ty OF FIVE NATIONS AGAINST THE
SLAVE TRaDE,-The London Spectator of a
late date says: San important historical event
occurred in London on Monday week, when the
representatives of France, Austria, Prussia,
and Russia, signeda treatyrwth Great Britain,
in which the four foreign powers agreed to adopt
the English laws against the slave trade
Those laws declare the actual engagement in
the trade to be piracy, and the embarking OF
capital in it to be felony. All the powers mu-
tually grant to each other the right of search
into vessels bearing theirfag." -"
The laws of Great Britain against the slave
trade are but the copy of our own. Slave inn
portation was first inhibited, after certain peri
cd, by the Constitution of the United States,
and the act of Congress made the slave trade
statutory piracy. The United States does not
choose, howerar, SS,o contide the execution
of her laws to Great Britain. In this she diff
fers from the holy allies, who, it seems, are
willing to make one of their brethren judge and
executioner of their laws. The United States
will not trust Great Britain with a jurisdiction
over her ships and seamen. That Power has
given this country foretaste of the manner in
which she exerts authority on the decks Of our
ships Thousands of our brave tars have been
fully impressed with all the horrors of African
slavery in British shps-a bondage infinitely
aggravated by the scnsblity of the sufferers,
who were sometimes driven under the lash 10
work the guns Of their captors to slaughter
their own countrymen and kindred.
Great Britain, in Consequence of having an
ascendency by her superior naval force in every
sea, if permitted to take in her own hands a
Jurisdiction over the ships of all other nations,
would, under pretence of suppressing the slave
trade, in effect, secure to her subjects not only
monopoly of it, but what she really seeks to
accomplish, a monopoly of the commerce Of
the coasts of Africa. Americans would surren-
der the whole legitimate commerce of Africa,
rather than subject their ships, and sailors, and
merchandise to British abuses in the shape of
searches and adjudicatiens. That Great Britain
would effectually stihe the trade under all other
flags but her own, is not to be doubted. But
this would only increase the traffic and the pro-
fits of it to her own people-and add to this IL
lct gain, the advantage of monopoly of the fair
commerce of that continent.
How Great Britain executes her law against
her own slave dealers, will be seen from the
following, which we copy from the Baltimore
American of Saturday last.
ave published in November last an extract
from Rio Janeiro letter to merchant of this
city, saying: The English are supplying, as
wanted, goods for Africa. ANY slave dealer can
get as many goods sent direct from Eng land tot
Angola, on order hence, as he would pay for
To the same effect and still more comprehen-
sively the following extracts tend, from memo
rial submitted to Parliament not long since by
the associstion at the head of which is Sir Tho
mas Fowell Buxton:
"That your petitioners would call the atten-
ton of your Right Hon. House to the fact, that
there have been formed at different periods du-
ring the last fifteen years, various mining COM
panies in this country, with large capitals at
their disposal, who carry on their operations in
the empire of Brazil, or in the Spanish Island
of Cuba; that their mines are worked principal
ly by slaves purchased by the agents of the
that the greater part, If not the
whole, of these victims of oppression have been
illcitly imported into these countries since the
period when such importations were declared
contraband, felonious or pratical. and, as your
petitioners are informed, and believe, still con-
trive to purchase newly imported Africans, to
supply the wastes of mortality, or to meet the
other exigencies of their establishment.
"Your petitioners lament to say that officers
of her Majesty,s army and navy as well IS
functonares in the civil service, have accepted
in connection with these compan-
les, and they are informed and believe that
such persons have been the agents employed in
the purchase of slaves on account OF the same.
"Your petitioners call the attention of your
right honorable House to the fact, that banking
companies, with large funds at their disposal,
have also been formed in this country, and that
they either have already formed, or are in pro-
cess of forming branch establishments in coun-
tries where the slave trade is carried on, or
slavery in all its horrors exists. -
,"Your petitioners grieve 10 say that there are