The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-02

councils and condnc. Of the BRAZILIAN government
respecting slavery, whether accelerated by sas active
Parliament TO repeal shat act, as intimated IN his
lordship's letter 81 the "a July, 1917
IT, As respects the slave trade Of SPAN IN
1883, when the committees nilde their report,
trade by the large importation Of slaves; bat tlat
trade was reported to have csysed IN CODA. NJ.
Kennedy, the cOnimissaiy judge al Havana, IN
MS yearly report OF the 10th December, ls4s, In
forms Lord Palnersto Gil 81. the Efforts OF her Ma
iestys government for the suppression OF tue slave
trade 10 that Island had been attended with FIJI
cess That lie considered himself com etens 20
speak positively of Cuba. where there seems - be
decidedly cessation OF The slave trade
H. Mr.. Crawford, thes British consul at Havana,
however in his letter OF the Sth of April, 1851 re-
ports the renewal Of the trade since 1873 and states,
that negroes have been Introduced at various places
along the coast OF the island with the most perfect
immunity, and there is too much reason to believe,
with the knowledge OF the Spanish a u locities and
with the most public notoriety.
zig. pur' committee request attention TO the evil
dence u Captain C0spatrck Baile Hamilton, OF
her Msiestys ship yestal, as to his late pro
ceedings at Havana, where he captdred four YES
ses.nnder circumstances which appear 10 have made
strong impression On the Spanish authorities there.
H:als0 reports tie great pRJttc'fy TINT clsts TO
he cdffying Of tte sioue trade ~ Tie isLtad; that
slace ressefs bare been ftteR oW undcr dc guns of
Spaa'sh ships II rar; that great t,sciltscs are AZ
orded 10 The importation Of 2egroes, as, nhcn oace
uHutdg rs WecItu, DfY are cOHstCefes as Mattress
and thai steam resSels, employed az carrying Ae go
reFnnieat mails Prom lo1f 10 port haze bes" eSea ~
land sLares.
He states, further, that the great number Of Ame-
rcan ships trading TO Havana, and the abuses oil the
American tlag increase the difficulties OF Her Ma
iesy cruisers that station in the visiting OF sus
pecred vessels; and it appears from his evidence,
that some more cordial cooperation on the part Of
the United States would materially assist the efforts
to abolish the slave trade in that quarter.
IS. Mr.. Kennedys evidence before the committee
deserves particular attention, and will account fully
for the alterations that have taken place IN the slave
trade Of Cuba at different periods.
The history gire,s BY Inn Of The corat,ct 81 screa
Captains General dirag Tie tbutseai gears
he resided al H0roaa, has satisfied yosr comm Hce
that the stare trade has Increased or decreased
Cuba, according TO the conduct the C0ptaia ocse
raj ana other pttotic officers.
ltwa notorious, Mr.. Kennedy states that mp to
the year ls40 the Captain CT ri of Cu5a received
fee OF bait doubloon for every slave introduced
into the island and therefore the tra1e fourshed;
that during the two years and a hall OF General
Naldes government, from lS40-4l to 1913, the fees
bad been refused by him. and the trace having at
the same time been forbidden, had nearly ceased;
but that from the arrival Of General ODonnell, in
lsf3 the fee raised To three doao0ons FOL each
slave imported and was received by him all the
time he was there; that the same fee has continued
to be received since that time by some Captains
General but not by all. In 1850 General C0ncha
was six or eight months there, an made known his
determination not accept any fees; aod ne also
took active measures 10 pat down the trade, but he
was soon recalled, and II generally Understood
that his recall was owing to the measures which he
had taken to put down the slave trade.
90. Ofber scitdeSSeS haze stated to The committee
thai ii lras quite notorious at Har0aa tot money
,rGS taken By The public o6cers Of al ranks, fran NE
Captain General dotcaacards, for their coftsiUQnce
az tie troc ~ siares and further thai c0p,tai, no
tortcnSy belonging TO SpaTi1ards Of great distlnc-
ton az Maarta, nas employed to curry on Tint raj-
be. M iv.f Yha .nfip IF IF
rank and station at Madrid was believed TO have
been sufficiently powerful to procure the recl of
honest officer that thus the Spanish government
have been induced to violate their treaties, and to
suffer these persons to obtain large profits by the
continuance of that detestabe traffic.
Il. Your committee refer to the evidence Of Mr..
Ward, Of the Foreign Office, and TO the various dOcu
ents presented to him, for the dates and details OF
the attention Of the British government since the
convention signed at Vienna in 1915 for the aboli
ton Of the slave trade.
%. II is painful to have to refer to the conduct
of Spain ia violation Of its treaties and obligations
for the suppression Of the slave trade: but your
committee must call the special attention Of the
House to the able and important despatch Of the Earl
Of Aberdeen TO Mr.. Bulwer, dated the 3lst OF
December, 1913, in which all the treaties and sti-
pnlatious of the Spanish government to put down
the slave trade since the treaty concluded in 1917
are detailed: the payment by Great Britain oil
large sum to Spain in full compensation for all losses,
laticns OF the engagements of the Spanish govern
ment are most ably narrated in detail, and placed in
the strongest light before them.
u. Your committee are Of opinion that history
does not reeoTd more dec6ied b. each of natio,al
hon on than that letter Of the Earl # dberdeea e'tab
Eshes against SPAN The efforts Of Viscount
Pamerston, IN subsequent years. to induce the
Spanish government to fulfil their engagements APP
pear in every despatch of that noble lord, and IL
would be supernuous to detail them; but the late
correspondence, in 1851 between Lord Hosden and
the Spanish minister requesting the Spanish govern
ment only to declare the slave trade to be piracy,
as the United States and the Brazilian governments
have done, must not pass unnoticed; aud as that
single and moderate request Of the British govern
mept disregsrded there IS little hope that
Justice will prevail with the Spanish government
to abolish the trade more especially ii the cores
pondence since the 3ls OF July, ls53 of Lord John
Russell and the Earl Of Clarendon with Lord How
den, ard the answers Of the Count of Alcoy, the
Spanish Minister, TO the representations of the
British government, be considered. But it is only
Just to add that Mr. Crawford, Her Msestys Consul
General at Havana, in his last dispatches dated
the 2lst and 18th Of June 1853 reports that there
Is manifest difference in the measures adopted BY
the government Of Cuba TO check the alarming extent
Of the slave trade
"A. The committee Of the Lords stated that 10
their judgment it worthy OF consideration wheth-
er the three great inaratiIne powers France the
United States, and Great Britain--coud not at the
present time, be brought to combine in joint repre-
-entatons and, if need be, active measures for OBJ
tanning from Spain and Brazil au actual suppression
OF this traffic
% The Brazilian government have rendered any
such measure unnecessary, SO far regards Brazil;
but as regards Cuba it i matter of great surprise
that while Spain i at tits time indebted to England
and France for their efforts 70 form a trpartte con
yer ton with the United States, in order TO protect
C7ba from pratcal attacks the government Of Spain
should not take warning from the fact that one of
the alleged by the government Of the United
States for not joining that convention, the continue
ance Of the slave trade in that island.
Mr.. Everett, in his letter, dated Washington De-
cember 1852, to Mr. Champion, the British Minis
ter ct Washington, writes, :" rW b,W al,.de 10 an
eel of the first ma gntude, mean tie african stare
trade, In tho suppression of rhich England and
Frame take Hroyitrest, m srR inhtch aW trims
n grcot reTroocl upon the ciriliS0tion Of CUiSt,a
dem, and perpetNotes tie JorbariSN Of Ifrico bit
for nhich, IS to 10 feaTed, there IS hope ofa
yiete remedy ,chIe Cpbo rem0fns Spanish colony"
%. Commander Bunce. Of the Castor frigate, en-
pioyed in the Mozambique Channel for the last three
years, states that the Portuguese sovereignty ex-
tends FOR about fifteen hundred miles on the east