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At the very close of the last Session, in compliance withi an ad- dress moved by Mir. Wilberforce, a larce mass of pap"r' on te subectof he oregn iav..rade waslid before Parliament. The Diretor wil-edeaour o cmprss ntoas bref space as possible' themos maeril prtsof he nfomatonwhicht these papers con- vey,and hichmay ot hve ben aticiated in their last Rteport ; cominig ithit asthy poced,an frshintelligence which moay SPAIN. It is now made the law of Spain, that all captains, masters, anti Pilots Of S~IanIishi vessels, wilo purchase neKroes on the coast of Africa, or introduce them inito any part of' the Spanish trionarchy,or are founid with slaves on board their vessels, &hall lose their vessacis, and be sentenceed to ten years' hard labour on the public works. It LIs to be regretted that these penalties should be! so limited in their operation. They ought to extend to all Spanish subjects engaged in the slave..trade, as- principtals or agerts. The letters of the British ColMmissioneCrs at the Ilavannah, hiow- ever, clearly show, that niotwithstandling thiis law, nothing hias bieenl effectually donie to prevent the importation of slaves into the islanld of Cuba. I- In the pyrerent defective state of the Spanish law," they say, writing on the 22d of July, 1822, "6it is not surprisiing that suchi transactions should be carried oni with impunity. Your Lurdship is aware, that thie dlecree of his Catholic Majesty, issued in consequenice of our slave trade tr-eaty, is conceived' in the most loose and vague terms. Its exeeution isi not commritted to any par- ticularl department, and is therefore neglected by all ; and, ahove all, no rewvartd is off'ered to the informer : so that in this contraband traffic, which is the msost eas-il carried on, and in the continuation of which almost every 'man in th e island is interested, no recompense is granted for its detection, although in all other smuggling transac- tions thejudge and the informner both receive considerable shiares ot' the confisc-ated property. It is probable, therefore, that so long as the law in questiorn remnains unaltered, it will continue, as hithlerto, to be a mere tclad letter." Under the ctate of thec 23dl of' January, 18-23, they add-", The illicit traffic of slaves with thist isand lias certainily diminis'ited within the last fewimonthis; but we have no hesitation in givig it as our oIiniron, that this dimiinution is to be attributed sole2y" t the geea Citres,,, as well agricuiltural ascornmercial, which has exist- ed here for somec time. and by no means to any increased exertions oni the part of thie autliorities4ot-r the suppression of the traffic." 'rhe inmportation of slavYes into Cuba is chiefly eff,cted under the French and Portuguese flags. But, notwithst-anding the ri;sks at- tending it, and the penal inflictions denounced against it,the Spanish flag also is still emiployed in this proscribed traffic. And, In pro- portion to the risks, the desperate audacity of the criminals appears to hiave increased. They proceed strongly armed to carry on their work of rapine and blood on the coast-, and some of them have not been captured without a severe conflict with the British boats, at- tended by the loss of lives, aind involving all the guilt of mnurder and pirucy. O T'A, During the year 1822, thirteen Portuguese slave-ships, having on board upwards of 1700 sIlaves, were condemned at Sierra Leone, for trading in slaves north of the Line. Somne of the cases involved perjuries without entI, and atrocities of the most outrageous and re- voltinig kind, and implicated in the guilt atteniding them~ Portuguese funzctionarm'es on the coast of Af'rica of' the very highest class ; anid all of the cases afrorded proofs of the most reprehensible disregard, on the pars of' the Brazilian authiorities, of the stipu latiens of thie treaties wvith duis country. The licences gr-anted to these shtips per- nitLted thiem, while their destination was declzredI to be Africa s4outh of the Line, to visit St. Thomas's, Cameroons, Calabar, &c. whichi no mnotive could be assignied for their visiting bitt that of carrying on ani illicit .lave-trade. Nay, thie authorities in Birazil appear tco have conicarred with the conti-abandists, in givingc fictitious namnes to places north o-f the Line, borrowed front place southi of the Line. for the pur-tose of deceiving the British cruisers and thie Mtixed Commission (ora The name of Mtolembo, a place south of the Line, to which the Portuguese slave-traile is still pexiiiitted, has- been transferred, for this profligate purpose, to) a place near Onim in thie Bigh tof Benin. In the case of one vespsel, thie Cande dc Vlilla FLor, taken with 172 slaves ott board, it was fally proved "1 that the Governor of Bir.sno was hiimself an interested participator int the jilegal einbarkatioti of slaves, a certaini nun iber of the slaves being his property ; some of' thiem beingr entered is the mieiusoranda as shipprd and received fromi his officia residence_-sq if all decency was cast off fronm the Govern- mnent of the settlement." Stich is thec strong, but mnost appropriate, language of the Juxdge of the Mlixed (Gominission Court. The ex- amninations in thit case develop the miost comiplicated tissue of frau- rtiuent expedlients fo)r defeating the ends of justice ; among thema, tkbicaed og-ook, ehibtin a oyae frtsm the Brazil, to Cabenda, by wy o th Cae deVere, henthereal destination was Bissao; and cheule pontin ou th brbesby which the connivance of' the udg, Gvernr, c.,wasto b seure atthe pqre of dissluarge in te Bazil. Tis vsse hadalrady adeseveral very Success- ful anid gainful voyages tinder the shelr oftese Ingenious cxpe. dienits. Tue Owner, in ooe of' his letters, declaed his intentioni ol putting an end by this voyage to his couirse of' slave-trading, as, provided," fie says, "1 tha t it were the ple-asure of thie Ahinight-. that every thing slinLuld be placed in safety, they- would ha"ve reaped a good harvest." In constequence, it mnay be presumed, of' his cap- ture on this occasion, which prevented hiis gathering the fruits he had antie cipted, he appears, by the Sierra Leonae Gazette. to have re- turnieilto tuie coast in the succe.eding year, and to have sucessfull)y eff'ected another voyage. T1he Directors wvill gEive the particulars of'only one other case. Tue Portuatuege schooner-boat San Josr X"daca, belonging to a lady ot Prince's Island., the daughiter of Gotnez, formerly the Governor, and still a miemiber of the Governing Junta of that islandi, though on~lly of the burden of seven tons, Wa sent to Calabar for slaves Thirty slaves8 were poxrchasted, and having been put on board the boat, it made sail for Prince'si Island. But the voyage proved tedious,pro- visions began to, fail, and the allowance 'of food was red'uced to one yam, daily for tivo slaves. At last the provisions and water wholly failed. Tett slaves perished, and the whole musit have shard teir ate hadnotdie es: lgo back to Calabar, after hay. ingbee si weks t sa. he urvvig staves were iii the most bewn~e ~( ?~r,besde thir riationis, they were manxc'le togeher an copedup tt veselOt nly seven tons burden ; hiav- ingno heler ittwht culdbe ffodedbythe space between the watercas and thie deck, a space of sven inces! Our Govenent made use of these and other circumstances, as they occurred, to press upon Portugal, with an earnestness that does the highest credit to its zeal in this cause, the necessity of a more vigorous enforcement of her own laws,4 and of her treaties withi this country; but apparently with little eff'ect. Some! fresh articles, in- deced, were at length agreed to, similar to thos adopted by Spain and the iNetherlanids, for ealargIng the power of cruisers ; but they have iiot yet been ratified. On the separation of Brazil from the mnother counrtrv, Air. fan. ninig lost no time in representing to the Portug-uese Governiment, that there could now remain no pretence for refusing entirely to abo- lish the slave-tracle. It had brett prolonged by Portug-al solely for thec sake Oh. Brazil ; and it now onily remained to prohiibit it en- tirely-, under the Portuguese fla-g, to due south as wall as to thie iiorth of the Line. To this application, however the most peremptory ne- gative wals given;, and a threat was even 'held out, that if (TIreat Britain should proceedI on this principle, Portugal would at once considter all her treaties with Great Britain as null and void. The necetssity of continuing the traffic was also miaintained, on a ground whichi until now hiad never been urged, or even heard of, and whlich is unfounded in point ot f'act; namely, that the slave-trade is re- quired for supplying, not Brazil, which, it is now discovereil, does not neeti them, hut its other African and Asiatic possessions, with labourers. XVhiat conduct mr.y lave been, pursued by the Brazilian Govern. moint ot, this subject, is not k-nown ; but, undoubtedly, that ptr- suedl by Portugal is calculated to produce the mos indignant feel- ings in every- humane anid liberal miind. In the year 182~2, it appears that 28,246 slaves were imported into Rio de Jaiieiro alone, from the coast of Africa The number em- barked had been 31,240,-3,4h34 having die-d on the passage. In one vessel, containin 492 aslaves, 19 a id in another, containiing 631, 213 had de;iathr, containing 418, 215 hadA died, &.c. The number imported into Bahia, in the samie year, was upwa~rds of 8,000. FRANCE. TIhe largest chapter in thit calamiitous detail niiust be given, it is to be feared, to France. The rernonstrance to that Power hiave been frequently and urgently. but unavailingly, renewed by- Sir C-harles Stuart, our AMinister at Paris. A few extracts fromi these remonastnences. while they will prove she vigilance of our Govern- mient, and of their representative at Paris, will afford, at the sanie tinte,I an instruzctive view of the mnanner in which Fraiice has ful- filled her engzagements. On the 7th of April, 1822, he thus addresses the Count de Villele: " A succession of fresh ouitrages renders it again my duty to oh- serve to your Excellencey, that the pledge given to his Britan'Dc Mla- jesty by ithe King of France, for cite effiectuald abolition of' the slave- trade, reirtaint unredeetuted. "1A t a moment wlhen the enactments of cite American andI Spaniish Legislatures have sihown, the cordial inclination of those nationis to concur in measures for the attaininent of an obiect so iniportant to hiumanity, the official advices received by his Britannic Mlajestv's G overmnent from- Sierra Leone, dated iii January, prove that this dletestable traffic still exists in feill activity on the African coast, co- vereci ar d protected by the flag of' France. "1During the months of july anti August last, the leeward coast being visited by British cruisiers, three French s3ave-tradcrr, as by theencose lit, eremetwid an eamined in the Calabar river. "Ac he ameperod,therivr Bnnywas fouind swanning withi slav-trtles; nd ourExcllecy s frnished with a list of the veselswhih ausd ad dsgrcedth French fla; four having "Onthelie o castbetee Sirr Leneand Cape Mfount, one of his Britannic Majesty's vessels,drn cruisie only of ten days, fell1 in with nine F"renchb slave-taes fwhieh I likewise transmit your Excellency the names. "1Though these facts sufficiently show your Excellency the ad- vantage taken or' the inadequacy of the regulations of France to p t a stop to thiis odious traffic, there are other cases in uiticih particulars cannot be obtained. Accounts of undoubted authority, aundf recent date, frornt the fatctory of the Gallina,-, state, that in the course ot last suTmmer, three slave-vessels under Frenchi colourst were lyin in that port ; that a large siave-veseel, fully lader., had saile froin Sbebar under the same 6ag, ten daya before ; and that atbout the saine time, in the river Pongas a F~renchi sclloaner, M1. Dees, mas- tion in large vessels, an extensive carrying trade is kept us witb the Cape de Verd islands, principally by tise small craft belonging to Gorce and Senegal. " There seems, indeed, to be scarcely a spot on that coast which does not show traces of the slave-trade, witi all its attendant hor- rors ; tor, the arrival of a slave ship in sny of the rivers on the windward coast being the signal for war betweeR the naeaive, the hanrlets of the weaker party are burnt, and the miserable survivors carried and sold to the slave-traders. 't It is clearly ascertained, by inquiries made on the spot, and on the adjacent coast, by His Majesty's cruisers, tust the number of slave cargoes taken out of the river Bonny in the preceding, year amounted actually to 190; and a similat return from the CaQabar, for the like period, made a total, for that river alone, of 162. " 1 have received the express commands of the King mny master, to address to the Government of his Alost Christian Majesty an urgent representation of these distressing facts, which, if they prove any thing,prove that wherever theFrencli flag appears,protection and impunity are granted to the slave-trader; and that the abuse of the laws cLiacted in France against this traffic, notwithstanding time alle- gations of the party disposed to encourage th: mischief, afford prae. tical examnples of the consecueoces which m ust result from this evil, by occasioning encenacoments on the territories of friendly powers in Africa, and exciting bloody rars among the natives. " T?he magnitude of the cvil mtst compel the French Govern. ment now to determine, whether they will refuse to cxecute their en- gggements, and sit down unuder the inoputation of bseing the Potr7r to' whom all those interezied in such a cause tur their eyes as she avowed protector of this commere ;or 'vindi&ate their charactefr ~T good faithi and hlumanity in the eyes of' the rest ef the world, by as- similating their legislation to that of' those-ciuntries which have else greatest interest in maritime aud coloniall affilts." Similar rerronstrarceswere subsequently. mace; - arsleti lar, the remarkable fact was poiinted ourtotheFntij. V, inent, that, notwitlistiandin all the profcssions that hatd%se, -maide. of dsie-t rprss heslve-rae,the, Comamodowe ZMau&ur Do lesis,cOm'StidflgtheFrechnaval force on the ouast-of Africa had eclard tha he hd no httrutionts fromn hit, superior* whih athrizd hm o sizean Frnch&Vselglough ifes?b'k board. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ hd,~at dve cua.lly, on The replies of thec Frenc Minister iqw-'thiee rernonstranme aw, partic-ularlv deserving ofntc.They waPbe found,to he anything but satisfactosy. In Otbr1822, Al. &e Villele remacks~:" up to the presenf timne, th igsGovermin-cit ha-d iauagined tlhit It had sufficiently* prove th imresolution it had always enrtertliied ofrepressing that odious tiuffic. The severity which it nar displayed,- whenever it tias been possble to bring it to cOnvictiona, wvould anpear to remove all doubt on this subject In this res-,pect, I hlOer. fore abstain from enlarging upon the refutation of auegati~wih I repeat, are already sufficiently disproved, no less byitaton than by its well-known resolutions. I do not deny ta ceresir avaricious speculators miay have riskedl such expeditions in defiance of the laws; but these are' only infrmctionls, surh as no GToverment can ltoethr peven an pehap itmight not be imPoasible for it ns ugdnecessary to ensutre, in teme feta anr h executo of its own arrngemenmts withradtonobe,teim portance of which it duly appreciates." Again, on the 22-d of November, l822-" .1 hiave received, with the letter which your Excellency did me the hon.our to address to, me, the list of Vessels whlich appear to have been engaed in the slave-trade during thte first months of the present ;yar at must be cmntiessed, that among them are to be found certain krertch Vessels, thloughn they ncverform thenmajoritv. This circum,tance,whic~',doubt- less, has not es-caped yor ExcellenCy's notice, wHi sierve to toy vymca you that the King's Govern~mettt is not neglectful of any mesasre,' Or surveillance which lie within its power, in oeder worepresstbiaodoI.,,,s traffic. Several severe examples which have been made, and punisfh-' slnents whiich hiave been decreed against rthor,e who have engaged thierein, have already proved tdint the French Government is ] earnest on the subject than that of England."noe- I have lost no timie in Fubmitting to thel Minister of Mar'in e the obs,ervations which your Excellenev transmnitted to me, relative et the measures adopted in England with respect to such versels at, without actually having slaves on beard, shall appear by their construction to be intended for this kInd of trade. I doubt nat that these measL,ures will receive a stri-ct examination on the paft of ther AMarquis cle Clermnont-Tonnerre, since they may be made to pro- mote the means of' repression." A few observations seem to be called for by the statements of Id . de V'illele. No ne illden. tat n Eglad tere is a deep and ~eneral feeingadvrs totheslae-rad; tatnut only naval and A-vcenue hut ' indiiduas alo, hve a powerful motivevto vigi.- trainethelare rwars tey ecevefor the discovery of slave-. tra"'nccioa; an thatvolun a&yasociations exist for the Isupprespi.on ofti traffic, hopsdofmnlttle likely to slumber iover the infraction ofthe aboiinlw.I,ten, under these cir.- cumstances, the FrenchGoemnthsbn neither less active not less sincere than the Englisk Government, how has it happened dhat nut one instance of slav-e-trading under the English flag shoulId hiave been detected duringz the last 10 years, whiIsttlmQ instances of Frenc-h slave-trading should have beeca absolutely innumerable ? How hap. Ipers it also tbat, notwithstanding the multiplied proofs whiich the French Government has head of the utter inefficany of the present laws in repressing the slave-trade. it should still refuse to afx anT infmou puishentso he rha, wile in England the crime is assiilaed t piacy?Andhow a ppensit lastly, that, while fro Enelaidnota saveshp cn h sown to have been- fitted out durig te Int yar,inded fr may yarsprevious, it con be shown thatfro shesinle prt f Nate,no fwerthan 30 silave-ships were fittd ot, i th couse f ony afewmonth., Of tile Year 18'23, openlY, with scarcely an attempt at concealment, arng with te faul knowledge and pairticipation of niultitudes in thait port e Thme de- ta.ils onthis subject will begiver in another place Ssdffce istoisay, tha slve-his udertheFrnchfla stllactually swarm upon ibe: Afrian c-.ac; tat t4eyarr onther -ade therewith perfect tmapu. nit, bingvistedeve byFrech ruierswithouxt molestation; a-nd tha, n cnsqueceof her iniuuisyfrom Britisb capture, they notonl prtec exensve nteest prpery French, but shelter th-e crimnal dvenures ofothe natonsfrom detec-tion and punisbh. Three thinigs have been brought under the notice of the French G;overnmenet, in all their horrid and disgusting details, and the French slavel-trade stil p1Lroceeds as actively as before. A list, in. dieed, has been exhibited, with a view to repel the imputation of su1- pineness ~on the part of the FrenchGoDvernrdent of the prosecutions- wrhichi have been instituted on account of infractions of the prohi- bitory Laws ef France. This list, however, on bela.' carefully cia. nmined, will really be found to prove nothing but dEe inefficacy of' those laws, and the enoirmous extent to whichi the French slave- trade is carried on. It comprises allI cases occurring since the prohi- bition of the slave-trade by Frace down to the end of July, 18-23, and exhibits a total of'49 shlips acquitted, 311 condemned, and3 31 uin- decided. The iist, howev-er, is. obviously most ittaccitrate, the same ship somietimes appearing under two of- the beads: besides wihich, it may aft'ril some means of appreciatintr its value, as an exculpa.. tnry documient, when the mneeting is told, that among the vessels ac- quitted arC to be frsuijd the Fe.t. the Siwcc~, and the~ notorious Re. deur. Even of the 30 vesseis condemned, nearly hell were eon.- demned a!tnce Isle of Bourbon, through the zeal and recivitv of that excellent Gtovernor, General Ilvylius, and were almost all perty traders belenging to the island; and four were vessels seizedi by British cruisers and sent to French ports, and proceeded against onkyr in consequence of such seizure. W'hat France will eo under these circumrstanices remains to be- seen. caant dopi-f" l.~ WU- t.1- it is comrpletely in the poe fteren-en Gsovemrnment to pIt en eraS -, L.t slave-tracle ir it plesses; but it Icsnols obvious, tat while the penalties, attached to is are maerely pecuniary, no degreof vigilance on the part of' pub- lic functionaries can prevent its bing carried on, so song as the pro- fits will pay for insurance If a law were passed, az has been al- ready, often, though moat unavailingly, remarked, inflicting an iotfa. mons puni-shmeat--.as the brand, or the galleys--on all who embark, capita in this trade, on the agents employed in it, and on the cap- tains and ofricers of rlave-ihps, and if adequate rewards were given. to informers said seizors, ther is little doubt that in France, as in England, its suppression would be to a great degree ef- fected. Very few, if aniy, men of $operty. and of re-spect. able standing in society, would be willing to expose themselves tme so iearful a risk as that of' a trial involvirng une peirie iitfe- snayme, and the trade, insteatd of being, as now, e cherished and by no means discreditable trade in France, woula then be consigned, ast it deserves, to the infiamyi and degradation, as well as the penal inflictions, which follow crimes of the wvorst desciintion. But, while the Directors deplore most derply t1he cours,e of pro. ceeshing pursued by the French Grovernment respecting tSie silare. trade, and the failure of every hope which had been, encouragedl by its reiterated assurance that effectual measures of' repression would badpe,and by its warm professions of anachunent to the as of' umnty; thecy feel, aLt the some thoue, the mhost lively satisfaction in contemplating the interest whic the subject begins to excite in France The meeting is4 already aware, that. about two years ago a committee was instituted in Paris for thr abo- lition1 of thke slave-trade, consisting of many, distinguished isidivi- duals.. Their proceedings have been niarked by an enilightened zeal and thiey htave b.een employed in diffursing, from time to time, such infGrmiation as was likely so awaken a more extensive fe~eling in ta.. your of' the African cause. One rneeoure whichb they have adopted with) apparent effiect, has been, to publish in a monthly journal large extracts from the SViesrea Leone Gaccctlcs, exhibiting a view Of the general Riiserles of' the slave-trade, and of' the extent of that portion of it whiich is c-arried on under the French flag. A private commu- nication which thiey have received fromi the Coast, con1firms the fact alrea.dy adverted to, that the Commodore Alauduit Duplessis had received no instructions to detain an French slave-ships, not actu- ally having slaves oni board. The f owing passae is so remarkable, as confirmiing this fact, chat it deserves to be extracted:-" One Of my friends," says the writer, " had occasion to see the C~ommodore during his cruise, who told him, that he k-new very well that the Frei,ch vessels whiich he had visited to leeward of Sierr Leone were desie to cry slaves; but that his ordies were to molest nO vesel unless he a ct'urally founa slaves on board. You will at once see," it is added, - how useless a squadron muitbe undler such orders." The A bolition Committee of' Paris have published various excel- lent littIl tracts for general circulation ; amongz others, one entitled .1C' uaufis de to Traite des NVoirr,on Relatio, des .Ho0-rrcers c"rIrni jsar les A Ntgr rdda-s t VuissctauxleRodent'reil'Ezjellc,artfaitc die ,,)it or yseM Ic De t Broglie ;" and anothier, translated from a tract s.f Iir. Clarkr,on's,entitl d" LeCrdeAficnsetrlt rap6ens ktears Opprcse.urs ; On Con hd'lEi1surue CornancrCcchss ride appetdeTraits des `is" e aea ~ rr1Wit Frenh Ar. uxtn'sspeech on the 15th of I',av 1823 in th~e lJouse of Commons. introductory of his motion for tle gradual ex- tinction of' slavery, with a very Able and important prefatory essay on the state of Cilonial Bondage, by Al. Charles C;oqucrel. In eah- dition to this, they havle offered a prize of a :bousand francs for the best work on the abolition of' the Slave TIrade, considered parlscu- larly as it regards the interests of France. TIhe diffierent wo-ics of' the candidates for this prize must he transmitted, before the Ist Of July, 18-24, to the President of the Society, is Patis, Rue Ta- ranne, No. 12. ni2n It oughlt to he mentioned, to the hounour of the Royalrih of France, that a prize bad been offered by it for the best Po the subject of the abolition of the Slave-trade. Thle Prize was as- signed, on the 25th of August last, to 31. Chauver. An'other poem,. by MX. Bignan, is sasid to have hemn nearly, equal in point of merit It appears by thne most recent accounts from sie:rra Leone, tlhat the exertions of ourr crisere had produced a greater effect ir, daming the slave-trade, than they had themiselves anincipated. Boh=h sulbsequent communications of the Ju,hgea Ot the Mixed Coinmission Court, and the statements in thie SierrsO LeOne Gaeatfe at the commencement of the present year, indicate a contterie re duction of the extent of slave.trading. except, indeed, in French ships. It is nossible, therefbre, that the severe losses endared-in the precedinzvear by the Portugi.ese and Spanttih traders, Mayhave led theito seek more generally the shelter of this prostituted flag, which, tiOt content with protecting French interests, i thus iade to pander to the rapacity of evey ni..creant, of whatever natitOn, who wishes so carry on ecu rely this trafiic of desotion and blood. The Directors have stil to deplore that nothing has vet been done to exclude theFrench slave-traders froim the river Ganbias, where they continuero carry on their nefariouls practicer, netw-ttli5indtng that, in addition to al trse more general prohibitions against the French slave-trade, they are debarred by the express ?tti lations of treaty from navigaLting that river, *shich was wholly ceded to this country bv the treaty of 1782h The slave-trade at the MWauriEius has been kept in checl by the viguilance of Commodore Noursie and Captain hEloresby. The latter gallant officer undertook, at the insrance of Sir tobert Facquhar, e Governor of the Al2usritius7 so nwegotiate a tresty wiith the l;maum of ti uscat, for the abolition of *;ne slave-rde in his domirnions and byv his subjects. His nission waas attended with comylete sus y this treaty, the Imaum engages to abolish the fotrsgn slave-trade for ever in his doninions~ to order thc seizure of all Arb vessels ar_. tempting the foreign -a.e-trmde, and to seizc and pwuish the captain and crew as pirates * o punish all persons serving on boai'r ships dealing in slaves, who do not give information that they have beaus dlave-dealing; to permnit Britih Consuls to reidc within his dom;. nions, and to cause to be apprehended aKny British subjects who missy attempt t.e traffic; and to aunthoze British clrusers tnse ize ngo trest, as thev would British ships, all Arab vesses that tay e foand laden with slaves, if bot to any sport out of his doinion1. Thisq treaty, of coarse, prohibits the ex.portation of slaves from Zan.- guebar, hitherto the great slave-mart in that quarter. I Raan,the King Of Madagascar, appears to have faithfully ecutdhis engagements with heBritish Government, and to havesuppressj all slave-trding in his dominionx. The whole of the islandl, however, does not belorng to him.. To hth north is a c hi f w o d n e t i~ e n o 1 e d e b ~ att h o * ty b u i he b a d m a rch e d an Of tv bin tibection and if he succeedi, the ex- pohert oflvs wil also be Prevented fromi that quairter. muia.e Th r Y ti "Mte at teaseR to believe, from informnation o mmunicla te to the Directors by an oficer on thatstation, that although the di- rect iporeatson of Slav" into the Mauritius is less frequent than it was, Yet, by an abutse of the Registrv Act, slaves are still indlirectly obtained TheN of impoprted into the remote islands calc Seyce1} i Yhald ohrare ies fro mouaJ onths placsb- li echiatl; , atfther remaining ther for sqBe eontlichemployed to Culturating. cortton &c., they are remove&nudr licence to the i srevetihu&It aWe,eithero course be in the power of Goyernwt ent to PVeft tht wabisuse eith beenry gving strict orders to the local authon rsiesof the subject, or, if necessary, bytnoirinzthe Registry Act. Sir TRhoma9 Stanford Rarh1es' of hose enltighiened ana benevo- highly hi- he cause oreighcuanity it is imcpossible to spek too ionfar ha, titmunicat;esl to the oarnd oome most importanE reguh t ea ri date the ist of ay, 1823, for the entire suppre sion rtbee wtade, and ther extinction of slavery itself, at Singapore. a a a The accountd receniyed during the last year, of the state and PTO- gbes of Sierra Leone, are very satisfactory. The trade of thme co- etny apdra to inctheae, particularly with the interior The duties cllectlaon Oodsimported ftom ERrope into the colony had be-e more in the ad thrloee qrter of 1823 thang in any preceding Year; mh orn indml tnnaabc"' Suha n't h rts al, mor e2 indeed, tC a ny n the four years, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 181 5 and,i e the sqlaves oin 1823 shall have een as productive as the three prcdng quarrers, the duties of 18-23 will be double those Of 182-2. ItIs still more gratif~sng, however, to witness the rapidly ~rowng,nuttrer~ of th caonnteaurth the interior, almost to the Eaks Of the Nigeer. Caravanis of ative merchants brich their yold, ivory, and other articles, &roni Foijita Jallon, and places be- yantl it, which they bartero uee colony for British mswerchandise; and mdnerchanolts of Site- Leonhaved cadyreceived from 5001. t 001Wrth ofgodi a gi ngle day. in exchange for their goods. Tlnderth..e hacusts es the occurrene of war with the King of7 the waarn,tees hate bee particularly, unfortunate. The Occasion Of te wr iqtof P~A?ted bv Sir Chartes MI'Carthy, in the general 'Odno h st of 823a:h, " The motives, which influenced 4liy~.ordering the expedlition are well known to every infar n duttation. A Sergeant of the Royal African Light at Aanama!boe, was treacherousily seized by some ~~P~OyeXtinder the dlirection of the barbarian chief of the ithin few days of solemn protestations of friend- rdsp, nd ecevin,by is messengers, hlis cu-stomary presents; enid, s~fes log ad evere confinernent', without any comMunicatiOn beingaddrssedtothe officer administering the Government, he was infmouly urdredby order of that chief,who sent one ef his own near reltostspeitntehordde,udrtehalwr. tence thathhaspknilothKigothAsateisdef the FortofAnmh"isttotertih ae, Sir C. 1C I T~lhe last accoants from Colombia show, that the great work of ~41-`cipating the slaves in that state was proceeding rapidly to its c6nuirmator, Slver canotendre,at the utmost beyond the exisinggeneatin. Te cildrn hrn ince 1818 are all born free; and beide th efec ofvarou oter auss,which have been actvel opratng her t prduc esanc stonthe tax which was of man aduls. P~Ose~a~~eoyeffeced the redemption EXTRACTS PROMl TIrE REPOR T OP TIlE AFRICAN INSTITUTION_ OR 1824.