African Institution.
The Times, 1824-05-12T00:00:00

Yesteday the Animver8ary Meeting Of the Affit%Ii 1nBtituitiol1 was hel at remasons' 1al-O There was5 a ver.y large attcndsinee of ladieS and gentlemlen. At one o'cloc]ctseIlarquisori,A.N5aoow. took jthe chor, nna expressed.the. 'trtwibw iche. bed toa~nnotine bhe egbe0,OFt bin RoyAl Biglimesstbie Duke. flcse,W' indlispositiom. Hecud.sue h t tlpS i'die Wtfmc " writh whicit heustialy~ attxde&. Ellcir tpp9,qp3M,.Xq .the -tcin- trafflc.tfie-miostTisgeisceflUrt uf twtw tl*se~~ ndie by human bands,d'Appjiuiic.'J Air. W,,t r .-.iix At.?,, tIleit reaid the report of the Society .br, theaIt yea It-nveyed-a nsiehaiocliolY picture of tbse,api(th~~idti whichi several.ei'the Continenital Pofwers-vjew the conduict ed. tchair subjects ini rcs;iect-to- the. 'slave-tradue, no66twitstandiinj dtht:4 ri- "The records, of the JjicdCqunipnuss;o, Courts of'SteriYuteosip, duiring the year IW22, xxbiliit six~ case-S n~pnsihp kidm for -slave trading . In' Addition to hEfise, the Sicerra Ca6oncGape specifies severas paulsb slAve almps whbIeh'had. Iheit det4hincdl,bliis. illajesty's crui',ers ill 182 and severail sioirp, Oftdently ithe property of SpaniardS, bitt which.weye pr~te~tkdlfr6im capttore bvytbe. Frcppti flg ne of thiese cases is tbujsthi&dcd, to in the Sierra Leone Gadeof the 1liili o1'October,-M l82. In ouir last, we nientitonud. that a Srsaitivh~eTssel tinder Frcpch Icolours was puxchVstug slaves at'bbebay. 'With the dc Epst fetlingt Iof lhorror and pain, we niow have. to Aucqusaipt 'our readers' that %vic hiave since received. 'informtifiqn that per: aLneborieg ofT Sic6lar lis beein followed wjh trie usuil secenes ot bl'ooti, iniscepar hlfrolin stf6li a criminEal ctrufic ?, 'iic niatives whlo recside about 40 spiqe iii thgz in. Iterior (Ele C ossons) libeinganxiouis to appri a copmnixiiiatiori wi.th diii s.ea, iniOr-.rio t receive ruin, poWdgg, or niugk-tiy'letriii~,Ihav( Ieccorebnglymnoved dowri i largt.numbers, carryingt %ea'nd acvrksta. itioti W)ibthe ii Eight villages I1jWia~eCl5bph6it5in sesiiryed; dii Ipeaceable nhabitantswhto M i4 ot perisb ii l.be'firociougattiwk-'if6avI b -een a(ale sllaves, a0.tiuch'asawere fit Xur ma?ke6i~ieie basrtcredani sold uropctsr villalwIo enintinds the 'vessel.'ild~l l'oitr UOAL.iii~S o -hi During t'he year I822, 13. Portuguic lv.sujs ivtg board upwardsof 1 ,7tO0 slaves, werecolmndt iraoie1 tradin)g for slaves north of thie Linc: sonie of lie cases involvc.i atrocities of the mos. rev,ol ting kind, and itmplicated jA tic ,guilt j.0 slaveA.rading the Portuguese fmnetionade4 on the coast, of Africa tj Z~Itc very highiest class, anda[lof. tfhe ca&c~.affroetl prfqoF fir the m6sa re ctfsi.edsegard, oni tliepart'of tile B3?azIla:6aiuthoritics, o. dies olgtlu5f- the treaties withi this, counttry. The iicen6ei grante to us54Z5tips pernAtted .them , while 'th~ir &katiiton- wa" declaed t be tt1'Ce59 itith ol' th Line, to visit At.' Thomas, Ca. ! nieroons,ldIabar-, &., ZJqJ no tinttye cold'e ;As6iggned foe theit vis6iting biut thiat of -carrying oil au IlUi~t slaye-.tr el ..Nilt u ;thiorities in Brazil appear to have aa;jcicr A witplifie eolrbn dir in giving fictitious names to placesnori. dQJ.,ine, bIrweiQ places south of thec Linec, for the purpose ofdeIYLP-1te9 lii c ruisers and the Alhixed Commissionl Courts. I"The-namei of illolembe,-s place ioudi-ofthe Litue, to'which. EN Portugue-se slave-ttade is still-peruaittcd,has ileentransferred.fbrthit profligate purpoae to a plare near;-Onim, in the, Bight.of'Benin. "In thje case of one vcesed the IConde de .VillaJ?or, takci *iti: 172 slaves on hoatrd-, ic weas f'ui'tp Isvd.tbat. the Glovernor of Bi&- vao was hiiniseif an interested.participatowr. iothe iliggal embarks xoF of slaves, a certain numbecr oftihe Wlaves beiug his iieoperty,' some.oj themn being en tei-ed in thec memiorAnida as shipped andI receivcd;frotr his official residenice, as it'all decencv was cast off fron tbde;(iovern. ment of thesettletugnt.' Such. is the strong.butimoatalpropilatt language o hof the fhelix4om sin ur.-Thieex. laminations in tlhis; case develop the miost complicated tissue of frau. dulent expedients for defeain)g the eadso'fjustice. "1The Portuguese schooner boat-San Jose XaIoa, belonging to,t lady of Prince's Island, the-dauighter.of Goniez, formierly eiie' Go. vernor. and sitill a linember of the governing Jtints; of that iisland. thiough only of' the burden -of' 7 tns, was sent to Calabar for slavesk, Thirt sL avesi had b~een purchased, and being put on board dii boat. it madire sail for Prince's. But the voy,age proved tedious, provisiOns ie4an. to fall, ttnd the allowance was reduced to one yam-daily rot two slaves. At la-it the pro;7tsions and water whollY failed. Ten slaves perished, and the whole rutist haxve shiared their fatte, had nol the vessel got back to Calabar after . having beeni six weeks at sea The surviving slaves were in the most, dePloraible Atrat of emaciaiior and wretchedness... Nor was this to be wo'nacred- at,4 for besides, thecir privatioasdthey. were mn)racled togedser, andcooped u~p in a ves- i el otf only 7 tovns buvdlen,.having po shielter but what coisidbe af- , orded by the!space between the water casks and tile deck, a splice 01 seven inches. "Our Government W5tdC us of, thuese Yariotte zirgttnlatances at thley `ccurred, to presk upon Portuf a], wYithian esruestuesthat doe,, the highest credit, to thieir zeal in this cause, the necessity of, a niorc vigorous eniforcement of her own laws, and of her, treaties with thiaE Icountry, but apuarentlv with little effect Somie fresh articies,jildeed, were at lenigthi agreed 'to, similar to those adopted by Spain etnd tinc Netherlands, for enlarging the power of cruiisers, but these have not yet been ratified. "On the separation of Brazil from the mother country, .Mr. CanniRg lost no timie in represeniting. to the Portuguese Government that thiere c-ould now. remiain no pretence for refusing entirely to abso. lishi the slave.trade. It had been prolonged by Portugal, only for the sake of Brazil, and it now only -remiained to prohibit it entirely under the Portugaese flag, to the south as well as to the north of the Line. To this application, howe.ver, the mostperemptory neatutive was git-en, andi a thireat was even held out that if Great Brirtain ishould proceed on~ this principle, Porruigal would at oncec consider aill her treaties with Great Britain as null, and void,; and the niecessity of continin the traffic was masinta'ned tn a gro un which unrtil-new had nee een urged, or even heard ofen which was unfounded in point of ficet-numely, that the staeiae a eu refo.sup. plying, lint Brazil, but its other Afrin an Asai osessions with labourers. ', WVhat conduct may have been pursuied by Whe Brazilian Go- verament on this subject dloes not appear, but undoubtedfly that pur.. sued by Portugal is calculated to produce the most indignanit feel-. lags in every hiumane and liberal mind. -In the Y-ear I82-2, it appears that 28,248 slaves were imported into Rio de Janeiro alone from the coast of Africa. The numnber embarked had been 31,240 ; 3,484 having died on the passalge. In one vessel, oDntaining 492 slaves, 194 hiar died ; in another, cOn- taining 631,213 hadl died; insa thirdl,1ontaining1418,215 haddied,&c. " The number imported into Bahia in the same year was upwards of 8,000. FLRACeE. The larges chpe i hsaaitous detail must bieg given, it is, to he feared, to France. The remaonstrances to that Power have bee frqucdv tidurgntl, bt uavailingly, renewed by Sir Chares tuat, or Mniser a Pais.A few extracts from these remnateacs, hil tey rov th viilaceof ogr Goyernment, andof her rpreenatie a Pris Wil ffod.an instructive view of te maner n whch ancehasfuliRed her engagements. APril 7, 1822.-A succession of f'resh outrages rendlers it again ass duy t oberv toi-or Ecelenc, tat the-pledge given to his BritnnicMajsty y te Kig o Frace,for rthe effectual abolition Tueoffcil avics ecevedbyhis Britannic Majesty's Go- vermcorfrot SerraLeoe, ate inJanuary, prove that.this de- tesabe taficstil xits n ul acivtyon the African coast, Co- vered and protected by the flag of France. " I Thecre seems, inideed, to be sc-arcely a s-pot on that coast which does not showv traces of the slive-traide, with all itisattendant horrors;- for the arrival of a slave ship in any of -the rivers On the windwardl coast being rthe signial fior war betweell the natives, the hantlets of the wveaker party are burnt, and the miserable survivors carried and sold to the slave'-traders. " It is celarly ascertainedI by inquiries madle (in the spot, and on the adjacent coaszt, by his Alaiesty's cruiisers, thlat the numnber of slave-cargoes take'n tint of the river Bonny in the preceding Year, amount ed actually, to 190 ; and( a similar return from the Calabar, fi~r the like period, madle a totalI for that river alone of 162. 11I Ihlave received the explress comimands of the King, say miatster, to address to the Government of his Most Christian Maljesty-, an urgent representation of these distressing faLcts, which, ir they prv any thinig, prove that wvherever the French flag aper, proteto and mpunity are granted to the slave-taciler, and thiat the abuse of ,he laws enacted in France ag4inst this traffic, nqAtwithstanding the allegations of' ttie parry disposed to eticourage. tuie mischief, afford practical examples of tile consequences which must result fromu t4is evil byoccsioing ncrachent onthe territories of friendly powrs n Aric, ad ecitnp looy ars among the natiyes. Themgniudeo tleevt mut cmpel the Freagth,(.-overnsw.ent now t detmtite wheher hey ilrfse cti execute their engage-. mencs,nd sitdown udcrihe'mput cinf beting the.Power to whom all hosiatresdiauchcaue trn iteireyes, as the avowed pro- tector of this conmmerce ; or v-indic-ate their character.f'or good faitli and liumanity lit thie eyes of thte rest of tihe world, by assimilating their legislation to that oDf those cousitries whiichi have thlt greatest interest in tuaritiaie stud coloniaul affars.' "1Similar remonstrLnces were. subsequertlynsadc, andIin particular the suiguai at a ontdott fir Frencth (s'overnnuient, that not-withstanding all the profe.,sioiis thuat hurl bieen made'of a desire to repress the snsve.rzadel, he Coinmodor' jMauduit.du Pipssis5 R-gt manding the Frenchi naval force on the coast of Africa, had. dedart4 tust he had no insitruictions flhnu; brarnuperiurs, whiiiphauthorized himi to seize any Frenchi vessels, though Tanifestly iniendid -for the slave-trade, Whidhs had tiot -slaves, ACLUa y on board. T -rI, t.I'NtEIS STATES.' It has now becoure iunnecessary to go at. lengdli into thje various negotiations whicli tuis (jovernmesnt hadl entered into iwith the Govern- ment of ilie Ijiuited 6tates, and whiicli have atlength so happily tei-. ruiate is a areeiet t Crnsa reay,by which the Ihigh con- tracingpartes hallmutallybinl thmsIves to treat. slave-tra.ding by ny f teirsubecs, ide an flg,or in any part 6f the world, as prac. I ordr t failiate uchtrety,law ave already been passd i boh contres,faiptilgcue puihet of piracy on -thu It Iis, indeed,am,ost gratif'ying circutastance, as Mlr.Canningiwell Observed, I'that the two gratest mai tinme nations' in the' world sfouilso far compromise their maariti.,e pride, as to act together for the accomplishment of such a purpose; especially as the reshlizadton of this arrpangemsent would probably not be thu termitnation, of its beeit. " The rentainder of thw: report was Qccupied with the detail of The proceedings of the New South American Governmests for the aboli-. tion of the slave-trade, and an encouraging accouut of dihe,progress. of the colony of Sierra Leone, with an allusion to the late disaster said to have befallen Sir Charles 1i'Cartluy, of whfch, however, die istitution had received no official account. Lori CAJ.-T1OtnPE, in moving the adoption of thereport,adverted in pointed terms to the conduct of ;oune of tbe Continental Govern- ments, and particularly Franee, as detailed in the repott, and con- trasted-with it the honourable and.htunane proceedings of the Ame- rican Governments. He deplored, the extetit to w1uih tde odious ant infamtous trade in humnai beins, was still carricel ott, and.ttustril that the diffusion of a rmere eiuligliteund spirit, in suth a nation as France, would -et iniduce the Monarch of that country to save his- subjects from the stain-wid dislhoiour of theconduct now impluteA to themO on the sabjeet of tiie slave-trade. - (Applause.) Lord: HzEvtvi4.in seronding the motion, also expressed- tlic strong scnse he etrertained of the conduct of those wbo still pursucH an infamous anddegradinig trafficin tlueirfellowrcreatures, and hqoped tliat the difHusion ot a better moral.feeling ationg some ofthienationts df die con ti n etit, atid particularly_ in Yrance, would ultimately suppress an evilso-repugnant to Christianity. - Fo; the puir,oses of acconi- tlisllng so desirable an object, lie loped that theinstitutionwould use theirbestirnfluence with -tb d enlightened part of the Freicehuna. tiot, and induce that portion to adopt,, respecting (ie slave,trade, a 'line of conduct mlore suited to thc spirit of tte age, a'ild thcdictatds of hlunanity. Tbe first resolution wat carried unaiiiniou3Iv. AIx. 1). S.D Ss E ill-P., inpropnsing the eecond resolution, congr,f ttilated the nable charatan upen having belon6gedto anAdrinistratila- tOaho odiona infaction of the treltiarnentered into by France and asme' oih er owers, forco-operatingin thiesuppression, said, thatif some, -Bpi t,ofjusticedtiXeit aoois rase Oaiie wotid have in fattirc timnes to contest with f Punk faitli ttie triumph of dishonour. (Cries of h lanti-enCe' rin cLfPiorte wl,,e'isOt9 Ist eestr edot.l1!tIrn ne nns~~eenncin adi".re~ h ~atftunwtll he felt t leV ae oinyo oirf JAoie JotwtvtliMnd ing the ,lale ddfi(yodiTcevents which had'ioudedtheXprdspet oft 7s:r ffair'1 'RiThe lde'.lsqoI br R a.t? ndaid Sir ;ebirtc (ollser 'lhc 'Xtc,d'2thev :woa1d'hayc'to add' that 'of. S'tr Chareles 6 il ea ,,~ lt.u er7J'si,EV~(tle Xing's counse), 'in secondiig,te' resolutiou, Ideclared the 'cotdial,inteiest whichhc bad unifohtiiflYlt in thc pro. I gress'of thivi ijirfsti(ti onX' tndiehope hehad, lthat by: their persi. rcring and:x6ibied 'ctioioris, lelorrtible critue of tdc slavc-tradc, thc evilxs'6 hiTcli-Were s6trulyKset'fortlr in the report, would at rio dfistant period .bcialtqlished allovcr theworid.' -'rue resolution wvas barried ' ' .3rJossiiiiiJ%ihf t;ir nEf Oij in propovelQI the'resolutigil for the ciicitin o6fltheVicc.lresidents for tlh,e cnmnin 'year, also de. plprcd le i ei'4lted1n'of th'slave-trade in ipeii d etianicc of existing treatscs,'and iin di'rect yioVaton'oF th7e lavvqi'f od Ilie turned froml the glornis, sidl 'oftle' ptictiuc t t'he rro,spcctie contemplation of th.c abofi ion of slavc*y m ic L,rii'h roSome' an cienlual Ahangewiclic wiihl i, he trsisted be ctom,f'isbed with advantsge to.the propri;tors anldtIhe rgroevr lie kpetv tlid. difilieulties ivhi4h 5urrounded tlic (hacpssio,n of' thi,at 7rand' oT te Splbjec,- but s,till hloped that. in tihe end these difficnties would bc found tis.amir., Thc compiletgalm- lj,tion t6f sIt-i,lTy n ghl to l7c tbe ainxiobs; wish of vcry -}ttish sul. .jelt and E.tnicst tC'fittstiarn' Sir V. ii l l L, urn serond1nkific resolutinn, expresecd lis: be. lcK that e'lat'e-;War of the Ashantedi on til1c tGoldCdast of Africa ,, 1dg bet insrgalewdby t,l tve .Taders, whio soiUght,for hleir own base purmtscIp c nie xlsqi of the lnrIt froni that Coast. The'Mai rquis O(lAN5DofW, in. putting thfiesolution frrn the Chair. ithich6 patSed unaniulotitly, saild, that-as he wi? uId, -: X tacesXg> wJgu,itt;in; ,tlac rtlecteng,>kvas. aD= exprc*ss his sen. tinients-uioii .ec gteat. itje?twicituey assenibled ta p.rtinotc. On the thicy~ s t,q al7lavcrtade, his.luifoyi ppl ion h;i been i sth d:e nextiiriatstep al The l bol tion`waa:thiQ aflixing tile crinic ot piracy to. thle tTa7ip ind therpby altaehipg to -dt a brandv Uhiit put thu ceiniijiafbeyond thc pa1 olcvilizcd socicty; (hIear, hear.) '.He wa.s *lel ihtes .find hthat Aleric h3adic.t thc Cxaluple with (,r at Bntaile,of sOi6wlig.'he world dhial ti7et'v g'reatest niaritinic nations wrc rlerieL,ctgciei th upcso of ati infautous trarf- fic, whidc cevilizatioiiujstntiot totolerate, Thisharpvunioniwould, * hetrusied', bctiQuiiUtiitcrhirtboall thle raiiiificatoios of the con- i,Niorp betwreri th'6ounttaev ui'd thc -Uniitel iStates, antl lead- to a in6re nqra,l-retprocity-oI, amsity. ta th1e extinction of these bad paions which'wcreniy prducuve of imutuwl injury to govcrn- Imnents. Wo depriceattcd the rant of goed faitb whichl dislionourail soie pfg thc coptinental. governments, on the. subject of the sup. ; lrcssioi oft the slave-tradc, and hopo(ed that -a dif{crent and tmore suitabile C.olicvwould soon be found to pervade the cabints of Chris. utall rnqaarcr4. Thc:noblW Xarquis, before lie retired from thlcchair, expressed tLbe grttificstion yjrni h lie fecJ,at announcing that Air. Si- inuel Uoaare had,sent his speecl to the institution, in the tcoupendi. ous shapeof. a 0_Ql. subscr]ption. (Appzitusc.i Lord.(A3siiiettihensuccceded thc noblemarqnis in thiecilair, and. avVcOd&.;I it p i lerest iAiieh hc felt in the proniotion of their humane:and benevolienftohcet. DIr.--T.f, Buxvo 4ALP. intssoving the vote ef thanks to their President, the ;tkeof-Gioter. na-seda waTUn culogiumn upon his .Royd .Highncsc for theeasl, ability, and undeviating assiduity wi th whichl d attended alt their public and private meetings, and-devoted his-best enegies to the exposure itnd suppression of a tradcin bleod wlhich was the most horrible ever conceived of tha heart o'tman,.or which man's hand had everdaredtoperpetrate (Cries of. WHcar.3 Vith respect to the condue' of foreign polen. tates and their treatiet fbr the isuppression ot the slave-rade, he remembered- the- offence said to have been given to some of these personages, by sonic reniarkls maie two or three years ago at ani anniversary of this institution by Mr. Brougham. lie was not disposed to provoke similar offence by repeaitig the same animadvetsiolf; but he would contrast the conduct of these enlightened 1A1 onarchs with that of those wvhr wee called barbarians. The Kiagof Prance, nodoubt, would not tolerate'the-reproachof re. ceiving a lessotn of fidelity on the honour and value of treaties from the King ofl1adagascar'; nevertheless, the fact wasi that n"e 19.osi Christian, the Alost Faithful, and iMlost Catholie XKings were each placed in a situation-of peculiar delicacy by the person whom they would deaignate as the barbarian- sovereign. ThVir stipulations for the sup pression of the-slave-txade, it Nves notorious, h ad notbeen fld. fiWed. al?though their dlemands had been complied with. Whilt were .theKisgofM)ladagascarasti,sulations? aitiliow bad lie fulfilled then,? His terms for the abolition of the'slie4-trade were, for himself, * a ful dress doth cOat, and tw;o epulttes; a cocked .hat, and a pair of' dress boot-.(loud laughtdr), an for his subjects the education of 20 free of expeniem and tfousers for 400." (ftenesed laughter.) 'Arnd in turn heeitipulated to refrain from, annual visits toQ a neighbourin su]fan,for the purpose of carring ofif hundreds of men, women, and cbildren, who were-transported into markets where they vere openly sold to merchant dealers who exchanged valuable commoldities ix tihe nefarious purliase.- The King of Aladagascear had strictlv abandoned the slave-tealde-market;'ana fulfilled his treaty in spirnt and 1letter. - Could the " Christian" Kinggsm0ke a simniar decla. ration 9 With respect to France, Sir Georre CoIlier had de- clared4 thart -it one- year he 'had seen 30,000 slaves protected by. the French flag. T 'The Ikct was, that miBareants of every kind availed themselvesof that protection, to engage in tI-is odious and infamnous traffic.. He hoped that the frienas of abolition would per- seyere until they acoomplished the great object which they had all in view. - The Rev. Jovx CUnNNIGHAMI, in seconduig this niotion, de- dared his conviction, that the rensoni this- great institution was riot so generally paronized by the public as it deserved was, that it was not founded-upon a religious basis. le therefore cordiaUy recon- mended that the total suppression of Alavery should be pursued with a simultaneous dissemination of religious knowledge. - After aome further observations in behalf of the great objects of the institution, from the honioumble BapTt ST NOEL, and Al r. 1'. EVANS, MI.P., thaDks were voted to Lrd r 'inrbier, and the meeting brokc up. - -.szFR1cAM M