The Sun. — 1810-06-16 (London, England)

SLAVE TRADE.  Mr. BROUGHAM, after taking a retrospeCtiVe view of the proceedings in Parliament for the Abolition of the, Atricau Slave Trade, stated that it still existed, and was cairied on through the medium of Spain and Portugal, and though an Act against the intiu• man traffic was passed in Congress, yet it was carried on in American bottoms. The average amount of Slaves exported from the Spanish Settlements on the coast of Africa to their settlements in the 'West Indies, since the year 1802, was 5800 per arnium, and 30,000 were imported by the. Portuguese to the -Brazils and their other settlements. A considerable trade was carried on in slaves to the Island of Cuba, which found their way by night in long boats made for the, purpose, carrying 70 or 80 men each, to Trinidad. Ships were fitted out for cam nig on this iniquitous traffic, without those bulk-heads and platform's commonly constructed for the accommodation of the negroes. When they got out to sea, they were fitted up by the carpenters, so as to answer the purpose. They then proceeded-to Africa; took in a cargo of dives, which were disposed of partly at ,Trinidad and Cayenne, but prit:cipally at the Spa„Dish and Portuguese colonies. He held in - his hand the'recoid of the condemnation of a ship which had been taken in the Tiver. Judgment in the case he . adverted to had been suffered to go by default. tie would read. to them some of tlie itenis of the cargo, which he,thought Must do away every doubt as to the-traffic in which- the ship was engaged. The vessel mounted 16 nine-pounders, and 50 barrels of gunpowder were on' board. There was 16,000 barrels of .fish, and 38,000165. of rice. in fine, there was on board six weeks' "messing" for 1000 men. /here wasQ Faso containing 15. dozen of pad,locks, and, moreover 197 shackles air the hands and, feet, ninety-eight pails Of handcuffs, and three hundred and a half Weight of iron chain, and one box of " religious itholements.",He did. not exactly know what they wore, but that stood 'among the items in the record. For Ole ser, vice of all the men this vessel was intended to carry, exposed to every kind of ill from the, changZ of climate, &c. there was but one small Chest of medicine, valued at 51. Such was the hUmanity of these African slave-dealers. Since he had given notice of his motion• on the subjeet, six ,vessels had been detected fitting out for that trade, or rather for the commission of that. detestable clime. He  rejoiced that such wretches were no lotiger screened by the Legislature from those expressions ot.abi►or-.  rence and detestation he was di;posed to bestow. He would not call them merchants, forthey were miscreants guilty of the worst species of climes. When, he said they were guilty of all sorts Jf ders, far from thinking he expressed himself toa harshly; he thought. his language not sufficiently strong. For murder; in a common way, he would admit there might be something like an excuse. In some instances it might be perpetrated through sudden passion, or through deep resentment ol,injuries received. Where no provocation had been given, it might sometimes be excused by insanity ; but the murders committed by these, "slayers" were deliberately committed, with motives the most mete.  nary, the most sordid, and the mc.sit base. The, freebooter and highwayman who murdered the tra-irellt-r refusing to surrender his 'property, wete illustuous chara6ters, compared to those dedleis in blood. The courage of the robber in exposing his , own life to such danger, threw a sort of lustre over his crime; •but here were a -set of men, who with  every disposition to commit murder, afraid' of ex posing themselves, systematically employed others equally base, excepting their being iesl cowardly, to do the horrid deed, They ought, not to ,be called Slave traders," but " Liverpool murderers," or Liverpool suborners of perjury andulurdet." He begged to suggest to tile HOU3O the facilities which would for our putting a stop to the Slave Thide by 'oUr obtaining 'possession of an island situated betWten Sierra Leone, and the southern part of the African coast. He thought a great number of cruisers ought to be sent to that port, having an extiaorainary number of-hands on board, and a considerable