Year: 1872

IL the Recorder sure Of that African kings and
and sultans are not In the habit OF accepting
$4,000 year In lieu OF o,000; neither are they
when II suits them overscrnpuous in the infringe
ment OF their contracts. On the occasion when the


h,,. hnEhsn .onthssoners sent 10 Aoomey mootea tne
aDonton OF the slave trade on the west
coast coast the countenance Of the King fell. He
could make no reply to the commissioners
vered in his determination to retain the trade
IN It's Integrity but he was speechlcss on account
OF the dlniculty presented TO him in electing the
least offensive mode OF natly declining to abandon
something over forty thousand pounds year for
much smaller sum offered him by the Foreign once
on his REIMBURSEMENT Of the trade When he spoke
the train Of his argument was to Justify himself In
the refusal to be party to treaty extinguishing
OF the English government are great" ne said to
the commissioners. Would the English government
% give up at once the chief source Of its revenue
without some equivalent provision for defraying
their expenses ? l cannot believe that IL would.
No more will reduce myself to beggary. The
penses for week; and even II the English govern
ment should give me every year sum equal to my
ton Of HELPLESS depemdencv and should i st nd
conee and cotton. However, Win consider myself
bound to try all that can to meet the wishes OF
the English government"


Might not the Sultan Of Zanzibar-would he
not-answer our OvertureS in O similar strain
No one could withhold from the reasoning of the
King Of Dahomey an inward Acknowledgement
Of the justness Of his objections; but every one
could meet his objections In part by helping him TO
understand that the foreigner would not pay q
large sum OF money for q slave II the labor OF
compensate for the largeness Of the outlay. This
sort OF counter logic was pressed on the King.
Of e ya ms ms to e t
sofa for expectation were employed at home in
the cultivation and production OF articles wanted
goodness Of the case of the Commissioners, could
not divest his mind OF the confusion which
of skill among his people to conduct novel agricul-
tural and commercial operations, and by the
length of time which would be required to CONSOLE
date the process OF system SO entirely new. SO
far as the King was concerned the slave trade died
away and his neiarOus gains disappeared because
we eXacted the strictest observation OF treaties,
and because modification was wrought in the
system of shaving in Cuba on the part OF Spain. The
core OF the disease was thus touched and the source
whence the pOuting current flowed soon dried up.
At the conclusion OF his letter to Mr.. Bennett DR..
Livingstone puts on record his contempt for the
and feelingly recurs to the "blight" which the
course" OF the slave trade is casting over
".he fine country where he has dwelt since 1865.
''The truly wOful sghtn of 'mans inhumanity to
man" made the "sOre heart still sOrer.n 1t would
be a slur on our 'JOhn-Bullish tenacity' and ne.
cation of the principle to which every government
worthy of the name and sanctity of government has
assented, were England to permit an insignificant
barbarian like the Sultan OF Zanzibar to defy the
diplomatic remOnstrances which she can straight
fOrwardy and firmly use to root out debasing
commerce intolerant to the active sense Of Justice
pervading the entire human family. That we should
fear any permanent obstruction from Portugal is I'M
possible for, as Dr. Livingstone most apty suggests
he rights Of the o t% n re
rights" as well as of tangible dominion in East
ern Africa; but the "rights' can neither be sub
stantiated, according to the loosest reading Of in
ternational law nor can they for moment claim,
much less maintain definite respect from the
petty black tyrants whose lands fringe the line.
Portugal does certainly turn to that phantom OF
her "rghts'' when she seeks to circumvent the pur
suits of individuals likely to be subversive OF her
silence Of the jungle; but, even so, she can only
effectively turn to them with the acquiescence OF
the heads OF the native tribes. That she can set
the views or the compassionate intervention Of q
Power like England at nought is out OF the ques-
tion.


Whatsoever the government may therefore do in
regard to the slave trade perpetuated under the
auspices OF the Sultan Of Zanzibar care should be
taken to avoid the errors which we have committed
on the west coast. To suppress the trade we sent
a fleet at cost Of $500 600 year, but the distress
ing duty remained to confess that the blockade OF
the West African coast was no summary check to
the trade. The retention of our West African
squadron was double evil. In the first place the
lose portion of his cargoes by capture and to
preserve q margin for that inevitable contingency
his orders to the slave-hunting chiefs were always
on the increase. In the second place, the precau-
tons needed to evade the vigilance Of the cruisers
obliged The merchant to cram the slaves into the
stining holds OF small vessels. Before the vessels
could reach their destination the slaves had died
by thousands from su1ocaJion General Rigby, our
former Consul at Zanzibar bears testimony which
is identical for "he had seen vessels arrive with
hundreds of poor creatures, naked, and packed as
close as herrings in barrel" If the sultan OF Zan-





and to have an annual stipend OF 5000 in its stead
let us close with him. But, be the merchandise
spirit OF trade is to let the supply wait on the de-
mand. Stop the demand and the supply must
cease


From the Manchester Guardian, July 2o.l


Dr. Livingstones letter to Mr.. Gordon Bennett,
which we published on Saturday, forces upon our
attention a subject which can be matter of no
agreeable examination for any Englishman Every
man who enters upon such task as that which
Livingstone undertook does SO literally with his
life in hts hand At the best it must be work at
tended with privation and danger. He goes into
terra incognita where everything is against him
the climate, savage races and the impossbility of
keeping up q safe line Of communication with the
civilized world. Livingstone is not the man to
utter childish complaints or to grumble because he
has not peen solictously followed about by people
eager to minister to his wants. He ls made Of
sterner stuG, and has truer appreciation Of all
that is involved in the mission which he has volun
tarily imposed upon himself. If we find him with
grievance we shall do well to look into IL; we
may feel assured that it is the offspring neither Of
wounded vanity nor OF sckly concern for personal
comfort. For once he has grievance, and 1t cam
not be lightly dismissed. Although the Foreign
ONCE, for reasons which it was difficult to combat,
declined to undertake an expedition in search of
the I0St traveller, III is wen KNOWN tnat LOru Gran-
vile has always shown disposition to assist the
Geographical Society in their efforts to
solve the secret of Livingstone's fate. We
have been authoritativey told, time after
time, that the British Consul at Zanzibar
had received instructions to do everything in his
power to send on supplies and otherwise TO further
the work which Livingstone had in hand The
charge which is now made against DR.. Kirk is that
he has not acted up to the spirit-wc say nothing
OF the letter-of his instructions.


1t would be obviously most unjust to pronounce
Judgment upon an official who has had no oppOr-
tunity OF being heard, but this is In which
the country will certainly require searching inves-
tigation. The Daily 2piegdph had already made
We have now Dr. Livingstone's letter, and
there can no longer be any doubt that o
case for inquiry has been made out. Living
'iorlorn condition." He had como thither "ofY
tramp OF between four and five hundred miles be-