Minerva, Cerqueira, and Creola 101 Bom Caminho.. 107 6, Vessels under the Brazilian Flag 110 5, 46. H. M's. Comm's. to Mr. Sec. Canning SIERRA LEONE. (Netherlands.) 53. Mr. Sec3. Canning to H. M's. Comm". D. May 54. Mr. Secr. Canning to H. M's. Comm. D. May 55. H. M's. Comm". to Mr. Sec. Canning 56. H. M's. Comm's. to Mr. Sec. Canning 57. E. Gregory, Esq. to Mr. Sec1. 58. E. Gregory, Esq. to Mr. Sec1. 28, 1824 30, 5, D. April D. May 18, 59. E. Gregory, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning D. Aug. 31, 60. Mr. Sec3. Canning to H. M's. Comm. D. Jan. 24, 1825 M. de Bonnouvrié (Thetis furnished with Instructions...... 120 Vessels furnished with Instructions...... 121 }Death of M. de Marrée ...... 121 Canning 4. Vessels furnished with Instructions.... 122 63. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm". D. Feb. 24, 1824 Manumission and Free Labour 125 64. H. M's. Comm". to Mr. Sec'. Canning D. Feb. No. Date & Receipt. SUBJECT. 73. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secy. Canning July 31, 1824 Maria de la Gloria 74. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secr. Canning. July 31,-Maria de la Gloria Sept. 15, 1 1 Manumission and Free Labour 1 Additional Articles of 1822........ 1. Sailing of Vessels for Africa........ 1. Consolidation Act 15 15 20,Maria de la Gloria R. Dec. 1, Instructions to Cruisers. Maintenance of Negroes.......... 17 Urraca, Josefa, and Feliciana.... 17 Manumission and Free Labour 17 D. Jan. 24, 1825 Maria de la Gloria 179 D. Nov. 15, 1824 Nicanor and Tranquilidad. Se- Atrevida.... 181 183 (D. Nov. 28, 1824 90. H.T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning R. Jan. 31, 1825) rafina. Romano 91. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning. Jan: 31, 1525) 92. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm. D. Mar. 17, (Instructions to Cruisers. Maintenance and Disposal of Negroes.... 93. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning. Dec. 17, 1824 Bella Dolores 94. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secy. Canning 95. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning 96. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secy. Canning) R. Mar. 16, 1825) R. Mar. 16, 1824) D. Dec. 29, 1824) Relampago D. Dec. 30, 1824 Disposal of Negroes............ D. Jan, 184 185 185 194 97. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secy. Canning. Jan. 98. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning 99. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Secr. Canning 2. R. Mar. 16, R. Mar. 16, D. Jan. 14, 100. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning R. Mar. 16, (D. Feb. 101. H. T. Kilbee, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning R. Mar. 20, 8, Chatica. Magico. S. José. Relampago. RIO DE JANEIRO. No. Date & Receipt. SUBJECT. 104. H. M's. Comm. to Mr. Sec. Canning. April 13, 1824 Maintenance of Slaves June 17, 105. A. Cunningham, Esq. to Mr. Secretary (D. April 16, Canning... R. June 17, 106. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm. D. June 19, 107. H. M's. Comm". to Mr. Sec". Canning. June 16, 108. H. M's. Comm. to Mr. Secr. Canning(D. July 109. H. M's. Comm. to Mr. Sec. Canning 110. H. M's. Comm's. to J. Planta, jun. Esq. 111. H. M's. Comm". to Mr. Sec". Canning 112. H. M's. Comm's. to Mr. Sec. Canning 113. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm. 114. H. M's. Comm. to Mr. Sec1. Canning 6, R. Sept. 20, D. July 12, R.Sept. 20; D. July R. Nov. 11, D. Aug. 30, Page 212 213 Papers laid before Parliament.... 213 -}Additional Articles of 1823... 214 Half Yearly Report... 214 Additional Articles of 1823......... 214 Act on Slave Trade........... Act 215 D. Sept. 18, R. Nov. 11, D. Nov. D. Oct. SURINAM. 115. Mr. Sec3. Cauning to H. M's. Commr. D. May 28, 1824 116. Mr. Secr. Canning to H. M's Comms. D. May 30, 124. C. E. Le Froy, Esq. to Mr. Sec. Canning R. Oct. Dec. 13, R. Feb. 127. H. M's. Comm. to Mr. Sec. Canning D. Nov. 28, 128. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm's. D. Feb. 28, 129. Mr. Sec. Canning to H. M's. Comm's. D. April Memorandum. The Despatches received in this Country are placed according to the date of their receipt. The Despatches sent from hence are placed according to the date which they bear. SIERRA LEONE. (General.) No. 1.—Mr. Secretary Canning to His Majesty's Commissioners. GENTLEMEN, Foreign Office, June 9, 1824. IN reference to my Despatch to you, of the 7th of May last, I send to you, for your information, the Copy of a Letter from the Admiralty, stating that Orders have been given for enjoining the Officers employed under the Slave Trade Restriction Treaties, to attend to the purport of the suggestions which you had submitted in regard to obtaining Evidence as to the number of Slaves that may be on board of captured Slave-trading Vessels at the time of their detention. His Majesty's Commissioners. SIR, (Enclosure.)—John Barrow, Esq. to Joseph Planta, Jun., Esq. Admiralty Office, May 13, 1824. HAVING laid before My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 7th instant, enclosing a Copy of a Despatch from His Majesty's Commissioners at Sierra Leone, in which they suggest that some directions should be given to His Majesty's Naval Officers, acting under the Treaties for the Prevention of the Slave Trade, in regard to the obtaining Evidence as to the number of Slaves that may be on board captured Slave Vessels at the time of their detention; I am commanded by my Lords to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Canning, that they have given Orders for enjoining the Officers employed in the Service alluded to, to attend to the suggestion of the Commissioners upon that point. Joseph Planta, Jun., Esq. I am, &c., JOHN BARROW. No. 2.-Mr. Secretary Canning to His Majesty's Commissioners. GENTLEMEN, Foreign Office, June 19, 1824. I HEREWITH transmit to you, for your information, six Copies of Papers marked A. and B. relative to the Slave Trade, which have been presented to both Houses of Parliament by His Majesty's Command in the course of the present Session. His Majesty's Commissioners. I am, &c., GEORGE CANNING. No. 3.-His Majesty's Commissioners to Mr. Secretary Canning.— SIR, (Received July 14.) Sierra Leone, May 15, 1824. WE have the honour to report to you such information as we have been enabled to collect, and such observations as we have been enabled to make upon the state of the Slave Trade on the Western Coast of Africa, since the last Report made to you on this subject by His Majesty's Commissioners on the 29th of April, 1823. The arrival of a new Governor-General from Portugal at the Cape de Verd Islands with a body of European Soldiers, about the commencement of last Year, gave hopes that a system of restraint would be commenced in those Islands, by the Government, against the illicit traders in Slaves. It has indeed been said that soon after the Governor-General's arrival, some Slaves were seized by his orders that were to have been shipped off the Island of Saint Jago for the purposes of Traffick; but we have not heard that this seizure was followed by any other act of vigour on the part of the Government against the illicit Slave-traders. We fear that the Government may have relapsed into its former supineness with regard to those traders, as reports have been very prevalent that the conveyance of Slaves from the Portuguese settlements of Bissao and Cacheo, and from the River Cazamanza to the Islands of the Cape de Verd, still continues to exist. The Slaves from those Places are conveyed in small vessels to the Islands, are landed at some convenient place not far from the principal Towns into which they are subsequently conveyed, and kept in Depôt until an opportunity occurs for their being taken off the Islands by Slave Ships. The Persons employed in this sort of Traffick reside mostly at Porto Praya, the chief Town of the Island of Saint Jago; and, no doubt, they and their pursuits must be very well known to the Government of that Island. The former Master of the Portuguese Schooner "Conde de Villa Flor," that was taken off Bissao, laden with Slaves, in the month of February, 1822, by the Boats of His Majesty's Ship Iphigenia, is very much concerned in this carrying Slave Trade betwixt Bissao, Cacheo, and the Cape de Verd Islands. This Man is stated to be extremely active in the Trade. Irritated at the loss of his Vessel the "Conde de Villa Flor," he is said to have declared his determination not to relinquish the Traffick. It is stated that he had intimated that the voyage of the "Conde de Villa Flor" in which she was captured, was to have been her last, and that it was his intention to have retired from the Trade, but that he is determined now, out of a spirit of defiance, to pursue the Slave Trade with all the means in his power. This Man is described as being intelligent, and as possessing some influence at Bissao, Cacheo, and the Cape de Verd Islands his removal from these Places would be beneficial, and we hope that he may yet be removed under the provisions of the Portuguese Alvara relating to the illicit Slave Trade, the penalties of which might justly be applied to him for the share which he had in the affair of the "Conde de Villa Flor." Another carrier of Slaves betwixt Bissao and the Cape de Verd Islands is a Frenchman named Antoine Leger. This person was also concerned in the affair of the "Conde de Villa Flor." |