Remarks. 7. Colonization from the West Indies with free blacks to civilize Africa will be a very doubtful experiment. The emigration highway has been tried between Sierra Leone and the West Indies, and proved a failure. What have the numerous free blacks from America, located at Liberia, and who have now formed themselves into a Republic, done towards civilising the native tribes around them? I believe, nothing; they have carried on constant wars against the small and disunited tribes inhabiting the sea-board, and they have succeeded, with the aid of English, French, and American men-of-war, in subduing those tribes and dispossessing them of their territories (about 400 miles of sea-board), so as to monopolise the trade by levying heavy and vexatious exactions on foreign shipping, which are now driven to trade elsewhere. The Liberians have made no progress in the interior; not one tribe has been benefited by contact with them, nor has our very slight knowledge of the different tribes situated in the countries interior to Liberia been increased. 8. Such emigration as can be obtained from Africa can only, like the Slave Trade, tend to keep up intestine warfare in Africa. It is three centuries of European Slave Trade which has Suggestions. depôt will be a bond for peace. The emigrants will be selected from freemen, not captives." Remarks. made war the normal state of Africa. Commerce and civilization carried into the interior parts of Africa, not emigration, will root out war. The commerce of emigration, by depopulating the countries of Africa, will hinder all civilization,; and impede legitimate commerce. Each new emigration depôt would, in a very short time, be a slave factory in disguise, and lead to incessant wars and kidnapping. Not one emigrant in a thousand will be a bona fide free African. No. 25.-Consul Campbell to the Earl of Clarendon.-(Rec. Oct. 9.) AFTER the departure of the packet on the 7th instant, I received a communication from Commander Day, of Her Majesty's steam-ship Firefly, who had lately arrived from cruizing off Whydah; in which, among other Slave Trade movements of vessels under American colours, he mentions having boarded a French screw-steamer at Whydah, that was shipping 1,200 slaves (from the French factory of M. Regis, doubtless, as he is the owner of the vessel), the slaves were being purchased at 50 dollars per head, and were shipped as free emigrants. Nothing more prejudicial to the peace of this part of the country, and to the interruption and (if it be followed by other monster purchases and shipments of slaves under the French flag) to the destruction of the rapid progress being made in legitimate commerce, and the peaceful cultivation of the soil, could have happened than this wholesale slave-dealing of M. Regis, under the sanction, doubtless, of the Imperial Government at Paris. As far as I can learn from Commander Day, the only insignia of Government sanction to this large slave expedition are two medical men on board, wearing the uniform of French marine medical officers. The master of the vessel is an old captain, of the house of Regis, and was, as I have been informed, expatriated for several years by the Government of the late King Louis Philippe, on account of Slave Trade transactions, and he returned to France about a year since. I inclose, for your Lordship's information, an extract from the boarding-book of Her Majesty's ship Firefly, giving some particulars of this vessel, The agents of Messrs. Regis, at Whydah, must have had ample notice of the advent of this vessel, as the price now paid for slaves by the old-established dealers is 80 dollars per head; and they could only have bought slaves for the price they state-50 dollars eachsome months since, before the appearance of the numerous slavevessels under American colours. The sudden determination of the Abbeokuta people to go to war, or, rather, to hunt for slaves, is, no doubt, connected with the great demand for slaves for shipment at Whydah; and Kosoko's hostile preparations to attack this place may be, in great measure, attributed to this cause. Already there is an uneasy feeling on the part of the the old Slave Trade Cabooceers of this place, and an anxious desire, which they do not conceal, for a revival of the Slave Trade at Lagos; and, were Kosoko to appear in force off Lagos to-morrow, they would, unless restrained by the presence of a British force, make their submission to him at once. I requested Mr. Williams, the former interpreter to the Consulate, who is very intelligent, and has some relatives among the native population, to make inquiry as to the present state of feeling in the town in regard to Kosoko and the great Slave Trade movement at Whydah; and I beg to inclose, for your Lordship's information, Mr. Williams's report to me dated this day. I have apprised Commander Day of the present state of affairs, and he will remain here until the arrival of Commander Burgess, of Her Majesty's ship Hecate, senior of this division, who is looked for in the course of to-morrow. I have, &c. The Earl of Clarendon. B. CAMPBELL. Inclosure.-Extract from the Boarding-book of Her Majesty's ship No. 26.-Consul Campbell to the Earl of Clarendon.—(Rec. Oct. 9.) (Extract.) Lagos, August 31, 1857. THERE is now no doubt that the revival of an active Cuban Slave Trade at Whydah and the neighbouring ports has arisen from the intention of the Imperial Government of France to purchase slaves at Whydah having been made known several months since in the Havana, in the Brazils, and at New York. There is in the hands of a Brazilian in this town a Bahia newspaper, containing a copy of a contract between the Government of France and Messrs. Regis. I am endeavouring to obtain a copy of the same to transmit to your Lordship. About the month of March last, I heard that the slave-dealers at Whydah had begun to purchase slaves largely, and were giving an increased price for them, and that many slaves were weekly sent from this to Porto Novo for sale; and I called King Docemo's attention to the fact. A guard was placed at the entrance of the Badagry lagoon to intercept the canoes carrying slaves to Porto Novo, and one was detained and sent to the King; but I could not learn that he inflicted any further punishment than the confiscation of the slaves and the canoe. There have since been no more canoes detained, from which circumstance I infer that the guard at Badagry lagoon is bribed to allow the canoes and slaves to pass, or that they are now sent by land via Ottah and Addoo, to Porto Novo. The agent of Messrs. Regis at this place was also cognizant of their intention to purchase slaves at Whydah, to be sent to the West Indies; but he concealed that intention from me, informing me that the steamer they had purchased, the Stella, and others that are being built in England, are intended for a line of packets to run from Marseilles to Gaboon, touching at the intermediate French settlements, and that the Imperial Government support Messrs. Regis in this undertaking with an annual subsidy. I could not help expressing my surprise that the Government of France should support a line of steam-packets for the convenience of a single mercantile firm, Messrs. Regis being the only firm possessing mercantile establishments south of Sierra Leone. Unless the Imperial Government of France soon abandons its intention of purchasing slaves at Whydah, we shall have the whole of the Yoruba country plunged into warfare to supply the demand of the slave-market at Whydah. The example of the people of Abbeokuta is to be followed by the people of Ibaddan, who are preparing to attack the Jaboo country, and, as a prelimary step, several Jaboos, peacefully attending the market at Ibaddan, have been seized, some put to death, others sent to Whydah for sale, and all intercourse between the two countries has been stopped by the closing of the paths or roads; and the example of France will, if the speculation through Messrs. Regis is carried out, be followed by Spain, Brazil, and The United States. While an active Slave Trade was being pursued on the south coast, and in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, the Bight of Benin was comparatively free from Slave Trade. The slave-traders, emboldened by the example and countenance of France, have recommenced their operations at Whydah. The Earl of Clarendon. B. CAMPBELL. No. 28.-Consul Campbell to the Earl of Clarendon.— (Rec. Oct. 9.) MY LORD, Lagos, September 1, 1857. ABOUT the close of last year it was generally mentioned in this place that a French man-of-war steamer had arrived at Whydah, and that the Commander was charged with a mission to the King of Dahomey inviting him to send two of his sons to France to be educated. The Commander of the steamer, accompanied by the agent of Messrs. Regis at Whydah, proceeded to Abomey, and, on his return, brought with him two youths, who were taken to France as the sons of the King of Dahomey. The youths in question were simply two slave boys, it being notorious that no Kings or Chiefs in this part of Africa allow their sons to be educated or to be brought prominently forward; they are kept in the back-ground, and out of sight of the kingly father, lest, when they arrive to manhood, they should conspire to put him out of the way in order to succeed him. The more despotic and tyrannical the Monarch, the more rigidly are his sons kept down and out of the way. Several years since, during the reign of the late King Louis Philippe, a similar request was made to the King of Kykandy, that he should deliver to the Commander of one of the French cruizers one of his sons, to be sent to France to be educated, and he delivered over a youth, who, it was notoriously known, was a slave; as the French traders did not undeceive the French Commander, no one else thought it advisable to enlighten him. The youth was sent to Paris, where he received a very fair education, and met with the kindest treatment and every indulgence. His education completed, and verging towards manhood, he was sent back to his country in a merchant-vessel; unfortunately, the King of Kykandy was at war with his neighbours inhabiting the lower territory of the river, and, in ignorance of this circumstance, the young man landed there, and was no sooner recognized than he was seized as a prisoner, and, but for the intervention of myself and others, he would have been stripped of all he possessed, and, in all probability, sold. After the sudden death of Akitoye, when it became necessary to appoint his successor, and the rightful successor was declared by |