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From the eighteenth and nineteenth reports OF the


Directors Of the .4frican Institution. read at their
Annual General Meetings, held in London on the
18th day of May, 1924, and on the 18th day Of
May, 1925.


Sir Robert Mends, whose subsequent loss the
directors and the country at large have deeply to
deplorc, in letter to the Admiralty, dated the
a6th June, 1922, makes the following important
observations -


mThe facts which have come to my knowledge.
in my opinion, 20 far to establish this point, that
the slaye-trade will never be suppressed till the
right of search be freely admitted, and every ship
found with slaves on board, or evidently engaged
in shaving, be liable to condemnation to such ship
Of war of any nation as may seize her" While
the slave trade lasts, man can readily convert
the person of another into cash. with much less
trouble than he could raise the hundredth part of
the value by labor" it gives rise to every sort Of
dissipation and icentiousness, leading the mind of
the more active of the natives away from the less
productive and slower pursuits of agriculture and
commerce. But "wherever the traffic in slaves
has been checked, the natives appear to have shown
a fair and reasonable desire Of cutivating the
natural productions Of their country. Our resi-
dent officers and merchants agree in asserting, that
these would be raised to any extent for which a
market could be found. presume this is as much
as could be expected from any people in state of
nature''


81 am informed, it is almost impossible to credit
the extent to which the slave trade has been carr-
ed on in the Bonny; there having actually sailed
from that river, between the months of July and
November last year, l26 slave vessels, eighty six
Of which were French. and the others Spaniards
"An immense number have already sailed this


year; and find many more expected, and have


asceItalned. from good authority, that they will


generally be under the French hag--that is, they


sail, with their slavng cargoes board, from the


Havana, to port IN France, and there clear out


come to this coast under the Iretence Of purchas-
ing palm oil and ivory, ship their slaves, and re.


turn to the coasts Of Cuba thus inhumanly laten'
! s.By The annexed boarding list, it will appear ia


their lordships. that, within very short period


the ships Of war on this coast have boarded forty


five vessels engaged in the slave trade viz