300 Sierra Leone, and [MARCH, 



enormous expense, to repair every public building in it, to erect new 

 barracks, hospitals, &c. at an enormous expense, to send out a numerous 

 train of civil and military officers and clergymen, and to adopt an en- 

 tirely new system of management. And after all this is done, we 

 might ask what good object could be gained ? would the climate be one 

 whit better ? or could any possible advantage accrue to the nation by 

 such a continual waste of men and money ? 



Fernando Po, therefore, provided no circumstance of climate, or 

 otherwise, forbids the transfer, seems to be the only station within our 

 reach wherein the evil part of the abolition system is likely to be abated. 

 We should there have the liberated Arricans, and general population, 

 more under command ; there would be no necessity for concentrating 

 the population, and taking them from agricultural pursuits, to repel the 

 attacks of hostile neighbours ; we should, in time, be able, with the aid 

 of steam navigation, to open communications with the interior of Africa, 

 through the great rivers falling into the Bights of Benin and Biafra ; 

 and by rigid discipline, moderate coercion, and strict sanatry regula- 

 tions, we might hope, ultimately, to introduce that degree of industry and 

 good order, through which alone civilization can be effected. Let the 

 Maroons, the Nova Scotians, and all who might, now, or hereafter, be 

 desirous of placing themselves under our protection, have the means of 

 transportation to the island, as quickly as circumstances, and their own 

 safety, would permit leaving Sierra Leone to the Kroomen, Fantees, 

 Timanees, Mandingoes and those other precious allies, whose courage and 

 attachment were soconspicuous when Sir Charles Macarthy was de- 

 stroyed ; and who, unless they preferred decorating some new King Tom 

 with the jaw-bones of their enemies, would soon be merged in the general 

 mass of the neighbouring savages, to whom philanthropic societies in 

 Europe are incomprehensible, and who know so little of the power of 

 the British nation, as to consider Mr. Kenneth Macaulay king of the 

 whites! !* The buildings, except such as may be necessary for the 

 defence of a factory, and " good will of the business," might at once 

 be left for the use of the Macaulay s et hoc genus omne ! 



The measures that ought to be adopted for putting an end to the 

 foreign slave trade, are more difficult to decide, and require graver con- 

 sideration. 



It is evident that if, in spite of the utmost exertions of a numerous Bri- 

 tish squadron, consisting, in 1826, of the following ships viz. The Ferret/ 

 Pylades, Martin, Champion, Diamond, Doris, Ranger, Bustard, Helicon, 

 Fly, Rainbow, Pandora, Harlequin, Tweed, Warspite, Volage, Gyrene, 

 Sparrowhawk, Hind, Druid, and Galatea the colonies of France and 

 Spain have been more fully supplied with slaves than at any former 

 period, our efforts are unavailing; and will, so long as France and 

 America deny the right of mutual search, only serve to entail upon us a 

 further waste of men and money the odious distinction of destroying 

 thousands of Africans by our false humanity, and of maintaining in 

 idleness a crowd of savages, who, as even Mr. Kenneth Macauley now 

 tells us, are not innocent people, torn from their happy and peaceful 

 homes, but beings " in the lowest state of ignorance and degradation, 

 many of them the bad subjects of barbarous states, enslaved for crime ! !" 



If France would consider her own honour, permit the right of mutual 

 search, and join the maritime powers in declaring the slave trade piracy, 



* Vide Caillie's Travels, pp. 215, 250. 



