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every person to export the natives of 
Madagascar, under the penalty of them- 
selves, in their own persons, being reduced 
to slavery. 
“The King Radama embraces the pre- 
sent occasion for calling upon all per- 
sons of talent or profession, to come and 
visit his country, in order to prosecute 
their inquiries and researches as to the na- 
ture of its productions; and to whom he 
fives a sacred assurance of his protection 
in their efforts and undertakings. 
(Signed) Rapama MANZAKA. 
Given at Tananarivonx, this 11th Oct. 1820, 
“ By Radama, King of Madagascar. 
“€ PROCLAMATION. 
“ Inhabitants of Madagascar, 
“You are none of you ignorant of the 
friendship we enjoy with the Governor of 
the Mauritius, and the devoted attachment 
we have avowed to him: his attention, un- 
like that of all other foreign nations that 
have visited our shores, has been directed 
to increase our happiness and prosperity : 
he has never deprived us of our rights or 
our properties; he has not suffered the 
white men to carry off our children into 
slavery; he has sent us people to teach us 
arts and industry unknown before, to de- 
fend us against our enemies, and to prevent 
famine by more extensive’cultivation. We 
are happier and safer, since the establish- 
ment of British dominion in our neighbour- 
hood; and we are grateful to our good 
father, who has produced for us these 
Dlessings. 
“ His nation and king have made laws to 
prevent you from being carried out of 
your island into slavery; and he has pu- 
nished such of the whites as have pre- 
sumed to violate this law. 
“« He has called on us to assist him in 
this work, for our own benefit ; and he has 
promised his powerful assistance to punish 
such as may be refractory or disobedient. 
“We willingly agree to this proposal of 
our father; and we hereby declare, that 
if any of our subjects, or persons depending 
upon our power, shall henceforward be 
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guilty of selling any slave or other person, 
for the purpose of being transported from 
the island of Madagascar, the person guilty 
shall be punished by being reduced to 
slavery himself; and his property shall be 
forfeited to me. 
“Let my subjects, then, who have 
slaves, employ them in planting rice and 
other provisions, and in taking care of 
their flocks, in collecting bees-wax and 
‘gums; and in manufacturing cloths and 
other articles, which they can sell. I set 
them the first example myself, by abandon- 
ing the tax payable to me upon the sale of 
slaves for exportation. 
“Tdirect my brother, Jean René, and 
other chiefs upon the sea-coast, to seize, for 
their own use and profit, all such slaves as 
may be attempted to be exported, in their 
respective provinces. They willalso give 
every support and assistance to the go- 
vernment agent at Mauritius in the execu- 
tion of his duties. 
“T command all my subjects and de- 
pendants, and invite all my allies, to ab- 
stain from any maritime predatory excur- 
sion whatever; and more particularly, 
neither to practise, nor allow of any attack 
or attempt upon the friends of our ally the 
British nation. 
‘It has been usual to make an annual 
attack upon the Sultan of Johanna, and the 
Comoro Islands. Our good friend, the 
Governor of Mauritius, dissolved the me- 
ditated attack of last year; and we now 
join with him, in forbidding any further 
enmity to the king or inhabitants of the 
Comoro Archipelago, or other islands on 
the coast of Africa or North Archipelago, 
under the pain of our most severe displea- 
sure, and of incurring the punishment due 
to pirates, of whatever nation or people 
they may be. 
“Such is my will: let it be known to 
every inhabitant of this island : it is for 
their own happiness, and their own safety, 
to pay obedience to this proclamation. 
Tamatave, Island of Madagascar, 
23d Oct. 1817. 
BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
ACTS PASSED in the THIRD YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, or in the 
THIRD SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT Of the UNITED KINGDOM. 
— 
*," We introduce the following Statute out of its regulur order on account of its great 
social importance. 
AP.LXXV. To amendcertain Pro- 
visions of the Twenty-sixth of 
George the Second, for the better pre- 
venting of Clandestine Marriages.— 
July 22, 1822. 
Whereas it is, amongst other things, 
provided, by an Act passed in the twenty- 
sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty 
King George the Second, intitnled an Act 
for the better preventing of clandestine 
« 
marriages, that all marriages solemnized 
by licence after the z5th day of March 
1754, where either of the parties (not 
being a widower or a widow) shall be un- 
der the age of twenty-one years, which 
shall be had without the consent of the 
father of such of the parties so under age 
(if then living) first had and obtained, or if 
dead, of the guardian or guardians of the 
person of the party so under age, lawfully 
appointed, or one of them, and in case 
there ® 
