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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
“Out! out, damned spot !”’ 
Sir: 
EX a work published at Copenhagen, 
a by M. Monrad,.a Danish clergyman, 
who. has, had ample opportunities of 
knowing the fact, it not ‘only appears 
that the opinion expressed in your last 
Number (p. 428), founded upon the cor- 
respondence published by our House 
of Commons, that the legislative aboli- 
tion of the Slave Trade, so far from 
diminishing the extent, has increased 
the horrors of that, traffic, is lamentably 
confirmed ;, but. that our own national 
character is not yet, by all the purifying 
waters. of legislation, washed quite so 
clean, from the stains of this worse than 
cannibal traffic, as you were indulgently 
disposed to admit. It is nationally ab- 
jured, it is true; but the nation is not 
cleansed from the pollution. 
“This infamous commerce,” it seems, 
“notwithstanding all the efforts of the 
British Government, is perpetually going 
on, partly under the English flag, and partly 
under the flags of America, Portugal, 
Spain, Holland, and France. It appears, 
according to M. Monrad, that the Antilles 
receive. an annual importation of 20,000 
slaves; and that in the year 1821, the 
Danish troops on the coast of Africa were 
compelled to oppose by main force, an ex- 
pedition undertaken by several English 
traders, in Conjunction with some Dutch 
and’ Portuguese, to procure negroes.” 
Tagree with you entirely, Sir, in the 
proposition, that there is, and can be, 
but one way of putting an effectual stop 
to the piratical cannibalism of the Slave 
Trade ; and that is, by the Abolition 
of Slavery. So long as slaves are per- 
mitted: to be retained, supplies will be 
had; and if what these slave-dealers 
and slave-buyers call a fair and open 
trade in humandimbs and blood is, pro- 
hibited, a contraband will be carried on: 
ebony will continue to be smuggled ; and 
even English planters, will not scruple 
to be receivers of the smuggled /ogs, 
and will elude all the vigilance of your 
colonial and maritime’ police. 
. But what shall we say to America, 
that land of libertyand equality ? What 
shall we say—not only of the citizen- 
pirate-vagabonds, who individually may 
mingle with the subject-pirate-vagabonds 
of other states less free inthe buccaneer- 
ing of this horrible trade,—but of the 
constituted authorities themselves of the 
Slave Trade—British Heraldry— Compressed Air. 
(July 1, 
United States,—who, by the interference 
of a constitutional power, actually pro- 
hibit and prevent the emancipation of 
their sable brethren—even when the 
humanity or religious scruples of the 
slave-owner is desirous of liberating 
them? Yet, among the Varieties of a 
Foreign Literary Scientific Journal, we 
find the following article: : 
““ New Orleans. — Humanity would 
scarcely credit, that a Christian government, 
so famed for its brotherly love and for 
teaching equality to all, could refuse the 
benevolent desires of a Mrs. Hulin to 
emancipate some of her slaves. But such 
is. the fact. The lady is a considerable 
janded proprietor, and applied to the pro- 
per authorities of the place for permission 
to emancipate, which was refused.” 
Thus it seems, that it is perfectly con- 
sonant with American liberalism, not 
only that the citizen upholder of liberty 
and equality should be aslave-holder ; 
but that it.is equally in harmony. with 
the same republican liberalism, that the 
freest of all free citizens should not be 
at liberty to relinquish an iniquitous. 
property in the lives and limbs of his 
fellow beings, and. give freedom to his 
bondsmen, even though their chains 
should hang heavy upon the neck of his 
own conscience. ConsIsTENCY, 
—=z 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
TAKE the liberty: of informing. 
your correspondent Tyro. (p. 396 
of the last number), that the mistake of 
naming: the Lions (for they are Lions) 
in’ the British arms, Leopards, origi- 
nated in their being anciently blazoned 
according to the Norman-French used 
in England, Lions Leopardies. 
S. RM. 
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To. the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
N error: of the, press has. caused 
an unnecessary, difficulty in the 
use of Compressed. Aar for, filling 
cushions, &c., by directing the air- 
bagito be secured by a spring, instead 
of applying a string, as. usually tied 
reund the neck of a bladder. One great; 
advantage of compressed air consists in. 
its permanent elasticity, the want of 
which is a great inconvenience to in- 
valids in the use of beds, cushions, and 
mattrasses. The value of. horse-hair,, 
in this particular, is:well known. 
Ente SEprimus. 
