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done, and is doing, is the effect, directly 
or indirectly, of their exertions.) 
~The report embraces the existing state of 
the'slave-trade Jaws, in the different coun- 
tries which are}’ or have’ been, interested in 
the trade; the actual condition of the trade 
itself ¥ and some few particulars relative to 
SierrasLeone. °° 0079 
© With respect to'the existing state of the 
slave-trade law, South’ America has annihi- 
lated’ slavery itself—the only mode of anni- 
hilating the trade; Worth America has long 
apo’ declared the trade piracy, but still 
refuses to accede to the offer of mutual 
search ; HZagland has also declared the trade 
piracy, and till of late the law of England 
seemed complete and competent; but a 
doubt has arisen about the permanent 
emancipation of slaves, and that doubt has 
been ‘acted upon to the prejudice of negroes. 
On their return to our colonies, after being 
in*England, where of course they became 
free, and, as every body believed, free for 
ever, many of them have actually been re- 
enslaved ; numbers have suffered through this 
piece of legal chicanery, and at this moment 
there are twenty-five at Antigua, waiting 
the decision of the Colonial court, which 
will, almost of course, decide in favour of 
the colonists. A specific enactment is 
thus demanded, which surely will not be 
delayed one instant on the meeting of Par- 
liament, But, to return to our enumeration 
—the Weiherlands have not pronounced the 
trade piratical, but they have prohibited it 
under severe penalties, and on the 23d 
December 1824 augmented materially, and 
more effectively, the severity of the penal- 
ties; France and Spain have, in like man- 
ner, prohibited the trade, but under inferior 
and inadequate penalties ; and Portugal and 
Brazil have alone refused hitherto to brand 
the trade with illegality, and have done 
nothing, but restrict the trade to the supply 
of their own settlements, and to the south of 
the line. © Brazil proposes, by and bye, to 
make the trade piracy at the end of a cer- 
tain’ number of years; and Portugal has 
talked of doing the same forthwith, should 
she separate from Brazil. Vous verrons. 
Such is the state of the law. What is 
the execution of it? © Alas, with respect to 
several of these countries, any thing but 
consolotary, or rather any thing but sincere. 
Of England and America, and now of the 
Netherlands, there is little, nay, perhaps 
nothing, to ‘complain; as to France and 
Spain; the trade might’ aswell, or doubt- 
less better, be protected as prohitnted ; and 
Portugal, and Brazil appear to make no 
attempt whatever to enforce their own very 
insignificant restrictions. 
The expense of watching the trade on 
the African seas falls mainly on England, 
America does something 3 thé Netherlands 
do something; but the Hench saliaaren is 
frequently # sent, and ‘always ‘inadequate ; 
and Spain’ does not affect to send, a single 
vessel for'the purpose, 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[Oer. 
The tradeon the western fi Neat 
is almost wholly m'the hands of Pref 
Spaniards.’ Nantes isthe’ great°s 
the trade; | There are at least’ 
at that port notoriotisly ‘eng 
trafic.’ In January last’ the 
a 
the ‘govéranent’ 
laid’ an’ embargo'on 16'‘Téss' thi ‘fo 2 ont 
suspicion of their being’ dés for the’ 
trade. How ‘long! they were Getiihed V 
know not; but thereis reason’to believe” 
that no single ship was finally thread from: 
its purpose. The last report“of thé minis-’ 
ter of marine stated that "364% ¥esséls" had” 
been detained on ‘the Africin seus, Spuinst’ 
160 of which there had been no ape for" 
any charge ‘at all (a very likely story), 
sixty-eight were acquitted, ‘and ‘sixty-one 
condemned. | These ‘facts ‘will give’ some 
notion of the magnitude of the French. 
trade. To give the French ministry credit 
for sincerity is, in their own native phrase, 
impossible ; why not accede to the propo- 
sal made by our Government’ of’ mutual 
search? C'est impossible ; and not only 
‘impossible,’ but the officers, it seems, 
are indisposed to carry the orders of the 
Government into effect. —Precious excuses !° 
Of the slave-trade in the Indian seas 
the report gives but little information; it 
waits the result of the parliamentary inquiry 
commenced last session. The numbers 
taken into the Isle de Bourbon are’ very 
considerable; 16,500° in 1823’ wére" torn 
away from Mozambique for Brazil, and 
that enormous “exportation, Capt.’ Owen 
assures us, in August’ 1825‘ wiis' ‘hot, di-” 
minished. =". ess ehal oa 
Of Sierra’ Leone also we have little, but, 
confiding auguries of future good—may they 
be realized. The ' public may shortly éx- 
pect the report of the commissioners, the 
substance of which we shall take Care to 
lay before our readers as soon as it appears. 
The report’ conéludes with lamenting the 
deficiency of the funds. “That deficiency 
amounts, it seems, to eight or nine hundred 
pounds ; for the supply of which the direc- 
tors makean earnest, and eveti a dolorous, 
appeal to the public, whieh will not, we 
trust, be made in vain. Bit'so long, and so 
splendid’ is the list of ‘vice-presidents and 
directors, that without meaning to insinu- 
ate “any backwardiiéss in ‘them to open. 
theitown! purse-strings, Wwe could’ not but 
observe that" ten or twelve pounds ‘ahead. 
would. have covered ‘the defidieney, “and 
spared” the ‘somewhat ‘wnworthy “appeal. 
Between two aid» three ‘hundred pounds: 
have been expended in brotectite rapt 
porting the ve slaves wlio weré taken out 
of: the wreeklat'St. Ives sonie'tinte’ ae 
in fmally shippine oF the* wie ivors, “ 
for Sierra Leones! “Surély this bi den ought” 
not' to" have filles ‘or a private Speiety. 
oppor ot Dio}. Va MO elSiies 
“Wagadeynara, Pomewens Hoorruenss: 
Specimens, of Romaic Lyric, Poetry, witha 
Translation, into English, -) By PaulMaria 
Leopold Joss. 1826.—These ‘translati 
are no doubt faithfully rendered, as farfas. 
