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quer (Mr. Perceval), the Right Hon. T. Grenville, G. fore parliament, which was passed unanimously in both 

 Canning, J. C. Yilliers, Sir .1. Newport, J.' '. houses, 



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, and X. Vansittart, Sir P. Francis. Sir S. Ko- 

 inilly, General Vyse, Me--rs. I'.un! i^t-n, JM- 



J. H. Browne, Barry, Grant, 11'; 1 u.-li- 



ington, Montague, \V. M. 1'itt. Ro-coe, Sharp, Simeon, 

 U. Thornton, II. 1 !:..r: to:i, Whilbrcad, and \\ilber- 



( members of parliament) ; and Messrs. Bernard, 

 B.irclay, Brougham, Clar!. .) Martin, 



Morrit, Macaitlay, G. Mi.irp, \V. Smith, Stephen, and 

 Mr. Macaulay undertook, in the interim, 

 and for several years most ably disc-harped, the labo- 

 rious office of secretary, in which he has oeen succeed- 

 ed by T, Han The income of the society 

 amounted at the end of 1 C8 to 4374, of which ' 

 arose from .annual contributions ; End though its funds 

 have subsequently been much augmented by subscrip- 

 tions and donations, (one of which, to the amount of 500 

 guineas, was transmitted anonymou.-ly from a member 

 of the Society <.f Friend*,) they have by no means been 

 proportionate to the extent and interest of its objects. 



Of its well directed and gent rally successful pro- 

 ceedings, a very (.light sketch only can here be pre- 

 sented ; but its reports may be recommended to our 

 readers, as most int< . the friend of humanity, 



by the importance of their topics attractive to the man 

 of taste, by the ability and eloquence with which they 

 are executed and even arousing to the idler, by the 

 variety and curious nature of their contents. In the 

 course of the first two years of its existence, the 

 tution sent out to Sierra Leone three African y< 

 instructed by Dr. Bell and Mr. Ijnca-tcr; and di 

 the governor of the settlement, to select other young 

 men to be sent to England, for the purpose of being 

 qualified to art as teacher* in such branches of know- 

 ledge M might be most beneficial in Africa, particu- 

 larly to engage proper persons to teach in that country 

 the Arabic and Sow 00 language* : conveyed to various 

 parts of the coast, large quantities of the best kinds o I 

 cotton seed, to.be dutriUited among the natives for cul- 

 tivation, and .ilvj a number of machines for cleaning 

 the co'.toti. with printed directions for its whole culture 

 and management : sent a press, on a new construction, 

 for expressing the oil of the castor nut, with a number 

 of plants of the white mulberry tn-e, to ascertain the 

 possibility of raining silk in Africa ; besides the seeds 

 and plants of other valuable prod actions, such as the 

 genuine Peruvian bark, camphor, tea-tree, and tobacco: 

 offered premiums for the importation of cotton, wool, 

 rice, and indigo from Africa, and for the growth of 

 coffee in that country ; while, at the same time, they 

 1 their influence with government to procure a 

 modification of the heavy duties on article* from the 

 African coast: counteracted, with considerable effect, 

 the numerous nefarious attempts t the aboli- 



tion laws, and both by public- r presentations, and the 

 circulation of suitable tracts in French, Dutch, Portu- 

 guese, and Spani.h, have endeavoured to induce fo- 

 reign powers to abandon the traffic in slave*. L'pon 

 finding that the cu'r mulberry tree had pro- 



ved successful on the African coat, tli.-y trantmilted 

 silk worms for raising silk. They have also con 

 to the amc country a variety 01 plants and 



weds, tnch as- hemp and flai, teak tree, and that which 

 yield* the caiaputta oil. 



ie purpose of inquiring into the objects 



. society. But their principal ami 

 < iirwt-on has> been, to watch over the execution of the 

 ilwilit fun acts, and to engage the same measure* to be 

 adopted by other powers. In these views they have 

 accomplished much, particularly in bringing a bill be- 



for declaring the slave trade a felonious crime ; 

 in preparing the way for establishing in the West In- 

 dies a registry of slaves, for the purpose of checking 

 all illicit importation of new negroes, as well as for se- 

 curing the better treatment ot those already in bon- 

 dage ; and in standing forward as the advocates of op- 

 pressed Africans, both at home and abroad. " After 

 the universal expression of the public feeling, which 

 we have witnessed," says one of these able advocates, 

 ( referring to the petitions presented to parliament ia 

 IHt, on the negotiation* tor procuring the abolition 

 of the slave trade by foreign powers,) " it is with 

 surprise and concern we perceive, how very inade- 

 quate to the variety and immensity of its objects the 

 funds of this admirable institution still are. Its recent 

 invaluable efforts have nearly exhausted them ; and its 

 permanent income falls at present (ISia) considerably 

 short of JL' 500 per annum. This circumstance would 

 undoubtedly be somewhat opprobrious to the British 

 name, and especially to the religious part of the com- 

 munity, U' it did not proceed, as we feel confident it 

 does, uoui ignorance of the real state of the case. It 

 cannot be, that those, who have stood forward so no- 

 bly to vindicate the national character from all partici- 

 pation in the guik of sanctioning either the conti- 

 nuance or the revival of the slave trade, should suffer 

 a society to languish, for want of pecuniary .-upport, 

 on whose vigilauce and exertions, we have no 1. 

 tion in saying, U mainly depends, not or.ly whether 

 our policy in res|n-ct to Africa shall be generally adopt- 

 ed by other nations, but whether our oiva abolition. 

 laws shall be any thing more than a dead letter." See 

 The Annual Bejytlt of the African Iiulituliim; and the 

 n of these Reports in the Christian Observer and 

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IN-I IM iTiiMF.TK, ASTRONOMY, 



BAROMEII MINT*, DULLING, DRAW* 



LR, GRADUATION, Hv- 



GROMCTRY, K \ !< IOIMKT1H, MICROSCOPE, 



Mfi I.EHY, TELF.-OI'E, TUERMOMETER, 



irioos other article* in our Work. 



\LF., iii mercantile con- 

 cerns, is a contract or engagement, by which one par- 

 ty becomes bound, for a specified sum, to injure du- 

 ring a limited time, the property of another against cer- 

 tain risks to which it is peculiarly exposed. 



The party who engages to indemnity for the loss that 

 may be sustain* I the Insurer, or I'mlrrmriler ; 



the compensation pai.l for the rik, the premium; and 

 the document containing the obligation, tl.c jtolicy. 



Good* insured are said to be covered, when not only 

 their value, but the premium and other charges are in- 

 sured. The term aeeraee, of which there are two 

 -. is applied to goods insured against sea risk: 

 nl averngt, n a proportionable contribution paid 

 by all the proprietors of a ship and cargo, for losses in- 

 curred with a view to guard against a total shipwreck ; 

 and particular avcrayr, is a contribution for such losses 

 as may arise from ordinary accidents at sea, and is pay- 

 able by the proprietors of the articles which suffer the 

 damage. In computing general average for masts, 

 rigginjr, &c. cut away for the security of the ship and 

 cargo, it is usual to deduct a third of the expencc of 

 refitting, as the new article* in:-y in general be consi- 

 dirrd so much better than the old ; but goods thrown 

 overboard are ettimated at the value they would have 

 jht at the place of destination. When .1 ship, car- 

 tel freight, are fully insured, the underwriters are 

 responsible for general and particular average*. Du- 

 ring a period of war, when thtrc is a risk of capture, 



