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quality being sacrificed for speed. In the holds 

 of these vessels, the unhappy victims of European 

 cupidity and British legislation are stowed lite- 

 rally in bulk, — where, to use the words of Com- 

 modore Hayes, R. N., " the men are chained 

 in pairs, and as a proof that they are intended 

 so to remain to the end of the voyage, their 

 fetters are not locked, but riveted by a black- 

 smith ; and as deaths are frequently occurring, 

 living men are often for a length of time con- 

 fined to dead bodies. I have now an officer on 

 board the Dryad, who, on examining one of these 

 slave-vessels, found not only living men chained 

 to dead bodies, but the latter in a putrid state." 

 The same officer tells us, " that it is no uncom- 

 mon occurrence for women to be bringing forth 

 children, and men dying by their side." 



If the slave-trade was not a smuggling one, it 

 is evident that the interest of the slaver would 

 be to give very different accommodations to his 

 victims. This is the first effect of our interfe- 

 rence, and is felt by every slave that leaves the 

 African coast; but double suffering awaits the 

 unfortunate being who, captured by a cruiser, 

 feels the iron grasp of the misdirected philan- 

 thropy of Britain. It is partly stated in the 



