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of the African trade, (without attempting to assign the proporlion of increase) 
let us take another view of the same subject 
The Gold Coast is about ^50 miles in extent, httle more than a twentieth 
part of the whole coast extending from Cape Blanco to Cape Negro. Pre- 
viously to the Abolition of the slave trade, the imports into Great Britain from 
this space of coast used to consist of about 20 tons of ivory valued at £7500 
and about 1000 ounces of gold dust ----- 4000 
£ 11,500 
Since the Abolition of the slave trade the imports from this tract of coast 
have greatly increased; and it may be stated upon the undoubted authority 
of intelligent persons, perfectly acquainted with the facts, that the import- 
ations have amounted, during the last five or six years, to the annual value 
of from 120,000. to /180,000. The annual import of gold alone is stated 
to be about 30,000 ounces. 
Thus it appears that the importation from the Gold Coast alone, (a space of 
'250 miles) into Great Britain since the Abolition of the slave trade, has been 
double the amount of the importation from the whole slave coast of Africa 
(an extent of 4500 miles) prior to that event. 
A farther example may be taken from the colony of Sierra Leone, where 
a custom house was first established in May 1812; from whence accounts 
have been furnished of the imports and exports into and from that colony 
during the two years ending in May 1814. — The amount of the imports 
during that period, on which duties were actually paid, was ^105,080. 15s. 3c?. 
he'xng the alleged prime cost of the goods, even without the cost of packages. 
In order to obtain the invoice price of the goods, one third at least must be 
added to the prime cost for necessary charges. The amount will then be 
about 140,000. or, on an average, j{;70,000, annually. 
The exports from Sierra Leone during the same period have amounted to 
X91,539. 17s. 6i. being on an average ,^45,000. annually. The remainder of 
imports may be accounted for by the \i\]\s of exchange drawn upon this 
country for the expenses of the civil establishment and commissariat. Hence 
it appears that from the single river of Sierra Leone the imports into Great 
Britain were nearly, and the exports to the same river fully, equal to the im- 
ports and exports (exclusive of the slave trade) of the whole extent of the 
Western Coast of Africa prior to the Abolition. 
The facts here stated relative to the extent of our innocent and legitimate 
