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APPENDIX. 
to you, and each of you, in the execution of this Our 
Commission, 
Given at Our Court at Windsor, the Fifteenth day 
of September, One thousand eight hundred and 
forty, in the Fourth Year of Our Reign. 
By Her Majesty’s Command, 
Captain Henry Dundas Trotter, 
Commander William Allen, Com- 
mander Bird Allen, and William 
Cook, Esquire, Commissioners for 
njaking and concluding Agreements 
with the Chief Rulers of the M'estern 
Coast of Africa, for the Suppression 
of the Traffic in Slaves, and the 
establishment of a lawful Commerce. 
J. Russell. 
No. I. 
Downing Street, January 30, 1841. 
Gentlemen, 
Her Majesty being earnestly desirous to put down entirely that 
traffic in slaves, and to substitute, instead thereof, a friendly 
commercial intercourse between her Majesty's subjects and the 
natives of Africa ; and her Majesty having determined to send 
persons of trust to open a communication with the native African 
Chiefs, and where it shall appear expedient to conclude, in her 
Majesty's name, with those chiefs, agreements calculated to attain 
the salutary objects above declared. Her Majesty has been 
pleased to approve, that an Expedition shall be sent for this 
purpose to the several African states, which are situated on or 
near the sea coast, within the Bights of Benin and Biafra, or 
within the mouths of the chief rivers, which open into the said 
Bights, and up and within the River Niger and its tributary 
streams, as far as they shall be navigable for steamers of the size 
