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country, you will, in all your interviews with the African Chiefs, 
and with other African natives, on the subject of the suppression 
of the Slave Trade, abstain carefully from any threat or intima- 
tion that hostilities upon their territory will be the result of their 
refusal to treat. You will state, that the Queen and people of 
England profess the Christian religion ; that by this religion they 
are commanded to assist in promoting good-will, peace, and 
brotherly love, among all nations and men ; and that, in endea- 
vouring to commence a further intercourse with the African 
nations, Her Majesty’s Government are actuated and guided by 
these principles. You will make allowance for the motives of 
fear, of distrust, of jealousy, of suspicion, by which native 
Africans, unaccustomed to treat with Europeans, in this formal 
way, may at first naturally view the overtures made to them. 
You will make allowance also for the misunderstanding either of 
language, of manner, or of conduct, or of your object in seeking 
intercourse with them ; you will also allow for any hardness of 
feeling you may witness in them on the subject of Slave Trade, 
a hardness naturally engendered by the exercise of that traffic, 
and perhaps, in some cases, increased by intercourse with the 
lowest and basest of Europeans. You will endeavour to con- 
vince them by courtesy, by kindness, by patience and forbear- 
ance, of your most persevering desire to be on good terms with 
them : and you will be most careful to exhibit no signs of 
needless mistrust. You will, on all occasions, keep a strict watch 
so that no mischief may from open force, or secret wile of the 
natives, ensue to the lives, liberties and properties of yourselves, 
and of others committed to your care ; and with this view, you 
will be careful to be provided with adequate means for defence as 
far as possible ; but you will on no account, have recourse to 
arms, excepting for the purpose of defence, and you will bear in 
mind that the language and conduct prescribed to you in this 
paragraph, is that which you are to observe on all occasions in 
the course of your Commission. 
20, If after all your attempts to attain the immediate object 
of your Commission you shall fail in it, you will conclude by 
telling the Chief and his Headmen, that Her Majesty is bound 
to use all her naval means, in conformity with treaties already 
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