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case they shall he attacked by enemies for the faithful performance 
of the conditions of the agreement. But you will only make this 
promise where you see the prospect of being able effectually to 
perform it. 
27. You will in every conference with African Chiefs, assure 
them that the Queen has ordered you on the service in which 
you are engaged, for the benefit and happiness of the African 
race. 
28. You are to understand generally, that any agreement, of 
whatever nature, you shall enter into with African Chiefs, is to be 
held subject to her Majesty’s sanction ; and that u clause is to be 
inserted in, or added to, any such agreement, declaring that it 
is expressly reserved to her Majesty, to sanction, modify, or annul 
the same. 
29. If several of the Chieftains could be induced to unite 
together, and bind themselves by one agreement to suppress the 
Slave Trade, such conjoint agreement would greatly conduce to 
effect the principal object of the mission. You are, therefore, 
to avail yourselves of every opportunity to persuade the Chiefs to 
adopt this measure ; and further to procure, in such agreement, 
the insertion of proper conditions, to insure to the respective 
parties mutual protection from all aggressions which might arise 
from their uniting in such an engagement. 
30. You yourselves will be careful to abstain during the whole 
course of your mission, from all barter, or other bargain for the 
purposes of commerce, either on your own part, or by or for 
others ; and you will also take care not to mix up either her 
Majesty’s Government or yourselves, in any way, in any commer- 
cial or agricultural speculation. 
31. If the sovereignty over any country or place should be 
offered to Great Britain through you, you will engage to submit 
the proposal to your Sovereign. 
32. You wiU also take care to be courteous and friendly towards 
the subjects of all civilized nations, whom you may meet in the 
course of your mission. 
33. If at any place, in an independent state, within the range 
of your Commission, it shall appear to you to be desirable that a 
Resident Agent on the part of her Majesty shall be immediately 
