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appointed, and enter on his duties, you are empowered to leave at 
such place provisionally, as British Resident Agent, any one of 
the gentlemen of your Commission, or of the officers or others of 
the Expedition, whom you may think competent and fitted to the 
duties of that situation. You may assure to such gentleman an 
allowance proj^ordoned to the circumstances of his situation for 
one year only. 
34. If, however, at such place, at which you are of opinion 
that a Resident Agent on the part of her Majesty would be 
desirable, you shall find any respectable British merchant, or 
factor, whom you shall see to be fit to be named provisionally 
British Resident Agent, you may appoint such person provi- 
sionally to that situation, subject to confirmation from home. It 
is supposed that the superior protection which this character will 
give to such a gentleman will be a sufficient compensation to him 
for his services. 
35. In case you shall find that any Agents of foreign Chiefs or 
Powers shall be resident at the places at which you may touch, or 
that any negotiations are going on between the Chief you visit 
and other persons or Powers, you will endeavour to learn the 
purport of them, and the views of the respective parties to such 
negotiation, particularly with respect to the Slave Trade ; and 
you will transmit these particulars to me. 
36. You will make the commercial interests of Great Britain an 
object of your constant attention ; you will countenance British 
subjects, trading innocently to the possessions of any Chief of that 
part of Africa to which your Commission extends ; always, 
however, excepting merchants trading to those countries or 
possessions, the Chief whereof has declined to abolish the foieign 
Slave Trade. And if any British subjects, trading innocently, as 
aforesaid, to the Chiefs who shall have abolished the 1 rade 
in Slaves, should have any suit or pretension depending, you w'ill 
endeavour to procure for them speedy justice. Yet, for the 
honour of her Majesty, you will confine your interference to such 
cases only as may deserve the interposition of her Majesty s name, 
for the proper relief of British subjects, and for their support 
in their just rights. 
37- You will at every place you shall visit, collect, and after* 
