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within this territory, for the purpose of commencing the culti- 
vation of the soil. 
Supposing both these arrangements to be carried into execution, 
we shall have a settlement circumscribed within narrow limits, 
and favourable in soil and aspect for the agricultural purposes of 
the Company, and we shall have the adjacent and surrounding 
country under British authority, and thereby protected from the 
injury which woxild necessarily arise if the Slave Trader were 
permitted to prowl about the skirts of the Farm* We shall 
have, moreover, the river running through the centre of the 
British dominion, and thus no longer open as a highway for the 
transport of Slaves. 
In asking for a territory one hundred miles square, we speak, 
as we necessarily must, indefinitely ; but it may turn out that a 
much smaller extent may be sufficient for our purposes ; this 
point, therefore, must be left in great measure to the directions 
of the Commissioners. 
We have the honour to be, &c, 
(Signed) Stephen Lushington, 
T. Fowell Buxton, 
By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High 
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 
Whereas it has been signified to us by Lord John Russell, 
one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, that Her 
Majesty being desirous of establishing a friendly intercourse 
with those African states which approach the Gulfs of Benin and 
Biafra, and which stretch along the great rivers Quorra and 
Chadda, and also of encouraging in the native population of 
those states that wholesome spirit of commercial industry which 
must tend to put down the traffic in slaves, has determined for 
these purposes to send there an Expedition, under the direction 
of four commissioners, of whom you have been appointed the 
