TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 
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tive branch of her commerce consisted in the traffic of slaves. The 
humane interference, and the decisive measures, of England, have 
con tributed to check, if not quite to abohsh, these execrable sources 
of profit. Piracy, so far at least as we were able to learn, has been 
wholly superseded by commerce; and when the Tripolines find 
that it is more to their interest to give up their traffic in human 
kind than to continue it, we may hope to see this also relinquished. 
It may, however, be added (we fear) that till then such a consum- 
mation must not be expected, however devoutly it may be wished. 
Indeed, we cannot reasonably expect that it should ; for the feelings 
which result from a high state of civilization will never be found to 
precede civihzation itself : and humanity, however strongly we may 
believe, or may wish to believe, it is implanted in the breasts of all 
mankind, has not often been found to weigh very heavy against the 
scale in which interest, or inchnation, has been opposed to it. 
comparatively heavy payments in Spanish dollars, the value of them rose in proportion 
as it was known we had occasion for them^. In order to remedy, or rather to prevent 
impositions of a similar nature, it would be advisable for travellers to take with them, 
in Spanish dollars, the amount of the sums they may have occasion for in Tripoly ; for 
even if the exchange should be good on their arrival there, it would most probably 
lower as they were known to have occasion for money. Should this be inconvenient, 
bills might be drawn on Malta, and the money in Spanish dollars^ forwarded by the 
first secure vessel which might be sailing from that port to Tripoly. 
> It must, however, be observed, in justice to the house of Messrs. Beaussier and Co., that we expe- 
rienced a more liberal treatment from them than from any other house in Tripoly. 
The Spanish dollar is the coin in most general request in the northern and inland parts of Africa. 
