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HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
“ I have the honour to enclose your excellency the treaty and 
proclamation in English, French, and Arabic, together with the 
instructions given by Radama to his ministers, fully signed by 
both parties. 
u I have the honour to be, 
“ Your excellency’s obedient and humble servant, 
“ Francis Stanfell.” 
Extract of a despatch, addressed to the right honourable 
Earl Bathurst, by his excellency Governor Earquhar, Esq., 
dated Port Louis, Mauritius, 18th Nov. 1817:—- 
“ Having finally succeeded in accomplishing the important 
object of abolishing throughout Madagascar the slave-market 
which has heretofore been open to all nations, I deem it my duty 
to put your lordship in possession of the treaty with Radama by 
which that object was effected, and also to enclose every document 
that can throw any light upon the progress of our negociations 
which have led to so desirable a result. 
“ The present despatch will in this manner, when combined with 
my former correspondence with your lordship on this subject, 
comprehend the whole history of the intercourse between this 
government and Madagascar, up to the completion of the great 
object of that intercourse, viz. the abolition of the slave traffic at 
its source, by the internal municipal regulations of that vast and 
populous island. 
u In consequence of the favourable dispositions clearly evinced 
on this occasion by the government of Madagascar, I lost no time 
in availing myself of them; and as Captain Le Sage’s health has 
suffered so severely, I found it necessary to appoint Mr. Hastie, 
in aid of the assistant Mr. Pye, for conducting the negociation 
immediately to a successful issue. Mr. Hastie was the person I 
had selected to conduct the education of the young princes from 
Ovah; a task he had executed to my satisfaction, and in which he 
had succeeded, also, in conciliating the esteem and regard of his 
pupils. 
i( Agreeably to instructions, Mr. Hastie, together with the 
brothers of Radama, proceeded on board his majesty’s ship 
