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Immediately after the signing of the agreement, his 
Majesty ordered the necessary preparations to be made 
for the fulfilment of its conditions ; and a few days after, 
the selection took place of the young persons to be sent 
to England and the Mauritius for education. A great 
competition ensued as to whose children should 
have the king’s permission to go, it being considered 
a very high honour. Such was the eagerness mani¬ 
fested, that one person said he would give three 
thousand dollars for permission to send his child: 
“Well,” said the king, “give me fifteen hundred, 
and he shall go.” After a little hesitation, the man 
answered he would give that sum. “ Well,” rejoined 
the king, “ as you are in earnest, and sincere in your 
request, he shall go for nothing.” The selection 
was made from amongst the children of the richest 
and most respectable people in the capital. Princes 
Rataffe, and Endrian Semisate, brothers-in-law to 
Radama, were deputed to conduct these youths to 
their destination, the former to England, and the 
latter to the Mauritius. 
As soon as the treaty was promulgated, the slaves, 
which had been conveyed to the coast for the purpose 
of being exported, were sent back into the interior 
to be employed in husbandry and other domestic 
render him the subject of similar feelings. We need only 
mention the name of Clarkson, and the “Abolition,” and 
the Header’s grateful reflections will supply the rest. The cir¬ 
cumstance we have been relating, is an additional triumph to 
that great man. 
