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occupations. Such was the vigilance of the officers 
appointed to superintend the observance of the pro¬ 
clamation, that not a slave was sold or sent out of the 
country, and the European slave-dealers were con¬ 
strained to retire confounded and dismayed at their 
disappointment. 
Prince Rataffe, who was to accompany the youths 
destined for England, arrived in this country with 
his charge, some time in the spring of the present 
year ( 1821 ), and committed them to the protection 
of the directors of the London Missionary Society. 
After staying a few months, during which he was 
gratified with a sight of every thing in London 
worthy of observation, he departed again for his native 
country, in company with several persons whose in¬ 
tention was to settle at Madagascar. 
We have now brought the political history of this 
interesting people down to the present period; and 
after having gone through such a detail of perfidy and 
cruelty, as well on the part of the natives, as their 
invaders; the Reader will feel relieved and gratified, 
to leave them in so imposing an attitude, as it respects 
both their moral and political state. With regard to 
the former, they appear before us, relieved from a 
scourge which has for ages brutalized their character, 
cramped their energies and talents, and prevented 
their improvement. Their country is now free of 
access to men of liberal and enlightened minds ; and 
when the amiable dispositions of the natives, and the 
