1810,] 
Liverpool and Lendon, for the purpose 
of carrying slaves from the coast of 
Africa to the Spanish and Portugueze 
settlements in America; and several ad- 
ventures of this description have aciu- 
ally been completed!!! 
‘The: persons, however, who are the 
most deeply engaged in this re farious 
trafic, appear to be citizens of the Uni- 
ted States of America, \Viese shelter 
theniseives from the penal-consequences 
of their criniinal conduct, by meaus of 
anomina! sale both of ship and cargo at 
some Spanish or S swedish port—(¢ he Ha- 
yannah, for example, or the i-laud of St. 
Bartholomew). They are thus put 1 a 
capacity to use i ie flags of these states ; 
and so disguised . have carried on their 
siave- trading speculations, during the last 
year, to an enormous extent |! ! 
The different communications received 
by the directors from the coast of Africa, 
concur in statmg, that in the month of 
October last the. coast was crowded with 
vessels, known to be Arnerican, trading 
for slaves under Spanish and Swedish 
flags. The slaves thus procured, it is 
understood, were afterwards to be car- 
ried for sale, either to South America, 
or to the Spanish West Ihelies. 
cargoes (there Is reason to Heliexe) were 
danded at Sx, Bartholomew’s, and Cee 
“pled thence into English islands ! !! 
~ The extent to which this evil hus unex- 
pectedly and suddenly proceeded, and 
its obvious intluence on all the plans for 
promoting the civilization of Africa, have 
induced the directors, since the last ge- 
neral meeting, to turn a large share of 
their attention to the best :neans of re- 
straining or removivg it. 
ing the necessary representations, from 
time to time, to his Majesty’s govern- 
ment, they haye taken measures for 
communicating “to the officers of the 
Royal Navy distinct information respect- 
ing the provisions of the legislature Oly 
. this point, and the manner in which 
those provisions have been eluded; as 
well as to point. out the pecuniary bie 
fantages: which would accrue to them 
from a vigorous enforcement of the Abo- 
lition laws. Vhe inducement to vigilance 
on the part of the navy is considerable ; : 
the captors being entitled to the fore 
ure of both ship and cargo. And “al- 
though all staves found on board are li- 
berated, yet there is a bounty allowed 
by government £0 the captors, amount- 
jny to 40/4, for each man, 30d. for eat 
woman, and 10/. for each child so libe- 
rated, Instances have already occurred 
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ih which this bounty has been claimed 
and received. 
The directors feel it incumbent or 
them to stute, that, in prosecuting their 
inquiries into this case, they uniformly 
ex xperienced, on the part of his Majesty’s 
goverbinent, a prompt attention to therr 
representations, and a cordial dispesitioa. 
to aid their eforts in preventing the ine 
fraction of the laws for the abolition of 
the slave trade. 
It is to be remembered, to the honour 
of the government e United States 
of America, that it seized an early op- 
portunity oF Heine the abdlition of 
this trade, as far as Icgislative enact. 
ints could effect it. America, howe 
en has few-or no means of enforcing - 
yal edicts. In despite 
of those edicts, therefore, her ships are 
now the great carriers of slaves, without 
any other defence agaist the orang 
to which as Americans they are liable, 
than is alforded by the fag, aod sinru= 
lated clearances, of some foreign state. 
The directors will now proceed tO DO- 
tice what has been further done in the 
prosecution of the olyects of the instis 
ee 
he capture of Senegal, which. was 
effected in the month. of Faly last, by 
captain Columbine, of the navy, and 
major Maxwell, ihe commandant of Gu- 
ree, has considerably abridged the faci 
lities enjoyed by the contraband slave 
traders on that part of the Slave Coast, 
It has also furnished an important inlet 
both for commerce and civilization; the 
river Senegal bemg navigable for several 
hundred inilos, and sume of its branches 
Besides imak-- approaching within a short distance ef 
the Niger. 
Havin ng received tmfurmation that the 
plants of the mulberry-tice, which they 
had transmitted to Bite had takea 
root, and were flourishing, not only at 
Sierra Leone, but at Goree and Senegal, 
the directors procured a codnsiderable 
number of silk-worms’ eggs, which were 
sent to those places, accompanied wiih 
particular directions respecting the pros 
per mode of rearing and managing theme 
They have also transmitted to Africa 
a farther supply of some useful seeds: 
and likewise: the model of a mill for 
cleaning rice from its busk; an operation 
which, “through the defect. ‘of proper mas 
chinery, is performed at present in a 
very laborious, rude, aud iniperfect man- 
ner. The directors apprehend, that 
_the present inferiority of African rice is 
chiefly to be attributed to this defect: 
‘ they 
