No 38. Sir Wm. à Court to Viscount Dudley... .... Date & Receipt. SUBJECT. Page {D. July 14, 1827} Slave-trade at the Cape de Verds. 387 Aug. 39. Viscount Dudley to Sir Wm. à Court..... D. Aug. 31, Ditto. Ditto..... - 387 BRAZIL. R. Jan. 30, 1827 Convention for the Abolition of 390 40. The Right Hon. R. Gordon to Mr. Sec. f D. Nov. 27, 1826 Canning... 41. The Right Hon. R. Gordon to Mr. Secr. ( D. Nov. 27, 1826 Correspondence as to the result of Canning.... 42. Mr. Sec. Canning to the Right Hon. R. Gordon...... R. Jan. 30, 1827 {D. Feb. 26, the Abolition, in Brazil....... 391 Portuguese Slave-trade to Brazil. 394 R. Mar. 1, 1827 ) Conduct of the Authorities at R. Mar. 1, 1827) The Right Hon. R. Gordon to Mr. Sec. D. Dec. 8, 1826 Canning.... 44. The Right Hon. R. Gordon to Mr. Secy.D. Dec. 8, 1826 Admeasurement of Slave-vessels... 398 Canning... 45. The Right Hon. R. Gordon to Mr. Sec. § D. Dec. 13, 1826 | Conduct of the Authorities at ..... 399 Canning... 47. Arthur Aston, Esq. to Mr. Secr. Canning. {R. Jan. 30, 1 R. Mar. 1, 1827 ) 400 Mar. 30, Illegal Licences granted at 400 No. Date & Receipt. SUBJECT. To communicate with H. M's. Page 59. Viscount Dudley to Mr. Consul Pennell.. D. June 28, 1827 Envoy at Rio, on Slave-trade. 413 D. May 5, JD. May 23, 60. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Secr. Canning. {R. June 30; 61. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Sec. Canning. R. July 25, 62. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Sec. Canning. R. July 25, SD. May 31, 63. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Secˇ. Canning. 64. M.. Consul Pennell to Mr. Secy. Canning. 65. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Sec. Canning. 66. Mr. Consul Pennell to Mr. Secr. Canning. 67. Mr. Consul Pennell to the Earl of Dudley. R. July 25, SD. June 1, R. Aug. 30, ( D. June 9, (D. June 16, { R. Aug. 30, R. Aug. 30, (D. July 4, {R. Dec. 20, D. Oct. 4, 419 414 412 42 Slave-vessels arrived at, and departed from, Bahia, since March 42 Admeasurement of the Brig Felicidade. Voyages of the Slave Brig } Henriquetta .. .} Receipt of No. 59 . . Pedro Primeiro. Carolina. Return of Slaves imported at Maranham in 1826.... R: May 23 -- } Nove de Margo...... {R. June 7, D. April 26, 71. Mr. Consul Hesketh to Mr. Sec1. Canning. R. July 19, (D. May 22, } Provincia do Maranhum. -} On approbation of Conduct . . . . . 42 44 4 4 4 81. Viscount Granville to Mr. Secr. Canning. . { D. Jan. 1. 1827 | Project of Late for the Preventin . The Right Hon. H. W. W. Wynn to D. June 11, 1827 Receipt of Parliamentary Papers. 463 Viscount Dudley... R. June 27, SWEDEN. (D. June 15, 1827 Receipt of Parliamentary Papers. 463 *.The Hon. J. Bloomfield to Visc. Dudley R. June 30, 102. Mr. Consul-General M'Kenzie to Mr. D. Dec. 30, 1826 Receipt of Parliamentary Papers. Secretary Canning.... {R. Mar. 3, 1827) Repression of Slave-trade .... 46 SPAIN. No. 1.-The Right Hon. F. Lamb to Mr. Secretary Canning.- SIR, Madrid, 20th January, 1827. I HAVE the honour to enclose Copies of a Note which I addressed to M. Salmon, in obedience to the Orders conveyed in your Despatch of December 14, 1826, and of His Excellency's Answer. It is perfectly true, that I have been made aware that similar Advertisements have already, more than once, during the time which I have held His Majesty's Mission at Madrid, appeared in the publick Newspapers of Cadiz. I have the honour to be, &c. The Right Hon. George Canning. F. LAMB. (Enclosure 1.)-The Right Hon. F. Lamb to the Chevalier de Salmon. Madrid, 29th December, 1826. THE Undersigned, &c. has the honour to transmit to His Excellency the Chevalier de Salmon, &c. the Copy of a Letter from His Majesty's Consul at Cadiz, inclosing a publick Advertisement in the Gazette of that City, for the sale of a Negress. Similar Advertisements have more than once appeared in the publick Newspapers of Cadiz, during the time the Undersigned has held His Majesty's Mission at this Court. These acts of Slave purchase and sale in the heart of Spain herself, are entirely repugnant to the spirit of the Stipulation by which His Catholick Majesty, in the 1st Article of the Treaty of the 22d of September, 1817, engages to His Britannick Majesty," that the Slave trade shall be abolished throughout the entire Dominions of Spain, on the 30th May, 1820." The Undersigned has, therefore, received the commands of his Government to place these facts before the Government of His Catholick Majesty, with the expression of the hope, that Orders will immediately and publickly be given for the discontinuance of a practice, which, by its prevalence in the Mother Country, must afford an example, the effect of which cannot but be injurious to the due maintenance of the faith pledged by His Catholick Majesty, in his Compact with Great Britain for the Abolition of the Slave-trade. The Undersigned avails himself, &c. His Excellency the Chevalier de Salmon. F. LAMB. (Enclosure 2.-) The Chevalier de Salmon to the Right Hon. F. Lamb. (Translation.) SIR, Palace, 17th January, 1827. I RECEIVED the Note which you did me the honour to address to me, dated 29th of last December, complaining that in the Diario de Cadiz, of the 25th of the previous October, the Sale of a Negress was announced; and demanding, by reason thereof, the observance of the Treaty of 1817, for the Abolition of the Slave-trade, of which you believed that the above Sale was an infraction; adding also, that that was not the first instance of similar Advertisements in the said Diario. Permit me, Sir, to observe to you, that the Treaty of 1817 cannot possess that latitude, which, in the present question, is wished to be given to it. If now, and at other times, similar Advertisements have found their way into the said Diario, the acts to which they refer cannot be considered as being comprehended in the traffick which was abolished; but merely as the disposal of a Property, which it is lawful for the Owner to alienate, and which he can make over to another Possessor, in virtue of a Sale, or in any other manner; the more so as, by Enactment of the said Treaty, the slavery of Negroes, already introduced before its conclusion, was not abolished; and it is further therein stipulated, that a period shall be allowed in which more Slaves may be introduced. Moreover, The King, my august Lord, who has with such good faith coincided with the philanthropick ideas of His Britannick Majesty, in this matter, has never desisted, and never will desist, from forwarding all the Measures which the English Government has adopted. and may still adopt, to prevent, in the Spanish Dominions, the nefarious Traffick in Human Beings, and to ensure more and more the accomplishment of what is stipulated ;-a fact well known to your Excellency. |