'We regret to say, that the slave trade appears to be carried on
to a great extent, and with circumstances of the most revolting
cruelty.' * * * 'The French slave trade, notwithstanding the
efforts of the government, appears to be undiminished. The
number of Spanish vessels employed in the trade is immense, and
as the treaty between England and Spain only permits the seizure
of vessels having slaves actually on board, many of these watch
their opportunity on the coast, run in, and receive all their
slaves on board in a single day.' * * 'By an official document
from Rio de Janeiro, it appears that the following importations
of slaves were made into that port in 1826 and 1827.

'1826, landed alive, 35,966 ... died on the passage 1,905
'1827, landed alive, 41,384 ... died on the passage 1,643

'Thus it would seem, (says the Boston Gazette,) that to only one
port in the Brazils, and in the course of two years,
_seventy-seven thousand three hundred and fifty_ human beings
were transported from their own country, and placed in a state
of slavery.'--[African Repository, vol. i. v. pp. 179, 181.]

'It is not by legal arguments, or penal statutes, or armed
ships, that the slave trade can be prevented. Almost every power
in Christendom has denounced it. It has been declared felony--it
has been declared piracy; and the fleets of Britain and America
have been commissioned to drive it from the ocean. Still, in
defiance of all this array of legislation and of armament, slave
ships ride triumphant on the ocean; and in these floating
caverns, less terrible only than the caverns which demons
occupy, from sixty to eighty thousand wretches, received
pinioned from the coast of Africa, are borne annually away to
slavery or death. Of these wretches a frightful number are, with
an audacity that amazes, landed and disposed of within the
jurisdiction of this republic.'--[Idem, vol. v. 274.]

'Notwithstanding all the efforts that have been made to suppress
the slave trade, by means of solemn treaties and laws declaring
it to be piracy; and notwithstanding the attempts to
exterminate it by the naval forces of the United States and
Great Britain, the inhuman traffic is still pursued to as great
an extent as at any former period, and with greater cruelty than
ever.'--[African Repository, vo