l. vi. p. 345.]

'The slave trade, which many suppose has been every where
abolished for years, there is reason to believe is still carried
on to almost as great an extent as ever. It has been recently
stated in the papers, that an association of merchants at Nantz,
in France, had undertaken to supply the island of Cuba with
thirty thousand fresh negro slaves annually! And in Brazil, it
is well known, that for several years past, the importations
have even exceeded this number.'--[Idem, vol. vii. p. 248.]

'Africa, for three long centuries, has been ravaged by the slave
trade. Notwithstanding all that has been done to suppress that
traffic, notwithstanding its formal abolition by all civilized
nations, it is carried on at the present hour, _with all its
atrocities unmitigated_. The flags of France, Portugal, Brazil,
and Spain, with the connivance of those governments, afford to
the slave trader, in spite of laws and treaties and armed
cruisers, a partial protection, of which he avails himself to
the utmost. And with what cruelty he carries on his war against
human nature, every year affords us illustrations sufficiently
horrible.'--[Christian Spectator for September, 1830.]

'This horrible traffic, notwithstanding its abolition by every
civilized nation in the world, except Portugal and Brazil, and
notwithstanding the decided measures of the British and American
governments, is still carried on to almost as great an extent as
ever. Not less than 60,000 slaves, according to the most
moderate computation, are carried from Africa annually. This
trade is carried on by Americans to the American states. And the
cruelties of this trade, which always surpassed the powers of
the human mind to conceive, _are greater now than they ever were
before_. We might, but we will not, refer to stories, recent
stories, of which the very recital would be torment.'--[Seventh
Annual Report.]

'Notwithstanding the vigilance of the powers now engaged to
suppress the slave trade, I have received information, that in a
single year, in the single island of Cuba, slaves equal in
amount to one half of the above number of fifty-two thousand
have been illicitly introduced.' * * 'Mr Mercer submitted the
following preamble and resolutions:--Whereas, to the affliction
of the Christian world, t