Inclosure 3.-Proclamation (C.) of the Governor of Surinam.
PUBLICATION. Paramaribo, January 23, 1523.
We, Abraham de Veer,&c. &c. &c.

Translation.

To all men unto whom this shall come, greeting. Whereas, the causes which have given occasion to the laying on of an embargo on the Ships, y our Publication of the 10th of this Month, now, for the most part, have ceased to exist, inasmuch as the fugitive Person of Jean Marie Bled, and one of the missing sailors of the Slave-trading French Brig La Légén, together with the number of 269 African Negroes, clandestinely carried of from the same Vessel, have been since apprehended by this Government and the African Negroes freed from the Slavery into which the drivers of that prohibited and detestable trade carried them away.

And whereas, we trust that the caution issued on the 10th of this Mont by the Court of Policy and Criminal Justice, will have its due influence on all the inhabitants of this extended Colony, and, that nobody will barbor, conceal, secrete, or clandestinely and criminally carry away from this Colony, the Persons and Negroes of the aforesaid French Brig, still missing, that the same may get into the hands of Government.

And in order to ease and promote navigation and trade, we have resolved to remove the interruption which was occasioned by the embargo, and by these presents do free all Vessels and Ships from the same.

All Captains and Commanders are yet earnestly prohibited, on pain of being liable to a severe prosecution and punishment, not secretly and crisnally to carry away any of the Persons or African Negroes still missing, a order that they may not escape our pursuit.

We do further command that this shall be published, affixed, and inserted in the Government Paper and Gazette.

Done at Paramaribo, in the Colony of Surinam, this 23d day of January, 1824, in the Eleventh year of His Majesty's Reign, Published and affixed the 24th following. By command of His Excellency.

-A. DE VEER J. C. GUICHERIT,

Faithfully translated from the Dutch Language, by

Government Secretary.

CHARLES LIONARONS, Sworn Translator.

No. 97.-J. H. Lance, Esq., to Mr. Secretary Canning.

(Extract.)

(Received May 1.)

Surinam, February 26, 1824. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches to the 6th of November, 1823, which arrived on the 22nd of this Month.

I forwarded an Extract from your Despatch of the 6th of November, to the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, upon the subject of a Marshal of the Mixed Court, to the Dutch Commissary Judge, and I have since had a conversation with him on that subject, in which he expressed his perfect readiness to concur, provisionally, with the British Commissioners upon

the points mentioned in your Despatch, in any case on which occasion may arise for their application.

I have, &c.

J. H. LANCE.

The Right Hon. George Canning.

No. 98. Mr. Secretary Canning to J. H. Lance, Esq. SIR, Foreign Office, May 9, 1824. YOUR Despatches up to the 26th of February, 1824, have been received and laid before the King.

The King has been graciously pleased to signify His approbation of the fidelity and discretion with which you appear to have exercised the duties of your Situation; and, in acknowledging the receipt of your Despatch, of the 16th of that Month, His Majesty's Government are glad to express the gratification with which they have perused the Report which you give, of the highly honourable conduct of the Governor of Surinam, on the occasion of the detention of the French Brig La Légère.

"RECEIVED FROM THe governorS OF SIERRA LEONE, AND OTHER BRITISH
POSSESSIONS ON THE COAST OF AFRICA, AND FROM THE GOVERNORS
OF THE MAURITIUS AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE;
SINCE THE 1st OF JANUARY, 1823."

6. Sir Charles Mac Carthy to Earl Bathurst, Cape Coast Castle, 13th Dec. 634

MY LORD,

MAURITIUS.

No. 1.-Sir R. Farquhar to Earl Bathurst.

Port Louis, Mauritius, January 1, 1823.

I BEG leave to return to your Lordship my most humble and grateful thanks for the manner in which your Lordship has been pleased to communicate His Majesty's most gracious approbation of the Measures I had reported to your Lordship, for effectually closing the source of Slave Traffick in the Dominions and Dependencies of the Imaum of Muscat.

Your Lordship will already have been apprized of the successful result of those Measures, by my Letter of November 27th last, transmitting the Definitive Treaty concluded with the Imaum on this subject.

* Presented to the House of Commons, 14th June, 1824.

I beg leave to add, that I sedulously avail myself of every occasion of impressing upon the Imaum the solid Advantages which he must expect to derive from the continuance of the friendship and protection of Great Britain, which must depend, in a great measure, upon the fidelity with which he fulfils his solemn Engagements, in conformity to the earnest wishes and expectations of His Majesty. I have, &c.

Earl Bathurst.

R. T. FARQUHAR.

No. 2.-Sir Robert Farquhar to R. W. Horton, Esq. (Extract.) Mauritius, January 22, 1823. I HAVE the honour to subjoin an Extract of a Letter addressed to me by Commodore Nourse, under date December 8th last, exhibiting the practical effects of our Treaty with the Imaum of Muscat, in preventing the Slave Trade, at the former great Market of Zanzibar. The intelligence will, I trust, be considered interesting. The Commodore writes,-"We arrived at "Zanzibar on Sunday, the 1st of December, and quitted the 8th. About "fifteen days before my arrival, a Vessel under French colours, with twenty"four guns, they said, came direct from Europe, to purchase Slaves at Zan“zibar, which was refused; and she sailed professedly for Muscat."

Commodore Nourse, with a view of promoting and enforcing a strict fulfilment of the Treaty with the Imaum, in Zanzibar and the adjoining Dependencies of that Sovereign, provisionally appointed a Consul, with the consent of the Governor of Zanzibar, and in conformity to the tenor of the Treaty, to reside at Zanzlbar.

No. 3.-Sir Robert Farquhar to Earl Bathurst.

MY LORD, Port Louis, Mauritius, January 23, 1823. I Do myself the honour of enclosing a copy of a Letter from the Collector of Customs, on the subject of two Blacks, which have been seized and condemned to the Crown, during the last year, on the Abolition Acts. It is a great source of satisfaction to me, to be enabled to point your Lordship's attention to the Testimony of the Collector, as proving, that even these two Individuals were not introduced since the affair of the "Courreur;" the Vessel that was chased ashore and wrecked, two years ago, as reported to your Lordship at the time; since which no attempt to land Negroes here has been made.

I am happy to be able to confirm my former Reports to your Lordship, of the sources of the Slave Traffick having been closed by our Treaties, and every hope of its renewal cut off, as well by those most effectual means, as by the zeal and vigilance of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces on the Station, and of the internal Police of the Colony.

Your Lordship may depend upon my unremitted exertions in the course I have hitherto pursued, in carrying into effect His Majesty's Commands an this most important point. It has ever appeared to me, and experience has proved, that the mode of proceeding, which could most reasonably be ex pected to lead to the permanent and final extinction of the Slave Trade, was to make both the Exporter and Importer feel that the relinquishment of that commerce was their common Interest.

Earl Bathurst.

I have, &c.
R. T. FARQUHAR.

SIR,

(Inclosure in No. 3.)—Report of the Collector of Customs.

Custom-House, Port Louis, January 22, 1823.

I HAVE the honour to inclose, for your Excellency's Information, a Copy of the Report, dated 1st January, 1823, on the subject of the Blacks condemned to His Majesty, and apprenticed or otherwise disposed of, under the Slave Trade Abolition Acts, and the Orders in Council, which I have had the honour to address to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. With reference to the two Blacks, whose Names are contained in the Schedule, as being the only Natives of Africa condemned to His Majesty, under the Slave Trade Abolition Acts, during the last year, your Excellency may be glad to learn, that I had the most satisfactory Evidence of these two Individuals having formed part of the Cargo of the "Courreur," at the time that vessel was burnt on these Shores; though I did not happen to take them up until many months after the seizure of the main body of Slaves introduced on that occasion. I have, &c.,

Sir R. T. Farquhar.

MY LORD,

HART DAVIS.

Custom-House, Port Louis, January 1, 1823. AGREEABLY to the injunctions contained in the Order of His late Majesty in Council, dated 16th March, 1808, as confirmed by a subsequent Order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, under date the 11th July, 1817, I have the honour to forward inclosed, for your Lordship's information, a Statement specifying the names, numbers, sex, and age of the new Negroes received by me, as Collector of His Majestys's Customs, after condemnation to His Majesty in the Court of Vice-Admiralty, and subsequently enlisted, apprenticed, or otherwise disposed of, from the 31st December, 1822, (the period at which the last similar Return closed) to the 31st December, 1822; together with the names and descriptions of the Masters and Mistresses, and the occupations to which they have been apprenticed.

I have the honour to add, with reference to the Report I had the honour to address to your Lordship on the 1st of January, 1822, regarding the means I had adopted to endeavour to ascertain the state and condition of the Apprentices at large, that I have not renewed in the year just concluded the requisition for the attendance of the Apprentices at the Custom-House, for personal examination, which I had carried into effect in the preceding year.

In my last year's Report to your Lordship, I had the honour to offer as an opinion, that the best means of avoiding the difficulty of identifying the Apprentices, as well as for the correction of any chance error that might arise in giving them out, was apparently to be found in the frequency of the Collector's ex imination of the Apprentices; and that, if this appeal was not absolutely necessary every year, it would appear extremely undesirable to allow at any time, two years to pass without such an event. Your Lordship may therefore have expected to learn that I had effected, in the year just closed, a personal examination of the Apprentices similar to that of the preceding year.

That I have not done so has arisen chiefly from an idea that before a second appeal was entered upon, it might be desirable to know whether the previous undertaking was wholly approved by your Lordship, or whether any alterations might be suggested by your Lordship, through His Excellency the Governor, or otherwise, in the mode of proceeding; and I felt the less difficulty in adopting this view of the subject, from not having originally regarded the omission of one year as of major importance.

Earl Bathurst.

I am, &c.,

HART DAVIS.

Total Number of the foregoing Schedule, Two.

Custom-House, Port Louis, Mauritius

thia 31 at December, 1822.

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HART DAVIS,

Collector of Customs.