adopted by the Mixed Commission in all such Cases, when the truth has been made manifest, hereby declare, that the capture of the said Schooner Nuevo Campeador, and of the 263 Negroes found on board, is good and legal, and that the said Schooner, her tackle, apparel, and whatever she may contain, are subject and liable to confiscation, with the exception of the aforesaid Negroes, who are declared to be freed from all slavery and captivity. It is accordingly hereby directed that, with respect to the said Vessel, and whatever belongs to her, a Valuation shall be made thereof, under Oath, by the Principal Masters of the Royal Arsenal, who shall give in a proper Voucher to this effect, and that she shall be exposed to publick auction, in the presence of the Royal Notary, Don José Rafael de Meja, in order that, being disposed of to the highest bidder, in the Auction-Room of Don Antonio Galea, the proceeds may be applied to the benefit of the two Governments, the said Vessel being for the present placed in deposit with Don Jayme Andreu, who shall likewise swear faithfully to perform his duty, and shall receive her from the Captor, according to formal Inventory; proceeding, moreover, without loss of time, to deliver to such of the said Negroes as are in this City, their Certificate of Emancipation, by the means, as is customary, of the Deputy Secretary, Don Rafael Gonzales Barranco, who is appointed to perform that duty. An Official Letter, with a certified Copy of the Sentence, shall be forthwith addressed to His Excellency the Captain-General, in order that he may take the proper measures for that purpose; and with respect to those Negroes who are left in Santiago de Cuba, as the liberty to which they are entitled ought not to be delayed, His Excellency shall be further requested to appoint in that City a Person in whom he has confidence, or to direct the Governor of it to appoint such a Person, to deliver to them also their respective Certificates of Liberty, according to the form that has hitherto been adopted. For which purpose there shall be transmitted to Cuba, through the medium of His Excellency, the necessary printed Certificates, duly legalized by the Mixed Commission, having blanks to be filled up with the descriptions and peculiar marks of each Person, so as to secure their identity, and being marked from No. 1 to No. 36 inclusive, care being taken to suspend to the neck of each Negro a small piece of tin-plate, corresponding with the number of the Certificate, and also to make out accurately a separate account of all that is written on each of these Certificates, so that it may be transmitted to this Mixed Commission, and form part of the Book in which all such accounts are inserted, while a Duplicate, or certified Copy, of this Document shall be left in Santiago de Cuba, for the purpose of clearing up any doubt that may in future occur; and, according to the mode of proceeding that has been practised in all such matters, the said Negroes are placed at the disposal of the aforesaid Governor of Cuba, for him to dispose of them during the years of their apprenticeship, in conformity to the Instructions which His Excellency will communicate to him. W. S. MACLEAY. CLAUDIO MARTINEZ DE PINILLOS. RAFAEL GONZALES, Secretary. (Enclosure 6.)-The Mixed Commission to the Captain-General. (Translation.) SIR, Havannah, September 27, 1826. By the accompanying certified Copy, your Excellency will be made acquainted with the Definitive Sentence issued by this Mixed Commission, in the Case of the capture of the Brigantine Schooner Nuevo Campeador, with a Cargo of Bozal Negroes, by the English Frigate Aurora, which Sentence declares the detention of this Vessel to be good and legal, and the said Negroes to be free from all slavery and captivity. Among the Negroes found on board, there were 36 who, on account of ill health, were left at Santiago de Cuba, in charge of the Governor of that Place, according to the Receipt given by him to the English Captain, of which a Copy is herewith enclosed to your Excellency. In consequence of what has been determined in the said Definitive Sentence, the Mixed Commission now proceeds to deliver the Certificates of Emancipation to those Negroes who have been brought into this City, placing them forthwith at the disposal of your Excellency in the customary form. Not being able to do the same for those Negroes who were left at Santiago de Cuba, where the Commission has no Agent whatever, the Undersigned have deemed it their duty to request your Excellency, in this novel Case, to assist them in carrying the above-mentioned Sentence into effect, so that the Negroes left at Santiago may not have the important benefit of their liberty retarded. For this purpose, the Undersigned herewith transmit and place at the disposal of your Excellency 36 blank Certificates of Liberty, with 4 others, to be used in the event of any error in the former rendering them necessary. God preserve your Excellency many Years. W. S. MACLEAY. CLAUDIO M. DE PINILLOS. His Excellency the Captain-General. RAFAEL DE QUESADA. (Enclosure 7.)—The Captain-General to the Mixed Commission. (Translation.) GENTLEMEN, Havannah, September 29, 1826. WITH your Official Letter of the 27th instant, I received a certified Copy of the Definitive Sentence pronounced by you in the Case of the capture lately made of the Spanish Merchant Brigantine Schooner Nuevo Campeador, with a Cargo of Bozal Negroes, and also 40 Certificates of Emancipation, duly signed by you, and numbered from 1 to 36, with 4 more, which 40 Certificates are destined for 36 Negroes left in Cuba, and belonging to the said Cargo. Entering into the anxiety expressed by you that I should, on my part, co-operate so as to give the aforesaid Sentence its full and proper effect, with respect to the said 36 Negroes, and, in order that the benefit of their liberty may suffer no delay, I have acceded to your request, with the advice of the Auditor of War, and, in consequence, now transmit to the Governor of Santiago de Cuba the Appointment of a Person in whom I have full confidence, and whose duty it will be to deliver the said Certificates, and to carry the other parts of the Sentence into effect. To this Person I transmit the above-mentioned Certificates, with 80 Copies of Forms for registering the descriptions of the said Negroes, and the like number of Conditions, all signed by me; so that every necessary precaution and measure may be taken for the dispatch of this affair, and for the disposal of the Negroes, in the usual manner. I have also, at the same time, directed him to send me, with the least possible delay, the particular kind of Register mentioned in the said Sentence, which, as soon as I receive, I shall, according to your request, transmit to you for the object you specify. God preserve you many Years. The Members of the Mixed Commission. FRAN. DION. VIVES. No. 91.-W. S. Macleay, Esq. to Mr. Sec". Canning.-(Rec. Dec. 8.). On the 3d instant, the Spanish Brig San Pedro, alias Currutaco, Juan Coll, Master, which Vessel, as reported to you in the Despatch of His Majesty's Commissioners of the 11th of March of this Year, sailed from this Port on the 26th of February last, arrived here from the Coast of Africa, in ballast, after having landed a Cargo of Negroes on the Coast, to the Westward of the Island. I have not been able to learn the number of Negroes she disembarked. I have the honour to be, &c. The Right Hon. George Canning. W. S. MACLEAY. No. 92.-Joseph Planta, Jun. Esq. to His Majesty's Comm". GENTLEMEN, Foreign Office, December 20, 1826. In compliance with the desire which you have expressed, that you should have some assistance for carrying on the details of your Correspondence with this Office, Mr. Secretary Canning has selected Mr. Richard Belgrave Jackson, the bearer of this Letter, to be Clerk to His Majesty's Commissioners at the Havannah. You will employ Mr. Jackson accordingly, in the business of the British Commissioners, in the manner in which he may be made most useful to the purpose for which he is sent out. Mr. Canning has allowed to Mr. Jackson a Sum, by way of Outfit, which has been paid to him here; and he has assigned to him a Salary of £300. a Year, to commence from the 10th of October, 1826, and to be augmented every Year, at the rate of £25. a Year, until the Salary shall reach the amount of £500. a Year. And Mr. Canning has been pleased to hold out to Mr. Jackson the prospect, that, provided he shall conduct himself to the satisfaction of his Superiors, a Pension, not exceeding the half of his Salary, may be granted to him after 12 Years' actual service at the Havannah. I am directed by Mr. Canning to acquaint you with this arrangement, and to request that you will pay to Mr. Jackson the Salary assigned to him, in Quarterly Payments, as it shall become due, including the same in the Contingent Accounts of the Commission, and drawing for it upon the Agent to the Commission, according to the Account and Vouchers which you will send in, with a Letter to me on the occasion. I am, &c. His Majesty's Commissioners. JOSEPH PLANTA, JUN. No. 93.-Mr. Secretary Canning to His Majesty's Commissioners. GENTLEMEN, Foreign Office, December 30, 1826. YOUR several Despatches, to the 9th of October inclusive, have been duly received. I transmit to you, for your information, the accompanying Copy of a Despatch*, which I addressed to His Majesty's Envoy at Madrid on the 10th ult. upon the subject of the violations of the Treaty, as stated in your Despatches of the 9th of August, and of the 2d, 4th, and 11th of September last. You will continue to watch over and report to me the particulars of every transaction which may come under your knowledge, connected with illegal Slave-trade upon the Coast of Cuba. I am, &c. His Majesty's Commissioners. GEORGE CANNING. RIO DE JANEIRO. No. 94.-His Majesty's Comm". to Mr. Sec". Canning.—(Received April 10, 1826.) SIR, Rio de Janeiro, December 28, 1825. We have the honour to acquaint you, for your information, that His Imperial Majesty has been pleased to appoint Senhor João Carneiro de Campos to the Office of Commissary Judge of the Mixed Commission here established, which Office became vacant on the confirmation of Senhor José Silvestre Ribello to the Appointment of *Sec Class B. Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires to The United States of North America; and that our new Colleague, after taking the prescribed Oath before the Chancellor, was duly installed on the 7th instant. We have the honour, &c. HENRY HAYNE. The Right Hon. George Canning. ALEX. CUNNINGHAM. No. 95.-His Majesty's Comm". to Mr. Sec". Canning.-(Received April 10, 1826.) SIR, Rio de Janeiro, December 30, 1825. SHORTLY after the signing of the new Slave-trade Treaty with the Brazilian Government, by Sir Charles Stuart, we were enabled fully to satisfy ourselves of the truth of suspicions, which we had entertained for some time, not only of irregularities, but actual malversation, on the part of some of those Persons who had been appointed to superintend the care and well-being of those Negroes who have received their Emancipation from the Mixed Commission here established, under the late Convention with Portugal. Having ascertained that Sn'. Manuel Joaq". Gliz. de Magelloens, the present Curador of the emancipated Negroes, had been collecting noney in the capacity of Curador, under the semblance of authority from the Treasurer, from Persons to whom some of the emancipated Negroes had been apprenticed, under the condition of an annual payment for their labour, which sum was to be placed in deposit, to be divided amongst them, at the expiration of their term of servitude; that he had made this collection without the authority of the Treasurer, and had applied it to other uses than those prescribed by the Alvarà; we felt it to be our duty, after taking pains to satisfy ourselves of the facts, to call the attention of His Imperial Majesty's Government to a Transaction, in itself fraudulent and disgraceful, as well as prejudicial to the emancipated Negroes, to remain under the superintendence of a Man, who, if he could be guilty of such a crime, might be supposed to be fully equal to committing the more heinous one of selling those into Slavery who had been emancipated and placed under his especial superintendence, which abominable crime is said to have been practised, though we have not been able to obtain proof of a single instance of it. To call the attention of His Imperial Majesty's Government to this Case, with the greatest chance of success, knowing that Sir Charles Stuart was in daily intercourse with the Ministers of State, we stated, verbally, the circumstances to His Excellency, with a view to his urging His Imperial Majesty's Ministers to an investigation into them, to which Sir Charles listened with readiness, and requested us to write to him a Letter on the subject, a Copy of which we have the honour to enclose for your information. We earnestly hope, Sir, for the sake of the emancipated Negroes, that the system of superintendence of their welfare, which has hitherto |