are nullified by a few convicts and needy Portuguese Governors,
who in no case have authority to the extent of their
unaided vision from their forts. If East Africa is still to be
used only for convicts, why should not the English send
theirs thither too ? I t does not belong to the Portuguese
any more than China belongs to them because they possess
Macao. Bad as our convicts are, they would be an improvement
on those already sent. Neither officers nor men would
deal in slaves. The climate certainly mollifies and subdues
the passions. This we observed at Loando, where every night
the whole of the arms of the city are in the hands of men
who have once been convicts. The subject deserves consideration,
in the present difficulty of disposing of our convict
population.
In the able Report of Colonel Ord it is stated, that while
the presence of the squadron has had some share in suppressing
the slave-trade, the result is mainly due to the existence
of the Settlements. This is supported by the fact that, even
in those least visited by men-of-war, it has been as effectually
suppressed as in those which have been their most constant
resort. We have continually had the conviction in our
m in d s that an expedition or settlement inland would produce
greater results than men-of-war on the ocean, and be upheld
with half the expense of one of Her Majesty’s cruisers.
THE END.
LONDON : PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.
Ijxtyant ;
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