toilsome journey to a remote settlement in a strange land: who heard, before they embarked, every possible misrepresentation of the country which they sought to reach; and encountered, in the Government which they were about to leave, every discouragement which oppression can oppose to the love of freedom and the desire of happiness; and yet, whose lot in Europe was preferable to that of the slave in America, and, in many respects, to that of the contemned, and therefore debased, free negro. Count the number of emigrants who entered the ports of North America in the past year only. Upwards of twelve thousand are said to have landed at the single port of Quebec; and the total number who have reached Canada, Nova Scotia, and the United States, cannot fall far short, if at all, of forty thousand. Many of them, in order to pay their passage, entered into obligations of service to be performed after their arrival in America; and thus sold their freedom for a few years, in order to perpetuate it to themselves and to their posterity.

They have come, it is true, in commercial ships, and some of them have paid less for their passage than the cost at which it is ascertained that any number of free people of color can be carried to Africa, in ships fitted for passage only. But will not the time arrive when Africa will have her commerce too? Has not the single port of Sierra Leone exported, in one year since the abolition of the slave trade by England, a greater value thai all Western Africa, a coast of several thousand miles, yielded, exclusive of its people, for a like period anterior to that event? When this abominable traffic shall have been utterly exterminated; when the African laborer can toil secure from the treachery of his neighbor and the violence of the manstealer, that continent will freight, for legitimate trade, those ships which now carry thither chains, fetters, and scourges, to return home with the bones, the sinews, the blood, and the tears, of her children. Her gold, her ivory, her beautiful dyes, her fragrant and precious gums, her healing plants and drugs, the varied produce of her now forsaken fields and lonely forests, will be brought, by a joyous and grateful people, to the nations who, once their plunderers and persecutors, will at length become their protectors, friends, and allies.

New forms of government, modelled after those which constitute the pride and boast of America, will attest the extent of their obligations to their former masters; and myriads of freemen, while they course the margin of the Gambia, the Senegal, the Congo, and the Niger, will sing, in the language which records the Constitution, laws, and history of America, hymns of praise to the common Parent of man.

A revolution so beneficent, so extended, and so glorious, requires, to effect it, the concert and the resources of a nation. The people of America have the power to secure its success against the uncertainty of accident. They are summoned to the performance of this duty by the most urgent incentives of interest, the most awful appeals of justice, and the tenderest claims of humanity. Its final accomplishment will be a triumph over superstition, ignorance, and vice, worthy of a people destined, it may be fondly hoped, to surpass all other nations in the arts of civilized life.

The Colonization Society is about to lay the corner stone of this edifice. Whether it shall rise to strength and grandeur, it is for the Government and people of America, under the overruling Providence of Heaven, to decide."

Two or three guinens have been frequently accepted for a passage from Great Britain to America, where the emigrant has found his own stores.

Extracts from the Nineteenth Report of the Directors of the British African Institution, published in 1825.

"Sierra Leone may be considered with reference both to its internal condition, and to its effects upon the neighbouring natives.

"Its internal prosperity will, of course, depend on its healthiness; on the progress made in the settlement of the liberated negroes, and in inducing them to adopt the restraints and habits of civilization; on the state of schools and religion; and on the successful prosecution of agriculture and commerce. "The mortality of 1823 at Sierra Leone, though of a most distressing nature, has been much exaggerated. The fever which prevailed did not attack a black or colored person; but out of a white population of 110, the deaths were 25. The accounts, during the last year, represent the colony as being very healthy. Serious injury, however, arises to its interests from the occasional prevalence of severe sickness; and in no respect more than by the temporary interruption to which the advancement of education and religious instruction has been exposed in consequence of the death of their principal instructors, among whom the mortality was unusually great. The effect of these unexpected losses was, that, for a considerable period, both properly qualified schoolmasters and also chaplains had been wanting. But the Church Missionary Society, which has now taken off the hands of Government the burden of supplying to the colony the means of religious instruction, has been making great efforts to supply the requisite number of teachers; and their zeal, and that of their missionaries, has only been rendered more remarkable and praiseworthy by the difficulties with which they had to contend.

"The regular attendance on public worship consists of nearly the whole population of the colony, and the schools are attended by the whole of the young, and even by not a few of the adults; many of whom, however, think themselves too old to learn, or object, after the labor of the day, to spending an hour or two in school. The missionaries, who are engaged in the work of instruction occasionally, lament the slow progress by which the human character, when once degraded, can be raised up to take its proper place in society. Yet this rate is usually so very gradual, even under the most favorable circumstances, that it is important, with a view to prevent unreasonable expectations and consequent disappointment, that the fact should be thoroughly understood and acknowledged. The means, however, are in active operation, which alone are proper and competent for promoting the great work of civilization.

"Sierre Leone contains about 18,000 inhabitants; of whom, about 12,000 consist entirely of liberated Africans, who, for the most part, occupy the parishes in the mountains: and nothing can be more gratifying than to know that the almost impenetrable woods, which were the haunts but lately of wild beasts, have been replaced by villages with comfortable habitations, and surrounded by tracts of ground under cultivation, and containing school-houses for both sexes. In one of these, it is reported that, out of 103 children, 64 can read the Scriptures; in others, that, out of 1,079 scholars, there are 710 persons who can read; and so on in different proportions. The churches erected among them are said to have crowded congregations; one in Regent Town usually assembling a congregation of from 1,200 to 2,000 souls." "The missionaries have already more than they can adequately perform in their proper department. They have the superintendence of

those schools where the liberated slaves, coming from different countries, and speaking different languages, may, upon their release, make the first beginning towards becoming really members of the same community, by acquiring a knowledge of English as a common tongue. The Church Missionary Society has undertaken the further task of seeking to fix the African language, and prepare elementary books, (which has already been done for the Susoos and the Bulloms,) with the view of training native teachers, as the most efficient instruments for extending the Christian religion among the native tribes.

"In the Sherbro country, two private individuals, educated natives, have collected boys from various places on that part of the coast, and are giving them the rudiments of English education."

year,

The timber trade, in which the natives in the river Sierra Leone have engaged, (with an alacrity and perseverence which show that their industry only wants an object and adequate security in order to develope itself,) in 1823, furnished 15,000 loads for the British market, and, in the last year, a considerably larger supply. The freight alone on the shipments of last would probably amount to £100,000. The invoice value of the cargoes imported into the colony in 1823, was £121,442 18s. 11d.; the duty paid on them was £8,483, 3s. 11d. The exports consisted of shipbuilding timber, camwood, palm oil, elephant's teeth, gold dust, gum copal, beeswax, rice, and Malaguetta pepper. The gum trade has been increasing on the Gambia; and the value of the different articles independent of gum, as hides, beeswax, gold, ivory, and timber, exported from the Gambia during the year, is stated at £125,000."

List of vessels engaged in the Slave Trade, (or strongly suspected to be so,) as published in the Nineteenth Report of the Directors of the British African Institution, in 1825.

N. B. Those marked (8) have been seized and sent in for adjudication, some of which have been condemned. Those marked (v) have been visited, and found to have slaves actually on board, or to be fitted up for their reception.

Mr. McDUFFIE, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill:

A bill to abolish the Agency of the United States on the Coast of Africa, to provide other means of carrying into effect the laws prohibiting the slave trade, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the Agency of the United States on the coast of Africa, established under the authority of an act of Congress of the 3d of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade,” shall be abolished.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be then authorized to convey to the Agents of the Colonization Society on the coast of Africa all the houses and other property belonging to the Agency of the United States on that coast: Provided, the said Society will agree to receive, on the terms hereinafter stated, the negroes who may be recaptured and sent to Africa, under the acts for the suppression of the slave trade.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to pay to the Colonization Society, or their Agents on