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 merce, even including ivory, is very small; and many of these articles, it has been satisfactorily proved at your Lordships Bar, have lain upon the hands of the merchants of this country at a considerable loss. It has been stated by Mr. Macaulay, and likewise by Mr. Dawes, that the Grumattes, or domestic Slaves, who attend the caravans of Slaves down to the coast, must be in great numbers, in order to carry back the different British Manufactures bartered for a ton of ivory. It is a very specious, though a very fallacious argument, in support of the idea intended to be impressed upon your Lordships minds by the friends of the Bill, that the Slave Trade is not so materially an object With the natives, as that of other productions in Africa. Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Dawes are obliged to admit, that the ivory brought down to the markets is suspended upon the backs of the Slaves for sale, and, consequently, that it cannot be brought down from the interior in any other