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 ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Author regrets never having read the Treaties, on which he feels himself obliged to comment, ‘until last December, and the moment having arrived when information might be beneficial, he delivers it hastily, lest the opportunity should be lost.

On this occasion, it is not desirable that the Author should detail the melancholy accounts he has lately received of the present decided increase, and unrestricted state of the Slave Trade, or to enlarge fully on the imperative duty of the allied Sovereigns to constitute it piracy.

In the cause of philanthropy the humblest individual is listened to with, a predisposed desire to be convinced ,; but although the Author is ever zealous, watchful, and investigating, he will not obtrude himself unnecessarily; the Abolition is now consigned to Statesmen, to aid them to its ﬁnal accomplishment is the duty of every person, warm in the cause, and possessing matter that might be useful, under this impression, the Commentary on the Treaties is laid before the Public.


 * CIrencester Place,
 * Jan. 25, 1819.