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COMMENTARY

ON

THE TREATIES,

''&c. &c.''

When Great Britain, after a minute investigation, became satisﬁed that the Slave Trade was unjust, inhuman, and impolitic, she abolished it by Act of Parlinment; and being convinced the cultivation of Africa, and the civilization of its inhabitants, depended on the universal abolition of the sale of its people, her executive government mediated with every foreign state engaged in that horrible commerce, for its final renunciation, unﬁi the completion of the glorious undertaking had been nearly effected.

I am no doubt the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has laboured to gratify the wishes