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57 other nations that had formerly a partition of its advantages: they have an equal right, and there is greater chance of its being surrendered totally, when the emoluments are divided, than when this inexhaustible mine of wealth is suffered to be worked for the sole advantage of any one nation; besides it is allowed, that no beneﬁcial advance can be made in the civilization of Africa, whilst this destructive trade is suﬁ'ered, and the policy of the civilized world is interested in her civilization; because it would induce cultivation, and employ the hands of the inhabitants for their own enrichment, which must ultimately tend to the advantage of general society: the Africans after collecting their natural and cultivated productions, would receive the arts and manufactures of more civilized states, they would soon unlock their hidden treasures, and obtain in return not only every comfort this life can afford, but by instruction the means of obtaining the blessing of life everlasting.

It is evidently the wish, the duty, and the interest of every civilized nation, that the slave trade should be totally abolished; it is only necessary for Great Britain to collect the united voice of the different Sovereigns, and state to Portugal explicitly that the time is arrived, who the slave trade must be totally abolished in her dominions; and