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59 for Africa, has sunk into apathy, but she is only slumbering after the shock her sensibility has received, not dead to the undeserved sufferings of the negroes, or the injustice which has so long held that continent in barbarism: the noble lord to whom, as the executive minister, the accomplishment of this most desirable work is now entrusted, will not require either petition or address from parliament or people to interest the Prince Regent further, all have expressed their ardent desire to have it quickly concluded, and every necessary aid to secure its final ratiﬁcation, he has already provided, by having induced the Plenipotentiaries of the Powers composing the Congress at Vienna, to declare “That they could not better honor their mission, fulfil their duty, and manifest the principles which guided their august Sovereigns, than by labouring to realize their engagement to effect an universal abolition of the slave trade, and by proclaiming in the name of the Sovereigns, their desire to put an end to a  scourge which has so long desolated Africa, degraded Europe, and afflicted humanity; and in making this declaration known to Europe and to all the civilized nations of the earth, the said Plenipotentiaries flatter themselves they shall engage all other governments, and particularly those who in abolishing the traffic in slaves, have already manifested the same sentiments, to support them with their suffrages in a cause, of which the final triumph will be one of