ous population, and the visitors from the main land. If they arrive during my residence in this country, you may depend on their having my support and protection." Extract of a Letter from the same Gentleman, dated Senegal, 11th December, 1810. "I had the pleasure to acknowledge, on the 1st of November, by the schooner Hope, the receipt of your obliging letter of the 17th September, and communicated to you that it was necessary for me to go to Goree, to endeavour to overcome some difficulties which had arisen relative to the four vessels detained at that island, on the suspicion of being American property under Spanish colours, fitted out for the Slave Trade. "My former letters will have acquainted you, that many vessels of this description are on the coast; and the intelligence you have received from leeward will also have informed you of the still greater number in that quarter. I hope some measures have been decided upon, to stop their progress, in undoing all the good which would have resulted from the honourable exertions and sacrifices of the British nation. "I beg to call your attention to the facility with which vessels are fitted out in the port of Charlestown. I understand the utmost activity is going on in that port, in equipping vessels, fully manned and armed. All the papers of vessels from thence are vouched by a person who calls himself Carlos Mulvey, Spanish consul. At Teneriffe, the American consul, Mr. Armstrong, gives every facility to the covering American property, in the name of Mr. Thomas Armstrong, and Mr. Madden. I have been credibly informed, that a set of papers are furnished for a thousand dollars, and that it is notorious to every merchant in Teneriffe. It would afford me considerable satisfaction to hear of some strong measures being taken to counteract this illegal conduct, "I doubt not, Sir, before this time, that the African Institu tion has been able to induce Government and the Legislature to take some active and decided steps in favour of the African cause; for until the traffic of their persons is stopped, it is in vain to hope to urge them to industry or civilization, where the safety of person and property is so uncertain.” Extract of a Letter from the same Gentleman, dated Senegal, 23d Feb. 1811. "The schooner George returned from Sierra Leone on the 30th of December, with intelligence that the brig Erin, of Norfolk, alias Catalina; the Mary Ann, of Charlestown, alias Santa Barbara; and the Snake in the Grass, alias Alrevida, were released by the Vice-Admiralty Court, upon paying costs of suit. The brig Pert, and ship Maria Dolores, were condemned as forfeited to his Majesty. The Erin went to the Gambia, and I am informed has taken away two hundred and fifty unhappy beings. The other two vessels that were liberated are gone to leeward. When I was in Goree, I was induced to liberate a schooner under Spanish colours, but with an American Spanish supercargo on board. She has taken away from the Gambia two hundred and thirty slaves. Two other Americans, under Spanish colours, have, since November, left the Gambia with two hundred and fifty slaves. "In all probability other vessels will be equally successful, as, unfortunately, the wars excited in the upper part of that river afford the means of furnishing them with slaves in abundance. "I am convinced you will join with me in lamenting the insufficiency of my authority to check this dreadful evil. I wait with considerable impatience for your next letters, which I hope will inform me of something having been done to check the alarming increase of slave-dealing on this part of the coast." Y. List of Growing Plants transmitted to the African Institution by Dr. Roxburgh, of Calcutta. 1. TWO Grafted Mangoe-a very delicious sort. 2. Four Leetchee, the famous well-known China fruit. 3. Eight Louquat, MESPILUS japomica Linn.-a good fruit. 4. Two EUGENIA Malaccensis--fruit large, and tolerably good. 5. Four SAGUERUS Rumphi, R.-a species of the Sago palm, which also yields a fibrous web, very fit for cables and other large cordage. 6. One AQUILLANIA Agallocha, R.-the real Aloe-wood tree. 7. Two LUTI-AM-an undescribed plant. The fruit eat by the natives of India. 8. Two CARISSA Carandes-red variety, from China. 9. Carissa Carandes-the common kind. Both make excellent fences, and the fruit in very general use for jellies. 10. Seven CAJUPUTI OIL tree. 11. One RATAN-a large kind, from Pegu. 12. One BAMBOO. This sort bears a fruit as large as a middling-sized pear; and the bamboo itself serviceable as the other sorts. 13. Two ASCLEPIAS tinctoria, R. Its leaves yield indigo by the hot-water process. 14. Four TEAK. The timber well known. 15. Two or three URTICA tenacissima, R. The bark abounds in very strong, fine, flaxen fibres. List of Seeds transmitted the same time. The SULTANEE, or yellow Coconut. ARECA Catechu. BORASSUS Flabelliformis. 1. Teak. 2. DALBERGIA Sissoo. 3. CROTALARIA juncea. 4. CORCORUS capsularis, or Paat. 5. AESCHYNOMENE cannabina, or Duncha. 6. HIBISCUS strictus. 7. ABнOMA augusta. 8. HIBISCUS cannabinus. 9. TERMINALIA chebula—an useful timber tree; Myrobalans of our M. M. 10. ARECA catechu-the betle nut. 11. ALEURITES triloba, or Indian Akhrowt. 12. SEMICARPUS Anacardium, or marking nut. 13. MIMOSA clata-a very large tree of quick growth: the timber excellent, being hard, strong, and durable. 14. MIMOSA stipulata-an immense, very quick-growing tim ber tree. 15. LAGERSTROEMIA Regina-a beautiful timber tree. In Pegu the wood is used for knees, &c. crooked timbers in ships. 16. CASSIA Sumatrana-a most beautiful, quick-growing timber tree. 17. ADENANTHERA panonina-a timber tree: the wood a deep red, and very hard. 18. CASSIA bacilus of Gartner. 19. CHRYSOPHYLLUM acuminatum- -a fruit tree. 20. A very large Palm, a new species of CORYPHA. 21. Country Cucumber. 22. CUCURBITA lagenaria. 25. East India Water-melon. 26. LUFFA acutangula. 27. SOLANUM Melongena. 28. Large Bengal Radish. 29. ANETHUM sawa. The seed an ingredient in curry pow der is cultivated during the cool season. 30. HIBISCUS sativus, or Okra. 31. AMARANTHUS gangeticus. Both much cultivated by the 32. AMARANTHUS palygamus. S Hindoos during the rains, for their stews, curries, &c. 33. TRIGONELLA Fænum græcum. Cultivated during the cool season: the seed an ingredient in curry-powder, and the stalks and leaves a pot-herb. 34. TRIGONELLA corniculata. Cultivated during the cool season for the green plant, which the natives eat. 35. A species of CHENOPODIUM. Cultivated during the cool season as a pot-herb. 36 and 37. Two species of Mustard extensively cultivated during the cool season (from October to February inclusive). From the seeds the natives express their most common and cheapest oil for eating, and for burning: and the green herb is very generally eat in their curries, &c. 38. White or opium Poppy. 39. CARPOPOGON niveum. 42. Bengal Beet. Cultivated the dry season. 43. CUCURBITA melopepo. Hindoo kidney-beans, they may be called, as they are used in the same way. between September and May, 44. DOLICHOS gladiatus. An excellent substitute for kidney beans. 45. MELALEUCA Cajuputi, before called M. Leucadendron. |