confines the Slave Trade within fixed limits; and a paper, pointing out the circumstances which establish satisfactorily an intention to deal in slaves, have been separately printed, and widely circulated in the Navy*. The whole of these, the Directors are happy to add, have been adopted by the Lords of the Admiralty, and transmitted under their orders to all the naval stations. In consequence, it may be presumed, of these measures, four slave ships have been brought into ports in the Channel for adjudication; three of which have been already condemned. The fourth is not yet brought to trial. The number which have been condemned in the Vice-Admiralty Courts abroad, during the last six or eight months of the year 1810, cannot be accurately ascertained, as regular returns of the condemnations have not yet been received in this country. The Directors, however, are disposed from the information which has reached them, to estimate it at about from thirty to forty vessels. In many of these cases, the owners are undoubtedly British; and the Directors will not fail to avail themselves of all the means which the law affords for prosecuting their offence. When the various measures which have been * See Appendix Z. adopted during the last year are brought into full operation, the Directors flatter themselves that a very considerable diminution of the existing Slave Trade will be effected and that they will thus find themselves more at liberty to direct their efforts, and the funds with which they are entrusted, to objects of ulterior improvement. It now only remains, that the Directors lay before the meeting the state of the funds of the Institution, as certified by the auditors. It is as follows, viz. STATEMENT of the FUNDS of the AFRICAN INSTITUTION, on 31st of DECEMBER, 1810. CR L. 494 13 3 By Cash paid for Exchequer Bills, 31st March L.505 6 11 31st May 503 2 8 5 To Interest on Exchequer Bills 158 3 2 1514 17 By Cash paid for printing 2d Report; for printing and cir- By Cash paid for Postages, Porterages, advertising Public By Casli paid Clerk for Services 54 12 9 25 16 50 436 9.10 APPENDIX. T. An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the forty-seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade." May 14, 1811. WHEREAS the two Houses of Parliament did, by their resolutions of the tenth and twenty-fourth days of June one thousand eight hundred and six, severally resolve, that the African Slave Trade being contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy, they would, with all practicable expedition, take effectual measures for the Abolition of the same: and whereas, in conformity with the said resolutions, and for all and each of the reasons therein stated, the said trade was, by an act passed in the forty-seventh year of his present Majesty, declared to be unlawful: and whereas it hath been found that divers persons, not deterred by the provisions and penalties of the said act, do still continue to deal and trade in Slaves upon the coast of Africa, and elsewhere, and to carry them for sale by sea: and whereas the Commons House of Parliament, by its resolution of the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and ten, did express indignation at such practices, and did resolve speedily to take into consideration such measures as might tend effectually to prevent such daring violations of the law: and its |