43. Mr. Sec. Canning to The British Comm". Foreign Office, 19th April 426 Commissioners at The Havannah............ Foreign Office, 27th July 432 51. Messrs. Kilbee and Jameson to The Marq. 75. Mr. Sec3. Canning to Henry Hayne, Esq....... Foreign Office ...14th Jan. 465 SURINAM. 76. C. E. Lefroy, Esq. to W. R. Hamilton, Esq.... Surinam 77. C. E. Lefroy, Esq. to The Marq. of London 1822. ....8th Feb. 465 Surinam ...... 19th March 465 Surinam ............1st May 466 Pierre Surinam .........10th May 467 468 469 .May 4.. 470 Surinam .........16th May 471 477 477 478 Surinam............23d Sept. 479 87. Mr. Secr. Canning to C. E. Lefroy, Esq. 88. Mr. Sec1. Canning to J. H. Lance, Esq......... Foreign Office...25th Sept. 479 89. C. E. Lefroy, Esq. to J. Planta, jun. Esq....... Surinam Incl. 1.-Deposition of Cornelius O'Sullivan Oct. 8....... 2.-Captain Rich to C. E. Lefroy, Esq. Oct. 6...... 3. Captain Rich to C. E. Lefroy, Esq. .........24th Oct. 480 482 483 SIERRA LEONE.-(General.) No. 1.-Messrs. Gregory and Fitzgerald to the Marquess of Londonderry.-(Received July 19.) MY LORD, Sierra Leone, April 30, 1822. In the very general notice for the year recently terminated, which we had the honour to address to your Lordship on the 10th of January last, in explanation of the Report of the state of the Slave Trade, dated the 5th of January, 1821, no mention was made of the Foreign Cruizers employed on the Coast in the course of that year to counteract and restrain the Slave Traders of their respective Nations. We consider it a matter of duty now to supply that omission, and to add some further facts which appear material to a correct understanding upon the general subject. The French armed Schooners, Momus and Iris, showed themselves in this harbour on the 13th of May, 1821, and sailed two days after with the professed intention of going down the Coast in search of French Slave Traders; but no intelligence has been received of their having taken any, although the reports current in the Colony at the time of their departure stated, that ships bearing the French Flag were to be found in all the known Stations, trading openly for Slaves. So far as the immediate information of this Place extends, these Two Schooners formed the whole of the French Cruizing Force sent to the southward of the Bissagos in the year 1821, and this was the whole range and effect of their operations. Accounts from Goree have, however, stated, that His Most Christian Majesty's Brig Le Huron, bearing the broad pendant of Monsieur Du Plessis, who commands the French Squadron on the Coast, went down to the Bight of Benin without approaching Sierra Leone. This Officer, it is understood, detained in the course of his Cruize a French Vessel charged with violating the French Laws prohibiting the Slave Trade, which Vessel the Judicial Administration of Senegal refused to condemn. Monsieur Du Plessis came into Sierra Leone in the Huron, on the 1st of February in the present year, and sailed again on the 7th of the same month, having prolonged his stay some days with the declared design of conferring with Commodore Sir Robert Mends, and of taking advantage of any suggestion which Sir Robert might communicate for the purpose of rendering his Cruize more effective. Captain Du Plessis, before he entered the Harbour of Sierra Leone, had gone down the Coast, in the month of January, as far as Cape Mount, and had examined several French Ships, without detaining any. It appears that the French National Law gives the right of |