A very long and deeply in...
A very long and- deeply interesting report, from which 'we have given copious extracts, has been published by the African Institution-one at the same time, to which -we cannot do justice, or indeed to our own feelings, without confessiig that it has given us the heart-ache. The Directors of the Associatioti have passed irn review thc part which each foreign Government has taken in thc pro-' notion or suppression of the brutal and brutalizing slave- trade. It is vain to disguise the melancholy fact, that all the exertions of the British Parliament and Govermeiit, or the generous ardour and proud cxample of this nation, have efFected rothing towards an extinction of the trade, or a real diminution of their wvrongs for the miserable A fri- cans. The Portuguese-tthe Spaniards-but most of all- the French-have crimes to answer for against humanity, which whole ages ofl national penitence and humiliation will not suffice to wipe away. It is apparenit throi4hout these Yoluminous narratives, that the flag of France has covered i ot only the guilt and atrocity of her owvn subjects, butbeen made a common pander to villainy wherever and in whatever form it existed. Our foreign Miniister and Ambassador at the French Court hiave vainly charged the Government of King Louis with open perfidy to its en- gageements, and with spreading the Bourbon colours over the ocean, for no purpose but to give protection and impu nity to the slave-trade. M. DE VI7LELE'S answers are exhi_ bitions of revolting hypoQrisy, or insulting irony ; and the single cure which wouild be efficacioustthe reciprocal esta- blishment of tbe right of search-is withlheld by Franee for the express reasen that it would be an obstruction to the slave-trade. A philanthropic spirit has, indeed, showvn it. self among some brave and enlightened minds in different parts of France. but how long must we wait before that can ripen in7to what has for years prevailed throughout Eng- land-a popular feelingoia behalf of the unfortunate Negro! The prospect is a painful one, and we see not how it is to be amended.