Some had endeavoured to palliate this circumstance; but there was not one who did not more or less admit it to be true.

By one the Slave-trade was called the concurrent cause, by the majority it was acknowledged to be the principal motive of the African wars.

The same might be said with respect to those instances of treachery and injustice, in which individuals were concerned.

And here he was sorry to observe that our own countrymen were often guilty.

He would only at present advert to the tragedy at Calabar, where two large African villages, having been for some time at war, made peace.