Expenditure, 1823. 184,521 16 11 Total, L.684,521 16 1 Expenditure, 1822. L.500,000 0 Sundries, 180,794 54 Total, L.680,794 5 41 Expenditure, 1824. Naval, L.500,000 0 L.500,000 00 Sundries, 176,126 14 8 Sundries, 197,980 16 41 1825.-From Parliamentary Papers, 1825. Naval Expenditure, Quart. Rev. Army Extraordinaries, Pap. 61 of 1825, pp. 3, and 13, sundries, 4, 9, 11, Pay Officers, 2,669 1 3 Commissariat Estimates, Pap. 23 of 1825, p. P. 61. Provided in England, L.28,736 0 24 16,419 2 7 16,419 2 7 L.45,155 2 10 Ordnance Estimates, Pap. 35 of 1825, pp. 13 and 21, sun- P. 36, supplies to Liberated Africans, Sierra Leone, tured Negroes, free Americans, P. 7, Slave Commissions, L.17,425, Miscellaneous Estimates, Pap. 30, No. 5 of 1825, pp. 5 and 29,162 2 0 33,781 2 5 Expenditure, 1825, L.735,722 1994 1826. From Parliamentary Papers, 1826. Naval Expenditure, Quart. Rev. L.500,000 00 Page 8, Military ditto, provided in England, Army Estimates, Pap. 43 of 1826, p. 17, Staff and Medical Commissariat Estimate, Pap. 57 of 1826, p. 3, Officers' Store Ordnance Estimates, Pap. 25 of 1826, pp. 11, 20, 37, 42, and Commissaries' Accounts, Pap. 60, of 1826, p. 61, Sierra Leone, &c. Provided in England, P. 71, Gold Coast sundries, Provided in England, L.43,302 5 11 19,180 16819,180 16 8 L.62,483 2 7 L.45,896 15 93 3,745 19 7. L.49,642 15 4 49,642 15 4 Accounts Commissariat, Pap. 60, of 1826, p. 65, Gold Army Extraordinaries, Pap. 59 of 1826, pp. 3, 4, 14, 13, 16, P. 7, Slave Commissions, L.18,000, Pp. 6 and 7, Military do. do. (Army Account,) 120,515 6 1 35,000 0 O 7,000 0 0 27,420 19 10 33,161 15 5 12,168 0 0 1,450 0 0 Expenditure, 1826, L.862,140 19 0 1827.-From Parliamentary Papers, 1827. L.600,000 00 4,008 18 4 2,751 3 9 Naval Expenditure, Quart. Rev. Army Estimates, Pap. 58 of 1827, p. 17, Staff and Medical Officers, Commissariat Estimate, Pap. 64 of 1827, p. 3, Sundries. Ordnance Estimates, Pap. 59 of 1827, pp. 11, 20, 42, 44, and 47, Sundries, Civil Contingencies, Pap. 151 of 1827, pps. 10 and 12, Sun dries, Commissaries' Accounts, Pap. 87 of 1827, p. 55, Sierra Leone, Army Extraordinaries, Pap. 261 of 1827, pp. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, Miscellaneous Estimates, Pap. 161 of 1827, pp. 5 and 6, No. and 12, Sundries, 5, Civil Establishments, Military do (Army account), P. 7, Tools, Clothing, &c. for Lib. Africans and Convicts N. S. Wales, L.49,000 say Miscellaneous Estimates, Pap. 160 of 1827, p. 5, Captured Negroes, Bills drawn, Expenditure, 1827, Exclusive of sums paid for captured and liberated Africans! The expense of maintaining Sierra Leone may, with the greatest justice, be set down as a sum paid for liberated Africans. I proceed, however, to shew the sums which, independent of this, we have directly and actually paid for this description of British subjects; and to obtain an accurate datum to determine the whole, let us take the sums for the following years according to the official estimates, and the bills drawn in each year for this portion of cur national expenditure thus: 1822 1823 1824 45,000 0 0 Bounties, Par. Pap. 399 of 1827, L.484,344 6 8 Maintenance liberated Africans, 966,272 10 5 Spain paid for illegal captures, Par. Pap. 43 of 1822, granted session 1818, Portugal paid for illegal captures, Par. Do. do. p. 3, granted session 1820, Do. do. Miscellaneous Estimates, Pap. 21 of 1822, 400,000 0 O L.348,904 2 2 35,000 0 0 Miscellaneous Estimates, Pap. 192 of 1823, No. 2, p. 35, 15,000 0 0 +698,904 2 2 United States, paid for Slaves per award Emperor Alexander, 1,250,000 dolls. Commission attending award at Petersburgh, Pap. 123 of 1826, p. 15. Pap. 151 of 1827, and Pap. 43 of 1821, pp. 3 and 5, Civil Contingencies, Pap. 191 of 1283, p. 6. illegal capture Liberated Africans Comm. West Indies, say for six years, • The sums really expended are, I believe, much greater. Thus, in the FINANCIAL ACCOUNT for 1824 we find, at page 266, the following entry; "Alexander Grant, Acting Governor of Sierra Leone, account from 1st July 1820 to 30th Nov. 1821 (17 months) L. 65,483: 19: 74d." the whole of which, it is fair to presume, was for maintaining liberated Africans. See also note, page 75 of this letter. The particulars of the sum for 1821 shew the proportions: Sierra Leone, L.33,824, 19: 74d. ; Dominica, L.697, 1: 6d; Isle of France, L.186, 18s.; Demerara, L.508, 1: 24d; Dominica, L.34, 9: ld.; Jamaica, L.746, 3s.; Fees, L.535, 11s.; Total, L.35,533, 3: 43d.-Civil List, Pap. 43 of 1821, p. 16. + Exclusive of the sum of L.601,771: 7: 9, being the amount of a loan remitted to Portugal 1815. (Par. Pap. 43 of 1822, p. 2.) By Par. Pap. 325 of 1823, p. 22, this commission cost L.3100 annually, Brought forward, Pensions, Disbanded Blacks, Soldiers, average of three years, (1st Lett. Black. Dec. 1826,) Paid Sierra Leone Company for Sierra Leone, and the ex pense of removing and maintaining Maroons and Nova Scotians &c, as per first letter Look at these enormous sums, and say what we have got for them! Only the net proceeds of his Majesty's share of a few slave ships sold and paid into the military chest at Sierra Leone; and the collection of idle people assembled in that settlement, which require an establishment exceeding in expen, diture L.800,000 per annum to keep them idle, and from disappearing from the map of the world! Listen to facts. Attend to truth. What have we done in Africa? Have we suppressed the Slave Trade? No! It is quadrupled in extent, and QUINTUPLED in horrors. Have we civilized or reclaimed, that is, have we made more moral and industrious a single African beyond the bounds,nay, even within the bounds, of our own narrow territories? No! Have we taught, or have we planted additional agriculture in Africa? No! Have we extended or created commerce in Africa? No! At this day it is less in the bona fide articles of legitimate commerce than it was in 1789. +Have we created a settlement in Afri ca, with which, in case of war and misfortune, we could at a peace purchase any British object or interest in any other quarter, by renouncing or exchanging it? No! The meanest power in the world would scorn to accept, even as a free gift, the whole of the Total, L.3,058,456 18 3 251,000 0 0 441,442 6 7 * L.3,750,899 4 10 settlements which we at present maintain in Africa! In a political point of view, is Sierra Leone, a Gibraltar, a Malta, the Ionian Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, a Mauritius, a Ceylon, a Sincapore, a Bermuda, a Barbadoes, or a Jamaica? No! It commands nothing-it influences nothing in this world! What, then, I must repeat, have we done IN Africa, or FOR Africa? The answer must be-NoTHING! And what, in our connexion with Africa, have we done for Great Britain? Why, we have sacrificed thousands of valuable lives; and we have squandered away many,-MANY MILLIONS of money! Yet the work of folly, and delusion, and extravagance, and waste, still proceeds! Will the nation and our legislature submit to this for ever? Impossible! I have thus, and at great length, adverted to Mr Macaulay's work, and followed out the Report of the Commissioners, in order therefrom to shew the accuracy of my former statements, and the misrepresentations, the errors, and the falsehoods, put forth by my irritated and incautious opponent, regarding the detested spot. The reproaches of mercenary writer," "partizan of West Indian slave-owners," and all such ribaldry, the contemptible weapons of detected delin quency, and exposed error, and Afri 66 * Exclusive of claims made, but not yet paid, for bounties, and illegal captures, which, it may be a low estimate to take at L.200,000! In the Naval estimates there is the sum of L.40,000 granted annually for "pilotage, bounties on slaves," &c. the proportion of which sum for "bounties on slaves," we learn by Par. Pap. 20 of 1823, was L.12,785. +Par. Pap. 225 of 1826. Imports from W. C. Africa, goods, L.154,948 0 0 Sierra Leone Gazette, June 19, 1826. Gold dust, Total, Trade 1789. Rep. Comm. Privy Council, Part IV. No. 10. 100,000 0 0 L.254,948 0 L.117,817 0 0 5000 0 0 200,000 0 0 322,817 0 Our whole expenditure in Africa was then only a grant for Gold Coast, which, on an average of years,by Par. Pap. 724 of 1822, p. 13, was only L19,062 4 2!! can malevolence, I treat with scorn. These have had their day, and are now only used by the jaundiced eye and malevolent pen of Mr Kenneth Macaulay, by pens which are paid beforehand, or work under "Contract," in all they do, and the junta which sets them on; but these weapons can no longer crush truth, nor shield deception. The point at issue is not, whether I am connected with the East Indies or with the West Indies,with the Mufti of Mecca, or the Lama of Thibet,-but whether what I have stated with regard to Sierra Leone, is true or untrue? This is the point at issue-the question before the public;-a question which Mr Kenneth Macaulay can neither answer by misrepresentation, nor evade by false and unmerited reproaches. Let him rail, bluster, write his efforts are vain. Sierra Leone and its system will be pursued from day to day, from year to year, till it is corrected, or abandoned! He cannot prevent this. His system, HIS Sierra Leone also, as it is, and some of its thick-and-thin supporters, as they are, have, in defiance of his and their anger, and their efforts, each been drawn forth, and recorded in volumes which will not soon decay, and imprinted in pages such as these in which I have again the honour to address you ;which will exist and be read when he and they, and the whole concernyea, even MARO, AFFOOA, ACTOOA, and KOCKQUO-are rotten and forgot ten! BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE is read (where is it not read?) on the Coast of Africa, and welcomed as a deliverer from cant, error, deception, and imposition. And at Sierra Leone, such dialogues as the following frequently take place: "Have you seen the Last Number," say military gentlemen stationed there, as they run to meet, at landing, officers of the navy coming in from a cruise. "No! Anything in it?" "Yes! Another tickler to them!" "Can we see it?" "Almost impossible -very difficult." "But we must see it before we are off!" "Well, let us think; perhaps you may get a peep at Mr C-n's store, where a Number lies in some measure pro bono publico, and almost torn to pieces from the number of hands which endeavour to get hold of it." Off they go-rush amidst the assemblage-read perhaps three deep. "Surprising !"-" astonishing!" "who in this world informs him?""who tells him all these things?""how does he get such correct information?" &c. &c. 66 Aye," observes Mr C-n, with a sigh, "there it isquite correct-wE CANNOT DENY A WORD OF IT!" Except as it will benefit my country, the civilization of Africa can do me no service. Our present system is decidedly wrong, and it is with satisfaction I perceive that a new point is to be chosen, and a more judicious system, it is presumed, to be adopted. But it is with pain I perceive that the expedition sent to accomplish this has been dispatched at an improper season of the year; and it is with greater pain I perceive that it has been directed to call at Sierra Leone, more especially in the midst of the sickly season, (August,) in consequence of which the accounts from that fatal spot, dated the 14th of September, inform us that the crew of the Diadem transport had already got sickly, which, it is to be feared, will spread, and they may be thus cut off by disease, or carry it with them to be cut off in an island where as yet they have neither home nor shelter; and thus the whole undertaking be blasted, which if it is, adieu to the civilization of Africa; for with and from Sierra Leone, it is now evident Great Britain never can accomplish that work. I am, &c. JAMES M'QUEEN. VOL. XXIII. M |