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    forts * to abolish the nefarious traffic in flesh and Hood , have invested the close of the last ' century with a glory whiqb the re ^ proach of this atrocious and portentous commerce will never be able to extinguish , and which will continue to enkindle a growing indignation at this enormous wickedness until the oppressor himself shall be glad to abandon it .

    An " Account of the Island of Bulama , an 3 of the BuFam Association / ' was published , we remember ^ in a pamphlet by Andrew Jahansen , in the year 1794 , in which the letters and dispatches of Captain ( then Lieutenant ) Beaver were made considerable use of . The scantiness of Mr . Johahsen ' s account is inade up by the amplitude of Capt . Beaver ' s , which appears eleven years after it , and twelve years after the Bularn& project was abandoned . The late appearance of the McmarariddyC&pU IB . explains satisfactorily : he did not conceive them of

    sufficient importance to lay before the public , and he was incessantly occupied during the late war in the duties of his profifessioB , The circumstance which , at length , induced him to collect and publish his papers Was the reading of a French work by Mons . Golberry on Africa , reeomrciendiiig it to his

    government to-make settlements in that country . Believing this object to be both practicable and important , Capt . B ., with $ laudable patriotism , submits his experience and observations t < y his country , that she may be duly instructed how to estimate ^ and how to counteract the designs of her enemy .

    The Memoranda cannot fail to interest every reader in the history and character of Capt . Beaver , who , with the enterprize of an adventurer , seems to have united the intre-r pidity of a hero and the practical wisdom of a sage . His unaffected narrative shews him to have possessed , in a rare and

    enviable degree , a genius fertile in expedients , a spirit rising above disasters , and a mind which nothing could bend from its purpose but absolute necessity . In following the train of hi § adventures we have felt revived within us the admiration and

    the sympathy which we experienced in early life on first becoming acquainted with those of Robinson Crusoe , who was not better fitted ( perfect as De Foe has drawn his character , ) than Capt f EL to be the monarch of a desolate island .

    The Bulain f Association originated with Mr . Dairyoiple , an officer in the army who had been stationed with his regiment at Goree , and Capt . Beaver . Mr . Dalrymple was engaged to fee governor of the settlement proposed , in the autumn of the yeai 1791 , to be made on the coast of Africa , by the Sierra

    * We allude to the numerous petitions to Parliament on the subjectj and to t ^ c « fi ? i 3 $ e , on the part of the petitioners , of all West India produce . * jf W * use this vtford as the adjective , Bulama as the substzntive .

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    206 African Memoranda .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/38/