Divers accounts have already appeared in print, declarative of the shocking wickedness with which this Trade is carried on; these may not have fallen into the hands of some of my readers, I shall, therefore, for their information, select a few of the most remarkable instances that I have met with, shewing the method by which the Trade is commonly managed all along the _African_ coast. _Francis Moor_, Factor to the _African_ Company, on the river _Gambia_, relates, ‘That when the King of _Barsalli_ wants goods, _&c._ he sends a messenger to the _English_ Governor at _James_’s Fort, to desire he would send up a sloop with a cargo of goods; which (says the author) the Governor never fails to do: Against the time the vessel arrives, the King plunders some of his enemies towns, selling the people for such goods as he wants.—If he is not at war with any neighbouring King, he falls upon one of his own towns, and makes bold to sell his own miserable subjects.’ _N. Brue_, in his account of the Trade, _&c._ writes, ‘That having received a quantity of goods, he wrote to the King of the country, That if he had a sufficient number of slaves, he was ready to trade with him. This Prince (says that author) as well as other Negroe Monarchs, has always a sure way of supplying his deficiencies by selling his own subjects.—The King had recourse to this method, by seizing three hundred of his own people, and sent word to _Brue_, that he had the slaves ready to deliver for the goods.’ The Misery and Bloodshed, consequent to the Slave-trade, is amply set forth by the following extracts of two voyages to the coast of _Guinea_ for slaves. The first in a vessel from _Liverpool_, taken _verbatim_ from the original manuscript of the Surgeon’s journal, _viz._ ‘SESTRO, _December_ the 29th, 1724. No trade to-day, though many Traders come on board; they inform us, that the people are gone to war within land, and will bring prisoners enough in two or three days: in hopes of which we stay. ‘The 30th. No trade yet, but our Traders came on board to-day, and informed us, the people had burnt four towns of their enemies, so that to-morrow we expect slaves off. Another large ship is come in: Yesterday came in a large _Londoner_. ‘The 31st. Fair weather, but no trade yet: We see each night towns burning; but we hear the _Sestro_ men are many of them killed by the inland Negroes, so that we fear this war will be unsuccessful. ‘The 2d _January_. Last night we saw a prodigious fire break out about eleven o’clock, and this morning see the town of _Sestro_ burnt down to the ground, (it contained some hundreds of houses) so that we find their enemies are too hard for them at present, and consequently our trade spoiled here; so that about seven o’clock we weighed anchor, as did likewise the three other vessels, to proceed lower down.’