[22] This account is taken exclusively from government documents: _Amer. State Papers, Naval_, III. Nos. 339, 340, 357, 429 E; IV. Nos. 457 R (1 and 2), 486 H, I, p. 161 and 519 R, 564 P, 585 P; _House Reports_, 19 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 65; _House Doc._, 19 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 69; 21 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 42-3, 211-8; 22 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 45, 272-4; 22 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 48, 229; 23 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 238, 269; 23 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 315, 363; 24 Cong, 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 336, 378; 24 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 450, 506; 25 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 3, pp. 771, 850; 26 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 534, 612; 26 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 405, 450. It is probable that the agent became eventually the United States consul and minister; I cannot however cite evidence for this supposition. [23] _Report of the Secretary of the Navy_, 1824. [24] _Ibid._, 1826. [25] _Ibid._, 1839. [26] _Ibid._, 1842. [27] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1857-8, p. 1250. [28] Lord Napier to Secretary of State Cass, Dec. 24, 1857: _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1857-8, p. 1249. [29] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1847-8, Vol. LXIV. No. 133, _Papers Relative to the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa_, p. 2. [30] Report of Perry: _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 150, p. 118. [31] Consul Park at Rio Janeiro to Secretary Buchanan, Aug. 20, 1847: _House Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61, p. 7. [32] Suppose "an American vessel employed to take in negroes at some point on this coast. There is no American man-of-war here to obtain intelligence. What risk does she run of being searched? But suppose that there is a man-of-war in port. What is to secure the master of the merchantman against her [the man-of-war's commander's knowing all about his [the merchant-man's] intention, or suspecting it in time to be upon him [the merchant-man] before he shall have run a league on his way to Texas?" Consul Trist to Commander Spence: _House Doc._, 27 Cong. 1 sess. No. 34, p. 41.] [33] A typical set of instructions was on the following plan: 1. You are charged with the protection of legitimate commerce. 2. While the United States wishes to suppress the slave-trade, she will not admit a Right of Search by foreign vessels. 3. You are to arrest slavers. 4. You are to allow in no case an exercise of the Right of Search or any great interruption of legitimate commerce.--To Commodore Perry, March 30, 1843: _House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 104. [34] _House Reports_, 27 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 283, pp. 765-8. Cf. Benton's speeches on the treaty of 1842.