[35] Report of Hotham to Admiralty, April 7, 1847: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1847-8, Vol. LXIV. No. 133, _Papers Relative to the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa_, p. 13. [36] _Opinions of Attorneys-General_, III. 512. [37] _Tenth Annual Report of the Amer. and Foreign Anti-Slav. Soc._, May 7, 1850, p. 149. [38] _Opinions of Attorneys-General_, IV. 245. [39] _Senate Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 150, pp. 108, 132. [40] _House Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61, p. 18. [41] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, pp. 286-90. [42] _British and Foreign State Papers_, 1839-40, pp. 913-4. [43] Cf. United States census reports; and Olmsted, _Cotton Kingdom_. [44] _House Journal_, 26 Cong. 1 sess. p. 118. [45] _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 31, 184. [46] _Ibid._, 27 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 14, 15, 86, 113. [47] _Senate Journal_, 28 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 191, 227. [48] _House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. III. pt. I. No. 5, p. 7. [49] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 152. [50] _Ibid._, pp. 152-3. [51] _Ibid._, p. 241. [52] Cf. e.g. _House Doc._, 28 Cong. 2 sess. IV. pt. I. No. 148; 29 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 43; _House Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 61; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 30 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 28; 31 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 6; 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47. [53] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 218. [54] _Ibid._, p. 221. [55] Palmerston to Stevenson: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, p. 5. In 1836 five such slavers were known to have cleared; in 1837, eleven; in 1838, nineteen; and in 1839, twenty-three: _Ibid._, pp. 220-1. [56] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1839, Vol. XLIX., _Slave Trade_, class A, Further Series, pp. 58-9; class B, Further Series, p. 110; class D, Further Series, p. 25. Trist pleaded ignorance of the law: Trist to Forsyth, _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115. [57] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115. [58] Foote, _Africa and the American Flag_, p. 290. [59] _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 121, 163-6. [60] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. XIV No. 66. [61] Trist to Forsyth: _House Doc._, 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115. "The business of supplying the United States with Africans from this island is one that must necessarily exist," because "slaves are a hundred _per cent_, or more, higher in the United States than in Cuba," and this profit "is a temptation which it is not in human nature as modified by American institutions to withstand": _Ibid._ [62] _Statutes at Large_, V. 674. [63] Cf. above, p. 157, note 1. [64] Buxton, _The African Slave Trade and its Remedy_, pp. 44-5. Cf. _2d Report of the London African Soc._, p. 22. [65] I.e., Bay Island in the Gulf of Mexico, near the coast of Honduras.