6791. You conceive then that if this process is followed, it will be effectual for its object?--My opinion is, that in such a part of the coast as the Gallinas, blockade alone is quite sufficient to stop the slave trade. These measures, of course, render the operation of the blockade more quick. But I had kept a blockade up at that place for nearly a year, during which only two vessels had escaped. Nearly 20 vessels had been captured, and they were reduced to despair. Every American vessel generally used to inform my officers that the slave dealers declared they could not carry on the trade under the pressure of a blockade so maintained. The blockade during a great part of the time, both at Cestos, where similar results were produced, and at the Gallinas, was carried on for the greater part of the time at the Gallinas by my ship alone, and at Cestos by the Termagant alone, under my orders. 6792. During that blockade, did you prevent the access of any vessel bringing goods into the country?--I interfered with only vessels equipped for the slave trade; goods to purchase the slaves I could not interfere with. Had they been brought in British vessels, I should certainly have seized those vessels; but I should have been very doubtful whether conviction would have followed under the penal clauses, where the necessity of proving the knowledge of the party is so difficult. 6793. But you would have taken the risk?--I should have felt it my duty to take that risk. 6794. Mr. _Aldam_.] Did any British vessels attempt to go in during that period with goods?--No, not while I was there. 6795. _Chairman._] Did any vessels of any nation come in with lawful goods during that period?--There is a list of them in the correspondence. 6796. Mr. _Forster_.] Then if a British vessel, laden with lawful merchandise, had attempted to enter the Gallinas, you would have seized her?--Not so, exactly; but if British vessels had come under the same circumstances as American vessels did, with cargoes consigned from Pedro Blanco to Thomas Buron, both notorious slave dealers, to be paid for at the Havannah, or in dollars there, I certainly should have seized them. 6797. How could you have known how the goods were to be paid for?--I should have considered it a clear case of aiding and abetting the slave trade, as clear as it is possible for any thing to be. 6798. How could you have learned that the goods would be paid for at the Havannah in dollars?--I think it is immaterial whether they were paid for in dollars at the Havannah or at the Gallinas; but the fact that they were not paid for in produce, and that it was distinctly putting goods into the hands of the Spaniard Buron to buy slaves with, would, in my opinion, make it a clear case of aiding and abetting the slave trade.