6820. Mr. _Aldam_.] Has the Admiralty issued orders for other officers in similar cases to follow the same course?--I think the Admiralty has done so. 6821. Mr. _Forster_.] You wish the Committee distinctly to understand that you think such means as you resorted to would not have the effect of offering a bad example to the native chiefs, which they might imitate, and under some pretext or other to seize upon British property?--I think not; I think no example in the natives engaged in the slave trade can possibly make them worse than they are while such traffic is there pursued, nor is there a possibility of improvement until it is stopped. 6822. You think that, when the slave trade is once put down, British settlements planted at the parts where it has been carried on will keep it down?--I think eventually legitimate trade will keep it down; I do not limit it to British settlements only, although British settlements would undoubtedly have a good effect for that object. 6823. Then if a British settlement had been founded at the Gallinas on the completion of your operations there, you think the slave trade would have been permanently suppressed?--Undoubtedly I think so, if founded on good principles. 6824. In your last examination you spoke in terms of strong condemnation of the traders upon the coast having any commercial dealings with persons suspected of being engaged in the slave trade; now, without requiring from a naval commander an intimate or practical knowledge of the principles of commerce, it may nevertheless be reasonable to ask you, after the strong opinions you have expressed, how British trade in Africa could possibly be successfully carried on in competition with foreigners under any restrictions such as you have pointed at?--The restriction that I recommend is, that there should be such a change in the law as to enable us to seize and to condemn any vessel that trades with a notorious slave factory, there being no other trade but the slave trade there prosecuted; also, against the supply of slave ships with goods for the purposes of their traffic, and also against the sale of vessels calculated for the slave trade to slave dealers. In my opinion, those three practices should be stopped. 6825. Do you know Senor Caetano, at the Bissao?--I know who he is, well. 6826. You have stated in your former evidence, that Senor Caetano dealt both in produce and in slaves; how would you act in his case?--I have stated that it would be impossible to distinguish in such cases. 6827. You are aware that slavery and slave dealing are extensively carried on in Cuba?--Undoubtedly; the slave trade to a much diminished extent of late. 6828. And you are aware that it is equally the case in Brazil?--I am aware that it is also the case in the Brazils.