In short, this bank receives just what each person can spare, and when-and as long as he can spare it ;-a shilling or a pound -more or less-weekly, or monthly, or quarterly, or now and then-just as it happens. Here at all times the fruits of indus try may be safely housed; and what is more, while here they re main, they are certain to be on the increase. If it please God to spare a person's life, he will go on increasing his store and his respectability. In health and in sickness he will have no wants but what his own funds can supply; secure from distress himself, he may be able to relieve the distress of a relation or friend; and when he dies, will leave his little property to his children or other relatives, and his good example with it.

An Account of the Amount of Deposits received by the Directors of the Southwark Savings Bank, for the Second Year of its Establishment, with the Interest thereon; also Sums paid sout to Depositors, with Interest on the same; Amount laid out o in the Purchase of Stock, Debentures, Expenses, Cash in Hand, &c. up to the 8th of April, 1818.

We, the undersigned, being Auditors of the Accounts of the above Institution, do hereby certify this Account to be correct.Dated 17th April, 1818.

Address to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle on the Subject of the Slave-trade.

In a former part of this Number we have inserted an Address: presented at the late Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle by the London Peace Society: we have since received a copy of an Address to the same body on the subject of the Slave-trade.

It is a melancholy consideration, that after the nations of Europe have so unequivocally avowed their detestation of this hor

rid traffic in human blood, that such a catalogue of wickedness should again be brought to light.

That peace which has restored tranquillity to Europe, has kindled all the horrors of intestine war in Africa! Yes, it is confidently asserted, that since the peace of 1814, the African slavetrade has been carried on to an extent never before known in the same space of time, not only in the number of the slaves exported from Africa, and the cruelties practised in kidnapping them, but in the horrors of the middle passage. The British have now lost their right of searching vessels, and foreign traders carry on this iniquitous traffic openly and with impunity.

Previous to the restoration of peace, so much had been effected towards the abolition of the slave-trade, at least in those parts north of the line, that the blessings of civilization and improvement had taken root, and were rapidly spreading. But these encouraging prospects are now blasted; the desolating evil again sweeps the whole range of coast without molestation; and even, if effectual means were immediately taken to abolish the slavetrade, years must probably elapse before the natives will be induced to forgo the expectation of its revival.

It is true that our own government has formally abolished the African slave-trade, and that British subjects are liable to punishment, and their property to confiscation, when found engaged in this illegal commerce; and we are ready to conclude, with this knowledge many of our countrymen are sitting down with the idea that all is done that is required of our nation to do. But let us remember that the African slave-trade exists, and that too in all its original virulence: and let us further bear in mind, that in British colonies the poor negro is still under the galling yoke of slavery. The cruel whip of the task-master still pursues him in his daily labours; that, debased and degraded like the beast that perishes, he drags on his miserable existence.

It may not be in the power of many of us to do more than tenderly to sympathize with our oppressed fellow-creatures under their weight of misery; but we hope and trust the time is not far distant, when the voice of our nation will be raised against slavery itself; when the legislature will be entreated to make such enactments as will lead to the gradual abolition of slavery by ameliorating the condition of the slave.

We must however refer our readers to the last Report of the African Institution for the detail of these affecting events; for we wish them to read for themselves the affidavit of James Eicke, lieutenant of the Cumberland, and the proceedings of the French colonial government at Goree and Senegal, where, notwithstand

ing the solemn protestation of France, the trade has been revived with tenfold horrors. We would entreat them indeed to read the whole of this interesting document and the appendix attached to it.

To Their Imperial and Royal Majesties, and their Representa tives, at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle.

ILLUSTRIOUS AND GRACIOUS POTENTATES,

The Congress of Vienna, in which you last assembled, will form an era in history that must be for ever dear to all good men. Having rescued Europe from the tyranny under which she had so long groaned, you extended your benevolent regards to other regions of the globe. Africa in a peculiar manner excited your sympathy. Deeply affected by the view of her accumulated wrongs, you proclaimed your generous purpose of uniting to deliver her from the state of oppression and wretchedness to which the slave trade had reduced her. You resolved to put an end for ever (to use your own emphatical words)" to that scourge which had so long desolated Africa, degraded Europe, and afflicted humanity," and thus to raise that vast continent to a capacity of sharing with us in the blessings of civilization and of moral and religious light.

Your Majesties being again about to assemble in Congress, it will naturally become an object of your solicitude to ascertain, whether your beneficent intentions with respect to Africa ha been in any adequate degree fulfilled. And if it should appear that they have not, it will then without doubt be your desire to devise such measures as may give complete effect to those elevated sentiments and truly Christian principles which dictated your former declarations in her favour.

It will not now be requisite to advert at length to the nature of the African slave-trade, and the retrenchinents it had sustained prior to the Congress of Vienna, as all necessary informátion on those subjects was then submitted to Your Majesties.

In the year 1807, Great Britain and the United States of America passed laws entirely prohibiting the trade, in all its branches, to their respective subjects; and, in 1810, Portugal consented to prescribe local limits to her share of it in that part of the African continent which lies to the north of the equator. These important measures being aided at that time by the right of visitation which the existing state of war conferred on the belligerent nations, produced a very considerable effect. A partial cessation of the slave-trade took place along a large portion of the African coast. And on that part of it which extends from

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Senegal to the Gold Coast few traces of this odious traffic remained for England, having added by conquest the French settlements in that district to her own, was able pretty effectually there to restrain the commerce of her enemies, and to enforce prohibitory laws against the slave-trade. This interval of local rest from the ravages of the slave-trade, short as it unhappily was, served abundantly to confirm the anticipations of wise and good men. The western shores of northern Africa were already beginning to exhibit a new and more cheering aspect. The pursuits of peaceful industry and the arts of civilized life, joined to the diffusion of religious knowledge, were slowly indeed but progressively repairing the desolating and barbarizing mischiefs of the slave-trade, when the scene was suddenly changed.

The peace which followed the overthrow of the revolutionary powers in France, and which has been pregnant with so many blessings to Europe, has proved to Africa a source of renewed calamities-of calamities greatly aggravated even by the partial repose she had for a while enjoyed, as well as by the disappointment of her new-born and reasonable hopes.

No sooner was peace proclaimed, than the traders in human blood hastened from various quarters to the African shores, and, with a cupidity sharpened by past restraint, renewed their former crimes.

Among the rest, the slave-merchants of France, who had been excluded for upwards of twenty years from any direct participation in this murderous traffic, now eagerly resumed it; and to this very hour they continue openly to carry it on, notwithstanding the solemn renunciation of it by their own government in 1815, and the prohibitory French laws which have since been passed to restrain them.

This revival and progress of the French slave-trade has, in one respect, been peculiarly opprobrious, and attended with aggravated cruelty and mischief.

During the ten years which preceded the restoration of Sene gal and Goree to France, no part of the African coast, Sierra Leone excepted, had enjoyed so entire an exemption from the miseries produced by the slave-trade as those settlements and the country in their vicinage. The suppression of the traffic was there complete; and, in consequence, a striking increase of population and of agriculture in the surrounding districts, with a proportionate improvement in other respects, gave a dawn of rising prosperity and happiness highly exhilarating to every benevolent mind.

It was in the month of January 1817 that these interesting