the means of subsistence, except what the palm trees and wild yams afforded him. To this wretched and vagabond condition has the powerful and dreaded chief of Sooie been reduced, in consequence of his attack upon the Colony! As soon as I became convinced that the continuance of the embargo would not accomplish my first object, I thought it proper to take such measures for the removal of the interdict as would prevent the suspicion that I had been defeated in my purpose. Accordingly, I affected to regard their efforts to secure and deliver up GATOOMBA as sincere, and that they were frustrated only by his superior cunning; but I informed the chiefs of Boporo, as GoTWAH and GATOOMBA had been both allies of theirs, and since they had failed to make the only satisfaction I demanded for the attack upon Heddington, namely, the surrender of GATOOMBA, they could not expect me to let them off, without paying a large sum of money; but as they had already suffered so much, and I was unwilling to use my power to injure them, they would be allowed to compromise the whole affair, by sending me five bullocks, upon which the trade would be again opened. My messenger was joyfully received, and a large deputation was immediately despatched to this place, with the required present, and a piece of white, cloth. They waited upon me in a body, and the chief of the deputation delivered a set speech, which he said he brought from the king's mouth,' wherein my powers, wisdom, and magnanimity, were extolled to the skies, and the most unqualified submission of all the tribes of Boporo was declared to the Colony. After the ceremony was over, I fired a gun from the, fort, to announce the perfect restoration of peace, and the renewal of intercourse; and before night, a large number, who had awaited the news on the opposite side of the river, came over with their articles of traffic.

"I had great difficulty to maintain my position with regard to the embargo for such a length of time, as it was directly against the interest of the merchants, and most of the people of this country; but now that it has resulted so favorably, all are ready to acknowledge the wisdom of the policy. The fact of having compelled a nation so powerful and distant to pay an indemnity for the aggressions of their allies, and to receive as a boon the permission to trade with us, must greatly increase our influence in the country generally.

"I had the pleasure, on the last field day, of reading the complimentary resolution of the board to the assembled regiment, and also took occasion to inform them that, in consequence of their gallant and brave conduct, you had promised to present them with a standard. These communications gratified an honest pride, and gave them the highest satisfaction. Together with the standard, I trust the rifles, brass cannon, and military equipments will be sent, if not already on the way, in the Saluda."

"We have not, as yet, been able to have a lighter built here, as the boatbuilder and every carpenter who could work on one have been, and are still, engaged building for others. When the Timbuctoo was lost, about two months since, we had not a single remaining vessel afloat. Since then, three old ones have been thoroughly repaired, and two new ones nearly completed, all of which will be in service before the middle of November. "The long delay of the Saluda has caused me no little uneasiness; but I trust no accident has occurred to her on the passage. I am the more anxious for her arrival now, as the rains are nearly over, and the season is becoming favorable for the excursion you wish me to make down the coast, for the acquisition of territory. Business of considerable importance also demands my presence at Bassa, and I ought likewise to spend some time at Sinou; but while hourly expecting the Saluda, I dare not leave here, as my absence on her arrival would be productive of inconvenience, and per haps serious embarrassment."

"The sugar mill is at last ready, and our cane is fully ripe; but for the last three weeks we have delayed cutting it, in the hope that the Saluda would arrive with the new boilers, (our present ones being far too small,) and other articles required for the operation of sugar-making. So far, the crop has suffered nothing from the delay, but we can wait no longer, and must proceed to manufacture our crop as we best may, though it will neces sarily be at a great disadvantage and loss.

"Accompanying, you will receive the accounts of the Monrovia establishment, up to the 1st of September, and those of Bassa Cove to the 1st of July. I had intended, with these accounts of the store, to have forwarded an accurate account of the receipts and disbursements of the Colonial Treasury; but as all the accounts from Bassa are not in, I cannot at present furnish it complete, but shall endeavor to do so at the close of the year. It is a matter of no small difficulty to get our local officers into habits of promptness and accuracy, especially when they are at a distance from myself, as at Bassa Cove."

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"Enclosed, I send you a list of American slavers that have either been captured, or have escaped from the coast, since my last list was furnished. Among them you will see the name of the Scorpion.' This vessel was formerly called the Voladere,' and was once engaged by the Society to bring emigrants to this place. She happened to arrive at New Cessters at the only time the place had been unguarded by a cruizer for full five months. The Forrester' had, a few days before, been obliged to run over to Ascension for provisions-when she slipped in, took on board six hundred and eighty slaves, and sailed for Havana. Since then, a small schooner was captured at the same place, with her slave deck laid, and every thing ready for the voyage, the moment the slaves could have been embarked. The space allowed for the slaves in this vessel was more confined than in any I recollect to have heard of: the height from the slave deck to the upper deck being only sixteen inches! Only imagine such a place crowded with human beings, and confined there during a voyage of five or six weeks!"

"The blockade has been so vigilantly kept up at Galling, by the Hon. Captain DENMAN, that only two or three cargoes of slaves have been shipped since last spring. There are some two or three thousand slaves there, the expense of keeping whom is very great, and I am told they exhibit a most wretched appearance. Their owners are becoming despondent at the gloomy prospect, and if the blockade is rigidly kept up, (which DENMAN assures me it will be,) I have no doubt they will be forced to abandon the place before another year. In that case, I shall aim at purchasing the soil, and securing to the Colony jurisdiction over the surrounding country-when the greatest mart of human traffic on the western coast may become the site of Christian settlements, and the centre of civilization to all the region round about."

"The late emigrants are now enjoying perfect immunity from sickness, and are all, I believe, on their own lands at Bexley, at work. A paragraph in the last number of the Luminary says, erroneously, that between seventy and eighty of those people have died. The amount of actual mortality is bad enough. According to official reports in my possession, there have been forty-two deaths out of the whole company. I have written again to Bassa Cove, to ascertain whether any one has died since the last return, but have not yet got an answer. However, it is probably not the case, or I should have received information of it. Among all the white residents of the whole Colony, including Cape Palmas, there has been but one death (Mr. CROCKER) during the past year.

"I am, with the highest consideration, your obedient servant, THOS. BUCHANAN. "Hon. SAM'L. WILKESON, Gen. Agt. Am. Col. Soc., Washington."

the means of subsistence, except what the palm trees and wild yams afforded him. To this wretched and vagabond condition has the powerful and dreaded chief of Sooie been reduced, in consequence of his attack upon the Colony! As soon as I became convinced that the continuance of the cmbargo would not accomplish my first object, I thought it proper to take such measures for the removal of the interdict as would prevent the suspicion that I had been defeated in my purpose. Accordingly, I affected to regard their efforts to secure and deliver up GATOOMBA as sincere, and that they were frustrated only by his superior cunning; but I informed the chiefs of Boporo, as GoTWAH and GATOOMBA had been both allies of theirs, and since they had failed to make the only satisfaction I demanded for the attack upon Heddington, namely, the surrender of GATOOMBA, they could not expect me to let them off, without paying a large sum of money; but as they had already suffered so much, and I was unwilling to use my power to injure them, they would be allowed to compromise the whole affair, by sending me five bullocks, upon which the trade would be again opened. My messenger was joyfully received, and a large deputation was immediately despatched to this place, with the required present, and a piece of white, cloth. They waited upon me in a body, and the chief of the deputation. delivered a set speech, which he said he brought from the king's mouth,' wherein my powers, wisdom, and magnanimity, were extolled to the skies, and the most unqualified submission of all the tribes of Boporo was declared to the Colony. After the ceremony was over, I fired a gun from the fort, to announce the perfect restoration of peace, and the renewal of intercourse; and before night, a large number, who had awaited the news on the opposite side of the river, came over with their articles of traffic.

"I had great difficulty to maintain my position with regard to the embargo for such a length of time, as it was directly against the interest of the merchants, and most of the people of this country; but now that it has resulted so favorably, all are ready to acknowledge the wisdom of the policy. The fact of having compelled a nation so powerful and distant to pay an indemnity for the aggressions of their allies, and to receive as a boon the permission to trade with us, must greatly increase our influence in the country generally.

"I had the pleasure, on the last field day, of reading the complimentary resolution of the board to the assembled regiment, and also took occasion to inform them that, in consequence of their gallant and brave conduct, you had promised to present them with a standard. These communications gratified an honest pride, and gave them the highest satisfaction. Together with the standard, I trust the rifles, brass cannon, and military equipments will be sent, if not already on the way, in the Saluda."

"We have not, as yet, been able to have a lighter built here, as the boatbuilder and every carpenter who could work on one have been, and are still, engaged building for others. When the Timbuctoo was lost, about two months since, we had not a single remaining vessel afloat. Since then, three old ones have been thoroughly repaired, and two new ones nearly completed, all of which will be in service before the middle of November. "The long delay of the Saluda has caused me no little uneasiness; but I trust no accident has occurred to her on the passage. I am the more anxious for her arrival now, as the rains are nearly over, and the season is becoming favorable for the excursion you wish me to make down the coast, for the acquisition of territory. Business of considerable importance also demands my presence at Bassa, and I ought likewise to spend some time at Sinou; but while hourly expecting the Saluda, I dare not leave here, as my absence on her arrival would be productive of inconvenience, and per haps serious embarrassment.'

"The sugar mill is at last ready, and our cane is fully ripe; but for the last three weeks we have delayed cutting it, in the hope that the Saluda would arrive with the new boilers, (our present ones being far too small,) and other articles required for the operation of sugar-making. So far, the crop has suffered nothing from the delay, but we can wait no longer, and must proceed to manufacture our crop as we best may, though it will neces sarily be at a great disadvantage and loss.

"Accompanying, you will receive the accounts of the Monrovia establishment, up to the 1st of September, and those of Bassa Cove to the 1st of July. I had intended, with these accounts of the store, to have forwarded an accurate account of the receipts and disbursements of the Colonial Treasury; but as all the accounts from Bassa are not in, I cannot at present furnish it complete, but shall endeavor to do so at the close of the year. It is a matter of no small difficulty to get our local officers into habits of promptness and accuracy, especially when they are at a distance from myself, as at Bassa Cove."

"Enclosed, I send you a list of American slavers that have either been captured, or have escaped from the coast, since my last list was furnished. Among them you will see the name of the Scorpion.' This vessel was formerly called the Voladere,' and was once engaged by the Society to bring emigrants to this place. She happened to arrive at New Cessters at the only time the place had been unguarded by a cruizer for full five months. The Forrester' had, a few days before, been obliged to run over to Ascension for provisions-when she slipped in, took on board six hundred and eighty slaves, and sailed for Havana. Since then, a small schooner was captured at the same place, with her slave deck laid, and every thing ready for the voyage, the moment the slaves could have been embarked. The space allowed for the slaves in this vessel was more confined than in any I recollect to have heard of: the height from the slave deck to the upper deck being only sixteen inches! Only imagine such a place crowded with human beings, and confined there during a voyage of five or six weeks!"

"The blockade has been so vigilantly kept up at Galling, by the Hon. Captain DENMAN, that only two or three cargoes of slaves have been shipped since last spring. There are some two or three thousand slaves there, the expense of keeping whom is very great, and I am told they exhibit a most wretched appearance. Their owners are becoming despondent at the gloomy prospect, and if the blockade is rigidly kept up, (which DENMAN assures me it will be,) I have no doubt they will be forced to abandon the place before another year. In that case, I shall aim at purchasing the soil, and securing to the Colony jurisdiction over the surrounding country-when the greatest mart of human traffic on the western coast may become the site of Christian settlements, and the centre of civilization to all the region round about."

"The late emigrants are now enjoying perfect immunity from sickness, and are all, I believe, on their own lands at Bexley, at work. A paragraph in the last number of the Luminary says, erroneously, that between seventy and eighty of those people have died. The amount of actual mortality is bad enough. According to official reports in my possession, there have been forty-two deaths out of the whole company. I have written again to Bassa Cove, to ascertain whether any one has died since the last return, but have not yet got an answer. However, it is probably not the case, or I should have received information of it. Among all the white residents of the whole Colony, including Cape Palmas, there has been but one death (Mr. CROCKER) during the past year.

“I am, with the highest consideration, your obedient servant, "THOS. BUCHANAN. "Hon. SAM'L. WILKESON, Gen. Agt. Am. Col. Soc., Washington."

"MONROVIA, Oct. 27, 1840.

"MY DEAR SIR: I have this moment received the mail from Bassa, with the last quarter's account from SHERIDAN, bringing the transactions of that establishment down to the first of October.

"As the vessel is getting under weigh, I have not even time to look over the account, but presume it is all correct, and enclose it accordingly.

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By this mail I have a complaint, that an English schooner, the 'German,' JACKSON master, London, has, within a few days, violated our laws, by trading with the fishmen at the Cove, from whom they received about two thousand gallons of palm oil. The letter also states that Lieutenant SEAGRAM, of the man-of-war Termagant, was present on shore at Edina, when the collector informed JACKSON that such a proceeding would be a violation of the laws of the Colony; and that SEAGRAM told the collector he would protect the English flag, and JACKSON treated the Colonial authority with contempt, and immediately went on board, and had the oil brought off from Fishtown.

"Could you not make a representation to the English Government that would lead to some instructions to these traders to respect our laws, and not allow us to be exposed to these constant and most vexatious collisions? "THOS. BUCHANAN.

"Hon. S. WILKESON."

By the late arrival of the Atalanta, we received letters from several Colonists. From one of them we give the following extracts: "To the Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society of the United States of America:

"GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor dated 13th April, 1840, and however little inclined I am to offer any opinion concerning an enterprise made so much the subject of contention as is the scheme of Colonization in Africa, yet my having consented to be employed by Governor BUCHANAN I consider a waiver to my objections, and in consonance thereto, beg leave to offer for your consideration the following remarks:

"The highly flattering manner in which you are pleased to speak of my ability to perform the duty with which I am charged, induces me to hope that, whatever may have been the unseemliness of my communications made to you from this country, it has been overlooked, in consequence of your having had, through other channels, such information as made you more fully acquainted with the facts which gave rise to the spirit in which those communications were dictated.

"If I had reason to reflect on myself for a departure from the simplicity which should characterize those who would become public benefactors, much more do I conceive myself at fault when I reflect that it is possible I may have been, however unintentionally, the occasion of wounding the feelings of some, or of damping the zeal of others, who, but for that circumstance, might have been efficient helpers in the promotion of your plan-of the origin whereof, or the effects likely to be produced by it, I am not called upon, by any circumstances connected with this present conference, to decide. I shall, therefore, in my present communication, confine myself entirely to matters of local interest connected with our beloved Africa, and the sphere of action in which-I am informed that it has been with your concurrence-I am placed.

The favorable expectation indulged by his Honor, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, Judge WILKESON, that the debts of the Society will