[135] Ayres to the Secretary of the Navy, Feb. 24, 1823;
reprinted in _Friends' View of the African Slave-Trade_
(1824), p. 31.
[136] _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, pp. 5-6.
The slavers were the "Ramirez," "Endymion," "Esperanza,"
"Plattsburg," "Science," "Alexander," "Eugene," "Mathilde,"
"Daphne," "Eliza," and "La Pensee." In these 573 Africans were
taken. The naval officers were greatly handicapped by the size
of the ships, etc. (cf. _Friends' View_, etc., pp. 33-41).
They nevertheless acted with great zeal.
[137] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1821, Vol. XXIII., _Slave
Trade_, Further Papers, A, p. 76. The names and description of
a dozen or more American slavers are given: _Ibid._, pp.
18-21.
[138] _House Reports_, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, pp. 15-20.
[139] _House Doc._, 18 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No. 119, p. 13.
[140] _Parliamentary Papers_, 1823, Vol. XVIII., _Slave
Trade_, Further Papers, A, pp. 10-11.
[141] _Opinions of Attorneys-General_, V. 717.
[142] R.W. Habersham to the Secretary of the Navy, August,
1821; reprinted in _Friends' View_, etc., p. 47.
[143] _Ibid._, p. 42.
[144] _Ibid._, p. 43.
[145] Cf. above, pp. 126-7.
[146] _Friends' View_, etc., p. 42.
[147] A few accounts of captures here and there would make the
matter less suspicious; these, however, do not occur.
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