Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXVIII. To Mrs. Sarah Bache

Collection:: Economics Books

42 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE Thursday, 2()th July 1871. MEMBERS PRESENT : Sir Robert Aostrutber. Lord Frederick Cavendish. Mr. Criim-Ewing. Viscount Enfield. Mr. Gilpin. Mr. Russell Gurney. Sir John Hay. Mr. Kennaway. Mr. Kinnaird. Mr. Shaw Lefevre. Mr. O’Conor. Mr. John Talbot. Right Honourable RUSSELL GURNEY, in the Chair. 20 July 1871. Mr. Vivian read a letter received from Dr. Kirk on the 10th of June \hll—{Vide Appendix). Major General Christopher Palmer Rigby, called in; and Examined. Maj. Gen. C. P. Rigby 530. Chairman.’] Were you at one time Consul • at Zanzibar?—I was Her Majesty’s Consul and Political Agent for the Indian Government nearly four years, from 1858 to the end of 1861. 531. Had you previously to that been acting in any capacity which gave you a knowledge of the affairs of that district?—1 had been stationed at Aden for four years, where I studied Arabic and Persian, and the language of the African Coast, the Somali language ; and I had also been nearly two years up the Persian Gulf ; I was the^ magistrate at Bushire, superintendent of police, and Persian interpreter to the general commanding during the Persian War. 532. Had you any opportunity of becoming acquainted with the proceedings of the slave traders previously to your being appointed Consul at Zanzibar ?—I had heard a good deal of the trade when I was up the Persian Gulf, being very much thrown amongst officers of the Indian Navy. 533. At that time, that is before the year 1858, was there any considerable slave trade cairied on up the Red Sea?—I think very few slaves indeed were carried up the Red Sea. There were always one or two vessels of the Indian Navy stationed at Aden, and they opera ted almost as a complete check to any slaves passing into the Red Sea. ^4. In 1858, who was the reigning sovereio-n at Zanzibar ?—Syed Majid, the late Sultan. ° much communication with him ? —The British Consulate at Zanzibar had been closed 18 months before I went there on account of tlie death of my predecessor, Colonel Hamerton. I was the only Englishman there, and of course it took me some time to become acquainted with the slave trade ; every individual on the island was interested in keeping me in ignorance of it as much as possible, and it was only gradually that I became aware of the vast extent of it. . ^ suppose it has existed there for a long time, It has grown gradually from year to year ; but it is within the last 20 years that it has become developed to what it now is, 53/. You found it prevailing to a great extent in 1858, as soon as you were able to become aC' quainted with what going on ?—Yes ; at that time the slave trade to the Persian Gulf and to the Red Sea, was not so active as it is now? because the chief number of the slaves, parti' cularly the adults, were taken away by the French. When I went there I found a most active slave trade carried on at Zanzibar itself, and along the coast by the French vessels, and at that time the French slave vessels went eS' corted by French men-of-war. 538. Would those slaves be taken to the M auritius ?—To Reunion and to Mayotta. 539. Did the slave trade increase or decrease during the time you were there ?—For sometime after I went there it increased very much. The French Government encouraged the trade ; the French Admiral used to say, we want labourers for our colonies, and we are determined to have them ; the French consul also gave his active sujiport to it ; not only was encouragement given to slavers under the French flag, but also to slavers under the Spanish flag. 540. Has that state of things continued up to the present time ?—I brought this to the notice • of the Foreign Office, and I followed the subject up as much as I possibly could, but it continued till Prince Napoleon came into office as Porei^n Minister in France, and he issued very strino-ent orders prohibiting this slave trade, which^ did check it very much for a time, but afterwards they carried it on under the free engao-ées syS' tern. ® ^ I 541. Have you reason to suppose that that has been continued to the present time ?—It waS checked afterwards by our Government entering into ail arrangement with the French, by which labourers from India. 542. V\ as the principal part of the slave trade earned on at that time, that which was carried on under the French flag ?—In addition to that, theie was a great slave trade to Cuba under the Spanish flag. ^ suppose has ceased before now ? AT entirely ceased. Large houses at Marseilles and Barcelona entered very largely inte

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