§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, he rose to move for leave to introduce a Bill to carry into effect the treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the suppression of the African slave trade. The American Government had behaved in the handsomest manner in reference to the treaty. They had long been aware that the American flag had been perverted as a cover for carrying on the slave trade, and sensible of the evil and inconvenience to which that practice had given rise, they had of their own accord proposed the treaty, which was in all respects adapted, as far as their flag was concerned, to put an end to the perpetration of the crime.
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Leave given.
Bill to carry into effect the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade, ordered to be brought in by Viscount Palmerston and Sir George Grey.
§ Bill presented, and read 1a to be read 2a on Monday next, and to be printed [Bill 160].
§ House adjourned at half after One o'clock.