Despatch to Mr. Belford Wilson, marked Circular, of the 27th of December last, I have addressed to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs, requesting that an authentic copy may be supplied to me of all the laws and administrative acts, whether of a temporary or permanent character, which may at any time have been issued by the Peruvian Government, or by its municipal and colonial authorities, for the purpose of regulating, restraining, or preventing the traffic in slaves.

Herein are inclosed a copy and translation of the Peruvian Minister's reply to my before mentioned Note, informing me that he has ordered copies of all the laws of this description to be prepared, and that he will transmit them to me so soon as they are ready.

I likewise forward to your Lordship copies of the letters which, in the execution of your Lordship's before cited instructions, have been addressed by me to Her Majesty's Consul at Tacna, and to the British Vice-Consuls at Islay and in

THE Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul-General, has the honour to acquaint the Señor Dr. Don Agustin Guillermo Charun, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, that he has received a Despatch, addressed under date of the 27th December last, by the Earl of Aberdeen, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Belford Hinton Wilson, in which his Lordship informs Mr. Belford Wilson that Her Majesty's Government is desirous of obtaining a complete collection of ail the Laws and administrative Acts, both general and local, which have emanated from the Legislatures and sovereign authorities of Foreign States, both previously and subsequently to the contraction of Treaty engagements for the purpose of regulating, restraining, or preventing the Traffic in Slaves; and the Earl of Aberdeen consequently desires Mr. Belford Wilson to address an official application to the Peruvian Government, requesting that an authentic copy may be supplied to him of all the Laws and Acts of this description, whether of a temporary or permanent character, which may at any time have been issued by the Peruvian Government, or by its municipal and colonial authorities.

In obedience, therefore, to the instructions of Her Majesty's Government the Undersigned has now the honour to request that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru will be pleased to direct that an authentic copy be supplied to him of all the Laws and administrative Acts, whether of a temporary or permanent character, which may at any time have been issued by the Peruvian Government, or by its municipal and colonial authorities, for the purpose of regulating, restraining, or preventing the Traffic in Slaves.

The Undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew to Dr. Charun the assurance of his high respect and distinguished consideration.

THE Undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has directed the issue of the copies of the resolutions relative to Slave Trade, which in his Note of the

8th instant, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul-General is pleased to solicit, and as soon as they shall be ready the Undersigned will have the satisfaction of transmitting them to him.

The Undersigned renews to Mr. Sealy the assurances of his perfect consideration. AGN. G. CHARUN.

Her Britannic Majesty's Acting
Consul-General.

(Signed)

Third Enclosure in No. 133.

Mr. Sealy to Her Majesty's Consul at Tacna, and the British Vice-Consul

at Islay.

Lima, June 8, 1842.

SIR, I HAVE the honour to acquaint you that I have received a Despatch (a copy of which is herewith transmitted for your information and guidance), addressed under date of the 27th of December last, by the Earl of Aberdeen to Mr. Belford Wilson; in which his Lordship informs Mr. Belford Wilson that Her Majesty's Government is desirous of obtaining a complete collection of all the Laws and administrative Acts, both general and local, which have emanated from the Legislatures and sovereign authorities of Foreign States, both previously and subsequently to the contraction of Treaty engagements for the purpose of regulating, restraining, or preventing the Traffic in Slaves; and desiring Mr. Belford Wilson to address an official application to the Peruvian and Bolivian Governments, requesting that an authentic copy may be supplied to him of all the Laws and Acts of this description, whether of a temporary or permanent character, which may at any time have been issued by those Governments, or by their municipal and colonial authorities.

I have therefore, under date of this day, addressed to the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs an official application, in conformity to the before cited instruc tions of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and I have to desire that you will use your best endeavours to obtain, through any other channels, authentic copies of any further documents which may appear to be necessary to complete the collection in question; and that you will forward such papers to me without delay.

Her Majesty's Consul at Tacna, and the
British Vice-Consul at Islay.

I have, &c.

Fourth Enclosure in No. 133.

Mr. Sealy to Mr. Masterton.

SIR,

Lima, June 8, 1842.

I HAVE the honour to acquaint you that I have received a Despatch (a copy of which is herewith transmitted for your information and guidance), addressed, under date of the 27th of December last, by the Earl of Aberdeen to Mr. Belford Wilson; in which his Lordship informs Mr. Belford Wilson that Her Majesty's Government is desirous of obtaining a complete collection of all the Laws and administrative Acts, both general and local, which have emanated from the Legislatures and sovereign authorities of Foreign States, both previously and subsequently to the contraction of Treaty engagements for the purpose of regulating, restraining, or preventing the Traffic in Slaves; and desiring Mr. Belford Wilson to address an official application to the Peruvian and Bolivian Governments, requesting that an authentic copy may be supplied to him of all the Laws and Acts of this description, whether of a temporary or permanent character, which may at any time have been issued by those Governments, or by their municipal and colonial authorities.

You will therefore address to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs an official application, in conformity to the before cited instructions of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

I have at the same time to desire that you will use your best endeavours to obtain, through any other channels, authentic copies of any further documents which may appear to be necessary to complete the collection in question, and that you will forward to Her Majesty's Government, without delay, the whole of these papers, together with accurate translations thereof.

I HAVE the honour to transmit, herewith, to your Lordship, a copy of a Note which in the execution of the instructions contained in your Lordship's Despatch to Mr. Belford Wilson of the 31st December last, I have addressed to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs requesting him to procure with the least possible delay from the Council of State the necessary authorization to enable him to give, in the name of his Government, a peremptory refusal to entertain the plan for reviving Slave Trade in Peru, and urging him to obtain the authorization of that body for the negociation and signature of a Treaty with Her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the Slave Trade of Peru.

Herein are also enclosed a copy and translation of the Peruvian Minister's Note acknowledging the receipt of my before-mentioned Despatch, and stating that, with a view of replying thereto as quickly as possible, he had again called upon the Council of State for their opinion upon the points in question.

In conclusion, I beg to assure your Lordship that should circumstances render it expedient or necessary, I will not fail again to press upon the attention of the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs the urgent importance of his obtaining, without unnecessary delay, the required authorization of the Council of State for the formal rejection of the plan for reviving Slave Trade in Peru, and for the negociation and signature of a Treaty with Her Majesty for the suppression of that traffic.

Mr. Sealy to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru.

Lima, June 8, 1842.

WITH reference to the correspondence which passed between Mr. Belford Hinton Wilson, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, in the month of August of last year, respecting an attempt made to revive Slave Trade in Peru, the Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's acting Consul General has the honour to inform the Senhor Dr. Don Agustin Guillermo Charun, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, that the Earl of Aberdeen, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has, in a Despatch dated the 31st of December last, acquainted Mr. Belford Wilson, that Her Majesty's Government entirely approves of the representation which he addressed upon this subject to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in his Note of the 16th of August, 1841, (No. 93.)

The Earl of Aberdeen, in his Despatch before referred to, expresses the hope entertained by Her Majesty's Government that the plan for reviving the Slave Trade of Peru will not receive any encouragement from the Government of that country: but in the event of a peremptory refusal to entertain it, not having been

given by the Peruvian Government, or if the attempt to introduce the Trade should have been repeated, Mr. Belford Wilson is directed by his Lordship immediately to address a further. Note to the Peruvian Minister, remonstrating strongly against the proposed measure.

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs also desires that Mr. Belford Wilson will point out to the attention of the Peruvian Government the Treaty concluded on the 5th of June, 1837, between Great Britain and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, of which at that period Peru formed a part.

That by the 14th Article of that Treaty, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation bound itself " to prohibit all persons inhabiting the territories of the republic, or subject to their jurisdiction, from taking any share in the Slave Trade."

Mr. Belford Wilson is likewise instructed by the Earl of Aberdeen to remind the Peruvian Government that Peru, although separated from Bolivia, cannot absolve herself from the obligations contracted by her when united with Bolivia ; that while Her Majesty laments that Peru should still demur to contract the Treaty proposed to her by Great Britain for the more effectual abolition of the traffic, Her Majesty expects that Peru will at least adhere strictly to the stipulations which that country has absolutely contracted to this end.

Mr. Belford Wilson is further directed to draw the attention of the Peruvian Government to the commencement of the Article already quoted, of the Treaty contracted in 1837, by which Peru bound herself to co-operate with Her Majesty for the total abolition of the Slave Trade; and finally to express the earnest hope of Her Majesty's Government, that the Peruvian Government will not thus stand almost single among the civilized powers of Christendom, in declining to conclude a Treaty for the effectual and final extinction of a traffic proscribed by all.

The Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs, in replying to Mr. Belford Wilson's before cited Note of the 16th of August, 1841, stated that that communication had been laid before his Government, and that by their order it had been transmitted to the Council of State for their opinion as to the expediency of not permitting the expedition which several individuals of Lima were desirous of sending to the coast of Africa for the purpose of bringing slaves to Peru, and as to the propriety of consenting to the conclusion of a Treaty for the abolition of the Traffic in Slaves; the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs furthermore expressed a hope that the Council of State would resolve these questions in a satisfactory manner; and he assured Mr. Wilson that he would opportunely make known to him the decision of that body.

But no further communication upon the subject has hitherto been made by the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs, either to Mr. Belford Wilson or to the Undersigned.

It is therefore incumbent upon the Undersigned to call the most serious attention of Dr. Charun to the representation upon the subject of the beforesaid attempt to revive Slave Trade in Peru, which was addressed by Mr. Belford Wilson to the Peruvian Government in his Note of the 16th of August, 1841, as well as to the tenor of the reply thereto given by the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 27th of the same month and year; in the hope that Dr. Charun will, with the least possible delay, procure from the Council of State the necessary authorization to enable him to give, in the name of his Government, a peremptory refusal to entertain the plan for reviving the Slave Trade of Peru; and that he will furthermore obtain the authorization of that body for the negociation and signature, in the manner pointed out in Mr. Belford Wilson's beforesaid Note of the 16th of August last, of a Treaty with Her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the Slave Trade of Peru.

The Undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew to Dr. Charun the assurances of his high respect and distinguished consideration.

(Signed)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, &c.

&c.

&c.

GEORGE T. SEALY.

Second Enclosure in No. 134.

Dr. Charun to Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul General. (Translation.)

Lima, June 11, 1842.

THE Undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has received the very esteemed Note of Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul General, dated the 8th instant, in which, in conformity to the instructions of Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Belford Hinton Wilson, he solicits the reply of the Government of the Undersigned to the representation of Mr. Wilson, remonstrating against an attempt to bring slaves from Africa, and to the invitation made by the same for the conclusion of a Treaty relative to the abolition of the Slave Trade.

Regarding both these points the Government of the Undersigned consulted the Council of State, and not having as yet received an answer, the Undersigned is unable to reply as he would wish to Her Britannic Majesty's Acting ConsulGeneral. But in order to give a reply as quickly as possible, he moves the Council of State, under date of this day, to emit its opinion.

The Undersigned renews to Mr. Sealy the assurances of distinguished consideration, with which he is his attentive obsequious servant.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Despatches to Mr. Belford Wilson, dated the 27th and 31st of December last.