10                   MEMORANDA RESPECTING THE
' should only have to lay before you the actual state of that
' unhappy colony, and to count the men and the millions
' wasted upon it, with no other result than that of haviug
' enriched a small number of swindlers.'
' M. Morenas has stated a variety of positive and  cir-
•  cumstantial facts, to shew that the Slave Trade has been
*  carried on with impunity ; and he has even designated the
" vessels and the individuals who have been engaged in it.
' But you have sought to divert the attention of the Chamber
' from these statements by dwelling on some inconsistencies
' of which you allege I have been guilty, and by charging
' me with troubling the peace of the colony.' ' What, then,
' are those facts and documents which establish the false-
' hood of my assertions ? Are they not the statements of
' Messieurs Schmaltz, Fleuriau, and Mackau? I challenge
' you to produce any other, or even to expose these to the
•  light.    At Senegal, the Governor is not only the Military
*  Commander, but also the Judge and the Civil Adminis-
' trator ; and if any one accuses him, it is to him alone you
' listen. You will grant to me, that this mode of dispensing
'justice is not the better for being old.'
' I am accused of troubling the peace of the colony.
' Take one instance in proof of it. Soon after my arrival, in
' December, 1816,1 became convinced of the atrocities which
' were practised there. I may one day publish them to the
' world in detail : at present, however,Jet it be enough for you
' to know, that I myself have seen—mark me well, M. Cour-
' voisier—I myself have seen the unhappy Negroes embarked
« by hundreds, both at Goree and at St. Louis, on board
' of vessels bound to the West Indies. I communicated to
' the Minister my just indignation at these transactions; and
' I informed him, that I could no longer remain in a land
' polluted with the blood of my fellow-creatures. At the
' same time I was most earnest in impressing it upon my
' flock, whether White or Black, that those who should con-
' tinue to carry on this traffic would for ever be shut out
*  from the presence of God. The Natives admitted with
'tears in their eyes that I was right; and some of them
« honestly renounced the trade. But M. Schmaltz, his
' suite, and other privileged Whites, far from relenting, load-
' ed me with execrations, and with abuse not very dissimilar
*  to that which you, Sir, chose to pour upon me in your
' Report to the Chamber of Deputies. I did not suffer
' myself to be dismayed by these things ; and I continued
' to describe hell as open, and ready to ingulph all the
e dealers in human flesh.    On this, Colonel Schmaltz sc-