We proceeded to Rio Janeiro with the prize. On the passage we lost 13, in the harbor 12, from small pox and debility-a number also died on board the recovery ship "Crescent." After clearing the hold, and fumigating the brig, it was determined by Mr. OUSLEY, the British Minister, to send the brig with a part of her cargo, for adjunction, to the nearest Colony under the command of Mr. G. JOHNSTEINE, mate of the Fawn. We sailed on the 19th of March with 189, well provided with medicines and directions in what manner to use them. Tapioca and line juice were also provided.

Notwithstanding all the care that a small crew could bestow upon them, we unfortunately lost 20, chiefly from the scurvy and general debility. This unfortunate brig left Bahia forte on the coast of Bengueala with 510 negroes, and 13 days after, on her capture, she had but 375!

UNPRECEDENTED CROWDING OF SLAVES.-By information received from the Havana it appears, that on the 29th of December last, the Spanish schooner Jesus Maria, alias Las Tres Hermanas, was captured by her Majesty's brig-of-war Ringdove, KEITH STEWART, Esq., Commander, behind the point at the northwest of Santa Cruz (in latitude 17° 56′ north, longitude 64° 55' west) south by west, at a distance of twelve miles, and having been taken to the Havana was there condemned in the mixed Commission Court on the 13th January following..

Mr. KENNEDY, the British Commissary Judge, certifies that the vessel was 34 tons British admeasurement, being in length 54 feet 6 inches, in breadth 16 feet two inches, in depth 6 feet 6 inches, and yet she had alive on board at the time of capture 252 slaves. If we mistake not, by the old law three slaves were allowed to two tons. By this calculation 51 would have been the proper freight for the vessel in question, but we find a surplus of no less than two hundred and one!-Friend of Africa.

IMPORTANT MOVEMENT IN CUBA.-A number of the principal inhabitants of Havana, proprietors of agricultural estates, have petitioned the Captain General of the Island, to take prompt and effectual measures for the suppression of the African slave trade. They say also, that the two most respectable corporations in Havana, the illustrious "Ayuntamento" and the Royal" Junta de Formento," coincide with them in opinion, and have addressed the Provisional Regency of the kingdom in accordance therewith. The principal reasons assigned for the suppression of the slave trade, are two. First, the apprehension that its continuance may lead the Home Government, through the importunity of England, to emancipate the slaves of Cuba. And secondly, that the recognition of the independence of Hayti, by Great Britain, and the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies, expose Cuba to the appalling danger of a general insurrection of the negroes-danger which is constantly increased by the importation of slaves from Africa.

NEW YORK COLONIZATION SOCIETY.-From the 12th of May to the 12th of August, the contributions to the New York Colonization Society were three thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and thirty cents, ($3,712 30.)

Washington City, September 1, 1841.

LATE FROM LIBERIA.-We have the pleasure of laying before our readers late intelligence from the Colony. We have room in this number only for a few short extracts from the very interesting despatches of Gov. BUCHANAN. We publish enough, however, to encourage the friends of 'Colonization, in view of the present prosperity of the young Republic, and to remind them that new zeal and enlarged efforts are demanded by the circumstances of the case.

POSTAGE. The Repository is chargable only with newspaper postage. It seems several Postmasters have been in the habit of considering it a pamphlet, and requiring postage accordingly. This is an error, and wa hope none of our subscribers will be longer subjected to such an additional

tax.

PAYMENTS.-We are in great need of money. Our engagements must 'be met. The demands on us are heavy. Every dollar due the Repository and withheld, is so much kept back from the great cause of Colonization. We hope our friends will remember this. The sum which each individual owes is very small; and, therefore, many think it not worth while to be at the trouble of getting their Postmaster to send it on to us. But let them remember all these sums brought into one, would make a very large amount. There are now due on subscriptions to the Repository more than eight thousand dollars!!!

Only to think of it! Money enough to fit out a whole expedition for Liberia! Reader, how much of it do you owe?"Not much; but some." It will not cost you any thing to get your Postmaster to send it on immediately. He will take pleasure in doing it, and you shall receive our sincere thanks. If you do not know exactly how much the amount is, be sure and send enough, and we will acknowledge the surplus as a donation to the great cause.

We have received the following from the General Agent of the Pennsylvania State Colonization Society, which, though private, we take the liberty of publishing. It is one of the many evidences we are continually receiving of the increasing popularity of the cause in which we are engaged.

REV. WM. MCLAIN:

PHILADELPHIA, August 23, 1841.

DEAR SIR,-After leaving you at Washington, I spent the Sabbath in Philadelphia, and on Monday started on a tour to fulfil appointments previously made by me in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, by our Society's arn friend the Rev. D. M. HALLIDAY, of Danville. I have now com

pleted my tour, after an absence of four weeks, and sit down to communicate the results. They have exceeded my expectations very much. The cause has been received with almost universal favor. In several places the free people of color seemed quite interested, and I think are more disposed than ever before to look at our scheme with favor. Indeed it would not at all surprise me were some of them to request a passage soon to the free Republic of Liberia. I met with no opposition. In some cases individuals who had been known as opposers became contributors. The clergy, with but a single exception in Reading, have throughout my journey given every encouragement. In some cases they had anticipated my application for aid by their Fourth of July collections, but readily allowed me to make additional collections. The distance travelled was about 500 miles, mostly in a private conveyance. I have made twenty-five lectures in sixteen places; have collected in donations $814 59; obtained three life memberships; added forty new names to our African Repository list; and been enabled to transmit $850 to our Treasury.

These facts will, I trust, tend to encourage the friends at Washington to proceed and extend their agencies to every part of the United States. It seems to me that nothing hinders the almost united co-operation of all parts of the country, but the failure of our Society to reach them with agencies and information. If in Pennsylvania-where this year the united influence of increased taxation and diminished circulation renders it difficult for even the rich to command money-such liberality to our cause is found, how much more may justly be expected from portions of the country not laboring under similar embarrassments?

I hope your receipts will yet reach $100,000, and enable you to float. the Colonization ship off from the quicksands where she struck in 1833, and also secure all the territory needed for the integrity of our African, Republic. In haste, your friend,

J. B. PINNEY.

N. B. I proceed next week to Western Pennsylvania.

ENCOURAGING.-Below will be found an extract from a letter received from the Rev. H. P. BOGUE, an agent in the western part of New York. It shows an increasing interest in Colonization. It must be recollected that for the last few years, that part of the country has been much overrun with a spirit adverse to the policy and prospects of this cause. The present success attending efforts made in that region shows a more healthy state of public sentiment. We have never lost confidence in the old doctrine of the mightiness of truth. It will prevail. The vast body of important truths connected with this subject, only need investigation to produce the most powerful and lasting impression. We feel that every effort to circulate information, yields a rich return of important results.

"I am meeting with very great success in raising funds for the good cause of Colonization in my field of labor, the State of New York. I am lecturing very peacefully to large and attentive congregations, and in a little more than two months, I have raised in cash and subscriptions more than two thousand dollars! In the pleasant village of Hamilton, Madison county, after two lectures, I raised upon the following days more than five. hundred dollars. The great cause is now moving on with a prosperity. which ought to cheer and animate all its friends."

EXTRACT FROM A FOURTH OF JULY SERMON. THE following excellent remarks are extracted from a Fourth of July Sermon, delivered in Cambridge, Mass., by the Rev. O. P. WILLIAMS, and kindly offered to us for publication:

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"Let me now call your attention for a few moments to the means now used for promoting the welfare of the colored population of the United States, a subject, as it appears to me, peculiarly fitting for this day, and which at least should not be passed over without allusion.

* * Every true lover of his country, every true lover of religion, should take a great interest in the Colonization of the negro, because it is a matter that deeply concerns them as Americans. The minds of the people in this country are already wakened up to this sublime and grand scheme; and although but little has been done towards the whole great work, yet the tone of the public mind generally manifests an increased and increasing interest in the subject, which bids fair to bring forth abundantly. Let us but remember these words of our Saviour, "inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these, ye do it unto me," and act upon them, and the negro will have brighter prospects to cheer him the hope of returning to their own sunny land with the blessings of civilization, christianity and

peace.

"Can there, my readers, be a more magnificent plan than the establishing a duplicate of our own free and enlightened country on the shores of vast Africa? Is there any thing that would prove of more advantage to the negroes, and those who inhabit that continent? A certain consequence of such a step would be the ultimate civilization of the savage hordes who inhabit the impenetrable interior, and their conversion to christianity. The Gospel would spread, slowly perhaps, but surely. It would flow off in different channels until the whole country would receive the benefit of it. The strong holds of barbarism, sin and oppression, would be broken up, and give way to the mild and beautiful precepts of the Gospel religion.

"What a sublime spectacle would then be presented to the eye of the moralist! Then would Ethiopia stretch out her hands, and the heavens be rent with the shouts "we are free-free from oppression, free from sin, a religious and enlightened people!" And when the words "you have done this"- -come booming over the Atlantic, think you not that this would be far greater glory than if we had been the conquerors of the world? And although the time is far distant when these glorious results can be witnessed, yet let us remember that the more we do for it now, the quicker will our cause progress, and the less will posterity have to do. The colored man calls us to this work as being the cause of his present exile. He calls on us to restore him to his country, and as amends for the evils we have brought upon him, to bestow upon him our civil blessings. He calls us as Christians, to send to him and his brethren missionaries-to give him the Bible-and enable him to praise God under his own vine and fig tree. The still, small voice within calls us to this work; it reproaches us for what we have done to the negro, it urges us now to do something for him. Above all, God calls us to this work; and this latter call let us beware how we disobey. For although we disregard the calls of the wretched, although the still small voice within is so blunted that it is of no effect, yet a mightier than they speaks, one who will certainly bring us strictly to account if we disregard his sacred authority.

But the state of feeling in this country, the progress of reform, of christianity, all evince that these calls will not be disregarded. The curse of

Noah has been but too terribly fulfilled. A servant of servants Canaan has been, unto his more fortunate but cruel brethren, and it is high time to assist the poor negro to be a man; to aid him in regard to his happiness here, and to enlighten him in regard to his happiness hereafter. It is very generally supposed that the negro is mentally deficient-that as a nation. they would be unable to preserve themselves from commotions, civil wars and ruin. With regard to the former of these charges, I have only to ask you to turn your attention back a few moments to the history of St. Domingo; regard the characters of TUISSANT, CHRISTOPHE, and many others, who successfully resisted the splendid armies of NAPOLEON, and drove every vestige of slavery and foreign oppression from their land; and then tell me if they were not men; aye, men of genius. There are other examples that could be mentioned to show, that where the circumstances are such as bring forth the energies of the negro, he shows himself fully equal to the occasion. With respect to the latter of the above charges, I say they are, at most, but suspicions; for we never have seen an enlightened nation of negroes. The curse of Noah has been upon them, and bitterly has the sins of the father been visited upon his wretched descendents. But the day is approaching when both the Indian and the Negro must have redress. They have been, outraged in every manner, and that too under the specious garb of RELIGION. But public opinion will not tolerate much longer this injustice. The sooner we make them amends, the sooner will God's blessing be over and protect us. From the time our puritan forefathers received the red man's welcome, until the present, his coutrymen to use an affecting but beautiful expression of one of their own number-have been melting away before the white man like snow before the sun. They have been driven from the inheritance of their fathers, and have seen strangers occupying their lands. We have done worse to the negro. We have not only taken him away from his kindred, his home, but we have debased him mentally and physically. Let us then, as some amends, give all our aid to the blessed scheme of Colonization.

"Let us pray God to enable us, in some degree, to be His instruments in effecting this. And on the morning of another anniversary of our national independance, when we assemble to celebrate our freedom from oppression, we may still reflect, that although a dark spot still stains the bright escutcheon of our honor, yet by our labor, repentance and tears, it has in some measure been lessened."

EXTRACT from a letter received from JOHN JAMES FLOURNOY, of Athens, Georgia, a devoted friend of Colonization, and a gentleman of extensive information, as to the general state of feeling in his section of country.

FOR THE AFRICAN

REPOSITORY, AND COLONIAL JOURNAL.

By late numbers of the journal, I perceive the Colony of Liberia has been successfully tested as an experiment, and rising to realize the ulterior views of the founders of it-the providing of an asylum for the present free colored population of the United States, and for the comfortable reception and maintenance of such slaves as may gradually, and ultimately, become freed men. The prejudices and obstacles against which the plan had hitherto to struggle, although as vast and unyielding as ever, began to be surmounted in the order of Providence by the steady movement of be nevolence. The hand of mercy cannot be stayed, and the fruitions of