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Cuba has adhered to the Revolution. It had no other

choice, for annexation to the Uni*-Skates would have meant immediate emancipation. As it is, the Spanish Government shrinks from this step, and only proposesp free slavesborn after the Revo- lution, a very half-hearted iniire!---Tt is stated, however, that the slaves in the island do not now exceed 200,000, a number for which compensation is possible ; that free labour has been found profit- able ; and that the planters are not fanatics for their system, an assertion which we doubt. The island, however, deprived of American support, has no alternative except to obey orders from Madrid, and with a free Cortes and a Coburg King slavery cannot lost long.