1 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 13

THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT AND SLA VERY. [To THE EDITOR OP

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The enclosed extract from Caroline Fox's "Journals

and Letters," under date April 14th, 1852, appears to me to be likely to interest both you and your readers sufficiently to justify my sending it to you.—I am, Sir, &c., T.

"[Robert Were Fox] and a party had been deputed by a meeting of the Society of Friends to visit some members of the Portuguese Government and urge their keeping the treaty with England. which they promised to prevent the slave trade in their African Settlements, this promise being constantly evaded by the traders." —April 14th, 1852.

• Words altered by the " Centro Colonial."