"A British Merchant," writing to the Times, totally denies the
truth of Mr. Tyler's assertion, that British merchants covertly participate in the slave-trade; and he especially declares that the story about vessels fitted -out with goods in England and nominally chartered, but actually sent to Africa for sale and then employed as slavers, is a pure fabrication: slave- clippers are of a very peculiar build, and are not even seen in England. Mr. Wise, the American Minister in Brazil, and Mr. Tyler's authority for these misrepresentations, "is, I believe, one of the most reckless and nn- serupulous advocates of slavery even LA -the United States, and, like Mr.
Tyler, himself a large slave-holder. He is known to have publicly de- clared that he would uphold slavery with the last drop of his blood." Such are the authorities whose statement Sir Robert Peel has partially "endorsed."
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