Vice-Admiral the Honourable Joseph Duman, who died on Thursday week,
was one of a family who have served England well in many different relations, and though he had for several years before his death been incapacitated by illness of a type like that which closed the life of his father—the Chief Justice of England—formerly he had honourably distinguished himself by very gallant efforts to put down that horrible traffic to- the extinction of which his father's best legislative and legal efforts had been directed,—the Slave Trade. When a young. man of about thirty years of age, being the senior Naval' officer on the West Coast of Africa, he took upon himself the responsibility of entering into a treaty with the native chiefs by virtue of which the whole of the slave factories were,.-4\ destroyed, the white offenders expelled, and the slaves, 900 in number, recovered, taken to Sierra Leone, and emancipated. In short, the late Admiral Denman was at once one of those gallant sailors whose spirit has made the British Navy great, and one of those Liberal philanthropists whose noble exertions have made England just.
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