But all is not yet done. In the eager performance
of his duty, Captain TROTTER essayed to fix the "model-farm" where he was told to place it : and a few respectable Blacks consented to remain in occupation, upon the strength of assurances that some one would return to them. To abandon them, would be ineffaceable dis- honour ; to send another smaller expedition up the Niger' is an enterprise of a coat now ascertained : but more money and life must perforce be expended. Perhaps the most sensible plan, after all, would be to add to the obligation already incurred, and to induce Mr. Bscaorr' if Mr. JAMIESON can spare him, to use his experience and seasoned crew in snatching away those who have been left as hostages to the climate of Africa. Of course those gentlemen—. Mr. GURNEY, Sir FOWELL BUXTON, and Mr. JAMES COOK—whose private speculation the farm is, will defray the expense of rescuing their servants?
The Expedition is done with, and the African question remains where it was ; to be again taken up, says Mr. MACGREGOR LAIRD in a letter which we present to the reader, from a different point of view ; and be recommends that a Parliamentary Committee should be employed to clear the ground. An honest inquiry is the least reparation that the two leaders in the House of Commons, Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT PEEL, can make for the Estimate for the Expedition at the expense of the country, which the Whig prepared and both Whig and Tory voted.
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