Colonel Nicuotts, the Governor of Fernando Po, has announced to
the Government, th it if they will give him the disposal of two or three steamers, he will extirpate the slavers on the coast. He has already effected much with his limited means. One of the chiefs within thirty miles of his residence, who used to sell nearly a thousand slaves annually, has been induced by the Colonel to abandon the traffic, and to become a trader in ivory and oil. An application will be made to the Colonial Office fora pension for poor Mrs. LANDER. Hitherto, that Office has done nothing. When applied to for a place for LANDER, the Colonial Secretary refused to do more than recommend him to the Treasury ; from which he received a small appointment in the Cus- tomhouse at Liverpool : this he resigned in favour of his brother, on accepting the offer of the African Commercial Company, by which he was sent out. The King has expressed a wish that Mrs. LANDER, should be provided for.
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