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two weeks, the hatches were not opened ; and, at this time, two-thirds of the passengers were afflicted with typhus and dysentery.

On entering the harbour of St John’s, the condition of this vessel was probably as appalling as that of any slave ship that ever left the coast of Guinea. 'lhe very salt was impieonated or covered over to the depth of one to three feet with loathsome filth. The dead, the dying, and the sick, presented a scene too shocking for description. Some died before the vessel arrived, others on enteringithe harbour; forty men and ten women were carried to the hospital, and twenty died in all.

By theactale of the last session of the Imperial Parliament, for regulating the carrying of passen— gers, the number of them is limited to three for every four tons that a ship registers, and the quantity and quality of provisions are also regulated; but, never- theless, it appears that some greedy speculators have, since then, lured emigrants away from Ireland, with- out conforming to the legal stipulations; and it -will require the greatest vigilance to bring men trained to this traffic to answer for their conduct. The colonial governments are, I understand, in future to guard against the landing of passengers who may arrive in a sickly condition]L

In arranging for passages to America, it will be

it Note D;

1~ Irish emigrants have been unaccountably doomed to suffer more than most others. It is well known, that about 2000 Irish were inveigled to Brazil, by the ofl'er of free passages and lands, by an