in its natural productions and resources, to contingencies, and to the grasp of other nations?  Forbid it, humanity, and forbid it, wise policy!  Let civil laws, religion, and morality, exercise their influence in behalf of the Negro race, whom barbarism has subjected to our dominion, and let the beneficence and wisdom of Government devise a system of agriculture and commercial operation, upon the maritime situations of Africa, as the most effectual means to freedom of intercourse with its interior.

The operations of impracticable theories and misguided zeal have accomplished an unqualified abolition of the slave trade, which I am persuaded will be highly injurious to the commercial and manufacturing interests of our country; and is a measure which humanity will have deeply to deplore, while in its tendency it is pernicious to the African, and auspicious to the views of France.

Without doubt the ability and energies of the present administration will be directed to avert these calamities; and amidst the important diliberations which now occupy their attention, the condition of Africa, the wealth derivable from so important a quarter of the earth, and the relations involved with it, will not be overlooked by them.

A VOCABULARY
OF THE
LANGUAGE OF THE PRINCIPAL NATIONS OF THE
WINDWARD COAST OF AFRICA.

|ENGLISH     |JOLLIFF            |SOOSEE              |TIMMANEE
|------------|-------------------|--------------------|-----

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|One         |Ben                |Kiring              |Pen
|Two         |Yar                |Faring              |Prung
|Three       |Niet               |Shooking            |Tisas
|Four        |Nianett            |Nari                |Panlee
|Five        |Gurum              |Shooli              |Tomat
|Six         |Gurum ben          |Shinie              |Rokin
|Seven       |Gurum yar          |Shulifiring         |Dayring
|Eight       |Gurum Niet         |Shulimashukung      |Daysas
|Nine        |Gurum Niant        |Shulimang           |Daynga
|Ten         |Fue                |Fooang              |Tofot
|Twenty      |Nill               |Mahwinia            |Tofot Marung
|Thirty      |Fanever            |Tongashukung        |Tofot Masas
|Forty       |Nianett Fue        |Tonganani           |Tofot Manlu
|Fifty       |Guaum Fue          |Tongashulang        |Tofot Tomat
|Sixty       |Gurum ben Fue      |Tongashini          |Tofot Rokin
|Seventy     |Gurum yar Fue      |Tongashulifiring    |Tofot Dayring
|Eighty      |Gurum Niet Fue     |Tongashulimashakung |Tofot Daysas
|Ninety      |Gurum Nianet Fue   |Tongashulimanane    |Tofot Danygah
|One Hundred |Temer              |Kime                |Tofot Tofot
|I           |                   |Emtang              |Eto or Munga
|Thou        |                   |Etang               |Moota or Moonga
|He          |                   |Atang               |Otto or Ken
|It          |                   |Atang               |Ree