TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 23 tive branch of her commerce consisted in the traffic of slaves. The humane interference, and the decisive measures, of England, have con tributed to check, if not quite to abohsh, these execrable sources of profit. Piracy, so far at least as we were able to learn, has been wholly superseded by commerce; and when the Tripolines find that it is more to their interest to give up their traffic in human kind than to continue it, we may hope to see this also relinquished.

It may, however, be added (we fear) that till then such a consummation must not be expected, however devoutly it may be wished.

Indeed, we cannot reasonably expect that it should ; for the feelings which result from a high state of civilization will never be found to precede civihzation itself : and humanity, however strongly we may believe, or may wish to believe, it is implanted in the breasts of all mankind, has not often been found to weigh very heavy against the scale in which interest, or inchnation, has been opposed to it.

comparatively heavy payments in Spanish dollars, the value of them rose in proportion as it was known we had occasion for them. In order to remedy, or rather to prevent impositions of a similar nature, it would be advisable for travellers to take with them, in Spanish dollars, the amount of the sums they may have occasion for in Tripoly ; for even if the exchange should be good on their arrival there, it would most probably lower as they were known to have occasion for money. Should this be inconvenient, bills might be drawn on Malta, and the money in Spanish dollars forwarded by the first secure vessel which might be sailing from that port to Tripoly.

> It must, however, be observed, in justice to the house of Messrs. Beaussier and Co., that we experienced a more liberal treatment from them than from any other house in Tripoly.

The Spanish dollar is the coin in most general request in the northern and inland parts of Africa.