Excerpt from Enquiry Into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation Search of American Vessels: Suspected to Be Engaged in the African Slave-Trade Secretary of State and was informed by himself that the petition was received, but that he apprehended no answer would be given. - tucker's Blackstone, vol. 1. Pt. 2; App. X. P. 431. In the Address of the two Houses of Parliament to the Prince Regent in 1819 (hereafter quoted, ) on the subject of the slave trade, it is distinctly avowed that Great Britain was originally instrumental in leading the Americans into this criminal course. - Fourteenth Report of the Directors of the flfiican Association, p. 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.