From 1830 to 1850 both Great Britain and the United States, by joint convention, kept on the coast of Africa at least eighty guns afloat for the suppression of the slave trade. Most of the vessels so employed were small corvettes, brigs, ... Read more of THE CAPTURE OF A SLAVER at Martin Luther King.ca

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MR. BROUGHAM, when at the bar, opened before Lord Chief Justice
Tenterden an action for the amount of a wager laid upon the event of a
dog-fight, which, through some unwillingness of dogs or men, had not
been brought to an issue. We, my lord, said the advocate, were minded
that the dogs should fight.--Then I, replied the Judge, am minded
to hear no more of it: and he called another cause.

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