Volume 3 — TREATY WITH SPAIN.

During this session a treaty with Spain, by virtue of which, in consideration of a subsidy of £400,000, that country consented to abolish the slave-trade on all the north coasts of the line, received the sanction of parliament. But this was only a half measure: Spain still continued the privilege of retaining the traffic south of that limit. A right of search was stipulated for each nation, but no detention of vessels was to take place, unless when slaves were found on board.