Report from the Select Committee on Papers Relating to the African Forts

Abstract

The Committee to whom the several Papers which were presented to The House upon the 9th day of this instant May, from the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, were referred, to examine the Matter thereof, and report the same, with their observations thereupon, to The House; and to whom the Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, and the Copy of the Report of the Commissioners sent out by His Majesty’s Government, to investigate the state of the Settlements and Forts on the Coast of Africa, were also referred; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evidence taken before them to The House;- Have, pursuant to the Order of The House, examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following Report: