1842 July 21. Stokes to Buxton, reporting on the deputation from the committee to the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Stanley to ask about the state of …
1842; Gale Group;
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pp 257 e-m 1842 July 21. Stokes to Buxton, reporting on the deputation from the committee to the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Stanley to ask about the state of the negotiations on Fernando Po and to urge their speedy conclusion. It also petitioned them to grant official recognition and protection for any agents, African or other, of the Society who might be sent to Ibo, Attah or elsewhere, to communicate with native chiefs, to ask Stanley to give assistance for the education in Sierra Leone of liberated Africans as agents for promoting agricultural improvements and obtaining commerial information, also to assist the passage from the West Indies to Africa of teachers, to facilitate the discharge of certain African soldiers and to allow the Society to print extracts from the treaties with African chiefs in the Niger in its report. The deputation was told that feeling in Spain was so opposed to the cession of Fernando Po that it was useless proceeding with that project at that time, that the Government could not grant official status to the Society's agents but would otherwise recognise them and the Government was willing to consider the other matters mentioned. Enclosed was a copy of the committee's resolutions appointing the deputation. (Copy.)
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