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or the African forts; and the recommendation was followed. At last, in 1749, to give the highest activity to the trade, every obstruction to private enterprise was removed, and the ports of Africa were laid open to English competition; for the slave trade—such are the words of the statute—the slave trade is very ad- 23 Geo. II. c. XXXI. vantageous to Great Britain.—The British senate, wrote one of its members, in February, 1750, have this fortnight been pondering methods to make more Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, II. 438. 1750 Feb. 25. effectual that horrid traffic of selling negroes. It has appeared to us that six-and-forty thousand of these wretches are sold every year to our plantations alone. But, while the partial monopoly of the African company was broken down, and the commerce in men was opened to the competition of Englishmen, the monopoly of British subjects was rigidly enforced against foreigners. That Englishmen alone might monopolize all wealth to be derived from <