| Content Description | Reports on his discussion with Caldéron Collantes on the Slave Trade ; he informed Collantes that the British Government would never consent to a modification of the right of search established by the Treaty of 1835 for the suppression of the Slave Trade; Collantes replied that some improvement might be made to the regulation of Slave Trade tribunals; they discusses measures for the more efficient suppression of the Slave Trade; Mr Collantes maintained that the present laws were sufficient, if rigorously enforced, and that the Spanish Government could not give arbitrary authority to the military authorities on Cuba; Mr Collantes argued that the Spanish Government could not apply martial law to Cuba as it had in Catalonia, because it was a different situation.
They discuss the effectiveness of the Spanish legal system on suppressing the Trade; he believes that the problems lie not with Spanish law but with its administration, in which there is much corruption; it can be compared with the Russian system. |