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APPENDIX. 389
Inclosure 2 in No. 8.
Baron von Freydorf to Mr. Cope.
(Translation.)
" Carlsnihe, March 27, 1869.
" Sir,—Through the assistance of the Consulate
of the North German Confederation at Port
Said, and of the Grand Ducal Consulate at
Marseilles, a letter from Dr. Wilhelm Schimpfer,
dated from Adoa in the province of Tigre, in
Abyssinia, on the 10th November, 1868, addressed
to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke,
has lately come to hand, inclosed in which was
a copy of a Memorandum, relative to the slavetrade
in Abyssinia, which had been addressed
to Mr. Munzinger, her Britannic Majesty's
Vice- Consul in Massowah.
" Dr. Schimpfer had at the time sent the original
of this Memorandum direct to the abovementioned
British Vice-Consul, in order to give
him useful information for the taking of effective
measures against the slave-trade, but as Mr.
Munzinger, when the letter addressed to him
arrived, had already left his post, and so the
Memorandum could not come into his possession,
the writer of it sent a request to the Grand
Duke, graciously to cause a copy of the said
paper to be forwarded to her Majesty's Government,
so that the British Government, if it