Weekly Register in London, Middlesex

From a sermon to a nation in distress and Sierra Leone notes

A reflection urges national humility before God amid public dissipation and war, citing scripture and urging repentance. The piece quotes a March 1796 editor note, then logs Governor Macauley’s Sierra Leone visit with Mr. Dawes and Mr. Clarke. It details church attendance, Sunday School openings, and the moral contrast with slave trade sites along the Rio Pongas, including scenes at a king’s town and a slave trader’s factory. It notes enslaved people, trader brutality, and local reactions, with grim episodes of attempted redemption and violence, ending with observations on native traders preferring indigenous intermediaries to Europeans.