OBSERVATIONS, OCCASIONED BY THE ATTEMPTS MADE IN ENGLAND O F THE SLAVE TRADE; SHEWING, The Manner in which NEGROES are treated IN THE WEST - INDIES: AND ALSO, SOME PARTICULAR REMARKS ON A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE TREASURER OF THE SOCIETY FOR EFFECTING FROM THE REV. ROBERT BOUCHER NICHOLLS, By G. FRANCKLYN, Esq. And why beholdeft thru the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but confidereft not Or how wilt thou fay to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye KINGSTON, JAMAICA, PRINTED. LONDON: REPRINTED AT THE Logographic Prefs, AND SOLD BY J. WALTER, No. 169, OPPOSITE BOND STREET, PICCADILLY M.DCC.LXXXIX. [PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND SIX-PENCE.] 5602 37 THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. THE following pamphlet was originally printed in Jamaica; and the writer of it not being a candidate for the prize of literary fame, nor intending any thing more than to present the public with a fair account of the general treatment of the Negroes in that and the other British Sugar Colonies, did not think it necessary to affix his name; yet, having no defire to conceal it, he avowed himfelf, and was well known, and declared by the printer to be the author. Several copies of it were tranfmitted, not only by many of the principal planters to their friends and correfpondents, but by the Honourable the Committee of both Houfes of Legislature of the Island, appointed to correfpond with their agent Stephen Fuller, Efq. to diftribute to fuch gentlemen in England, to whom he might fuppofe the matters of information it contains might be useful. The fanction thus given to it by gentlemen fo perfectly couverfant in the fubject it treats of, and acquainted with the facts contained in it, will furely be confidered, by every reasonable and dispassionate person, as an indifputable teftimony to the truth of the author's affertions. The fatisfaction which feveral gentlemen here have been pleafed to fay they received from it, and the many enquiries after it, has induced the author to conJent to the reprinting it with his name, in hopes that it may affift in difabufing the public, which has been most fhamefully impofed on by the mifrepresentation of perfons grossly ignorant of the British Weft-India properties and proprietors. If it should be asked, from what authorities the author has taken his account of the quantity of land, and number of negroes, in Jamaica, it may be answered, the quantity of land appears from the geographical account of the island, which is 150 miles long, and, upon an av erage, about 40 broad, as well as from Mr. LONG's Hiftory of the Island. There is alfo annually 4 annually published in Jamaica an Almanack and Regifter, in the nature of the Court Calendar published here; in that of the last year, an account of the land, negroes, &c. is given, of which the following is a mmary, viz, 672,616 296 505 68,300 30,000 34,000 1,522,149 332 532 97,000 76,500 67,000 Total 3,500,000 940 1959 257,300 181,500 130,900 PRE |