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cularly valuable for supplying timber for repairs of fugar works, mills, houses, &c. and which the present poffeffors have paid large fums for; houses in the towns, in the feveral islands, cattle, horses, mules, carts, &c. &c. will not be furely confidered as eftimated highly, at

2,500,000

Total 70,000,000

The whole then will amount to the fum of about Seventy millions fterling. It may be difficult for the public to find means, at this juncture, to raise so large a fum of money, especially as the abolition of the Weft India commerce, if the new plan of cultivation fhould fail, will occafion a very confiderable diminution of the national revenues.-But the wealth of this world is unworthy the regard of such pious men as our petitioners; "fiat juftitia, ruat cælum," fays the Dean of Middleham. If, however, when this matter comes to be debated in Parliament, the number of worldly minded people fhould form a majority confiderable enough to stem the torrent of reform and fanaticism, which has diffused itself fo widely, and induce the Parliament to let things run on in the old channel, till the neighbouring nations fhall grow as religious and humane as ourfelves-the Dean of Middleham, Mr. Glanville Sharpe, and the other petitioners, may ftill do their parts to put a stop to the flave trade.-Let them withdraw themselves from the fupport of such a wicked fet of people as they confider thefe flave-holders to be.Let them drink no rum, no fugar in their tea, confume no chocolate or coffee, eat no fweetmeats, tarts, or puddings, no currant jelly fauce to their venifon,

nor

nor indulge themselves in eating any other cates into the compofition of which fugar enters, unless they are convinced fuch fugar is of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cochin China, where, the Dean says, it is prepared without any affistance from flaves. They may then reft fatisfied they have done their part, in putting a stop to the accursed and infernal traffick, in their zeal against which, the mariner, the merchant, and the planter, three of the most valuable characters the community can boast of, are indifcriminately the objects of cenfure, abuse, and calumny. In the mean time, it will not be amifs if they reflect on an epitaph said to be engraven on the tomb of a Spanish gentleman, in one of the churches of Seville, which may be thus tranflated:

"I was well, and wanted to be better; fo I took phyfic,--and died.”

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HUMAN SPECIES; PARTICULARLY THE AFRICAN.

In a Series of Letters from the fame Author, in Jamaica, to his Friend in London.

Wherein many of the Mistakes and Mifreprefentations of Mr. CLARKSON are pointed out, both with regard to the Manner in which that Commerce is carried on in Africa, and the Treatment of the Slaves in the Weft Indies.

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