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OBSERVATIONS,

OCCASIONED BY THE ATTEMPTS MADE IN ENGLAND
ΤΟ EFFECT THE ABOLITION

O F THE

SLAVE TRADE;

SHEWING,

The Manner in which NEGROES are treated
'IN THE BRITISH COLONIES

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REV. ROBERT BOUCHER NICHOLLS,

DEAN OF MIDDLEHAM,

BY G. FRANC KL Y N,

EsQ

"And why beholdeft thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but confidereft not
"the beam that is in thine own eye?

"Or bow wilt thou fay to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye
" and behod, a beam is in thine own eye?"

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, PRINTED.

LONDON:

REPRINTED AT THE Logographic Prefs,

AND SOLD BY

J. WALTER, No. 169, OPPOSITE BOND STREET, PICCADILLY
C. STALKER, STATIONER'S COURT, LUDGATE STREET;
AND W. RICHARDSON, UNDER THE ROYAL EXCHANGE
,M.DCC.LXXXIX.

[PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND SLX-PENCE.]

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PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

'HE following pamphlet was originally printed

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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 neceffary to affix his name; yet, having no defire to conceal it, he avowed himself, 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.

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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 converfant in the fubject it treats of, and acquainted with the facts contained in it, will furely be confidered, by every reafonable and difpaffionate perfon, 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 confent to the reprinting it with his name, in hopes that it may affift in difabusing the public, which has been most fhamefully impofed on by the mifreprefentation 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 average, about 40 broad, as well as from Mr. LONG's Hiftory of the Island. There is alfa

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