The Guinea Voyage: A Poem in Three Books / To Which Are Added Observations on a Voyage to the Coast of Africa

A Poem, IN THREE BOOKS.
INSCRIBED TO Sir RALPH MILBANKE, Bart. M. P.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED , OBSERVATIONS ON A VOYAGE TO THE COAST OF AFRICA , IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THOMAS CLARKSON, A. M.
BY JAMES FIELD STANFIELD, FORMERLY A MARINER IN THE AFRICAN TRADE .
Edinburgh,
PRINTED BY J. ROBERTSON, FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY VERNOR HOOD & SHARP, BOOKSELLERS, LONDON; AND THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.
1807.
Member of Parliament for the County of Durham.
SIR,
From personal respect and attachment, as well as from a long and perfect knowledge of your sentiments with regard to the subject of these Verses and Observations, I should, naturally, have been led to the gratification of inscribing them with your name.—Yet, when I consider, that you had the happiness to second that Motion, which, like the impression of an oracle, has given the death-stroke to the disgraceful and nefarious Traffic, I have the satisfaction to find, that propriety, in this instance, is linked with estimation; and, that the convictions of the understanding have, sometimes, the felicity of being associated with the sensibilities of the heart.
I am,
SIR,