[112] See page 140, ante.
[113] Backhouse's Visit to the Mauritius, 35.
[114] The danger of interference, even with the best intentions, when unaccompanied by knowledge, is thus shown by the same author, in speaking of Madagascar:—
"Dreadful wars are waged by the queen against other parts of the island, in which all the male prisoners above a certain stature are put to death, and the rest made slaves. This she is enabled to effect, by means of the standing army which her predecessor Radama was recommended to keep by the British. * * How lamentable is the reflection that the British nation, with the good intention of abolishing the slave trade, should have strengthened despotic authority and made way for all its oppressive and depopulating results, by encouraging the arts of war instead of those of peace!"—P. 24.
[115] Thompson's Lectures on British India, 187.
[116] Lawson's Merchants' Magazine, January, 1853, 14.
[117] Bigelow's "Jamaica in 1850," 17.
[118] Sophisms of Free Trade, by J. Barnard Byles, Esq.
[119] Speech of Mr. T. F. Meagher, 1847.
[120] The following paragraph from an Irish journal exhibits strikingly the amount of political freedom exercised at the scene of these evictions:—