LONDON:
PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON,
IVY-LANE, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
The object of this volume is to lay open to the public the most extensive and extraordinary system of crime which the world ever witnessed. It is a system which has been in full operation for more than three hundred years, and continues yet in unabating activity of evil. The apathy which has hitherto existed in England upon this subject has proceeded in a great measure from want of knowledge. National injustice towards particular tribes, or particular individuals, has excited the most lively feeling, and the most energetic exertions for its redress,—but the whole wide field of unchristian operations in which this country, more than any other, is engaged, has never yet been laid in a clear and comprehensive view before the public mind. It is no part of the present volume to suggest particular plans of remedy. The first business is to make known the nature and the extent of the evil,—that once perceived, in this great country there will not want either heads to plan or hands to accomplish all that is due to the rights of others, or the honour and interest of England.
West End Cottage, Esher,
June 8th, 1838.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| Introduction | [1] |
| II. | |
| The Discovery of the New World | [11] |
| III. | |
| The Papal Gift of all the Heathen World to the Portugueseand Spaniards | [19] |
| IV. | |
| The Spaniards in Hispaniola | [28] |
| V. | |
| The Spaniards in Hispaniola and Cuba | [43] |
| VI. | |
| The Spaniards in Jamaica and other West Indian Islands | [56] |
| VII. | |
| The Spaniards in Mexico | [62] |
| VIII. | |
| The Spaniards in Peru | [92] |
| IX. | |
| The Spaniards in Peru—(continued) | [104] |
| X. | |
| The Spaniards in Paraguay | [119] |
| XI. | |
| The Portuguese in Brazil | [145] |
| XII. | |
| The Portuguese in Brazil—(continued) | [158] |
| XIII. | |
| The Portuguese in India | [173] |
| XIV. | |
| The Dutch in India | [185] |
| XV. | |
| The English in India.—System of Territorial Acquisition | [202] |
| XVI. | |
| The English in India—(continued).—Treatment of theNatives | [252] |
| XVII. | |
| The English in India.—Treatment of the Natives—(continued) | [272] |
| XVIII. | |
| The English in India—(continued) | [285] |
| XIX. | |
| The English in India—(concluded) | [298] |
| XX. | |
| The French in their Colonies | [312] |
| XXI. | |
| The English in America | [330] |
| XXII. | |
| The English in America—Settlement of Pennsylvania | [356] |
| XXIII. | |
| The English in America till the Revolt of the Colonies | [367] |
| XXIV. | |
| Treatment of the Indians by the United States | [386] |
| XXV. | |
| Treatment of the Indians by the United States—(continued) | [402] |
| XXVI. | |
| The English in South Africa | [417] |
| XXVII. | |
| The English in South Africa—(continued) | [443] |
| XXVIII. | |
| The English in New Holland and the Islands of the Pacific | [469] |
| XXIX. | |
| Conclusion | [499] |