[51]. Vol. ii. p. 442.
[52]. Nothing can shew more clearly the degree of this security, than that the Jamaica newspapers have been allowed to print, not only the detailed account of all our parliamentary debates about the abolition of the Slave Trade, but even the particulars of the St. Domingo transactions.—Surely the West Indian Petitioners to the House of Lords were ignorant of these facts, or rather perhaps they thought the Abolitionists were ignorant of them, when the mere discussion of the question here was stated to be so alarming.
[53]. See Dr. Pinckard’s late work; Notes on the West Indies.
[54]. The petition of the Assembly of Jamaica, in 1775, plainly recognizes the source of danger here alluded to. “Weak and feeble (says the Assembly) as this colony is, from its very small number of white inhabitants, and its peculiar situation, from the incumbrance of more than 200,000 Slaves,” &c. &c.
[55]. For the illustration of this part of the subject, and of many other topics which I have slightly touched, I must refer my readers to Mr. Brougham’s Colonial Policy; a work from some parts of which I must express my decided dissent, but which contains a most valuable fund of commercial and financial, political and moral facts, and suggestions on all the various subjects connected with colonial interests and affairs.
[56]. See Mr. Parke’s account of his journey to the coast from the interior.
[57]. Let it be considered what immense numbers of Negroes have of late years been removed from our older islands to Trinidad, or to Guiana.
[58]. Compare this with Captain Hill’s and Wilson’s, and especially with Mr. Wadstrom’s evidence.
[59]. Compare this with Mr. Howe’s evidence.
[60]. Compare this with the absolute denial of such practices, or of any term for them, by Opponents’ witnesses.