The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-31 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

ON THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGROES.
Ma. Enrrott7-7-The Gentlemen who are for
the immediate Emancipation of the Negroes, it
is to be hoped, are prepared and willing to pay
taxes for their Maintenance until they can fur-
nish food for themselves,. w filch cannot possibly be
in less time than. three yearse---Tbere are 900,000
tNheerngroweiglitopebrish bYe made free, and the greater part of
famine Unless fed for that
period. The cost of
provisions and freightage
will be at least one shilling
a head. This by the
day is 45,0001., and
by the year is 16,425,0001.,
and for three years in 49,9.7.5,0001., which will
require three;ntillious of taxes to pay the interest
and liquidate the principal. Suppose the Negroes
all free at once, ,and they .consent to work for
'their former masters
for pay (which is more than
doubtful), how are
the Negroes to be paid
daily ? Their rnasters.cannot iford it ! I Snppose
400 adult Negroes on'art 100 of whom are
women ; that the Men work fora shilling a day,
and the women for Sixpence a -day—their daily
pay will be 171.1 W. What planter can afford
this ? He waits at least a year or a year and
a half before obtains payment for the ,su-
gar, &c. he sends to England.—There is no
copper coin in the West Indies ; the lowest
is half bits (a small silver Spanish coin cut
in two,) and that not in sufficient quintities
for this increased. population ; .because, in the pre-
sent state of things, the circulating medium is
only sufficient, and the want of it alone would
create confusion, misery, and distress. If the
planter sena food to the negroes who worked for
him, they. Will think they pay too much, and the
planter think they pay too little. What bicker-
lags will not. this occasion; and eventually end in
the Negrees refusing to work. Therefore, if the
Negroes are made free at once, lands must be
allotted to them to raise food. At present the
Negroes are better off than the. labouring poor of
Great Britain ; but make them free and grant '
them latidi, 'they will firSt raise food, then lux-
uries, as the following will prove :—Four acres
of land in that fruitful-Island Jamaica will main-
tain eight adults, four men and four women.—
Let half an acre be planted in yams, of which
there will he two crops in a year, the yarns will
keep good 'a year; half an acre in plantains, half an
• acre in maize corn, three crops in a yearl. half an
acre in Guinea corn, which is a grain that
fattens poultry better than any other, and three
crops grow within the year ; half an acre of
Ocra, Lima beans, Granadilla (fruit of the pas.
sion flower), melons of all sorts, and pine.
apples ; half an acre for the huts or houses, and
stack-yard for pigs and poultry. of all sorts.---,
There remains another acre, in which may be
planted a sufficient comber of lemon, orange,
-eueoa nut, bread- fruit, avocata
lime, shaddock,
(vegetable-marrow), Pear, and star-apple trees.
As up, sugar canes (from which
(;these
boil sirup) grewnlay t
hplanted, and occasionally
the cocoa nut for chocolate, coffee for their
consumption might also be planted. These eight
N'gr's might vary their breakfeits end dinners
and suppers as often its they chose. Having cof.
► fee, chocolate, sirup, maize core, plantains, yaMs
bread-fruit, ocra,
fruits and hogs and
poultry in abundance, what
lima' beans, besides. the finest
poor man in England'
lower mountains in can command these. The
Jamaica. produce the best
the higher monntains apples and Eu-
ropean ieget"bles quantitiei. Cabbages are
coffee, and
told as cheap and are as abundant in.: Kingston
Market as in that of Covent-garden. The above
proves that the humane.
p.a..) vAN'NING to
emancipate gradually the Negroes is not only
best for the Negroes themselves, but the most
beneficial to Great Britain.

A WEST INDIAN.

From the LONDON GAZErrE, March 30.

BANRRUPTS. - -
J. Flinn, Liverpool, earthenware-dealer, to surrender April
7,3, at the Swan Inn, Hanley, May 11, at the Legs of Man
Inn, Burslem, Stafibrdshire.
hm ree seb ucr y, u
p Solicitor; Mr. Wheeler, Lin-
coln's-inni-fields.
Wiltshire, corn-factor, April 19,
s Inn, Tethury, Glocestershire.
Solicitor, Mr. Carter, Furnival's-inn. .
J. Rickards, Newmarket, innholder, April 3,6, May 11, at
20,1 V A
1. aT.
1 1 13, °w a
t n the' i% I
aTi
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Glynes,
Burr-street, East Smithfield. ,
M. C. Sanderson, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, coal-mer-
chant, April 3, 24, May H, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basing-
hall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Harris, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square.
W. Phillips, Bristol, linen-draper, April 20, 21, 111ay 11,'
at the White. Lion Inn, Bristol.' Solicitors, Messrs. Jenkins
and Abbott, New-inn.