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London, England, 1805-04-20 00:00:00

PROM LLOYD% LIST.

DtAL, APRIL r9.—Sailed the Leda frigate and the Watchful
gun-brig on a cruize off the French Coaft ; Caller frigate fot
Sheemefs ; Willington armed (hip, and la Poulenc poop of war,
with a convoy to the Weitward.—.Sailed through the Downs the
Glamorgan, Shelly, for Antigua ; Hinde, Darby, for Barbadocs ;
City of Edinburgh, Moreton. for Quebec, and the Venus, Smith.
for Colehefter.-..Arrivcd and failed for the River the Mercury,
Gibbs, from St. Kitt's; Hero of the Nile, Hatchinfon, from St.
Vincent's; Aretbufa. Olken, arid the Cumberland, Langley,
from Deviators; and feveral other homeward-bound vefels. Ar.
rived the Arab Poop of war from a cruize, and remains in the
Downs with the reit of the thips as per laft ...Wind N. E.
GRAVC3tI.IO, APRIL c9—Paired by the Thames, Todd; Elmo
beth. 'Fownion ; Wakefield, Brace; Hope, Nicholls; manor,
Chriitie; Heyley; and Triumvirate, Green, from
Oporto; Two Good Brothers, Jacobs, from Winder i per Jan,
Plage; Two Brothers, Rockett ; Coward, l'eterfon; and Hope,
Holdfworth, from Toomlngen.—Sailcd the Two Friends, M'Neill,
for Mariam ; Palmbarnui, Brak;rling, for Boltock; V away-
ing, Licts and Gaits Hafauzig, Slaw, Wt Too:dom.

SLAV'

TO THE EDI

it THE STAR.

Sir—l have frequent., .ieard the following argu-
ment triumphantly urged againll the Abolition of
the .‘trican Stave Trade :—" Ape not the Negroes
flavt:. in their own country, in fubjeltion to cruel,.
barbarous, uncivilized tyrants ; from whom it is a
Itiotin is to refett; them, and to tranfport them to the
enjoyment of comparative fecurity and happinefi, in
toe Welt ?" Here, however, the poverty of
language tends, in no (mall degree, to miflead our
juusinent ; and becaule what is rec.! Slavery, exists
in Africa, our colonial fyliem, in all its parts. is
?Ironic i (extravagantly enough) to be lawful and
even humane. _ _

ran let its compare thefe two antes : and firfl, as I
to their effeds. Does the population of Africa de-
creafe ? No ;it increafes fo rapidly, that even the
murderous Slave Trade is thence annually fupplied
with its 80,000 viaims, independent of, at leall, an
equal number, which rrittl almaft neceffarily be fa-
crificed, in'otder that thefe may be procured.
Then, ac to the nature of this fervitude.—Are
Slaves in Africa fobjeeled to the fame compulfory
procefs for the exttaflion of their labour as in the
WWeft Indies ? or, are they tubjeeed to the fame pri.
station of every civil and political tight ? Let this
quellion be anfwered, by an appeal to the writings of
Slave Traders, and avowed an! aboliti,asi is. Mr.
Moore, who was Paftnr to the lt,yal African Com-
pany in the Rfter Gambia, about the year 173 c, thus
exprelfes himielf
" Some people, ffeys he) have a good many Insure
!laves, which is their greatell glnrl, and they lire In
well and e-ify, that i 1 is fxnplimes • a v-ry hard maw,- to
Imintt the davit from their inAjlert or )4riffes ; they very
often being better clothed, efpecially the females, who
have fotnetimes coral, amber, and liver about their
arias, to the value of twenty or tl!irry pounds iler-
ling. Many oldie Slaves are born in their families.
There is a whole village near Borcoe, of two hon•
dred people, who ate all the wives, flares, or children
of one man. I never heard of but one ih.:e ever fdd a ft-
wily ',r./lave,. eecelt for feud) or:ma, as would have n
than to le fad, had they beeitfree. It there ate many fa-
:hilt, Slaves, and one of them commits a crime, the
mailer emtnotftli him *without the joint co;u2nt of the ;-
1.4 ii he does, they mill all run away, and he protec-
ted by the next kingdom to which they fly."
Mr. Park fully confirms the flalement of Mr.
Moore ; and from him it fully appears, that al-
ihnogh what is called domefticflavery exifts in Africa,
yt.t the evils of the Slave Trade do not fall with leis
welylit upon domeftic Slaves than upon freemen.—
hi, Park not only defcribes the eircomtiances ~f the
me.:ic Slave to he fo ear), and comfortable, that
in every labopions occupation the Maner and his
Slave work to ether, without any dittinftian of In
periority," hot he likewife admits, that he can only
be fold to roteigners in cafes which would equally
authorize the tale of freemen : loch as crimes, inf
capture in war, ar.d witchcraft. And he adds
what is very important to the prtfent argument, viz.
" The mailer cannot' fell his domellic Slave without
having fir ft brought hint to public tri..l before the
Chief Men of the place "—Pat k's Ttavels, p. 28.
Innumerable teitimories to the fame effeft • might
lady be produced, which would all gotoeft.blifh, in
controvertibly, the almott incalculable dillauce which
feparates our fyflem of Colonial Bondage from the
rtomeftic Servitude of Africa. But in Africa, let it

further be remembered, there is no difference of co
• lour between tie Mailer and the Slave. In the
Ifl.inds, on the contrary, the difference is fo plain and
obvious, that many Welk Indians fcruple not to
avow their belief, that the Negroes arc an inferior or-
der of beings to their mailers; a link in the chain
which connet9s the Homo Sapient with the brute ;—a
fpecici of Oran Olitang. differing from their brethren
of the woods only in polialing the faculty of fpeech.
Can we then wonder, that when even their claim to
be confideted as human is questioned, they ghoul('
net be treated as men, and fhould be denied the com-
mon rights a humanity ? Under Inch circum-
fiances, they are, natut ally enough, excluded from
the pale of that fympathy, which a fettle of comma)
stain, e and of a comincnextraeli ,n infpires ; and which,
in minds not habtually regulated by Religion, is the
greatett and fureit fource of benevolence, and the bell
guard againfl the ahufe of defpotic atithot ity.
I am unwilling to extend this paper to an imp.
derate length ; but yet 1 cannot avoid remarkingthe
cvnfirmatian which my reafoning derives from what
has lately patted in St. Domingo. Had Weft Indian
Bondage been that mild fyflem which it has been re
presented t.. be ; is it foppofeable ihat a whole com-
munity Humid unite as one man, not only in calling
off the yoke, but in preferring extermination, by the
will cruel means, tr• fo6rnitting again to wear it ?
But I forbear to enter on this extenfive field.
It was my intents n to have laid a few words in.
reply to the argtiments adduced to eflabligh the im-
prat9icability of abolillting the Slave Trade ; but
mull referve what I have to lay to a future opportu-
nity ; only remarking, that if it was as true as it is
demonarably falfe, that in the event of our abolifb-
. ing tie Trade, not one .Ifriean tbe left quill be fol/, I
fhould dill fay that the Slave Trade ought not, for
• one m-trent, to he tolerated by this country. IT is
FntlNitt D IN INIVSTICS :—IT IS FOE ri RFD BY COM-
+ Mt RCIAL AVARICE : IT IS TRANSACTED IN BLOOD
1 _ T IS. IN SitttT,A PRACTICE IN WHICH NO CHRISTIAN

CA' HAVE ANY PARTICIPATION.
" Canft thou. and lion er'd with a Chriflian's name,
Loy what is woman born, and feel no fbame ?
Trade in the Blnnel of Innocence, and plead
Exprdi-nre as a Warrant for the deed ?
So may the Wulf, wlium (Alin,- has made bold
To quit he foreft, and invade the fold :
So may the ruidan, who with ghoftly glide,
Dauer in hand, Reads clot:: to your bed fide;
Not he, but his emergence, fn• c'd the door ;
He found it inconvenient to be poor.
Has Gnu then given its fweetnefs to the Cane,
Holds his Laws he trampled on—in vain ?
Built a brave worll, which cannot yet fublUt,
lintels his right to rule it be difmifed ?
Impudent Bbfphany ! So Folly pleads,
And Av'rice being Judge, with cafe fucceeda."
• Yours, &c. Aix •SOLITIONIST.
• ',lee. tae Examination of Mr. Penny, Mr. Muthews, and
"44,k4i:D!yellbhchartvike Privy Council, all of whom were Skive

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