Star.
London, England, 1805-01-31 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

am much furprized that fo little h;
filed from the prefs in favour of the unfnrt,
Blacks, while their fate is impending in the Ho,
Lords. At a crifis when the (lave merchant
conrentratinig all the energy of felfillinefs, it ml
have been uppnled that the friends of hum:
would exert their utmoll power to connterad
elf-set Pf their machinations. Amida the extret
important political difetiffions which will occup:
attention of Partial-mat in the courfe of the pr,
Elfion, they will, I 11.kve no doubt, attempt to
,:,e by flop z..,and thus occarion the reic
of the Ilia which has already happily paired
lionte of Commons, for the abolition of the
Trade. The writer i,f there obfervatilats a,
from his 1:til that detellable, inhutnan, and on
tian traffic ; but he abominates the fin wit
hating the linnet, and his orly with is, that
agents in carrying on the trade may be ;nevi
Gum continuing it ; and may they he convince,
experience, chat a more profitable, yet itim
commercial intercourfe is pollible to be main%
with the larbariza natives of Africa ! The cru,
of the Blacks at Sr. Domingo will be perhav
duced by their enemies to prove the innate low
and treachery of the Negro race. But thufe acqt
ed with poor human nature will repel the cla
alas ! does not hiftory, ancient and modern,
claim what white men have done ? Can we forgo
whole aeries of the hiftory of England hem W
the Conqueror to William the Third ! Has
been no bulb maffacre, no French revolutiJo ?
Many years refidence in different ifle.nds of
Weft Indies have afforded me opportunities of ki
ing and appreciating the Negro charaeler ; and I
firmly of opinion that their capacity is good ;
dirpolition traElable, if well ufed ; and their in
capable of improvement in fcience, as well as ii-
elianical arts. They have a great facility in 'cal
languages; molt negraes in Grenada and St.
cent could fume years ago fpeak both French
Englifh ; but the tile of the former has been,
the inforreftion of 1795, very properly difcour
in both Wands.

Their cpticknets in difeovering the charaaer
their new inaflers or overfeers is very remarkabl
are alto the fmartnefs of their repartees and hum
ous olifervations. I know a mulatto man, V:
tfra-7:4,/gr might appear wish &at at the exhibition
the Royal Academy.
We have not, I mat confers, any Black ph,
pliers, poets, or hifiorians ; but this deficiency
be accounted for by their ignorance of the art of
ing ; and let it nut he Paid that they Ihould
rheny:ive; dilcovered this gift of Heaven ; for it
admit of a quellion, not eafily folved, whether,
Romans had not taught us our A 13 C, we A.
not have been now the fame painted Britons w
Czar deft:, ibes, and whom Diodorus Sictilus,
lieve, accufcs of eating human flefh !
The firft and molt precious elements of knowlt
and of the arts are invented on fume happy prim
the circle in which it has pleated GOD to place
and are &Alined to diverge in every direaion fi
benefit of the whole human race. Thus learning
travelled from her birth place on the banks o)
Euphrates to the borders of the Thames, and
of the hliffilfippi; the burning lands of Ati ica w'
day receive her Welling. In the mean while 1
in the triumph of the Haytians ; and, though
tell the principles of revolutionarf Frenchmen,
contidering who were the tyrants, like them I
fur once call revolt a holy ityitrreNicti. Gun ft
that limilar fcenes Ihould ever defolate our own
iflands. We have Haves, cart whips, and driv,
istrue ; but we have not added the
mott cold la,
ed treachery to cruelty : our negroes have not
fuddenly emancipated and let look, without gt
and without prudence or infiruftion to dirat
uncultivated minds. We have not then attem
to enfnare and chain them down to a bondage r
horrible in a ten-fold degree, after knowing n'
I do not advife the immediate liberation( f the t
but that encouragement Ihould be given to th,i
numiffion ; ;grad of in me a heavy jne, is
the cafe in all the Weft India Iflands, un the 0,
who gives liberty to a (lave, I am going to ma
obfervation, which fome will despite, as favour
jaeobinical fanaticifm, but which may aft'o..ti
to any enlightened perfon who may have the p
and inclination to improve on the idea. I meat,
the very refpetlable fociety, computing the 5:
Leone Company, Ihould fend a congratulator'
baiTy, with the content of Government, to the
percr of Hayti, James the Firft. Such a deputi
coadated with judgment, might produce the
beneficial refult to the commercial negociatiun
the Haytians, which has been attempted hith,
without fuccefs ; and !night alto conciliate the
will of the people, and enfurc the fafety and
quillity of our fugar colonies, the fituation of w,
is becoming every day more and more precariou,
coned give a long, but blocking account of CTUI
on the negroes, which have come under my own
mediate oblervation, but (hall refrain from fo
greeable a fubjea at prefent, and remain, Sir,
terably, ritiaostsLi
January, 18,:s.

Monday morning a pitched battle was fought .
Wilfilen-green, between two lads not much kno.
is the pogilittie art (one named Lord Legg:, and
ether named 80/kr),when, after on: hour's hard
ing, Lord Leggs was declared the vielor. Se.
gentlemen amateurs were prefent.

Yellct day the third examination took place 21
Public-Office, Hatton-Garden, of a man of the n:
of Col!, on fufpicion of being a common twin.
connetted with a number of men of the fame de(
tion, diiperfed all over the country. A great m
bcr of tradefmen in London attended, who
that the prif.mer obtained goods by various 'lry
gems as a man of credit. At a late hour an accou
a•as brought to the Office, that a debtor in Newgat
who was un ler acceptances to lime of his cannel
tions, would unravel the whole plan, if permitted
be brought forward. In confequencc of this info:,
tiro, the prifoncr was re-committed for further
Initiation. The whole of the crick:lee we are no,
tholifed to give at prefent.