IX EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES, 



Thefe wrecks, fcattered over 75 leagues of Sea, came 

 from about twelve miles to the North-weft of Oftend, 

 where this naval combat was fought, and were carried as 



far 



But when from the fummit of their rocks, under the fliade of their 

 cotton-trees, and of their plantains, they beheld, along their peaceful 

 fliores, this frightful train of mafts, yards, galleries, poops, prows, halt 

 burnt, ftained with human blood, and intermingled with European ftan- 

 dards, they then faw the fcale, loaded with the miferies of Africa, rife 

 for a moment, and the other, in it's turn, fink with an oppreflTive weight 

 on Europe: and from this re-a£tion of calamity, they, undoubtedly, 

 perceived that an univerfal Juftice governs, by equal laws, all the Na- 

 tions of the Globe. 



A King of France, it has been fald, ordered the bodies of malefac- 

 tors to be thrown into the river, marked with this difmal infcription : 

 Let the King's Jujlke pafs. The Chinefe and Japanefe punifh, in the 

 fame manner, the pirates who infeft the navigation of their rivers. Thus 

 the wrecks of thefe fhlps of war, which had fo often fcattered terror 

 over the Atlantic Ocean, were hurried along by it's Currents ; and 

 their enormous bulging hulks, blackened by the fire, reddened with 

 human blood, and become a fport to the billows of Africa, fpoke 

 much more diftinélly than any infcription could, to the opprefled inhabi- 

 tants of thofe fliores : Behold koiv, O, ye black men ! the glory of the 

 Whites, and the Jujiice of Gov» , poffmg along. 



It would be a calculation worthy, I do not fay of our modem Poli- 

 ticians, who no longer fet a value on any thing In the World, except 

 cold and power, but of a friend of humanity, to afcertain. Whether 

 the Negro Slave-trade has not occafioned as many woes to Europe as to 

 Africa; and, What are the benefits of which it has been produftive to 

 thefe two divifions of the Globe. 



In the firll place, it would be neceflary to take into the account, of 

 the calamities of Africa, the wars wlilch it's Potentates wage with each 

 other, in order to find a fupply of flaves to anfwer the demand of Euro- 

 pean traders ; the barbarous defpotifm of" it's Sovereigns, who, for the 

 attainment of this object, deliver up their own fubjefls ; the unnaturally 

 degraded chara6ter of their fubjeds, who, after their example, fre- 

 quently drag to thefe inhuman markets their wives and their children ; 



the 



