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kindred may be violently torn asunder, 

 and the mother and children assigned to 

 different piirrliascrs, and separated to 

 distant parts. The ordinance of marriage 

 is scarcely known among them; wliile the 

 most unrestrained licentiotisness and pro- 

 lligacy of manners, as well in their inter- 

 course with eacli other, as witli the whiles, 

 is openly indulged. Nothing was wanting 

 to complete the misery of such a state, 

 except to attach impunity to theatroriiiei 

 which the unlimited subjection of the 

 weak to the strong is ever sure to pro- 

 duce ; and this is amply provided for by 

 that regulation, adopted in our colonies, 

 which excludes the testimony of a negro 

 against a white inhabitant. In conse- 

 quence of this law, the vilest miscreant 

 may inflict whatever cruelties he pleases 

 on the wretched blacks, provided he takes 

 care that no white person be present. 

 There are laws, it is true, which constitute 

 the murder of a negro a capital otience, 

 and which limit the measure of his punish- 

 ment ; but, as if for the very purpose of 

 rendering them nugatory and ridiculous, 

 conviction is made to depend on a circum- 

 stance attending the perpetration of 

 crimes, wliicli it is most easy to exclude. 

 The presumption is always taken against 

 liim : so that, if he loses his certificate of 

 freedom, or it is stolen from him, it is at 

 the option of any person to commit him to 

 jail 08 a run-away ; and, if he cannot prove 

 Jiis freedom, the law requires him to be 

 sold, and thus replunges him into the hor- 

 rors of slavery." 



LIST OF BOOKS. 



BIBLIOGttAPHY. 



Richard Haynes' General Catalogue of 

 Books in uli Languages, for 1821-. 2s. 6d. 



Part I. of Duncan's Catalogue of Books, 

 in Philological, Classical, Historical, and 

 Miscellaneous, Literature ; including un- 

 common collections on magic, witchcraft, 

 &c. on the language, science, liistory, &c. 

 of eastern nations, and on Scottish and 

 Irish history. 



Part I. of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 

 Brown, and Green's Catalogue of Old 

 Books, in Foreign Languages. 2s. 



BIOGRAPHY. 



Memoirs of Goethe, written by himself, 

 translated from the Germtn, 2 vols. 8vo. 

 with portrait. II. 4s. 



Memoirs of William Hayley, esq. the 

 friend and biographer of Cowper, written 

 by himself, containing a variety of anec- 

 doles of the most eminent men of his 

 lime. 2 vols. -ito. with portraits. 4l. 4s. bds. 



Memoirs of General Count Rapp, Fust 

 Aid-de-Cainp to Napoleon; written by 

 himself, and published by his family, con- 

 taining a multitude of curious facts and 

 anecdotes hitherto unknown. 8vo. 12s. 



A Biographical Portraiture of the Rev. 

 James Hinton, a.m. O.xfordj by John 

 6 



List of Neiv Publications in March. 



[April 1, 

 8vo. 



Howard Hinton, ma. of Reading 

 10s. 6d. 



Nugap, ChirnrgiciE, or a Biographical 

 Miscellany, illustrative of a Colleclionof 

 Professional Portraits ; by William Wadd, 

 esq. F.r,.s. surgeon extraordinary to the 

 King, ifvrc. 6sc. 8vo. 9s. boards. 



Memoirs of Mrs. Matilda Smith, late 

 of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope; by 

 John Phillips, u.d. 8vo. 6s. boards. 



BOTANY. 



Vol. ] and 2 of the English Flora; by 

 Sir James Edward Smith, president of the 

 Linnapan Society, &c. &c. II. 4s. To be 

 completed in 4 vols. 



DRAMA. 



No. I. of the Old English Drama, con- 

 taining the Second Maiden's Tragedy, 

 from an Original Manuscript. Small 8vo. 

 28. 6d. Large paper, 4s. 



EDUCATION. 



Part II. of Flowers of Literature; a 

 collection of elegant and amusing extracts 

 from the most ajjproved authors; by F. 

 Campbell, esq. 12ino. Is. 



An Easy and Familiar Drawing-Book, 

 systematically arranged ; chiefly intended 

 to assist beginners ; with illustrative re- 

 marks on the first rudiments of landscape 

 drawing, and practical perspective; by 

 John Marten. Is. 



The Little Historians; a new Chronicle 

 of the Affairs of England ; by Jeffery 

 Taylor. 3 vols. 9s. half bound. 



A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical 

 Astronomy, adapted to Practice, and to 

 the Purposes of Elementary Instruction ; 

 containing the elementary principles of 

 Algebra, Geometry, Plane and Spherical 

 Tf iaonometry and Navigation : the method 

 of keeping a Sea Journal; concise and 

 simple Rules, wiih their investigations for 

 finding the Latitude and Longitude and 

 the variation of the Compass ; by celestial 

 observations: the solution of other pseful 

 nautical problems, witii an extensive 

 series of Examples for Exercise, and all 

 the Tables requisite in nautical computa- 

 tions ; by Edward Riddle, master of the 

 mathematical school. Royal Naval Asylum, 

 Greenwich. 8vo. 12s. bound. 



The Value of Time, or the History of 

 Richard Gordon. 2s. 6d. boards. 



Helen of the Glen ; a Tale for Youth. 

 Is. 6d. boards. 



Warning and Example to the Young. 

 Is. 6d. boards. 



FINE ARTS. 



Part I. of Henry Moses' Engravings, 

 in outlines, of a series of eight designs, by 

 Retch, to illustrate the beautiful Ballad of 

 Feidolin, or the Road to the Iron Foundry; 

 by Schiller. The Ballad in the original 

 German, and a translation by J. P. Collier, 

 esq. are printed on alternate pages, 

 with a prose description of each plate. 4s. 



Picturesque Views on the Severn; from 

 original designs of the late Mr. Samuel 

 Ireland } author of Picturesque Views on 



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