152 ' A. t>. 1788.' 



voyage, the flave veffels being taken as the flandard, vvhofe lofswas 21 5, 



The loss of the West-India ships would be - - 21") 



Petersburg ships - - IC) I 



Newfoundland - - , 10 >87 



Greenland - - ' 9 



East-India - not quite 37 _ 



Taking the lofs on the flave fliips no higher than the number report- 

 ed dead or loft on their mufter-roUs, it follows undeniably, that al- 

 moft three times as many feamen are loft in them as in all the other ex- 

 amples, which comprehend the mofl fatiguing voyages that Britifli fea- 

 men are employed in. But of the much larger number of difcharged 

 or deferted men, it is a melancholy truth, that a great proportion die in 

 mifery in the Weft-Indies, or are otherways loft to their country * ; 

 and that, even of thofe, who return home, many are rendered ufelefs to 

 the community by blindnefs, ulcerated legs, and other difeafes, to which, 

 according to the evidence of the furgeons, they are peculiarly expofed 

 by working in the water, when wooding and watering in the rivers on 

 the coaft of Africa, in thofe baneful voyages : and frequently a whole 

 {hip's company is cut off by the Negroes, whereof no official return is 

 made. So that the flave trade, which the advocates for it, on the pre- 

 tence that the vefi'els muft fail very ftrong-handed, call a great mtrjery 

 for feamen, appears to be the very fartheft of all trades from being able 

 to keep up its own numbers, and has therefor with more juftice been 

 called the grave of the Britiflj marine. 



The delegates from Liverpool gave in to the committee an eftimate 

 of the numbers of Negroes annually exported from the weft coaft of 

 Africa, as follows. 



By the British slave ships - 38,000 



French - - 20,000 



Portuguese - - 10,000 



Dutch - - 4,000 



Danish - - 2,00O 



f 74,000 



As a curious article in the hiftory of man, as well as in the hiftory of 

 commerce, I have thought it proper to infert the following 



* Among many other proofs of the lofs of fea- f Report, part iv. A'". 14.— Raynal makes the 



men, which might be adduced, perhaps the mofl annual exportation 80,000. \_HiJ}. phil. et pol. V. 



undeniable is the letter from Governor Parry of vi, ^. 87.] It is evident, that it muft vary in differ. 



Barbados to Lord Sydney, inferted in the jf?f- ent years, and that fuch eftimates muft in a great 



tart on thejlave trade, part'm, fl?eet E e, p. 4. mcafure reft upon conjeilure. 



