X PJIEFAGE. 



horrible sui^plement. What a hideous emblem of our 

 civilisation is that bloodstained vessel throwing out, like the 

 fangs of a grim monster, its grappling-irons to clutch and 

 upset the canoes of the unsuspecting natives, then sending 

 its boats to pick up such of them as had not made for land, 

 or were not drowned ; hustling and closely packing them 

 in its hold, and, when its captives, driven mad by excite- 

 ment and suffering, quarrelled amoi:g themselves, firing shot 

 upon shot at them through the hatches during the night, 

 killing and wounding seventy ; and finally, when morning 

 broke, throwing the dead and the wounded fastened to one 

 another into the sea ! Surely if there were felt but a hun- 

 dredth part of the interest in the fate of the Polynesian that 

 was once, and is still, taken in the fate of the African, there 

 would have been a shout of indignant remonstrance from 

 one end of the land to the other. But Avhere now is the. 

 Anti-Slavery Society? Where is the really benevolent 

 Society of Friends ? Where is there the shghtest flash 

 of that frenzy of indignation not long since exhibited in the 

 case of the Jamaica black ? But philanthropy has often its 

 pet victims on whom it lavishes all its affection, and hence 

 is to be seen fervid and flaming in one direction, while it is 

 cold to rigidity in another, where the claims upon its 

 sympathy are very similar, if not the same. It is to be 

 hoped that some member of Parliament will endeavour to 

 divert his colleagues for a moment, fi'om matters more 

 interesting to themselves, perhaps, and fix their attention 

 upon one, than which none nioi'e concerns the honour of 



