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CHAP, and fweetening your coffee with fugar, perfevere in the 

 ^ ncioft nnjuft and execrable barbarity? — To this it is an- 



fwered, Take care, left, under the enthufiafm of hu- 

 manity, you do not, at the expence of your neighbour, 

 and perhaps of your country, inconfiderately give up 

 your advantages, without the leaft chance of benefiting 

 or improving the condition of thofe, whom I moft 

 heartily join with you in calling our brethren. 



After fo many volumes which, within a few years, have 

 been written on this fubjedl, it may appear great pre- 

 fumption in me to offer my poor opinion : but I have made 

 it a rule, among the various fubje6ls I have mentioned, 

 to dwell on thofe only to which I have been an eye-wit- 

 \ nefs ; and which I am convinced there are few others in 

 this country that have feen and fo accurately obferved. 

 1 have feen the mofl cruel tortures inflidied, for fiibmit- 

 ting to the delire of a hufband, or for refufing the fame 

 to a libidinous mafter, and more frequently a rafcally over- 

 feer : nay, even on the mofl innocent, from the falfe ac- 

 cufations of a luflful woman, prompted alone by jealoufy. 

 1 have feen in other places, negro flaves as well treated 

 as the moft favoured fervants in England; and as I have 

 feen fome failors, foldiers, and apprentices, mofl tyran- 

 nically treated when under the command of ill-tempered 

 defpots, I mufl pronounce the condition of fuch not to be 

 envied even by negroes. If, therefore, fo much depends on 

 the difpofition or humour of thofe who are exercifing a 

 , ^ , permanent 



