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more than a name ; and fubjedts will, with pleafure, fulfil chap. 

 their limited talk: then, and not till then, will population 

 fufSciently encreafe for the neceflary work, and the exe- 

 crable Guinea trade be totally abolifhed, which is now too 

 frequently carried on with barbarity and unbounded ufur- 

 pation. Then the mafter will with pleafure look on his 

 fable fubja5ts as on his children, and the principal fource 

 of his happinefs, while the negroes will blefs the day 

 their anceftors did firft fet foot on American ground. 



Having thus, according to my opinion, pointed out 

 the way, and the only way (if well confidered) to redrefs 

 the grievances of this and many other colonies, I would 

 alfo recommend to planters and overfeers in general, to 

 perufe with attention a fmall work, entitled " Letters to 

 " a young Planter ; or Obfervations on the Management 



of a Sugar Plantation : to which is added, the Planter's 

 " Calendar. Written on the Ifland of Grenada, by an old 

 " Planter," and publifhed in London in 1785, 8vo. price 

 One Shilling and Sixpence, and fold by Strachan. 



Let them next take an example by that incomparable 

 woman Mrs. Godefroy^ Mr. 'Thomas P aimer ^ and a few 

 others, who confider their flaves as their fellow-creatures, 

 without paying the fmalleft regard either to their paga- 

 nifm or complexion ; and who increafe both their wealth 

 and their happinefs by their humanity. — I will now once 

 more proceed wdth my narrative. 



On the i6th, being invited to dine with his excellency 

 the governor, I laid before him my collection of draw- 



3 A 2 ings, 



