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insurrection and desolation, these new productions are likely 

 to be naturalized in Jamaica. 



Those French planters who are born in the West Indies, as- 

 similate easily with the English planters. The patriotism of 

 the soil is stronger than any hereditary or traditional allegi- 

 ance. The manners of the climate, the notions of feudality, 

 are common to both, and jar with the European catechism. 

 In Dominique, Martinique, and other islands, which have 

 been ceded to Great Britain, the Creole French are good sub- 

 jects, and form a faithful attachment for that metropolis which 

 purchases their commodities and supplies their wants. But 

 those French, who are natives of Europe, do not acquire this 

 common feeling with the British planters ; they are neither 

 welcome nor safe colonists. In Cayenne and in San Domingo, 

 many of these took part with the agitators, and sympathized 

 with the proclamations of Victor Hugues. The mischief done 

 in San Domingo is notorious. At Cayenne, the people of 

 color did not make common cause with the emissaries of jaco- 

 binism; the slaves could not read the eloquence of Brissot; and 

 when it came to the lot of the original incendiaries to be trans- 

 ported to these districts, which they had endeavoured to ino- 

 culate with the fever of rebellion, they found no employment 

 adapted for their talents, and less hospitality than a wiser phi- 

 lanthropy would have secured. Some of them, however, 

 have learned to cultivate land with the help of slaves, and may 



