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A calculation founded on the numeration of 1810 and 

 1820, gives (the rate of the increase =z 0,02611) at the end 

 of 1822, at least 1,623,000 slaves in the United States (See 

 above, pp. 140, and 369, and Sixteenth Report of the African 

 Institution, p. 324) j and at the end of 1824, at least 

 1,708,300. The free men of colour were, in 1820, more 

 than 238,000. In the two colonies of Demerara and Esse- 

 quibo, 71,180 slaves were computed in 1811 ; free men of 

 colour, 2980 ; whites 2871 ; total 77,131, Total population 

 at Berbice, 25,959, of which 550 whites, 240 free men of 

 colour, and 25,169 negro slaves. Total population of De- 

 merara, Essequibo, and Berbice for 1811, above 103,000, of 

 which more than 96,000 slaves. According to J. Van den 

 Bosch (Vol. ii, p. 114), there were at Demerara in 1814, 

 47,132 slaves; at Essequibo, 16,187; and at Berbice, 

 22,223 3 total 85,442 slaves. General Macaulay believed 

 the population of Demerara to be in 1823, 83,900, of which 

 77,400 slaves, 3000 free men of colour, and 3500 whites- 

 He admitted for Berbice, 25,430, of whom 23,180 slaves, 

 1500 free men of colour, and 750 whites. The official re- 

 gisters communicated by Mr. Wilmot, give for the colony of 

 Demerara in 1817, 77,867 slaves ; in 1820, 77,376 \ the 

 colony of Berbice in 1817, slaves 23,725; and in 1820, 

 23,180 slaves. It appears probable that the English, Dutch, 

 and French Guyanas now contain more than 236,000 slaves. 

 French Guyana reckoned in 1821, a total of 16,000, without 

 Indians ; namely, 12,000 slaves, 1000 whites, and 3000 free 

 men of colour. According to the official documents, it con- 

 tained (1st January 1824) 1035 whites, 1923 free men of 

 colour, 701 Indians, and 13,656 slaves ; total 1 7,315. The 

 number of blacks spread over the vast continent of Spanish 

 America, is so small (below 390,000), that, happily, they do 

 not form 2J per cent of the continental population. Salu- 

 tary changes are preparing in the condition of the slaves. 

 According to the laws that govern the new independent 



