VOTfAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 1^.1 



fuing this method that he could accomplifli 

 his views; for any other would have made 

 them mifcarry, and have even expofed him. 

 Men proof againft corruption are very un- 

 common. Civilifed nations, do not flatter 

 yourfelves : in this refpe^: you have no 

 advantage over favages* 



The greater part of your orators imitate 

 with more art, but perhaps with fewer ex- 

 ternal appearances of deceit, this Rabefin, 

 who cunningly fold, for his own benefit, 

 thofe interefts of which he was believed to 

 be a moft zealous defender. Would not one 

 have fuppofed him to be abfolutely averfe to 

 the treaty of commerce, which the agents 

 of the Eaft-India Company wiflied to form 

 with the merchants of Foulepointe ? And 

 after the fudden and imexpe£ted conclufioa 

 of this treaty, could any but John Harre, 

 and the other chiefs, be reafonably accufed 

 of having promoted it, becaufe a very rich 

 R prefent 



