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pre-eminent character on the roll of virtue 
and philanthropy. I fpeak of thefe people 
as I found them ; and from this knowledge 
I form an opinion, that fo far from their 
interrupting any fettlement of the nature I 
have before alluded to, they vrould hail the 
American, when they v/ere convinced of his 
juftice, as their friend, their proteftor and 
deliverer. 
I have before obferved, that on my arrival 
at the Cape, I found that fettlement in the 
hands of the Enghfli ; and as it is not im- 
probable but when that happy period arrives, 
v/hen the European nations lliall clofe the 
prefent fcene of human butchery, this fettle- 
ment may become apart of the Britifli em- 
pire, I iliall venture to defcribe the good 
Gonfequences that in all probability will arife 
to England from the poileffion of this fettle- 
ment and its dependencies. 
The Britifli at this time receive their to- 
bacco from America ; but they are fo wealthy 
and enterprifing a people, and fo intent on 
making fettlemicnts abroad, efpecially fuch 
as have the leaft tendency to improve their 
commerce, that it would be ridiculous to 
imagine, fo great a benefit as the cultivation 
of this article in the fouth of Africa, could 
eicape their notice. The inhabitants of the 
Cape, and the colonifts in general, entertain 
iircng prediledion in favour of the Britifli, 
an4}*the fegacity of the Englifh government 
fcon point out the means of perpetuat- 
