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ger, were crowned with no better success. His 
conduct continually reminds us of the intrepid 
courage of Captain Standish, the founder of the 
colony of New England, the invincible fortitude 
of Captain Smith, who planted Virginia, and the 
energy of that Benyowsky, who must be num- 
bered among the most extraordinary characters 
of his age, whether the variety and danger of his 
adventures, or the vigour and capacity of his 
mind, be considered. At his return to England, 
the Bulama Association, sensible of the value of 
these exertions, unanimously voted that a gold 
medal should be given to Mr Beaver, as a testi- 
mony of their sense of the ability, zeal, activityj, 
and perseverance, with which, under many diffi- 
culties, he had conducted the affairs of the co- 
lony. 
From the discovery of Western Africa by the 
Portuguese, to the latter part of the 18th cen- 
tury, the same iniquitous commercial principles 
continued to regulate the intercourse of white 
men with their sable brethren, to degrade the 
negro, and to disgrace the European. The im- 
mense edifice of slavery still continued to insult 
the eyes of the sons of freedom ; and, undeterred 
by the groans of anguish, the clanking of chains, 
and the echo of the whip that resounded through 
the pile, free men violated the liberty of which 
