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where no machinery is ufed, and efpe- 
ctally the chemical and philofophical prin- 
ciples upon which the effects depend. 
As, for inftance, in the arts of engraving, 
the preparaticn of ores for being {melted, 
and of animal and vegetable fubftances for 
being manufaciured, and in the princi- 
ples of fubftantive and adjective colours; 
the ufe and application of mordants or 
Intermediates in the art of dying. 
The plan of thefe leétures is entirely 
new, and the execution difplays the moft 
unwearied attention, the moit extenfive 
enquiry, and the greateft mechanical fkill 
on the part of the profeffor. To Mr, 
Farifh, we are indebted for a yaluable 
addition to the means ef information in 
the Univerfity; and we truft, that by 
exciting in young men, already fraught 
with the principles of maihematics and 
philofophy, an habit of attention to the 
moft uieful inventions of ingenious men 
in all parts of the kingdom, he will greatly 
enlarge their {phere of amuiement and 
inftruction, and eventually do an effential 
{ervice to the community. 4, 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
SER, 
TF you: have room for the following 
anecdcte, it may, perhaps, entertain 
your readers. - 
Some of the cafts of the Hindoos, it 
is well known, never kill any animal 
themfelves, and frequently redeem them 
from, others, in order to give them their 
lives and liberties. This cuftom (fays 
the traveller Pietro della Valla) was one 
day the occafion of an odd miftake in the 
market at Ormuz. <A Chriflian, drefied 
in the Hmdoo habit, went up to a fowler, 
who had got fome live birds in a cage, 
and purchafed them, with the intention 
of making his dinner of them. The fell- 
er, taking him for a native, immediatcly 
upon receiving the money, fet cpen. the 
cage door, and let the birds fly. The 
Chriftian, feeing his dinner upon the 
wing, began to vociferate; and com- 
plained, that he was cheated. In hort, 
when the miftake was difcovered, the 
poor fowler was compelled to return the 
money, and left to catch his birds again, 
how he could. . 
Your’s, &c. 
A FIRE-SIDE TRAVELLER. 
Cannibality ...A Defence of the Slave Trade. 
t 
[May 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANNIBALITY, 
OR THE RIGHT OF DEVOURING OUR 
FELLOW CREATURES, 
ON THE PRINCIPLES BY WHICH THE 
WEST - INDIA MERCHANTS AND 
PLANTERS ASSERT THEIR CLAIM 
OF ENSLAVING THE NEGROES. 
HOULD the CannrBats of Owhy- 
hee, cr other Indian iflands, be re- 
proached with reeding on human flefh, it 
is likely, they would at firft affeét to ridi- 
cule thofe who expreffed their abhorrence 
of the praétice, as arifing merely from 
the fqueamifhnefs of their ftomachs, or 
ignorance of the delicioufnefs of the food ; 
and infift, that if once they knew its 
richnefs, they would never lofe the re- 
lith or it, but be as ready to feaft there- 
on, as other people: but as the elamour 
grew more loud and general, the jocula- 
rity of their language would change into 
the loweft fcurrility and inveétive; they 
would charge thefe who differed from 
them’ im fentiment and tafte, with injuf- 
tice, cruelty, hypocrify, and fanaticiim ; 
and when they found this was of no avail 
in fliffling the outcry againit the inhuma- 
nity of their conduét, they would gravely 
undertake tojuftify the right, expediency, 
and neceffity, cf devouring their fellow 
creatures, formewhat in the following 
manner : 
ft, They would refolve and maintain, 
that man-eating was not.exprefsly forbid 
by the religion of Owhyhee, humane 
and excellent as it is’;,and that, therefore, 
it is divinely lawful. That, in faét, it 
was allowed by the founder thereof, and 
fanétioned by the great God himfelf, as 
has been clearly fhown by the prieft Har- 
rifboo*, who, having been mitiated in 
two or three religious fyftems, muft be 
fuppofed to know fomething about reli- 
gion, 
2dly, That the eating our fellow crea- 
tures does not violate the great principle 
of morality, eftablifhed by the religion of 
Owhyhee, of vot doing to another what one 
would not have done to onefelf ; as it was 
well-known, the people of Owyhee were 
as ready to be eaten by, as to eat their 
fellow creatures. 
3dly, That CANNIBALITY, or man- 
Ea 

* An Ecclefiaftic, formerly a Romifh prieft, 
of Liverpool, who has written a book in jufti- 
fication of the Slave Trade, as being agreeable 
to the law of God, fe 
eating 
JUSTIFIED 
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