864 Striéfures on Mifs Wilhams’s Memoirs of Wadftrom. [December, 
various interruptions, occafioned by wait- 
ing for promifed communications, and 
other caufes, and many confequent har- 
_vaffing efforts to keep up with the diligent 
and excellent printers*, the real compiler 
finifhed the work on the 27th of Auguft 
1795, and it was publifhed in September 
of the fame year. The title-page of the 
firft part is marked 17943 that of the fe- 
cond, 179§. At page 292, are the Pro- 
ceedings ** at a general meeting of the 
proprietors of the Sierra Leone Company, 
the 26th of March, 1795; and perhaps 
later dates may be found in the work. 
3dly, The work in queftion is not an 
octavo volume, but a fplendid quarto ; 
the contents of which would fill two large, 
or three moderate, volumes of the ottavo 
form. , 
4thly, But the moft material error re- 
mains to be noticed—lIn owe fenfe the ac- 
complifhed writer ftates rightly, that Mr. 
Wadftrom publifhed the work ; for it was 
written and publifhed in his name, and he 
was to defray the expence. But ‘‘ infor- 
mation refpecting his African expedition,” 
and his own ‘* important obfervations on 
Colonization,’ form not a great part of 
the contents; nor nearly fo interefting a 
part, as the materials communicated to him 
by Mr. Alderman Le Mefurier, Dottor 
Lettfom, and Colonel Bolts; and which 
the real compiler took care to acknowledge 
in their proper places. Mr. Wadftrom, 
indeed, contributed little that was new 
and interefting to the contents of the work; 
lefs, all things confidered, to its execution ; 
and, as for the expence—it has, ina great’ 
meafure, pafled to the accompt of defperate 
debts. ‘The truth is, Sir, that I compiled 
_ the Effay on Colonization, and would have 
claimed it long ago, had I not entertained 
hopes of being paid the balance due to me 
by Mr. Wadftrom, who, I was inform- 
ed, had engaged in a manufactory of pot- 
tery at Paris, and was in a fair way to 
fucceed+. Any attentive reader of the 
within this kingdom.” —See Long’s Hiftory of 
Jamaica, vol. ii. p. 4933; and Archb. Tillot- 
Jon’s Thankfgiving Sermon for our deliver- 
ance by the Prince of Orange, preached Jan. 
31ft, 1689, from Ezra ix. 13, 14. 
* Mefirs. Darton and Harvey, in Grace- 
church-ftreet, whofe prefs is fuperintended 
by Mr. James Swan, to the entire fatisfaction 
of thofe who favour the houfe with their 
orders. 
+ My accompt for compiling the Effay on 
Colonization amounted to 2081. 10s. a {mall 
compenfation, even if it had been all paid, 
for fuch a piece of drudgery. Mr. Wadftrom 
book will perceive that this declaration 
cannot proceed from an inordinate defire of 
literary fame; and will believe me when I 
affure him, that it is made merely to pre- 
clude the charge of plagiarifm, in cafe E 
fhould have occafion to infert a part of its 
contents it fome other work. 
I fhould be juftified in extending a fimi- 
Jar claim to Mr. Wadftrom’s “* Obferva- 
tion on the Slave-Trade, &c. during 2 
Voyage in 1787 and 788,”" which I drew 
up from his papers, about the end of 
1788, or early in 1789; for I was very 
inadequately paid for that fhlort, but in- 
credibly laboricus, performance.—Had 
pay, indeed, been my chief objedt, I never 
foould have written any thing for Mr. 
Wadjirom, and according’y I had no con- 
cern whatfoever with any of his oiber pub- 
lications ; for none of them, but the two 
already mentioned, had-any immediate re- 
tation to that great and animatirg caufe, 
the Abolition of the Slave-Trade*. Myr. 
Waditrom’s «* Obfcrvations’’ contained 
a few facts concerning that traffic, chiefly 
as carried on by the French, and which, 
with a multitude of others, have been 
fince abundantly eftablifhed by other evi- 
dence. 
At this diftance of time, F cannot give 
any precife idea of the trouble and time 
his “‘ Obfervations’’ coft me; nor how far 
my labour was alleviated by an ingenious 
perfon, to me unknown, who had pre- 
ceded me in the attempt; but who aban- 
doned it, as I was told, from certain re- 
pulfive circumftances, one of which fhalk 
be prefently mentioned. But fuch was my 
general remembrance of the vexation £ 
endured with him and his pamphlet toge- 
ther, that I fhould not have undertaken 
the Effay on Colonization, had he at once 
developed his whole plan, and had he not 
prevailed on a certam able and attive 
Abolitionift, to fecond his propofal for the 

paid me $2]. ros. and gave me his note for 
the balance, 1261.—I wrote to him, earneftly 
requefting payment, by two Swedith gentle- 
man who were going to Paris, and who af- 
fured me they would deliver my letter into 
kis own hand. I alfo wrote to him by way 
of Hamburgh; but received no anfwer what- 
ever to either of my letters. 
* Mr. Wadftrom’s pamphlet. intitled *¢ A 
Plan for a Free Community,” &c. printed in 
1792, contains a few fentences about the 
Slave-Trade, exprefledin very general terms 
He publifhed one or two other little tra@s in 
London; but no confiderable work, as far as 
I ever underftood, except the Eflay on Colo- 
nization. 
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