636 Retrofped? of Demeftic Literature.—Political Economy, Se. 
Jate; altogether ftrangers to the crimes 
and vindictive aéis of the Revolution? 
Surely it is a circumfance which of 
itélf would afford no unreafonabie 
ground of fufpicion againft the Direc- 
tory, that they fhould be fufpetied by 
the:r own countrymen, by the Parifians 
themfelves; and the total filence of the 
furviving plenipotentiary is a very ftrong 
ccerroborating faét. Indeed, that the Di- 
reCtory were atually guilty of this enor- 
mous crime, there is every reafon to be- 
heve. As we have not rcom to bring for- 
ward the evidence in this place, we refer 
our readers to the account given ef the 
affair by Mr. Adolphus, in his Hiflory of 
France, . -' 
A fourth volume of thefe Memoirs has 
juf# been publifhed at Amfterdam, fo that 
an Englifh tranflation is i all probability 
preparing for the prefs. 
POLITICAL ECONOMY, POLITICS, AND™ 
FINANCE. 
«© Letters on the Cultivation of the Ota- 
heite Cane; the Manufadciure of Sugar 
and Rum; the Saving of Melaffes; the 
Care and Prefervation of Stock 5 with the 
Attention and Anxiety which are due to 
Slaves, Gc. &c.; by CLEMENT CaIneEs, 
Ejg.” 
Since the appearance of thefe Letters, 
the abclition of the flave trade has been 
veted in the Houfe of Commons of Great 
Britain. We fhould be forry to infpire 
any groundlefs apprehenfiens ; but, to be 
honett, our hepes'and cur fears are almof 
in a ftate of equipoife. The peor Afri- 
can had once before a promife, under the 
fanéticn of the Houfe of Commons, that 
this trafic in his flefh and blood fhould be 
abolifhed. That very Houfe of Commozs, 
howev:r, notwithfanding the ardent, the 
impreflive, the imploring clequence of 
Mr. Pitt, that fie ady and CE ve friend to 
the avoliiion, dic, in the year 1795, Vic- 
Jate their folemn promife, by declaring 
that the t ade fhould be continued! Mr. 
Pitt 1s again at the bead of adminifiraticn ! 
The vote, however, is once more. pefied, 
aid it is ihe lefs neceflary to enlarge on 
the fubj-& of thefe Letters, which do in- 
finite honour to the feelings, and huma- 
ny, and good fenfe of Mr. Caines. We 
cannot refifi the temptation of tranferibing 
th foilowing paflage from a fpeech ad. 
Greficd’ by the author to the Geneial AG 
fembly of the Leewaru Hiands: ‘¢ I have 
direcied, Mr. Speaker, four Ajricans, 
purchafes lately made by myfelf, to be 
brought here to-day. .IT be firft is a huge 
fkeleton, who lives in my kitchen, and 
wallows in victua:s; but neither plenty 
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nor excefs can put an ounce of flefh upon 
his bones. The fecoid has never raifed 
his head, or fmiled, fince I purchafed him. 
There he is. Melancholy has marked 
him for her own. The third is a woman ; 
the fickly vitim of cbftru€tion, created 
during her paffige, lett the value of her 
purchafe fhould be diminifhed by the 
courfe of nature being manifeft! Thefe, 
and experience which the grave now co- 
vers, determine me never again to Ccon- 
tribute to this hcrrid trade. So may the 
great Father of Mankind profper thofe 
who are deareft to me, fo may he bie!s 
my ¢hildren, as T here fwear I will not ! 
The fourth, Mr. Speaker, is a boy; his 
father, who had a numerous offspring, and 
but little cloaths to give them, fold him 
in exchange for a piece of cloth. Youth, 
thoughtlefinefs, and the frame of an infant 
Hercules render him fuperior to the evils 
of flavery. If this fhocking trade is fill 
perfevered in, it fhould then be confined 
to children who are too young and too in- 
confiderate to brood on the reverfe which 
has overtaken them. But, no; it muft 
be abolifhed. Thougl: the father fold 
him, who knows the pangs that the ma- 
ther felt at their feparation! Children 
leave behind them miferies and regret 
equal to what the grown exile carries with 
lim and in his bofom. This trade muft, 
Mr. Speaker, be abolifhed, unlefs every 
tender fibre of the human heart is to be 
explored, that tor.ure may be lodged in 
it.”’ Annexed to. this volume is the 
profpeétus of a werk, defigned to be pub- 
lifed by fubftription, entitled “* The 
Hiftory of the General Council and Gene- 
ral Affembly of the Leeward Iflands,” 
“<The French confidered as a Military 
Nation, & ce.” 
Thefe pages are addrefied by 2 true 
patrict to the Navy, Army, and Volun- 
teers of the United Empire. The object 
is to fhew, that for many of the victories 
which the French have gained, they are 
indebted to other circumftances than ex- 
traordinary valour and perfeverance. — 
Many blunders were committed by their 
officers, as well by the officers in the 
combined army ; the former, however, 1t 
mui be acknowledged, were more quick 
in profiting by thofe of the latter, than 
the latter were in profitigg by thofe of 
the former. 
The Chevalier De Tinsgau has pub. 
lithed a colle&tion of tables, exhibiting 
‘© A Statiftical View of France.” , 
Thefe tables, it appears, were drawz, 
up in the year 1801, by order of the go- 
vernment, and under the direction of M, 
Abria © 
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