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penny on their own account during their 
ferviiude; and, when that is expired, they 
are as much in debt as when they firft fold 
themfelves, and are compelled by threats, 
er a gaol, to renew their indentures.* 
Same have, in this manner, as I have been 
told, ferved all their hives; and I once was 
told by a man that he himiclf had actually 
ferved twenty years for five guineas, his 
paflage money. The profits whch are 
derived from the ** White Slave Trade,’ 
will be obvious to every perfon, whea he 
knows that a dollar a day is the loweft 
wages for a labourer who only breaks 
ftones on the highway to mend it. So that 
one of thefe poor deluded wretches, allow- 
ing him to have indented himfeif for five 
years, to work fix days in a week, at the 
very loweft rate of labour; will have paid 
for his paffaze, the enormous fum of 35ol, 
fierling (wanting a fraftion) for his paf- 
fage, deducting only for food and cloth. 
ing+. ‘The common wages of a woman, 
and of a lad of 10 or 12 years of age, are 
the fame, one dollar a week and the maf- 
ter to find them in viétuals ; fo that either 
of thefe will hava paid 58]. fterling and a 
fraétion, dedu&ting only for clothes. 
From thefe facts ‘and this calculation, 
which are indifputable, it is clear that if 
a labourer, inftead of figning his death 
warrant, (I mean his indentures) gives 
his note to the Captain for the five guineas, 
he may pay it and live well (for that elafs 
of people may live very well in the United 
States, if they are at liberty to work for 
whom they pleafe,) in the courfe of three 
months. Whilft F was in Philadelphia, 
ene of thefe agents was fent over by a 
houfe there, to the North of Ireland, and 
he returned with a full flaved thip. The 
poor fellows, after they had been on fhore 
fome few days and found things to be 
very different from what they had been re- 
prefented to them by the agent, grew furi- 
ous ; paraded the ftreets and eniered moft 
of the taverns to find bm, fwearing, if 
they could catch him, they would murder 
him, to teach him how to cheat folks ano- 
ther time! He had, however, left the 
* There are of courfe exceptions, and I 
am ready to believe there have been more 
inftances of mafters, who have not aéted in 
this inhuman manner, than of thoie who 
have; but inftances of the latter have been 
innumerable. : 
+ Say zo]. a year, or rool. for the whole, 
which isa large allowance, as any farmer in 
England will acknowledge, 
qT Say 31. a year, 
Gilianea. 
~[Nov. Te 
town and hid himfelf at his employer’é 
feat in the country. 
As I look upon this information as 
doing juftice to injured humanity, it will 
be right, at the fame time, not to do in- 
jufice to the Americans in general, who 
all, except thofe who drive this iniquitous 
‘ white flave trade,” defpife it equally as 
thofe amoneft us, who are not Guinea- 
merchants, deteft the inhuman trafic im 
black flaves. I am, Sir, your’s &c. 
London, Oober 2, 1804. 
For the Monthly Magazime, 
COLIANA. 
Confifting of SELECTIONS -of the curtous 
Ms. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM aud lately 
opened. . 4 
WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 
‘or HE picture found near the altar in 
. Weltminfier Abbey, about three 
years ago, was of King Sebert; I fawit, 
and it was well preferved, with fome 
others worfe, but they (the Dean and 
Chapter) have feolithly buried it again 
behind their new altar-piece, and fo they 
have avery fair tomb of Anne of Cleve, 
clote to the altar, which they did not 
know, till I told them whofe it was; 
though her arms are upon it, and though 
there is an exact plate of it in Sandford. 
They might at leatt have cut out the por- 
traits, and removed them. with the tombs 
to confpicuous fi‘ uations ; but though this 
age is grown fo antiquarian, it has not 
gained a grain more of fenfe in that walk. 
Witnefs as you inftance in Mr. Grofe’s 
Legends ; and in the Dean and Chapter 
reburying the crown, robes, and ornaments 
of Edward I. There would, furely, have 
been as much piety in preferving them in 
their treafury, as in configning them agaim 
to decay. Idid not know, that the falva- 
~ tion of robes and crowns depended on re- 
ceiving chriftian burial. At the fame 
time, the Chapter tranferefs the Prince’s 
will, like all their antecefiors; for he or-. 
_ dered his tomb to be opened every year 
or two years, and receive a new ferecloth 
or pall, but they boaf now of having in- 
clofed him fo fubftantially, that his afhes 
cannot be viclated again. 
It was the prefent Bithop-Dean who 
fhewed me the pi€tures and Anna’s tomb, 
and confulted me on the new altar-piece. 
I advifed him to have a light oftangular 
canopy, like the crofs at Chichefter, placed 
over the table or altar itfelf, which would 
have given dignity to it 5 efpecially-if ele- ~ 
y vated 
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