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xmy become sins of the nation ^ or , according to a justly admired poet , that War is a game which , were their subjects wise , Kings would not play at .
An account of the other sermon I must defer * and remain , Yours , &c . N . L , T .
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Public Feeling on ike Slave-Trade July 29 , 1814 , Sir , I am persuaded that you will never divert your pages from the important subjects which generally
occupy them to the entertainment of political discussions , however advantageous these , if welltimed -, and in a suitable place , may frequently become . There
is , however * one subject too long regarded as a merely political or rather commercial question which has , at length , in this country , assumed its proper and highly moral character . You will
expect that I am about to mention the African Slave Trade , the reviving horrors of which are now yery properly exposed to the public indignation , through our cities and villages ,
• From old Balerium to the northern Main . I was lately led to observe how the past century has improved the public knowledge and feeling upon this subject , by reading a well
worn pamphlet , dated June 30 , 1714 , and entitled , " The Assi . ^ ento Contract considered , as also the Advantages and Decay of £ he Trade of Jamaica and the iMnatation ^ with the Causes and ^ G ^ miequ ^ nces thereof * In sever al
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Letters to aMember of Parliament . " The Assiento , as you will recqf * lect , was an article Jn a British
treaty with Spain , at the close ot Queen Anne ' s reign . By this contract the subjects of Great Britain were allowed , for thirty years , the liberty of importing Negroes into the Spanish West
Indies , " to the number of at least 4800 yearly . With this lijnited privilege my author is extremely dissatisfied . He would have Great Britain monopolize the traffic , ami says , that " all that the persons , to whom , the settling of a contract
was left had to have advised was for us to require and derpand of King Philip , that the British nation should have been the only nation or people that should have supplied the Spanish West Indies
with Negroes / ' The neglect of such a satisfactory arrangement lie attributes to the influence ctf France , of which he is extremely jealous .
By this letter-writer it appears , that the Spaniards , had been supplied from Jamaica yearly , with three or four thousand Negroes , while there remained on % that
island a population immensely disproportionate , " the Neg ^ oes ^ J > e * ing upwards of 80 , 0 Q 0 and the white people not above 2000 . *' As a natural consequerice tb , eNe * groes are described as ^ pprjpptuajl subject of alarm and tc ^ !^ restrained only by mUiX ^ ry force . My author states , " thtii th $ . ' ^ tri - can Company , betwpn jt . 680 and 1688 , employed S 5 i 9 s R / g ^ beiitg 28 ships per annum , andr ^ liyerei into the plaatatipos ^^ gjS N £ f groe ? , b ^ ing 5 J ^ 5 > per agnjun ^ Jtjft goes oa to slateKtfye mpre ac ^ . y ^ n ^ ous res » l ^ a / i op £ nt ^ d ^ for which fee , is ^ aaft dvocate ^ and
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Public Feeling on tie Slave-Trade . 551
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/27/
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