OBSERVATIONS, OCCASIONED BY THE ATTEMPTS MADE IN ENGLAND TO EFFECT THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; SHEWING, The Manner in which NEGROES are treated IN THE BRITISH COLONIES IN THE WEST-INDIES: AND ALSO, SOME PARTICULAR REMARKS ON A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE TREASURER OF THE SOCIETY FOR EFFECTING SUCH ABOLITION, FROM THE REV. ROBERT BOUCHER NICHOLLS, DEAN OF MIDDLEHАМ, By G. FRANCKLYN, Esq. "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but confidereft not "Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye KINGSTON, JAMAICA, PRINTED. LONDON: REPRINTED AT THE Logographic Press, AND SOLD BY J. WALTER, No. 169, OPPOSITE BOND STREET, PICCADILLY M.DCC.LXXXIX. [PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND SIX-PENCE.] 500.22 1 THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. THE following pamphlet was originally printed in Jamaica; and the writer of it not being a candidate for the prize of literary fame, nor intending any thing more than to present the public with a fair account of the general treatment of the Negroes in that and the other British Sugar Colonies, did not think it necessary to affix his name; yet, having no defire to conceal it, he avowed himself, and was well known, and declared by the printer to be the author. Several copies of it were transmitted, not only by many of the principal planters to their friends and correfpondents, but by the Honourable the Committee of both Houfes of Legislature of the Island, appointed to correspond with their agent Stephen Fuller, Efq. 4 to diftribute to fuch gentlemen in England, to whom he might suppose the matters of information it contains might be useful. The fanction thus given to it by gentlemen so perfectly couverfant in the subject it treats of, and acquainted with the facts contained in it, will furely be confidered, by every reasonable and dispassionate perfon, as an indisputable testimony to the truth of the author's affertions. The fatisfaction which feveral gentlemen bere have been pleased to say they received from it, and the many enquiries after it, has induced the author to conSent to the reprinting it with his name, in hopes that it may assist in disabusing the public, which has been most shamefully imposed on by the misrepresentation of perfons grossly ignorant of the British West-India properties and proprietors. If it should be asked, from what authorities the author has taken his account of the quantity of land, and number of negroes, in Jamaica, it may be answered, the quantity of land appears from the geographical account of the island, which is 150 miles long, and, upon an av erage, about 40 broad, as well as from Mr. LONG's History of the Island. There is alfo annually 4 ১ annually published in Jamaica an Almanack and Regifter, in the nature of the Court Calendar published here; in that of the last year, an account of the land, negroes, &c. is given, of which the following is a mmary, viz, The Ifland is divided into three Counties, viz. Middlesex which 1 Acres of Land Plantations, Pens, &c. Sugar Estates No. of Negroes No. of Cattle Hogsheads of Sugar 305,235 312 922 92,000 75,000 29,000 672,616 296 505 68,300 30,000 34,000 1,522,149 332 532 97,000 76,500 67,000 Total 3,500,000 940 1959 257,300 181,500 130,900 PRE |