Of the late L-d Mr.

Mr. B-d.

WE believe he was very seriously attached to the cause of liberty; but it is a

little fingular, that a man whofe immenfe fortune, arose from the hands of flaves! fhould not have feen; that those flaves, to whom he gave neither food, nor raiment ; had a better right to petition, and to remonstrate against grievances &c. than his Lordship: we applaud and approve of his noble spirit; but at the fame time, let us suppose, that when he was going to St. James's with the remonftrance &c; fome of his own flaves had accofted him, at the Royal Palace Gate, in the following terms.

Most defpotic Master,

"WE have been deputed by upwards of fourteen hundred, men, women, and children, whom you call your flaves; and if labouring for you, from fun rifing to fun fetting, without being fed, cloathed; or rewarded in any shape, can be called flavery,

we are so, in the fullest extent of the word; deign to hear, most renowned fir; our wretched condition. Moft of us were taken prisoners of war in our own country; where we were fold to your agents, put into a great hole (many hundreds of us together) where we had neither light, nor fresh air; and where the heat of the country, and the effluvia, and excrements of our own bodies, made us fo miferable; that we looked for engines wherewith to put an end to our lives, and mifery; and many did fo; that after fome months confinement in this difmal hole; we, who survived; were brought into open air, and flattered ourselves, that we were going to be fet down, among our loft kindred, and countrymen; but alas! we foon found, that we had been removed over a spacious wide water, that we were never more to fee those to whom we are nearest allied by -blood, or loved; never more to behold our own native country! that we were to labour from morning 'till night; for a fet of creatures, exactly refembling ourselves; only,

that

that their outfide fkin is white, and ours black; and that, even under all these grievous reflections ; we were to be allowed only one day in each week (that which you call holy) to work for ourselves! in order to procure food, to enable us, the other fix; to work for you :: confider mafter, we beseech you to confider, that tho' our noses are flatter, and our lips thicker than yours are, we are in every other respect human creatures; endowed with the fame reason you are; we have the fame paffions, and the fame love for liberty which you have; and though we have not the fame degree of knowledge; we are equally capable of acquiring it, because we are told, *that* William Williams, one of our complection, being brought over from our country, when a child; and placed at Cambridge School; was esteemed, a man of equal un

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*He had a liberal Education and a good Fortune in Jamaica. He spent most of his Days in a Goal, and was Author of the Ballad, "Welcome Welcome Brother Debtor, &c."

derstanding, to any of the white men in this; who fo unjustly deprive us of our liberty, and who fo wantonly inflict on us the most severe bodily punifhments: Put us again we beseech thee, into that dreadful hole which firft conducted us from our own native country, and give us a chance; even under the horrors of that confinement, of once more, feeing our family, and our friends; and what is as dear to us, as it is to you; our native country: and do not, while thou art pleading the caufe of liberty for thyfelf; and thy own country; be fo unmindful of the men of other nations, whom the fame God created, on whom the fame fun fhineth, and whofe rivers and hills are loaded with that treafure, without which, you would be in as mean a condition, as we are."

Of Mr. A-n H-y.

AS we do not quarrel with a man for

his political principles; it must be allowed that Mr. H-y has fhewn himself a man of fpirit; and an active magiftrate.

Of S― R— L—.

MANY of thofe for whom he profeffed the utmost friendship, were as much difappointed as her G.

Of L-d C―e.

HIS Lordfhip first first married an old

woman.

Of L-y B-y.

HER Ladyfhip fecondly, married an old

man.

Of L-d B—t—n.

ONE of the moft accomplish'd noblemen of the age; his good fenfe and liberal education; taught him to know the world early in life; and his good spirits and great fortune, enable him to make a proper ufe of both.

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