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feverely whipped and to inceffantly persecuted for refusing his daughter to a manager of eftate, upon the plea that he was, from her early youth, unripe for love, and that he had designed her, at a more advanced age, for a young man of his own colour, who was his friend, and attached to his daughter. A fellow who had the management of an estate in the inland, is said, when peevish from the gout to have ordered a negro-boy, as he was lying down, to brush.

*There is a law in Barbadoes which is a disgrace to human nature. "If any negro or other slave under punishment by his master, or his order for running away, or any other crimes or misdemeanors towards said matter, unfortunately shall suffer in life or member, no person whatever shall be liable to any fine; but if any man shall of wantonness, or only of bloody-mindedness, or cruel intention, willfully kill a negro, or other slave of his own, he shall deliver into the public treasury fifteen pounds sterling, and not be liable to any other punishment or forfeiture for the same." Laws of Barbadoes, Act 329.

+ Reader attend to the hand of Heaven which was palpably raised for the punishment of this profligate villain, and if ever thou haft committed an act of injustice or tyranny against any of thy fellow-creatures, know that thy crime can only be expiated by repentance, or by retribution, here or hereafter. This man, whole name was Thomson or Thompson, left the estate on which he lived soon after the persecution of this negro for refusing his daughter to his peevish and damnable lust, and entering into a privateer, accumulated in a short time the sum of a thousand pounds. He returned to the West-Indies, and quickly having consumed his money in riot and debauchery, he was seized with a disorder the consequence of his intemperance. As he lay dying in a tavern, with what is called a Corona Veneris upon him, and putrid before his death, there were some gamesters in a near chamber to him, who disregarding his situation were rattling the dice-box, and he was at last unlamented and almost unattended thrown into a hole like a dead dog. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, faith the Lord." St. Paul's Episles.

Brush the flies from his face, and to have threatened him with thirty nine lashes for every fly that should touch him. The consequence is said to have been what we should naturally suppose, that in a hot country where flies are numerous, a great many settled upon the face of this scoundrel and inexorable tyrant, and the boy was almost whipped to death.

Sir Hans Sloane, in his history of Jamaica, says, "Punishments for crimes of slaves are usually for rebellions burning them, by nailing them down on the ground with crooked sticks, on every limb, and then applying the fire by degrees from the feet and hands, burning them gradually up to the head, whereby their pains are extravagant; for crimes of a lesser nature gelding, or chopping off half the food with an axe. These punishments are suffered by them with constancy. -For negligence, they are usually whipped till they are raw, some put on their skins pepper and salt, to make them smart; at other times their masters will drop melted wax on their skins, and use several very exquisite torments."

There are perhaps, through the prevalence of this custom, ten thousand murders or more committed every year in the West India islands belonging to the various nations of Europe; without reckoning the various thousands of negroes, who are destroyed, when the African trade is not interrupted, in the passage from Africa to these islands, and in the seasoning them to the climate and manners of the West-Indies. There are then thousand or more negroes who fall sacrifices every year to hunger and oppression, who have their lives shortened by the want of proper sustenance and by unkind treatment. If we keep a slave, and do not allow him food enough to support him, or time to procure food enough for his