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not the gout, six children, and a wife? O Heaven where art thou?

9. "You see that it is much easier to speak than to act. But we know how to separate good from evil; let us arm ourselves against vice, and act like a general in his camp, who ascertains the force and position of the enemy, and places advance guards to avoid surprize: let us act so even in the ordinary course of human life; and believe me, my friend, that a victory gained over passion, immorality and pride, is more deserving of a tedium than that which is obtained in the field of ambition and carnage."

1. ATTOBAH CUGOANO was born on the coast of Fantin, in the town of Agimaque; says that he was dragged from his country with twenty other children of both sexes, by European robbers, who, brandishing their pistols and sabres, threatened to kill them if they attempted to run away. They confined us, and soon I heard nothing but the changing of chains, the sound of the whip, and the cries of my fellow prisoners.

2. In this dreadful situation he was carried to Grenada and made a slave. But Lord Hoth, in his generosity, liberated him and carried him to England. He was there in 1788, in the service of Conway, the first painter to the Prince of Wales.

3. Piatoli, who during a long residence in London was particularly acquainted with Cugoano, then about forty years of age, and whose wife was an English woman, praises this African highly; and speaks in strong terms of his piety, his mildness of character, modesty, integrity, and talents.

4. At Grenada he saw the negroes lacerated by the whip, because instead of working, they went to church on Sundays. He saw others have their teeth broken, because they dared to suck the sugar cane. Being a witness to these cruelties, he paints the heart-rending spectacle of those poor Africans in a moving manner;

describing their being forced to bid a final farewell to their native soil--to fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, and children, and all that they hold dear: invoking Heaven, bathed in tears, and enclosed in each other's arms, giving the last embrace, and instantly torn asunder! This spectacle, says he, calculated to move the hearts of monsters, does not that of the slave dealer.

5. Cugoano published his reflections on the slave trade, and the slavery of the negroes, in English; but it has since been translated into French. He raised his voice to spread abroad the spirit of religion, and to prove by the bible, that the stealing, sale and purchase of men, and their detention in a state of slavery, are crimes of the deepest die.

6. After some remarks on the cause of the difference of colour in the human species, such as climate, soil, regimen, &c., he asks whether it is "more criminal to be black or white, than to wear a black or white coat: whether colour and bodily form give a right to enslave men. The negroes have never crossed the seas to steal white men. The European complains of barbarism, while their conduct towards negroes is horribly barbarous. To steal men, to rob them of their liberty, is worse than to plunder them of their goods."

7. "On national crimes, heaven sometimes inflicts national punishments. Besides injustice is sooner or later fatal to its author." This idea is conformable to the great plan of religion; and ought to be indelibly impressed on every human heart.

8. Cugoano makes a striking comparison between ancient and modern slavery; and proves that the last, which prevails among professing Christians, is worse than that among Pagans; and also worse than that among the Hebrews, who did not steal men to enslave them, nor sell them without their consent; and who put no fine on the head of a fugitive. In Deuteronomy, it is formally said, "Thou shalt not deliver up to thy master a fugitive slave, who, in thy house has sought an asylum."

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