[6] Vide the attack on George Thompson and John Bright, in the Standard of Saturday, May 18.[7] Vide Report of Select Committee on West Coast of Africa. Part I.[11] Vide Colonial Gazette, Nov. 1842.[12a] Bandinell, p. 222.[12b] Ibid. p. 161.[20] Philanthropist, No. XI. page 163.[21] Vide the Supplement to the Spectator newspaper, April 15th, 1843.[23] Vide “Antigua and the Antiguans.”[24] Vide “The Effect of an Alteration in the Duties on the Condition of the People of England and the Negro Slave, considered. By Macgregor Laird, Esq.”[26a] This is no mere supposition. At a public meeting held since this pamphlet was written, consisting of West India Proprietors, the Earl of Harewood stated that he had latterly been losing twelve hundred a-year by his estate in Jamaica, and that in consequence, he had ordered it to lie fallow.[26b] Vide Jamaica, by the Rev. Mr. Philippo.[31] Porter’s Progress of the Nation, vol. iii.[35] The following report of a speech by Mr. Cobden, in Covent-garden Theatre, is taken from the League of October 14th. The honourable gentleman said:—“What, then, is the pretence set up? Why, that we must not buy slave-grown sugar. I believe that the ambassador from the Brazils is here at present, and I think I can imagine an interview between him and the President of the Board of Trade. His excellency is admitted to an interview with all the courtesy due to his rank. He delivers his credentials; he has come to arrange a treaty on commerce. I think I see the President of the Board of Trade calling up a solemn, earnest, pious expression, and saying, You are from the Brazils, we shall be happy to trade with you, but we cannot conscientiously receive slave-grown produce. His excellency is a good man of business (most men are, who come to us from abroad to settle commercial matters.) So he says, ‘Well, then, we will see if we can trade together in some other way. What have you to sell us?’ ‘Why,’ returns the President of the Board of Trade, ‘cotton goods; in these articles we are the largest exporters in the world.’ ‘Indeed!’ exclaims his excellency. ‘Cotton did you say? where is cotton brought from?’ ‘Why,’ replies the minister, ‘hem—chiefly from the United States;’ and at once the question will be, ‘Pray, is it free-grown cotton, or slave-grown cotton?’ Now I leave you to imagine the answer, and I also leave you to picture the countenance of the President of the Board of Trade. Ay, these very men, and their connexions, who are loudest in their appeals against slave-grown sugar, have landing warehouses in Liverpool and London, and send their sugar to Russia, to China, to Turkey, to Poland, to Egypt; in short, to any country under the sun.”[38] Economist, Sept. 16, 1843.