The rest JAS ZARNA in those who deserted the cause a is Rvcon Preraking, i resorted to the infamons oche à ne sovocatis hair a deep impression on Mr. Sharp's Lihavaints of Grand Town, in the Province 11th November, 1789. • Cu the 2006 Cay hot I received, by the hands of Thomas Malady, letters 102 your color gas, Mr. Lucas, and a letter from Mrs. Lucas in the name of the holes of Scra Leone; and also letters from Messrs. James Reid, John Cambridges, ad John Homan; to all of whom I request you to return my thanks. "It gives me great concern to find, by these letters, that Mr. Facitus, Captain Estwick, and Mr. Collins, have deserted the Province of Freedom, in order to enter into the Slave Trade. By the laws of the settlement, they have forfeited, of course, every right and claim they had to any share in it; and I It appears by this address, that the name of Granville Town had been given to the first settlement, as well as to that which was afterwards formed with the assistance of Mr. Falconbridge. hope you will be careful that none of them be ever permitted to return, without a very earnest acknowledgment of repentance. "After having, with indefatigable labour, for above twenty-two years, and at a great expense, asserted and maintained the glorious principles and foundations of the English Law (and having thereby, through the blessing and providence of God, prevented slavery from taking root in England)-and after having also obtained from Government a tacit permission to plant the same noble privileges even in Africa itself, that the new settlement might be truly deemed a Province of Freedom;-after such a series of labour and expense, as well as of providential success, (the occasion obliges me to repeat it), your sincere Friend, who hopes for your happy and profitable establishment, must necessarily be exceedingly jealous of any deviation from the law of natural right and justice in the Province of Freedom, as men have no right, without these, even to hope for God's blessing. Let me, therefore, exhort you to preserve exact discipline in your militia, and a regular rotation of watch and guard service, that you may be able to arrest and punish every refractory member of your community; and that you hold frequent courts, to assert the laws of common right and justice, and more especially against every person who shall have presumed to sell a slave on shore within the bounds of the settlement, or to retain any person as such therein. Nevertheless, be courteous and kind to all strangers that come to the settlement, even though you know them to be slave-dealers or slave-holders, provided they do not offend your laws during their stay. What is done beyond your boundaries you cannot help or prevent, except the offenders belong to your community; neither must you interfere with others in the least, except by kind and friendly warnings of God's impending vengeance against oppressors; and this only when you have any fair opportunities of mentioning the subject, without giving personal offence. But with respect to your late members, Messrs. Tacitus, Estwick, and Collins, and more especially Mr. Henry Demane (who, I am informed, is now a great man on the Bulam shore, and a dealer in Slaves!), warn them, from me, of the horrors and remorse which must one day seize those authors and abettors of oppression who do not save themselves by a timely repentance. Remind Mr. Henry Demane of his own feelings under the horrors of slavery, when he turned his face to the mast of the ship (into which he was trepanned by his wicked master), and formed a resolution, as he afterwards confessed, to jump overboard that very night, rather than submit to a temporary slavery for life; but he is now in danger of eternal slavery! Remind him, also, of the joy he felt when he saw two men, sent these Nai at were actually who pluck off Dow Jones; who also eat the NONI Puan; and they break their and as fish within the cauldron." carow a lower the six men that were carried of 1) Men and has the captain for the outrage. However, Pink & ante careful not to interfere in the least with any vas of your territory; and be sure to maintain a friendly རྟRi།ལེན་རིནས ༣་༢ ཁག༨༠་༦ ༣ས་ » in ad te aoghovuring factories, and more especially with ky do the King of Rohanna's people, Bance Island, &c.; and facit di gkyunca w in musters of ships, about the fees for anchorage and watering...... I have to authority to interfere, but am only anxious that you may avoid disputes, ad sebit to lose your right in this matter, rather than contend for it, if it be retused. It is a point of public consequence, which Government will probably take into consideration in due time.-James Crane and George Stephenson, who, with two others of your settlers (Banks and Chilcot), were clandestinely carried off by Captain Campbell, and narrowly escaped being sold by him at Martinico, are now here, with their wives, and hope to find an opportunity soon of returning: at present they are supported at my expense. Chilcot, who was also on my list, has behaved very ill, so that I think it would be dangerous to the welfare of the settlement to permit so desperate a man to return to the Province of Freedom; where, if your Public Assembly acts consistently with duty, men must be free from vice as well as slavery. Be pleased to acquaint Mrs. Lucas, and the ladies of the settlement, that I have made earnest inquiry after the Rev. Mr. Fraser, and have not yet been able to find where he is; but as soon as I do, I will take care to procure a proper register of all the marriages. "I had great disappointment by Captain Taylor's not fulfilling his contract for supplying live cattle, and still more by your giving him a certificate of your having received from him goods to the value of forty-seven bullocks, for which I thought myself obliged to pay him. Government has reimbursed the money, and paid me also for the presents made to King Naimbanna for the re-purchase of the land, according to your certificate; and I have deducted from these allowances of Government the 200l. which I before received to procure cattle, and received only the balance. Thus you have lost the opportunity of having cattle, by your imprudence in giving a certificate of having received goods instead of cattle. "I am exerting myself as much as possible, to engage several respectable merchants and gentlemen to form a Company, in order to carry on an honourable trade with the coast of Africa; and I have at last great hopes of success. "With sincere wishes and prayers for your welfare and happiness, your affectionate friend," &c. &c. In conformity with the statement at the conclusion of this letter, Mr. Sharp, in the beginning of the following year (1790), printed a public notice of his proposal for the formation of the intended Company (of St. George's Bay), in a short Account of the "Free English Territory in Africa;" giving a description of the district purchased by the English Government, and its natural advantages, and also of the nature of the purchase, "by which," he says, all the free customs and rights of the English Common Law must of course immediately take place there, and become (as in England) the most valuable inheritance of the free settlers." But "the present settlers" several ships, with a considerable number of Blacks, sailed from England for Africa, in February 1787, with a design to make a settlement on the windward coast. We have been earnestly waiting for, and expecting, particular authentic information of the success of this expedition, and the place and circumstances of the settlement; but have not received any to this day. It is, indeed, reported from Africa, by way of the West Indies, that those Blacks have arrived there from England; and that a tract of land, twenty miles square, has been procured for them, near the mouth of the river Sierra Leone, and that the settlement is going on. But we have contradictory reports of the success of it. "All this, Sir, is a lengthy introduction to the following request,-That you would please to inform me, Whether such a tract of land is procured, and on what conditions? Whether the Blacks who settle on it have the fee of the land? Under what government they are; whether British, or their own, by a particular civil constitution formed for them, to be executed by themselves, or some English gentlemen who do for that end reside among them? Whether there is any provision made to maintain and propagate religious knowledge among them, and others who may live in their neighbourhood? Whether the settlers have behaved well, and prospered, since they began; and what progress they have made? Finally, whether the Blacks in New England, who have been educated and habituated to industry and labour, either on lands or as mechanics, and are hereby prepared to bring forward such a settlement better, I believe, than any other Blacks that can be found-whether these Blacks can have any part of those lands to settle themselves upon, and on what terms; and what encouragement and assistance might they probably have? "I am, Sir," &c. &c. In the reply to this letter will be found the further progress of the settlement. G. S. to the Rev. Mr. Samuel Hopkins, Newport, Rhode Island. "Reverend Sir, "Leadenhall Street, 25th July, 1789. "Some little time after your letter came to my hands, I received an account respecting the new settlement at Sierra Leone, so very discouraging, that I began to be doubtful whether I ought to communicate to you the same invitation for the Blacks in America to go to Sierra Leone, which I had sent some time before to Philadelphia and New York. I received such alarming intelligence of a conspiracy, stirred up by the slave-traders to cut off the settlement, that I |