ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a letter written by the author about the narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone. The author being earnestly solicited, by several friends, publishes the History of my Two Voyages to Africa, and having, with some reluctance, consented, he feel it incumbent on him to address this letter to them. On acquiting a tribute truth and candor demands, in support of what he have, necessarily, mentioned regarding the Directors behaviour to him. It is needless, Sir, to take a more distant retrospect of the subject matter, than to the time of their arrival from Sierra Leone, in 1791. If they will turn over to that period, and search into their personal behavior, as well as the Court of Directors, to Mr. Falconbridge then they will find it marked with repeated testimonies of approbation and applause, for the services they were pleased to say he had rendered the common interest and original views of the Company.