ABSTRACT
The tyranny of the African Chiefs is in a great measure owing to the agency of Europeans, who flock to their Courts, and seduce them by bribery, and madden them by intoxication. In the year 1786 it’s enormities became the subject of general conversation, and in the following years petitions poured into parliament from various parts of the kingdom; requesting it s abolition. The bill for that purpose passed the House of Commons mangled and mutilated by the a mendicants of Mr. Dundas, and it has been dying ever since of a flow decline in the House of Lords. Then with our fleshly eye should we behold what even now Imagination ought to paint to us; instead of conserves, tears and blood, and for music, groanings and the loud peals of the lash.
