HAVING by incorrect statements, and the misrepresentations which have been above exposed, led astray the understandings, and raised expectations in the minds of his readers that can never be realized, the Reviewer, as if aware that something was wanting, proceeds to appeal to the passions, by recurring to the hacknied charge against the West Indies—the Slave trade.

“Free labour,” says he, “is at present so high in the West Indies, as to hold out an overwhelming temptation to import Slaves. It is well known that that detestable traffic is carried on at this moment, in spite of all that has been done to check it, to a greater extent, and under circumstances of greater barbarity than ever. Nor is it really possible to prevent this traffic by mere dint of restrictions.” The real question with regard to the East India Sugar question is, “whether the Slave trade shall be really and truly abolished? Whether we shall remove the present irresistible temptation to commit a crime we have made punishable by death. There is, in fact, but one way to put down West India Slavery, and that is by allowing the produce raised by comparatively cheap free labour to come into competition with that raised by Slaves. Bryan Edwards,” adds the Critic, “had no doubt concerning the practicability of ‘carrying Slaves into every island in the West Indies, in spite of the maritime force of all Europe. No man can hesitate a moment to pronounce that an attempt to prevent the introduction of Slaves into the West India Colonies, would be like that of chaining the winds, or giving laws to the ocean.’ (Edwards, vol. 2d. page 136). And therefore says, the Reviewer, we must not trust to Registry Laws, and such devices to prevent their importation.”