This is tolerably well for one family, and only one of their protegés. Let us come to another family, the Leviathan of the band, who do not deal by thousands, but by hundreds of thousands. Mr ZACHARY MACAULEY, as Parliamentary returns shew us, is the factotum of every thing in Sierra Leone, and on the coast of Africa. The expenditure in and upon that establishment is admitted in a Parliamentary paper, published last year for the use of the Finance Committee, to exceed six millions sterling; and if the sum had been doubled, it would not have exceeded the truth. The commissions and the agencies for such sums may be estimated by those who dabble in the enormous national debt of Great Bri tain, but cannot be calculated accurately by individuals who are not accustomed to consider this or similar things. Mr Macauley is also "navy prize agent" for the African coast, and has his commission of 5 per cent on all sums paid as bounties for the capture of slaves. According to Parliamentary Paper, No. 399 of 1827 this country has paid, down to 1826, the enormous sum of L.484,344,6s. 8d. sterling, for that purpose; and the Finance Accounts shew us, that upwards of L.70,000 more have been paid since that period, besides the enormous sums which yet remain to be paid! The commissions on these at 5 per cent are easily calculated, but to these remain to be added the commissions derived from the proceeds of the sale of ships captured in the African slave trade, which are exceedingly great, but which no Parliamentary return that I have ever seen enables me even to approximate. Besides all these good things to himself, we find Mr Macauley's son, J. B. MACAULEY, one of the commissioners for bankruptcy in England, with an income, as I have heard, of L.1400 a-year!

No wonder, my Lord Duke, that all these individuals join in the cry against the West India Colonies, and turn up their eyes with contempt, and their noses with disdain, at the trifling remuneration which they could obtain in that quarter, while they can reach power, crowned with such emoluments, by constituting and supporting Englishmen and Englishwomen as slaves, and PROPERTY IN ABSOLUTE RIGHT, in New South Wales,

and the most abject, and helpless, and degrading of all slavery, under the mask of liberty, on the western coast of Africa. In that quarter fortunes are readily made out of John Bull's gullibility.

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Before concluding, it is necessary to turn to the impudent remarks of the black-hearted writer in the Westminster Review. This "blustering" bully, speaking in the name of the people of England, (what presumtion!) dares to denounce the British subjects in the West Indies as TERING PAUPERS," whom England supports on a " Pauper's list." The real" Pauper's list" of England, my Lord Duke, is, in one description or other, now become a lengthened and an awful roll; but let your Grace look at and into the periods of distress and calamity, which have of late years so frequently pressed heavily upon the people of Great Britain, and say when, and where, and how often, any one connected with the West Indies, their property and their commerce, at home or abroad, either applied to the hand of British charity for relief, or required it? I dare this "blustering" writer to contradict me, when I state, that on every occasion when distress visited the population of Great Britain, or the population of any other part of the British Empire, the West Indian prcprietors, and all those connected with the West India trade, were always amongst the foremost and the most liberal contributors to afford relief. Besides this personal charity, it is notorious to every one, the writer of the article alluded to alone excepted, that so jealous was the mother country of the value and importance of these colonies (we shall presently see what these are) to her most valuable interests, that she, till within the last four years, compelled them to send all their produce to her shores, and to take every article of supply which they required from herself, although they could frequently have got most of the latter cheaper elsewhere, and a better price for the former in the markets of foreign countries. The appellation of " paupers," therefore, my Lord Duke, is grievously misapplied by this advocate of tyranny, the most savage that ever disgraced the European Press, or European Legislation.

"The West Indians," says this au

dacious libeller, "have sometimes threatened to transfer their allegiance to America. If the Americans would take them on such terms, it would be policy for Great Britain to offer the Americans a million sterling a-year to consent to the arrangement, and she would be a great gainer by the bargain after all. A collection of paupers who should utter a threat that they would quit the parish, would not be half so welcome to put their threats in execution. THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND ARE TIRED OF THE WEST INDIANS." Your Grace knows much better than this raving enthusiast, that the people of England have not got in their national treasury an annual overflowing million" to give away to the Americans for any purpose, and still less to give it away for such a purpose as that here recommended. Moreover, it is necessary to observe, what this malevolent writer either does not know, or cannot comprehend; namely, that whenever "the people of England" make such a declaration as he makes, that then "the West Indians," or any other class of British subjects, are justified in transferring their allegiance to America, or to any other state which may offer to receive it to welcome any flag but the flag of their country. What hohour and advantage England-would acquire by such an event, may puzzle wiser heads than any of those who write anti-colonial rhapsodies in the Westminster Review, or any other anti-colonial publication, to determine. The Americans, or some other nation, would willingly receive their allegiance, and afford them protection For the information of this anti-colonial" tiger," it is also necessary to state, that the world lately had in it an individual, named Napoleon Bonaparte, and that the said Napoleon Bonaparte was Emperor of France, about the time, it is presumed, when this hero of the Westminster Review set out to worship Juggernaut, and to bayonet Hindoos. When the former first set out in his character of Emperor, in order to rivet his galling chains upon the nations of Europe, he told General Mack, who surrendered to him with 33,000 Austrians, at Ulm, on the memorable 21st of October 1805, that he "wanted nothing on the Continent, he wanted only SHIPS, COLONIES, and coмMERCE;"these very colonies which

this wicked anti-British writer despises, and loads with such venomous abuse-these very colonies-nay, even a small proportion of them, was then the utmost height of his ambition, and to gain which he continued for ten years to sweep Europe, from the mountains of Andalusia to the banks of the Moskwa, with despotism, oppression, injustice, and all the terrors of war! His declaration, my Lord Duke, made at a still later period-at the moment when he was about to proceed to his fatal Russian campaign, is even still more remarkable, and ought to be remembered, if not by every European, at least by every British statesman.

Then he declared, that he held, and would continue to hold against the remonstrances of Russia, all the Prussian fortresses from the Elbe to the Niemen, as an equivalent to compel the restoration of the Tropical Colonies which during the war Great Britain had captured from France, from Spain, and from Holland, when he came to make peace with this country. He did not even require one of those which are technically known as British Colonies; but if any portion of these so much despised possessions had been offered to him, it is obvious that the war from 1803 downwards, might have been avoided; and this being the case, it is also obvious, that either Bonaparte, or the writer in the Westminster Review, must be set down as an arrant blockhead.

In order to shew from figures, and from facts, whether Bonaparte, or the bravo who apes him in the Westminster Review, was the wisest statesman and the ablest politician, an abstract of the whole Colonial trade of Great Britain, for a very long period, drawn up from the particular and the official returns, as these were copied from the Journals of the House of Commons, is here placed before your Grace and the public. Look at it, my Lord Duke, and let the country look at it, as politicians and as merchants, and then say if such advantages are to be thrown away or endangered; or if the immense interests which are connected with these possessions, ought to be left exposed to the rude attacks of prejudice, of error, and of ignorance; or committed to these anti-British hands, who want to assume the arbitrary control or dispo sal of them.

My Lord Duke, it is-it must be -knowledge, wise laws, civilisation, capital, and industry, not terror, tyranny, and oppression, which produce the invaluable commerce, more valuable far than the mines of the precious metals in Mexico and Peru, just adverted to. You may also rely upon the following truth, namely, that the oppression and ruin of the master will never tend to advance the African savage and barbarian in the scale of civilisation; and as a British warrior and a British statesman, I would conjure your Grace to remember the counsel which Talleyrand gave to Bonaparte, when the latter sought the immedi

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ate destruction of Great Britain. He told him firmly, and he told him truly, that on the shores of the British Channel he might assemble in hostile array Europe at his back, but that "there would be the limits of his enmity" against Great Britain. "But to secure this object," said he, "deprive her of her colonies, or render them useless and unproductive unto her, and with this accomplished, YOU BREAK DOWN HER LAST WALL, YOU FILL UP HER LAST MOAT!" How nearly have we with our own hands, and by our own acts, accomplished that which Bonaparte attempted, but attempted in vain!