But though a master cannot there chop off the limb of a slave with an axe, he may yet work, starve, and beat him to death with impunity.] [Footnote 105: _Two_ instances are recorded by the _receivers_, out of about _fifty-thousand_, where a white man has suffered death for the murder of a negroe; but the receivers do not tell us, that these suffered more because they were the pests of society, than because the _murder of slaves was a crime_.] [Footnote 106: A negroe-funeral is considered as a curious sight, and is attended with singing, dancing, musick, and every circumstance that can shew the attendants to be happy on the occasion.] [Footnote 107: In 96 years, ending in 1774, 800,000 slaves had been imported into the French part of St.Domingo, of which there remained only 290,000 in 1774.

Of this last number only 140,000 were creoles, or natives of the island, i.e.of 650,000 slaves, the whole posterity were 140,000.

_Considerations sur la Colonie de St.Dominique_,( See errata--should be read as "_St.Domingue_") published by authority in 1777.] [Footnote 108: Ten thousand people under fair advantages, and in a soil congenial to their constitutions, and where the means of subsistence are easy, should produce in a century 160,000.

This is the proportion in which the Americans increased; and the Africans in their own country increase in the same, if not in a greater proportion.

Now as the climate of the colonies is as favourable to their health as that of their own country, the causes of the prodigious decrease in the one, and increase in the other, will be more conspicuous.] * * * * * CHAP.