But surely, the honourable admiral must have meant, that, as he had often toiled like a slave in the defence of his country, (as his many gallant actions had proved,) so he envied the day, when he was to toil in a similar manner in the same cause.

If, however, his words to be taken literally, his sensations could only be accounted for by his having seen the negros in the hour of their sports, when a sense of the misery of their condition was neither felt by themselves nor visible to others.

But their appearance on such occasions did by no means disprove their low and abject state.

Nothing made a happy slave but a degraded man.

In proportion as the mind grows callous to its degradation, and all sense of manly pride is lost, the slave feels comfort.