It was a scene to gladden the saddest, and to soften the hardest heart.

But a slave-captain was not so soon thrown off his guard.

Three English barbarians of this description had the audacity jointly to request the general, to seize the whole unsuspicious multitude and sell them.

For this they alleged the precedent of a former governor.

Was not this request a proof of the frequency of such acts of rapine?
for how familiar must such have been to slave-captains, when three of them dared to carry to a British officer of rank such a flagitious proposal! This would stand in the place of a thousand instances.