He had said, that all was quiet there till the disturbances in the French islands; when some Negros from the latter had found their way to Dominica, and had excited the insurrection in question.

He had also said, that the Negros in our own islands hated the idea of the abolition; for they thought, as no new labourers were to come in, they should be subjected to increased hardships.

But if they and their masters hated this same measure, how was this coincidence of sentiment to give birth to insurrection?
Other fallacies also had been industriously propagated.

Of the African trade it had been said, that the exports amounted to a million annually; whereas, from the report on the table, it had on an average amounted to little more than half a million; and this included the articles for the purchase of African produce, which were of the value of a hundred and forty thousand pounds.
The East Indian trade, also, had been said to depend on the West Indian and the African.

In the first place, it had but very little connection with the former at all.