Our resolution once formed, we white slaves (for slaves we are) will not flinch; and the islands of the Caribbean Sea will be enrolled as another star, and add another stripe to the independent flag, which is their natural protector." "I trust that will never come to pass." "And so do I, Mr Berecroft; for I am an Englishman, and love my country, and the loss of these colonies would be a blow from which England would never recover." "You forget her extensive colonies in the East." "I do not; but the West Indies add to her wealth and her commercial prosperity, to her nursery of seamen and her exhausted revenue.

They, on the contrary, add only to her grandeur, for they cost the country three millions a year; and I doubt whether at that expense it is worth while to retain any colony, however vast and extensive it may be.

I consider, that if the East India ports were open to all the world, and the territory governed by its former princes, England, with all the competition which would take place, would yet be a gainer; and, on the other hand, I know that by the loss of these islands, she would find a decrease of millions in her revenue." "Then the philanthropists must pay the national debt ?" observed Newton, laughing.
"They be d----d!" replied Kingston, who was warm with his argument; "they would not pay a farthing.".