See Parke, p. 26. 290. 356.—So Lieutenant Matthews (an Opponents’ witness, Privy Council Report p. 27.) says, “The Slaves that are purchased before the rainy season commences are employed upon their plantations, and are sold to the Europeans, and sometimes among themselves, from one master to another, after the rice is planted.” Footnote 14: Vide Report of the Committee of the House of Assembly of Jamaica, in the Privy Council Report.—Vide also Long’s History of Jamaica. Footnote 15: Vide evidence of Mr. Newton, Mr. Claxton, and others. Footnote 16: I cannot vouch for the following fact, but it was related at the time with every appearance of authenticity. A few years ago the male convicts suffered very severely during their passage to New South Wales, and if I mistake not, for I speak from memory, several of them at length died from the hardships which they endured. On inquiring into the cause, it was stated to be, that the person whose province it was to provide necessaries for the voyage, had, by mistake, purchased such fetters as were used on board Slave ships, instead of the common fetters for convicts. Footnote 17: Vide evidence taken before the House of Commons. Footnote 18: Vide the late Publication of a professional Planter. Footnote 19: Vide Practical Rules for the Management of Negro Slaves, by a professional Planter. “New Negroes says he, court the warmest situations they can find, nothing less intense than actual fire being too hot for them. Hence we see that when they turn out in the morning, even in the low lands in the West Indies, they embrace their bodies closely with their wrappers to defend them from the cold.” Footnote 20: Vide the evidence of —— Botham, Esq. in the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Privy Council. Footnote 21: Vide Hume’s Essays, vol. i. page 407. Edinb. 1777. Cadell. Footnote 22: