It is a mistake however to suppose, that, from any natural or moral infirmity, the Negroes are not as willing as the people of other countries to perform ordinary out-of-doors work for hire, as free labourers. This was decisively proved both in the Sierra Leone and Bulam Colonies. Vide Sierra Leone Company’s Report; and Beaver’s African Memoranda. This fact, through inadvertency, was not inserted in its proper place; but it ought not to be left unnoticed, because several authors have confidently stated the contrary as an undoubted fact. Their works were in general, I believe, written before the publication of the intelligence from Sierra Leone and Bulam. Footnote 41: Vide Privy Council Report, Nov. 12th 1788; 2d Report of the House of Assembly of Jamaica. Footnote 42: Institute schools for their children. Footnote 43: Why should not a right of giving evidence, with perhaps some other civil distinctions, be granted to any Slaves who have lived creditably in the marriage state, for three or five years. They might think little of these distinctions at first; but accompany them with some outward mark, and they will produce their effect. No distinctions are more impressive, than those which are arbitrary, and the essential nature of which is little understood. Footnote 44: See the publication of Mr. Canes, a most experienced and benevolent West Indian proprietor. Footnote 45: Vide Report of the Committee of the House of Assembly of Jamaica, in the Papers presented to the House of Commons. Footnote 46: See evidence taken before the House of Commons. Footnote 47: This is fully confirmed by the Assembly of Jamaica. See Privy Council Report. Footnote 48: These expectations have been just now confirmed by the welcome tidings, that, on the recommendation of the President of the United States, Congress are passing an act for abolishing the Slave Trade on January 1st 1808. Footnote 49: Vol. ii. p. 442–3. Footnote 50: Ibid. p. 444. Footnote 51: Vol. ii. p. 442. Footnote 52: Nothing can shew more clearly the degree of this security, than that the Jamaica newspapers have been allowed to print, not only the detailed account of all our parliamentary debates about the abolition of the Slave Trade, but even the particulars of the St. Domingo transactions.—Surely the West Indian Petitioners to the House of Lords were ignorant of these facts, or rather perhaps they thought the Abolitionists were ignorant of them, when the mere discussion of the question here was stated to be so alarming. Footnote 53: See Dr. Pinckard’s late work; Notes on the West Indies. Footnote 54: