For it happened, that, very recently, several of the most wanton and atrocious murders had been committed. Some of these were accompanied with circumstances of such horrid and disgusting barbarity, as to be too shocking for recital; and yet it scarcely seems justifiable to allow such horrid deeds, from their very atrociousness, to derive impunity. But one of the accounts you must submit to hear, because the narrative contains circumstances which strikingly illustrate the condition and estimation of the Negro race. To myself, to say the truth, it tells me, in the view in which I shall here regard it, nothing more than I already knew; but it was scarcely to be expected that Providence would furnish such undeniable and glaring proofs, of the assertions we had before established by the most respectable testimony. _Extract of a Letter from the Right Hon. Lord Seaforth, to Earl Camden, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, dated Barbadoes, 7th Jan. 1805._ “I inclose the Attorney General’s letter to me on the subject of the Negroes so most wantonly murdered. I am sorry to say, _several other instances of the same barbarity_ have occurred, with which I have not troubled your Lordship, as I only wished to make you acquainted with the subject in general.” It will be enough for me to quote that part of the Attorney General’s letter in which he gives the account of the single murder which I wish to lay before you: _Extract of a Letter from the Attorney General of Barbadoes, to the Governor of the Island._