It is affirmed by many very humane people, that the entire abolition of the traffic _itself_ would not help the cause of humanity so much as was at first contended (for I believe the former plan of immediately emancipating those already imported, is allowed by all to be dangerous in the extreme); and it is the opinion of many writers, that the greater part of those Africans sold to our plantations would remain slaves in their own country, or be put to death by their captors. If so, surely it is better for them to be carried to a country where they have a chance at least of better treatment, and where many of them are instructed in their duty to their God, of which before they had no idea. While we were lying in Carlisle Bay the fleet that sailed with us from Europe, and parted company on the voyage, came in, together with the transports, &c. from Ireland. The following is, I believe, a correct list of the men of war that composed our fleet at the commencement of the campaign. A few others that are hereafter mentioned joined us in the course of it. Boyne 98 guns {Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K. B. { Commander in Chief of the naval { force in the West Indies. {Captain G. Grey. Vengeance 74 {Commodore C. Thompson. {Captain Henry Powlett. Irresistible 74 John Henry. Veteran 64 Charles Edmund Nugent. Blanche 32 Christopher Parker. Terpsichore 32 Samson Edwards. Blonde 32 John Markham. Solebay 32 William Hancock Kelly. Beaulieu 40 John Salisbury. Quebec 32 Josias Rogers. Rose 23 Edward Riou. Vesuvius bomb Charles Sawyer. Nautilus 18 James Carpenter. Rattlesnake 18 Matthew Henry Scott. Seaflower 16 William Pierrepoint. Zebra 18 guns Captain Robert Faulknor. Experiment 44 Simon Miller. } Woolwich 44 John Parker. } armed Dromedary 44 Sandford Tatham.} en flute. These ships joined us in Fort Royal bay during the siege of Forts Bourbon and Louis. Asia 64 guns Captain John Brown. Santa Margarita 36 Eliab Harvey. Assurance 44 Velters Cornwall Berkley. Ceres 32 Richard Incledon. Winchelsea 32 Lord Viscount Garlies. Roebuck 44 hosp. ship Andrew Christie.