I have now only a short word or two more to add, in address to the reader; relying, from my own consciousness, upon his candour, that whatever errors of the head he may discover, he will impute nothing that is wrong to the dictates of my heart. It is not the want of humanity, it is not the want of feeling, but the possession of both, with the love of truth, that has given birth to these Considerations. My motives have been, to shew that America does not afford that scene of barbarity, which misrepresentation would have painted upon it: that cruelties and distress are to be found in much greater excess even in this _elysium_ of liberty: that whatever is the state and condition of Negroes, it is Great Britain and not America that is responsible for it: that this therefore is a British, and not an American question; as well it might be, since, if I may be allowed to reason chymically upon the occasion, whatever property America may have in its drugs, it is Great Britain that receives the essential oyl extracted from them. These have been my views. I neither meant to condemn or approve the state and condition of Negroes. I have appealed to the law: if the traffic made of them be as agreeable to right reason as it is according to law, I am glad of it; if it be not, let state necessities justify state tricks. But I meant an apology for, and not a panegyrick upon, myself. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEGROE CAUSE, &c. MY LORD,