This must be undoubtedly of great advantage to the _French_ planters, and extremely detrimental to our North American and West India colonies, for want of the _Negroes_ that have been sold to those conquered islands; which must consequently cause a scarcity, and enhance the price of those carried to the real colonies of Great Britain. Because the merchants of _Liverpool_, and others concerned in the _African_ trade, must be truly sensible, that they can find beneficial markets in our colonies for treble the number of Negroes they can purchase with _British_ manufactures. So that the consumption of those manufactures is not encreased, as they would insinuate, by their selling Negroes to the _French islands_ (for so we must call them while they have _French inhabitants_) when the selling such Negroes is so apparently disadvantageous to our colonies that are inhabited by British subjects; on which account we submit, whether as we are to give back to France _Martinico_, _Guadaloupe_, _Marigalante_, _Deserade_, and _St. Lucia_, orders should not be immediately sent to the governors of such islands, to prevent _British_ subjects selling any Negroes to the _French_, which it would be impolitic to do, even were we to have kept possession of them. The ships that have been fitted out, and are upon their voyages with an intention to sell Negroes on the _French islands_, may dispose of them in the adjacent _British colonies_, where they will meet with purchasers for any number, at such prices as will make their voyages profitable. Therefore such order will not be hurtful to the merchants, but of great advantage to the _British planters_, and consequently so to this country. It is for that reason we insist it was our interest to return those islands to France, to whom (if proper steps are pursued by us) they must and will become a continual expence, burthen and incumbrance; nor would our retention of them have been an advantage to us: for as the inhabitants are _French_, we must always have kept a military force there at a very great expence, of which recruiting would be no small part. And one great consideration ought to be, the _number of British subjects that would die in that unhealthy climate_, if they were only the soldiers that must annually be sent to complete the regiments necessary to be kept on that service. That service alone would be productive of a great expence; and the loss of so many subjects would prove very detrimental to _Great Britain_.