11. _Fifth Memoir: Upon the Liberty of the Indians who have been reduced to the Condition of Slavery_; Morente, Tom. II. pp. 34, 35. _Sixth Memoir: Upon the Question whether Kings have the Power to alienate their Subjects, their Towns and Jurisdiction_, pp. 64 et seq. _Letter of Las Casas to Miranda, resident in England with Philip, in 1555_.--The Sixth Memoir is a remarkable production. Its closing words are these: "The dignity of a king does not consist in usurping rights of which he is only the administrator. Invested with all the necessary power to govern well and to make his kingdom happy, let him fulfil that fine destiny, and the respect of the people will be his reward." 12. "Ces hommes qui donnent le beau nom de prudence a leur timidite, et dont la discretion est toujours favorable a l'injustice."--Hilliard d'Aubertueil, _Considerations sur l'Etat Present de la Colonie Francoise de St. Domingue_, 1776. 13. _Histoire Generale des Isles de St. Christophe_, etc., 1654, par Du Tertre. 14. From a letter by the Jesuit father Le Pers, quoted by Charlevoix, _Histoire de St. Domingue_, Tom. IV. p. 369. Amsterdam, 1733. 15. Upon the reputed effects of baptism, and some anecdotes connected with the administration of this rite, see Humboldt's _Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain_, London, 1811, Vol. I. p. 165, note. 16. _Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique_, A la Haye, 1724, Tom. V. p. 42. Father Labat is delighted because the Dutch asked him to confess their slaves; and he records that many masters take great pains to have their Catholic slaves say their prayers morning and evening, and approach the sacrament; nor do they undertake to indoctrinate them with Calvinism. 17. _A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday, February 18, 1731_. 18. Oviedo says nothing about this Jeromite proposition, but records the arrival of this priestly commission, (_Hist. Ind._, Book IV. ch. 3,) and that one object of it was to provide for the Indians,--"_buen tractamiento e conservecion de los indios_." He says that all the remedial measures which it undertook increased the misery and loss of the natives. He was not humane. It seemed absurd to him that the Indians should kill themselves on the slightest pretext, or run to the mountains; and he can find no reason for it, except that their chief purpose in life (and one which they had always cherished, before the Christians came among them) was to eat, drink, "_folgar, e luxuriar, e idolatrar, e exercer otras muchas suciedades bestiales_."