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to be conveyed to the Spanish part of America.

Having said thus much upon the West Indies, and upon the subject of Abolition, I beg leave to conclude this part with the words of an able writer:

"You have invited and persuaded us to purchase and occupy Crown lands in the islands; you have undertaken and promised to furnish us with labourers sufficient for the cultivation of those lands; you have encouraged us to invest our fortunes in these plantations; you have encouraged not only your merchants, but foreigners, to advance their money in loans, to a vast amount, for the improvement and extension of this culture. If you now put a stop to the cultivation, we and our creditors have a right, upon every principle of justice, to demand from you a full indemnification."