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Despatch of Mr. Secretary Huskisson to the Governor of the Bahamas, on the Subject of the Cruelties perpetrated by Henry and Helen Moss on a Female Negro Slave who died under the infliction, and the Application for Remission of their Punishment. Dated Downing Street, Sept. 28, 1827 From the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter for April, 1829. HISTORY tells of an individual, who believed he had travelled for seven years in foreign countries and there done many notable acts, when the truth was that he had dipped his head into a pail of water and taken it out again. Very much like this is the history of that metaphorical personage, the type of all that is foolish and deceivable in nations, in whom under one bestial appellation is concentrated the description of the ignorance and gullibility of the British community. Believing himself to be wise, it is impossible to tell the time when he became a fool. He said, 'I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knew not that he was wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.' Puffed up with the idea that he was something and somebody, he winked and ran his head quietly into the endurance of such frauds, as could never have befallen any body that was in the habit of walking with his eyes open, or was humble enough to conceive that he might possibly be made a dupe. Not that the man positively would not take his fingers out of the fire when they were burning. On the contrary, nobody made more turmoil when he knew that he was hurt. But his coat might be taken off his back, by any body that would tell him a long story. He was a man of one idea, or at most, of two; but it was only necessary to go as far as three, to leave him in utter bewilderment. For example, he knew well enough, that he did not like to be robbed and murdered himself. This was idea Number One; and it is supposed that he had as clear a comprehension of it, as mathematicians have of Euclid. He had a glimmering too, that it was not for his interest, that people should be robbed and murdered somewhere else; provided it was in a neighbouring parish, or at all events in some parish where he apprehended a distant possibility that he might be murdered himself. But if it was further off than this, the question was too much for him. It was the triple idea which he could never comprehend, that he could have any thing to do with felony, where he never intended to adventure his own person. If an injury was done to himself, or to any person within the degree of third cousin, there was nobody that made a more exemplary bawling for the constable. When a woman in his own neighbourhood had whipt two female 'prentices to death, and hid them in the coal-hole,' he thought hanging was too good for her; and there he stood, when the miserable wretch was brought out to just and necessary punishment,—trying to overwhelm her sinful soul with more than dying horror, by adding at that fearful moment the expression of his unforgiveness and his hate. But when the same thing was done in a parish a little further off,—and that not by accident, but as part and parcel of a system which the whole parish, with their overseers at their head, had risen up to defend,-he quietly went home, and paid a tax to enable the like to be done again. He grumbled much of the hardness of times, and the difficulty an honest man had to live; but not one word did he say against the imposition of a poll-tax to enable the Esther Hibners of the West Indies to ride, not in a cart, but in their coaches. On the contrary, he went home, and called his wife and children, and after asking if they had said their prayers, he said to them, I have seen a woman hanged this morning. I was never so pleased in my life. And now send for some sugar for breakfast; and when you pay eleven-pence for the sugar, take care that you pay the penny for the West-Indians.' It never occurred to him or his gaping brood,-though, to say the truth, they were well-intentioned persons enough in their way, that their representatives and every body's representatives, were taxing them and every body, not for any benefit that was to arise to them or the community, but simply that the proceeds of this taxation might find their way into the pockets of such persons as, in their own parish, they thought |