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    the number of white families to be maintained from them have increased in the usual ratio , so that the pressure of the idle population against the means of subsistence has been felt there as well as in other parts of the earth . Hence it is that West Indians have ceased to be so ' generous as formerly . But there is still another disadvantage . Hitherto they have produced the strongest

    sugar , and this probably is on account of their better modes of preparing it , which Brasil and the East Indies have yet to fall back upon . Both these latter sugars are prepared by the process of claying , i . e . they are partially refined by discharging the molasses on clay , and it is probable that it is this very process which destroys or carries off much of the sacharine principle , leaving the sugars of less strength . Mr . Cropper , in his

    pamphlet , alludes to the claying of sugars in Brazil and Cuba as if it were an advantage , but this must be a mistake . It is but a rude mode of refining for their own use , and for Spain and Portugal , which have no refiners , and whose inhabitants would not use the sugar in the coarse brown form of the West Indies . But when refining by the best processes , such as are used for loaf-sugar , shall become customary in Brazil * and the East Indies , which will be the case before any long period elapses , the West Indian

    sugars will , as to price , be put out of the market . If then these statements be correct , it would seem that there will be little chance of profit for West Indian proprietors , after the emancipation of the slaves sHall have taken place , though upon the whole the probability is , that no massacre of the whites is likely to happen , as iu Santo Domingo . But emancipation must take place , and the next question is , how it may be arranged to produce the most favourable results to the blacks , while avoiding all needless injury to the whites .

    It has by many been laid down as a principle , that in case of the emancipation of the slaves , their masters will be entitled to compensation for their pecuniary loss , as a matter of right ; and some even argue , that the slave ought to work out his own ransom by his own labour . Those who hold the latter opinion , would seem

    rather to argue in favour of the interest of the slave-holders , than in accordance with the principles of justice . It seems rather strange that because the slave has been stolen , he should be additionally punished for the crime of another , so soon as the theft is acknowledged . The contrary would rather seem to be the

    * A supply of sugar from Brazil for any long period it however very problematic . The population is , I believe , three millions of blacks to a million and a half of whites . The latter a mixed breed of varying grades between European , Portuguese , and the old Brazilian cannibals . Several indications of latent ferocity have appeared in the course of the revolutionary struggles . The negro slaves are also aware that their brethren in the neighbouring Spanish Colonies have been emancipated , and it requires no power of propnecy to foresee , that with such a materiel any popular convulsion in Brazil , when once fairly set goirtfjf , will be terrific in its effects . The state of society in Brasil in a human volcano , requiring a very slight additional ingredient to put it in action .

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    468 On the Ministerial Plan fir the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/28/