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 twelve months provisions; the second year with a sufficiency for six months; and the third year with what would answer for three months consumption. But in this instance, the fostering hand of government was stretched out in vain; these Negroes, after the irregular and Wanton conumption of the provisions so humanely bestowed upon them, sold their utensils of husbandry, relapsed into a state of idleness and dissipation, and by various stratagems arrived in this country, where they were taken up by the Sierra Leone Company, to be transplanted as a Colony on their part of the African shore.

Can your Lordships be surprised, that with all the ingenious and logical arguments of Mr. Stevens, the learned counsel should be obliged to admit, that the Imports from the establishment of the Colony of Africa is 4000l. per annum, while their expence is 10,000l. Your Lordships will observe, that the Sierra Leone Company set out with a