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 to a French gentleman, to carry to the island of St. Domingo; because, as this slave was an ill-behaved man, whom he would not punish upon his own estate, he meant to part with him. This gentleman, upon his return from Kingston, came up to me—having myself had frequent conversations with him upon the folly of the Abolition, and the absurdity of going against the common usage in the British islands as to the treatment of the Negroes—and said, that the slave was returned to his estate, and should be punished in the usual manner; for, upon his offering him to sale to the French gentleman, the latter asked him if he was mad; and upon the Honourable Gentleman mentioning that his reason for selling this slave was to avoid punishing him, the French gentleman made this answer: "Si nous avions cet Negre chez nous, nous assemblierons les Negros de quartier, et nous le ferrions mourir a coups de fouet." The Englishman, consequently, in-