The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volume 2James Humphreys, 1806 |
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... crown of France . - State of the island in 1700. - And again in 1762 , when captured by the English . -Stipulations in favour of the French inhabitants . — First measures of the British government . - Claim of the crown to levy a duty ...
... crown of France . - State of the island in 1700. - And again in 1762 , when captured by the English . -Stipulations in favour of the French inhabitants . — First measures of the British government . - Claim of the crown to levy a duty ...
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... crown of four and a half per centum on all produce exported - how obtained . - Origin of the act of navigation . - Situation and extent of the island . - Soil and produce . - Population . - Decline , and causes thereof . - Exports and ...
... crown of four and a half per centum on all produce exported - how obtained . - Origin of the act of navigation . - Situation and extent of the island . - Soil and produce . - Population . - Decline , and causes thereof . - Exports and ...
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... crown of England , seems to have been shamefully neglected . The earl of Marlborough , having secured to himself and his posterity , the gratification I have mentioned , de- serted him ; and the lord Carlisle , having done him ...
... crown of England , seems to have been shamefully neglected . The earl of Marlborough , having secured to himself and his posterity , the gratification I have mentioned , de- serted him ; and the lord Carlisle , having done him ...
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... crown ; but his connection and contract with the earl of Carlisle , were by this time sufficiently understood by the planters , who saw with astonish- ment , that they were regarded by those great lords as mere tenants at will of their ...
... crown ; but his connection and contract with the earl of Carlisle , were by this time sufficiently understood by the planters , who saw with astonish- ment , that they were regarded by those great lords as mere tenants at will of their ...
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... crown , as the circumstances of the colony would admit of , which they said the assembly alone was competent to de- termine . The prospect of a revenue , though distant and uncertain , brought forward the creditors of the earl of ...
... crown , as the circumstances of the colony would admit of , which they said the assembly alone was competent to de- termine . The prospect of a revenue , though distant and uncertain , brought forward the creditors of the earl of ...
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acres Africa afterwards Antigua ants appear apprehended assembly authority aforesaid Barbadoes Britain British British West Indies called canes captain cause Charaibes chief CHIG Christopher's circumstances colony conviction council Count D'Estaing court crown cultivation death Dominica duty earl of Carlisle England English ERSITY estates exported French further enacted Gold coast governor grant Grenada groes hereby hogsheads honour hundred inhabitants Jamaica justices and vestry king Koromantyn labour lands Leeward Islands lord majesty majesty's Mandingoes manner master ment MICHI mulatto nation natives negroes neral oath Obeah observed offence overseer owner parish peace penalty plantation planters possession possessor pounds present produce proprietor punishment purchase quantity received runaway sent ships SITY slave or slaves slavery sold species sterling suffer sugar thereof thousand tion Tortola town trade trial UNIV West Indian West Indies Whidah white person whole workhouse
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Página 205 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Página 175 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Página 206 - ... those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 367 - ... forcibly separated from his wife and children, dragged to public auction, purchased by a stranger, and perhaps sent to terminate his miserable existence in the mines of Mexico; excluded for ever from the light of heaven! and all this without any crime or imprudence on his part, real or pretended. He is punished because his master is unfortunate.
Página 34 - the prohibition was extended also to the mother country: and no goods were suffered to be imported into England, or any of its dependencies, in any other than English bottoms ; or in the ships of that European nation of which the merchandize imported was the genuine growth or manufacture. At the restoration the former provisions were continued, by statute 12 Car. II. cl 8. with this very material improvement, that the master and three-fourths of the mariners shall also be English subjects.
Página 206 - The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward.
Página 231 - The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her sister VENUS chose, In FLORENCE, where she's seen ; Both just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between.
Página 302 - In the year 1760, when a very formidable insurrection of the Koromantyn or Gold Coast negroes broke out in the parish of St. Mary, and spread through almost every other district of the island, an old...
Página 51 - People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England...
Página 30 - ... assurance that your excellency will take such course for the collecting and gathering of the said impost, without any charge, duty or fees, as may be most for the ease of the people of this island. Provided nevertheless, That neither this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend or be construed to bar his majesty, or his said...