Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London, Longmans, 1827.

From the conclusion (Vol. 3, page 616): "The history of the West Indies presents little more than a melancholy series of calamities and crimes. The islands have been laid waste by hurricanes and visited by pestilence; but the sufferings which have arisen from natural causes are few and trifling in comparison with those which moral and political circumstances have produced. When the horrors of the conquest were over, the Caribs extirpated, and the Buccaneers supprest, these colonies became the seat of war whenever hostilities occurred between the great European powers; and in addition to this evil, a system of slavery took root there, the mitigation and gradual removal of which is one of the most difficult duties that any legislature has ever had to perform. Performed, however, that duty will be by the British government."

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