The Colonial magazine and commercial maritime journal / edited by Robert Montgomery Martin

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N 054.2 FIS
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[London] : Fisher, Son and Co. for the Proprietors, [1840]-1842
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Vol. 2 No. 7 (July 1840)
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THE COLONIAL MAGAZINE AND COMMERCIAL-MARITIME JOURNAL. PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE WEST INDIES. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
JUSTICE FOR INDIA!* 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17
VAN DIEMEN’S LAND: MORAL, PHYSICAL, AND POLITICAL 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33
SICILY—THE SULPHUR MONOPOLY, AND COMMERCIAL TREATY.* 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39
COLONIZATION OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS BY CONVICTS. 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48
BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY. 48 , 49 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61
ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND. SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHARACTER, HABITS, AND MANNERS OF THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.* 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65
NAUTICAL DISCOVERIES CONNECTED WITH OUR COLONIAL AND MARITIME GREATNESS. 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75
TRADE WITH THE PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENTS IN EASTERN AFRICA.* 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84
ENGLAND’S TREATMENT OF HER COLONISTS. 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88
NATIONAL DEBT OF ENGLAND, AND POPULAR REPRESENTATION. 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92
COLONIAL AGENTS. 92 , 93 , 94
THE FRENCH COLONIES.—ART. V. 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98
COLONIAL GOVERNORS; THEIR QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES. 98 , 99 , 100
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS, &c. 101 , 102 , 103
PAMPHLETS. 103 , 104
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIES. 105 , 106 , 107
CHINA. 107 , 108 , 109
AUSTRALASIA. 109 , 110 , 111
AFRICA. 111 , 112
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. 113
HOME INTELLIGENCE. 114 , 115 , 116
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. 117 , 118
MARRIAGES. 118 , 119
DEATHS. 119 , 120
PRICES OF COLONIAL PRODUCE. 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125
LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, June 26th, 1840. 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130

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THE  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE  

AND  

COMMERCIAL-MARITIME JOURNAL.  

PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE WEST INDIES.  

The West Indies, as the arena on which the most fearful crimes that  

England ever committed, and as the theatre on which, (under the  

influence of Christian principles,) she expiated those crimes, by pro-  

claiming freedom to the captive, and bidding the bond go free—must  

be an object of solicitude to those true Christians, who so long laboured  

to purify their country from the foul stain of slavery, and whose holy  

efforts it has pleased an almighty Providence to crown with complete  

success.  

The past history of the West Indies is written in characters of  

blood. Murder and rapine—violence and fraud—licentiousness and  

crime of every possible shade —the destruction of myriads of peace-  

able Indians—the importation of thirty million of unoffending Afri-  

cans, torn from their native land, to work in chains and degradation;  

men made in the image of their Creator, little lower than the  

angels,” reduced to the condition of the beast of the field; sold as  

chattels, and slain if they murmured forth claim on behalf of out-  

raged humanity;—all these constitute their annals, —while war and its  

fell concomitants, buccaneering and piracy, crimsoned the blue waters  

of those beautiful isles of the West, where  

“ All but the spirit of man was divine.”  

Two centuries of unrestrained wickedness, which future age will  

scarcely credit; two centuries of unnamed deeds, of which the records  

of the world afford no parallel; two centuries of all that could make  

VOL. 11. NO. 7.  

 

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