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Excerpt from Travels in Trinidad Right through the Months of February, March, and April, 1803: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Member of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain
Should it be thought by any of my Readers, that, in reciting the amenities of which the Island of Trinidad; has been the theatre, I have indulged too freel’ythe I fnay,i accept as true with, claim some ex cuse, when it is re’col’leetéd that I used to be myself the victim ‘of oppression. ‘i ’em nbt sure Whether I ought to apolo gis’e to ‘my Reader’s for such language; the hatred which ‘a faith-h o’mv Btu’roiv should ‘ever hear towards a system of tyranny, will, if he have occasion to treat the Subjeét at all, give pornt and ‘energ’y to his language. The times hi w’hréh We are living demand an explicit avowal of our sentiments; and to be the spectator ofa line of conduct ‘oh the part ‘df a Brstish Governor, wh’ich’would ‘have fidis’gt’aéed the Tyrant’of the Continent, without marking it hy’expressions of my should perfect hatred, used to be, with Ime.
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