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'this feliion.

HISTORY OF EUROPE.

they had heard at the bar, was no
corporate act, and was figned only
by fourteen proprietors, out of
about feventeen hundred, of which
the Company confified; that the
valt majority by which it was car-
ried through the other Houfe,
where the molt ample information
was obtained of the Company's
affairs, and the very fmall number
that had dilTented to it, fufliciently
lhewed the jultice, propriety, and
expediency of the meafure. Other

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charges or cenfures were anfwered,
by the fhortneis of the time, and
the advantage the Company might
take 0F Parliament during the re-
cefs. Upon a divilion the bill was
carried by nearly a proportional
majority, to that which had at-
tended it in the Houfe of Com-_
mons, 26 lords having voted for it,
to 6 only who oppofed its pafling ;
it was, however, followed by a
remarkably pointed and fevere pro?
tell. ‘

C H‘A P. VII.

Zxpedirion againfi the Cariob: in t/Je i/Zand 1y" St, Vincent.

i t/Je/epeople ; Hack and yellow Carioor; ceflion of the i/Iand 5y the late

treaty ofpeare.

fitfimit to the propo/ed Iran/plantation.

The Cariob: refrge to ba-‘ve their land: fitrqnyed, and to

New propofiz/s made, and rejected.

ifroop: ordered from North-America ; propo/Zzl for train/porting t/ee Cartééi"

to rbe coaflof dfrica.

Enquiry jZt onfoot in tbe Haul/e of Commons, a: to

tbe nature and calf/E: of tbe eirpeditian; rtvitnefle: examined; deoa/er; re-

filution: moved, and rejeéZed upon a di-vz/ionf
Petition ji-om tbe captain: zy" t/ae navy for an addition to their

Carififir.

‘Treaty concluded ‘wit/J t/Je

bay-pay, oppzfition to t/Je Petition; received, upon a di-vz/ion, and t/ae

reque/i complied muitb. Fate of

I178, Diflenters Bill.

ilfotion re/atz-txe to

left: required in ‘tbe Univerfitie: ; rejected by a great majority.

N expedition which had been
undertaken againfi the Ca-
ribbs in the ifland of St. Vincent,
in the Well-Indies, had occafioned
confiderable debates in the courfe of
It appears that thefe
people confiited of two different
races, which, from their colour,
were dillinguiihed by the appella-
tions of Black and Yellow Ca-
i-ibbs; the latter, being defcended
from theoriginal natives, were the
natural proprietors of the ifland;
the former were the offspring of a
cargo of African negroes, who be-
ingion board an Englilh flaving
yelTel bound to Barbadoes, had been
gait away upon the coafis of St. Yin-

cent, about a century ago. The;
negroes having recovered their li-
berty by this accident, were holl
pitably received by the natives, and
accordingly fettled amonglt them ;
but having women of their own,
they {till continued, with, fome in-
termixture, a feparate people, and
foon became numerous. The two
nations were not more dilierent in
their colour, than in their temper
and difpolitions; the Americans
being timid and inoEenlive, and
the Africans hardy, crafty, {alpi-
cious, and daring. With thefe
qualities, together with the acceli-
{ion of their runaway countrymen
from the neighbouring iflands, they

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