Indeed, the great kindness shown by many of whom we have often spoken, will never be effaced from our memory till our dying day.

When we speak of their failings it is in sorrow, not in anger.

Their trading in slaves is an enormous mistake.

Their Government places them in a false position by cutting them off from the rest of the world; and of this they always speak with a bitterness which, were it heard, might alter the tone of the statesmen of Lisbon.

But here there is no press, no booksellers' shops, and scarcely a schoolmaster.