Note 19 — CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEGROE CAUSE, &c.

See also the Assiento, or Contract made with the South Sea Company, for supplying the Spaniards with Negroes by treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Spain, in the year 1713-14; wherein they are considered as dutyable commodities, and named merely as matters of merchandize; and if thus conceived of at this time, and on so solemn an occasion as a Treaty of Peace, by what new law or magic is it that they are now become the subjects of the Crown of England, and intitled to the benefit of the Habeas Corpus?