Note 10 — SECT. V. Of the IMPEDIMENTS which will oppose European Settlements on the Coast of Guinea.

I cannot help here reflecting on the strange means the French employ for the encouragement of this execrable trade. They allow their merchants a bounty of 150 livres tournois for each slave they import into Cayenne and La Guyenne Françoise; 100 livres for the southern parts of St. Domingo; 80 livres for La Jeremie and its dependencies; 60 livres for St. Marie, Leogane, and Port au Prince; and 50 livres for Cape François and its dependencies.—Besides this, Government pays a premium of 40 livres per ton for all the ships that go to the coast, and they are also more favoured in the measurement than any other. These bounties, granted for promoting the sale of human flesh, is the occasion of their committing the most abominable abuses, which cry for vengeance, and are even injurious in the extreme to the Government which encourages them.