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CALUMNY EXPOSED;

OR,

OBSERVATIONS ON No. XLIV

OF THE

ANTI-SLAVERY MONTHLY REPORTER.

BY

CAPT. VICARS, ROYAL ENGINEERS,

Author of "The Representation of the State of Government Slaves and Apprentices in Mauritius."

IN

A LETTER

ADDRESSED TO

SIR THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, BART.

Member of Parliament for the County of Devon.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

"Concilium verò dare gaudeamus liberè; plurimum in amicitiâ amicorum benè suadentium valeat auctoritas; eaque et adhibeatur ad monendum non modò apertè, sed etiam acriter si res postulabit."-CICERO.

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MDCCCXXXI.

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PREFACE.

THE following pages were written in the month of November 1829, and having arrived in London in March following, ought to have been immediately published. But the colonists are not destined to meet with fair play, Sir Robert Farquhar, to whose care the MS was addressed, was just dead; and the joint agent employed by the Author to effect his intention, although vested with no discretionary power, thought proper to follow his own judgment and prejudices, and those of persons friendly to the "AntiSlavery Society;" and abandoning the trust committed to him, he actually stifled this defence of the Mauritius planters, at a time when it was most important for their interest that it should appear, upon the pretence that it was unnecessary,