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1822 May 22d + 3
J.B. to Boyer, President of Haiti.

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With the most lively interest, I receive every
information I can lay my hands on relative to the
State of Government and Society in your Country.
Mr Bowring, who is my right hand man for every
pursuit that affords a promise of utility to mankind,
Mr Bowring, who is so justly sensible of the honor
done to him by your correspondence, knows that this
is of the number of those points, in relation to which his
assistance is most gratifying to me. The documents I
have before me are a Letter of yours to him, a Letter of
yours to M. Jullien (Directeur de la Revue Encyclopedique,
and the Address from the Chamber of Representatives
of the Commons to the Citizens of the Commonwealth,
as printed in the Paris paper — the Constitutionel.
To the particulars of the Constitution of your
State, I am to my no small regret still a stranger. Perhaps [+] [+] In relation to these
particulars
you may perhaps be not altogether disinclined to gratify
my wishes, in these particulars when they are thus made
known to you, together with the motives by which they
have been produced, and the grounds I have for the
hope, that, in relation to your service, my labours may
not be altogether useless.

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When from time to time I make observation
of the horrible extent to which the trade in Slaves with
Africa is still carried on, notwithstanding all the exertions,
which, for so long a course of years, have been
directed to the suppression of it — my imagination is
every now and then painting to me a means of retribution,
which, whether upon the whole beneficial to mankind,
I could not I must confess in the hope of its proving so, see realized without
sensible satisfaction: vessels fitted out from your State,
capturing the Slave-trading ships, aggregating the victims
of the traffic to the number of your Citizens, and
consigning, in each instance, so the like Slavery in
your Island, the Master and Crew: the Master with
one of the vessels, with such an indelible mark upon
him, as should distinguish from the rest a man
so highly distinguished in barbarity, and in
the profit reaped from it. If on one of his

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Identifier: | JB/060/088/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Date_1	1822-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	060	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	jb to boyer, president of haiti
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2938, vol. 11; draft with corrections	ID Number	19646
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