seasoning_ o'er,
My blessings I enjoy the more.

Contented with my situation, 285
I want but little REGULATION;
At intervals _Chanson a boire_
And good old port in my _Code noire_;
Nor care I when I've once begun,
How long I labour, in the sun 290
Of your bright eyes!--which beam with joy,
Warm, cheer, enchant, but don't destroy.

My charming friend! it is full time
To close this argument in rhime;
The rhapsody must now be ended, 295
My proposition I've defended;
For, Slavery there must ever be,
While we have Mistresses like thee!

THE END.

FOOTNOTES:

{1} Had he the command of thunder, there can be no doubt that he would
long before now have cleared a troublesome quarter.

{2} _Sedet eternumque sedebit
Infelix Theseus._ VIRG.

{3} If the abettors of the Slave trade Bill should think they are too
harshly treated in this Poem, let them consider how they should feel if
_their_ estates were threatened by an agrarian law; (no unplausible
measure) and let them make allowances for the irritation which themselves
have occasioned.

{4} That the Africans are in a state of savage wretchedness, appears from
the most authentic accounts. Such being the fact, an abolition of the
slave trade would in truth be precluding them from the first step towards
progressive civilization, and consequently of happiness, which it is
proved by the most respectable evidence they enjoy in a great degree in
our West-India islands, though under well-regulated restraint. The
clamour which is raised against this change of their situation, reminds
us of the following passage in one of the late Mr. Hall's 'Fables for
Grown Gentlemen.'

"'Tis thus the Highlander complains,
'Tis thus the Union they abuse,
For binding their backsides in chains,
And shackling their feet in shoes;
For giving them both food and fuel,
And comfortable cloaths,
Instead of cruel oatmeal gruel,
Instead of rags and heritable blows."

{5} The question now agitated in the British Parliament concerning
slavery, is illustrated with great information, able argument, and
perspicuous expression, in a work entitled, "_Doubts on the Abolition of
the Slave Trade, by an Old Member of Parliament_;" printed for Stockdale,
in Picadilly, 1790. It is ascribed to