IN

THE WEST INDIES,

IN

1825.

BY

HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF KING'S COLL., CAMBRIDGE.

THIRD EDITION,

WITH ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,

MDCCCXXXII,

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

In this edition I have inserted a note and a few verses, but omitted nothing. The book pleased with all its faults, and with all its faults it shall remain.

But in this awful crisis of our country, when the right hand of the colonial power of England is hacked at with a pertinacious hatred, of which there is no example in the history of domestic treason or foreign hostility, I will no longer scruple the expedience of putting the author's humble name to a work, which was written in a deep conviction of the immense importance of the West Indies to our maritime superiority, and of the truth of the political views of which, in respect of the conduct of the Abolitionists, the events of every day and hour more and more persuade me. H. N. C.

Lincoln's Inn, October, 1832.