1822 April 6

Rid Yourselves

Lett. 16

Slave Trade stain expunged

This would not be the case or at least this neither need nor ought to be the case,

if England were rid of her Ultramaria, as you will be, I hope, of yours. This would

as little be the case with you, if by your rulers your Ultramarian kinsmen were given

up to themselves. They would then be left to themselves: with the benefit of

independence would be mixt in their case whatsoever of good and evil the creation of

their situation may have attached to it. At any rate this honour will in all its

entirety be yours: with them it would rest to say whether they will take any and what

share in it.