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by the negro-drivers, and instantly tied up to the beams of the piazza, or a

tree, without being so much as heard in their own defence; when the flogging
begins, with men, women, or children, without exception.. T h e instru­
ments of' torture on those occasions are long hempen whips, that cut round
at every lash, and crack like pistol shot; during which they alternately re­
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peat, Dankee, massara" (thank you, master.) In the mean time he stalks
up and down with his overseer, aifecYing not so much as to hear their cries,
till they are sufficiently mangled, when they are untied, and ordered t o r e ,
turn to their work, without so much as a dressing. »
* T h i s ceremony being over, the dressy negro (a black surgeon) comes to
make his report; who being dismissed with a hearty curse, for allowing any
slaves to be sick, next makes her appearance a superannuated matron, with
all the young negro children of the estate, over whom she is governess ; these,
being clean washed in the river, clap their hands, and cheer in chorus, when
they are sent away to breakfast on a large platter of rice and plantains j and
the levee ends with a low bow from the overseer, as it begun.
* His worship now saunters out in his morning dress, which consists of a
pair of the finest Holland rrowssrs, white silk stockings, and red or yellow
Morocco slippers ; the neck of his shirt open, and nothing over it, a loose
flowing night-gown of the finest India chintz, excepted. On his head is a
cotton night-cap,, as thin as a cobweb, and over that an enormous beaver hat,
that protects his meagre visage from the sun, which is already the colour of
mahogany, while his whole carcase seldom weighs above eight or ten stonej,
being generally exhausted by the climate and dissipation."
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Rudiments of Political Science, Part I. containing Elementary Principles, ivllb an

Appendix. B y A n g u s Macau'ay, A . M . Svo. 175)6. 6s. in Boards. Egerton,
W E think the world much indebted to the author of this performance for
having furnished what has been long a desideratum in the republic of letters,
an elementary treatise on the Science of Politics. This important branch o f
knowledge unquestionably deserves a place among the sciences; and M r .
Macaulay has endeavoured to establish it on the only solid foundation, that
of experiment, to the exclusion of theories and system. Accordingly, he ad­
vances as a preliminary principle, that a knowledge oi human nature, as dis­
played in individual characters and in the history of nations, is the genuine
source of Political Science. On this foundation he has proceeded to erect hi»
superstructure; and has already made considerable progress: yet, perhaps,
the chief merit of the present work will be found to consist in his arrange­
ment ; and in the scientific form which he has given to what has hitheito
been a rude and indigested mass. Those alone, who have experienced the
dhnculry of extracting political truth from the numerous, and, many of
them, voluminous publications, in which it lies at present dispersed in va­
rious fragments, are qualified to appreciate the service, which this writer has
rendered to young political students, by enabling them to methodize their
studies.
Our limits will not permit us to detail the order which the author has
adopted, any further, than by laying before our readers the titles of his
Chapters ; which are Chap. I. of the Origin of Civil Government. I I . o f the
Necessity of Civil Government. I I I . of the Ends of Civil Government. I V .
of the Right of Civil Government. V . of Political Resistance. V I . of Indi­
vidual Consent. V I I . "of Forms of Government in general.
Under each of these heads, observations are introduced, which seem not
enly to arise naturally from the subject, but are dearly connected together,