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THE
TRIAL
OF
CAPTAIN JOHN KIMBER,
For Murder, &c.
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THE
TRIAL
OF
CAPTAIN JOHN KIMBER,
FOR
THE MURDER
OF
TWO FEMALE NEGRO SLAVES,
ON BOARD THE
Recovery, African Slave Ship.
Tried at the Admiralty Sessions, held at the Old Baily
the 7th of June, 1792.
Before Sir JAMES MARRIOT, &c.
TAKEN IN SHORT HAND
By a STUDENT of the TEMPLE.
To which are added,
OBSERVATIONS on the above TRIAL.
LONDON:
Printed and Sold by C. Stalker, No. 4, Stationers-Court,
Ludgate-Street.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
ON a business which has so long agitated the public mind as theSlave Trade, every thing that can be said, must in some manner beinteresting. The atrocity of that unnatural and abominable custom couldnot in any instance have been more abundantly manifested, than in thelate decision of a large majority in the House of Commons.
Perhaps the procrastination of the same important question, in asuperior House, may be productive of greater good than the people ofEngland are aware of. Perhaps it may upon the next discussion lead toan immediate and total abolition of a cruel and inhumanvi traffic. Itcannot but be lamented that a personage of the first rank, who couldhave no other motive except that of love for uncontroulable tyranny,should become so strenuous an advocate for slavery. He has more thanonce expressed his sentiments in public, and on the present occasionseemed to have comported himself with an extraordinary degree of zeal,which whether it became the dignity of a P——— in such a cause, weshall not take on us to determine, but leave it to the world to judgeof the propriety of such conduct.
Whatever the public opinion may be relative to the prosecution carriedon against Captain Kimber, who has been (we suppose fairly) acquittedby an English Jury, it was evidently a necessary and a useful measure.It may afford a salutary lesson to those captainsvii of slave ships,and masters of slaves who should hereafter attempt to commit suchhorrid outrages as he has been charged with: and it may, from thecircumstances here related, (for such barbarities