Book/Printed Material Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in a series of letters, addressed to a member of the imperial Parliament of Great Britain. Illustrated with a map of the island
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Image 4 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … IN TRINIDAD DURING the MONTHS of FEBRUARY MARCH and APRIL 1803 IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF 1 GREAT BRITAIN ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP… -
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Image 6 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … PREFACE The importance of the Island of Trinidad as a Commercial Settlement may be inferred from the inte rest which the British Government evinced at the close of the last war to… -
Image 7 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … PREFACEiv to stand in need of any apology for the appointment of first Commissioner of the Island of Trinidad with which he was vested That he has not succeeded in effecting that… -
Image 8 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … PREBACE to the Printer of that Paper by Joseph Marryat Esq of London threatening him with a prosecution which gave occasion to the following reply which I inserted in the abovementioned Paper… -
Image 9 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … ti PREFACE murders stated to have been by Mm committed without this realm Is it not enough that in the warmth of ÿour feelings you addressed Lord Hobart in a letter which… -
Image 10 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … ÎKEFACEvii and the Printer thrown into prison But in this country things are not managed with such energy and hence Colonel Picton has no opportunity of exercising what he was so fond… -
Image 11 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … PREFACE viii slstibly drawn from yourself to the Colonel as if yon were a cypher in the great account and of no value but from the relative situation in which you are… -
Image 12 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … yLETTER I S departure from AmericaCursory Observations oa his unfortunate Friend General ToussaintNew Englandmen BarbadoesCharacter of Lord SeaforthDescription of the IslandKindness of Mr KnightBiographical Sketch of the Authors FellowpassengersTobagoShort Description of it… -
Image 13 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … X CONTENTS LETTER IV Wonderful interposition of Providence in procrastinating the Authors LifeEstimate of the Arable Lands id TrinidadExports for the Years 1799 1800 and 1801Reason why so diminitive Natural History of… -
Image 14 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … CONTENTS XI noco describedSir Walter Raleighs Enterprize in search of GoldIndirect Commerce with the Spaniards frustrated by the misconduct of Governor PictonReflections on his Character his Prototype c Page 95 LETTER VIII… -
Image 15 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … CONTENTSXII deucyHer peculative and plundering ExcessesResistance dan gerousThe Governor sunk in the Lap of EaseRosetta takes the Reins of Government into her own HandsHer first Act of Cruelty directed towards Mrs Griffiths… -
Image 16 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … CONTENTS X1Utoes Billingsgate Elocution particularly in the Case of Judge JiihelMr Nihel abused and dismissed from his OfficeJohn Black promotedPiçtons congratulatory Address to BlackAn Introduction to Blacks CharacterThe ultimate Cause of Judge… -
Image 17 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … CONTENTg XÏV gro Slave belonging to John Dawson Esq who died in eonsev quence of a severe Flogging ordered by Governor PictonOb servations on the above Cases Page 187 LETTER XIV Remarks… -
Image 18 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … CONTENTS XVlaiton who gains possession of themProceedings on this Occa sionColonel Fullarton embarks on Board the Schooner Start fcc Page 221 LETTER XVI Colonel Fullartons Departure lamentedMr Archibald Glosters Proclamation to the… -
Image 19 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … XV i CONTENTS dore Hoods DepartureOrders issued to Seize and Detain Col FullartonEmbargoCol Fullartons Proceedings at Barbadoes An Extraordinary AdvertisementDispatches from Lord Hobart defining the Powers vested in the First CommissionerThe Co… -
Image 20 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … JLETTEK I Authors departure from AmericaCursory observations on his unfortunate friend Gen ToussaintNew EnglandmenliarbadoesCharacter of Lord Sea forthDescription of the IslandKindness of Mr KnightBiographical sketch of his fellowpassengers TobagoShort description of itBocasesGulf… -
Image 21 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 10 well knew how little faith was to be placed on the promises of the Usurper and how widely he had all along steered from the latitude of truth should be allured… -
Image 22 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 1 BARBA DOES 11 soon after 1625 but what is most remarkable in about 25 years the population increased to 50000 whites and in 1676 the number of Indian slaves and… -
Image 23 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 12 Let 1 and hospitable 4o strangers indeed I have fully expe rienced the truth of it from Mr Christopher Knight a gentleman whose urbanity of manners and disinter ested kindness will… -
Image 24 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 1 BARBADOES IS Jiis housekeeper being either too proud or too lazy to mend his stockings they quarrelled and consequently broke up housekeeping it is therefore to that proud or lazy… -
Image 25 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … VOYAGE TO TB1NÏDAD14 Let 1 delightful and not near so hot as might be expected considering its proximity to the equator It boasts of numerous springs of fine water with bays and… -
Image 26 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 1 TOBAGO BOCASES 13 and then intersect the mornes apparently covered with wood The sea between this and Tobago is very much coloured from which appearance one would suppose soundings were… -
Image 27 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 16 VOYAGE TO TE1NIDAD Let 13 my companions but it afforded me an opportunity of examining at a small distance the northern part of the hay of Paria particularly Chaguaramus harbour probably… -
Image 28 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 1 BESqBIPTION OF A FOP 17 As I have not heard of him for a long time I might have gone away under this impression had I not heard Colonel Brown… -
Image 29 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 18 tEAVELS IN TEINIDAD Let 1 That villainous saltpetre should be diggd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth Which many a good talL fellow had destroyd So cowardly and but… -
Image 30 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 1 GOVERNOR PIOTON 19 as to overlook ypur friend M I was not however afraid èven though he were a Mamouth I confess the reports that are in circulation in America… -
Image 31 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 20 TRAVELS IN TRINIDAD complaints of oppression cruelty and injustice which have so paralyzed my feelings that I begin to suspect the demons have transported me to some part of the 1… -
Image 32 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Letlf GENERAL GBINETEUK 31 review the forces stationed here Their neglected state of discipline disgusted him the other day though I observe a contradiction of this assertion published in Pictons Newspaper The… -
Image 33 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 22 TRAVELS IN TRINIDAD ief 2 LETTER II Description of Port of SpainIts situation and inha bitantsPi cto n s predilection for foreigners and hatred to the BritishBay of PariaAbercromby Tower considered… -
Image 34 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 2 DESCRIPTION OF THl ISLAND 25 ramified rivulet evinces the short sighted policy of those who projected it as well as of those who have since governed the Island Orange Grove… -
Image 35 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 4TRAVELS IN TBINIBAD Let 2 I mean to give you the outGnes before that period which is fast approximating The Bay of Paria is one of the safest and most spacious in… -
Image 36 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 2 VISIT tO COLONEL EULLARTON 25 of thy hard earnings squandered away on many a foolish project in this as well as in other colonies particularly in the provinces of Nova… -
Image 37 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 26 TRAVELS IN TRINIDAD Let 2 Can be transferrd it is the only good Man justly boasts ofj or can call his own Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earnd Or… -
Image 38 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 2 NEGRO REGIMENTS 27 A worthless sort there are of human kind No oath can tie no gratitude canhind Many of them were you know what in St Do mingo cHence… -
Image 39 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … 28 TRAyELS IN TRINIDAD Lef 2 more congenial to their constitutions than it is to those of the majority of Europeans this is particularly striking and evident from the number of New… -
Image 40 of Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in … Let 2 SCOTCH HIGHLANDERS 29 holders may be said to be the vital enemies of the country for their sordidness has almost depopulated the Highlands of Scotland America by her prudent foresight…
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Title
- Travels in Trinidad during the months of February, March, and April, 1803, in a series of letters, addressed to a member of the imperial Parliament of Great Britain. Illustrated with a map of the island
Names
- M'Callum, Pierre F. (Pierre Franc)
Created / Published
- Liverpool, Printed for the author by W. Jones, 1805.
Headings
- - Trinidad
- - Trinidad--Politics and government
- - Picton, Thomas,--Sir,--1758-1815
- - Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804
Notes
- - Giving the author's personal experiences and impressions of Gov. Picton's rule.
- - "A cursory view of the historical events in St. Domingo, from the year 1790 till 1802": p. 313-331.
Medium
- xvi, [9]-354 p. front. (fold. map) 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F2121 .M12
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 02014202
Online Format
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