CONSIDERATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε NEGROE CAUSE COMMONLY SO CALLED, ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MANSFIELD, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the COURT of By SAMUEL ESTWICK, A. M. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON, Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall, ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. THE HE firft Edition of the following Confiderations on the Negroe Cause was written with haste, and published in a hurry. The hope of feeing fome much abler pen than mine engaged in the dif cuffion of fo important a question, and yet feemingly fo little understood, withheld me from the undertaking; till disappointment made it the refolution of an hour, and want of time the effect of a few days attention only. "It was evident that whatever was to be fuggefted on the subject, should be known antecedent to the legal decifion of the Cafe: but led on by the expectation of the more useful endeavours of others, already was the Term, in which judgment was to be given, treading closely on my heels, without my having taken one fingle step in advance of the defign. Thus circumstanced, such dispatch became neceffary as could not fail to produce errors, imputable both to me and the printer. Whilst one part of the pamphlet was print-ing, the other was preparing for the press: but even this expedition had not its defired effect. The Judgment was beforehand with the Publication: whereby the Confiderations themselves were deprived of their object, and I, in fome meafure, foiled in my purpofe. Upon finding however that the very grounds of my argument (to wit, the opinions of the Lord Chancellors Hardwicke and Talbot) were the fubjects of due attention to the Court, and that the determination rested on this particular Cafe only, from circumftances of infufficiency arifing out of the return made to the writ of Habeas Corpus, I was induced to fuf fer fer this performance to make its appearance to the public eye, though, like Hamlet's Ghost, with all its imperfections on its head. Being now called upon for a fecond Edition, I have carefully corrected the errors of the firft, fo far as they were perceiveable to me. I have confiderably enlarged the work itself. I have inferted feveral notes, in fome of which the principles of the late published argument of Mr. Hargrave, and the argument itself, as applied to the merits of this question, are shortly examined, though (with what is offered in the text) it is to be prefumed, fully refuted. Suppofing alfo that the judgment of the Court of King's Bench in this case might be no improper addition, I have, from the most authentic copy I was able to procure, prefixed it herewith: taking the liberty at the fame time of making a few occafional remarks thereupon. The following is faid to be the substance of Lord Mansfield's fpeech in the cafe of Somerset and Knowles: "We pay due at |