AND

COLOURED TRIBES.

BY S. BANNISTER,

LATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES;

Author of Defence of the Indians, 1822; of Humane Policy to
Aborigines, 1830; &c.

"But yet not long ago some men of this country went
"By the King's noble consent, that new land for to search.
"O! what a great meritorious deed it were to have its people there,
"Instructed to live more virtuously, and know of men the manners,
"And also to know God their maker, which as yet live all beastly."

The Four Elements, (A. D. 1517,) by SERJEANT RASTEL, or SIR THOMAS MORE.

LONDON:-WILLIAM BALL,

ALDINE CHAMBERS,

PATERNOSTER

ROW.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX TO TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

PRINTED BY J. AND C. ADLARD,

BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.

THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, ESQ.,

LATE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
FOR WEYMOUTH.

THIS Volume contains an attempt to shew that an object which you, along with many thousands of zealous and enlightened individuals, have in view, may be exceedingly promoted by the prudent administration of wise laws, not yet sufficiently discussed, and the vigorous execution of other good measures, ensured through the opinion of a well-informed, intelligent public. That object is the steady improvement of the coloured tribes all over the world.

My views are addressed to you, in the persuasion that they may afford you some new lights; and