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much impeded, and many evils, to the diſadvantage of the Britiſh empire in that part of the world, are thereby greatly promoted. This averſion is, in a great meaſure, to be attributed to the views of the generality of Europeans, who having ſubmitted to a voluntary exile, which they ſuppoſe is to be only for a few years, flatter themſelves they ſhall ſoon return wealthy to their own countries. Buoyed up with theſe notions, they look upon matrimony as a bar to their expectations; and in the mean time, content themſelves with the company of a mulatto or negro miſtreſs, who brings them a ſpurious race of children, the maintenance of whom, together with the extravagance of their ſable mothers, ſoon diſſipates the firſt ſavings of their keeper's hard-earned wealth. When, as often is the caſe, worn out by the climate, or other diſaſters, they at laſt ſee their folly, but generally too late to prevent its conſequences.

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