| Content Description | Observations on Malouet's article, dated 20 Dec. 1796, entitled 'Examen de cette question, quel sera pour les colonies de l'Amerique le résultat de la Révolution Française, de la guerre qui en est la suite et de la paix qui doit la terminer?' ['Examination of the question, what will be the effect on the colonies [French] in America of the French Revolution, of the war which is the result of it, and of the peace which must end it?']
Argues in relation to St Domingue; includes statistics of St Domingue's produce and population, including slaves, and other descriptions of the colony and its society and economy in support of his argument against colonial independence; in an appendix he compares the very different situation of the French Antilles as opposed to the American colonies lately independent from England.
Printed Wardour Street, Soho, London 1797 |