...the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property. 76 Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that your...Council, enabling the slave population of Demerara or Berbice to obtain their freedom without the consent of their Owners, without your Petitioners being...

...never known in any other country, and which, we feel assured, cannot much longer be borne in this. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to recommend your Ministers to promote the abolition of all sinecures whatever — the dismissal from...

...petition to your Majesty in Council that their said Letters Patent may be extended for a further term. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to take the case of your Petitioners into your Royal consideration, and to refer the same to the Judicial...