An Examination Of The Report Of The Berbice Commissioners, And An Answer To The Letters Of James Stephen, Esq. Respecting The Crown Estates In The West Indies, Published In The Courier, Under The Signature Of "Truth." Marryat, Joseph

[4], 122pp. With a half-title. Modern half-calf, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Minor shelf-wear. Loss to lower corners of leaves C7-8, small marginal hole to head of leaf G5. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'Lewis Hoyes Esq. / With the Author's Compliments'. The sole edition of West Indian slave owner and politician Sir Joseph Marryat's (1757-1824) vitriolic response to a report on the condition of the British colony of Berbice, Guyana, issued during his ongoing controversy with prominent abolitionist James Stephen (1758-1832) over arguments for the system of slave registration. Lewis Hoyes of Forres, Scotland (1784- 1842), merchant in Grenada, speaker of the colony's House of Assembly, and a slave owner and attorney or executor for twenty-one plantations. Size: 8vo