text:  But it was the policy of the time to pacify the merchants whose bugbear was a negro insurrection in the West Indies; and whether the genius or the fears of Pitt gave way to the impression the consequence was equally lamentable--the mighty power of England was wasted on the capture of sugar islands which we did not want which we could not cultivate and which cost the lives by disease and climate of ten times the number of gallant men who might have saved Europe