_Denmark and Slavery._--Dr. Madden, in _A Twelve Months' Residence in the
West Indies_, 1834, says, in allusion to a remark of Mr. Brydges, to the
effect that England was the last European power to enter into the slave
trade, and the first to abandon it, "This is inaccurate: to the honour of
Denmark be it spoken, the slave trade was abolished by her five years
before England performed that act of tardy justice to humanity" (vol. ii.
p. 128.). The object of the present communication is neither to question
nor disparage the merit here claimed for Denmark, in reference to "the
slave _trade_:" it concerns the abolition of _slavery_ itself by that
power. I shall therefore be obliged to any reader of "N. & Q." who will
inform me when freedom was granted to the negroes in the Danish island of
St. Thomas, in the same manner as to those of the British West Indian
colonies in 1838? And also in what work I can find any detailed account of
such act of manumission?