I observe, in all your letters, you write mediation for mediators, as applicable to my expressions.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines
My words in one of my preceding letters were, that your reliance on the mediators should not be vain or unfounded.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines
The tenor of these letters was, that they were sorry that any jealousy or quarrel should subsist between the two parties; that if the inhabitants of Old Town would come on board, they would afford them security and protection; adding at the same time, that their intention in inviting them was, that they might become mediators, and, thus heal their disputes.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson