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Such is the history of slavery in Jamaica, in spite of all its natural and acquired advantages; and such has been, and will be, the melancholy fate of every colony cultivated by slaves. It does not depend upon accidents. It is the natural and inevitable result of a false system of labour.

An able writer at the Cape says, "In this colony we enjoy a most favourable climate and situation, much good land, and many valuable productions. We are not burdened with a national debt, the support of fleets or armies, nor any of the artificial evils of old states. Yet poverty is the general rule, and the most moderate independence the rare exception. There are many causes for this, but we can now point to one which would alone account fully for our depression, in the absence of all the rest.

"We possess about 35,000 slaves. The first cost, at £40 a piece, is £1,400,000. The natural wages of labour is just the sustenance of the labourer; but this the slaves get, and over and above we lose annually,

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1. The interest of the first cost
2. Insurance
3. Inferiority of slave labour (5 p. c.)
4. Accidents peculiar to slave labour
Making a difference against us in
favour of countries that employ
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£84,000
42,000
70,000
14,000

£220,000

Total loss in every seven years £1,540,000 Nor is this all. A large portion of the active capital of the colony is thus locked up, and taken from its natural use-viz., promoting improve ments, and extending cultivation and trade. And many of our farmers, particularly in the wine districts, commenced their business on borrowed money, on which they paid six per cent.

If, as

it is now manifest, the capital sunk in the first
cost of slaves perishes every seven years, or, to
meet all objections respecting numbers, say, every
ten years, the fate of such farmers could have been
easily foreseen. It was impossible, not from the
local or accidental circumstances, but from the
immutable order of things, that they could com-
pete, in the same markets, with the wine growers
of Europe, who have the whole of this money
capital always at command to meet the various
demands of their manufacture and trade. No one
need be surprised that, in consequence of this
enormous waste, we find ourselves so often on the
brink of ruin, and now and then at the very bot-
tom of it." Such is the cost of slavery to the
planter.

How many more years shall this wretched
system continue, and be actually SUPPORTED by

us?

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A MEMORABLE instance of old English spirit and integrity is recorded of Lady Ann Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, who, by failure of the male line, possessed the great hereditary estates of the Clifford Cumberland family, and the consequent patronage of the borough of Appleby. Sir Joseph Williamson, the profligate minister and secretary of Charles the Second, wrote to her ladyship, suggesting a candidate for the borough. She returned the following laconic and patriotic answer, worthy a better subject than this bartering of the subject's rights:

"I have been bullied by au usurper, I have been neglected by a court; but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man sha'nt stand.

"Anne Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery."

APHORISMS.

Who knoweth not that time is truly compared to a stream that carrieth down fresh and pure waters unto that salt sea of corruption which environeth all human actions? And therefore if man shall not, by his industry, virtue, and policy, as it were with the oar, row against the stream and inclination of time, all institutions and ordinances, be they never so pure, will corrupt and degenerate. -LORD BACON.

Riches are the baggage of virtue; they cannot be spared nor left behind, but they hinder the

march.-IB.

Those who study particular sciences, and neg lect philosophy, are like Penelope's suitors, that made love to the waiting-woman.-ARISTIPPUS.

As that which rises from the bottom of a still is but a vapour, and becomes not a drop till it settles upon the upper part of it; so that which comes from the body is but a base disturbance, and comes not to the proper form and nature of a sin till consented to and owned by the soul.-DR. SOUTH.

It is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy; it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.-ADDISON.

It cannot escape observation, that when men
are too much confined to professional and faculty
habits, and, as it were, inveterate in the recurrent

employment of that narrow circle, they are rather
disabled than qualified for whatever depends on
the knowledge of mankind, on experience in mixed
affairs, on a comprehensive and connected view of
the various, complicated, external, and internal
interests which go to the formation of that multi-
farious thing called a "state."-BURKE.

ANECDOTE OF MILTON.

But the hours speed on, and Time, as he flies,
Over the valleys breathes witheringly;
And the fairest chaplet of summer dies,

And blossomless now is the wild-briar tree

The strong have bowed down, the beauteous are dead;

The blast through the forest sighs mournfully
And bared is full many a lofty head,

But there's fruit on the lowly wild-briar tree.
It has cheered yon bird, that, with gentle swell,
Sings, "What are the gaudy flowers to me?
For here will I build my nest, and dwell
By the simple, faithful, wild-briar tree."
Wild Garland-

VERSES TO A BATH STOVE,
BY DR. MASON GOOD,

On leaving it behind in a house from which he removed,
HERE rest, O stove! the fondest friends must part,
Whate'er the sorrow that subdues the heart;
Here rest, a monument to all behind,
Of the chief virtues that enrich the mind.
For thrice three years I've known thee, and have

found

Thy service clean, thy constitution sound;
Amidst a world of changes thou hast stood
Fix'd to thy post, illustriously good;
Unwarp'd, inflexible, and true, whate'er
Thy fiery toils, and thou hast had thy share
For never Stoic of the porch has felt
A frame more firm, or less disposed to melt;
And sooner than o'er thine, mankind might seek
For iron tears o'er Pluto's marble cheek.
Yet hast thou shown, in fulness and in want,
Virtues that ne'er in rugged bosoms haunt ;
Grate-full when loaded, and when empty seen
With a still fairer and more beauteous mien
For polished is thy make, and form'd t' impart
Light to the mind, and solace to the heart.
When numb'd by vapours, or a frowning sky,
When deadly gloom has weigh'd down every eye,
When dark my views, or doubtful my career,
I've sought thy radiance, all has soon been clear,
Nature her face has hasten'd to resume,
Each doubt decamp'd, and glee succeeded glosm

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JAMES the Second, when Duke of York, expressed one day a great desire to see old Milton, of whom he had heard so much. The king replied, that he felt no objection to the duke's satisfying his curiosity; and, accordingly, soon afterwards James went privately to Milton's house, where, after an introduction which explained to the old republican the rank of his guest, a free conversation ensued be. tween these very dissimilar and discordant characters. In the course, however, of the conversation, the duke asked Milton whether he did tressing and long-established diseases of the pulmonary and not regard the loss of his eye-sight as a judg-respiratory organs, induce the Proprietor to recommend ment inflicted on him for what he had written against the late king. Milton's reply was to this effect: "If your Highness thinks that the calamities which befal us here are indications of the wrath of Heaven, in what manner are we to account for the fate of the king, your father? The displeasure of Heaven must, upon this supposition, have been much greater against him than against me; for I have lost only my eyes, but he lost his head."

THE WILD BRIAR.

Tur woods are stripped by the wintry winds,

And faded the flowers that bloomed on the lea;
But one lingering gem the wanderer finds-

'Tis the ruby fruit of the wild-briar tree.

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When the spring came forth in her May-day mood, against Counterfeits-none can be genuine unless signed by
Mid the bursting buds, by the zephyr wooed,
Methought 'twas a beautiful sight to see,

The green leafy sprays of the wild-briar tree.
When the sunbeams shone with a warmer glow,

And the honied bells were sipped by the bee,
Could the woodlands a lovelier garland show,

Than the wreath that hung on the wild-briar tree?

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Beavers are reasonably supposed to have been once inhabitants of Great Britain. About a mile to the north of Worcester a little brook enters the Severn, called Barbourne, or Beaverbourne, to the present day, from the Beavers that formerly inhabited the brook. A little island in the Severn, near the spot, is still known as the Beaver Island; and, higher up the stream of the Severn, is a flat green island, called Bevereye, which also gives name to an adjoining hamlet. How late the Beaver remained here is unknown; but the Severn was not navigable near Worcester in early times, from the weirds and rapids that obstructed its course. Giraldus Cambrensis says that Beavers frequented the river Tievi, in Cardiganshire, and that they had, from the Welsh, a name signifying "the broad-tailed animals." Their skins were valued by the Welsh laws, in the tenth century, at the great sum of one hundred and twenty pence each; and they seem to have been luxuriant clothing in those days. Beavers are now principally found in the colder parts of North America, and in various parts of Europe and the north of Asia. They burrow along the Rhone, the Danube, and the Weser, in Germany; and formerly in some of the Wermeland streams. In the neighbouring province of Dalecarlia, a hunter pointed out to a recent tourist the remains of an old beaver dam, where, some years previously, he had destroyed one or more Beavers; and in his time, he said, he had killed eleven of them. Whether the last mentioned are a different species from the Beavers of North America has not yet been ascertained.

Of the very few quadrupeds which choose for themselves materials, convey them from place to place, and then use them in the construction of habitations, uniform in substance and form,

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half the length of the animal, broad, oval,
and flattened. It is covered, except at
the base, which is clothed with hair such
as that on the body, with a horny skin,
marked into divisions which resemble the
scales of fishes. There are five toes on
each foot; those in front are separate,
and provided with thick and strong nails,
admirably calculated for digging; while
the hinder toes are united along the whole
length by a strong skin, which allows
them to expand in the same manner as
the feet of waterfowl.

The Beaver walks awkwardly, applying
the toes only of the fore feet, and the
entire sole of the hinder, to the ground.
In walking, the tail is usually dragged
along, but occasionally somewhat raised,
and moved from side to side. In swim-
ming, this singular organ is used both to
accelerate and direct the animal's pro-
gress; but the statement that the Beaver
uses it as a conveyance for his building
materials, and as a trowel, is too extra-
The tail
vagant longer to obtain belief.
is not only ill calculated for these pur-
poses, but it has been proved by observa-
tion not to be thus employed.-Popular
Zoology.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOURIST.
RESPECTED FRIEND,

In No. 12 of "The Tourist," an extract
from a dispatch of Lord Goderich to the Go-
vernor of Sierra Leone was introduced in a
letter from R. S. I cannot but suspect this
writer to be no enemy of the slave-trade and
slavery. Upon no other ground, but such a
supposition, can I imagine how any one con-
cerned for the honour of religion or humanity
could pass over all the appalling statements
contained in the parliamentary papers alluded
to, without any notice, and fix his attention
only on one short passage at the end. The
title of these papers is, "Slave Trade-Sierra
Leone. Ordered by the House of Commons
to be printed, 6 April, 1832. No. 364." They

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An African Prince, named Ayua, whose father is a considerable slave-dealer in the river Cameroon, was lately taken in a Spanish slave-ship, and eventually brought to this country.

He was a heathen, but appeared fully sensible of our superiority in arts, and manners, and religion, as professed in this country; but, when remonstrated with on the inhumanity of the slave-trade, he said that if the Europeans would abandon it, and purchase of them cotton, sugar-cane, ivory, oil, and the other productions of Africa, instead, He they would gladly give up selling men. stated that although the slave-trade was carried on by Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Brazilian ships, yet the goods employed in the trade, and the responsible agents in it, were English.

I should be sorry for any obstacle to be placed in the way of the excellent and pious desire of Lord Goderich, for the diffusion of Christian knowledge in Africa; yet I cannot but consider that the most effectual step which our Government can take, towards the accomplishment of this great object, is the most vigorous measures for preventing its own subjects from being connected with "men-stealers and murderers." I earnestly desire the promulgation of the gospel of peace, and that the professors of the Christian name may labour to promote the good of injured Africa in every way. To show that all I have advanced I have good authority to prove, I shall subscribe my real name.

12th Month, 6th, 1832.

WILLIAM NAISH.

CURIOUS CALCULATION. WHEN the earth is compared to an ant-hill, the comparison is very inexact, so far as respects the proportional bulk of the animals and their habitation. If we suppose that there are at present 600 millions of human beings on the globe, and that ten persons-men, women, and children-on an average are equal in bulk

the Beaver is the most remarkable. His contain the clearest evidence of the slave-trade to a cubic yard, then the whole existing race

architectural instinct has, however, been greatly exaggerated, so much so as to place him next to man in the scale of intellect; yet it is in this particular only that the Beaver discovers intelligence equal to that of the higher quadrupeds. Connected with the constructive la

form a mass equal to a pyramidical mountain of mankind, if closely packed together, would 1000 yards each way at the base, and 60 yards high-that is, a mountain rather less than Arthur's Seat. Farther, if we suppose 150 generations from the flood to the present time, and estimate each generation at 300 millions, the whole, if brought into a mass, would not

having been carried on at Sierra Leone to a frightful extent-that many British subjects are indirectly, if not directly, concerned in promoting that wicked and inhuman traffic and that the chief part of the trade of the colony ministers to its support. It appears that Lieutenant Governor Findlay has very laudably taken much pains to investigate this bours of Beavers, may first be noticed the subject, and to bring it under the notice of equal in bulk Benlawers, in Perthshire, assumgovernment. Now, I think it is very unfairing that mountain to be a cone of 15,000 feet of R. S., without giving the Governor the credit due for his labours in this cause of humanity, to introduce a passage from Lord Goderich's dispatch, which certainly implies blame on the Governor for his interference with, or, at least, suspicions of the missionaries. It is far from my intention to throw any obstacle in the way of the missionaries doing their duty, though I cannot but think that, if they have known of the prevalence of the slave-trade in the colony, without labouring for its suppression, that they are not clear of blood.

peculiarities of the incisor teeth, which especially contribute to supply them both with food and shelter, by enabling them to peel the bark from the trees, and also to gnaw through the very thickest trunks which they may require for building materials. The number of these teeth in each jaw is two, which are placed opposite to each other. These are reproduced as fast as they are worn down, and, when one of them has been destroyed, that immediately opposite grows forward, so as, when the jaws are closed, to occupy the vacancy. The tail is unlike that of all other quadrupeds. It is little less than

It is much to be lamented that this outrageous violation, or, at least, evasion, of the law which makes it felony to be engaged in the slave-trade, should have claimed so little attention from the Government or people of

diameter at the base, and 3,700 feet in height. Yet Mount Etna is thirty times the size of Benlawers-Chimborazzo is ten times the size of Etna-and it would require ten thousand millions of mountains like Chimborazzo to make a mass equal to the globe.

AN ADMONITION.

A PERSIAN, humble servant of the Sun,
Who, though devout, yet bigotry had none,
Hearing a lawyer, grave in his address,
With adjurations every word impress,
Supposed the man a Bishop, or at least-
God's name so much upon his lips-a Priest,
Bow'd at the close with all his graceful airs,
And begg❜d an interest in his frequent prayers!
COWPER.

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"Mr. O'Reilly said he had arrived in this island an utter stranger to its inhabitants, its institutions, and the manners of the country. His instructions, when he left England, were to ascertain the condition of the negro, to report it faithfully, and to be the friend and protector of the slave. Faithfully had those instructions been obeyed; and he could, from ocular demonstration, state, and the fact was

owner.

undeniable, that slavery existed but in name. The
negroes were a well-fed, happy people: their con-
dition, in every respect, superior to that of the
majority of the peasantry of England. In fact,
they enjoyed luxuries which he never could have
imagined. The protection of an Attorney-General
was not required by the slaves; for their kindest
friend and protector was their humane and generous
These were bis sentiments. Although
but a short time in the colony, he had witnessed
enough to convince him that the character of the
planter was slandered, and the condition of the
slave misrepresented, in Europe."
Such is the advertisement of the West In-
dian party.
The arrival, however, of the
Jamaica papers has now put us in possession
of the atcual facts, and we request the reader

to mark them well.

acquainted as he was with their island, in it he,
had ample opportunity to recognize that beautiful
Jamaica so often described to him in England.
The people, too, seemed so happy-he would almost
say, the very slaves appeared to enjoy themselves more
than many poor in the home countries. As for the
gentlemen, he had found them full of kind and
honourable sentiments; in them, since his arrival,
he had frequently experienced intelligent and
energetic assistants in the protection of slaves. To
this country he had come thus instructed, well
in his memory, to hold that Jamaica was an island
of the first consequence in the West Indies, and
carefully to remember that, in it, every one of his
faculties must be devoted to the strictest and most
impartial discharge of his duty.' Firm was his de-
termination faithfully to act on this; and if to him,
then, was attached the name of honest, he would
have succeeded in the highest ambition; but, at the
approbation, their applause was principally due to
same time, if such a line of conduct deserved their
those who directed him."-Jamaica Royal Gazette
for Sept. 15, 1832.

and just remarks are made by the editor of
Upon this affair the following appropriate
the Jamaica Watchman :-

In

adjoin vicegerency to the idea of being allpowerful, and not to that of being all-good. His Majesty's wisdom, it is to be hoped, will save him from the snare that may lie under for praise which I have observed in you, may gross adulation; but your youth, and the thirst possibly mislead you to hearken to these charmers, who would conduct your noble nature into tyranny. Be careful, O my prince! hear them not; fly from their deceits. You are in the succession to a throne, from whence no evil can be imputed to you; but all good must be conveyed from you. Your father is called the vicegerent of Heaven. While he is good he is the vicegerent of Heaven. Shall man have authority from the fountain of good to do evil? No, my prince; let mean and degenerate spirits, which want benevolence, suppose your power impaired by a disability of doing injuries: if want of power to do ill be an incapacity in a prince, (with reverence be it spoken) it is an incapacity he has in common with the Deity.

Let me not doubt but all pleas, which do not carry in them the mutual happiness of "We are quite amused at the greedy manner prince and people, will appear as absurd to in which certain expressions, said to have been used by Mr. O'Reilly, were grasped at, as afford-your great understanding as disagreeable to ing the best possible evidence of the unmixed your noble nature. Exert yourself, O generous bliss which the slaves in name enjoy in this their prince! against such sycophants, in the gloElysium. The plan resorted to on this occasion, rious cause of liberty, and assume such an of putting words into a gentleman's mouth which ambition worthy of you, to secure your fellowhe never uttered, is by no means a new one. creatures from slavery-from a condition as this instance, however, it failed-entirely failed; much below that of brutes, as to act without and the chop-fallen Courant has been reduced to reason is less miserable than to act against it. the painful necessity of inserting the true and real Preserve to your future subjects the divine speech; and that, too, without being able to add right of being free agents, and to your own one single remark by way of note or comment, or royal house the divine right of being their bein explanation of the obvious contradiction which nefactors. Believe me, my prince, there is no it gives to the other.". "What struck us at other right can flow from God. the time, and we should have supposed would have struck every man who possessed one grain of for a throne, consider the laws as so many While your Highness is forming yourself common sense, was this simple fact that the Attorney-General, not having seen any thing of common-places in your study of the science of slavery, save in this and Spanish-Town, was perfectly government. When you mean nothing but incompetent to form any judgment on it; and, there-justice, they are an ease and help to you. This fore, his testimony, allowing that he did use the way of thinking is what gave men the glorious expressions attributed to him in the first speech as appellations of deliverers and fathers of their reported, was perfecly valueless. Had he said country; this made the sight of them rouse laid himself open to the same castigation which incapable of bearing its very appearance, what the Courant made him say, he would have their beholders into acclamations, and mankind believing the statements of those who purposely the inexpressible advantages which will ever was inflicted on the bishop, who, listening to and without applauding it as a benefit. Consider surrounded him on his arrival, reported on the attend your Highness, when you make the condition of the slaves, in the same manner as the Attorney-General has been made to do, before he power of rendering men happy the measure of had an opportunity of knowing any thing about your actions. While this is your impulse, them, save from the representations of others. how easily will that power be extended. The Nor can the condition of the slaves in the towns glance of your eye will give gladness, and your be urged in justification of such or similar remarks every sentence will have a force of bounty. to those alluded to, inasmuch as they afford no Whatever some men would insinuate, you have criterion whatever by which to judge of the condi- lost your subjects when you have lost their intion of those on estates or in the country." clinations. You are to preside over the minds, not the bodies of men. The soul is the essence of the man, and you cannot have the true man without his inclinations. Choose, therefore, to be the king or the conqueror of your people.dience, that is passive.

It appears Mr. O'Reilly (an Irishman, as his name indicates) had attended a military ball and supper at St. Thomas in the Vale; and, after partaking freely of West Indian hospitality, had, on his health being drunk, repaid his hosts with a speech, smacking, as might be expected, of Irish eloquence and sangaree. The colonial Unionists gave what was termed a report of this speech in the Jamaica Courant and Kingston Chronicle, ingeniously adapted to serve their own purposes; and the editor of the latter paper stated that he considered "this voluntary confession on the part of the Attorney-General of such importance to the colony, that it was his intention to forward numerous copies of his paper, which contained it, to the various editors of London papers, with whom he is in the habit of corresponding, for the purpose of securing its circulation at home." Thus the pretended speech arrived in England, and here it underwent another little tampering process. A sentence or two at the commencement, which, even in the Courant and Chronicle's version, evinced that it was delivered at a convivial party, were omitted, and it was announced as having been delivered " on a pub- Sir Walter Raleigh to Prince Henry, Son of It may be submission, but it cannot be obe

lic occasion, not long since."

But with the last packet from Jamaica comes another disclosure. The speech, as given by the Jamaica papers, it seems, was never uttered at all! At least, so says Mr. O'Reilly, who has caused it to be publicly denied in the Jamaica Royal Gazette, and has, moreover, published the speech which he professes to have really delivered " on the public occasion." It is as

follows:

"In the perhaps tumultuous expression just now exhibited, he recognized something to him infinitely pleasing; it was warmth of heart, sincerity of feeling. For the kindness from which this arose, he was deeply grateful. True, he was a stranger amongst them-yet, all imperfectly

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

James the First.

I am, Sir,
Your Highness's most faithful servant,
WALTER RALEIGH.
Cayley's Life of Sir Walter Raleigh.

London, August 12, 1611.

May it please Your Highness. The following lines are addressed to your Highness from a man who values his liberty, and a very small fortune, in a remote part of this island, under the present constitution, above all the riches and honours that he could THE CONCLUDING SENTENCE OF anywhere enjoy under any other establish

ment.

You see, Sir, the doctrines that are lately come into the world, and how far the phrase has obtained ground, of calling your royal father God's Vicegerent; which ill men have turned both to the dishonour of God and the impeachment of His Majesty's goodness. They

BERKELEY'S SIRIS IMITATED.

BY SIR WILLIAM JONES.

BEFORE thy mystic altar, heav'nly Truth,
I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth:
Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay,
And life's last shade be brighten'd by thy ray:
Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below,
Soar without bound, without consuming glow.

JAMAICA PLANTERS

VERSUS

CHRISTIANITY.

IN what degree it is allowable, and in what degree it is criminal, to instruct the Jamaica bondsmen, may be learnt from the following communication to the Editor of the Christian Record, a monthly publication issued in Kingston, Jamaica, under the superintendance of Members of the Church of England.

"I happened to be present, the other day, at a conversation which took place at the house of an attorney in my neighbourhood, on the question whether or not a clergyman, who had been lately appointed to a district of the parish, should be permitted to instruct the slaves on the estates in that district! It was the unanimous opinion of the planters present that the said clergyman ought not, on any account, to be admitted on the estates. Why? BECAUSE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY! 'There was nothing against the individual himself. This was admitted in so many words; but his connexion with that Society was deemed a sufficient reason for depriving the slaves of the means of instruction which he was appointed to afford them, and for keeping them bound down in the chains of spiritual darkness! What an awful responsibility lies on the souls of proprietors who thus deliver up the spiritual welfare of their slaves to the dictation of abandoned men! In this manner, and for these causes, the slaves are deprived of the instruction and consolations of the ministers of the established church. From the inadequate size of the chapels, and from the want of time allowed them, they can scarcely attend the public ministry; and they have been threatened by proprietors, attorneys, and overseers-aye, by magistrates! -with the utmost severity of punishment, if they shall be detected in attendance at a 'Sectarian' place of worship. How, then, are the unfortunate creatures to obtain spiritual nourishment for their famishing souls? Whom

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will these planters permit to give them instruction? The Bishop's Catechist.' He, and he alone, is to be admitted; and the cause of his admission, and the value of his instructions, may be gathered from the conversation which passed upon this occasion:

"An overseer who was present, addressing the attorney of the estate which he managed, said, 'He (the clergyman) asked me to allow him to catechise the slaves on the estate, Sir; but I referred him to you. Has he spoken to you, Sir?' 'You did perfectly right. He has not spoken to me yet. Then he is not to attend, Sir?" 'Certainly not. He has connected himself with the Church Missionary Society, and it is high time to put down fanaticism in the country.' 'But the catechist is still attending, Sir. Is he to go on?' 'Oh, the Bishop's catechist. What does he teach? Does he teach reading?' 'No, Sir; he teaches them to repeat the Church Catechism.' 'Nothing more?' 'No, Sir.' 'Then he may be allowed to continue. That can do no harm; IT WILL DO NO GOOD; but it can do no harm. He may go on!'

"When,' asks the writer, will the Bishop's eyes be open to his situation? The lamentable fact is, that he is now merely an instrument in the hands of the planters, by which they are endeavouring to put a stop to the progress of religion in the island! It is enough to make one's heart sick; but it is too true that every zealous clergyman who is anxious to discharge his duty finds himself checked at every point by

a league between adulterous planters and temporising churchmen; the former consistently opposing the truth, the latter seeking ease, and friendship of the world.' When will his lordship shake off the trammels of worldly policy, and stand forth in the name and in the strength of his Master? His voice raised against the proprietors' criminal neglect of their slaves would be heard and listened to, and some hope might then be entertained of rescuing the soul of the slave from spiritual thraldom; but, if his lordship thus continue silent, how great is his responsibility!'

dividuals refused to serve with him, &c. &c. The following is the reason assigned by the Cornwall Chronicle of February 18:- We understand that his (Mr. Roby's) manifesting so decided a regard for the Baptists, in becoming their security, and in intermeddling with the affair of the meeting-house (i. e., lodging information concerning the destruction of the chapel), has rendered this gentleman so obnoxious to the public.'

"Mr. J. L. Lewin, of Montego Bay, from his activity in behalf of the missionaries, has been subjected to the bitterest malice of their, "The following instances will show that and now his own, enemies. They have intereven individuals of great respectability in the fered between him and his co-partner in busicommunity have not escaped the malice of ness, Mr. Heron, and have even succeeded in persecutors, when they have ventured to inter-compassing a dissolution of the connexion. fere in the behalf of the missionaries. Mr. Roby, Collector of his Majesty's Customs at Montego Bay, was repeatedly subjected to gross insult. On one occasion he was hung in effigy. On the formation of a conservative Corps for the defence of the town, several in

"Mr. Lawrence Hill, of Montego Bay, has been dismissed from his employment for advocating the cause of the missionaries; and medical men have actually refused to attend his family in sickness!"

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THE DROMEDARY DRIVER.

In vast and boundless solitude he stands-
And round, and round, heaven and the desert

meet;

strong

ABBOTSFORD.

DAY springs from distant ocean; calm and bright
Winds, like a glittering snake, the lovely Tweed;
The early bee is humming o'er the mead;
Rocks dewy forests catch the rosy light,
O'er ivied cots the smoke is trailing fair,
And the bird sings, and flow'rs scent all the air.

The shepherd resting on his crook, the line
Of Cheviot mountains distant, dim, and blue;
The waters murmuring as they flow and shine;
Tall spires the summer foliage glancing through,
In Tempe's vale, or Pan's own Arcady.

It is a naked universe of sand
That stretches round, and burns beneath the feet:
Stillness, dread stillness, reigns! and he, alone,
Stands where drear solitude has reared his throne.
Look on the ground: behold the moistless bed,
Where lies his faithful dromedary, dead!
Mark his despairing look, as his wild eye
Stretches its aching sight, as if to try
To pierce beyond the desert and the sky!
Quick thoughts-remembrances—hopes, deep and Enchant the gazer, till he dreams he be
The Arab maid, that wept a fond adieu,
And said she loved him, and she would be true;
And wished and prayed he might not tarry long;
And home, and all the scenes of early days,
Come, with a rushing sickness, o'er his soul;
For he sees life fast fleeting to its goal:
He casts around a last despairing gaze
O'er the wide universe of burning sand,
And strikes his forehead with his clenched hand.
And now he hurries on with rapid stride,
As if (vain hope!) to pass the boundless sands,
And reach some clime where gentle waters glide
Through smiling valleys, and green shady lands;
But still the desert rises on his view,
And still the deep sand sinks beneath his tread;
Onward in phrenzy runs-his dizzy head
Fainting, he stops exhausted-but anew
Turns round-oh, God! his tottering knees give
way!

He falls, and dying lies, the fell hyæna's prey.

And here stands Abbotsford-romantic dome!
Attracting more than all this lovely scene;
For glorious genius here hath made a home-
Its turrets whitening o'er the woods of green,
Slopes, larches, to the small forget-me-not,
A.magic breathe, and tell of fame and Scott.

Peace, Abbotsford, to thee! and him whose fame
Hath haloed thee with interest ne'er to die;
Linked with his immortality, thy namre
With Petrarch's venerated pile shall vie.*
Pilgrims from southern land, and o'er the sea,
When we are dust, shall fondly bow to thee.

London.

The villa of Petrarch still stands at Arquato, and, with his tomb, receives during the year the homage of thousands.

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