are three different one has over its door � british office another is for and a third for g eat promises are made to persons proposing to such as a free passage to the west indies wages of from seventy five cents to a dollar per day and permission to when they choose very few however of those who have been long resident here can be induced to avail themselves of these offers small as are the at they believe that the are not observed that on their arrival in the west indies will be called upon to pay their passages and that it will not be at their to return in short they suspect to be only a more plausible name for the slave trade the are the class most sought for as although of any tribe are received even the just re ca are sent off as the authorities are pleased to term it voluntarily the last consisting of somewhat less than two hundred and fifty persons included seventy six slaves almost that instant landed from a prize a merchant me that these men were not d by journal of an permitted to with their countrymen but i� l hurried off to the vessel without knowing whither they hound the acting governor dr denied tiie of this although he admitted that the seventy six slaves did to the west indies very soon after halt ing from the prize it is to be remarked that the white inhabitants of as well as the coloured people entertain very able notions of this scheme of west indies the best defence of it perhaps is nor can flourish in this settlement and a from its poor soil and sickly climate to any other region may probably be for the better but the british government is less scrupulous as to the method of carrying out its projects than most other nations in their schemes of self in which is the residence of all the are to he found what remains of the from and their descendants the whole number transported hither at several periods was about fifteen hundred not than seventy or eighty of these people or their t w survive upon the spot our pilot is one of the number that his countrymen were promised fifty acres of hm each in on condition of the already in their possession in with this un e standing they to africa but in more than half a century which has since elapsed the government has never found it convenient to fulfil its obligations only two or three acres have been assigned to each meantime the body of has away until the standard f earth by two the natural inheritance of every being has almost all of them as well as fifty or ye thousand acres could have done these the slaves who were taken or ran away from e united states during the war d by t j african and their movement was anything bnt one it would be matter of curious speculation to inquire into the relative proportions now alive of slaves who remained southern soil and of these together with the amount of their posterity not of course that it has been in any degree a experiment as to result of and slaves the trial of that experiment has been left to america and it has been in a manner that might induce england to her own when she with this settlement has been known as the white man s grave and it is certainly a beautiful spot for a grave � as lovely as one of those ornamental now so fashionable and on which so much of our taste is as if only the dead had leisure for the enjoyment of and however is by no means the fatal spot that it once was formerly a governor was expected to die every year although a few held the reins of power and the pomp and dignity of office twice or even thrice that period brave and excellent men have accepted the station on this fearful among them was colonel the adventurous traveller in africa very great likewise prevailed among the merchants military and civil officers and soldiers this was partly owing to the of their mode of life the rich were in the habit of giving champagne at noon and heavy and luxurious at night the continual neighbourhood and near prospect of death made them gaily desperate so that they grew r with him and regarded him almost as a boon companion and besides in a sickly climate each individual is confident of his own personal against the disease which he ready to allow be fatal to those around him i have noticed this absurd in others and been conscious of it in myself ill it is the d by of an the bullet is expected to strike any and every except one s own � and here perhaps is the great courage fc the at practise a temperate life another circumstance that has render the settlement less is the of in the vicinity and of the rank into fields the good effect of this change will be appreciated by those who have noticed the improved c our western as the forest falls before the axe or have seen the difference between the inhabitants of old new lands in any country it is by the old here that they do not fin il very sickly except once in seven years when an and carries off many this happened since until the present year when in the order of things the angel of death should have re ax several persons provided for their safety by the j and others made their arrangement to retreat on ee symptoms of danger but ihe year thus far seems to been distinguished by no peculiar life in a climate like this must generally be much mm brief than in temperate regions even if it do not yield 