The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-26 00:00:00

11AVANNAII.

( From tl.c Glasgow Courier, Der. 23.)
,IMTORTANT.—A, most respectable Commercial
'louse in town has favoured us with the follow.
ing extract from Ilavannah, of the latest date. It
is very important. The island, which the Ame-
rican Government has directed Commodore Ito-
ti.ta to survey, for the purpose of fortifying, is
one the most southern ,of that group of isles and
,shatits which extend from East Florida into the
It i$ Situated about half way between
the main island anti Cuba, end only abut 75
miles N.W. or N.N.VV,;• from the Havannah.—
lf the harbour in it is equal to that of the Ha-
vant-tab, tme of the most capacious in the world,
then in the hands of the United States it becomes
a naval station of the very first importance.
Strongly fortified, it overawes the Havannah, is
a stepping stone to Cuba, commAtins the outlet
of the great Gulph of Mexico, and consequently
the WHOLE TaAiH: not only of Jamaica, but also
the whole trade of Continental America, Mexico
included, from the mouth of the Rio n MAMA-
LENA to the point of East Florida. In case of any •
future contest with the, United States, it is a sub-
ject of deep importance to this country. The Atne-
Ocans lay their hands upon it now under the pre-
tence ofrooting out Pirates, and they will no doubt
claim the right of Seizing the island by saying that
the whole cluster lying off, Florida belong netts,
rally to it. On step by step they go." They are.
an ambitious people. They stick at nothing to
gain their purpose. They look with u longing
4,ye for Sugar colonies. They know their value
better than we seem now to do, and With this
Object in view we have little doubt that their
possession of the. WEST KEY ISLAND, is a pre-
paratory step to further encroachments in that
quarter of the world. 'They have chosen
their time very opportunely. Great Britain
wishing to trample upon her Colonies, to
'please a restless, interested, end reckless
party in this country, has kindled a flame of
suspicion, discontent end indignation through-
out them, so strong, that we cannot for a mo-
ment doubt, were any quarrel to ensue between
• Great Britain and the United States, these Colo-
nies would throw themselves under the protec-
tion of the latter power. We hope, however,
that prudent and firm measures on the part of his
Majesty's Ministers will, in defiance of the
clamours of faction, avert such a dreadful and
fatal catastrophe.--The following is the extract
of the Letter alluded to

" Ilarannoh, Nov. 10, 1023.

" Commodore Rogers, President of the Board of Commis-
sioners, has been sent oat to examine the port and harbour of
Thornson's Island (Key \Vest) 75 miles N.W. from hence,
And returned home on Tuesday last. I have been informed
that be declares the 'wham to be as good a one for ships of
the line and frigates as that of Havannah. lie remained in
this port six hours but did not land, only having put into port
to get fruit and refreshments. His report, as well as that Of
Conmindore Porter's, who was on his way to Washington when
Rogers was on his passage out, will appear in the public prints
AS soon as laid before Congress. This discovery will be all im-
portant to the naval forces of the United States and those of
great Britain, in these seas ; and it is to be fortified without
tielaY in pumuit of pirates, as the vessels of the United States
leave it at dark, and are on this coast befbre or at day-liglit,
consequently the pirates cannot evade them."

I.lAvornse, Dec. 16.---,Tl►o regular courier has
brought letters from Madrid of the 11th. The
Journals are not interesting : there is no political
intelligence. The Prelates and. all the Eccle-
siastics who are at Madrid; have, it is said, pre-
sented a petition to the King for the re-establish-
ment of the Inquisition. The Kieg answered,
that he was not yet authorised to do it by the
Powers end by the Pope, from which we might
infer the desire of doing it. The Duke of San
Fernando has been banished to his estates, for
having refused the embassy which was offered
him. The corps of Quesada, it seems, is going
to be disbanded. The troops of Loch° which
were at Madrid, and looked more like a band of
robbers than soldiers, have left the capital. It
is stated from Alicant that, though the capitula-
lion•says there shall be a French garrison, the
Spanish general Sempore will be the commander,
which displeases the inhabitants. Gen.Sempere has
placed a piece of cannon at his gate, and never
goes out without au escort of cavalry. Accounts
from X.eres de la Frontera, of the 12d, say that the
two parties are continually engaged all over
the country. The Constitutionalists arrest, plun-
der, and kill the' St'rviles, who take their revenge
when they are in force ; 19 Patriots were lately
taken and shot ; they died crying, " The Con-
stitution fAtr ever 1" The intriguing party exert
all their efforts at Court to prevent the King from
issuing an amnesty, on which, however, he does
not seem to-think any more. Thus.the new Mo-
narchy, from which something was hoped, will do
nothing to remedy the evils that oppress the
kingdom. The courier of the army, who comes
three times a week, will, henceforth come only
once; so that our comspondence will be carried
on in the same manner as before the war. The
sth Regiment of Russet's is arrived. Yesterday
two battallions of the Guard arrived ; • they are
only 1,100 strong, though it-is said they recruited
et Madrid.

Captain SABINH arrived at Deptford in the
Griper, on the 10th instant, from Spitzbergen,
where he had been to ascertain the situation of
the pendulum. the Griper, during Captain Se-
blue's stay on the island, penetrated to 75. 20. E.,
and to 81. N. Rein-deer were found in great
numbers at Spitzbergen, and killed by the crew ;
the fat on some of thorn was four incites thick.
A most astonishing circumstance occurred on
some of the officers visiting and inspecting the
tombs and graves in which some Russians had
been buried for 0 years. When the lid or
gave-stone was removed, the body appeared in
a perfect state, the flesh still remaining, and
with, a colour on the cheek similar to life. All
the bedies wore dressed in the costume of the
';Cban ry with night-caps, boots, and stockings
'11)14 wonderful preservation of the subject
iludeuC.eti Captain Sabine to bring one to Eugland,
B[9o ''one of the tomb grave stones. The Griper
it ordered to be paid oft —(l3righton Gazette.)

DEMER A It A.

SLAVE REGISTRAiIA REPORT.
TO MS IXCELLENCY MAJO-11-4XERAI.,IIII)MAY, T.TI"•U-

TENANTAGOVEIt?IOt, &C. &C, Ste.
Office for the Registration of Slaves, Georgetown, Demerara,
Sept. ]3, 1023.

Sin,--I have the honour of reporting to your ricellency;the
annexed partial Second Trienninl Statement of the Slave Popu.
lation of this United Colony, on the 31st of Nay last (with a
view of respectfully bringing this subject before your Excel.
lency's notice—the registry not. being completed on the Ist
inst., the period fixed for the same, in consequence of the exist-
ence of martial law since the 19th ult.), returning to me, de novo,
agreeably to your instructions, showing the increase and de-
crease thus far, on the three years since the preceding registra-
tion ; and in which, 1 hope, will be found a pleasing im-
provement in the present Creole population, compared to that
of lON.

[Here follows the registration, the results of which we have
given in our leading article.]

Your excellency may be assured, that the utmost care has
been used in completing the Registration thus far, and that
the 1760 returns delivered in, have been duly attested on oath ;
and I have again the pleasure to add, that I have encountered no
difficulties with any individual whatever. The deaths for the
three years past have been carefully compared and extracted
from the medical certificates attached teethe returns; and the
transfers from one proprietor to another, of such slaves as have
been sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of, or changed owner-
ship within this period, have been most particularly looked into
and numbered off at their names in the registration books of
1320, daily as the returns came in by the several numbers of the
schedules or returns in the present registration, and in which
an annotation to the same effect, and at the same time, has been
made, so that such slaves may be traced at any time. Inde.
pendently of the foregoing enumeration, the domestic slaves
have also been registered by schedules No. 1 a 54, containing
41 males and 62 females, total 103—with reference and subject
to the restrictions of the landing permit, as signified by me to
your Excellency, in the orders which have been made on the
petitions thereunto annexed, praying for such slaves to be ad-
mitted to registry ; " it being explicitely declared to be under-
stood, that such slaves have been imported as domestic servants
only, in attendance upon their master or mistress during their
stay in the colony, and that such importation has been under
the provisions of the statutes in that behalf, made and subject
thereto, and to such other conditions as are imposed by the law
and by the said statutes, some or one of them."
I have done every thing in my power to act up to the spirit of
the registration-laws framed for my guidance, by a careful ex-
amination into the identity of description of every sit:vein every
return of 1823, with a statement pertaining to the former re.
turns given in in 11420 ; and the mode I have followed for
checking the correctness of the enumeration, has furnished me
With the means of making this present partial arrangement, or
abstract of the slave population on tke 31st of May last (includ-
ing an additional number of 61 slaves since imported from the
Bahamas, the 13th of June), which may prove acceptable to
your Excellency at this moment, in several points of view.—
Theee calculations are necessarily attended with great labour;
but any labour that 1 can apply for the benefit of the colony, I
have ever been willing to submit to.
It is but clear that no slaves can be brought into the colony,
contrary to law ; and an illicit importation, I have no doubt,
would quickly be made an example of : but a difference may
be expected always to arise between two periods of registration,
from omission and otherwise, on the several reasons I had the
honour to submit to your Excellency's consideration in my
report of the 25th of September, 1020 ; and there may certainly
be a few instances of omission in favour of freedom with othere,
purposely to conceal this chattel property front the notice of
creditors. In general, however, as the registry is the ground
over which titles, sales, and transfers pass, there would seem
no fear that many persons would wilfully omit registering their
eaves, at the risk of losing their right and title in them. It
may be proper to mention to your Excellency, that, with one
or two exceptions, I have no account delivered in of the births
and deaths, and of still-born children, during the three years
preceding the present registration. Infants under 3 years re-
turned to me alive on the 31st May last, were 3,526—0 f whom
1,735 boys, and 1,791 girls. The deaths of children under 10
years of age, have been 697 boys, and 671 girls; and of adult's,
2,527 men, and 1,306 women. Of the present returned total
population, the males are 5,617 more than the females. The
proportion of the births and deaths to the present total popula.
tion, is 5 to 8 ; the births are in favour of the females, and the
deaths, of the males. Finally, there will be evidently an im-
provement in the Creole population, on the completion of the
present registry, since the last report of 1820.
It is worthy of observation, that the population from 25 to 50
forms the majority; after that age the numbers slacken amaz.
ingly : under 20 years, we have 21,198; and above 50, only
4,780. Judging, therefore, front present appearance, a still
farther improvement in the slave population may be fairly ex.
pected in a few years, as the sexes equalize, if it be permitted
to foster any hope of this kind, in thefece of probabilities,
which every day's experience is bringing nearer and nearer to
view. The general population decreases nearly 3 per cent. on
the three years past, whether from the of of the abolition
laws, or to the want of more salutary regulations in the hospi-
tals, or for the care of children, is not easy to decide. It may
be attributed partly to both causes, and these will be instru-
mental to others ; but as the lessening of this decrease must in
every view depend on the best regulations of the most humane
enasteee, it cennot be doubted but that tinejudicious and good
policy of proprietors will not fail to be beneficial to themselves,
and in their neighbourhood.
Here follow an account and specification since the last pre-
ceding registration, exactly corresponding with the statement of
slaves now returned to your Excellency, as existing in this co-
lony on the 31st of May last, showing the manner and under
whose charge the slaves are employed.
The present state of affairs is of extreme importance to the in-
terests of the absent as well as of the present proprietors of De.
merara, in every sense of the word. From the peculiar circum-
stances, take them altogether, under which colonial affairs have
stood and been represented for sonic time past, it may, with-
out presumption, I hope, be permitted to rue to assert, by way
of official proof, that the most effectual measures have been
adopted., and are in progress in this colony, to promote the
moral and religious improvement, as well as the comfort and
happinese of the negrocs, in the wholesome acts of the legisla-
ture, together with the active co-operation of your Excellency,
and the honourable members of the Court of Policy individual.
le, in aiding the erection of places of public worship, favours.
-ble to the institutions of our beloved country Amelitnation
and improvement are indeed breaking in upon civilized eo-
ciety in every state and condition of life, and in every corner of
the earth ; and as we live in an extraordinary age, when men
of the highest rank, attainments, and wealth, set the example,
and are united to distroy ignorance and delusion—so even in
this colony, proprietors of liberal minds are net wanting to re..

commend, in the strongest manner, by their influence and ex-
ample, the discharge of every sacred duty. lam proud to re-
fer to the repeatedly recorded beneficent measures of your Ex-
cellency, and the honourable Court of Policy, to second and
!insist the establishment of places of. public worship ; and to
maintain, that I verily believe, notwithstanding the daring in-
surrection which took place so lately on the east coast, that it
is to these endeavours for the maintenance of order and lin-
provement of morals, that an influence has been obtained over
the minds of those in whose principles and conduct such an
interest is felt, to which we are mainly indebted for the safety
and security of the colony.
These sentiments and declarations, and this unity of pur-
pose, I am concerned to know, will be rejected elsewhere with
disbelief , notwithstanding there is no West India colony en-
titled to higher praise for them, or gifted with men connected
with it of more, generosity and good sense. In January Last, in
consideration of the want of accommodation in St. George's,
Church, owing to the limited size of the building, and at the
earnest solicitation of numerous inhabitants, the'vestry were
induced to make an addition of 30 feet in length thereto, to af-
ford accommedation to 300 individual, of all classes; and al-
though they looked forward to the hope of defraying at least
part of the expence, by the sale of the additional pews, they
were encouraged by grafeful recollections, humbly to solicit
from your Excellency, and the Bon. Court of Policy, and it
was immediately granted, the sum of 5001. Or 7,000 guilder to
assist in the repairs, and consequent expenses. And early in
March last, the addition being completed, such was the earnest
desire for seats, (of course many
.persons being disappointed)
that 17 additional pews below were taken in a few minutes after
public notice to that effect, by voluntary offers, for f 6343, 5, anti
22 gallery pews, for f 3,009 I—making/9,3n fi, and which
was barely 501. less than the alterations were contracted for.

At a meeting at the early part of this year, of gentlemen con-
nected with the west coast of Essequebo, it bee been agreed
upon, under the auspices and similar assistance from your Ex-
cellency, and the Honourable Court of Policy, to build two
churches by voluntary subscription : one, which is already com-
menced, to be placed in front of Plantation La Belle Alliance,
calculated to contain about 600 individuals of all classes; the
other is intended to he erected near Plantation Adventure,
about eight miles distant. The inhabitants interested in the
Scotch church of St. Andrew's have equally partaken of this
support and liberality ; and we have reason to expect, as funds
can be found, and by general assessment, would be much the
better assurance of them, to witness the presence of places of
public wor►hip, at convenient distances from each other,
throughout the colony, to the discouragement of missionaries,
and as the most effectual means, combined with the due admi-
nistrittion of good laws, to promote order in the colony, and
to remove some of the hostility so loudly expressed against the
supposed supineness of West Indians in these respects ; since
the upholding such institutions is a better reply than words can
give, and will tend to promote and never militate against a gra-
dual amelioration and improvement in the condition of the slave
while, on the part of the negrots, their general good behaviour
is such, that no insubordination, excepting this recent insurrec-
tion on the east coast, has been witnessed in thiscolony for many
years. To avoid the convulsions of sudden changes in such a state
of society, concessions ought to lig given ever to good conduct,
as grace and favour, with equal regard to local and individual in-
terests, end with considerable lapse of time. Heat, indiscretion,
and an injudicious interference with long established authority,
can lead to nothing but abuses, misery, and ruin. Far be it
from me to accuse the missionaries wrongfully ; but unhappily
there can remain no doubt, though it may not appear to what
an alarming extent they may have been carried, that efforts to
create disaffection among the slaves have originated, and have
long been silently extending themselves, in and from that very
part of the east coast where the missionaries have been most
encouraged, to every other part of the colony ; and it has been
assumed with considerable proof that the present insurrection
was accelerated, if not produced, by inflammatory harangues
and letters to the slaves, holding out false and mistaken hopes
of emancipation to them against the avowed discountenance of
every such hope by the highest authority in the kingdom. It
would be sati►factory could persons in Europe, wl►o encourage
these men by their very general hostile disposition against
Wrest India Proprietors, have the opportunity of personally
ascertaining the progressive but silent amelioration and aug.
mentation which have been going on in the,condition and hap-
piness of slaves within the last 20 years; it would represent
to them the danger of every measure which terminates, as may
be foreseen, in insurrection—they would understand, that the
origin of the late disturbances, both here and in Barbadoes,
was in these improper discussions, over which the West India
master had no power or controul—.and they would hear of
many proofs affbrded to the planters, even in these recent dia-
-1
turbances, of their attachment and contentment—to induce
them to admit it as the best preventive policy, in the present
state of society, to confirm and strengthen this influence, as a
gradual advancement to the reception of other privileges and
benefits, free from danger to public or private interests, or of
those awful visitations of justice which are and must be en-
forced when the laws are violated.

A well regulated gang of slaves on a plantation in this cold.
ny, is conducted upon similar principles with every large esta-
blishment in other countries; and, on the present occasion, I
hope permission will be granted to me to bring this interest-
ing subject—the real situation of the labouring classes of his
Majesty's dominions—before the attention of your Excellency.
It may seem absurd and impertinent to do this to your Ex-
cellency ; but to those, however, who are not so familiar with
the subject, it may not be uninteresting—and I do It with the
sincerest liope, that it will be' attic.nded to by some of those
persons who look upon the West India system As one of such
unceasing terror, and induce them to think better of the colo-
nists ; and that it may excite truly paternal men to continue
to apply their great powers of mind, as far as prudence will go,
to increase the comfort and happiness of their slaves. '
Drivers, tradesmen, anti other officers among the slaves on a
plantation, are usually allowed 2 shirts, 2 pair of trowsers, 3
yards of Osnaburgs, 3 yards of cheek, 1 cloth or Ponnistone
lined jacket, I hat, 1. handkerchief, and a quantity of Salem-
pores for a lap; thread, needles, &c., per annum ; with 1 blan-
ket, and 1 watch-coat, every second year. Field men slaves
are allowed 1 shirt, 3 yards of Osnaburgs, 3 yards of check,
1 yard of Salempores, 1 hat, 1 cloth or Pennistone unlined
jacket, thread, needlse, &e., per annum ; and 1 blanket every
second year. Boys are allowed I cap, I jacket, 1 shirt, and
half-a-yard of Salempores. Field women, 6 yards of Osna-
burghs, 5 yards of check or Salempores, 1 handkerchief, 1
cloth or Pennistone wrapper, I check wrapper, 1 hat, thread,
needles, &c., per annum ; with I blanket every second year.
Girls, 1 warm wrapper, 1 shift, and 1 cap ; and mothers at
Christmas usually receive a reward of I dollar for each
child. Their food is, to drivers, tradesmen, and officers,
6 pounds of salt fish, and 2 hunches of plantains, weekly,
half a pint of rum daily, and 2 heads of tobacco, and 2 pipes
once a fortnight. Other slaves 3 pOunds of salt fish, and 2
bunches of plantains, weekly, 2 drams of rum dailv, anti
occasional beverage, with 1 head of tobacco, and pipe

once a fortnight. To boys and girls, half this allowance of
food. Slaves commence work in the fields a little after six
o'clock in the morning, and in many river situations, on ac-
count of the heavy dews, not so early ; they have an hour to
breakfast, and another to dinner, and Weak offabout 6 o'clock in
the evening. The actual quantity of work expected of a prime ne-
gro, when working with a gang, or individually, is to weed one
acre of young canes daily, or plant tiler 20 beds, of 3 reds each
(Rhinland measure); or dig a trench 1 rod square, and 4 feet
' deep, or cut and carry out a cord of fire-wood, the distance of
25 rods; or hole 60 rods of cane-holing; or in coffee crop,
when plenty of coffee is on the trees, gather as much as, when
Cured, would make 30 pounds net coffee. Thirty-five slaves
should cut and carry out to the punts, as many canes as are
sufficient to make 3 casks of 1,500 pounds each of sugar. Two
men are allowed to work 1 punt. In a boiling-house of 7 cop-
pers to 1 fire, there would be required 6 men to cleanse the
liquor, and 1 head-boiler to superintend them ; 2 fire-makers,
and 4 men to attend them with dry fuel. A mill of 10 horse
power requires 2 men as feeders, 6 women to remove the megas
from the mill to the logic, 1 man to stock the same, 6 young
boys to attend the mill with canes, at a distance from 3to 6
rods, 2 boys to keep the liquor boxes, &c. clean, 1 engineer and
2 firemen to make fire under the engine; in the distillery 5
men more—making 38 slaves about the works. A copper is
expected to make 1 cask daily. The salary of a manager of a
plantation of 300 slaves, is from 6,000 to 6,000 guilder ; first
overseer, 1,100 guilders ; second overseer, 1,000 guilders ; and
junior overseer, 600 to 000 guilders per annum. The punish-
ment of the whip is getting into disuse, and is not used with
the same freedom and extent as seven years ago ; solitary con-
finement is found to have greater effect in a well-disciplined,
gang. With respect to the family connection of slaves, and the'
size of room allotted to each person, it is customary to allow 10
feet of negro house-roorn to each person, and families and con-
nections get together, and divide the portion of room, as may
be most convenient to themselves. Besides which, the slaves
cultivate as much land as they think fit, and raise feathered
stock, the produce of which, and in all other of their transac-
tions, they appropriate to their own benefit; and many of them
have been known to purchase their freedom by these means.—
A nursery is erected near the manager's house, where all the
children, from two months to eight years old, are kept under
the charge of two or more elderly women, provided with a cook,
and their food, which is prepared under the inspection of the
manager, consists chiefly of pap, plantains, roots, fish, and
rice. From eight years to fourteen, they are placed tinder the
charge of a careful negro, and employed in cutting grass, and
doing light work about the buildings.
It is generally observed, that within the last seven years tha
slaves are much im proved in their several occupations, owing
to better treatment. It is at the same time impossible to dis-
guise from the commonest observation, that they arc becoming
daily more enlightened, and more artful ; marks of a right dis-
position, or of an honest character, are seldom seen. To direct
and govern this newly acquired intelligence, to correct this tem-
per, disposition, and habit, and to inculcate with equal seal with
the missionary, obedience, contentment, and resignation to their
lot, would seem to be the first obligation of a minister of the
church of England and Ireland.
This is not exemplifying a description of the economy and
management of a few plantations, but will be found character-
istic of the greater number of them in this colony, since the law
regulates that the slave shall have his food and raiment, and
that lie shall be taken care of in sickness and old age ; and his
also ordained the extent of punishment which a master can
inflict, and lute given to the slave the right of complaining to ei-
ther of the fiscals, or to the burgher officers ; and obedience and
Industrious habits thus forming clear the way for general. and
and in
ft
things it low" wilt
require i le) te
aid their conntryinen while enlightening their slaves, or they will
es-
sentially the assistance ofthe most intelligent men tosupport and
yi rift:l 7,1
assuredly, be influenced by thosesentiments which gross out of
education—considering,at the best of tinies,what a wavering kind
of authority is held in the West Indies. It would seem proper, in
order to keep such an irregular full-grown society in awe of, the
laws, tl mat a Governor should always have a strong military force
with him, ready to fall instantly upon any part of the colony.
Under such circumstances, the first thing necessary and impee
riously called for, is toy procure a stranger military force for the
safety of the colony. his done, it might not be inconsistent
with principles of justice or interest, as against proprietor or
slave, to give the slaves a stake in the colony; in so far, that
no plantation gang shall bo broken open and disposed of sepa-
rately, without the approbation of his Majesty's representative,
' or any individual attached to a plantation be disposed of with-
out his consent, unless by judicial sentence, or when petty
crimes, complained of and proved before his honour the Fiscal,
had rendered it necessary. lam almost confident the duty of
amelioration would then peaceably go on ; that it need not be
carried higher at present ; that tranquillity, the love of country,
better principle, and ultimately the formation of schools, would
naturally follow ; the power and propriety of adding other fads
lities would be evident and acknowledged; and a change in
this society would be gradually produced—better Mt than ex-
pressed. But, on the other hand, if the nature of this West
India property were suddenly changed by any public measure,
It would be a public injustice to leave proprietors ruined, or
, many of them, at least, exposed to be prosecuted at law for the
full value of their engagement and mortgages. This would,
indeed, be an act pregnant with serious calamity to the king-
dom at large, and which would most assuredly involve therein
the welfare of the West Indies altogether.
Permit me, before I conclude, to offer may congratulations to
your Excellency, on the services you have been able to render,
and on the present tranquillity of a colony, so recently divided
and thrown into confusion ; and to testify, that, as far as I can
learn, the inhabitants have done full justice to your Excellen-
cy's prompt and decisive measures, at this dreadful period of
apprehension, to the well-disposed part of all classes of this so-
ciety. The termination of what threatened so darkly, and the
tranquillity we shall, we hope, very soon enjoy, will bring with
them recollections belonging to these eventful days, peculiarly
calculated to call forth the warmest expression of public grati-
tude, learning from colonial history how vigorous, unwearied,
and impartial the administration ofa Governor must be, to
check the torrent of principles which aim to bring Government
into contempt, and to destroy the happiness of social life.
For these and many blessings this colony is indebted to your
Excellency's abilities as a Governor and a Statesman ; and with I
such intellectual talents, It is not extraordinary that you should I
be regarded by the inhabitants, after ten years administration,
with a grateful sense of the services received, anti which have
hitherto enabled Demerara to rank high as a colony. " The
sum-total of the ditties of a Governor of a West-India
colony appears to consist in selecting men tit to assist in
the councils of the respective colonies with firmness, integrity',
impartiality, and reflection. Individually, a Governor can do
little of himself, and must be content to confirm the acts and
deeds of gentlemen long settled in the colony, and better ac.
quainted than he can be with their local interests." Thus many
things of grave importance are often determined upon, which
may fairly be attributed to a Governor's counsellors ; but the
se:,
,njwuti
eminent
justly the
good order and tranquillity of this community will, I trust, be
the reward of your Excellency's Counsellors, and of the oian
31ilitary and Naval Officers and Gentlemen of the Colony, fo.}r.
d
society—may
:telael assistingregetlye nlit. let
nlyai ftnlpetdtdhai vrepietnaireittnittrimiiecaetetrnin:sot
t,rehioxiainfstelrt(oht:lii:toilsion.)inivuy,i
fitness
purpose,
indebted imtn
applause of the country, and to whom, and to In.apideou,avteneritiiaonafti-yCotuto,)l.r.f
nm
f
id,rotlli,eidvlnlcoeniotouratbillies Court of Policy,
every rational being, and of all GoYernment--the happiness
great end sugf;estlinegeotinie-
idl)urxiesciievrliele'etnyteilliedarn infusing
many blessings, as the best means of reviving the credit and
which it is scarcely to have been
in
s'uprllpliOlesereisdtty ofocrom t
u lotie
l'fliincaosvnleornlriey.
aeptiiinenne d in Demerara, has nearly blown
over. Your Excellency, like a skilful pilot, stemmed the tor.
We ariemnssoewnsedateiri,
and the expectation import.
rent of madnceosnslamnadnfdo,lly with calmness, befitting the
nd it is oily justice to
once of your
high pre.eminence.s entertained of your
add, that your Excellency the hearts of the inha-
bitants of this colony, a powerful an d
founded on the basis of loyalty and ffippporting influence—
public man must build his reputation a eetion, on which every
ion
able to themselves and to your Faland his
power—honour-
you will still very long enjoy, for lency, and which I hope
this United Colony, I remain, with
peace and happiness of
it great respect,
• our Excellency's
(Signed)most faithful servant,
JAMES ROBERTSON, Registrar.