The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

(From the Jamaica Standard and Royal Gazette of
March 25.)
Kingston, March 21, 1842.
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To his Excellency the Right Honourable Sir
Charles T. Metcalfe, &c. &c.
The humble Address of the Members composing
the Congregation of the English and German
Jews--oTthe City and Parish of Kingston.
May it please your Excellency—We, the members
of the congregation of English and German Jews of
this city, beg leave most respectfully to approach your
Excellency, and in common with all classes to express
our deep sorrow at the severe loss the island is about
to sustain in the departure of your Excellency from
these-shores.
Identified as are our interests with the welfare of

the colony, our feelings are still more warmly en-
listed in whatever concerns it, since we enjoy here,
equally with all our fellow-subjects, privileges and
immunities denied us in other parts of her Majesty's
dominions. We, therefore, stand not aloof, but join
in the general regret which pervades the minds of all,
particularly when the advantages arising from the
enlightenment, generosity, and kindness which have
distinguished your administration, are considered.
We should, however, have been wanting in grati-
tude to your Excellency, had we on the present oc-
casion failed to express our sentiments separately, as
a religious body, for the noble and disinterested
conduct you have maintained, and for the charity of
heart and hand you have evinced in all cases,
and to all sects; nor can we ever forget the
kind feeling you displayed, not only towards our
brethren here, but also on behalf of the sufferers

at Rhodes and Damascus. The sympathy :manifested
towards the poor and afflicted—the assistance
amply afforded to the wants of others, and
the support and patronage extended to works of pub-
lic utility, cannot fail to meet that recompense which
the great Judge of our actions awards to the benevo-
lent, to secure the peace of an approving conscience,
and indelibly to ensrave your memory.on the hearts
of a grateful posterity.
In the departure of your gxcellency, we shall de-
plore the loss of a tried friend, who watched over the
best interests of the people with the unceasing solici-
tude of paternal consideration, whose wisdom ensured
the just administration of the laws, and whose urbanity
of manner secured the love and esteem of all.

In rendering to your Excellency these our un-
feigned sentiments, we offer our fervtnt prayers to
the throne of grace, for your prosperous passage home
—for a long and uninterrupted enjoyment of health,
and for the possession of every happiness which a
bountiful Creator can bestow.

By direction and behalf of the meeting,
P. LAWRENCE, Chairman.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY.

To the Members of the Congregation of English and
German Jews of the City and Parish of Kingston.
I beg you, Gentlemen, to accept my wannest thanks
for the sentiments that you have expressed on the oc-
casion of my approaching departure.
To be deemed worthy of such kindness, I must
ever prize as one of the highest honours than can be
received.

You have justly alluded to the fact, that
you enjoy in Jamaica, equally with all your
fellow-subjects, privileges and immunities denied
to you in other parts of the British dominions.
The fact is honourable to this island, and the
reverse is discreditable to the mother country. I trust
that the time is near, when the Legislature of the
United Kingdom will follow the example of that of
Jamaica, and grant equal rights to all the loyal sub-
jects of our gracious Queen without distinction. We
have here proof, from experience, that this pan be
done, not only without, injury, but with manifest be-
nefit ; and I hope to see the day when it will be ad-
mitted by the Imperial Parliament, that all who con-
tribute to the support of the State are entitled to the
enjoyment of equal rights, and that the surest mode
of promoting the stability of an empire is to unite all
hearts in common interests and brotherly love.
My best wishes will ever attend' you, Gentlemen,
with a cordial desire for your prosperity and hap-
piness.

"lEMOIRS or ADMIRAL KEPpEL.-Our national
biographical literature has just received a valuable contribution
to its stores in the life of the celebrated Admiral Keppel, written
by the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, son of the present Earl
of Albemarle. There can be little doubt that this work will
be received with as much gratification by the public in general
as by the naval service itself, for at the same time that it pre-
sents us with the most faithful and interesting biography that
can be desired of this distinguished commander, from the out-
set of his career as a midshipman, when accompanying Anson
round the world, to the close of his active life with the honour-
able title of Viscount, it is rendered of great historical value from
the detailed accounts which are given of the principal naval.
actions and political events of that stirring period. Among
the other attractive features of the work will be found several
highly chal acteristie origin:A letters f.om Earl St. Vincent,
white a Captain in Keppel's fleet, and from other celebrated
personages of the time. _

DEAIII Or LADY Dt,7NDas (of Beechwood.)—Her
Lndvship died at her house in Herioes-row. Edinburgh, on
Saturday last. She was relict of the late Sir Robert Dundas,
created -a Baronet in 1821, married 1798, and has left issue
the present Sir David Dundee, married to the daughter of Mr.
and Lady Catherine Whyte Melville, and other issue.
An article from Breslau, in the Globe, of Brussels,
states that a child, 13 years of age, in the village of
Bresersdorf, who had been confined for the night in a
cellar, on a charge of theft, was killed by rats. In the
morning she was found with all the flesh eaten from the
head and legs. The Magistrate, by whose orders she
was confined in the cellar, has been arrested.
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