And for the obvious purpose of exciting the thousands of people warmly devoted to him, to acts of violence, they attempted to burn him in effigy and actually circulated the report that he had been murdered.

Thousands of his people flocked into Spanish Town, threatening to destroy the town if the report proved true.

But on learning its falsity were easily persuaded to retire, and did so without being guilty of any excess whatever.

Unmeasured and unceasing have been the attacks of the Jamaica press upon the missionaries.

Upon their shoulders has been laid "the ruin of that fine island."-- They have corrupted the peasantry and put it in their heads to ask more wages than the estate can possibly give.