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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER III
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His people were outside waiting to be satisfied on that head.

He hesitated not to say, that the proprietors were entitled to rent in every instance where the laborer was unwilling to labor, and unless that subject was at once settled, it would involve both parties in endless disagreement.

He was not one of those persons alluded to by his Excellency, who circulated misrepresentations for private benefit, nor was he aware that any one in the parish in which he lived had done so.
All that he desired was the good of the country, with which his interests were identified.
Sir LIONEL--I could not possibly be personal towards any gentleman present, for I have not the honour of knowing most of you.

My observations were not confined to any particular parish, but to the Island of Jamaica, in which the occurrences named have taken place.
Dr.RAPKY, of St.George's--If your Excellency will only do away with a curtain magistrate, things will go on smoothly in the parish of St.
George.

This gentleman has told the people that they are entitled to the lands occupied by them, in consequence of which the parish is now in an unsettled state.
Sir LIONEL--Who is the magistrate! Dr.RAPKY--Mr.Fishbourne.
Sir LIONEL--I am afraid I cannot please you.


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