We are also happy to say, that on some estates, the laborers have turned their attention to their provision grounds.

There is one point, however, which few seem to comprehend, which is, that although free, they cannot work one day and be idle the next, _ad libitum_." Later accounts mention that some thousands more of laborers were wanted to take off the crop, and that a committee of immigration had been appointed to obtain them.

[See Amos Townsend's letter on the last page.] So it seems the free laborers are so good they want more of them.

The same is notoriously true of Demerara, and Berbice.

Instead of a colonization spirit to get rid of the free blacks, the quarrel among the colonies is, which shall get the most.