He is a Scotchman, has been in the island for thirty-eight years, and has served as a local magistrate for thirty-four.

Until very lately, he has been a proprietor of estates; he informed us that he had sold out, but did not mention the reasons.

We strongly suspected, from the drift of his conversation, that he sold about the time of abolition, through alarm for the consequences.

We early discovered that he was one of the old school tyrants, hostile to the change which _had_ taken place, and dreadfully alarmed in view of that which was yet to come.

Although full of the prejudices of an old slaveholder, yet we found him a man of strong native sense and considerable intelligence.