He was a boarder at the public house, where we were directed for lodgings, and as we spent a few days in the village, we had opportunities of obtaining much information from him, as well as of attending some of his courts.

Mr.C.had been only five months in the district of Manchioneal, having been removed thither from a distant district.

Being a friend of the apprentices, he is hated and persecuted by the planters.

He gave us a gloomy picture of the oppressions and cruelties of the planters.

Their complaints brought before him are often of the most trivial kind; yet because he does not condemn the apprentices to receive a punishment which the most serious offences alone could justify him in inflicting, they revile and denounce him as unfit for his station.