Enclosed I send a specimen of another artifice adopted to harass and distress the negroes.

They have adopted the notion (sanctioned by the opinion of the old Planters' Jackall, Batty, and the Attorney General), that the people are liable to pay rent for houses and grounds during the three months' possession to which the Abolition Act entitled them, and notices have been served on the people, demanding the most extravagant amounts for the miserable sheds which the people inhabited.

You will perceive that in once case 21l.6s.9d.has been demanded.

This conscientious demand was made by John Houghton James, Executor and Attorney for Sir Simon Clark.

Another is from a Mr.Bowen, of _Orchard_ Estate; and the third from Mr.Brockett, of _Hopewell_ and _Content_ Estates, the property of Mr.Miles, M.P.for Bristol.