It was a reply to Stephen's masterly work against West India slavery, and was considered by the Jamaicans a triumphant vindication of their "peculiar institutions." We went several miles out of our route expressly to have an interview with so zealous and celebrated a champion of slavery.

We were received with marked courtesy by Mr.B., who constrained us to spend a day and night with him at his seat at Fairfield.

One of the first objects that met our eye in Mr.B.'s dining hall was a splendid piece of silver plate, which was presented to him by the planters of St.Thomas in the East, in consideration of his able defence of colonial slavery.

We were favorably impressed with Mr.
B.'s intelligence, and somewhat so with his present sentiments respecting slavery.

We gathered from him that he had resisted with all his might the anti-slavery measures of the English government, and exerted every power to prevent the introduction of the apprenticeship system.