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Show 174 JAMAICA. appear·m g ., an d Christianity asserting her sway, with l ted force over the mass of the popula-vast y augmen ' tw· n. C ease from all attemJJts to oppose the current f. · · clnJercy-remove every obstruction to the 0 .JUStiCC an fair and full working of freedom-and the. bud of Jamaica's prosperity, already fragrant and v1gorous, will soon burst into a glorious flower. At the Governor's table in the evening we met most of the principal officials of the island-the Chief Justice, the Bishop, the Attorney General, the Advocate General, the Colonial Secretary, several members of the Council, &c. We believed it right to comply with the Governor's kind request, that we should be present on the occasion. Nothing could be more friendly than the treatment which we met with from the company. The dinner was moderate, thou~h handsome; temperance was strictly maintained, and the conversation was rational and agreeable. We took our leave at night under feelings of Christian love and regard for all present. May they remember that for public, as well as private men, the law of righteous· ness is the only law of safety and of peace! On the following day we returned to Kingston, where we found our uumerous friends just arrived from Santa Cruz, and with them, Miguel Cabrera de Nevares Governor of Madrid, who had been lately acting a~ Commissioner from the Queen of Spain, in the revisal of the municipal laws of the Spanish West Indian colonies. Our friends had taken him up at St. John's, Porto Rico, with a view of affording him a conveyance to Havana. Th.IS cJ· rcums t a1 1ce turned out to be of no small importance to myself. For 175 after the Spanish Consul at Kingston fi II f 1 ' n o t 1c fears so natural to the abettors of slavery 1 . d · . JAMAICA. ' ' M pos1t1vcly refused me a p. assport for Cuba ' '· mel !Iad even wr1· tten to the C.a ptam General of that isla' ncl , en. o ncous Iy repr. esentmg m.e as the President of th e A nt1·- s 1a very SocJCty, our fnend Cabrera induced him to alter his letter; and afte. rwards,. by his persona' l 1'nfl ncnce, pro-cured me a qmet landmg and polite receptI' on at H a-vana. Thus had we again to acknowledge that super-intending hand of our heavenly :Father 1vh' h 'd • ' IC prov1 es for all the needs of those who desire to serve Him. At Kingston I was occupied for a sho t t' · r lme Ill carrying through the press a small pamphlet, addressed to the planters, and entitled "Reconciliation recommended to all parties in Jamaica." The object of this ad~ress was to s_how the absolute identity of interest winch now su.b s. 1st.s among the planters, the J·a b orers, an~ the aboltt10msts, and to call upon them all to u. mte hear.t and hand, on J'nst and salut'a ry Pr m. c1.p Ie s, m pro~otmg the prosperity of this noble colony. We have smc~ had the satisfaction of learning that it was well received by all parties. It is inserted in the Appendix. , ?nr last day in Jamaica was the first of the week, flmd month (March) 29· t 11 .-(•' reat I·S the privileg·e of on e da y m· seven, express! y set apart for the pur-poses of rest and worship. For ourselves, we felt it to be ~alutary to cease from the investigation of seenfa: pmnts, howe\·er interesting, and again to unite WF ith ou. r fellow m en, · d · . Ill rawmg near m spirit to the oun. tam. of everY bl ess·m g. W e held our morning meetmg m one f th B · 0 e apt1st chapels; the congrega- |