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Show 52 ANTIGUA. We overtook a wedding party. Both bride and bridegroom were common laborers on the estate. 'rhe bridegroom was attired in a blue coat, hru1dsome waistcoat, with a brooch, white pantaloons, ru1d Wellington boots- the bride, in a vast pink silk bonnet, lace cap, and white muslin gown, with fashionable sleeves! We afterwards called on Dr. Daniel, the. respected President of the Council, and a large attorney. He freely assured us that the laborers, on the properties under his care, were working well, and at a rrmch cheaper rate, than in the times of slavery. Here also, the result of the experiment was a saving of expense ; and of course therefore, an increase of profit, and a rise in the value of property. Another week had now elapsed, and on the First·day even-ing, notwithstanding indisposition, a third meeting was held in the Methodist chapel. It was promiscuonsly attended, as was supposed, by two thousru1d five hundred people. 'l'he ap· pea ranee of the congregation, and the deep interest they evinced on the occasion, reminded us of the prophecies in the book of Isaiah, respecting the great moral change to be effected by the gospel of Christ, in a world of vice and sorrow. " The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice ru1d blossom as the rose." I was now laid by, under the care of a physician, for two days; but on the next morning (First month, 27th,) was allowed to unite with my friends, in visiting the jail and house of correction, which we found in a state of cleanliness and order. There was little to complain of, but the stowage of lunatics in the jail--a practice not unusual, in the British West Indian Colonies. I have since heard from the Governor General, that a separate place is now allotted to them; he also informs me, that the tread-wheel, which we were happy to find disused, is on the point of being finally demolished. The Chief Judge, N anton, who accompanied us to the prisons, and attended the meetings which we held with their afllicted inmates, fully confirmed the statements which we had previously received of the ANTIGUA. 53 diminution of crime. He also o-ave a ch . behavior and industry of th "' eenng account of the W e negroe~ on Ius own property e were now placed in . · dence, respectin<T the staple pos~sswnfof clear documentary evicxports of the ~ .. pro nee o the Island. 'The average . ast five years of slaver ( 1829 sive,) were sugar 12 189 h , d 'f, to 1833 inclu- ' ' . ogs,lea s . mol ..-....08 cheons ., and rum 2 •4 ·6 8 -puncheons ' Th assef s "•" pun-years of freedom (~834 to 1838 . . . ose o . thEf first live ' mclus1ve) w hogsheads. molasses 8 308 .,_ • ere,. sugar 13,545 I ' > pL111CueOI1S • and · r } c.lcons ; showing an excess of 1 356 h' 'h urn ,lO!r.-pun-of 5000 puncheo119 o·f ·, ' ogs cads of sngar, and mo asses · and d · · . puncheons of rum 'rl · ' :· .a lmnmtwn of 1,359 . liS companson IS I one ; not only does 1·t d sure Y n triumphant emonstrate the ad . . . free labor durin<T a course of fi vantage denved from many o( the .pl~ntcrs of •. . IVC years, but affords a proof that AJltlg:ua. have ceased t molasses into mm . It h ' o convert their · ou~r r to be bs d · years of freedom includ d" 0 erve lhat these five . ' e two of drouO'ht o . Jtous. The statement f, . 1839 r o ' nc, very calam-h. 01 ·, iOl'lns an ad! · bl . t 1s account. It is as loll mra o climax to beyond the J· t . • . Ol~s: sugar 22,383 hogsheads. (10 000 ,JS uve1 age of slavm ) 13 433 ' ' lasses (also 10 OOO b y, • puncheons of mo- ' , cyond that avera!!'C ) d C>leons of null I '1'1 t . h . o ' an only 582 pun- . · "' , m t e SJ xth . f f fa!f trial of live years tb, · year 0 .. rcedom, after. the ' • e exports of f almost doubled the avera<T [ 1 1 sugar rom, .Antigun, r . • oe 0 t lC ast five ye· f I . a 'act which precludes th . urs c s avery, IS what hands W"" tl . c neccssrly of all other evidence. lly = us vast crop · d . . hands of that lazy d . . ratse .md real1sed 1 fly the an Impracticable ra (· 1 been described) tl 'cc "" t 1ey have often , 1e ne<Troes And d the work been effected 7 o S ,· I nn er what stimulus has T · oeyundertlnt f d he Governor m d . • o mo erate wages . a e a partmg v· ·t · evenmg, and seemed to d .· . 1 ISJ to us at our hotel in the I . eu• e p,easme fro•n f I . us 11s just and admi . bl . · rce Y Imparting 1o r,t e vwws of colm . I I' founded on the immlll'tble b . ua po Icy. They are bri<Tantine h d ' asls of Chnstmn principle 0 b a now returned frO! S . . ur on the 28th, we sailed forD . 11 t. Chnstophcr's, and early 1 omuuca. cannot with honesty , qm.t my narrative of Allti"'U" . h 5* t:l "' Wit out |