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which he had filled with such honour to himself, and 

 advantage to the public, conveyed him a state prison- 

 er to England. These despotic measures were ulti- 

 mately productive of good. Col. Long, being heard 

 before the king and privy council, pointed out with 

 such force of argument, the evil tendency of the 

 measures which had been pursued, that the English 

 ministry relucrantlv submitted. The assembly had 

 their deliberative powers restored to them, and Sir 

 Thomas Lynch, who had presided in the island as 

 lieutenant governor fiom 1670 to 1674, very much to 

 the satisfaction of the inhabitants, was appointed cap- 

 tain-general and chief governor in the room of Lord 

 Carlisle.^ 



It might have been hoped that all possible cause of 

 future contest with the crown, on the question of po- 

 litical rights, was now happily obviated; but the event 

 proved that this expectation was fallacious. Although 

 the assembly had recovered the inestimable privilege 

 of framing such laws for their internal government as 

 their exigencies might require, of which doubtless 

 themselves alone were competent to judge, and al- 

 though it was not alleged that the laws which they 

 had passed, as well before, as after the re-establish- 

 ment of their rights, were repugnant to those of the 

 mother country, yet the royal confirmation of a great 



J I have subjoined, as an appendix to this book, " An Historical Ac- 

 tc count of the Constitution of Jamaica," wherein the particulars of Lord 

 Carlisle's administration are detailed at large. This historical account is 

 now published for the first time, and cannot fail of proving extremely 

 acceptable to the reader. 



