502 Our Colonies. [May, 
Our present observations have been confined chiefly to Jamaica, not 
because that is the only colony which has to complain of the mistaken 
and unjust policy of this country’s government ; but because the wrongs 
she has suffered present the most urgent claim for redress; and because 
it is more than probable that she is about to be made still further the 
victim of misrepresentation and of a system of blind persecution. The 
other colonies of Great Britain also call for deep and prompt considera- 
tion. The intolerable oppressions in Canada and elsewhere, have been 
carried so far that there is no alternative between their being redressed, 
and the fatal alternative of their being lost to Great Britain. Their ene- 
mies are abroad ; but by the help of our own exertions and a good cause, 
those enemies shall not have all the fight to themselves. The new re- 
gulations lately passed at Grenada, respecting the slave population, are 
lying before us, and shall shortly be noticed. In the mean time, what 
we ask for the colonies is all that Englishmen ever require—“ a fair 
field and no favour”—and we take upon ourselves to convince all such as 
will be convinced, that, in the march of improvement and amelioration, 
there are not, and there never have been, persons more warm, more 
honest, more earnest, or more successful, than the calumniated and mis- 
understood colonists themselves. 
IN LAUDEM BULLZ AERO-NAUTICE. 
Tuey may talk as they will 
Of their steam-engine skill, 
But, as sure as the sun shines at noon, 
Straps, boilers, and springs 
Are a waggon to wings, 
Compared with the air-balloon. 
If you’re troubled with taxes, 
You cross the Araxes, 
Or fly to the plains of Hairoun ; 
In the height of the summer, 
Cool as a cucumber, 
You sit in your air-balloon. 
The ladies, poor souls ! 
Once sent sighs to the poles ; 
We may now send the sighers as soon: 
Painted canvas and gas 
Whisk away with the lass, 
in the car of the air-balloon. 
Our girls of fifteen 
Will disdain Gretna Green, 
The old coupler must soon cobble shoon ; 
With a wink to the captain, 
The beauties are wrapt in 
The car of the air-balloon. 
