GRENVILLE HALIFAX. 



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The white population was, in 1829, town of St 

 George, 177 males, 107 females ; parish of ditto, 

 90 males, 28 females; St John's, 38 males, 34 

 females ; St Mark, 25 males, 10 females ; St Pat- 

 rick, 84 males, 3 females ; St Andrew, 94 males, 

 8 females ; St David's, 38 males, 1 1 females ; Car- 

 riacou isle, 50 males, 4 females: Total, 596 males, 

 205 females; total, coloured males, 1562; females, 

 2224. 



The return to the slave compensation commis- 

 sioners gives the number of slaves as 23,536 ; aver- 

 age value of each, 59 6s. ; relative value of the 

 slaves, 1,395,684; proportion of 20,000,000 to 

 which Grenada is entitled, 616,444. 



The people are ruled hy a lieutenant governor, 

 council, and house of assembly. The council con- 

 sists of twelve members, and the assembly of 

 twenty-six. In all cases the common statute law 

 of England is the rule of justice, unless when par- 

 ticular laws of the island interfere. Since its res- 

 toration to Great Britain, in 1783, a protestant 

 clergy have been established by law. Four clergy- 

 men are allotted to the whole, and each is pro- 

 vided with an annual stipend of 330 currency, 60 

 for house-rent, and a considerable portion of valu- 

 able glebe-land, which had formerly been appropri- 

 ated to the support of the Romish clergy, for 

 whose benefit a part of the grant is still reserved. 

 There are eight places of worship, capable of con- 

 taining 2870 persons ; and the expenses of the 

 church establishment to the colonists is about 

 1500 sterling per annum ; that of five public 

 schools is 430. 



The following is the Grenada colonial revenue 

 and expenditure, from 1821 to 1831, in pounds 

 sterling : 



Principal exports from Grenada (except 

 cocoa): 



GRENVILLE, WILLIAM WINDHAM, Lord 

 Grenville, a distinguished statesman, was born 

 Oct. 25, 1759, the third son of George Gienville, 

 prime minister of England in 1763 5. He was 

 returned to parliament in 1782 ; in 1789 he was 

 elected Speaker of the House of Commons; the 

 same year he was appointed secretary of state for 

 the home department; in 1790 he was raised to 

 the peerage, and the same year became secretary 

 of state for foreign affairs, which office he retained 

 till the resignation of Mr Pitt in 1801. He was 

 the able representative and echo of that minister in 

 the upper house. On the return of Mr Pitt to the 

 premiership in 1804, without having stipulated for 

 Catholic emancipation, lord Grenville refused to 

 join him, and from that time till the death of Mr 

 Pitt, he took a prominent part in the ranks of op- 

 position. On'the death of Mr Pitt in 1806, lord 

 Grenville was appointed first lord of the treasury, 

 at the head of a coalition ministry, which was ot 

 short duration ; and he did not subsequently accept 

 any prominent political office. In 1795, the pro- 

 fitable, but almost sinecure, office of auditor of the 

 exchequer (salary 4,000) was conferred upon him; 

 and in 1809, he was elected chancellor of the uni- 

 versity of Oxford; and these two offices he held 

 till his death, which took place on the 12th Jan. 1834. 

 The secret of the authorship of " Junius" is said 

 to have been entrusted to lord Grenville. 



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HALIFAX, (a.) an ancient and populous town 

 in the West Riding of the county of York, 197 

 miles N.N.W. from London, and 42 S.W. from 

 York. The origin of the name is thus given by 

 Whittaker : Where the parish church of Halifax 

 now stands, there stood anciently a Hermitage de- 



dicated to St John the Baptist, the reputed sanc- 

 tity of which attracted a great number of pilgrims 

 from all quarters. Four ways, by which the 

 modern town of Halifax is entered, still distinctly 

 point to the church as their common centre ; these 

 were the roads by which the pilgrims approached 



