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votes. Persons of colour are now admitted to all 

 the privileges of white persons, and there are no 

 civil disabilities from religious differences. The 

 governor has the title of his Excellency, and is in- 

 vested with the chief civil and military authority ; 

 he is also chancellor, ordinary, and vice-admiral. 

 On his death or absence, the government devolves 

 on the deputy or lieutenant-governor, if there be 

 any ; otherwise on the senior counsellor, who rises 

 in rotation to the presidency, and has a salary of 

 1000 per annum. 



The council, who are by courtesy severally ad- 

 dressed in the colonies by the title of Honourable, 

 consists of twelve members.' They are appointed 

 by mandamus from the king, and hold their offices 

 during his Majesty's pleasure; but if at any time 

 by death, absence from the island, or suspension, 

 the council should be reduced to less than the 

 number limited by the instructions to the governor, 

 he may appoint as many persons out of the princi- 

 pal freeholders, inhabitants of the island, to be 

 members of the council, as will make up such 

 number; which persons so appointed may act as 

 councillors until they are disapproved, or others 

 are appointed by his Majesty. The governor may, 

 however, suspend any of the members of the coun- 

 cil from sitting, voting, or assisting therein, if he 

 find just cause for so doing; but he must, by the 

 first opportunity, signify to the English govern- 

 ment any vacancy in the council, from whatever 

 cause it may arise. 



The duty of the council is to give advice to 

 the governor or commander-in-chief for the time 

 being, when required ; and they stand in the same 

 relation to the governor in the colony as the privy 

 council in England does to his Majesty; they are 

 also a constituent part of the legislature of the 

 colony, corresponding with the British house of 

 peers; and, finally, they sit as judges on certain 

 occasions. 



The general assembly are the representatives 

 of, and chosen by, the people, and correspond with 

 the British house of commons, and its utmost 

 duration is seven years. The laws and statutes of 

 England passed previously to the settlement, un- 

 less they are from their enactments inapplicable to 

 the local circumstances of Jamaica, apply to the 

 colony. Statutes passed in England since 1728, 

 unless they relate to trade and navigation, are not 

 in force there. The assembly have all the privi- 

 leges of the house of commons in England ; they 

 have the sole power of levying taxes, and the dis- 

 tribution thereof, with the exception of an annual 

 permanent revenue to the crown of 10,000; the 

 salary of the speaker of the assembly is 1000 per 

 annum. 



The governor, with the advice and consent of 

 the council, may, from time to time, as occasion 

 requires, summon the general assembly together, 

 and may, of his own authority, adjourn, prorogue, 

 and dissolve it. 



The council and general assembly, with the con- 

 currence of the king, or his representative the gov- 

 ernor, may make laws, statutes, and ordinances for 

 the public peace, welfare, and good government of 

 the colony, so that they be not repugnant, but as 

 near as conveniently may be agreeable to the laws 

 and statutes of Great Britain. Under the head of 

 West Indies, a view will be taken of the results of 

 the recent abolition of slavery there. 



JAMIESON, JOHN, D. D., F.R.S., Edin., and 

 F.S.A., Scot., an eminent Scottish antiquary and i 



philologist, was born in Glasgow, in 1758, hia 

 rather being first minister of the Duke Street An- 

 tiburgher chapel there. He himself was educated 

 for the ministry, and for many years officiated as 

 clergyman to a congregation of Antiburghers in 

 Forfar. He was afterwards called to a chapel in 

 Edinburgh belonging to the same body of dissen- 

 ters, in which he continued for the last forty-three 

 years of his life. His death took place at his 

 house in George Street, Edinburgh, on the 12th 

 July, 1838. 



He first came forward as an author in 1789, in 

 " The Sorrows of Slavery, a Poem, containing a 

 faithful statement of Facts respecting the Slave- 

 trade." His only other poetical work is " Eter- 

 nity, a Poem, addressed to Freethinkers and Phil- 

 osophical Christians," 1798. In theology and reli- 

 gious matters he published, " An Alarm to Britain; 

 or an inquiry into the causes of the rapid progress 

 of Infidelity," 1795 ; " Vindication of the Doctrine 

 of Scripture, and of the primitive Faith concerning 

 the Divinity of Christ, in reply to Dr Priestley's 

 History of Early Opinions," 1795, two vols. 8vo. ; 

 " Remarks on Rowland Hill's Journal," 1799 ; 

 " The Use of Sacred History," 1802, two vols. 

 8vo. ; " The Divisions of Reuben," 1805 ; Import- 

 ant Trial in the Court of Conscience," 1806, 12mo; 

 ' The Beneficent Woman, a sermon," 181 1 ; " The 

 Hopes of an Empire reversed, or, the night of plea- 

 sure turned into fear, a Sermon on the death of the 

 Princess Charlotte," 1818; "Three Sermons, con- 

 cerning Brotherly Love," 1819; " Sermons on the 

 Heart." 



His great and excellent work, " An Etymologi- 

 cal Dictionary of the Scottish Language," was 

 published in two volumes, 4to. 1808, 1809. It 

 illustrates the words in their different significa- 

 tions, by examples from ancient and modern wri- 

 ters; shows their affinity to those of other lan- 

 guages, and especially the Northern ; explaining 

 many terms which, though now obsolete in Eng- 

 land, were formerly common to both countries, and 

 elucidating national rites, customs, and institu- 

 tions, in their analogy to those of other nations. 

 It has been long out of print, but he made an 

 Abridgment of it in 1818, in one volume 8vo. A 

 supplement to the original work was published in 

 two vols. 4to. In 181 1, he published "An Historical 

 Account of the Ancient Culdees of lona, and of 

 their settlement in England, Scotland, and Ireland;" 

 in 1814, "Hermes Scythicus, or the radical affini- 

 nities of the Greek and Latin languages to the 

 Gothic," 8vo. ; and still later an " Historical Ac- 

 count of the Royal Palaces of Scotland." Dr 

 Jamieson was a Royal Associate on the Royal 

 Foundation of the Society of Literature, to whose 

 transactions he contributed some papers, as well as 

 to the transactions of the society of antiquaries. 



JARROW ; a village in the county of Durham, 

 anciently called Gyrwy, about half a mile south ot 

 the river Tyne, and two miles from South Shields. 

 It was formerly a place of importance, though now 

 consisting only of a few cottages, an ancient church, 

 and the ruins of a monastery. The latter was 

 founded about the year 684, by the abbot Benedict 

 Biscopius, who had before built the monastery of 

 Monk Wearmouth, and who is said to have been 

 the first person that brought the art of making 

 glass into England. Indeed, Monk Wearmouth 

 was distinguished as being the earliest glazed 

 church in this country ; before this time, the win- 

 dows were either latticed, or, at best, filled up 



