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for them in 1833.. When the school was estab- 
lished it received 6,000 guilders from the Colony, but 
no further grant had been made in its behalf. His 
mised some help, and two hundred pounds were voted 
to Master JOHN and Mistress LyDIA in the following 
year. 
The Missionary Society had by this time a long 
list of chapels in Berbice, and a school attached 
to almost every chapel. The Society was from the 
first opposed to slavery, and the earnest, if not always 
the most prudent, advocate of emancipation. The 
Missionaries took every opportunity of teaching the 
slave population. Thus, in 1834 they reported that 
hundreds on the plantations were learning to read; 
although they were prevented by distance from attend- 
ing any regular school. With evident glee the London 
Missionaries also reported that one THOMAS LEWIS, a 
negro, who had been freed by his friends in England, 
was keeping school at Union Chapel in the Parish of 
St. Catherine in 1836. Who THomas’s English friends 
were we are not informed, In the same year the first 
Church of England school was started in New Amster- 
sterdam, and maintained chiefly by the Society for the. 
propagation of the Gospel. ALEXANDER WRIGHT was— 
the first Church of England schoolmaster in New 
Amsterdam. In the following year there were two 
public free schools in the Parish of St. Michael, and two” 
in the Parish of St. Catharine, all partly supported by the © 
Colonial Government. 
Some account of Lady Mico’s Charity, extraéted — 
chiefly from the Jamaica Handbook will probably be 
