ABORTIVE COLONIAL PUBLICATIONS. 239 
Editor of the Courzer said he was reluétant to attribute 
wrong motives to the author, but could only suppose it 
to be the offspring of mental aberration ; whatever the 
cause, however, the effe& was, he said, so pernicious that 
“we cannot allow mistaken liberality, or ill-applied 
courtesy, to restrain us from expressing our unqualified 
contempt for the new doctrine.” 
It appears as if two parts out of seven were printed 
and on sale at eight guilders each ; the contents of these 
were enumerated, but whether the work was ever finished 
is doubtful. Mr. PLAYTER died on the 22nd of April, 
1837, and in the Gazette of the 27th is a long obituary 
notice of his career. 
A relation of this visionary, Mr, J. L. C. PLAYTER, ad- 
vertised on the gth of March 1837, “ Letters to Proprie- 
tors and to the Commercial Interest,” for sale at one 
guilder, which from the verbose notice appzars to have 
been at least curious. He says his system was * calcu- 
lated to wholly prevent the vagrancy, and to promote 
the industry of the Agricultural Labourers of a low 
Country, dy affording them a greater reward easier got 
by staying quietly AT HOME ¢o produce from Mother 
earth—and capable of yielding the dire&t way to en- 
courage, and to substitute Commercial people instead of 
them, to take the chief carriage of the Country upon 
themselves, throughout the various channels of trade— 
which are (but with petty exceptions) at present wholly 
in the hands of the Agriculturalists, encouraging the 
increase of vagrancy of our Labourers, while it on the 
other hand, prohibits the rapidly increasing Populationof 
Georgetown from engaging themselves at such employ- 
ment—properly theirs, causing more vagrancy and vice 
