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following from the Gazette of March 17th, 1825, will 

 show what was sometimes done in such cases : — 



"Notice is hereby given that another boat with Fresh 

 Water for the supply of the Poor (gratis) is expected 

 to arrive in the course of Sunday next — that boat will 

 remain for four hours at each of the undermentioned 

 stellings, viz., the Charlestown Stelling, Robbs-Stelling 

 and Cumingsburg-Stelling, adjoining the Premises of 

 Walter Urquhart, Esq. 



'* Tickets will be issued between this date and Sunday, 

 on application to any of the members of the Board of 

 Police." 



Negro festivities were kept up much as they are 

 to-day. The Guiana Chronicle of April 5th, 1824, gives 

 the following copy of an invitation, on which it discourses 

 about the condition of the slave : — 



" Miss Diana's compliments to Miss Mimba ROBIN- 

 SON, and requests the favour of her company, together 

 with the Ladies and Gentlemen of her acquaintances, to 

 a dance on Sunday evening, the i8th April. Terms /3 

 per couple." 



"To us who are acquainted with the country, there is 

 nothing extraordinary in the affair — the refinement in 

 the style of the invitation may, it is true, be thought a 

 little above the ordinary usage in such cases; but this 

 may be considered as the consequence of that superior 

 polish which the vicinity of a capital never fails to com- 

 municate. But what would be the astonishment of 

 an honest, plain-dealing, well-meaning Englishman, 

 whose head (by the reiteration of falsehoods and exag- 

 gerations) had been stuffed with prejudices about West 

 Jndiao cruelty, oppression, &c., &c., &c., when he was 



