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adding, I thoroughly agree with every word he wrote, 

 whether of the Police or the Public. 



It will be remembered that in a previous chapter 

 I alluded to Mr. Lovesy, at that time, one of the 

 Judges of the Supreme Court of British Guiana, but 

 formerly a Stipendiary Justice of the Peace in Port- 

 of-Spain, which brought him in daily contact with the 

 police to whom, before his promotion to Demerara, 

 he wrote the following reply to an address from 

 them : — 

 " My friends, 



" Your address has afforded me the greatest 

 and most sincere satisfaction. It not only assures 

 me of the good will you bear towards my family and 

 myself, which I prize highly, but affords me an 

 opportunity of observation upon a subject concern- 

 ing which I have sometimes found it difficult to be 

 silent. 



I allude to the absurd and mischievous cry 

 which has from time to time prevailed since I have 

 been in this colony of " the inefficiency of the 

 police. 7 ' This is a matter upon which I should be 

 able to say something, and now that I have a chance, 

 I will say it. I found you on my arrival a much 

 more efficient body of men than I had been led to ex- 

 pect, (having heard something of you during my 

 voyage hither), and I am sure that you have very 

 far from deteriorated during the two years we have 

 worked together. But I by no means say that you 

 are perfect, any more than I am perfect myself. A 

 thoroughly efficient magistrate should be the equal 



