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came over to Cornwall, investigated the complaint, 

 and now, at length, the attorney, who had known 

 frequent instances of the overseer's tyranny, had 

 frequently rebuked him for them, and had redressed 

 the sufferers, but who still had dared to abuse my 

 confidence so grossly as to continue him in his 

 situation, upon this public exposure thought pro- 

 per to dismiss him. Yet, while all this was going 

 on — while my negroes were groaning under the iron 

 rod of this petty tyrant — and while the public ma- 

 gistrature was obliged to interfere to protect them 

 from his cruelty — my attorney had the insolence and 

 falsehood to write me letters, rilled with assurances 

 of his perpetual vigilance for their welfare — of their 

 perfect good treatment and satisfaction ; nor, if I 

 had not come myself to Jamaica, in all probability 

 should I ever have had the most distant idea how 

 abominably the poor creatures had been misused. 



I have made it my business to mix as much as 

 possible among the negroes, and have given them 

 every encouragement to repose confidence in me ; 

 and I have uniformly found all those, upon whom 

 any reliance can be placed, unite in praising the 

 humanity of their present superintendant. In- 

 stantly on his arrival, he took the whole power of 

 punishment into his own hands : he forbade the 

 slightest interference in this respect of any person 

 whatever on the estate, white or black ; nor have I 

 been able to find as yet any one negro who has 

 any charge of harsh treatment to bring against him. 



