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but that he could not say that they showed any 

 great avidity on the subject. It seems that there 

 are at least three hundred negroes on the estate ; 

 the number of believers has rather increased than 

 diminished, to be sure, but still in a very small 

 proportion. When this gentleman arrived, there 

 were not more than forty baptised persons : he has 

 been here upwards of five years, and still the 

 number of persons " belonging to his church" 

 (as he expressed it) does not exceed fifty. Of these, 

 seldom more than ten or a dozen attend his lec- 

 tures at a time. As to the remaining two hundred 

 and fifty, they take no more notice of his lectures 

 or his exhortations, than if there were no such per- 

 son on the property, are only very civil to him when 

 they see him, and go on in their own old way, 

 without suffering him to interfere in any shape. 

 By the overseer of Greenwich's express desire, 

 the Moravian has, however, agreed to give up an 

 hour every day for the religious instruction of the 

 negro children on that property : and I should 

 certainly request him to extend his labours to 

 Cornwall, if I did not think it right to give the 

 Church of England clergymen full room for a trial 

 of their intended periodical visitations ; which 

 would not be the case, if the negroes were to be 

 interfered with by the professors of any other 

 communion: otherwise I am myself ready to give 

 free ingress and egress upon my several estates 

 to the teachers of any Christian sect whatever, 



