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enjoy perfect repose daring his illness, the doors 

 were kept locked, and no person allowed to dis- 

 turb him with their conversation; while, by the 

 doctor's orders, he was obliged to take frequent 

 doses of Bitter- Wood and Assafcetida. Shame would 

 not suffer him to get well all at once ; so yesterday 

 lie still complained of a pain in his chest, and 

 begged to be blooded. His request was granted ; 

 and the blood proved to be so pure and well- 

 coloured, that every one exclaimed, that for a man 

 who had such good blood to part with it so wan- 

 tonly was a shame and a folly. The fellow was 

 at length convinced that his tricks would serve no 

 object; and this morning he begged me to suffer 

 him to return to his duty, and promised that I 

 should have no more cause to complain of him. 

 So I consented to consider his cure as completed, 

 and he set off for the field perfectly satisfied with 

 his release. 



March 15. 



On opening the Assize-court for the county of 

 Cornwall on March 4., Mr. Stewart, the Custos of 

 Trelawny, and Presiding Judge, said, in his charge 

 to the jury, he wished to direct their attention 

 in a peculiar manner to the infringement of slave- 

 laws in the island, in consequence of charges having 

 been brought forward in England of slave laws not 

 being enforced in this country, and being in fact 

 perfect dead letters. The charge was unfounded ; 



