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in the course of last night he expired without a 

 groan. 



Another offender, by name Charles Fox, is also 

 under the doctor's hands, suffering under the effects 

 of his own transgressions. Having been Pickle's 

 shipmate, he professed the strongest attachment 

 to him, and was perpetually at his house ; till 

 Pickle's wife made her husband aware that love for 

 herself was the real object of his shipmate's visits. 

 Finding her story disbelieved, she hid Pickle behind 

 the bed, when he had an opportunity of hearing 

 the solicitations of his perfidious Pylades ; and, 

 rushing from his concealment, he gave Fox so 

 complete a thrashing, that he was obliged to come 

 to the hospital. Here is another proof that negroes, 

 " our unfortunate fellow-creatures," are not without 

 some of the luxuries of civilised life ; old men of 

 sixty keeping mistresses, and young ones seducing 

 their friends' wives; why, what would the Reporter 

 of the African Institution have ? 



It is only to be wished, that the negroes would 

 content themselves with these fashionable peccadil- 

 loes ; but, unluckily, there are some palates among 

 them which require higher seasoned vices; and be- 

 sides their occasional amusements of poisoning, 

 stabbing, thieving, &c, a plan has just been dis- 

 covered in the adjoining parish of St. Elizabeth's, 

 for giving themselves a grand fete by murdering all 

 the whites in the island. The focus of this medi- 



