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the bones in the Gulley of Spring-Garden. He 

 immediately seized him, claimed him as his slave, 

 and ordered his attendants to convey him to his 

 house ; but the fellow's cries attracted a crowd 

 round them, before he could be dragged away. 

 He related his melancholy story, and the singular 

 manner in which he had recovered his life and 

 liberty ; and the public indignation was so forcibly 

 excited by the shocking tale, that Mr. Bed ward 

 was glad to save himself from being torn to pieces 

 by a precipitate retreat from Kingston, and never 

 ventured to advance his claim to the negro a 

 second time. 



January 30. 



A man has been tried, at Kingston, for cruel 

 treatment of a Sambo female slave, called Amey. 

 She had no friends to support her cause, nor any 

 other evidence to prove her assertions, than the 

 apparent truth of her statement, and the marks of 

 having been branded in five different places. The 

 result was, that the master received a most severe 

 reprimand for his inhuman conduct, and was sen- 

 tenced to close confinement for six months, while 

 the slave, in consequence of her sufferings, was 

 restored to the full enjoyment of her freedom. 



It appears to me that nothing could afford so 

 much relief to the negroes, under the existing 

 system of Jamaica, as the substituting the labour 

 of animals for that of slaves in agriculture, where- 



