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success on Cornwall; distribute a little money, 

 and allow a couple of play-days for dancing ; and 

 under this persuasion I had made it quite impos- 

 sible for me to remain above a week at Hordley, 

 which I conceived to be fully sufficient for the 

 above purpose. As to grievances to be redressed, 

 I was totally unprepared for any such necessity ; 

 yet now they poured in upon me incessantly, 

 each more serious than the former; and before 

 twenty-four hours»were elapsed I had been assured, 

 that in order to produce any sort of tranquillity 

 upon the estate, I must begin by displacing the 

 trustee, the physician, the four white book-keepers, 

 and the four black governors, all of whom I was 

 modestly required to remove and provide better 

 substitutes in the space of five days and a morn- 

 ing. What with the general clamour, the asser- 

 tions and denials, the tears and the passion, the 

 odious falsehoods, and the still more odious truths, 

 and (worst of all to me) my own vexation and 

 disappointment at finding things so different from 

 my expectations, at first nearly turned my brain ; 

 and I felt strongly tempted to set off as fast as I 

 could, and leave all these black devils and white 

 ones to tear one another to pieces, an amusement 

 in which they appeared to be perfectly ready to 

 indulge themselves. It was, however, consider- 

 able relief to me to find, upon examination, that 

 no act of personal ill-treatment was alleged 

 against the trustee himself, who was allowed to 



