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, inendous hoft of empirics, but fufFers them to 

 overrun every part of the ftate, under the all- 

 creating fandion of a patent^ or allows them, 

 on the bare privilege of bold aflurance, to com- 

 mit depredations upon the health, the purfes, 

 and the lives of His Majefty's fubjeds ? 



You will recoiled the name of Betfy 

 Lemon" the refpedable mulatto whom I for- 

 merly mentioned to you as the leading fupport 

 of the Bar at Mary Bella Green's, and you 

 will be pleafed to learn that (he is rcleafed from 

 the toils of flavery, and placed in a more in- 

 dependent fituation, where flie may become 

 eftabliftied as an ufeful and refpedable member 

 of the community. She has opened a new 

 tavern at Bridge-Town, where we have made 

 a party of encouragement, to take a dinner, 

 and drink to the fuccefs of the hoftefs ; and, 

 from the accommodations we met with, I may 

 add, that, (hould any more of your friends fol- 

 low us to Barbadoes, you may aflure them of 

 attention and good treatment at the houfe of 

 Betfy Lemon. 



In one of our late walks, near Bridge- 

 Town, we met with two fmall windmills. 



