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labourers by requifition— a certain number of 

 negroes being demanded, for a given number 

 of days, from every gang in the colony. 



We feel the erTed of this fcarcity of 

 workmen, very much, at the hofpital, for 

 after ufing every exertion of which I am ca- 

 pable, I have to lament that we do not yet fee 

 the accommodations, for the Tick, fo complete 

 as I had hoped. As a great indulgence I have 

 now obtained a party of fix carpenters to be 

 employed, exclufively, at the hofpital, until 

 they fhall have finifhed fuch repairs and al- 

 terations as are required. But the claims of 

 every department, and almoft every indivi- 

 dual, upon this clafs of workmen, are fo nu- 

 merous and preffing, that I quite defpair of 

 confining them to the work of the hofpital, 

 for any two days together. 



It is with real forrow and affliction that 

 I find myfelf enabled to inform you of our 

 being likely to become acquainted with that 

 mercilefs yellow fury who has, of late years, 

 fo frightfully ravaged the Weft India colonies ; 

 and regarding whom fo much of dread and 

 alarm prevails in Europe. 

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