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and be met by a corresponding desire and anxiety on their part, to do 
all in their power to preserve the public tranquillity, and to contribute 
their aid in effecting those changes (which every one must be aware are 
so decidedly inevitable) with the least possible inconvenience and loss 
to all individuals concerned. 
The Lieutenant Governor has directed it should be stated, in con- 
clusion, that he confidently relies not only upon the superior talent and 
information which he has witnessed with so much pleasure in this 
colony, on the great wealth and immense interests at stake, but above 
all, upon that spirit of moderation and good sense which has so strongly 
characterized the proceedings of the inhabitants of British Guiana, with 
respeft to this most momentous question, to enable him to carry all the 
details into execution with the concurrence, co-operation, and assistance 
of all ranks." 
This Government Notice was considered at a meeting of 
the Agricultural Society on the 6th August, 1833, Mr. N. 
M. MANGET, presiding. In all 48 gentlemen attended the 
meeting, whose views on the question of the abolition of 
slavery were embodied in eleven resolutions. Space will 
not I fear, permit of the reproduction in extenso of this 
manifesto, so to speak, of "the greatest portion of the 
resident proprietors, and of the representatives of absent 
proprietors, of estates in this colony." The resolutions are 
to be found, however, in The Royal Gazette of August 10th, 
1833. The planters recorded, in the second resolution, 
their feeling, born of experience, of the peril which 
was to be dreaded incident to so sudden and premature 
a change in the existing relations of Master and Ser- 
vant, and the " fatal embarrassments" which would be 
consequent upon its failure, but, "placing implicit con- 
fidence in the declarations of the British Government, 
and replying on the wisdom of the local Legislature to 
organize the details applicable to this colony of this 
great national experiment, so as to render the chance of 
the future beneficial cultivation of the soil as little 
