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negro slaves, according to the wishes of the Home Government. He 
is reported to have said that he came to preach to gentlemen, not to 
niggers. 
Another somewhat similar scrap, but referring to a 
considerably later period, we take from the Holy Trinity 
(Essequibo) Parish Magazine. It is as follows : — 
We have among the Church records many interesting papers and 
valuable information. It would appear from these records that in 1834 
the vestry decided to enlarge the Church, " by the erection of a couple 
of galleries on the north and south sides of the Church for the slave 
population " — and in a petition to the Court of Policy for funds, we 
have the following : " That latterly the attendance of the slave popu- 
lation at Divine worship has so considerably increased as to demand 
additional accommodation. That numbers have for many Sundays 
been unable even to get admission within the walls of the Church, and 
have consequently returned home, fatigued with perhaps a long walk, 
and without the comfort of a participation in Divine worship ; also that 
the Church being exceedingly crowded much inconvenience has been 
endured by the white population, whose very small proportion of the 
Church has been necessarily still further circumscribed, while, at the 
same time, a third part of the slaves who have been able to obtain 
admission within the Church have not been accommodated with sittings 
during: Divine service." The result of this petition was the granting by 
the Court of 2,200 guilders for the galleries, and 1,500 guilders for 
general repairs. But the most striking paper which we have met with 
was a petition from the apprentices which gave a considerable trouble 
at the time. The petition is addressed to the then Rector — whose 
name is still green in the Parish, the Rev. Duke — and to the members 
of his Vestry. The petition is remarkable in many particulars. We 
will only quote one clause of it : — " That your memorialists acknowledge 
with the greatest thankfulness the kindness of the Vestry in the late 
increase of accommodation for apprenticed labourers by the ereftion of 
galleries in the Church, by which means your memorialists have had a 
considerable increase of room ; but as room is still wanted and as your 
memorialists are well aware how heavy the expenses of their employers 
and masters are, as also to what great expense they have already been 
in building the Church, your memorialists do humbly desire to show 
their good will by dedicating some of their first fruits of their extra 
time to the enlarging of the Parish Church, and humbly trust the vestry 
