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DOTTING S ON THE EOADSIDE. [Chap. XX.—B. P. 
(copy.) 
“ To James Green, Esq., H.B.M/s Consul in Mosquito, 
and agent to his Majesty the King of Mosquito : The 
respectful Memorial of the undersigned, formerly 
proprietors and the heirs of proprietors of the eman¬ 
cipated slaves of Corn Island, 
“ Humbly represents, 
“ That your petitioners have long and patiently laboured 
under many painful difficulties, the consequence of having 
been suddenly and unexpectedly dispossessed of their slaves; 
no notice whatever being given them, to prepare for the 
event which involved the greater part, to a great extent, in 
utter destitution, nor has their case been ameliorated by the 
receipt of a single payment of any part of the compensation 
promised them at the time of manumission. 
“Your petitioners humbly presume that you are already 
in possession of the well-known fact, that the emancipator 
of said slaves was Colonel (now General) Macdonald, a 
British officer, who on the 27th day of August, a.d. 1841, 
caused them to be assembled on South-west Bay^ and did 
then and there publicly pronounce them free, in the name 
of H.B.M. Queen Victoria and the King of Mosquito, and 
at the same time openly declared and proclaimed that the 
following compensation would be paid to the owners, viz.:— 
“ The proprietors of the slaves now emancipated shall re¬ 
spectively receive for each the sum of £25, which will be 
paid in yearly instalments, with interest thereon, until the 
amount be fully discharged. 
“ Your petitioners, some of them British-born subjects, 
the others the immediate descendants of such, loyally at¬ 
tached to H.M2s person and government, would further re¬ 
spectfully state, that they were inspired with the most flat¬ 
tering hopes when a British Consul first became resident in 
Mosquito, and confidently hoped that through such an au¬ 
thority, justice would be speedily, or at least eventually, 
awarded them. They still hope and expect that this will be 
the case, and further state that your predecessors in office, 
