72 HISTORY OF THE [book nr. 
Cariacou, forms a seventh parish. It is only since 
the restoration of Grenada to Great Britain by the 
peace of 1783, that an island law has been obtain¬ 
ed for the establishment of a protestant clergy. 
This act passed in 1784, and provides stipends of 
£.330 currency, and £.60 for house-rent per an¬ 
num, for five clergymen, viz. one for the town and 
parish of St. George, three for the other five out- 
parishes of Grenada, and one for Cariacou. Besides 
these stipends, there are valuable glebe lands, 
which had been appropriated to the support of the 
Roman catholic clergy, whilst that was the esta¬ 
blished religion of Grenada. These lands, according 
to an opinion of the attorney and solicitor-general 
of England (to whom a question on this point was 
referred by the crown) became vested in his majes¬ 
ty as public lands, on the restoration of the island 
to the British government, and I believe have 
since been applied by the colonial legislature, with 
the consent of the crown, to the further support 
of the protestant church, with some allowance 
thereout (to what amount I am not informed) for 
the benefit of the tolerated Romish clergy of the 
remaining French inhabitants. 
formica omnivora of Linnaeus, and is well described by Sloane as the 
formica fusca minima , antennis, longissimis. (vide note in page 141 
of first volume). Its trivial name in Jamaica, is the Raffles ant, 
from one Thomas Raffles, who is charged with having imported them 
from the Havanna about the year 1762. They do no injury to the 
sugar canes in Jamaica; probably, because their numbers are few. 
From what causes they increased so prodigiously in Grenada, no sa¬ 
tisfactory account has I believe been given. 
