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the captain to put the schooner before the wind and bade adieu to the unkindly shores of Carlisle Bay*. The legislature has passed an act for building a church in Becquia and two more in St. Vincent's, and I trust that this act will not be allowed to fall asleep as some others of the sort have done. Some reformations of importance are wanted in this island, and those planters, who are wise to their own interests, will see that they are executed. They must not legislate any more for England; for England has a long glass now and can make out objects by night cr by day. By themselves will they and all the planters stand, and by themselves will they fall, if to fall be their lot. • Moses puts me naturally in mind of Shrewsbury. I am glad to hear that Mr. Hamden of Barbados, an able and gentlemanly man, has renewed the subject of this disgraceful outrage, and that some measures are likely to be taken to bring the chief rioters to trial. However true it may be that no respectable person had any hand in this affair, the obvious disinclination amongst the authorities of the island to investigate the matter with energy, renders them all justly obnoxious to the charge of being accessaries after the fact.