Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825

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BARBADOS. decently maintain them, and I am convinced that want of money would never be any impediment to the full consummation of the project.

The bishop, as visitor, should be made available in the way of superintendence, and perhaps order be taken in the proper quarters for license and authority to confer the usual academical degrees*.

The trustees of Codrington College comprize a large portion of the learning and virtue of England; their disinterestedness is perfect, their intentions excellent, their care commendable. Their disposable funds are ample, and the trust estates remarkably nourishing. They deserve this prosperity; their zeal for the welfare of their slaves is most exemplary, and they have gone to the utmost bounds of prudence in advancing the condition of those negros whose happiness and salvation have been committed to them. A chapel and a school have been erected almost exclusively for their use, and a clergymant fixed amongst them whose talents, kindness, and simplicity of manners are not more remarkable than his judgment and his piety.

The attorney and manager are both of estab* It is worthy of remark, for the purpose of obviating prejudices, that in the letters patent, which were intended to found Berkeley's college in the Bermudas, a power of conferring all the degrees was expressly given. t The Rev. John H. Pinder, now the Principal of the College.