A P P E N D I X .
[ D ]
BARBUDA.
O F the three seamen in our little Schooner w h o were Barbadians, t w o were exiles from their h o m e s , and the third w a s a colored boy, the son of the late Superintendent of the Island, w h o is menitoned by Sir BETHEL CODRINGTON in his public correspondence on Slavery w i t h T. F . BUXTON. M a n y of our readers will re member, that Barbuda is the private property of Sir BETHEL, and that the happy condition of its inhabitants w a s brought promi nently forward by him, in the correspondence referred t o . The boy, above mentioned, is left without any education, to earn his bread as a cabin boy in a small coasting schooner, a life of all others, distinguished by hardship and privation. Before E m a n cipation, there were five hundred slaves in Barbuda ; none would have quitted it voluntarily as they are attached to their native soil, to their fertile gardens, and varied employments of agriculture, hunting, fishing, piloting and diving. A t the present moment, however, upwards of a hundred of them are in banishment in Antigua. The will of the Superintendent is law, and for every real or supposed offence t h e y are liable to be ordered off the Island. Our Captain, w h o is employed by the Superintendent, and has evidently no sympathies for the negros, told us, that on one occasion since they became free, w h e n their labor w a s n o t wanted, in consequence of a dry season, the people were all dismissed but thirty, and that they were pardoned and permitted to return as soon as seasonable weather set in ! They receive wages from the Superintendent, but as he is the sole shopkeeper, m u c h of the m o n e y circulates back again into his till. During our stay in Antigua, w e had several opportunities of con versing w i t h persons acquainted w i t h the state of Barbuda. It w a s originally granted to the ancestor of its present proprietor for ninety nine years, and at the expiration of this period w a s regranted by GEORGE I V , for a term of fifty years, on the con dition that the grantee should present the Governor of Antigua annually w i t h a fat wether sheep. The Island is nearly as large