native sense and considerable intelligence.  He declared it most unreservedly as his opinion, that the negroes would not work after 1810—­they were naturally so indolent, that they would prefer gaining a livelihood in some easier way than by digging cane holes.  He had all the results of the emancipation of 1840 as clearly before his mind, as though he saw them in prophetic vision; he knew the whole process.  One portion of the negroes, too lazy to provide food by their own labor, will rob the provision grounds of the few who will remain at work.  The latter will endure the wrong as long as they well can, and then they will procure arms and fire upon the marauders; this will give rise to incessant petty conflicts between the lazy and the industrious, and a great destruction of life will ensue.  Others will die in vast numbers from starvation; among these will be the superannuated and the young, who cannot support themselves, and whom the planters will not be able to support.  Others numerous will perish from disease, chiefly for want of medical attendance, which it will be wholly out of their power to provide.  Such is the dismal picture drawn by a late slaveholder, of the consequences of removing the negroes from the tender mercies of oppressors.  Happily for all parties, Mr. Thomson is not very likely to establish his claim to the character of a prophet.  We were not at all surprised to hear him wind up his prophecies against freedom with a denunciation of slavery.  He declared that slavery was a wretched system.  Man was naturally a tyrant.  Mr. T. said he had one good thing to say of the negroes, viz., that they were an exceedingly temperate people.  It was a very unusual thing to see one of them drunk.  Slavery, he said, was a system of horrid cruelties.  He had lately read, in the history of Jamaica, of a planter, in 1763, having a slave’s leg cut off, to keep him from running away.  He said that dreadful cruelties were perpetrated until the close of slavery, and they were inseparable from slavery.  He also spoke of the fears which haunted the slaveholders.  He never would live on an estate; and whenever he chanced to stay over night in the country, he always took care to secure his door by bolting and barricading it.  At Mr. Thomson’s we met Andrew Wright, Esq., the proprietor of a sugar estate called Green Wall, situated some six miles from the bay.  He is an intelligent gentleman, of an amiable disposition—­has on his estate one hundred and sixty apprentices.  He described his people as being in a very peaceable state, and as industrious as he could wish.  He said he had no trouble with them, and it was his opinion, that where there is trouble, it must be owing to bad management.  He anticipated no difficulty after 1840, and was confident that his people would not leave him.  He believed that the negroes would not to any great extent abandon the cultivation of sugar after 1840.  Mr. T. stated two facts respecting