which the people inhabited.  You will perceive that in once case 21l. 6s. 9d. has been demanded.  This conscientious demand was made by John Houghton James, Executor and Attorney for Sir Simon Clark.  Another is from a Mr. Bowen, of Orchard Estate; and the third from Mr. Brockett, of Hopewell and Content Estates, the property of Mr. Miles, M.P. for Bristol.  Let it be borne in mind that these shameful and exorbitant demands are not made, as in England, on the head of the family only, but on every member who is able to do the least work, and even little children have papers demanding 2s. 4d. per week for ground, although unable to do the least thing:  one of these I also enclose.

Jamaica, ss.  Notice is hereby Given, That the sum of eight shillings and four pence, weekly, will be exacted from you and each of you respectively, for the houses and grounds at Orchard Estate, in the parish of Hanover, from August of the present year, until the expiration of the three months’ notice, from its period of service to quit; or to the period of surrendering to me the peaceable possession of the aforesaid house and provision grounds.

J. R. BOWEN.

Dated this 17th day of Sep. 1838.

TO JAMES DARLING and SARAH DARLING, of the parish of HANOVER.

Here then, my dear Sir, you may perceive something of the atrocious proceedings in the island of Jamaica.  Pray insert these documents in the Emancipator.  Let the Anti-slavery friends know the state of things, and urge them to redoubled diligence.  The House of Assembly will meet on the 30th instant, and then, I fear, dreadful measures will be taken.  A letter from Mr. Harker, of the Jamaica Royal Gazette, about a fortnight since, addressed to Mr. Abbott, shows what absolute and cruel statutes they would wish either to act upon, or to make the models of new laws.  Every act must be watched with the most jealous scrutiny.  Experience shows that the planters possess an ingenuity truly diabolical, in twisting and distorting the laws to suit their own selfish purpose.  Our hope is in British Christians; and we confidently hope every one of them will feel the importance of increased diligence, lest the great, and long prayed-for boon of freedom, should become a curse, instead of a blessing.  The papers will inform you of the odium I have drawn on myself in defending the people’s rights.  That contained in the great mass, only provokes a smile.  I know that every friend in England will interpret it inversely.  I did feel Mr. ——­’s letter in the Falmouth Post, but he knows his error, and is sorry for it.  I could have answered it, but did not choose to cause a division amongst the few friends of the negro, when they had quite enough to do to withstand the attacks of their enemies.

FROM THE REV.  J. M. PHILIPPO.

Spanish Town, Oct. 13, 1838.

The following is one of the seven of the same tenor now in my possession, which will, in addition to those I forwarded by last mail, inform you of the cause of the late disinclination of the people in some districts to labour—­which, with so much effrontery, has been proclaimed through the public Journals here:—­