On the 31st, I took my luggage on board the steam packet “Caledonia,” for Liverpool, via Halifax, which was to sail the day following, although it was the first day of the week.  The proprietors of the packets are bound in a heavy fine to sail on the appointed days, whether those fall on the first day of the week or not.  By this arrangement the religious feelings of the people of Boston are offended, which is the more inexcusable, on the part of the British Government, as it does not suffer its own mails to depart, either from London or Halifax, on that day.  Some gentlemen, who were interested in the subject, placed in my hands a memorial addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty in Great Britain, praying for such an alteration of the arrangements as would prevent this periodical violation of the first day of the week.  A gentleman, who was active in getting it signed, assured me it was received with universal favor.  The signatures, obtained on very short notice, are those of the most influential men in their respective stations in the city of Boston, and include the names of the mayor of the city, an ex-lieutenant governor of the State of Massachusetts, one bishop, upwards of forty ministers of religion, of different denominations, nine gentleman, upwards of one hundred and twenty merchants, seventeen presidents of insurance companies, the post-master of Boston, five physicians, seven members of the legal profession, and two editors of newspapers.  After my arrival in this country, I presented this document, through the Secretary of the Admiralty, to the authorities to whom it is addressed, but regret to state that the request was not complied with.  The memorial, and the reply of the Lords of the Admiralty are given in the Appendix[A]

[Footnote A:  .See Appendix L.]

On leaving the shores of the United States, I left the following letter for publication:—­

    “To the Friends of Immediate Emancipation in the United
    States.

“Having visited your country as an humble fellow-laborer in the great cause in which you are engaged, and which, through trials and difficulties a stranger can scarcely appreciate, you have so zealously maintained, I have had a pleasing and satisfactory interview with many of you, with reference to future exertions, in cooperation with those of other lands, who unite with you in regarding slave-holding and slave-trading as a heinous sin in the sight of God, which should be immediately abolished.  It is the especial privilege of those who are laboring in such a cause, to feel that ’every country is their country, and every man their brother,’ and to live above the atmosphere of sectional jealousy and national hostility; and hence I feel an assurance, that you will receive with kindness a few lines from me on the eve of my departure to my native land.

“You concur generally in opinion, that in endeavoring to obtain the great object