destruction.  Give ear, then, ye grave senators, and if ye have hearts of fathers, lend them! listen, ye queen mothers of my country, whose sons and daughters are yet travelling the world’s uncertainties! listen, ye fathers, who have souls above Mammon’s golden grasp, and sons in whom ye put your trust! listen, ye brothers, whose pride brightens in a sister’s virtue! listen, ye sisters, who enjoy paternal affections, and feel that one day you may grace a country’s social life! listen, ye philanthropists, ye men of the world, who love your country, and whose hearts yearn for its liberties-ye men sensitive of our great Republic’s honour, nor seek to traffic in the small gains of power when larger ones await you; and, above all, lend your hearts, ye brothers of the clergy in the slave church, and give ear while I tell who I am, and pray ye, as ye love the soul of woman, to seek out those who, like unto what I was, now wither in slavery.  My grandfather’s name was Iznard Maldonard, a Minorcan, who in the year 1767 (some four years after Florida was by the king of Spain ceded to Great Britain) emigrated with one Dr. Turnbull-whose name has since shone on the pages of history-to that land of sunshine and promise; for, indeed, Florida is the Italy of America.  In that year did numerous of the English aristocracy conceive plans as various as inconsistent for the population and improvement of the colony.  With a worthy motive did Lord Rolle draw from the purlieus of London [Footnote:  See Williams’ History of Florida, page 188.] State Papers, three hundred wretched females, whose condition he would better by reforming and making aid in founding settlements.  This his lordship found no easy task; but the climate relieved him of the perplexity he had brought upon himself, for to it did they all fall victims in a very short time.  But Turnbull, with motive less commendable, obtained a grant of his government, and, for the sum of four hundred pounds, (being then in the Peleponnesus) was the governor of Modon bribed into a permission to convey sundry Greek families to Florida, for colonization.  Returning from Modon with a number of families, he touched at the islands of Corsica and Minorca, added another vessel to his fleet, and increased the number of his settlers to fifteen hundred.  With exciting promises did he decoy them to his land of Egypt, which proved a bondage to his shame.  He would give them lands, free passages, good provisions and clothing; but none of these promises did he keep.  A long passage of four months found many victims to its hardships, and those who arrived safe were emaciated by sickness.  Into the interior were these taken; and there they founded a settlement called New Smyrna, the land for which-some sixty thousand acres-was granted by the governor of Florida.  Faithfully and earnestly did they labour for the promised reward, and in less than five years had more than three thousand acres of land in the highest state of cultivation; but,