Jr.7 Cocnevxe has also been busy, and we exrest to
some pun; pose. The two publications lass has sent us we had neither space ta indicts nor time to read ; but we have begun both, and from that beginning can recommend them. 1)r. MaDeesis Tirelre- mouth's Residonce in the West Indies, dio-iug the Transition Slarcry Ind,rendence, seems distinguished by all the agreeable qualities which characterized his "Travels in the East," with the advantage of subjects more practically interesting. Mks Se :Jerre II ARM ET LLOYD'S ken,./fey qf Bern/Ida want the is,iat and lightness of the Dsetor; but they are what they lilies to be—letters written by an accamplished and well- inthrmed lady to her friends: and very pleasing and elegant let- ters they are. Slavery is put Mrward by both writers as a matter to be illustrated. So far as we have yet accompanied the Doctor, the notices of it have been scanty ; but as he proceeds, we sup- pose, the subject will occupy more of his attention, especially since his situation of Stipendiary Magistrate would officially bring it under his notice. In Miss Lsove's letters, slavery in the Bermudas, as it existed a few years ago, is somewhat more fully touched upon ; and here is a pretty good anecdote of
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.1 sim:ular circumstance occurred a short time since. A slave, after having obtfinili hi, own Itmloto by his industiy, went to his master to purchase his wife. Vhen her mvner offered to give him her deed of m ummission, the man posiliv:ly refused to have one drawn up ; and thus the wife is literally her buslantirs slave. Surely it slavery knew no other evil, the abuse of such a power as this would prove the iniquity of the system.
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