An arrival from Jamaica brings rather unfavourable accounts of the
doings of the Negro population on the North side of that island. It is said, in a letter dated the 19th of August, from an extensive proprietor- Difor, t "The truth is, that though the Negroes have turned out and appear in the fields where work is to be done, dityy,re, in fops doing bads or notliug, As.
t for instance, the overseer of an enalltain this stet urhoorl, who its trooper,
was on guard last week, and conselontly no n the estate. Theta Fla% however, a company of the 1411itiastotguard ars estatit, The *AI asd the-
boiling.house were at work all the week - and the book- eepers attending the , business of the estate; but the Negroes did not make two hogsheads of sugar. The strength of the estate in Negroes and stock, and the appointments of the works, are quite equal to making twenty hogsheads a week. My people are picking pimento ; but not half the quantity they ought to have done, for I have let it be well fit for picking before I put them to it, being the produce of the first bloom of the trees, and not a large quantity of it."
