"We humbly beg leave to join our thanks and admiration (with the other British inhabitants) of the wisdom, prudence, and moderation which governed your Excelleney's conduct, on an occasion the most alarming to all loyal subjects; we deeply lamented the diffi culties your beloved Excellency had to encounter, in fulfilling the gracious will of our beloved Sovereign. "We, as well as the greatest part of His Majesty's natural and loyal subjects, have regretted much, the indignities offered to your Excellency, but feel the greatest satisfaction that they have served to cast a greater lustre on your Excellency's character. "To the most benevolent of Sovereigns, he who sways the British sceptre, the warmest thanks are due, not only for the wise choice he has made of your Excellency, but for making all British subjects think and feel that they live in a British Colony, and have a British Governor. Wm. Mardenbrough J. Thibou J. Wetherald on Jno. Baptiste Valmore W. Delany Benedict W. Cuvige B. Dwyer J. Hamilton C. Bertie J. Browne J. Bruce John Munro Thomas Colling Peter Dumaine Richard Rilon John Williams John Allers Answer to the Address presented to Col. Fullarton, by the British People of Colour. "GENTLEMEN, "THE Address with which you have honoured me, has conveyed to my mind the most sincere satisfaction. "From what I have personally experienced during my residence in this Island, I am well assured that the sentiments of loyalty it contains, will ever be zealously supported by your adherence to the oath of allegiance, voluntarily taken to our gracious Sovereign, which binds you to the strictest obedience to the laws, and in return, secures to you, under every faithful Representative of the King, that protection and those blessings which by our happy Constitution, it is the chief glory of a British Monarch to bestow. "Accept, Gentlemen, my best thanks for the favourable senti timents you express of my conduct, in the different circumstances which have occurred to obstruet my efforts for promoting the welfare and happiness of all the classes which compose this valuable Colony. It has been my earnest wish and endeavour to introduce the principles of conciliation, and to afford inviolable security to the property and person of every individual. On the other hand, it gives ime the utmost satisfaction to bear this public testimony, that in no instance have I ever found either the white or coloured population of Trinidad inclined to deviate from due order and subordination. "I feel highly gratified by the confidence you are pleased to express, that in fulfilling the trust reposed in me, all the inhabitants of Trinidad will experience the blessings of a British government. Were not this my first object, I should but ill discharge my duty to the King, and neglect the wise and liberal instructions by which his Majesty's Ministers hoped to ensure the prosperity and improvement of the Settlement. "Be assured of my cordial wishes for your happiness, and my firm reliance, that, by a continuance of your present loyal and obedient conduct, you will ever rank amongst the most valuable and respectable subjects belonging to the British dominions. The Yellow Fever-New York Deserted-Anecdote of a Reverend Clergyman-Case of a Stranger-Remarks on the Origin of the Fever-Distressing Case of a Young Lady-General Observations on the Arts, Commerce, Manners, and Factions of America-A Letter respecting the Robbery Committed by Jerome Bonaparte at Cape Francois. DEAR SIR, NEW YORK, October, 1803. THE yellow fever commenced its destruc tive ravages in this place on the 17th of last July. The malady is understood to have been imported in the French ship La Victorie, from Cape Francois, in the island of St. Domingo. The Captain confessed that some of his crew had been ill previous to his departure, but they had all recovered; yet, it appears by the evidence of one Kelso, La custom-house officer, who was stationed on board while the vessel was discharging, and observed part of the crew sick, that the first person who fell a victim to this direful disease, was a young man of the name of Smith, a clerk in a store within a few yards of the place where the vessel was unloading, and who was in habit of going on board to plague a monkey :-he was taken ill on the 17th, and died in six days after. Part of the crew of a brig laying close along side of the Victorie, died in a few days, though they went into the country. The Victorie came from a place, where the malady was daily destroying considerable numbers of Bonaparte's blood-hounds. Though these circumstances were known to the United States, yet, the quarantine laws were not enforced, which is one of the evils attending all feeble inefficient governments, This pestilential matter seems now to be firmly fixed in the United States, for it appears to have been committing its ravages, during a period of ten successive years, alternately, between this place and Philadelphia. Before the 30th of July, the whole of the east side of the town was entirely abandoned by the inhabitants, who fled for shelter to the country, but still the malady opened in other parts towards the middle, and the number of deaths continued to augment. Having no idea that the disease was contagious to the extent I have since found, I felt no apprehension for my own personal safety, and therefore walked out every day. A reverend clergyman, who has often changed his political opinion, urged his congregation, mostly composed of North Britons, to remain in town, telling them, that the Lord sent this calamity to punish the wicked, for their. ingratitude and disobedience; therefore it was insulting the Almighty if his congregation abandoned the town, instead of remaining to administer comfort to the poor and distressed. He enforced his arguments by telling them that the Almighty would protect them in the midst of danger and disease. Notwithstanding all this preaching, he was one of the first who decamped, leaving his flock to take care of themselves in the best manner they could. This reverend gentlemen has often been inconsistent, for in the early part of the French revolution, he was, with many others in the United States, a great admirer of the blood-thirsty patriots of France. He even went farther ; he both prayed and preached for the destruction of the British constitution, and was, in the year 1794, a member of a jacobin club, of which one of the Livingston family was president. The object of this club was to proscribe, and finally to destroy any one in New York, who entertained sentiments in favor of England. Fortunately for many, the president died, and his infatuated colleagues changed their political sentiments, as well as the reverend chaplain, who had hitherto inflamed their minds with the idea, that mankind would never be hap ру while the British were masters of the sea! I now find him as violent against the French, as he was formerly against the British. In the year 1793-4, it was dangerous for any loyal Briton to appear in the streets of any of the sea-port towns of America, and in frequent instances, the laws of hospitality have been violated in the most flagrant manner. Even at present, the Americans, with a few exceptions, have a deep rooted antipathy against the British! |