his compofition. I dare not fay, however, that I made any great progrefs in the languages under his tuition; I acquired Small Latin, and lefs Greek ;' even now, I find it difficult to read the Roman poets in their own language. The cafe was, that not having been grounded in the Latin grammar at an earlier period of life, I found the ftudy of it infupportably difgufting, after that I had acquired a tafte for the beauties of fine writing. Poetry was our chief amufement; for my friend, as well as myself, preferred the charms of Dryden and Pope, to the dull drudgery of poring over fyntax and profody. We preferred Belles Lettres. We laughed away many a happy hour over the plays of Molière, and wrote verfes on local and temporary fubjects, which we fometimes published in the colonial newspapers. Yet the Latin claffics were not altogether neglected; my friend delighted to point out to me the beauties of Horace, and would frequently impofe on me the task of tranflating an ode into English verfe, which, with his assistance in conftruing the words, I fometimes accomplished. "Having made myself known to the public by my writings, it is probable, after I am in the grave, that fome collector of anecdotes, or biographical compiler, may pretend to furnith fome particulars concerning my life and manners. It is not pleasant to think that mifrepresentation or malice may faften on my memory; and I have therefore made it the amusement of an idle hour to compile a fhort account of myfelf. My perfonal hiftory, however, is of little importance to the world. It will furnith no diverfified scenes of fortune, nor relate many circumftances of myfelf worth remembering. Yet I feel the fond ambition of an author, and am willing to hope, that those who have read my book with approbation, will be glad to know fomething further concerning me: For who, to dumb forgetfulnefs a prey,' &c. * « Vide Armstrong." For the fatisfaction, then, of fuch kind readers (if fuch there are), and the information of pofterity, I have drawn up this paper, which I defire my bookfeller to prefix to the next edition of my Hiftory of the West Indies. P. ix. "B.E." EXTRACTS FROM SIR WILLIAM YOUNG'S TOUR. "BARBADOES, 1791.-Tuesday, December 6. Early in the morning Barbadoes appeared in fight, bearing on the ftarboard bow W.N.W. At two o'clock P.M. the passengers landed in the fix-oared pinnace. We went to a noted tavern, formerly Rachel's, now kept by Nancy Clark, a mulatto woman, where I first tafted avocadopear, a mawkish fruit +. Walking about the streets of Bridge Town, my impreffions gave me far from a dif agreeable fenfation as to the negroes. The town is extenfive, and seems crowded with people, mostly negroes; but the negroes, with few exceptions, seemed dressed in a style much above even our common artisans, the wo men especially; and there was fuch a fwagger of importance in the gait of thofe (and many there were) who had gold ear-rings and necklaces, that I told my friend Mr. O. on his preffing me for my opinion of what ftruck me on firft landing in the Weft Indies, That the negro women seemed to be the proudest mortals I had ever feen. A Guinea fhip was then in the harbour, and had lain there fome time; but none of the difgufting fights of ulcerated and deferted feamen appeared in the streets. Nor did I fee any thing relative to the conduct of the flaves that implied the fituation of abject acquiefcence, and dread of cruel fuperiority, attributed to them in Great Britain. Many preffed their fervices on our first landing; and some first begged, and then joked with us, in the ftyle of a Davus of Terence, with great freedom of fpeech, and fome humour. I had a higher opinion of their minds, and a better opinion of "There is no difputing about taftes. In Jamaica this fruit is very highly etteemed by all clanes of peopic. It is ufually eaten with pepper and falt, and has fomething of the flavour of the Jerufalem artichoke, but it is richer and more delicate. It is fometimes called vegetable marrow, and it is remarkable that anunals both granivorous and carnivorous, eat it with relifh." their mafters and government, than before I fet my foot on fhore.-Such are my first impreffions, written this evening on returning on board: furthermore, the fquares or broader ftreets are crowded with negroes; their wrangles and converfation forcibly ftruck me, as analogous to what might have been looked for from the flaves in the Forum at Rome. Said a negro boy about twelve years of age to a young mulatto; You damn my foul? I wish "you avere older and bigger, I would make you change fome blows with me? - Upon my honour! faid an old negro. I'll bet you a joe' (johannes), anfwered another, who had nothing but canvaís trousers on. I gave him no credit for poffeffing a fix-and-thirty thilling piece, but I gave him full credit for a language which characterizes a prefumption of felf-importance. Perhaps, however, liberty of speech is more freely allowed, where licenfe can moft promptly be fuppreffed. The liberti of the Roman emperors, as we find in Tacitus, and the domestic flaves of the Roman people, as we deduce from scenes of Plautus and Terence, fometimes talked a language, and took liberties, with their lords and mafters, which in free fervants and citizens would not have been allowed. Liberty of the prefs is a proof of political freedom, but liberty of tongue is rather a proof of individual flavery. The feaft of the Saturnalia allowed to flaves freedom of fpeech for the day, without control. In my eftimate of human nature, I should say that such freedom could not be ufed but moderately indeed; for the flave knew, that if he abufed his power on the Thurfday, the mafter might abufe his power on the Friday. His beft fecurity was on thofe days, when every word might be forbidden, and therefore every word might be forgotten or forgiven. In qualification of all inference from my firft view of negroes I fhould obferve, that they were town negroes, many of them probably free negroes, and many, or moft of them, if not all, domeftic or boufe negroes. One small country cart, drawn by twelve oxen, and with three carters, gave me no favourable idea of the owner's feeding, of either beasts or men. But accounts of diftrefs, and objects of diftrefs in the streets, are exaggerations. I faw as little of either, as in any market-town in England. "At fix in the evening we returned on board; Captain and Mrs. W. of the 60th regiment, and their little girl, joining us on the paffage to St. Vincent's, for which island we immediately bore away. "Barbadoes is an island rifing with gentle afcent to the interior parts, called the Highlands of Scotland. As we failed along the coaft from east to weft, it appeared wonderfully inhabited; dotted with houfes as thick as on the declivities in the neighbourhood of London or Briftol, but with no woods, and with very few trees, even on the fummits of the hills; two or three ftraggling cocoas near each dwelling-houfe were all the trees to be seen. "St. Vincent, 1791.--Wednesday, December 7, at daybreak, St. Vincent's in fight. At three P. M. the fhip came to an anchor in Nanton's Harbour, off Calliaqua. 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