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Accounts from Barbadoes to the 24th of March, give an

unfa- vourable representation of the prospects of the West India Islands and the conduct of the Negroes ; whose " utter listlessness" ren- ders the importation of Swiss and German labourers absolutely necessary. In Barbadoes, it is merely said, "The slaves still con- tinue idle." In St. Vincent's, the planters declare that they are reduced to " beggary." Only twelve out of three hundred Negroes in Grenada would condescend to cut the sugar-canes, which were rotting on the ground.

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