Letter to the Lord Glenelg ... containing a report, from personal observation, on the working of the new system in the British West India colonies / [John Innes].

  • Innes, John, Esq.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Letter to the Lord Glenelg ... containing a report, from personal observation, on the working of the new system in the British West India colonies / [John Innes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Y A-LETTE R, ETC. My Jhorp, Having often, during my long in- tercourse with the West Indies, experienced incon- venience from never having been in those colonies, I, in September last, determined to avail myself of that peculiarly-interesting period to visit them. I. waited on Mr. Spring Rice, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, to ascertain whether there were any points on. which his Majesty’s government desired information, as I would gladly take any reasonable trouble to make myself useful at such a critical period. He entered on many matters on which government desired information ; and, that no faci- lity that he could afford should be wanting, he gave me letters to all the Governors. [I have per- formed my intended tour, and now beg to lay my observations before you. I shall bevas brief as may be consistent -with perspicuity. | : BRITISH GUIANA. I arrived at George Town (the capital of British Guiana) on the 4th December, 1834. I lost no time
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