beans, and most sorts of peas, cucumbers, and pumpkins. Grains are rice, the staple,---Indian corn, coffee, excellent and abundant; pepper of three varieties, of which each is equal to Cayenne; millet and Guinea corn; cotton, staple good, but not yet cultivated. To these may be added indigo, which it is thought, may be raised to advantage, and the sugar-cane, which may, and doubtless will, ultimately receive attention.

3. In speaking of the improvement in the colony, not long before he left, relative to the fever which had prevailed. Of Caldwell he observes,---" Taking its past history for a criterion, a healthier settlement of equal extent, is not, I presume, to be found in all the salubrious regions of the extensive west of our own country."

1. The following sentences are extracted from a valuable article in the Amulet of 1832, ascribed to a distinguished British officer, who has been three years on the African coast.

"Nothing has tended more to suppress the slave-trade in this quarter, than the constant intercourse and commmunication of the natives with the industrious colonists. The American Agent, Mr. Ashmun, took every opportunity and means in his power, to extinguish a traffic so injurious in every way to the fair trader; and at Cape Montserado, good and correct information was always to be obtained of any slave-vessel on the coast, within the communication or influence of the colony. This active, respectable, and intelligent man, is since dead, but his spirit actuates all his people. They have several large boats and small decked vessels belonging to their community, and others in progress of building. These are actively employed in trading along the coast, and keeping up the intercourse with Caldwell and all the interior.

2. "The character of these industrious colonists is exceedingly correct and moral, their minds strongly impressed with religious feelings, their manners serious and decorous, and their domestic habits remarkably neat

and comfortable. Their houses are well built, ornamented with gardens and other pleasing decorations; and in the inside are remarkably clean, the walls well whitewashed, and the rooms neatly furnished.

3. "They are very hospitable to strangers, and many English naval officers on the station have been invited to dine with them, and joined in their meals, which were wholesome and good. The man of the house regularly said grace, both before and after meat, with much solemnity, in which he was joined by the rest of the family, with great seeming sincerity. They all speak good English, as their native language, and with out any defect of pronunciation. They are well supplied with books, particularly Bibles and liturgies. They have pastors of their own color, and meeting-houses, in which divine service is well and regularly performed every Sunday, and they have four schools at Montserado, and three at Caldwell. By one ship alone, they received five hundred volumes, presented by Dartmouth College, and several boxes and packets of school-books, sent by friends at Boston.

4. "The complete success of this colony is a proof that negroes are, by proper care and attention, as susceptible of the habits of industry and improvements of social life, as any other race of human beings: and that the melioration of the condition of the black people on the coast of Africa, by means of such colonies, is not chimerical. Wherever the influence of this colony extends, the slave-trade has been abandoned by the natives, and the peaceful pursuits of legitimate commerce established in its place. A few colonies of this kind scattered along the coast, would be of infinite value in improving the natives."

Lott Carey.

FROM A RICHMOND (VIRGINIA) PAPER-1825.

1. THIS interesting individual, who is now a Missionary at Monrovia, in Africa, was born a slave in

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Charles City County, about thirty miles below this city, on the estate of William A. Christian. In 1804, he was sent to this city, and hired out by the year as a common laborer at the Shockoe warehouse. At this time, and for two or three years after, he was excessively profane, and much addicted to intoxication. But God, who is rich in mercy, was pleased to awaken him to a sense of his lost estate, and about the year 1807, he was baptized.

2. Hearing a sermon about this time, founded on our Lord's interview with Nicodemus, awakened in him so strong a desire to be able to read, that he obtained a Testament, and commenced learning his letters, by trying to read that chapter. He was occasionally instructed by young gentlemen at the warehouse, though he never attended a regular school. In a little time he was able to read and write, so as to make dray tickets, and superintend the shipping of tobacco. In this business, and in overseeing the labor of the other hands in the warehouse, he was particularly useful; so much so, that he received $800 salary in 1820, the last year he remained there; and could have received a larger sum, if he would have continued.

3. About the year 1813 his wife died, and shortly after, he bought himself and two little children for $350.* He married again, and lost his second wife shortly after they arrived in Africa, at Foura Bay, on the Sierra Leone. Of her triumphant death he gives a most affecting account in his journal of that date. He has since lost a third wife, the daughter of Richmond Sampson, from Petersburgh, at Cape Mesurado. Soon

* The manner in which he obtained this sum of money to purchase himself and children, reflects much credit on his character. It will be seen from the salary he received after he was free, and which he relinquished for the sake of doing good in Africa, that his services at the warehouse were highly estimated; but of their real value, no one except a dealer in tobacco can form an idea. Notwithstanding the hundreds of hogsheads that were committed to his charge, he could produce any one the instant it was called for; and the shipments were made with a promptness and correctness, such as no person, white or black, has equal

after he made a profession of religion, he commenced holding meetings, and exhorting among the colored people; and, though he had scarcely any knowledge of books, and but little acquaintance with mankind, he would frequently exhibit a boldness of thought, and a strength of native intellect, which no acquirement could ever have given him.

4. At the close of his farewell sermon in the First Baptist meeting house in this city, before his departure for Africa, he remarked in substance as follows: "I am about to leave you; and expect to see your faces no more. I long to preach to the poor African the way of life and salvation. I don't know what may befall me, or whether I may find a grave in the ocean, or among the savage men, or more savage wild beasts on the coast of Africa; nor am I anxious what may become of me. I feel it my duty to go; and I very much fear, that many of those who preach the Gospel in this country, will blush when the Saviour calls them to give an account of their labors in his cause, and tells them, "I commanded you to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature," (and with the most forcible emphasis he exclaimed) "the Saviour may ask— Where have you been? What have you been doing? Have you endeavored to the utmost of your ability to fulfil the commands I gave you or have you sought your own gratification, and your own ease, regardless of my commands ?"

5. Lott Carey is now over forty years of age. He is possessed of a constitution peculiarly fitted for toil and exposure, and has felt the effects of the climate perhaps

led in the same situation. For this correctness and fidelity, he was highly esteemed, and frequently rewarded by the merchant with a five dollar note. He was allowed also to sell for his benefit, many small parcels of waste tobacco. It was by saving the little sums obtained in this way, with the aid of a subscription by the merchants to whose interests he had been attentive, that he procured this 850 dollars, which he paid for the freedom of himself and children. When the colonists were fitted out for Africa, he defrayed a considerable part of his own expense; and he still owns a house and lot near this city, which he is desirous of selling.

less than any other individual on the Cape. He has always shown that sort of inflexible integrity and correctness of deportment, towards all with whom he may be concerned, which necessarily commands their respect; but he will probably never be able to divest himself of a kind of suspicious reserve toward white people; especially his superiors---which universally attaches itself to those reared in slavery.

6. The interests of the colony, and the cause of his countrymen, both in Africa and in this country, lie near his heart. For them he is willing to toil, and to make almost any sacrifice; and he has frequently declared, that no possessions in this country could induce him to

return.

7. He has been Health Officer and General Inspector, since their settlement at Monrovia; but has refused to accept any other civil office. During the sickly season of the year, he has usually been wholly taken up in attending on the sick, and for more than a year past, they have had no other physician among them. The little medical information he obtained from Dr. Ayres and others on the coast, together with several years' ex perience, have enabled him successfully to contend with the peculiar fevers of the climate.

8. Under date of March 12th, 1824, shortly after the arrival of the Cyrus with 105 emigrants, he writes:--"The fever began about the 24th ult., and the 28th, we had 38 cases; and by the 2d inst. we had 66 under the operation of medicine: and at present, I have about 100 cases of fever to contend with: but we have been very much favored, for they appear all to be on the recovery, and we have lost none saving three children. I have very little time to write to you, myself being the only man that will venture to act in the capacity of a physician."

9. The Managers of the American Colonization Society in 1825, invited Mr. Carey to visit the United States, in expectation that his intelligence and candid statements concerning the condition and prospects of the colony, and the moral wants of Africa, would exert a beneficial