BRITISH SETTLEMENT


be compared with what they experience
in tihe States of America, a country which
at least professes to confer higher portion
of freedom than most others, whether it
really happen or not.
 The value of the negro, if recently from
Africa, is computed from 120 to 160
Jamaica currency. Those who have
passed a few years in the country, and
have become accustomed to the labour of
it, frequently produce from 200 to
300.
 A convoy is appointed from Jamaica
for the protection of the Honduras trade
to Europe twice a year, in January and
July.
 It may be here observed, that if the
English were removed from the privileges
they at present enjoy at Honduras, scarcely
any other people could derive equal ad-
vantage from them. Even the Spaniards
themselves, in the very limited state of