as Turnbull’s prosperity increased, so did the demon avarice; and men, women, and children, were reduced to the most abject slavery.  Tasks greater than they could perform were assigned them, and a few Italians and negroes made overseers and drivers.  For food the labourers were allotted seven quarts of corn per week.  Many who had lived in affluence in their own country were compelled to wear osnaburgs, and go bare-foot through the year.  More than nine years were those valuable settlers kept in this state of slavery, the cruelties inflicted upon them surpassing in enormity those which so stigmatised the savage Spaniards of St. Domingo.  Drivers were compelled to beat and lacerate those who had not performed their tasks; many were left naked, tied all night to trees, that mosquitoes might suck their blood, and the suffering wretches become swollen from torture.  Some, to end their troubles, wandered off, and died of starvation in the forest, and, including the natural increase, less than six hundred souls were left at the end of nine years.  But, be it known to those whose hearts and ears I have before invoked, that many children of these unfortunate parents were fair and beautiful, which valuable charms singularly excited the cupidity of the tyrant, who betook himself to selling them for purposes most infamous.  A child overhearing the conversation of three English gentlemen who made an excursion to the settlement, and being quick of ear, conveyed the purport of it to his mother, who, in the night, summoned a council of her confidants to concoct the means of gaining more intelligence.  The boy heard the visitors, who stood in the great mansion, which was of stone, say, “Did the wretches know their rights they had not suffered such enormities of slavery.”  It was resolved that three ask for long tasks, under the pretext of gaining time to catch turtle on the coast; but having gained the desired time, they set off for St. Augustine, which they reached, after swimming rivers and delving almost impenetrable morasses.  They sought the attorney-general of the province, Mr. Younge,—­I speak his name with reverence-and with an earnest zeal did he espouse the cause of this betrayed people.  At that time, Governor Grant-since strongly suspected of being concerned with Turnbull in the slavery of the Greeks and Minorcans-had just been superseded by Tonyn, who now had it in his power to rebuke a tyrant, and render justice to a long-injured people.  Again, on the return of the envoys, who bore good tidings, did they meet in secret, and choose one Pallicier, a Greek, their leader.  This man had been master mechanic of the mansion.  With wooden spears were the men armed and formed into two lines, the women, children, and old men in the centre; and thus did they set off from the place of bondage to seek freedom.  In vain did the tyrant-whose name democracy has enshrined with its glories-pursue them, and exhaust persuasion to procure their return.  For three days did they