and who is there in it to miss on my side, we were equally

world.

depressed by the hand of the Almighty, and equally dependent on each others friendly offices. The long quivering balance of destiny has at last been inclined, as respects the troubles of the present world, in your favour. It has been yours to emerge from the infirmities of mortality, and cease to need the often idle offices of friendship, soonest.

So far my feelings have governed my pen; and I have traced in characters which poor Mill, alas! shall never read, the language of a

But Mill was a man. And, is it from having shared with him a common solitude,-from pityrising as his miseries oppressed him or is it rather from a latent affection, to which the remaining vestiges of his once amiable charac-heart to whose pulsations, the ter, have betrayed my heart? sympathies of his own can reply God knows, and he alone knows no more. For, though the worst how deeply the stroke of his fate of all legalized pursuits, had not. has wounded me in spite of all only engrossed too large a portion the pride and hardness of my of his life, but in a manner intronature. If it is a weakness to duced him into it, (for Mill was weep, where all others refrain, the offspring of a slave-merchant I will neither conceal, nor disown, trading to the Rio Pongas, where nor attempt to overcome, that he was born) yet he was capable weakness. Accept it, Mill, as a of very steady and very sincere tribute that human nature attachments; and a favour never pays even to the ruins of itself-which failed to awaken his gratitude. Ot it cannot contemplate wholly un- these traits he has left in my recolmoved. I have seen, and deplo-lection but too many affecting proofs.

red, and reminded you of your errors, while I felt (and you know His history is not a long one; it) my own. I could not be for he moved in an humble severe-I was too sincerely your sphere, and has died in the 36th friend, and your bosom softened year of his age; and I will not even under reproof.-We have deny myself the melancholy mutually administered to each satisfaction of recollecting and others relief in a course of diver-noting its principal passages. sified bodily sufferings; in which, He remained with his mother on whatever seeming advantages were the Rio Pongas until 12 years of

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age; when his father took him two of a very humble character not
Atlantic voyages-the first time || always excepted, generally bear
the palm away from our own.
If such be indeed the fact, would

to one of the British West India
Islands-and the last, by way of

Charleston, home to Liverpool.-it not be something better than
At Charleston he first saw the
congealing effects of cold-and
in that then crowded mart of hu-

idle speculation for the friends of education, parents and instructers especially, to inquire into the

man flesh (about 1803) the barba-cause of the difference?
rous usages of the traffic seem to Mill, during his residence in
have caused his feelings a shock || England, certainly received much
from which he never could entirely instruction in christianity. But
recover. He then for the first it never was inculcated upon his
time became sensible of the terri-young mind by the voice of pa-
ble extent of injury and suffering rental affection. It came only
to which the colour of his skin along with the irksome and neu-
exposed him.
tralizing associations of functional
Soon after his arrival in En-forms; and was the cold-banded
gland where his father's relations behest of strangers. He seemed
received him with kindness, and to recognize no obligations to any
some even with affection, he was of his relations except his grand-
removed to a country school twelve mother, for the interest they took
miles from Liverpool, on the Earl in his moral and religious culture,
of Derby's estates. Here, under and as little as he profited from
a single intructer whom he sin- the kindness of that relative in
cerely venerated to the last, he this respect, it deserves remark,
remained, excepting the holiday that he never ceased to feel
occasions, to the 21st or 22d year toward her the liveliest gratitude.
of his age. He received in this It was indeed the noblest and
retreat, and in his father's count-least equivocal of all expressions
ing-house, a good business educa of friendship; and one which the
tion.
most depraved nature cannot
often help acknowledging.

Having availed myself of Mr.
Mill's services to a considerable Mill's father had, at the time of
extent, in the last year of his life, life to which the son had now
I am prepared to state with new arrived, amassed a competent
corroboration, a remark to which fortune in the African trade, and
former observations had often con- returned to Liverpool, to enjoy it,
ducted me, that in point of a neat He here took up his permanent
and elegant correctness, the alum-residence, and died about six years
ni of English seminaries, those ago. His last trading station in

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ago.

this country, had been the small islands near the mouth of Montserado river, and in front of this town. Young Mill was now recalled from school, and shipped as a sailor on board of a Guineaman, with directions from his father to work his passage to Montserado, where he was to have his discharge, and would find a situation secured to him in the factory still kept up at the mouth of the river, and which was then supposed to be in a flourishing state.

England, Mill was abandoned to the protection of Philippa, a mulatto woman, whom that man had long kept as his wife, and by whom

he left two mustee

children, who are still living. This woman who possessed some superior traits of intellectual character, continued to her death, to evince towards Mill a frienship little short of maternal. She died the year before the occupation of the cape by the American colonists; leaving a family of several hundred domestics, who still hold Besides his letter of introduc- the largest of the small Islands tion, and a few sea-stores, Mill, opposite to Monrovia, and, occupy on leaving England, received from different small hamlets in the his father four guineas, which he neighbourhood. Mr. Mill in the was told was all he had to expect mean time, having acquired a comfrom that quarter; and was in-petent knowledge of the coast structed to look to his own exer-trade, engaged in business on his tions for his future fortune. own account; which, through the

This establishment had under- commissions procured for him by gone such changes, in consequence his father, he soon extended, and of the death of some of the pro-was enabled to render, in a pecuprietors, and a thorough derange- niary view, very profitable. But ment of its affairs, as to afford him its illegality subjected him to no advantages-hardly personal the most distressing anxiety and protection. Hays, the surviving vexations, and several times, to proprietor, returning soon after to an almost total loss of the profits of years.

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This man is still living; and occupies a showy mansion not a mile from the outskirts of Liverpool-the purchase of the blood and tears of Africa!-Hays was enterprising and indefatigable. The Island of Perseverance, on which his

factory stood is, excepting a few half

drowned rocks, wholly of his formation, consisting of earth and stones from the

maine.

cerned as principal in any trans-tained. He not only acted as inaction of that nature; but with- terpreter on the occasion, but exdrawing from the traffic with aerted his utmost influence in be- * small family of from 12 to 20 domestics, engaged in agriculture, and an honourable trade in the productions of the country.

half of our object; and certainly contributed something towards the speedy and successful termination of that business. But that was the last active effort of hig exhausted frame; and I soon after heard of his lying in a state of deplorable weakness and suffering at one of the small towns on Bushrod Island. He at first declined an invitation to remove to the colony, and accept the proffer of its hospitality and care; but re

In 1821-2, Mr. Mill willingly exerted an extensive influence in behalf of this infant colony. He sold Perseverance island to our agents for an unimportant consideration, and then contributed very essentially to the preservation of the desponding settlers opposed on all sides by the natives of the country, from a most disceived such relief as could from astrous dispersion. He has since time to time be furnished him from shown an uniform attachment to the settlement. the interest of the colony-for Three days ago, at his own re which he incurred no little odium quest, he was brought over, in a amongst the head-men of the state of entire helplessness-being country-and was admitted for a desirous, as he said, to die in the short time, in the last year, to midst of a Christian people, and keep the books of the agency. obtain a Christian burial. He But his unfortunate habit of in-approached his end in the perfect temperance was fatally progres-enjoyment of his reason; and with sive; and in January last.pro-great self-possession. But the duced the first decided symptoms of the disorder of which he died. The last service which he was able to offer the colony, was ren-cating the justice of the Almighty, dered in the month of May, at and invoking the intercessions of the grand council of the country his friends. authorities, in which the grant of the St. Paul's territory was ob

horror of dying had taken a deep hold on his faculties, and he breathed his last earnestly depre

Monrovia, July 20th, 1825.

EXTRACT

FROM THE NEW YORK STATESMAN.

age, and the population at the end of ten years will be, making all

It certainly is not wisdom, to refuse to do the good within our power, because we cannot satisfy every benevo-allowances, at least 100,000 less lent desire. Many, however, consider the Colonization Society undeserving aid, because, they think it unable to fulfil all their good wishes for our coloured population. For such a purpose their must be mightier powers. So we believe. Private charity may do much, but it is to the efforts of the States, and to National aid, that we look with hope and with confidence. Our Government

is not purer than our means are abundant, and we increase in prosperity, as rapidly as in numbers. Why then des. pair of the execution of a work which our interest demands, not less than our duty, and which promises not more good to others, than glory to ourselves? Indolence dreams of a lion in the way, while Resolution and Sagacity, may be on the high road to success. The following calculations published some time ago in the New York Statesman, aré, we think, worthy of insertion:

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"Emigrants usually consist of young people. Let the society aid none but such, and equal numbers of males and females; females between the age of 18 and 28 years, males between 20 and 30 years. As the children of such parents would all be young, most of them under three years, and when under that age their removal would cost but little with their parents, such children need not be estimated. Let the society aid 6000 annually of this class, between 18 and 30 years of

than it would have been, had none been removed. This will appear if we consider how large a portion of the increase will spring from this class. Allowing for deaths, it would be a low estimate to say their numbers would double in the time. But estimating their increase only at two-thirds their number, and it will amount to 100,000 in ten years. By the last census, the number of free people of colour was 233,593, and the increase from 1810, is a little less than 47,000. At the same rate of increase, the number in 1830, will be some less than 293,000, if none are removed. Call it 293,000, and suppose the 6000 a year to be removed, and deduct the number with their estimated increase, estimated at 100,000, and it leaves 193,000. At the same rate of increase, and the same deduction the next ten years, the number will be 142,000 in 1840: 80,000 in 1850, being less

*Suppose these 6000 to be parents, and that 1500 children are born annually, and that parents and children die annually at the rate of one out of forty: and there will be remaining, at the end of and their children, upwards of 121,000. ten years, of the sixty thousand parents It is therefore too low to call it 100,000, making all allowances.