 thereby made between them, and all others whom he had seen in that condition how much less abject their way of thinking; how chearful and assiduous they were in performing their duty; the quickness of their apprehension; and in many, the nobleness of mind, and rectitude of principle, which kind encouragement and fatherly instruction had given them, in comparison of those who are stupified by ill usage and oppression; he no longer beheld the office he was invited to accept in a formidable light; but on the contrary, his heart swelling with joy and transport at the happiness of the poor slaves around him, he broke into the following soliloquy, which afforded Mr. Ellison the highest satisfaction and delight.
"O Humanity!—Heaven-born principle! —true and never ceasing source of bliss—happy those, whose hearts are warmed with thy sweet and benign influence! Blessed with the divine principle of thee, we forget ourselves, and seek our dearest joys in bestowing happiness upon others. By thy divine influence

we tread the paths of peace,—and are led in the dear and blessed footsteps of Him, of whom thou art an all-glorious attribute. By thee we are led to the true and delightful ways or piety and religion—to the ways of pleasantness—and to the paths of peace."
Thrice happy that man, whose soul, impressed with the true principles of real and pious sensibility, looks up to Heaven for an example for his conduct and behaviour in life. If blessed with affluence, his chief bliss is to make others happy, and every time he relieves an object from distress, he feels a joy unutterable;—words want the power, and language the expression, to declare the delightful satisfaction he feels: Or indeed, supposing poverty his lot, and, that he has but little, yet, of that will he administer relief, and find more comfort and real satisfaction, than the miser in his hoard or the spend thrift in his pleasures.
With all his affluence, is it likely that Mr. Ellison, without that sweet and heavenly sensibility

that fired his soul, would have enjoyed any degree of the happiness he did? Is it not through all his actions the chief instrument of his bliss, leading him, as it were, step by step, to the summit of human perfection?
Mr. Ellison now saw the liberty of departing from Jamaica approach. His mercantile affairs were the more easily settled by his brother's arrival in the island; for, as soon as he had determined on his return to England, he wrote to his father to send over his brother James, who had
