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the future, and intreating of me not to communicate abroad of their having thus been with me, as they did not wish it to be known.

Thus, were I to go on, I could multiply cases of fact almost countless; but, considering the foregoing few quite sufficient for my purpose, I now propose to close my volume, intreating of such of my readers, who have an interest at heart in the cause of humanity, not to slacken their zeal on behalf of these, their Black Brethren, and not to be under any impression that they are ill-deserving of their liberality; for I pledge myself, from a twenty-one years' experience, that they are fully deserving of the great boon they have received; and I further pledge myself, that, when the apprenticeship shall have fully ceased, they will, by their peaceable, honest, and industrious habits, fully realise the utmost expectations of their friends, to the confusion of their enemies.

FINIS

Sterne's

Solemn Declaration.

I, HENRY STERNE, who, for the past twenty-one years have been a residenter in the Island of Jamaica, by birth a native of Somersetshire, in England, but at present a residenter of the City of London, Esq. do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the annexed volume, purporting to set forth "A statement of facts, submitted to the Right Honourable Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, of certain grievances committed upon me, under the administration of His Excellency the Marquis of Sligo, the late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, has been wholly compiled and put together by myself, in the form now submitted to the public, at my own entire cost and charge.

That, having been a zealous advocate in the cause of religious liberty, I have been a marked object for destruction by a party, opposed in every shape to the free exercise of religious freedom, or the enlightenment of the liberated slaves; and have been contending for the past two years, with justice on my side, against a host of powerful enemies.

That, having been calumniated by a portion of the public press in Jamaica, who, backed by the powerful countenance of his Majesty's Attorney-General, Mr. O'Reilly, and the Chief Justice, Sir Joshua Rowe, in distorting and misrepresenting the evidence of a witness, on purpose to serve such party, and to gratify their own unmanly ill-feeling, I have been basely plundered of my rights and property.

That by such portion of the Jamaica Press, and party, I have been held up to the public there as a spy-as the agent of the Anti-Slavery Society in England and consequently, so(falsely) called an enemy to the Island of Jamaica, and so, by such base acts and party feeling, I have been stripped of my property, to the almost ruin of myself and family.

That, for the protection of my honour, the sacred love of truth, and an ardent desire of promoting the public good, do I now come forward, to expose the baseness of such party feeling, by declaring most solemnly

That I never have been the agent of either party or parties

as so unjustly represented. Neither have I been backed or supported by a party, or parties of any description, as has been so infamously put forth to my destruction.

And that, although the public press so put forth that I was being borne, and would be borne harmless, of all the heavy expenses which I have had to pay, and which are laid down at page 229, in this volume.

That I have neither received a penny, or the promise of a single penny's pecuniary assistance, up to the present hour, from either friend or party, on account of this undertaking whatsoever.

That I never held, or had any communication with the Colonial Office, further than is put forth in this volume; and that I never had any intercourse with the Anti-Slavery Society in England, during the whole of my long residence in Jamaica.

That the part I have of late years taken in Jamaica, and am still willing and ready to take again, was zealously and conscientiously undertaken, for the pure and disinterested motive of benefiting my fellow men, (although bondsmen) and of thereby working out at length a public good.

And never with any view of pecuniary or self-interested motives, further than the obtaining the love of those whose welfare I ardently and anxiously looked forward to.

AND I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true. And by virtue of the provisions of an Act, made and passed in the fifth and sixth years of his present Majesty, William the Fourth, entitled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, entituled, an Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations, taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths.

Declared at London, this 17th day of December, 1836.

THOMAS KELLY, Mayor.

HENRY STERNE.

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