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my passage for Liverpool; and being satisfied, both with the Captain and the ship, I concluded to go in her, and paid my passage accordingly. In the afternoon, J. M. having kindly offered me a seat in his carriage: I rode with him to his country house, and was generously entertained under his hospitable roof. 9th Month, 6th. This morning I went out with J. M. to attend upon a black man, who had come from New-York, to treat for the purchase of a chaise which J. M. wished to sell, having lately purchased a new one upon a different construction. In conversation I gathered a little of the history of this black man, who by his industry and ma- nagement, had acquired a considerable freehold property in houses in the city and could now, with propriety, indulge his family with the conve- niency of a chaise. A few years past he was in very low circum- stances, but coming under the notice of J. M. who has been, I believe, amongst the foremost in befriending the poor blacks, he was put for- ward and assisted in business, and with so much success, that he is now become a very respectable tradesman. Indeed he ranks much higher than many of those, who have so strenuously contended that the poor blacks are little or nothing removed from the brute creation; and that they may be bought, sold, and degraded, as having neither the feelings nor faculties of men. So erroneous is this idea,