We are in St.Mary's paying the highest rate of wages in the island; 1s.8d.currency per day nett, with allowances, are generally offered; I am giving here, from sheer necessity, 2s.

6d.
currency per day, without charging any rent in the mean time.

In the present state of things when so few estates are doing anything at all, I have much satisfaction in saying that the people here, on -- --, a good proportion of them were at work last week, and I have now the mill about making sugar, with every probability, I think of going on satisfactorily; and looking dispassionately at the great change which has so suddenly taken place, our present difficulties are not much to be wondered at.
Sunday night, 8th Sept .-- The foregoing was written, but too late, for the last packet; but as another sails to-morrow, I write you a few lines more.

There is, up to this moment, but little material alteration in the state of affairs generally, certainly none for the worse.

I have made here twenty hogsheads of sugar since the 1st ult.
We are altogether in an uncertain state, but there are more mills about, and more work doing _in this district than in any other in the island_, which might and ought to be a feather in the cap of Maitter, our late stipe.