Originally been prisoners themselves among the inhabitants who came free into the Colony: the appointment unquestionably lessened the respect of the inhabitants towards the magistracy; and it was viewed by the mercantile connections abroad and by every stranger who visited it in the same light. Mr Thompson is dead and of him therefore I shall only remark, that Mr Ryley when pressed upon the subject of his character said, he had uniformly heard his appointment considered by those who had better means of knowing them himself, as improper, and that it was impossible he could ever have been looked up to with Respect or esteem, in the district over which he was appointed to preside. This is also (he added) my own opinion in respect to Mr Lord, whatever property he might have possessed, when he was nominated. It surely cannot now be contended that a common auctioneer who daily mounts a Cart to sell goods, of all descriptions, by retail, is a fit and proper person to act as a Magistrate and to sit side by side as he does occasionally, with the Chief Justice on the bench of the first Court of the Colony. But before his appointment, the Governor could not but have known that an official report had been made against him for having seduced girls in the Orphan Schools and that one of the Chaplains of the Colony had refused to act with him, even as a Commissioner of highways. This appointment, though censured here, has not to this hour been cancelled; and I should wish to be informed if his Majesty’s Government, while disapproving the nomination