FREEDOM.
| Total of Complaints vs. Labourers from the 1st to the 31st August 1838 | 582 |
| Ditto from the 1st to the 30th September | 386 |
| Ditto from the 1st to the 15th October | 103 |
| Total | 1071 |
| Comparative Surplus of Complaints in 1838 | 2675 |
| Grand Total | 3746 |
| Total of Laborers punished from the 1st to the 31st August, 1838, | 334 |
| Ditto from the 1st to 30th September | 270 |
| Ditto from the 1st to 15th October | 53 |
| Total | 657 |
| Comparative surplus of punishment in 1837 | 2833 |
| Grand total | 3490 |
| Total compromised, admonished and dismissed from the 1st to the 31st August | 248 |
| Ditto from the 1st to 30th September | 116 |
| Ditto from the 1st to 15th October | 50 |
| Grand Total | 414 |
NOTE.
It may be proper to remark that the accompanying General Abstract for August, September, and to the 15th October, 1837, does not include complaints preferred and heard before the Local Magistrates during those months for such offences--viz. for misdemeanors, petty debts, assaults and petty thefts--as were not cognizable by the Special Justices; so that estimating these offences--the number of which does not appear in the Abstract for 1837--at a similar number as that enumerated in the Abstract for 1838, the actual relative difference of punishments between the two and a half months in 1837 and these in 1838, would thus appear:
| Surplus of Apprentices punished in 1837, as above | 2833 |
Offences in August, September, and to the 15th, October, 1837 heard before the General Justices of the Peace, and estimated as follows:
| Petty thefts | 75 |
| Assaults | 143 |
| Misdemeanors | 98 |
| Petty Debts | 19--835 |
| Actual surplus of punishment in 1837, | 3168 |
From the Journal of Commerce.
Letter from W.R. Hays, Esq. Barbados, W.I. to Rev. H.G. Ludlow, of New Haven.
BARBADOS, Dec. 26, 1838.