FEBRUARY 4. (Sunday.)
We breakfasted with the chief justice, who is my relation,
and of my own name, and then went to the church, which is a
very handsome one; the walls lined with fine mahogany, and
ornamented with many monuments of white marble, in memory
of the former governors and other principal inhabitants. It
seems that my ancestors on both sides have always had a taste
for being well lodged after their decease; for on admiring one
of these tombs, it proved to be that of my maternal grandfather;
but still this was not to be compared for a moment with my
mausoleum at Cornwall. After church I went home with the
rector, who is one of the ecclesiastical commissaries, and had a
long conversation with him respecting a plan which is in agitation for
giving the negroes
something of a religious education.
We afterwards dined with the member for Westmoreland; and
as everybody in Jamaica is on foot by six in the morning, at ten
in the evening we were quite ready to go to bed.
