I hope he will take care to send the two acts of the Province whereby the ministry is settled here, to the Honorable Society, whereby that Honorable & venerable Body may see & judge themselves how justly or unjust he is handled among the Dissenters at Jamaica, I humbly beg leave to present to the Honorable Society the ill consequences that may ensue by this example, if a call from the Dissenting party entitle a Dissenter to be Parish minister, and to the Salary of the parish, then upon the death or removal of the present Licumbent, the vacancies in most parishes will be filled with Dissenters, so will Dissention sit triumphant on the throne supported by the countenance of the Jaws of the Government.

Honored Sir, this is as near as I can inform you the true & just state of the case all the rest of the missionaries are settled in Peace, & if these people are once more nipped in the bud and M' Poyer restored to his right, I presume they wdU scarce ofler to flutter again as long as there is a crowned head that sways the Sceptre of Great Britain

Honoured Sir Yours &<=

John Thomas

222 PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

Honoured Sir, I forgot to mention to you that the words Institution & Induction are in tlie Act of Assembly and that M"" Poyer was accordingly Instituted & inducted and the act mentions likewise Church wardens & Vestrymen all \vhic!i woids specify the true Intent of the Act viz' the Settlement of the National ministry, the call which they lay hold on has somewhat of the ail- of dissention not a word more that I know of throughout the Act -- I am